Discussion on Open Standards with Bernd Erk and Jiten Vaidya

This discussion is intended to create awareness about:

1. Consequences of building your applications around non-open standards.
2. Risks associated with non-open standards.
3. How to build your applications around open standards.

Open standards are important for:

1. Business
2. Application development
3. Communications
4. Open internet

##About the speakers:

Bernd Erk, creator Icinga project, and Jiten Vaidya, co-founder and CEO of PlanetScale (the company behind Vitess), will share their work and experiences. Following their presentations, speakers will have a discussion with participants the call to action for open standards.

Kiran Jonnalagadda and Gurshabad Grover will moderate the discussion following presentations from both speakers.

##Who should attend this event:

1. Engineers
2. Researchers from different disciplines
3. Advocacy groups
4. Lawyers
5. Interested citizens

##Event details:
Date: Thursday, 20 June
Time: 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Venue: 194, 2nd C Cross Road, 2nd Stage, Domlur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560071

This event is free to attend. RSVP by registering for a ticket below.

##About the organizers:
This event is curated and produced by Rootconf. Rootconf is a growing community of DevOps, systems engineers, and software engineers.

Rootconf thanks The Centre for Internet and Society for hosting the event and making it possible for the community to participate.

For details, contact HasGeek on info@hasgeek.com or +91-7676332020