Past Events
GHCon2023
GHCon is an annual conference that brings together enthusiasts and developers of the Free/Libre Health & Hospital Information System. During the 2-day conference, you’ll have the opportunity to attend the different thematic sessions and free workshops and share experiences and implementation cases and, of course, network with GNU Health community members from around the world!
Day 1 is registration day and IWEEE, the International Workshop on eHealth in Emerging economies. IWEEE is about Social Medicine, a space to give voice to the voiceless, share the experiences from different organizations around the World, and try to find ways to improve the lives of the underprivileged.
Day 2 is dedicated exclusively to GNU Health. In the thematic talks, we will discuss topics such as the upcoming features, standards, security, mobile applications, and implementation cases. At GNU Solidario, we will be honored to have you among us. We are counting on your active participation to get the most out of the conference. Most importantly, we want you to have fun, feel at home, and enjoy being part of the GNU Health community!
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2nd Deep Dive Event: Defining Open Source Artificial Intelligence
Open Source Initiative (OSI), the non-profit corporation that educates about and advocates for the importance of non-proprietary software, is hosting its 2nd Deep Dive: AI event, this one focused on Defining Open Source AI. The goal is to work toward establishing a clear and defendable definition of “Open Source AI.” OSI is bringing together global experts to establish a shared set of principles that can recreate a permissionless, pragmatic and simplified collaboration for AI practitioners, similar to what the Open Source Definition has done. OSI is the steward of the Open Source Definition, which serves as the foundation of the modern software ecosystem, outlining the distribution terms of Open Source software. OSI also maintains a list of OSI Approved Licenses that have become a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize Open Source cooperation.
“It’s time to define what ‘open’ means in AI before it is defined by accident,” said Stefano Maffulli, executive director of OSI. “This milestone project is essential right now. Policymakers, re-users and modifiers are confused, and developers aren’t clear on data sharing and transparency. A permission structure is needed to help fight open washing.”
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GraphQLConf 2023
The GraphQL Foundation, dedicated to promoting widespread adoption and accelerating development of the surrounding ecosystem is holding their inaugural conference in the San Francisco Bay area, CA, September 19-21, 2023. GraphQLConf 2023 brings together the creators of some of the most important technologies behind GraphQL. Speakers from a wide range of organizations working with GraphQL at enterprise scale will share their experience, insights and knowledge as they discuss the challenges facing the growing GraphQL ecosystem. The program was developed by a community-led committee, which selected over 60 sessions after an open CFP that produced a large and diverse set of submissions that span topics from technical challenges and deep dives to end-user stories and introductory content.
“This event is a truly special moment for the GraphQL community,” said Lee Byron, Co-creator of GraphQL and Executive Director of the GraphQL Foundation. “GraphQLConf is the only vendor-agnostic, community-focused conference for developers. We’re thrilled to bring everyone together and celebrate big milestones for our projects and the spec.”
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Presentation on the Catalan Health Care System adoption of openEHR
Catalonia is moving towards a future in which concepts such as patient-centric, data-centric, longitudinal electronic health record, integrated care, open platform, and clinical knowledge management are routine practice. On November 29 representatives of the Catalonian government will be holding a seminar to provide more information on the tender launched to procure a clinical knowledge management platform service according with the openEHR standard.
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Open Source as Sustainable Digital Infrastructure - OpenForum Europe
OpenForum Europe (OFE), together with the Swedish Public Sector Network Open Source and Data, are organizing a track on Cybersecurity, sustainability and Digital Sovereignty as part of the Internet Days in Stockholm, Sweden. Open source software is a critical and extensive part of our common digital infrastructure. It presents both opportunities and risks. Opportunities such as enhanced interoperability of infrastructure and services within and across borders, as well as reducing dependencies and lock-in to individual vendors and system solutions. The risks stem from sustainability issues and include the fact that many open source applications are maintained by volunteers and there is a general under-investment in maintenance.
