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Stefania Chaplin Speaker Liaison Bio Stefania, also known as DevStefOps, began her career in development, security, and DevOps, gaining hands-on technical experience across many industries. She excelled in client-facing roles, managing multi-million dollar projects, and leading global teams. These experiences gave her deep insights into effective stakeholder management and understanding roles, requirements and expectations within […]

Sam Hepburn Volunteer Manager Bio Sam has spent the past 10 years in London becoming a well-known face of the developer community scene. Working with a variety of organisations within London and now globally building some of the largest tech communities in the world. Her main aim is to create environments for individuals to feel

Mark Kember Communications Director Bio Mark is Head of Content and Account Director at onebite, a technology communications and marketing agency based in Newbury, UK. He has more than fifteen years’ experience in public relations campaigns for software and open source companies, and he is currently specialising in the areas of databases and security. Mark’s

Marina Kiourtzidou Speaker Liaison Bio Marina Kiourtzidou is the Director of Public Speaking Operations at Underdog Consulting, a company dedicated to providing marketing services tailored for tech startups. With over 15 years of experience in the marketing field, Marina specializes in helping speakers achieve success through effective conference submissions. Her expertise and leadership have equipped numerous

Eunice Hung Conference Director Bio Eunice is an events organiser, project manager, psychotherapist, author, and podcaster. She was involved in organising for SOOC24, and has been organising Cloud Native London since 2018. She has also been a community organiser, educator, and facilitator for around a decade and is a trustee with the UK Polyamory Association.

Abby Crimlis Project Manager, OpenUK Bio Abby Crimlis graduated from Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology with a diploma in Software Engineering. She develops and facilitates open source educational programs that cater to diverse age groups and backgrounds. Abby has been involved in numerous global events focused on open source, diversity in tech, and advocating for

Amanda Brock Executive Producer Bio Amanda is CEO of OpenUK and has built one of the most recognised and impactful organisations in open source. She is also the Executive Producer of State of Open Con 25 taking place 4 – 5 February 2025 in London having founded and produced the ‘23 and ‘24 events building

Baroness Stowell Plenary Bio Tina Stowell is a Conservative peer and Chairman of the House of Lords’ Communications & Digital Select Committee. She is a former Cabinet Minister, was Leader of the House of Lords until July 2016, and was Chair of the Charity Commission from 2018 to 2021. Before joining the House of Lords

Umesh RAJANI Plenary Bio Ace On Data – Founder Building enterprise applications integrating Domain Fine Tuned Open Source models and closed source model APIs Researching & building Temporal encoding in LLMs (To be released under MIT License) Researching & building direct audio ingestion and inference with LLMs through fine tuning or model merge (To be