Open Source Fights COVID-19

Thunder Talk

From health professionals and protective equipment to tests and ventilators, the COVID-19 pandemic is stretching our finite health care resources dangerously thin. As a result, this unprecedented test of our health care system is forcing us to be agile and adaptable. One of the weapons we have in our arsenal is open source technology. This talk will highlight two such efforts - which is being used to help fight the virus:

Low cost ventilators and the other is
Use of AI to figure out, track and learn about this new virus.

Presented by

Sharan Kalwani

Sharan Kalwani is an industry technology specialist with 25+ years of experience. Sharan has degrees in both Engineering and Computer Science. He has worked in many diverse areas. He is a sought after speaker at many a diverse conference and seminars, such as Supercomputing, HPC Advisory Council, SIAM, Infiniband Trade Association, etc. He has delivered several tutorials, workshops and chaired Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions. Sharan is a senior member of IEEE-Computer Society, IEEE-Education Society, Vehicle Tech Society, an Emeritus member of Michigan!UNIX/user group (mug.org) the oldest of the *nix user groups based in Michigan (since 1985), member of SAE (Society of Automotive Engineeers), member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and also leads the SIG-Linux section of SEMCO. He enjoys teaching, holds an Adjunct Faculty position at local educational sites.