Cesar Brod, Director of Community Engagement for Latin America at Linux Professional Institute (LPI), will attend the IX INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE AND OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES

1. Jobs in the future with open and free technology.
The dynamics of the technology market is not for the weak. If only a few years ago there was still a discussion about the possibility of doing business with technologies that were accessible to all and the classic question was "how am I going to make money with something free?" Nowadays we hear the question "How will I offer maximum value to those who will use my product or service?" Surprisingly, users have the perception that they don't even pay for the products they use the most, provided by millionaire companies like Google and Facebook. By the way, these two companies, together with Microsoft (who would have guessed?), are among those that feed the ecosystem of free and open technologies the most.
So what path should those who wish to become professionals follow in a technological market in which the generalist, the "all-around specialist" (the so-called DevOps professional) prevails today? How free software (and hardware) already form a world completely connected by the IoT, which generates a large volume of data that, to be meaningful, requires artificial intelligence and data science. Is there any way at all? Are there many of them? How not to get lost?
Come and listen to the Linux Professional Institute's perspective on the subject and talk to its Director of Community Engagement, Cesar Brod, about IT careers, the future, the paths to follow and the difficulties to avoid.

2. Agility and Linux, two paths that meet.
Linux is nowadays the dominant operating system thanks to the diffusion of
Android on cell phones, as the basis of the vast majority of cloud applications, as part of the latest technology (and this includes artificial intelligence, data science, Internet of Things, space flight, autonomous cars) and to run on the world's largest supercomputers.
When it comes to agile development, Linux is also the cradle and  residence of the tools that make up the service belt of a professional  DevOps. One that is not limited to one or some particular aspects of system development, but encompasses all the necessary talents of a complete and multidisciplinary professional. But the Linux and Agility marriage existed before these terms were coined, it comes from the Unix philosophy, the Linux-inspired system that promotes simple, communicative and extremely useful components for the end-user. With Unix, we were already agile and we didn't know it.
At this conference, Cesar Brod, certified agile LeSS (Scrum in
Large Scale) and Director of Community Engagement at the Linux Professional Institute tells a little of the history of Linux with Agility and invites everyone to talk about the future of work and careers in the Information Technology market.

* Cesar Brod is the Director of Community Engagement for Latin America at the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). He has worked with educational institutions in Brazil helping to create successful business models using free technology and open source companies, generating employment and income for hundreds of people.  He has written books on agile methodologies, computer programming, and educational technology. He has translated several books into Portuguese (such as The Mythical Man-Month and Design of Design, both by Fred Brooks, Jr.) and reviewed many articles and books in English and Portuguese (such as Greg Nudelman's The $ 1 Prototype).