Chris Howard

Lead Open Source Program Manager
EPAM Systems

Proving your worth as an Open Source Program office

Government, Law & Policy
Wednesday, February 8 • 4:00pm-4:25pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor

Chris Howard

Proving your worth as an Open Source Program office

As open source continues to permeate businesses, becoming an ever more critical activity when realising organizational goals and objectives, this talk will provide insight into how Open Source Program Offices can be pivotal in demonstrating and qualifying the value of open to today’s modern enterprises.

Attaching value, more often than not financially above others, to the efforts of open source program offices, contributors and the open source methodology is a challenging. Through exploring this topic the session will present an approach to embedding open source visibility at all levels of an organisation.

Bio

Chris has 10+ years’ experience consulting for varied organisations in delivering their digital transformation programmes. At EPAM he is Lead Open Source Program Manager supporting employees and clients with their consumption, contribution and maturity in Open Source.

He is engaged in a number of industry initiatives and has spoke on multiple topics. He is Chief Learning Officer for OpenUK and a member of the FINOS D&I group, as well as leads a non-profit promoting diversity in technology.