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Dan Jenkins Founder, CommCon/ Everycast Labs/ Nimble Ape Bio Dan is the founder and CEO of Nimble Ape and Everycast Labs and organiser of CommCon – the only residential RTC and Open Media event in Europe. Dan has been involved with real-time media for over 10 years now, empowering open source projects, businesses and individuals […]

Steven De Costa Co-Steward of CKAN Project and Executive Director of Link Digital. Bio Steven has worked in the internet and multimedia industry since 1997, founding Link Digital in 2001. He has been providing leadership from his extensive experiences in all areas of digital operations, including technical direction, management, governance, and strategy. As the owner

Natali Vlatko Open Source Lead Architect, CISCO Bio Open Source Governance Roles: SIG Docs Co-chair for Kubernetes, TODO Group Steering Committee Natali Vlatko (she/her) is an Open Source Lead Architect at CISCO, specializing in open software, policy, and governance. She is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes, serves on the TODO Group Steering Committee, and

Jack Gilmore Co-founder, Open Data Scotland Bio Jack Gilmore is a full stack software developer with experience of working in the public sector and academia in Scotland. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science and Spanish from the University of Stirling in 2019. As an advocate of free and open-source software, many of

Ian Watt Co-founder, Code The City Bio Ian Watt is an Open Data advocate and data scientist. He had an extensive career in the public sector in Scotland where he managed large digital projects, and obtained funding for, and led and his local authority’s participation in EU-scale programmes working with Nesta and many EU cities.

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,

David Aronchick​ CEO, Expanso Bio David is the CEO of Expanso. Previously, he led Compute over Data at Protocol Labs, Open Source Machine Learning Strategy at Azure, product management for Kubernetes on behalf of Google, launched Google Kubernetes Engine, and co-founded the Kubeflow (https://kubeflow.org/) project and the SAME (https://sameproject.ai/) project. He has also worked at

Michael Meeks CEO, Collabora Productivity Bio Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic Open Source developer. As CEO of Collabora Productivity overseeing an extremely talented team developing Collabora Online, and supporting our customers alongside the community. He has served as a director of The Document Foundation and has contributed to both ODF and OOXML standardization. Prior

Dr. Allison Randall Open source/hardware developer and strategist Bio Dr. Allison Randal 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

Tara Stella Head of Open Source and Principal Architect, BT Group Bio Head of Open Source and Principal Architect Tara is a computer enthusiast with a passion for IT infrastructure and telecommunications. She has been pursuing her love for technology since she was just 7 years old. Currently, Tara is the Head of Open Source