Advisory Board

Louisa Seers Product Manager / Galasa Chairperson IBM and Open Mainframe Project Bio Louisa’s an experienced professional within IBM with 10 years’ spanning diverse roles across consulting, software development and acquisitions. In addition, Louisa has just finished a Degree Apprenticeship to support her role in business leadership. Louisa is the chairperson of the open-source project […]

Joe Salisbury VP Engineering Giant Swarm Bio Joe Salisbury is VP Engineering at Giant Swarm. He’s tasked with making Giant Swarm an attractive work environment for engineers and generally a dope place to work. When he’s not ensuring engineering operational excellence, he can be found rowing and playing D&D, but just not at the same

Ian Miell Partner Container Solutions Bio Ian Miell has over twenty-five years’ experience in software consulting on, writing, running, architecting, and maintaining software, business and infrastructure for dozens of businesses from large to small. He now focusses on unblocking organisations from making technical changes from the top to the bottom of the tech and management

Divya Mohan Open Source Maintainer & Advocate SUSE Bio Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, where she contributes to and advocates for its open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for Kubernetes & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure with HSBC & IGate Global Solutions Pvt Ltd.

Christopher Hoult Founder Xarma Bio An American transplant to the UK, Christopher is the founder of Xarma, a tech consultancy concentrating on web technologies, having previously served as Principal Software Engineer at Datto, Engineering Team Lead at DataSift, and Senior Engineer at Time Out Digital. In his spare time, he is an experienced speaker and

Bart de Witte Founder Isaree & Hippo AI (Berlin) Foundation (Berlin) Bio Bart De Witte is an award-winning health tech innovator, entrepreneur, and author dedicated to democratizing medical knowledge and reducing healthcare inequality. He founded the non-profit HIPPO AI Foundation, aiming to make medical AI a common good through open-source initiatives and ethical frameworks. Previously

Antia Ihuman Developer Advocate & Technical Content Writer CHAOSS Bio Anita is an open source evangelist, specializing in cloud native and DevOps engineering. She is a Platform engineering ambassador and cloud advocate passionate about promoting the growth and adoption of platform and cloud-native solutions across Africa, serving as an organizer for Kubernetes Community Days (KCD)

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

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,

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