Talk Title: Building the Services Powering the Open Cloud

Talk Abstract: An exploration into the open source services supporting the NERC cloud offerings and the long term vision of an open cloud.

Bio: Kristi Nikolla has been working with the MOC Alliance team since 2015, most recently helping design and develop the NERC’s identity & access management and billing systems. He is passionate about cloud computing and open source communities and governance. Kristi has previously served as the chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee and as Project Team Lead for the OpenStack Identity Service (Keystone.)