Careers & Entrepreneurship

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This track will explore how to make your first contributions to open source software, becoming part of a community, evolving a living CV in a community, being hired, managing your personal brand, developing and managing a career, founding an open source business, being part of a start up and much more. In short, anything that relates to community and business development in open source. 

It will cover personal challenges like neurodiversity and overcoming disabilities as well as the mainstream perspective. It may also explore business models but these may also be explored in open source and Government, law and policy. Judges will be looking for sharing personal journeys and stories as well as subject matter expertise. 

OpenUK seeks to support a diverse and thriving future open technology community, with successful businesses in open technology. This and its challenges will be explored in this track’s session. 

As with all tracks in 2024, this track will include AI openness and the benefits and challenges of this relevant to track topics.

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Matt Barker

Host

President and Co-founder of Jetstack

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Carla Gaggini

Chair

Senior Director, Global Events, Isovalent

Speakers

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Sam Hepburn

Community Manager, Snyk

 
Ahmed_Sobeh

Ahmed Sobeh

OSPO Engineering Manager, Aiven

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Michael Cade

Global Field CTO, Veeam Software

Tanya Dadasheva

CEO & Co-Founder, Ainekko

Martin Hickey

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

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Michelle Mannering

DevRel, GitHub

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Kunal Kushwaha

Developer Relations Manager, Civo

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Emily Omier

Positioning Consultant, Emily Omier Consulting

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Masae Shida

Staff Program Manager (OSPO), Vmware

Nithya Ruff

Director, OSPO, Amazon

Tatiana Botskina

Founder, Mintycode

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Kelly Thibault

Executive Director, Secure Diversity

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Salman Shah

Senior Software Engineer, Smartsheet

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Jennifer Riggins

Freelance Tech Culture Journalist

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Gavin Page

CRO, Sales Force Europe

Brian Douglas

Founder & CEO, Open Sauced

Jennifer Barth

Founder, Symmetry

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Nico Vibert

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Isovalent

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Damian Ondore

Chief Community Inclusion Officer, OpenUK

CFP Committee

Brian Douglas

Founder & CEO, Open Sauced

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Emily Omier

Positioning Consultant

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Peter Zaitsev

Entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona

Damian Ondore

Chief Community Inclusion Officer

Dominique Top

Solutions Architect at GitLab

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Laura Czajkowski

Head of Community, DragonflyDB

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CEO and Publisher, Linux New Media