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Program Committee

A very special thank you to our Open Source Summit 2021 Program Committee!

  • Chris Aniszczyk headshot
    Chris Aniszczyk VP, Developer Relations, The Linux Foundation and CTO, CNCF
  • Greg Back headshot
    Greg Back Sr. Software Engineer, Elastic
  • Jono Bacon headshot
    Jono Bacon OSS Event Chair & Founder, Jono Bacon Consulting
  • Dr. Youakim Badr headshot
    Dr. Youakim Badr Professor, Penn State
  • Donnie Berkholz headshot
    Donnie Berkholz OSS Event Chair & SVP, Product Management, Percona
  • Divya Bhargov headshot
    Divya Bhargov Engineering Director, Greenplum R&D, VMware
  • Peter Brink headshot
    Peter Brink Principal Software Engineer, kVA by UL
  • Jerry Cooperstein headshot
    Jerry Cooperstein Director of Training, The Linux Foundation
  • Jonathan Corbet headshot

    Jonathan Corbet is the kernel documentation maintainer, co-founder of LWN.net, a member of the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board, and the lead author of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition.  He lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

  • Frédéric Desbiens headshot
    Frédéric Desbiens Program Manager, IoT and Edge Computing, Eclipse Foundation
  • Clare Dillon headshot
    Clare Dillon Executive Director, InnerSource Commons
  • Arpana Durgaprasad headshot
    Arpana Durgaprasad Manager, Power User Technologies and Lab, IBM
  • Jake Edge headshot
    Jake Edge Journalist & Editor, LWN.net
  • Lee Elston headshot
    Lee Elston Instructor / Course Maintainer, The Linux Foundation
  • Kathy Giori headshot

    Kathy Giori has spent her career of more than 30 years working in technology companies in the SF Bay Area. Her current focus to pay that career success forward is to spend much of her time supporting MicroBlocks, as head of Global Partnerships and Outreach. MicroBlocks is a non-profit STEM organization that has developed the first truly “live” open source physical computing tool for programming microcontrollers.

    As part of her industry career she was most recently Director of Product Engineering at ZEDEDA, and held numerous executive and product roles at Mozilla, Arduino, Qualcomm, Etak/Sony, SRI, and four startups, two of which she co-founded and led as CEO. Kathy volunteered as a TechWomen professional mentor for the last 4 years and continues to collaborate with fellows. She has given numerous talks at Linux Foundation and other industry events, has organized technology workshops, and is often promoting the benefits of open hardware and software to industry, since bridging open communities with industry drives faster innovation. She received her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and her master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.

  • Jun Gu headshot
    Jun Gu Partner & Chief Evangelist, Zilliz
  • Ibrahim Haddad headshot

    Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is the Executive Director of the LF AI & Data Foundation . Throughout his career, Haddad has held technology and portfolio management roles at Ericsson Research, the Open Source Development Labs, Motorola, Palm, Hewlett-Packard, the Linux Foundation and Samsung Research. He writes and speaks on topics ranging from legal compliance to using open source as an R&D tool to drive collaboration and innovation. [@IbrahimAtLinux]

  • Darren Hart headshot
    Darren Hart Distinguished Engineer, Ampere Computing
  • Maureen Helm headshot
    Maureen Helm Principal Software Engineer, Intel
  • Nicole Huesman headshot
    Nicole Huesman Director of Marketing and Community Outreach, O3DE
  • Stephen Jacobs headshot
    Stephen Jacobs Professor, School of Interactive Games and Media, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Ana Jiménez Santamaría headshot
    Ana Jiménez Santamaría OSS Event Chair & TODO Group OSPO Program Manager, The Linux Foundation
  • Sunil Kamath headshot
    Sunil Kamath Director of Product Management, Microsoft
  • Shuah Khan headshot
    Shuah Khan OSS Event Chair & Linux Fellow, The Linux Foundation
  • Greg Kroah-Hartman headshot

    Greg is among a distinguished group of software developers who maintain Linux at the kernel level. In his role as Linux Foundation Fellow, he continues his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of subsystems while working in a fully neutral environment.

