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Program Committee

A very special thank you to our OSPOCon 2021 Program Committee!

  • Chris Aniszczyk headshot

    Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He’s currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he’s a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.

    At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. For many years he served on the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors representing the committer community and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. In a previous life, he bootstrapped a consulting company, made many mistakes, lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and Linux related projects

  • Greg Back headshot
    Greg Back Sr. Software Engineer, Elastic
  • Clare Dillon headshot

    Clare Dillon is an open source and InnerSource advocate and currently works with CURIOSS, a community for university and research institution OSPOs. Clare is also a researcher with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and a member of Lero’s OSPO team. From 2021-2023, Clare served as the inaugural Executive Director of InnerSource Commons, a global non-profit foundation supporting open collaboration methods in corporate software development. In 2021, Clare co-founded Open Ireland Network, a community for those interested in advancing open source at a national level in Ireland. Clare is a qualified coach and frequently speaks on topics relating to open collaboration and the future of work.

  • Stephen Jacobs headshot
    Stephen Jacobs Professor, School of Interactive Games and Media, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Ana Jiménez Santamaría headshot

    Ana Jiménez Santamaría is an open source community leader and data scientist with 5+ years of experience at the Linux Foundation, working as Sr. project manager supporting global, multi-stakeholder IT ecosystems. She is also an Agentic AI Foundation Ambassador, helping developers and OSPO teams understand agentic AI projects and open standards such as MCP, Goose, and Agents.md

    Ana is currently actively involved in TODO Group’s Agentic AI to Empower OSPOs Working Group and co-chairs the PyTorch Academic Outreach Working Group. Before joining the Linux Foundation, she worked at Bitergia on software development analytics. Ana holds a master’s in Data Science at Rey Juan Carlos University with a thesis in measuring the health of open source developer ecosystems

    She has spoken at international events, including GitHub Universe, the premier United Nations OSPOs for Good Symposium (current United Nations OSS Week), KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, FOSS Backstage, OSPO Summit China, Open Compliance Summit Japan, DevRelCon Tokyo / London, OpenInfra Days, and Open Source Summit events across Asia, Europe, and North America

  • Craig Northway headshot


    Craig Northway is a Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies Inc. (QTI), a subsidiary of Qualcomm, Inc. Craig leads the Qualcomm Software Content Compliance team, a group formed to improve and implement process, policy and tooling around Open Source software at Qualcomm.

  • Duane O’Brien headshot
    Duane O’Brien Head of Open Source, Indeed.com
  • Justin Rackliffe headshot
    Justin Rackliffe Director, Open Source Governance, Fidelity Investments
  • John Mark Walker headshot
    John Mark Walker Director, Open Source Program Office, Fannie Mae
  • Ashley Wolf headshot

    I work on open source strategy and programs that support maintainers inside GitHub and across the ecosystem. I also serve on the Steering Committee for the TODO Group, where we help organizations use and sustain open source responsibly.

  • Henri Yandell headshot
    Henri Yandell Principal, Open Source, AWS

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