Program Committee

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

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.

Ana is a Sr. Project Manager at the Linux Foundation, where she supports global open source communities and drives strategic initiatives across the TODO Group and the PyTorch Foundation. She collaborates with CTOs, engineering teams, and business units to promote Open Source management adoption and advocate for the latest frameworks and discussions in Open Source AI. Ana brings a background in data science and dedicated her MSc thesis to analyzing the impact of DevRel in open source ecosystems.

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.

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.