Cleo McGee Speaker Liaison Bio Cleo has worked most recently at Stability AI as their Global Partner of Marketing and Events, with a background at WIRED magazine, Conde Nast Global Brand Licensing and consulting for startups in how to bring their digital brands to life in events.
Dr Laura Gilbert Director of 10DS, Downing Street Bio Dr. Laura Gilbert is the director of 10DS, the data science and analytics team in Downing Street, director of the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI, now in the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation). Her teams provide fast-paced modelling and analysis to support policy making and
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Paula Hunter Executive Director, Mojaloop Foundation Bio Paula Hunter is the Executive Director of the Mojaloop Foundation – a charitable nonprofit organization focused on extending the financial inclusion efforts of the Mojaloop open source software project. She leads the organization’s strategic planning and direction; grant, membership and strategic partnership development; and evangelism for the organization
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Anandhi Bumstead Director of Engineering at OpenSearch, AWS Bio Anandhi Bumstead, director of engineering at OpenSearch within Amazon Web Services, brings nearly three decades of experience in distributed systems and open-source software. With a background in cloud computing, Anandhi made significant contributions during her tenure at Microsoft and most recently at AWS, where she leads
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Lord (Nat)Wei House of Lords Bio Lord Wei of Shoreditch is a leading voice in technology, innovation, and social entrepreneurship, combining his expertise as a legislator, advisor, and founder to create impactful solutions to global challenges. He currently serves as a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee in the House of Lords, contributing
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Emily Middleton Director General, Digital Centre Design, DSIT Bio Emily Middleton is the Director General for Digital Centre Design at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Emily was previously a partner at the consultancy Public Digital. She set up the firm’s international practice, working with multilateral development banks, UN agencies and philanthropies. She has worked
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Guy Pordjany Founder, Snyk Bio Guy Podjarny is Snyk’s Founder, driving dev-first open source & container security solutions. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai, co-founded Blaze.io (acq by Akamai), and was acquired by Watchfire and then IBM when building the first AppSec products. Guy is a frequent speaker, an O’Reilly author, and an early stage
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Luis Villa Tidelift General Counsel; Creative Commons Board of Directors Bio Programmer-turned-attorney focused on open technologies and communities.
Sami Atabami Atabani Consulting Limited, IP & Technology Consultant Bio Sami Atabani is an IP and Technology licensing expert with extensive experience in closed and open source licensing matters. He started his career as CPU design engineer at Arm before transitioning into the IP licensing team driving Arm’s technology licensing in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and
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Anita Ihuman MetalBear, Developer advocate Bio Anita is a developer advocate and a technical writer specializing in cloud native and DevOps engineering. She is championing the growth and adoption of cloud-native solutions in Africa as an organizer of Kubernetes Community Days(KCD) Nigeria and the CNCF Abuja community group. She is an open source evangelist and
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