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Guy Pordjany 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 […]

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

Sami Atabami Atabani Consulting Limited, IP & Technology Consultant Bio Sami Atabani is an IP and Technology licensing expert with extensive experience in closed and open source licensing matters. He started his career as CPU design engineer at Arm before transitioning into the IP licensing team driving Arm’s technology licensing in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and

Anita Ihuman MetalBear, Developer advocate Bio Anita is a developer advocate and a technical writer specializing in cloud native and DevOps engineering. She is championing the growth and adoption of cloud-native solutions in Africa as an organizer of Kubernetes Community Days(KCD) Nigeria and the CNCF Abuja community group. She is an open source evangelist and

Richard Sikang Bian Head of Open Source, Ant Group Bio Richard led Ant Group Open Source initiative from day 1 and developed the initiative from a single person effort to a cross-functional OSPO team covering governance, strategy, developer experience, product development, growth and internationalization efforts. The team collaborates closely with 20+ internal open source projects

Martin Hickey IBM, Senior Technical Staff Member Bio Martin Hickey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and an open source strategic leader who drives the development of open source software leveraged by IBM. Currently, Martin is primarily focused on developing AI and cloud applications. He has been contributing to various Open Source projects, most

Paul Graham Oracle , Technical Consuling Manager Bio Paul has 30 years of experience in Telecommunications, having been part of the start-up eServGlobal. He was in the monetizaion division when it was acquired by Oracle in 2010 – leading to the development of the Oracle NCC product. He is currently a Technical Consulting Manager in

Magdalena Rzaca Senior GDPR & IPR Legal Advisor, GEANT Association Bio Magdalena Rzaca- a passionate Data Protection & Intellectual Property, Security professional with more than 15 years of experience in privacy (CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP), speaking English, Spanish, Polish, Italian and French. Currently working as Senior GDPR & IPR Legal Advisor at GÉANT Association, where she

Brian Osborn CEO and Publisher, Linux New Media Bio Brian is CEO and Publisher at Linux New Media, a leader in Linux, Open Source, and technical IT content. Linux New Media’s global brands include Open Source JobHub, Linux Magazine, ADMIN Network & Security, and FOSSlife. Brian has been involved with Open Source and related media

Rohit Ghumare Founder @ DevRelAsService, Principal Product Evangelist @ Taikun, Bio I am a passionate DevOps Advocate and a dedicated Community Evangelist. I lead and nurture multiple communities across diverse platforms, fostering DevOps and Developer Relations awareness. My commitment to the open-source ecosystem is demonstrated through delivering presentations, crafting documentation and blogs, and contributing code.