Open source holds a special place in the tech industry, boosting standards for developers and CIOs alike.  This week we’re particularly interested in the OpenStack Summit, as the open sourced IaaS community continues to gain support from the industry’s top players.  We’ll be broadcasting live from the OpenStack Summit, kicking off today and running through April 18 in Portland.  Tune into theCube, streaming live from SiliconANGLE.TV for exclusive interviews and on-site analysis, as we look at OpenStack’s ability to make datacenter infrastructure, especially hyperscale technology, a more competitive space.

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The four-day summit is being held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon where developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software are invited to attend.

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Registration for the event is in the Oregon Lobby at the entrance of the Oregon Convention Center and if you’re one of the lucky ones to be attending the summit, better download the mobile apps for Android and iOS devices which both features the entire schedule for the four-day summit, your very own schedule maker, Social Friend Finder, and Offline Caching.

Speakers & themes

.At this year’s OpenStack Summit we’ll be hearing from Jonathan Bryce – OpenStack Foundation Executive Director, Russell Bryant – Red Hat Principal Software Engineer, Robert Collins – Distinguished Technologist at HP Cloud Services, Steve Curry – President at Metacloud Inc., Sean Dague – Senior Software Engineer at IBM, John Davidge – Software Engineer at Cisco Systems and many more.

Midokura, a global startup focused on network virtualization, has already announced last week that its executives will present on topics such as network virtualization and SDN throughout the event.

Follow + Join the conversation

To know the latest happenings at OpenStack, follow us on Twitter @SiliconAngle, and follow the event directly @OpenStack.  Follow and join the conversations with the hashtag: #OpenStack.  You can also get the latest buzz here at SiliconANGLE or on theCube with John Furrier, SiliconANGLE CEO and founder, and Dave Vellante, Wikibon Chief analyst.

OpenStack is an infrastructure as a service cloud computing project managed by the OpenStack Foundation with its free open source software released under the terms of the Apache License.

More than 150 companies, such as  AMD, Intel, Canonical, SUSE Linux, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell,HP, IBM, VMware and Yahoo!, have joined the OpenStack project since it was launched by Rackspace and NASA in 2010.