Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

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Ambassador Community Report
Community Building

Meet with the ambassadors on this session where they will introduce the improvements of the last half year and share their feelings and experience about the community. If you are a user group organizer you must be there, and feel free to share your thoughts and feelings with us!

OpenStack Ambassadors connect the user groups to the Foundation. They help initialize the groups and guide them to grow.

Ambassadors launch some actions during the last release cycle:
- OpenStack community report
- Status update on official groups
- What is the size of the community
- Global and regional trends
- Introduce new groups, leaders
- Updates on speaker bureau
- Recommended practices for starting and running communities
- Process
- Updates on user groups since Austin
- Groups portal
- Overview
- Results
- Welcome pack and OpenStack shop
- Q&A


What can I expect to learn?

How to get help to organize events like an OpenStack Day.

Thursday, October 27, 9:50am-10:30am (7:50am - 8:30am UTC)
CCIB - Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona - P1 - Room 133/134
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Difficulty Level: Beginner
Tags: Community Ambassadors
Erwan Gallen
Red Hat, Senior Principal Product Manager
Erwan Gallen est Senior Principal Product Manager pour Red Hat OpenShift et Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift. Erwan gère au sein de la Business Unit Hybrid Platforms de Red Hat la stratégie pour l'accélération matérielle de l'intelligence artificielle (IA). Erwan a occupé divers postes, notamment en tant que Release Manager d'un cloud public et CTO d'un groupe de médias en ligne.... FULL PROFILE
Kavit Munshi
Aptira
Kavit is the CTO of Aptira, heads Aptira's Indian operations and has 15 years of experience in designing and deploying Enterprise and Telco solutions.   He is also the founder of the Indian OpenStack User Group and the OpenStack Ambassador for the region. Kavit is also an Individual Director member of the OpenStack Board of Directors.   Kavit has been a driving force behind the... FULL PROFILE
Jaesuk Ahn
SK Telecom
Jaesuk Ahn have received the Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin in 2009. Upon the graduation, he joined Korea Telecom, and led a development team to develop openstack-based cloud platform for KT's private cloud till 2014. He joined a venture company called cloud4u at 2014 working at developing cloud tools to design, orchestrate, monitor systems on cloud environment. He, then, joined at SK... FULL PROFILE
Marton Kiss
GM of Europe, Aptira
OpenStack Ambassador, founder of Hungarian OpenStack user group, co-organizer of OpenStack CEE Day event and active contributor of multiple OpenStack projects. Marton have a background in the telecommunication sector, he was a CTO for a Telenor owned company and managed the operation and development areas in Central Europe and Asia. Actually he is working at Aptira as a GM for the EU region. FULL PROFILE
Akihiro Hasegawa
Ambassador
He is a board member of Japan OpenStack User Group and a chairman / founder of OpenStack Days Tokyo. His mission is to provide the elastic and secure cloud infrastructure with Hybrid cloud technologies to the market. He is working with OpenStack project since 2011. He also is one of the member of OpenStack Ambassador and contributing the Asian OpenStack User Group development as an ambassador. FULL PROFILE
Marcelo Dieder
Devops and IT Security Manager and Openstack Ambassador
  Marcelo Dieder works with Openstack since 2011. He is the OpenStack Ambassador for LATAM, founder of the OpenStack Brazil User Group and Coordinator of the OpenStack Brazil Translation Team (pt_BR). As a Ambassador role, he helped in the growth of the users groups through his organizing of events, lectures, and local surveys to attract new users and contributors to the project. Currently... FULL PROFILE