Sonia Cooper Assistant General Counsel, Open Innovation Team at Microsoft and Vice President IP Federation Sonia Cooper is an assistant general counsel in Microsoft’s intellectual property group and leads IP policy globally for the open innovation team, working with Microsoft Research in Cambridge. She has represented Microsoft on the Council of the IP Federation since […]
Dr. Erik Riedel Chief Engineering Officer, Flax Computing Erik Riedel, PhD (he/him) works on data center sustainability & open hardware as Chief Engineering Officer for Flax Computing, working to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers worldwide. He previously led engineering for ITRenew’s circular data center initiatives, including the Sesame product line (acquired by Iron
Liz Rice Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She was Chair of the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee in 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container
Adam Fowler Founder, Bilberry Software Ltd Adam Fowler is based in the UK. He consults with organisations to build agile software development and platform teams, and works with customers on knotty new software problems. Adam was lead architect of the UK COVID-19 mobile app from March-June 2020. He then founded The Herald Project as an
Christopher Howard Lead Open Source Program Manager, EPAM Chris has over 10 years’ experience consulting for a broad spectrum of organisations in devising and delivering their digital transformation programmes. At EPAM Systems he is Lead Open Source Program Manager supporting employees and clients with their consumption, contribution and maturity in Open Source whilst focusing on
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Ricardo Sueiras Principal Advocate in Open Source, Amazon Web Services Ricardo is a principal developer advocate at Amazon Web Services; he works with builders, technology leaders and enterprise executives to help them transform their businesses. Prior to joining AWS Ricardo worked for one of the largest professional services firms. He has over twenty years of
Simon Muskett COO, OpenQuantum Simon is the COO of OpenQuantum, a company accelerating the progress of Quantum Computing, through Open Source solutions, community engagement, education and innovation. Simon has spent over 20 years in leadership positions within the tech industry, including roles with Dell, Ericsson, First Data & Citrix. During Simon’s career he has led
Jamie Tanna Senior Software Engineer, Elastic Jamie (he/him) has been an Open Source contributor longer than he’s been working, finding an early interest in the differences between various Open Source and Free Software licenses and the ethical and moral obligations we should follow as folks building and consuming software. Jamie’s a strong believer in building
Peter Zaitsev Entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has used his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person store into one of the most respected open source companies in
Dr. Rebecca Rumbul Executive Director & CEO, Rust Foundation Rebecca is the Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation, a global non-profit stewarding the Rust language, supporting maintainers, and ensuring that Rust is safe, secure, and sustainable for the future. She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant
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