Ottawa Systems

Ottawa Systems is an independent tech talk series focused on systems programming for the Ottawa, Ontario area. It is entirely community-run, not affiliated with any company.

We are focused on high quality talks and expert speakers. Talks about engineering problems and/or the details of their solutions.

Speakers can share their experience building, debugging, testing, and maintaining:

• Compilers, parsers, virtual machines, IDEs, profiling, etc.
• Databases, storage, networking, distributed systems
• Large scale infrastructure, low latency, high availability services
• Formal methods, verification
• Browsers, kernel development, security, etc.
• Algorithms, data structures, performance optimizations, HPC
• Embedded systems, IoT, robotics, etc.
• Machine learning training, inference, compute orchestration
• Many other things..

Schedule

Stay in the loop

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If you're coming to the September 2025 event, please get your free ticket at lu.ma. This lets us make sure that we comply with the venue's capacity limits.

Brought to you by

This talk series is organized by Pawan Dubey, Aaron Brady and Shiv Nagarajan.

We're grateful to our key partner, Bayview Yards.

Contact us by email.

On Mastodon as @ottawasystems@ottawa.place.

Rules of engagement

We abide by some simple rules of engagement:

• Don't be an asshole
• Disagree respectfully
• Organisers' call is final

We also follow the contributor covenant.

Inspired by

• Vancouver Systems
• NYC Systems