Join the Opensource.com community for eight lightning talks you won’t want to miss. Speakers have five minutes to enlighten the audience with a burst of information about an open source topic they are passionate about. We’ve got everything from DevOps to Raspberry Pi, blockchain to Kubernetes, and much more. Grab your lunch, find a seat in the main ballroom, and get ready for the fastest hour at All Things Open 2016.

Lightning Talks will begin at 12:30pm EST on October 27, 2016 on the main stage in ballrooms A & B on the 4th floor of the Raleigh Convention Center. Check out this year’s line-up:

• Welcome from Opensource.com—Jason Hibbets | @jhibbets and Rikki Endsley | @rikkiends
• Lightning talk #1 – How Bitcoin’s blockchain Changes Everything—Eric Martindale | @martindale
• Lightning talk #2 – Solving the Free Rider Problem in Open Source—Chad Whitacre | @whit537
• Lightning talk #3 – The Power of Upstream First—Thomas Cameron | @thomasdcameron
• Lightning talk #4 – 25 Years of Linux in 5 Minutes—Jeremy Garcia | @linuxquestions
• Lightning talk #5 – My Phoenix Project by Unrealgenekim—Burr Sutter | @burrsutter
• Lightning talk #6 – Raspberry Pi for Everyone!—Ben Nuttall | @ben_nuttall
• Lightning talk #7 – Getting to Know Gluster in 5 Minutes—Amye Scardarva | @amye
• Lightning talk #8 – Kubernetes Cluster Federation—Kelsey Hightower | @kelseyhightower
• Closing—Rikki Endsley | @rikkiends

All lightning talks will be recorded for future playback on the OpenSourceWay YouTube channel. Live stream will not be available for this event.