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Xen Project Developer Summit Line-Up Announced
Dear xen-announce list subscriber,

I am pleased to announce theschedule
<http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/xen-project-developer-summit/program/schedule>of
the Xen Project Developer Summit. The event will take place in Chicago
on August 18-19, 2014.

The Project's second annual developer event highlights best practices,
user testimonials and advancements with the industry-leading open source
hypervisor. Powering many of the world's largest clouds in production
today, Xen Project developers are also leading the way in server
density, million-node data centers, graphic-intensive workloads, cloud
operating systems and sophisticated enterprise security.

This year's summit will present the most relevant topics to Xen Project
developers and users who are pushing the limits on virtualization,
ranging from typical server virtualization and cloud computing on x86
servers to new developments with ARM servers, networking, automotive,
cloud operating systems, enterprise security and mobility.

Following is a sampling of confirmed speakers and presentations to be
discussed in Chicago:

* James Bielman, Research and Engineering at Galois, XenStore
Mandatory Access Control --- proposes additional security access
features for Xen Project software;
* Mihai Dont,u, Technical Project Manager at Bitdefender,
Zero-Footprint Guest Memory Introspection from Xen --- discusses how
the introspection API in the Xen Project hypervisor can be used to
detect, prevent and take action on several categories of malware
attacks;
* James Fehlig, Software Engineer at SUSE Linux, libvirt support for
libxenlight -- covers the status of Xen Project libvirt integration
and outlines planned improvements;
* Lars Kurth, Xen Project Advisory Board Chairman, State of Xen
Project Software -- gives an overview of the Xen Project development
community and community at large;
* Jun Nakajima, Principal Engineer at Intel Open Source Technology
Center, Xen as a High-Performance Network Functions Virtualization
(NFV) Platform -- introduces Xen as a NFV platform and outlines
solutions to remove challenges for deploying the Xen Project
hypervisor for NFV applications as well as shares best practices;
* Nathan Studer, Technical Lead at DornerWorks, Xen and The Art of
Certification -- gives an overview of certification requirements in
emerging use-cases such as automotive, medical, and avionics and
lays out a path toward certifying Xen Project technology in these
industries;
* Don Slutz, Software Architect at Verizon Terremark, Overview of
Verizon Cloud Architecture -- presents Verizon Cloud's architecture,
design goals and planned contributions to the Xen Project community; and
* Stefano Stabellini, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Citrix and
Xen Project Contributor, Xen on ARM Status Update and Performance
Benchmarks --- gives the latest developments with the Xen Project
hypervisor on ARM architecture.


Birds of a Feather session and Discussions

Besides presentations, the developer summit will also provide an
opportunity for in-depth interactive discussions (Birds of a Feather
sessions), which allow deep interaction and collaboration between Xen
Project developers and community members. These will happen in a second
track alongside the main event. To/submit a BoF/, please go to theBoF
submission
<http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/xen-project-developer-summit/program/bof>page.

For more information about Xen Project Developer Summit 2014, including
how to register and to view the complete schedule,
visit:events.linuxfoundation.org/events/xen-project-developer-summit
<http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/xen-project-developer-summit>.

Best Regards
Lars