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2025 – Blue Plaque – Luis Villa

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 […]

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2025 – Blue Plaque – Dan Lorenc

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

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2025 – Blue Plaque – Paula Hunter

Paula Hunter Executive Director, Mojaloop Foundation Bio Paula Hunter is the Executive Director of the Mojaloop Foundation – a charitable nonprofit organization focused on extending the financial inclusion efforts of the Mojaloop open source software project. She leads the organization’s strategic planning and direction; grant, membership and strategic partnership development; and evangelism for the organization

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2025 – Blue Plaque – Matt Barker

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

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2025 – Blue Plaque – Andrew Martin

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

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2025 – Amandine Le Pape

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

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2025 – Tomas Lamanauskas

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

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