  • Jussi Kukkonen headshot
    Jussi Kukkonen Open Source Software Engineer, VMware
  • Jonathan Le Lous headshot
    Jonathan Le Lous Field CTO, Cloud Native Infrastructure Tribe, Capgemini CIS
  • Sasha Levin headshot
    Sasha Levin Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Google
  • Georg Link headshot
    Georg Link Director of Sales, Bitergia
  • Lauren Maffeo headshot
    Lauren Maffeo Civic Tech Service Designer, Steampunk
  • Susan Malaika headshot
    Susan Malaika Senior Technical Staff, Open Technologies, IBM
  • Amy Marrich headshot
    Amy Marrich Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat
  • Dr. Michael Meskes headshot
    Dr. Michael Meskes CIO, Instaclustr Group & GM, credativ GmbH
  • Ron Minnich headshot
    Ron Minnich Software Engineer, Google
  • Diane Mueller headshot
    Diane Mueller Director, Community Development, Red Hat
  • Anas Nashif headshot

    Anas Nashif is a Principal Software Engineer at Intel. He is the upstream maintainer of various Zephyr subsystems and areas and the chair of the Zephyr Technical Steering Committee. Anas has been involved with Zephyr since 2015.

  • Craig Northway headshot
    Craig Northway Senior Director of Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies Inc
  • Duane O’Brien headshot
    Duane O’Brien Head of Open Source, Indeed.com
  • Gabriele Paoloni headshot
    Gabriele Paoloni Sr. PE | Open Source Community Technical Leader, Red Hat (Functional Safety)
  • Nicole Pappler headshot
    Nicole Pappler CTO & Founder, AlektoMetis
  • Willem Pienaar headshot
    Willem Pienaar Principal Engineer, Tecton
  • Haris Pozidis headshot
    Haris Pozidis Principal Scientist, BM Research
  • Justin Rackliffe headshot
    Justin Rackliffe Director, Open Source Governance, Fidelity Investments
  • Fabio Rapposelli headshot
    Fabio Rapposelli Sr. Staff Engineer, VMware
  • Tameika Reed headshot
    Tameika Reed Founder & CEO, Women in Linux
  • Steven Rostedt headshot
    Steven Rostedt Software Engineer, Google
  • Nithya Ruff headshot

    Nithya A. Ruff is the Head of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office. Open Source has proven
    to be one of the world’s most prolific enablers of innovation and collaboration and Amazon’s
    customers increasingly value open source innovation and the and cloud’s role in helping them
    adopt and run important open source services. She drives open source culture and
    coordination inside of Amazon and engagement with external communities. Prior to Amazon,
    she started and grew Comcast and Western Digital’s Open Source Program Offices. Open
    Source Program Offices are a critical part of a company’s digital transformation and innovation
    journey.

    Nithya has been director-at-large on the Linux Foundation Board for the last 5 years and in
    2019 was elected to be Chair of the influential Linux Foundation Board. She works actively to
    advance the mission of the Linux Foundation around building sustainable ecosystems that are
    built on open collaboration. She is a passionate advocate and a speaker for opening doors to
    new and diverse people in technology and can often be seen speaking and writing on this topic.
    Nithya graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science from NDSU and an MBA from the
    University of Rochester, Simon Business School and is an aspiring corporate board director and
    governance enthusiast. You can follow her on twitter @nithyaruff and you can find her
    on https://www.linkedin.com/in/nithyaruff/

  • Shilla Saebi headshot
    Shilla Saebi Sr. Open Source Program Manager, Comcast
  • Laura Santamaria headshot

    As a Lead Developer Advocate at Dell Technologies, Laura Santamaria loves to learn and explain how things work to bridge the gaps in engineering disciplines. She is the curator for A Minute on the Mic, a cohost for The Hallway Track podcast, and the ex-host of Quick Bites of Cloud Engineering on YouTube. As a community member, she co-hosts Austin DevOps and Cloud Austin, taught Python for Women Who Code Austin for many years, organizes DevOpsDays Austin, is a member of the PyTexas Foundation, and has been a returning program committee member for Open Source Summit’s Cloud Open track. Outside of tech, Laura runs, plays with her dogs, throws discs, and watches clouds—the real kind.

  • Timothy Serewicz headshot
    Timothy Serewicz Training Program Director, The Linux Foundation
  • A S M Shamim Reza headshot
    A S M Shamim Reza Deputy Manager, Link3 Technologies Ltd.
  • Jim Spohrer headshot
    Jim Spohrer Board of Directors, International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP)
  • Stefano Stabellini headshot
    Stefano Stabellini Fellow, AMD
  • Kate Stewart headshot

    Kate Stewart is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs, responsible for the Open Compliance programs encompassing the SPDX, FOSSology, OpenChain, and other compliance-related projects. Kate was one of the founders of SPDX, and is currently the specification lead. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has also launched Real-Time Linux and Zephyr Project.

