Mumbai: Reliance Jio today announced it is going to host the India Digital Open Summit 2018, an Open Source Networking (OSN) Daybeing organised in partnership with the Linux Foundation and supportedby Cisco Systems. The one-day event will be held at the Reliance Corporate Park campus in Navi Mumbai.

The summit will feature discussions on various elements of the Open Source framework for policy, technology and security that accelerate the expansion of the Digital India initiative across domains.

Over 400 attendees are expected at the India Digital Open Summit 2018. More than a dozen global C-Level Executives will discuss a range of topics,including application to blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud-scale networking, open compute, AR/VR, real-time analytics and other topics on the open source-spurred digital transformation.

The January 19th, 2018 event will mark the inaugural India Digital Open Summit, a meeting of the top technologists, academia, startups, and industry leaders focused on how open source networking systems and platforms would transform and foster innovation and leadership across the entire digital ecosystem.

Open source is being embraced by leading organisations globally, not only due to its cost advantage, but to leverage the development advantages open source communitiesoffer. By its very essence, open source fuels enterprising organizations, because unlike proprietary systems, it enables greater innovation and differentiation, helping companies customize and manage platforms with more flexibility with the ability to rapidly develop and bring new services to the market with scalability and security.

Linux Foundation is the world’s premier organization for building sustainable open source ecosystems and Reliance Jio has joined Linux Foundation’s Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) as a Platinum member. Jio’s Platinum membership in ONAP provides a platform for accelerating its efforts to further its work in open source to support The Linux Foundation.