This in a rapidly changing geopolitical and digital environment, where vulnerabilities, introduced knowingly or unknowingly, are increasingly at risk of being exploited by malicious third parties with potentially major consequences. As the public sector intends to reuse more of each other’s digital infrastructure, there is a growing need to ensure that what we do is secure. Therefore, this thematic track aims to show the extent of open source software in our own and shared digital infrastructure, and its importance for our digital sovereignty and cybersecurity.
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ApacheCon North America 2022
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives will hold its annual ApacheCon North America 2022 conference at the Canal Street Sheraton in New Orleans, LA, from October 3-6, 2022.
ApacheCon this year will feature four days of sessions, with seven tracks each day. Tracks will focus on Search, Big Data, Internet of Things, Community, Geospatial, Cassandra, Financial Tech, and many other topics. For the full schedule, see https://apachecon.com/acna2022. Each evening will also feature Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, where communities will have an opportunity for freeform discussion and planning around our various projects.
Keynotes will feature Demetris Cheatham, Senior Director, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Strategy at GitHub, and William Hurley (Whurley), Technology Entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Strangeworks.
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Modernizing Healthcare at the Federal Level with Open Source
The Digital Service at the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), works to transform the U.S. healthcare system by modernizing systems, improving the design of healthcare experiences, participating in policy development, and delivering value to the government, providers, and patients. CMS leverages a unique model where talent from industry and government stay on for a ‘tour of duty,’ working alongside dedicated civil servants. Over 150 million people rely upon the code stewarded at CMS, much of it already open source, and even more that could become open-source in the coming years.
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Open Source Driving the European Digital Decade
There is already significant momentum behind open source as an important tool to drive innovation at scale in European digital policy. In addition to EU procurement rules being revised to adopt and pay for open source solutions there are increasingly initiatives to boost the Public Sector’s operational capacity to contribute to open source...For governments, open source solutions are delivering world class digital services that are not only meeting demands of Digital Sovereignty, but also create positive economic externalities for the country or region. In addition to these public sector policy efforts, from an industrial policy and geopolitical perspective, OSS is being discussed strategically by the European Commission and in the member state capitals. It is central to the conversations around competitiveness, increased digital competition, AI development and cybersecurity, to name a few...
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The 2022 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap unSummit
The 2022 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Teams unSummit is going to bringing communities, partners, and supporters around open mapping, OpenStreetMap, humanitarian response, and social impact. In our ongoing mission to bring together communities, partners, collaborators, and supporters of humanitarian open mapping, we are trying a fresh approach to the HOT Summit. Instead of hosting a single event, this year we are investing our time and resources in supporting global, regional, and local conferences and community events around the world to bring the spirit of the Summit to thousands of new people. We are calling this the "HOT unSummit," emphasizing the continuity of this new approach with HOT's flagship annual event without claiming a 'higher ground' compared to the events we partner and collaborate with. The HOT unSummit will be a world tour of collaborating events over the course of 2022, and you can watch this page for the latest updates on what's coming up.
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5th openEHR Asia Summit
This event will be the 5th openEHR Asia Summit
Program
- Opening remarks and openEHR updates 2021-2022, Shinji Kobayashi, NPO openEHR Japan
- Modeling clinical knowledge, Heather Leslie, Atomica Informatics
Toward implementing an open source CDR fulfilling nation-wide deployment, Christian Chivalley, Adoc Corp.- Smart on openEHR, Sidharth Ramesh, Medblocks project
- Recent Progress of openEHR in China, Xudong Lu, Zhejiang University
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Scale 19x
SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. The Expo's educational focus is composed of (but not limited to) technical seminars and booths where, among other things, both commercial software and hardware vendors, and local non-profit groups (for example, Linux Users Groups), participate in product display, and software demonstrations and tutorials, respectively.
