Road to FOSDEM: Mechelen edition

Spoor 18, part of the Cronos Group in Mechelen, is hosting us at their event location in Mechelen.

This meetup is part of the "Road to FOSDEM" (#roadtoFOSDEM), a selection of meetups leading up to the FOSDEM conference in Brussels, organized by Microsoft the Netherlands and Belgium.
All session will have a focus on open source.

Program:

18:00 Welcome and food
18:20 Talk 1: Sammy Deprez
19:00 Talk 2: Michelangelo Van Dam
19:40 Break
20:10 Talk 3: Jose Miguel Parrella
21:00 - 21:30 Networking

Sammy Deprez (@sammydeprez) is a Managing Partner at
@arinti_be, @datamindsbe Core member, Passionate about #data and #AI, Belgian (Global) AI Night & Bootcamp organizer
Sammy is going to talk about AI in the opensource world (frameworks and formats)

Michelangelo Van Dam
(@DragonBe) is a senior #php architect, co-founder/CEO of @in2it, Community Leader at @PHPBenelux, @CoderDojo coach, Conference🗣, Frequent ✈️ & likes☕️.
Michelangelo will be sharing his experiences of being active in open source for 30 years – expect something ugly, bad, good and great.

Jose Miguel Parrella (@bureado) is an open source enthusiast with over 15 years of experience with
Linux as a sysadmin, solutions architect and Debian Developer. He joined Microsoft in 2010 to work on open source technologies and is part of the Azure team, sitting right where Linux and the cloud meet.
Jose Miguel will be talking about the investments that Microsoft is making in PostgreSQL.

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Address: Stationstraat 55, Mechelen

Location: Spoor 18- Go into the gate at the right side of 'Bar Marie', walk all the way until the end of the building.

Parking: Drive into the gate at the right side of 'Bar Marie', barriers will open automatically (free P)