Sponsored Keynote: Open Source Innovation – Success Through Failure

The keynote speaker discusses the importance of open source innovation and how experimentation and iterative failure lead to success in the CNCF community and enterprise customers.

• Open source innovation requires experimentation and iterative failure
• SUSE is contributing to various open source projects such as Epinio, Hypper, Kube-warden, Opni, FuseML, and Harvester
• Not all projects will succeed, but the ones that do will join the CNCF projects for further development
• Examples of successful projects include K3s and Longhorn
• The community's contributions have expanded the capabilities of these projects

The speaker quotes Thomas Edison's famous quote about finding ways to not make a light bulb before finding the right way. He emphasizes that the same mindset applies to open source innovation, where failure is necessary for success. He also shares examples of successful projects such as K3s and Longhorn that have expanded their capabilities thanks to the contributions of the CNCF community.

As Thomas Edison once said, “I didn’t fail, I just found 2,000 ways how to not make a light bulb; I only needed to find one way to make it work”.  The same mindset holds true for open source innovation, where the vast majority of projects fail, at least as measured by user adoption.  But that is, in fact, the secret of open source innovation.  Success through rapid, iterative failure.In his keynote, Thomas -no not that Thomas-, Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo, CTO of SUSE, will share his insight on how no-rules experimentation and an iterative approach to open source development deliver rapid innovation to the CNCF community and enterprise customers, alike. Thomas will also highlight exciting open source projects SUSE is contributing to including Epinio, Hypper, Kube-warden, Opni, FuseML, and Harvester. Maybe only a few will succeed and join CNCF, such as Longhorn and k3s, but all will contribute to advancing open source innovation.