Keynote Speakers
- Aeva Black, Office of the CTO, Azure Microsoft
- Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Featured Speakers
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The Platform Revolution Comes to Healthcare: A Deep Dive at the 2022 MIT Platform Strategy Summit
The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy is excited to announce the innagural 1/2 day event leading into the 10th Annual MIT Platform Strategy Summit the following day, on July 14.* Through several feature keynotes and panel sessions involving industry experts, this event designed to explore how digital health platforms are key enablers of transformation in healthcare. For example, healthcare platforms have the potential to:
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Open Source Program Offices—New Approaches to Public Sector Open Source
OpenForum Europe (OFE) is excited to invite you to the release event of our report on Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) in Government. The paper will be discussed over cocktails at the Hotel Mercure Toulouse Centre Compans in Toulouse (France), the evening before the Digital Assembly, the event co-hosted by the French Government and the European Commission. It is an opportunity for stakeholders in the European digital universe to discuss and share their experiences regarding progress on the digital single market and digital policies.
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Open Source Leadership Jam 2022
The US Government and Department of Defense (DoD) will rely on its Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) and University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) along with industry to educate and put into place practical policies, guidance, processes, and technology to enact the intent of a recently released memorandum on Open Source Software (OSS). This workshop seeks to start the conversation among these entities and coordinate the means needed to elevate, objectively, the trustworthiness of not only OSS but also the entire OSS ecosystem while continuing to benefit from the speed, innovation, and transparency already seen today.
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Upstream 2022
Live, one-day virtual event on June 7 brings together the application developers who use open source and the maintainers who create it. Upstream 2022 is an event for those who create and use open source software to build applications. Upstream will consist of more than 30 virtual sessions that attendees will be able to attend live or access following the event. Upstream is a free, one-day event that brings together developers, open source maintainers, and the extended network of people who care most about their work.
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openEHR international use-cases: The importance of open data
Cattedra: Crossborder collaboration and regional joint registries. An innovative diagnosis of rare immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in children made possible with openEHR. The Cattedra project set up a joint registry and data exchange on rare diseases for children in the area of paediatric rheumatology using open data. The project connects Italian children’s hospital IRCCS Burlo Garofolo in Trieste and Slovenian University Medical Centre Ljubljana (the Division of Paediatrics). With openEHR data models and input forms, the partners aim to share knowledge and work on improving the therapeutic methodologies and diagnostic possibilities of rare immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in children.
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Open Strategic Autonomy: Public and Private Sector Perspectives
The increased attention on digital autonomy stems from concerns regarding user-control of IT infrastructures, services and products that our economy depends on. In a soon-to-be-published paper by OpenForum Europe, we outline how these concerns are nothing new to people following the open technology space. Put simply, open technologies, in particular open source and open standards, give the user and developer the control that at a societal level delivers digital autonomy.
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Global Health Connector Partnership Summit @VIVE
ECHAlliance is delighted to have partnered with ViVE, the Industry's Reimagined Health Information Technology Event and organise our Global Health Connector Partnership (GHCP) on March 9 and starting at 9:30 AM EST. The Global Health Connector Partnership reflects a determined commitment of existing organisations to improve health and care for citizens worldwide through the appropriate use of digital technologies in the provision of health and care services.Under the theme "Data and Digital Services to Support the Recovery of Healthcare Systems Globally" participating organisations of the Global Health Connector Partnership from Africa, Slovenia, Spain, India, Australia, UK and the USA, will be able to pursue solutions to shared problems and discover areas of work via aligned strategic goals for further cost efficiency, reduced risk, and less effort.
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EU Open Source Policy Summit
Join us on 4 February 2022 at the annual EU Open Source Policy Summit. This conference will happen both in person in Brussels and online. This year’s agenda will be packed with discussions on the most burning digital policy questions and will put open source in a broader European and global technological context. 2022 will be the eighth year OpenForum Europe hosts its Open Source policy event in the first week of February. What started as a 10-person meeting of minds on the then-niche subject of Open Source policy is now a successful annual gathering of policymakers, Open Source businesses, community members, developers, foundations and those involved with diverse digital policy subjects.
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