Mumbai: Reliance Jio is hosting the India Digital Open Summit 2018, an Open Source Networking (OSN) Day being organised in partnership with the Linux Foundation and supported by Cisco Systems. The January 19th, 2018 event marks the inaugural India Digital Open Summit, a meeting of the toptechnologists, academia, startups, and industry leaders focused on how open source networkingsystems and platforms would transform and foster innovation and leadership across the entire digital ecosystem.
Open source is being embraced by leading organisations globally, not only due to its cost advantage,but to leverage the development advantages open source communities offer. By its very essence,open source fuels enterprising organizations, because unlike proprietary systems, it enables greater innovation and differentiation, helping companies customize and manage platforms with moreflexibility with the ability to rapidly develop and bring new services to the market with scalability and security.
The summit will feature discussions on various elements of the Open Source framework for policy,technology and security that accelerate the expansion of the Digital India initiative across domains.
Over 400 attendees are expected at the India Digital Open Summit 2018. More than a dozen global C-Level Executives will discuss a range of topics, including application to blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud-scale networking, open compute, AR/VR, real-time analytics and other topics on the opensource-spurred digital transformation.The one-day event will be held at the Reliance Corporate Park campus in Navi Mumbai.
Linux Foundation is the world’s premier organization for building sustainable open source ecosystemsand Reliance Jio has joined Linux Foundation’s Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) as a Platinum member. Jio’s Platinum membership in ONAP provides a platform for accelerating its efforts to further its work in open source to support The Linux Foundation.