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Brian Osborn CEO and Publisher, Linux New Media Bio Brian is CEO and Publisher at Linux New Media, a leader in Linux, Open Source, and technical IT content. Linux New Media’s global brands include Open Source JobHub, Linux Magazine, ADMIN Network & Security, and FOSSlife. Brian has been involved with Open Source and related media […]

Rohit Ghumare Founder @ DevRelAsService, Principal Product Evangelist @ Taikun, Bio I am a passionate DevOps Advocate and a dedicated Community Evangelist. I lead and nurture multiple communities across diverse platforms, fostering DevOps and Developer Relations awareness. My commitment to the open-source ecosystem is demonstrated through delivering presentations, crafting documentation and blogs, and contributing code.

Ed Shee CTO, Ignitus Bio Ed has over a decade of experience working at the intersection of Cloud Computing and Machine Learning. Ed has worked at both large enterprises and high growth startups and is now co-founder of an AI EdTech company that helps people to build fulfilling careers and love what they do. As

Aarushi Kansal AutoGPT, AI Engineer Bio Aarushi is a passionate and seasoned AI engineer, currently working at AutoGPT – one of the most popular projects on GitHub aiming to democratize AI. She is the author of Building AI powered apps: A hands on guide for developers. She is passionate about diversity in tech. 

Emily Omier Positioning Consultant, Emily Omier Consulting Bio Emily is a consultant who helps open source startups accelerate revenue growth with killer positioning. She works with companies to manage the tension between project and product, ensure the project is contributing to business outcomes and get alignment between engineering, product, sales and marketing. She also writes

Dawn Foster Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project Bio Dawn is Director of Open Source Community Strategy within VMware’s OSPO. She is a Governing Board member / maintainer for CHAOSS, co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy TAG, and OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise

Sonia Cooper Assistant General Counsel, Open Innovation Team, Microsoft Bio Sonia is the Assistant General Counsel, Open Innovation Team at Microsoft and Vice President of the IP Federation. Sonia has over 25 years of experience advising on IP and innovation in the tech sector, specialising in AI and IP. A Chartered and European Patent Attorney,

David Aronchick​ CEO, Expanso Bio David is the CEO of Expanso. Previously, he led Compute over Data at Protocol Labs, Open Source Machine Learning Strategy at Azure, product management for Kubernetes on behalf of Google, launched Google Kubernetes Engine, and co-founded the Kubeflow (https://kubeflow.org/) project and the SAME (https://sameproject.ai/) project. He has also worked at

Dr. Allison Randall Open source/hardware developer and strategist Bio Dr. Allison Randal Dr. Allison Randal is an open source/hardware developer and strategist. She is co-chair of the Microarchitecture Side Channels working group at RISC-V International, chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, vice-chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and board

Tara Stella Head of Open Source and Principal Architect, BT Group Bio Head of Open Source and Principal Architect Tara is a computer enthusiast with a passion for IT infrastructure and telecommunications. She has been pursuing her love for technology since she was just 7 years old. Currently, Tara is the Head of Open Source