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Steven De Costa Co-Steward of CKAN Project and Executive Director of Link Digital. Bio Steven has worked in the internet and multimedia industry since 1997, founding Link Digital in 2001. He has been providing leadership from his extensive experiences in all areas of digital operations, including technical direction, management, governance, and strategy. As the owner […]

Natali Vlatko Open Source Lead Architect, CISCO Bio Open Source Governance Roles: SIG Docs Co-chair for Kubernetes, TODO Group Steering Committee Natali Vlatko (she/her) is an Open Source Lead Architect at CISCO, specializing in open software, policy, and governance. She is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes, serves on the TODO Group Steering Committee, and

Jack Gilmore Co-founder, Open Data Scotland Bio Jack Gilmore is a full stack software developer with experience of working in the public sector and academia in Scotland. 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

Ian Watt Co-founder, Code The City Bio Ian Watt is an Open Data advocate and data scientist. He had an extensive career in the public sector in Scotland where he managed large digital projects, and obtained funding for, and led and his local authority’s participation in EU-scale programmes working with Nesta and many EU cities.

Michael Meeks CEO, Collabora Productivity Bio Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic Open Source developer. As CEO of Collabora Productivity overseeing an extremely talented team developing Collabora Online, and supporting our customers alongside the community. He has served as a director of The Document Foundation and has contributed to both ODF and OOXML standardization. Prior

Rebecca Rumbul​ Executive Director & CEO, Rust Foundation Bio Rebecca is the Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation, a global non-profit stewarding the Rust language, supporting maintainers, and ensuring that Rust is safe, secure, and sustainable for the future. She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant and

Matt Turner Software Engineer, Tetrate Bio Matt is a software engineer at Tetrate, working on Istio-related products, and loves sharing the latest tech and trends with everyone. He’s been doing Dev, sometimes with added Ops, for over a decade. His idea of “full-stack” is Linux, Kubernetes, and now Istio too. He’s given many talks and

Kris Bondi CEO, Mimoto Bio Kris Bondi is Mimoto CEO & Co-founder of Mimoto, an AI-powered cybersecurity company. In past lives, Kris has served as a crisis communications consultant to government entities, global not-for-profits, and some of the largest (and smallest) companies in the world. Kris is a long-time advocate for developer communities. While she’s

Nick Jones Head of Engineering at Nscale Bio Nick has worn many hats over the course of his career, with over two decades working across a wide variety of industries and sectors, largely spent building cloud platforms of various shapes and sizes. While passionate about new technologies and methodologies, especially those in relation to Open

Andrew Martin CEO and Co-Founder Control Plane and OpenUK CISO Bio Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to