Lori Lorusso Director of Outreach Rust Foundation Bio Lori has a passion and enthusiasm for working with the developer and open source community. She is committed to helping open source and other tech communities grow and adapt in our ever changing environment. Lori is a CNCF Ambassador and volunteers her time with multiple organizations like […]
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Leena Mooneeram Senior Platform Engineer Chainalysis Bio Leena is a Senior Engineer at Chainalysis, the Blockchain data platform. With a strong focus on reducing friction and cognitive load for Chainalysis engineers, Leena is at the coal-face of DevProd and DevEx daily. When she’s not busy optimising workflows, Leena enjoys playing the flute really well, and
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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
Jono Bacon CEO Stateshift Bio Jono Bacon is a leading community and collaboration speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and OpenAdvantage. His clients include Huawei, GitLab, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony
Erblina Bunjaku MMath Student University of Edinburgh Bio Erblina Bunjaku is a fourth-year student of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and a passionate advocate for STEM education and gender equality. She is the Executive Director of EngineeringHER Future and Head of STEM Ambassadors at the Kosovo STEM Centre, leading initiatives that promote STEM access
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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
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Dan Scarbrough Chief of Staff Stelia Bio Dan Scarbrough is Chief of Staff at Stelia, where he helps build the platform engine powering the next generation of AI-native companies. With over 30 years of experience scaling companies across cloud, AI, and frontier technology, Dan has worked across global markets and at every layer of the
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Damani Corbin Global Software Strategy, Open Source Program Office Boeing Bio Damani Corbin joined The Boeing Company in January, 2022 to assist in the implementation of an enterprise wide DevSecOps initiative, assisting teams adopt cloud native technologies. Since joining, Boeing has launched an Open Source Program Office that Damani transitioned into to lead the strategy
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Cortney Nickerson Head of CommunityNirmata Bio Cortney Nickerson is the Head of Community at Nirmata, where she leads strategy and engagement for both the Kyverno open source project and Nirmata’s commercial community. A self-taught, community-driven professional who entered tech later in her career, Cortney has become a recognized voice in cloud native, speaking at international
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Chad Whitacre Head of Open Source Sentry Bio Chad Whitacre got his start in Open Source in 2001. He participated in the Python web development boom of the 2000s that gave rise to Django and Flask. Along the way, he experienced first-hand the tension between volunteer Open Source work and paid closed source work, so
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