Kat Cosgrove Individual, Kubernetes Maintainer Bio Kat is a Lead Developer Advocate focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. In particular, her specialties are approachable 101-level content and deep dives on the history of technology, with a focus on DevOps and cloud native. She was the Kubernetes Release Lead for […]
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Federico Fregosi Independent, Principal Consultant Bio Experienced engineering leader with a strong interest in distributed, highly-scalable and cloud-based systems. Operated for years in engineering leadership roles, focused on cloud-native architecture and delivery of large-scale projects on the three major public cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. Regular speaker at conferences and meetups. Federico holds an
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Eddie Knight OSPO Lead, Sonatype Bio Eddie Knight, Sonatype OSPO Lead Eddie Knight is a Software and Cloud Engineer with a background in banking technology. When he isn’t playing with his 2-year-old son, he combines his passion and job duties by working to improve the security of open source software. Eddie helps lead the FINOS
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Daisy Andrews Bio Prior to joining OpenUK, Daisy worked in accountancy. A philosophy graduate with a passion for technology, she enjoys critical thinking and is passionate about innovation and OpenUK’s mission.
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Daniel Appelquist Open Source & Open Standards Strategy Director at SnykSOOCon25 Advisory Board “Security is essential for the digital age. Our lives are mediated through digital media – the web and applications – that play a role in everything from finance, the arts, religion, family, our work, our health, our understanding of world events. These
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Natali Vlatko Open Source Architect, CiscoSOOCon25 Advisory Board Natali Vlatko (she/her) is an Open Source Architect at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, compliance, and governance, and is the SIG Docs Co-Chair for the Kubernetes project. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time. Her academic background is in Egyptology and Archaeology; specifically,
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Dan Jenkins Founder, Nimble ApeSOOCon25 Advisory Board Dan is the founder and CEO of Nimble Ape and Everycast Labs and organiser of CommCon – the only residential RTC and Open Media event in Europe. Dan has been involved with real-time media for over 10 years now, empowering open source projects, businesses and individuals to build
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Umesh RAJANI Plenary Bio Ace On Data – Founder Building enterprise applications integrating Domain Fine Tuned Open Source models and closed source model APIs Researching & building Temporal encoding in LLMs (To be released under MIT License) Researching & building direct audio ingestion and inference with LLMs through fine tuning or model merge (To be
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Margaret Hartnett Plenary Bio Dr Margaret Hartnett is an award-winning, experienced research and innovation specialist with a track record of growing and exiting a hugely successful AI start up. A senior researcher, European Patent Attorney, Chartered Patent Attorney and company director, Dr Hartnett has spent almost 20 years developing into an executive-level research, innovation and
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