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Jack Gilmore Co-founder, Open Data Scotland Bio Jack Gilmore is a full stack software developer with experience of working in the public sector and academia in Scotland. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science and Spanish from the University of Stirling in 2019. As an advocate of free and open-source software, many of […]

Ian Watt Co-founder, Code The City Bio Ian Watt is an Open Data advocate and data scientist. He had an extensive career in the public sector in Scotland where he managed large digital projects, and obtained funding for, and led and his local authority’s participation in EU-scale programmes working with Nesta and many EU cities.

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,

David Aronchick​ CEO, Expanso Bio David is the CEO of Expanso. Previously, he led Compute over Data at Protocol Labs, Open Source Machine Learning Strategy at Azure, product management for Kubernetes on behalf of Google, launched Google Kubernetes Engine, and co-founded the Kubeflow (https://kubeflow.org/) project and the SAME (https://sameproject.ai/) project. He has also worked at

Michael Meeks CEO, Collabora Productivity Bio Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic Open Source developer. As CEO of Collabora Productivity overseeing an extremely talented team developing Collabora Online, and supporting our customers alongside the community. He has served as a director of The Document Foundation and has contributed to both ODF and OOXML standardization. Prior

Dr. Allison Randall Open source/hardware developer and strategist Bio Dr. Allison Randal Dr. Allison Randal is an open source/hardware developer and strategist. She is co-chair of the Microarchitecture Side Channels working group at RISC-V International, chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, vice-chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and board

Tara Stella Head of Open Source and Principal Architect, BT Group Bio Head of Open Source and Principal Architect Tara is a computer enthusiast with a passion for IT infrastructure and telecommunications. She has been pursuing her love for technology since she was just 7 years old. Currently, Tara is the Head of Open Source

Astrid Wynne Head of Public Sector and Sustainability, Techbuyer Bio Astrid is Head of Public Sector and Sustainability at Techbuyer, a sustainable IT solutions provider that specialises in servers, storage and networking for Data Centres. She has co-published a number of academic papers on the subjects of energy efficiency and circularity in data centres and

Adam Fowler Founder, The Herald Project Bio Adam Fowler is based in the UK. He consults with organisations to build agile software development and platform teams, and works with customers on knotty new software problems.  Adam was lead architect of the UK COVID-19 mobile app from March-June 2020. He then founded The Herald Project as

Sonya Moisset Staff Security Advocate @ Snyk Bio Sonya is a Staff Security Advocate and a lifelong traveler who lived in the Middle-East, North Africa and East Asia. She’s passionate about Cybersecurity, DevSecOps and AI. She’s part of the OpenUK Security Advisory Board, an OpenUK ambassador and 2x OpenUK Honoree, 4x Github Star, 5x Top