    With almost 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China. She received her Master’s in computer science from the University of Waterloo and her Bachelor’s of computer science (co-op program) from the University of Manitoba.

  • Theodore Ts’o headshot
    Theodore Ts’o Sr. Staff Engineer, Google
  • Ketan Umare headshot
    Ketan Umare Founder, Stealth Startup
  • John Mark Walker headshot
    John Mark Walker Director, Open Source Program Office, Fannie Mae
  • Behan Webster headshot
    Behan Webster Principal Consultant, Converse in Code
  • Ashley Wolf headshot
    Ashley Wolf Open Source Program Manager, GitHub
  • Henri Yandell headshot
    Henri Yandell Principal, Open Source, AWS
  • Elena Zannoni headshot
    Elena Zannoni Sr. Engineering Director, Oracle
  • Malini Bhandaru headshot

    Dr. Malini Bhandaru is a Cloud Security Architect and Intel Sr. Principal Engineer. Her focus areas are confidential compute and cloud to edge security. She has worked for over a decade in open source on projects such as Confidential Containers, EdgeX Foundry, KubeFlow, OpenStack, and OpenDaylight.  At Intel, she first worked on Xeon server power and performance architecture and over her career on applications spanning autonomous driving, health care, and telco. Malini holds over 20 patents, has served on the Open Source Summit, ONES, KubeCon  program committees and is a frequent conference speaker. She has a Ph.D. in Machine Learning, is a STEM coach and loves gardening.

And an additional thank you to our Embedded Linux Conference 2021 Program Committee!

  • Timothy Bird headshot

    Tim Bird is a Principal Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony improve the Linux kernel for use in Sony’s products. Tim is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Linux Foundation. Tim is active in technical projects related to embedded Linux testing and standards, and is the maintainer of the Fuego test system.  He created the Embedded Linux Conference, and has been working with Linux for over 25 years.

  • Frank Rowand headshot
    Frank Rowand ELC Chair & Senior Software Engineer, Sony
  • Marta Rybczynska headshot

    Marta Rybczynska has a network security background and 15 years of experience in embedded development. She has been working with embedded operating systems like Linux and various real-time ones, system libraries and frameworks up to user interfaces. Her specialties are architecture-specific parts of the Linux kernel. In the past, Marta has served as Vice-President and treasurer for KDE e.V. She is the founder of Syslinbit, an Open Source focused company. Apart from that, she is involved in various Open Source projects. She is also contributing kernel-related guest articles for LWN.net. In addition to technical work, she is a public speaking trainer. She has experience with presentations on both scientific and free software conferences, including LinuxCon, Open Source Summit, Embedded Linux Conference, Akademy and FOSDEM.

  • Jeffrey Osier-Mixon headshot
    Jeffrey Osier-Mixon Sr. Principal Community Architect, Red Hat
  • Helen Fornazie headshot
    Helen Fornazie Co-founder & CTO, Mundo Recicladores and Tech Consultant
  • Yoshitake Kobayashi headshot

    Yoshitake Kobayashi is the Senior Manager of The Open Source Technology Department at Toshiba Corporation. The team provides a Linux based system and related technologies such as Database and Web application frameworks for various Toshiba products. His research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, and dynamically reconfigurable systems. Additionally, he is the Chair of the Technical Steering Committee for the Civil Infrastructure Platform.

  • Kate Stewart headshot

    Kate Stewart is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs, responsible for the Open Compliance programs encompassing the SPDX, FOSSology, OpenChain, and other compliance-related projects. Kate was one of the founders of SPDX, and is currently the specification lead. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has also launched Real-Time Linux and Zephyr Project.

    With almost 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China. She received her Master’s in computer science from the University of Waterloo and her Bachelor’s of computer science (co-op program) from the University of Manitoba.

  • Thomas Petazzoni headshot

    Thomas Petazzoni is the co-owner and CEO of Bootlin, an engineering company specialized in embedded Linux development and training. For the past 13+ years, Thomas has helped customers worldwide in their embedded Linux projects, by working on Linux kernel development, integration of embedded Linux BSPs, build systems as well as by teaching training courses on these topics. He has contributed to the Linux kernel and is one of the co-maintainers of Buildroot. Last but not least, Thomas is also a regular speaker at the Embedded Linux Conference.

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