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Please join Kristen Accardi and me on November 17th, 2026 as we talk about Kristen's experience as a kernel developer and maintainer, taking questions from the attendees. Kristen will also share what works and what doesn’t for her and strategies, interpersonal and technical skills and mindset that help her stay engaged for a longer term.

Kristen Accardi is a Linux Kernel Engineering Manager at Intel and a longtime Linux kernel developer. Over her career, she has contributed across numerous kernel subsystems, including PCI, ACPI, SATA, and power management. Today, she leads a team of engineers contributing to the upstream Linux kernel and enabling new Intel platform technologies.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-kristen-accardi?hsLang=en

Please join Mike Rapoport and me on November 3, 2026 for a conversation about Mike's experience as a kernel developer and maintainer, taking questions from the attendees. Mike will also share what works and what doesn’t for him and strategies, interpersonal and technical skills and mindset that help him stay engaged for a longer term.

Mike Rapoport is a kernel maintainer focused on memory management — he maintains boot time memory management and several other parts of MM plus kexec and kdump, and is currently knee-deep in kexec handover (KHO) and live update.

Please register:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-mike-rapoport?hsLang=en

Please join Mimi Zohar and me on October 28th, 2026 as we talk about Mimi's experience as a kernel developer and maintainer, taking questions from the attendees. Mimi will also share what works and what doesn’t for her and strategies, interpersonal and technical skills and mindset that help her stay engaged for a longer term.

Mimi Zohar is a member of IBM's Linux on Power Security team and formerly worked in the Cloud and Systems Security Research group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Her areas of expertise include system security and integrity. She is the maintainer of the Linux Integrity subsystem and serves on the Program Committee for the Linux Security Summit (LSS).

Please register:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-mimi-zohar?hsLang=en