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2026 – Justin Cormack

Justin Cormack Former CTO, Docker Bio Justin Cormack has over 20 years’ experience in technology and open source, working across finance, publishing, and software. He spent a decade at Docker, serving both as a software engineer and later as Chief Technology Officer, helping grow a globally influential open source business. Justin served on the Cloud […]

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2026 – Dave Buckley

Dave Buckley Policy, Open Minded Foundation Bio Dave is a technology policy consultant, who has worked across engineering and policy roles in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He works in policy and partnerships at the OpenMined Foundation, a global non-profit that builds open-source privacy-preserving technology to transform how data is accessed and used. He

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2026 – Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin CEO, ControlPlane 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 comfortable profiling and securing every tier of a bare metal or cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise and government. He is

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2026 – Anastasia Stasenko

Anastasia Stasenko CEO & Co-Founder, Pleias Bio Anastasia Stasenko is the co-founder and CEO of Pleias, a Franco-German startup developing full open-source small reasoning models trained exclusively on permissively licensed data. A senior associate lecturer in data analysis and digital strategy at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, she coordinated the creation of Common Corpus, the largest fully open

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2026 – Adrian Mouat

Adrian Mouat DevRel Engineer, Chainguard Bio Adrian Mouat is a DevRel Engineer at Chainguard and the author of the O’Reilly book Using Docker. He brings deep expertise in containers, Kubernetes, registries, and supply chain security. Adrian is also the creator of the open source Trow registry, a frequent conference speaker, and a passionate contributor to DevOps

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2026 – Tobias Augspurger

Tobias Augspurger Lead of Electrical Grid Mapping  Open Energy Transition  Bio Tobias Augspurger, PhD, is an aerospace engineer and atmospheric scientist working to support open-source solutions in climate and energy. He contributes to projects like OpenSustain.tech, an initiative helping surface and connect climate-tech communities, and is involved in collaborative funding and transparency efforts such as

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2026 – Stephen Augustus

Stephen Augustus Technical Architect in the Office of the CTO Bloomberg L.P. Bio Stephen is a Black engineering and community leader in open source, based in New York City. He currently works as a Technical Architect in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg. He leads several projects, including Kubernetes, OpenSSF, and the TODO Group.

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2026 – Sourish Sharma

Sourish Sharma Software Engineer Terra API Bio Sourish is 19 and dropped out of university to go build cool projects. He first went to State of Open Con 2024, and loved it so much that he came back to volunteer at SOOCon 25! He also covered the conference over 9 podcasts recorded with speakers and

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2026 – Simon Maple

Simon Maple Founding Head of Developer Relations Tessl Bio Simon Maple is the Founding Head of Developer Relations at Tessl and former VP of Developer Relations at Snyk, ZeroTurnaround, and IBM; a Java Champion since 2014, JavaOne Rockstar speaker, Duke’s Choice award winner, Virtual JUG founder, and London Java Community co-leader.

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2026 – Shivay Lamba

Shivay Lamba Senior Developer Experience Engineer Couchbase Bio Shivay Lamba is a software engineer and open source contributor passionate about AI and edge computing. With experience across startups and enterprise tech, he focuses on simplifying complex technologies for developers. Shivay actively speaks at global conferences, organizes community events, and contributes to projects in cloud-native ecosystems,

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