Open edX Conference 2022: Full Schedule

Collaborative Learning. Community Led.

Welcome to the Open edX 2022 Conference, hosted by Nova SBE and FCT | FCCN! This year’s theme is all about shaping the future of education together, and tackling challenges around expanding access to education globally, the future of work, up-skilling, re-skilling, and life-long learning.

10:30am WEST

Create a course catalog in 90 minutes

In this workshop, we will invite you to build your own course catalog with Richie from scratch. This includes bootstrapping a project, customizing your site, adding and managing course information, and interconnection with the Open edX platform.

Speakers

Ivo Branco

Software developer & DevOps, FCT|FCCN

Software developer and DevOps with a master degree in Computer Science and Engineering; with 14 years of experience in different projects and organizations, including 10 years in the education sector. I’m the Technical responsible of the NAU.edu.pt service.

Sandro Costa

eLearning Designer / Developer, FCT|FCCN

With a degree in Communication and Multimedia, I specialized in creating interactive e-learning experiences in Higher Education Institutions. As a self-taught programmer, I used my experience to contribute to projects like H5P, with the initial portuguese translation of its activities... Read More →

Samuel Paccoud

CTO, France Université Numérique (FUN)

Doing my best to lead the FUN guys and girls building, running and maintaining a bunch of highly available learning services at France Université Numérique. I love coding in Python, building with Django and bikeshedding on code. I hate unsolved problems and endless repetitions... Read More →

Jean-Baptiste Penrath

Web Developer, France Université Numérique (FUN)

I’m a french thirty year old web developer. I love craft pleasing interfaces with user experience in mind. Front-end developer from the beginning, I've been embracing backend and python development for a year and a half. I’m part of the France Université Numérique development... Read More →

Tuesday April 26, 2022 10:30am - 12:00pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Tutorial

1:30pm WEST

Transforming the Open edX platform into the next on-campus LMS

Come learn about developments being made by UC3M, UPV, and UAM for bringing the Open edX platform closer to having functionalities that support an LMS for on-campus teaching. These exciting developments are part of Spain’s University Institutional Intelligence national project. We’ll invite you to share other functionalities you believe would make the Open edX platform your LMS of choice for on-campus teaching, and how we might build them together.

Speakers

Carlos Delgado Kloos

VP for Strategy and Digital Education, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Ignacio Despujol Zabala

Systems Technician for New Internet Applications, Universitat Politècnica de València

Germán Montoro

Professor & Computer Engineer, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Computer Engineer and Doctor in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Professor at the Higher Polytechnic School of the Autonomous University of Madrid. He teaches and coordinates undergraduate and graduate courses related to C programming... Read More →

Carlos Alario-Hoyos

Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Tuesday April 26, 2022 1:30pm - 3:00pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Tutorial

3:30pm WEST

Blockchain-based verified credentials for the Open edX platform - trusted certification for life

Join me to explore using Microsoft's verified credentials technology to create trusted certifications. Verified credentials are digital certificates that can be issued from the Open edX platform to students as they complete a course. These credentials use blockchain, ensuring a safe way to secure and store the documents and allowing learners to have authentic certificates that can be used freely and be instantly verified.

Speakers

Rupinder Kohli

Chief Solutions Architect, Skill-Up Technologies

Technocrat with experience in IT solutions, software & product development, customizations & integrations. Excel at building innovative learning solutions for clients.

Tuesday April 26, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Tutorial

1:00pm WEST

edX discussions upgrades

The edX discussions experience is getting a major upgrade focusing on navigation, help and support, configuration and moderator tools. edX also now supports integration with 3rd party discussion providers at course level and at program level. In this session, we’ll look at these upgrades and integrations in detail.

Speakers

Marco Morales

Director of Product, Platform @ edX / 2U, edX/2U

Platform product lead focused on teaching and learning initiatives across Open edX platform at edX/2U.

Wednesday April 27, 2022 1:00pm - 1:45pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Breakout Session

2:00pm WEST

Extending the Open edX platform sustainably through the Open edX Events and Filters framework

We’ll take a look at the workings of the new Open edX Hooks Extension Framework. This framework is a mechanism to extend the Open edX platform without modifying the core of the platform. It works across the board for interactions of students and authors with the platform, and is designed to be used via Open edX plugins without sacrificing the capability to test the integration with different Open edX releases.

Speakers

Felipe Montoya

Co-founder and CTO, eduNEXT

I joined in this community in 2013, have attended all conferences since and have been a speaker in many of them. I Co founded eduNEXT one of the oldest service providers of professional Open edX services. I'm a beginner juggler, but every conference I become way better.

Maria Grimaldi

Backend Developer, eduNEXT

I'm a Venezuelan computer engineer working as a Backend Developer at edunext. I've contributed to Open edX for about two years as part of my job and enthusiasm for the open-source community!

Wednesday April 27, 2022 2:00pm - 2:45pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Breakout Session

3:45pm WEST

The state of the Open edX frontend

Join us for a bird’s eye view of the state of the Open edX frontend in 2022: how we got here, current successes and failures, and where we aim to be in the near future. Is the transition to micro-frontends complete? Whatever happened to pluggability and theming? Who will lead development going forward? We’ll answer these, and more, in a chronological run-down starting a couple of years ago and looking ahead.

