OpenWest 2016

Utah Open Source encourages the growth of technology by giving opportunities for people to educate and be educated in all things Open.  Open Technologies are those where the consumer is free to share, free to customize or modify, and often free to use.  

The Utah Open Source Foundation was organized to provide organizational and financial support to open source, and open standards organizations.

V School is an international coding school based in Utah + Online, with a focus on JavaScript, Python/Django, and Front-End Web Development

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.

Protocol is a consulting company focused on improving the people, processes,and technologies surrounding information security with specialties in:

• PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) Consulting
• PCI- Qualified Integrator Reseller (QIR) for Annual Point of Sale System Review
• Risk-Based Gap Assessments and Employee Security Training

Binary Cocoa focuses on game play and originality. All of our games work on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Binary Cocoa is committed to the open source community and provides the source code for all of our games. This year, our focus was to bring people together, and our new games certainly do that.  For turn based strategy fans we made BOCO (bocogame.com). For twitch arcade shooter fans we produced Collider (collidergame.com) Be sure to drop by the booth and let us know what you think!

ConsultNet offers IT and Engineering professional services to startup, midmarket, and Fortune 1000 companies in North America. We specialize in providing thoughtful and effective solutions for our clients and rewarding opportunities for our consultants. We’re a principled talent acquisition and consulting firm that combines professional integrity with technical and industry expertise. For us, it’s not just the work that we do; it’s how we do the work.

Elastic believes getting immediate, actionable insight from data matters. As the company behind the four open source projects — Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats (the Elastic stack) — designed to take data from any source and search, analyze, and visualize it in real time, Elastic is helping people make sense of data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what’s possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots.

Lucid Software is a leading provider of cloud-based visual productivity applications. Lucidchart, a diagramming application, and Lucidpress, a design solution, are utilized by over 6 million users, including those from Dropbox, NASA, Netflix, USA TODAY and Xerox, making them two of the most popular productivity apps on the web. Since the Utah-based company’s founding in 2010, Lucid Software has grown in revenue by over 100 percent each year and has received numerous awards for its business and workplace culture. For more information about Lucid Software, visit http://www.golucid.co.

Neumont University is different by design. To better prepare our graduates for a career in the field of computer science, our degrees combine the best elements from traditional  colleges (theory), technical schools (skills), and project-based learning (experience). This unique combination provides an unparalleled educational experience.

Perpetual Storage, Inc. (PSI) is a climate controlled vital records storage and maximum security vault located inside a solid granite mountain near Salt Lake City, Utah. PSI provides Disaster Recovery, backup and longterm storage services for both physical media and digital data. PSI’s services are available 24/7/365. It is one of the most established, cutting edge and safest off-site storage facilities of its kind in existence. It has been privately owned and operated for over 48 years.

Red Sky Solutions is an engineering led integrator focused on open standards and best-of-breed IT solutions that reduce operational burden and cost. We specialize in expert-level consulting and implementation of security, networking, storage, application delivery, compute, and virtualization technologies. Our holistic approach to critical systems ensures seamless operation and support for our clients and their business requirements.

SecurityMetrics delivers innovative solutions for payment data security with an exceptional value to customers worldwide. SecurityMetrics is one of the few companies certified by the major card brands and PCI Security Council to perform PCI scans (ASV), PCI DSS Assessments (QSA), Payment Application Data Security Standard Audits (PA-QSA), PCI Compliant Point-to-Point Encryption Audits (PCI P2PE QSA), and PCI Forensic Investigations (PFI).

Software Technology Group (STG) is a software development firm headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. STG is privately owned and operated which enables us to make decisions that are based on the needs of its employees and clients, not those of shareholders. STG provides its employees with mentors and development plans to cultivate their skills and achieve their career goals. STG offers its employees not only career development, but flexibility, training, ability to work on a variety of projects, a relaxed environment, and a family friendly culture. 

Nexmo’s cloud communications platform enables you to develop faster and easier than ever before. Our set of cloud-based communication APIs designed to remove the pain of integrating with multiple carriers – and take you global in the blink of an eye. Our real time analytics, direct relationships with carriers and innovation around pain points all come together for a more reliable, and efficient service.

Verizon Digital Media Services’ end-to-end platform globally prepares, delivers, displays and enables the monetization of high-quality content for every screen. A Rules Engine provides granular control over all forms of content (live broadcast, video on demand, games and software delivery), and peak performance at the edge utilizes our highly efficient Super PoP architecture comprised of globally distributed network of caches via thousands of network interconnects. Thousands of leading companies depend on our scalable, highly secure content delivery network to deliver optimized, seamless user experiences across every device and improved SEO, www.verizondigitalmedia.com.