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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 […]

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

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

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

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