Speakers

David Joy

Principal Engineer / Frontend Architect, edX/2U

Adolfo Brandes

Principal Frontend Engineer, The Center for Reimagining Learning (tCRIL)

As an open-source veteran with a two-decade background in software development, Adolfo started his career hacking on the Asterisk PBX, followed by a long stint battling OpenStack, and finally ended up writing XBlocks for Open edX. He's now furthering both education and open source... Read More →

Wednesday April 27, 2022 3:45pm - 4:30pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Breakout Session

4:45pm WEST

An AI-powered skills infrastructure on the Open edX platform

Actionable skills are the real currency of education, and courses are just the means to their achievement. Let’s look at how skills-related metadata can be automatically gathered from content and paired with learners using AI to effectively have a “marketplace” of knowledge connecting catalogs, people and analytics.

Speakers

Miguel Amigot II

CTO, ibleducation.com

Miguel Amigot is the Chief Technology Officer at ibleducation.com, a New York-based AI-driven learning platform powering NVIDIA, IBM, MIT, and The US Department of Defense among many others.

Wednesday April 27, 2022 4:45pm - 5:30pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Breakout Session

1:00pm WEST

2U community introduction & roadmap contributions

Introducing edX/2U to the Open edX community, with a look into 2U’s organizational mission and our “free to degree” catalog offerings, inclusive of the edX.org open courses catalog! We’ll also discuss our commitment to Open edX development, look at a summary of recent Open edX platform improvements, and what our current contribution plans for 2022 entail.

Speakers

Marco Morales

Director of Product, Platform @ edX / 2U, edX/2U

Platform product lead focused on teaching and learning initiatives across Open edX platform at edX/2U.

Thursday April 28, 2022 1:00pm - 1:45pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Breakout Session

2:00pm WEST

Lightning Talks: Platform and Product

Host online and blended conferences with the Open edX platform - Esteban Etcheverry, Aulasneo
Micro-frontends, platform, and XBlocks, oh my! or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the BFF - Nathan Sprenkle, edX/2U
What is completion? - Braden MacDonald, OpenCraft
Introducing the Open edX Roadmap - Jenna Makowski, tCRIL

Speakers

Nathan Sprenkle

Software Engineer, edX/2U

Nathan Sprenkle is a software engineer at edX. Since his start in 2019, he’s worked largely on backend ORA and grading improvements as well as learning/teaching about XBlocks and other foundational edX technologies.

Braden MacDonald

CTO, OpenCraft

Braden is an experienced developer who has been contributing to Open edX for more than six years.

Esteban Etcheverry

CEO, Aulasneo

Esteban Etcheverry is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aulasneo, an Open edX Verified Service Provider. He's Passionate about learning, technology and arts.

Jenna Makowski

Senior Product Manager, The Center for Reimagining Learning (tCRIL)

Jenna is the Product Manager for the Open edX project. She brings 10 years of experience in the higher education sector, in both academic publishing and as an instructional designer and MOOC-creator on behalf of the United Nations.

Thursday April 28, 2022 2:00pm - 2:45pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Lightning Talk

3:45pm WEST

So you want to become a Core Contributor?

The Open edX Core Contributor program is a way for all community members to cooperatively drive the direction of the Open edX project together. The program grants community members expanded ownership over various aspects of the project, including platform development, translations, and marketing. We’ll present details of the program (what it is, who is part of it, what is done with it) and how to join.

Speakers

Xavier Antoviaque

Core contributor, Founder, OpenCraft

Xavier Antoviaque is an Open edX core contributor and board member of the Open edX technical committee (TOC). He is also the founder of OpenCraft, which is the largest contributing organization to Open edX besides edX/2U, as a provider of development and hosting services on the Open... Read More →

Sarina Canelake

Engineering & Community Management, The Center for Reimagining Learning (tCRIL)

5 years experience hacking on the Open edX platform and working with the Open Source community. I am dedicated to enabling open source contributors to the Open edX® platform via extensibility and process improvements. I live with my 3 cat sons and have a lifelong love for all things... Read More →

Thursday April 28, 2022 3:45pm - 4:30pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Breakout Session

4:45pm WEST

Rethinking Open edX documentation

Open edX documents and information are located across multiple sources, making it difficult for users to know where to start. We see this as an opportunity to build a better information strategy for the Open edX project that addresses the needs and perspectives of all Open edX users. We'll outline our Documentation Overhaul Initiative highlighting our approach, discovery findings, and opportunities for community involvement.

Speakers

Jenna Makowski

Senior Product Manager, The Center for Reimagining Learning (tCRIL)

Feanil Patel

Software Architect, The Center for Reimagining Learning (tCRIL)

Feanil has been working with Open edX since the day it became Open Source. Focusing on various aspects of the platform including, building/operations, maintenance/upgrades, security, architecture and most recently documentation.

Thursday April 28, 2022 4:45pm - 5:30pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Platform and Product, Breakout Session

10:00am WEST

Build-Test-Release (BTR) Working Group (open to all attendees)

**this session is open to all interested attendees**

This is an opportunity for our Open edX Community Working Groups to meet together in-person (since they normally meet virtually throughout the year). It's a great time to discuss group priorities, opportunities and challenges, as well as spend time with your fellow group members.

Working Group members should have received guidance prior to the conference. If not, please reach out to your group leader(s).

Find out more about the BTR Working Group and the other Open edX Community Working Groups!

Friday April 29, 2022 10:00am - 12:30pm WEST
Room D-115 (Floor -1)

Working Group