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Dawn Foster Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project Bio Dawn leads the data science initiative for the CHAOSS project where she is also a Governing Board member and maintainer. Dawn is an OpenUK board member and co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy Technical Advisory Group. Dawn has 25+ years of experience working in open source […]

Guy Podjarny Founder & CEO, Tessl 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

Amandine Le Pape Co-Founder & COO, Element/Matrix Bio Amandine is COO and co-founder of Element (https://element.io), an open source, secure and interoperable communication platform built on Matrix (https://matrix.org), the open standard for secure and open communications. Element brings sovereign communications to heterogeneous organisations who can’t rely on commercial cloud offerings, let alone non end-to-end encrypted

Paula Kennedy Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, Syntasso Bio Paula is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo.  Working in the IT industry for over 20 years, Paula

Allison Randal Open source/hardware developer and strategist Bio 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 member at the LLVM

Peter Zaitsev Founder at Percona, FerretDB, Coroot Bio Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot, FerretDB and other tech companies. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has applied his technical knowledge and entrepreneurial drive to contribute as a board member and advisor to several

Gael Duval CEO, Murena Bio Gaël Duval is a software engineer and entrepreneur. In 1998, he created the first Linux distribution aimed at the general public. More recently, he created /e/OS, a fully deGoogled mobile operating system that respects personal data, now available in Murena smartphones and cloud services.

Stephen Augustus Technical Architect in the Office of the CTO, Bloomberg L.P. Bio Stephen is a Black engineering and community leader in open source, based in New York City. He currently works as a Technical Architect in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg L.P. Stephen participates in project-level steering committees (Kubernetes, OpenSSF Scorecard, TODO

Dr Laura Gilbert Head of AI for Government, the Ellison Institute of Technology Bio Dr. Laura Gilbert is the Head of the AI for Government program at the Ellison Institute of Technology, working jointly with the Tony Blair Institute to deliver a program of AI solutions to improve the ability of governments to plan and

Dan Lorenc Co-Founder and CEO, Chainguard Bio Dan Lorenc is co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, a company revolutionizing how organizations build securely with open source software, shaping modern development practices for companies like Wiz, Canva, GitLab, and Snowflake. He is responsible for setting the company vision, driving strategic growth, and ensuring Chainguard remains at the