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Terence Eden Terence Eden is a technology expert with a focus on open standards. He is an open source coder, open data publisher, and freelance cyber-security consultant. He was formerly the UK Government’s representative to the W3C. He speaks around the world on open standards, open source software, and open data.

Emma Thwaites Director of Corporate Affairs, Open Data Institute (ODI) Emma’s portfolio at the ODI encompasses public policy, events and engagement, Data as Culture, communications and marketing, product and innovation, ODI Membership and the ODI Summit. Emma’s team comprises individuals with multi-disciplinary expertise to deliver behaviour and culture change consultancy – specialising in the global

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Matt Barker President and Co-founder of Jetstack Matt Barker is President and Co-founder of Jetstack and OpenUK’s Entrepreneur in Residence. He’s spent his career in open source software vendors and was an early employee at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, and then NoSQL Database company MongoDB, seeing the company grow from a few millions

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Carla Gaggini Senior Director, Global Events, Isovalent Carla has been managing events since 2011. She started with experimental music festivals and eventually ended up in Tech, where she fell in love with its Community. During her career she has produced and run many conferences (yes, also the virtual ones!), meetups, webinars and hackathons. She is