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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, […]

Luis Villa Policy and Legal, Sonarsource; Creative Commons, Director Bio Luis Villa is co-founder and general counsel at Tidelift. Previously he was a top open source lawyer advising clients, from Fortune 50 companies to leading startups, on product development, open source licensing, and other matters.  Luis is also an experienced open source community leader with

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

Keith Bergelt CEO, Open Invention Network Bio Keith Bergelt is the CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN) & is responsible for enabling, influencing, & defending the integrity of Linux and adjacent open source software as it relates to threats from patent aggressors. He was CEO of 2 Hedge Funds; a senior advisor to TPG; head

Andrew Martin Founder and CEO, Control Plane; CISO, OpenUK Bio Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise

Matt Barker VP & Global Head of Workload Identity Architecture, Venafi Bio Matt was CEO of Jetstack, a Kubernetes company he co-founded and bootstrapped in 2015 before being acquired by Venafi in 2020. Venafi was subsequently acquired by private equity company Thoma Bravo, and then the cybersecurity company CyberArk. Jetstack is best known for its open source

Rebecca Rumbul Executive Director & CEO, Rust Foundation Bio Rebecca is the Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation, a global non-profit stewarding the Rust language, supporting maintainers, and ensuring that Rust is safe, secure, and sustainable for the future. She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant

Ron Efroni CEO and co-founder, Flox Bio Ron is the CEO and co-founder of Flox and serves as President of the NixOS Foundation, where he’s dedicated to bringing Nix to the global developer community. Ron’s journey began in the elite technical units of the IDF (8200), first as a software engineer and later leading the

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

Tomas Lamanauskas Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union: The Green Digital Action Declaration Bio Tomas Lamanauskas is Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, elected at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference of 2022, and taking up duties as of January 2023. His 25 years of experience spans across sectors of telecoms and digital policy, regulation and strategy, stemming from executive level