Tom Wilkinson Chief Data Officer, The Scottish Government Bio Working for and with government organisations, at various levels and around the world, I have spent a decade developing and improving use of data and AI to inform policy, strategy, and operational decisions. I have extensive hands-on experience working across Data Science, Data Analysis, Data Architecture, […]
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Chris Yiu Director of Public Policy, Meta Bio Chris Yiu is Director of Public Policy at Meta, where he oversees the company’s policy operations in Northern Europe. He also serves on the boards of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) and the Edinburgh International Festival. He previously led the global Technology and Public Policy team at
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Mike McQuaid CTPO, Administrate and Homebrew Project Leader Bio Mike McQuaid is an Edinburgh-based engineering and product leader with over 18 years of experience scaling open-source software and developer tools used by tens of millions. He is Project Leader of the widely used “Homebrew” macOS package manager and previously served as Principal Engineer at GitHub,
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Nick Jones VP of Cloud Native Platform Engineering, Nscale Bio Nick has worn many hats over the course of his career, with over two decades working across a wide variety of industries and sectors, largely spent building cloud platforms of various shapes and sizes. While passionate about new technologies and methodologies, especially those in relation
Sal Kimmich CEO, GadflyAI Bio Sal’s work is centered on advancing secure computing practices and pioneering privacy-enhancing technologies to safeguard sensitive data. At the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) within the Linux Foundation, they play a pivotal role in the development and implementation of Open Source projects that establish Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). These environments are
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Sonia Cooper Assistant General Counsel, Open Innovation Team, Microsoft Bio Sonia is the Assistant General Counsel, Open Innovation Team at Microsoft and Vice President of the IP Federation. Sonia has over 25 years of experience advising on IP and innovation in the tech sector, specialising in AI and IP. A Chartered and European Patent Attorney,
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Simon Maple 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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Liz Rice Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent Bio Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She was Chair of the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee in 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of
Matt Jarvis Director of Applied AI, Snyk Bio Matt Jarvis is a Director of Applied AI at Snyk. Matt has spent more than 20 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently Matt has been focused on the Artificial Intelligence space, leading
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