Speakers and Talks
Patricia Aas
Isolating GPU access in its own process
Chromium's process architecture has graphics access restricted to a separate GPU-process. There are several reasons why this could make sense, three common ones are: Security, Robustness and Dependency Separation.
GPU access restricted to a single process requires an efficient framework for communication over IPC from the other processes, and most likely a framework for composition of surfaces. This talk describes both the possible motivations for this kind of architecture and Chromium's solution for the IPC framework. We will demonstrate how a multiprocess program can compose into a single window on Linux.
Patricia Aas is a C++ programmer working on the Vivaldi Browser where she has currently taken on platform integration of media. She has previously worked at Opera Software on their Desktop Browser and at Cisco on their Telepresence Hardware Endpoints, primarily on Linux. Patricia is a curious person, always trying to find out how things work. She hopes that we will find a way to make the world a better place by creating things that can be used for good.
Carsten Munk
Zipper - an open source out of box experience for the blockchain world
Zipper is an Ethereum based mobile platform which brings blockchain
based services to our smartphones in one seamless and user-controlled
experience.
At first, Zipper provides everyday smartphone users an easy and safe
way to manage their identity and private keys. This makes it possible
for anyone to access blockchain based services out-of-the-box in an
easy and intuitive way - just like Apple’s services on iOS today -
while being in full control of their identity, transactions and data.
Zipper works in an isolated compartment in Android and Sailfish OS
smartphones, making Zipper and its wallet secure while still easily
accessible.
Carsten is CTO at Zipper Global Ltd currently. Carsten was involved in
Maemo, MeeGo mobile OS projects and was CTO at Jolla which built
Sailfish OS. Passionate about empowering people to do amazing things
with technology.