>> Announcer: Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Red Hat Summit 2018. Brought to you by Red Hat. >> Welcome back, here, when we here live, it's theCube, here in San Francisco live for Red Hat, Summit 2018. I'm John Furrier, the host of theCUBE. Our next three guests is the Delisa Alexander, Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer at Red Hat. Welcome to theCUBE. >> Thanks. >> Zui Dighe, who's the... Did I get that right? Zz-- >> Zui, yeah, mm-hmm. >> Zui? OK, winner of the Open Source Academic Award from Duke University, Go Blue Devils (chuckles). >> Zui: Yes. >> And we have Dana Lewis, winner of Open AP with OpenAPS, which stands for? >> The Open Source Artificial Pancreas System. >> Artificial open-source Pancreas System, great stuff. So congratulations, you guys are all award winners. Before we get into some of the questions, love your applications, talk about the program. What is this about? What's the awards program here at Red Hat Summit, and why are these guys here? >> So as Red Hat, we believe, as an open-source leader, we have a responsibility to promote women in technology and particularly women in open-source. And so, one of the things we thought we could do is to create an award that really spotlights the contributions women are making in open-source to inspire future generations to consider being open-source developers or contributors. >> Congrat, Delisa, love that you're doing that. It's fantastic. We'll start with the young student gun here. What's your degree, first of all? What are you studying? >> I'm studying biomedical engineering and computer science. >> John: Tough major, huh? >> Yep, very tough. (Delisa laughing) Not easy, but I'm-- >> This is an easy-- >> First question is, how do you in a block chain impact? It's funny, Jim always asked that question on day one. No, in all serious, tell about what your application is. This is super important. >> Yeah, yeah. So I'm basically working on researching and creating a tracking system for vaccines that enter into developing countries. So through that, you're able to understand how exactly do vaccines travel through these countries as well as where does the system break. And if you can pinpoint that, you can actually solve the problem. >> And how did you get the idea? How did this all come together? >> I was in a research course at Duke, which has collaboration with the university in Uganda, and we actually got to travel to Uganda and interview various stakeholders, pharmaceutical companies, health system, and understand how does the-- We wanted to be in vaccines, but we didn't know what exactly to do. And so after interviewing, I kind of came up with the idea of why don't we actually put a tracker on these devices that gives off the GPS location and the temperature so we can actually understand the entire system. >> It's going to get that ground truth, too, and again, the local areas. >> Yeah. >> The big walk away, what, about vaccines. This is important to track it from the origination to destination and making sure it all kind of matches up. >> Making sure, first of all, you don't have any data on exactly where they're going because this box is just carried by hand. And the pharmaceutical companies, once they ship the vaccines into Uganda, after that, they don't provide any data on what's going on. So that data is also important, and it's also, you want to know when does the system break because often in last end, when the vaccines are actually administered, they've already gone out of their cold chain cycle, and so they don't work anymore. >> That's a great story. How 'about your story? This is a good one. This is a real practical one for people with diabetes. Talk about, first of all, show the product 'cause it's always good to a little live prop there. So turn, yeah, there it is. So what is that? >> So this is an open-source hardware board. It's actually got an Intel Edison on the back side. But what this does is, it talks to my insulin pump and my continuous glucose monitor, brings the data together, runs it through an algorithm, and sends commands back to the insulin pump to tell it what to do. So this is what we call a close-loop system where we have the computer doing the math instead of the human with diabetes doing the math several times throughout the day. >> And does it do auto-injections as well? So it kind of feeds the glucose levels as well? So it's data-- >> Right. So the insulin pump is automatically dosing the insulin, and we also have a continuous feed of the blood sugar every five minutes as well. >> And that's what you mean by close-loop. >> Exactly. >> For people have these monitors, they have remotes, statistics. Does it talk to a device as well? The mobile device, how does that work? >> Yeah, so I can glance down at my watch and see how I'm doing, on my phone. My loved ones, wherever they are, can see how things are going. So if they need to intervene, they're able to do that remotely. So it really provides peace of mind as well as a lot better outcomes for those of us living with Type I diabetes. >> And what was the motivation here, to get involved deeply in this project? >> It was really selfish, I wanted to sleep, and I couldn't hear my CGM alarm, my glucose alarm. And so my project actually started of, just get the data off to make a louder alarm. And then we built an algorithm that allowed us to look into the future and do proactive alarms. And then we worked with other people to actually communicate with the insulin pump, and that's how we progressed to closing the loop. And because I've been helped so much by other people in open-source, it was a no-brainer to also make our work open-source. >> And so you open-source everything. What other progress can you share? I mean, you have predictive analytics that tell you that, "OK, I'm going to go for a hike soon, "so therefore, I'm going to do this," and all kinds of cool data gathering. Does that play into it? Is it a lifestyle and-- >> Absolutely. >> So it's like a FitBit meets close-loop. (Women laugh) >> It's more like taking standard medical devices and boosting their capacities with the help of computing technologies. It's not fancy machine learning. It's the same math a person with diabetes would do, but the benefit is, it's automated to go every five minutes, and it doesn't fall asleep, it doesn't get lazy, it doesn't round up or vary down. It's going to be giving really precise increments so that when your situation changes, you skip a meal that you though you were going to eat, you're going to go hiking, for whatever reason, if you're going up or down more than expected, it can react instantaneously and much better than a human can. >> I'm