Open Source Innovation with Red Hat

Hosted by BU Spark! Open Source Signals: How to Read the Code the Industry or Community Hasn't Written Yet". What if you could predict which technologies will dominate — months before everyone else catches on? In this session, RedHat will show you how to decode those signals and turn them into an your advantage . You'll learn the same pattern-recognition techniques used by VCs, CTOs, and open source maintainers to spot winners early — and how to use that knowledge to pick smarter hackathon projects, build with the right tools before the tutorials even exist, and ship demos that make judges say 'how did they know about that?' You'll walk out with a practical 15-minute weekly monitoring routine, a curated toolkit of free platforms , and a framework for translating open source momentum into hackathon gold — whether you're building at CivicHacks, DS+X, or anywhere else. Stop guessing what to build. Start reading the signals.