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Emma Thwaites Director of Corporate Affairs, Open Data Institute Bio 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 […]

Terence Eden Principal Privacy Architect, Our Future Health UK Bio 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

Matt Barker Entrepreneur in Residence Bio Matt Barker is President and Co-founder of Jetstack. 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 of dollars in revenue to a

Divya Mohan Open source maintainer & advocate Bio Divya is a Senior Technical Evangelist at SUSE, where she contributes to Rancher’s cloud native open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for the Kubernetes & LitmusChaos projects & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure with HSBC & IGate Global Solutions

Peter Zaitsev Founder at Percona, FerretDB, Coroot Bio Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot, FerretDB and other tech companies. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has applied his technical knowledge and entrepreneurial drive to contribute as a board member and advisor to several

Dan Lorenc Co-Founder and CEO, Chainguard Bio Dan Lorenc is co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, a company revolutionizing how organizations build securely with open source software, shaping modern development practices for companies like Wiz, Canva, GitLab, and Snowflake.His foundational contributions to software supply chain security predate watershed moments like SolarWinds and Log4j. Before founding Chainguard,

Avi press​ Founder and CEO, Scarf Bio Avi Press is a developer tool author, and functional programming language enthusiast, serving as a founder & CEO of Scarf. Avi loves thinking about and discussing how people can solve problems by more effectively sharing data, and how that applies to building a sustainable open-source ecosystem. He is

Chris Aniszczyk Chief Technology Officer, CNCF Bio Chris Aniszczyk is an open source technologist with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He’s currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer experience and running the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he’s a Partner at Capital Factory where he focuses

Cleo McGee Speaker Liaison Bio Cleo has worked most recently at Stability AI as their Global Partner of Marketing and Events, with a background at WIRED magazine, Conde Nast Global Brand Licensing and consulting for startups in how to bring their digital brands to life in events.

Lord (Nat)Wei House of Lords Bio Lord Wei of Shoreditch is a leading voice in technology, innovation, and social entrepreneurship, combining his expertise as a legislator, advisor, and founder to create impactful solutions to global challenges. He currently serves as a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee in the House of Lords, contributing