so glad you're doing that, too. How does someone get involved with this project? Obviously, it's open-source software, but you have devices. Is it in market? Is there? >> So this is an open-source project because we are not a company, so we cannot distribute medical devices. That's frowned upon by the FDA. And so this is an open-source DIY project for people who want to get involved either to help with the project or build one themselves. They can go to OpenAPS.org. We've written a plain language reference design to help anybody, whether you're a person with diabetes, a loved one, a healthcare provider, a researcher or developer understand how the system works, and then that leads you to the documentation of how to build one as well as to the code where anybody can get involved and help out. >> So that's the loophole, (Dana laughs) to say it plainly, get around that whole being a company. You build your own. >> Yes. >> So that's the way, that's here. OK, great, so congratulations. So where's this all going? This is fantastic, this story. How many other people are involved in the program that you have? Share more about how people can get involved, too. >> This is our fourth year of having the program, and we're really just thrilled with the quality of the nominations. We had over 100 nominations. Our judges then narrowed the field down to 10, and then the community selected the winners. We don't really see an end to this. We just see the community adding and growing organically. So one thing we did this time is, we introduced our winners to our CO.LAB students, and so now they're creating a network. And that network density is just increasing and improving and, I think, getting stronger. >> It's really amazing. And one thing I've always loved about open-source, and you guys see the benefit of it, obviously, with winning and succeeding, is that democratization and community are coming together at a whole nother level. And I think what's interesting about the projects that you guys have is, you got good things happening with tech. So it's tech for good. But since Obama put the Jobs Act in, means fund these projects now as entrepreneurial ventures and be mission-driven OFFLEM. You don't have to do it as a non-profit. So we're seeing a huge growth in entrepreneurial activity around tech for good on projects that would never would funded before. So you're seeing a whole nother generation of great tools and technologies saying, "Hey, let's solve a problem." >> Yeah, and I think that's one of thing I love about us both being in healthcare is, it really shows that there's amazing applications. We can take this technology and apply it in healthcare and do it in different ways, and it doesn't have to be a company right away. It doesn't have to be either a for profit or non for profit. There's a lot of ways open-source is bringing people together to solve the very problems we need to be solving. >> Do you feel good that you built something great like that, and think now you got people using the software? What's the feeling like? >> Oh, it's just incredibly rewarding. I mean, myself, I just have the peace of mind to be able to go to sleep at night. That is a priceless feeling, but then when I hear other people using it, they build the project for different reasons. Some, they want to be able to remotely monitor their loved ones. Others are doing it for their children so that they have better health outcomes. But there's just these amazing stories outpouring from the community. And to me, that's the beauty of open sources. You can really apply it however you need to apply it to your lifestyle. >> Where can someone get involved in your project? Is there like a GitHub repository? >> Yep. >> Is there a site? >> Everything's on GitHub for us, but I would go to OpenAPS.org first. It links to the documentation and the code where people can connect. >> OpenAPS.org. >> That's right. >> OK, great. How 'about your project? How do people get involved with what you're doing? >> Ours is on GitHub right now, so you can get involved through there. But I guess we're kind of right now developing in the backend stages. Soon we'll be at that stage where you can contribute more. And right now, we've just been using other open-source libraries and kind of contributed in that way. But actually, we talked earlier about how do you get involved in open-source, and especially being a student, I kind of fell into coding because of open-source in a sense >> Working on your project? where, yeah, yeah, yeah. So coming into college, I wanted to apply the engineering concepts I was learning in the classroom, and I got involved in a lot of entrepreneurship on campus, and through that, I was asked to make a front-end interface, and I didn't really know how to go about doing that. So then I found an open-source library stumbling around that was doing a similar thing. And that's how I kind of taught myself, and then from there, I branched out and learned more and more. And I think for any budding student, budding entrepreneur, open-source is a great way to take your ideas further. And my interest is in healthcare, so that's where I went, but anyone could have an idea, "Oh, I want to start this business in this way." And they might not think that open-source is a way to go about doing that, but it is a great way to learn more. >> It's a good way to change a lot of things, not just career or projects. >> Yeah. >> There's a nonlinear progression of learning happening. You can come in, you're stumbling around, quote, learning. >> Yeah, yeah. >> It's not like chapter one course, online course. Go to chapter two. >> Right, that is true. >> There's a YouTube, there's stuff on GitHub, open-source. There's people involved. This points to a whole new generational shift. >> It is. >> Of learning, connecting, you're tapping into it. >> It's so exciting because she's the role model we're talking about. We want girls to see that you can become a coder later. You don't have to necessarily start-- >> She's 14, she'd coding in unity. >> Yeah! >> I tell a soliloquy, great. (Delisa laughing) Do some smart contracts and get the bobchain action. (Delisa laughing) Bobchain's the future, you're the Bitcoin in intheoreum. Some cool stuff. >> Yeah. Congratulations, thanks for doing this. >> Thank you very much. >> Very inspirational, and thanks for sharing the story on theCUBE, and keep in touch, thanks for coming, appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Thanks for having us. >> Great women in tech, great leaders doing some great stuff. Award winners, celebrities here on theCUBE. I'm John Furrier. Be back with more live coverage after this short break. (electronic musical flourish)