Marc Strathie Marc is currently Stakeholder Relationship Lead for Innovate UK KTN. Innovate UK KTN exists to connect innovators with new partners and new opportunities beyond their existing thinking – accelerating ambitious ideas into real-world solutions. The world we live in faces ever-changing societal, environmental and economic challenges, which are felt regionally, nationally and also […]
Siân Thomas Siân is the Chief Data Officer at the Department for Business and Trade. Recently listed in the Global Chief Data Officers top 100, she was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List for Public Service. Prior to working at the Department for Business and Trade Siân worked at the Food Standards
Jack Gilmore Jack Gilmore is a full stack software developer with experience of working in the public sector and academia. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science and Spanish from the University of Stirling in 2019. As an advocate of free and open-source software, many of the projects he has worked on either
Lesya Dymyd Lesya Dymyd, PhD is consultant at the Open Compute Project Foundation, where is in charge of innovation-related programs, projects and partnerships. She specializes in strategy, technology and innovation management and has extensive professional experience in tech industry and academia. She worked for a number of international organizations and in R&D and technological innovation
Jon Laban European Director, Open Compute Project Foundation Last decade as Data Centre Architect and mentor working from microscale to hyperscale facilities both nationally and internationally. Always keen to question the status quo and passionate about doing things faster and better in open source collaborative communities. Previous decades include traveller, metalurgist, pub owner and gardener
Gaël Duval Gaël Duval is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He created the first desktop-based Linux distribution in 1998, Mandrake Linux (based on KDE), and more recently launched /e/OS, a fully deGoogled and pro-privacy mobile operating system for the masses.
Astrid Wynne Astrid is Head of Sustainability at Techbuyer. She chairs the Sustainability Special Interest Group at the Data Centre Alliance and is a board member of Free ICT Europe, a non-profit organisation that supports competitive practice by working with EU legislators. She has also co-written a number of academic papers on circular economy and
Peter Farkas Co-Founder and CEO of FerretDB Peter is the Co-Founder and CEO of FerretDB, a company which develops an open source MongoDB-compatible database alternative, motivated by MongoDB’s departure from its open source roots. Peter started his own company when he was 15, and found open source in the process as the key ingredient of
Ruth Cheesley Project Lead, Mautic Ruth is an Open Source advocate with over 18 years of experience using and contributing to many different projects. Having served on the Community Leadership Team of the Joomla! project and built a full-service digital agency, she now works as Project Lead for Mautic, supporting the community who build and
Paula Kennedy Paula is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo. Working in the IT industry for over 20 years, Paula is passionate about community, diversity and
