Hi there 👋

My name is Lior Kaplan, I've been invovled with Open Source since 1998. After being an volunteer Open Source advocate for many years, since 2019 I'm also an Open Source consultant at Kaplan Open Source, helping organizations use Open Source in smarter ways along creating their own Open Source projects to achieve their business goals. Provding Open Source Program Offices (OSPO) as a service for companies.

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Public Speaking

2020 - Today

Year	Conference / Event	Where	Title
2026	Israeli Cartography and GIS Society	🇮🇱	GIS tools for the non spacial user
2026	ContainerDays Hamburg	🇩🇪	The Hidden Cost of Distroless: When Smaller Images Challenge CVE Detection
2026	OWASP Global AppSec EU	🇦🇹	Why Isn't the Fix in My Container? Tracking CVE Propagation Across 10,000 Projects
2026	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe	🇳🇱	Why Isn't the Fix in My Container? Tracking CVE Propagation Across 10,000 Projects
2026	ContainerDays London	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	Why Isn't the Fix in My Container? Tracking CVE Propagation Across 10,000 Projects
2025	Open Source GIS	🇮🇱	GIS tools for the non spacial user
2025	Open Source GIS	🇮🇱	GeoAI - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2025	Open Source GIS	🇮🇱	Quality checks for special data
2023	Open Source GIS	🇮🇱	no-code maps and story maps
2022	Black Hat Europe	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	c{api}tal - Learn OWASP API Security Top 10 by playing with vulnerable by design application
2022	Open Source Summit Japan	🇯🇵	Software Supply Chain Aspects in Infrastructure as Code
2022	All Day DevOps	📡	Software Supply Chain aspects in Infrastructure as Code, and how to secure it
2022	All Day DevOps	📡	Avoiding IaC misconfiguration (on multiple platforms)
2022	Open Source Summit Europe	🇮🇪	Software Supply Chain Aspects in Infrastructure as Code, and How to Secure it
2022	FOSS4G	🇮🇹	Municipal surveys with QGIS & Input
2022	Open Source GIS	🇮🇱	GIS in the cloud with Open Source
2022	Black Hat Asia	🇸🇬	ChainAlert: Alert Developers and Open Source Maintainers of Potential Supply Chain Attacks and Suspicious Package Release
2021	Open Source GIS	🇮🇱	Managing ad syncing spatial data
2021	GeekTime Code	🇮🇱	DevOps and IaC - from zero to hero with KICS Open Source
2020	GeekTime Code	🇮🇱	Open Source by The Ministry of Health
2020	Inter ministry GIS committee	🇮🇱	Israeli Open Data
2020	Open Source GIS	🇮🇱	Israeli Open Data
2020	Open Source GIS	🇮🇱	GIS for Public Transportation
2020	Cadets for Local Government Program	🇮🇱	Introduction to QGIS
2020	AWS Open Source Day	🇮🇱	Open Source Program Office - An Enterprise Level Strategy For Open Source
2020	Israeli Association For Cartography and GIS	🇮🇱	Open Data plugin for QGIS
2020	Inter ministry GIS committee	🇮🇱	Enterprise QGIS usage

2010-2019

Year	Conference / Event	Where	Title
2019	Israeli Government Open Source Forum	🇮🇱	PostgreSQL / PostGIS
2019	Inter ministry GIS committee	🇮🇱	Open Source GIS for Municipalities
2019	Open Source GIS	🇮🇱	Serving Spatial data with GeoServer
2019	Joomla Day	🇮🇱	Joomla and Open Source
2019	Israeli Association For Cartography and GIS	🇮🇱	Making geographical data available as Open Data (with CKAN and OpenStreetMap).
2018	Inter ministry GIS committee	🇮🇱	Open Source GIS solutions for mobiles
2018	LibreOffice Conference	🇦🇱	Enforcing open standards
2018	LibreOffice Conference	🇦🇱	Right to left support status
2017	Drupal Camp	🇮🇱	Open Source businesses in Israel – Why are they so quiet?
2017	Reversim Summit	🇮🇱	Open Source community in Midburn
2017	LibreOffice Conference	🇮🇹	LibreOffice Translation (and l10n) strategy
2017	LibreOffice Conference	🇮🇹	LibreOffice in Governments and Public Administration
2017	LibreOffice Conference	🇮🇹	LibreOffice right to left (RTL) support status
2017	August Penguin	🇮🇱	Contributing to open source with git
2017	August Penguin	🇮🇱	Midburn – making an open source community
2015	LibreOffice Conference	🇩🇰	Right to left support status
2013	Israeli association for organizational development	🇮🇱	From chaos to order – the structure of open source projects
2012	LibreOffice Conference	🇩🇪	LibreOffice right to left (RTL) support status
2012	FOSDEM	🇧🇪	Debian packaging for beginners
2011	LibreOffice Conference	🇫🇷	Right to left issues in LibreOffice
2011	DebConf11	🇧🇦	Debian Packaging for beginners
2010	August Penguin	🇮🇱	Free software in the education system
2010	Inter-University Center for e-Learning	🇮🇱	Open source usage in the education system

2000-2009

Year	Conference / Event	Where	Title
2008	August Penguin	🇮🇱	OpenOffice.org – The community side