Louisa Seers Product Manager / Galasa Chairperson IBM and Open Mainframe Project Bio Louisa’s an experienced professional within IBM with 10 years’ spanning diverse roles across consulting, software development and acquisitions. In addition, Louisa has just finished a Degree Apprenticeship to support her role in business leadership. Louisa is the chairperson of the open-source project […]
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Joe Salisbury VP Engineering Giant Swarm Bio Joe Salisbury is VP Engineering at Giant Swarm. He’s tasked with making Giant Swarm an attractive work environment for engineers and generally a dope place to work. When he’s not ensuring engineering operational excellence, he can be found rowing and playing D&D, but just not at the same
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Ian Miell Partner Container Solutions Bio Ian Miell has over twenty-five years’ experience in software consulting on, writing, running, architecting, and maintaining software, business and infrastructure for dozens of businesses from large to small. He now focusses on unblocking organisations from making technical changes from the top to the bottom of the tech and management
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Divya Mohan Open Source Maintainer & Advocate SUSE Bio Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, where she contributes to and advocates for its open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for Kubernetes & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure with HSBC & IGate Global Solutions Pvt Ltd.
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Christopher Hoult Founder Xarma Bio An American transplant to the UK, Christopher is the founder of Xarma, a tech consultancy concentrating on web technologies, having previously served as Principal Software Engineer at Datto, Engineering Team Lead at DataSift, and Senior Engineer at Time Out Digital. In his spare time, he is an experienced speaker and
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Bart de Witte Founder Isaree & Hippo AI (Berlin) Foundation (Berlin) Bio Bart De Witte is an award-winning health tech innovator, entrepreneur, and author dedicated to democratizing medical knowledge and reducing healthcare inequality. He founded the non-profit HIPPO AI Foundation, aiming to make medical AI a common good through open-source initiatives and ethical frameworks. Previously
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Antia Ihuman Developer Advocate & Technical Content Writer CHAOSS Bio Anita is an open source evangelist, specializing in cloud native and DevOps engineering. She is a Platform engineering ambassador and cloud advocate passionate about promoting the growth and adoption of platform and cloud-native solutions across Africa, serving as an organizer for Kubernetes Community Days (KCD)
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Amandine Le Pape Co-Founder & COO, Element/Matrix Bio Amandine is COO and co-founder of Element (https://element.io), an open source, secure and interoperable communication platform built on Matrix (https://matrix.org), the open standard for secure and open communications. Element brings sovereign communications to heterogeneous organisations who can’t rely on commercial cloud offerings, let alone non end-to-end encrypted
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Tomas Lamanauskas Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union: The Green Digital Action Declaration Bio Tomas Lamanauskas is Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, elected at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference of 2022, and taking up duties as of January 2023. His 25 years of experience spans across sectors of telecoms and digital policy, regulation and strategy, stemming from executive level
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LUCIE Open Source generative AI Bio Born in France in 2024, LUCIE is the first truly Open Source generative AI, combining innovation, transparency, and sustainability. Trained on 3 trillion tokens across five languages, she embodies European values of inclusivity and digital sovereignty. Backed by the OpenLLM Europe community, LUCIE offers cutting-edge capabilities while prioritizing energy
