SOOCon26 Advisory Board

Agata Ferretti

AI Alliance Lead for Europe, IBM

Alex Williams

Founder/ Publisher, The New Stack

Anita Ihuman

Developer Advocate & Technical Content Writer, CHAOSS

Avi Press

Founder & CEO Scarf

Bart Farrell

Content Creator at LearnKube, Kubernetes Community

Bart de Witte

Founder, Isaree & Hippo AI (Berlin) Foundation (Berlin)

Brian Douglas

Head of DX, Continue

Caterina Rindi

Director of Open Source Community, Developer Relations, and Academic Engagements, G-Research

Chad Whitacre

Head of Open Source, Sentry

Christopher Hoult

Founder, Xarma

Cortney Nickerson

Head of Community, Nirmata

Damani Corbin

Global Software Strategy, Open Source Program Office, Boeing

Dan Scarborough

Chief Commercial Officer, Stelia

david Aronchick

David Aronchick

CEO, Expanso

Divya Mohan

Open Source Maintainer & Advocate, SUSE

Erblina Bunjaku

MMath Student, University of Edinburgh

Ian Miell

Partner, Container Solutions

Joe Salisbury

VP Engineering, Swarm

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Jono Bacon

CEO, Stateshift

Kris Bondi

CEO, Mimoto

Leena Mooneeram

Senior Platform Engineer, Chainalysis

Lori Lorusso

Director of Outreach, Rust Foundation

Louisa Seers

Product Manager / Galasa Chairperson, IBM and Open Mainframe Project

Lowena Hull

Associate, PwC

Marko Bevc

Principal Consultant, The Scale Factory

Mateus Guzzo

Community and Developer Advocate, TikTok

Megan Knight

Director of Software Communities, Arm

Michael Schwartz

Founder / CEO, Gluu, Inc.

Nadia Jiang

COO, SegmentFault

Natali Vlatko

Open Source Lead Architect, CISCO

Nicolas Vibert

Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

Paula Paul

Principal Engineering Manager, Istari Digital 

Peter Farkas

CEO, FerretDB

Phil Estes

Principal Engineer, AWS

Robin Ginn

Executive Director, OpenJS Foundation

Rohit Ghumare

Creator, CreateMVP | Head of DevRel, Motia.dev

Ron Efroni Rotman

CEO & Co-Founder, Flox & NixOS

Ruth Ikegah

Program Manager, Open Source Community Africa

Samuel Kummary

Technical Director, Mojaloop Foundation

Samson Goddy

Co-founder, Open Source Community Africa

Sarah Novotny

Open Source Wonk, Klever Co.

Shane Miller

CEO, Sensory Bionics

Shivay Lamba

Senior Developer Experience Engineer, Couchbase

Simon Wardley

Owner, Independent

Simon Maple

Founding Head of Developer Relations, Tessl

Sourish Sharma

Software Engineer, Terra API

Stephen Augustus

Technical Architect in the Office of the CTO, Bloomberg L.P.

Tobias Augspurger

Lead of Electrical Grid Mapping  Open Energy Transition