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Sam Hepburn

Head of global communities @ Snyk

“Open source” is just a term for treating the world’s problems as fixable. It empowers us to make changes, even small ones.”

Sam has spent the past 10 years in London becoming a well-known face of the developer community scene. Working with a variety of organisations within London and now globally building some of the largest tech communities in the world. Her main aim is to create environments for individuals to feel welcome and for communities to flourish.

She’s currently leading the community team at Snyk.io helping developers adopt security into their development workflows. As well as building the DevSecCon community and producing The Secure Developer Podcast. In her personal time, she is on the steering committee for Devoxx UK, a JVM focused developer conference.