Featured Keynote Speakers

Dov Katz is a Managing Director and Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley. He has been at the Firm for 21 years, and has been involved in a wide array of technologies ranging from instant messaging, to client facing electronic trading, to web platforms and toolkits, devops, and developer experience.  He currently leads the Morgan Stanley Software Developer Experience organization, responsible for providing toolchains, libraries, and expertise to support the Firm’s more than 15,000 developers.

Dov has been an active board member of FINOS since its inception, serving as Chairman in 2020, and currently still an active Chairman Emeritus.

Dov holds a BSc in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MBA from New York University.

In Brussels, APELL is represented by its Director EU Government Affairs, Sebastian Raible. Sebastian is a computer scientist with nine years of experience as assistant and policy advisor in the European Parliament, and has been a long-standing supporter of Open Source. He represents APELL towards the European institutions in Brussels and throughout Europe.

Silvana Muscella is CEO & founder of Trust-IT Services & CEO & co-founder of COMMpla. Coordinator of the StandICT.eu initiative, that delivers a European ICT standards Observatory (#EU-OS) to the global ICT standardization community, focused on supporting participation and contribution of EU Specialists, through a cascading grant scheme of 3M€ of funding, covering the 5 essential building blocks of the digital Single Market: 5G, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Big Data and IoT. She tackles high-level strategy building, business acquisition, coordination & strategic marketing and communication developments namely in ICT in standards, energy efficiency, cybersecurity & cloud computing tools & services. 2nd High-Level Expert Group Chair EOSC-European Open Science Cloud [2017-2018]. External Expert Evaluator & reviewer for the European Commission since 2003 and expert for H2020 SME Instruments since 2003, Individual Member of The Green Grid, Member of ECSO, Member of the IEEE Inter Cloud Computing Initiative, ACM Professional Member. Served as an at-large Director for the OGF, Founder of the Cloudscape Workshop series since 2010. Active role in EU-Brazil policy dialogue. Played an instrumental role in connecting stakeholders & SDOs. Served as coordinator of some major EU projects that have impacted efforts around ICT standards and distributed computing whilst coordinating contributions from standards groups including: OASIS, OGF, ETSI, DMTF, SNIA, IEEE, ITU & was co-author of the SIENA Roadmap. Contributed both to the EC’s Cloud Expert Group Roadmap on future research priorities & the ETSI Cloud Standards Coordination.

I’m an Entrepreneurial DevOps and Kubernetes Engineer in love with infrastructure automation, orchestration, and distributed systems. I focus all my efforts on the architecture and engineering of distributed systems based on containers and Kubernetes.

I’m the founder of SIGHUP. We are an Enterprise Open Source Software firm and startup based in Milan (Italy) and we are working hard to disrupt the world of infrastructures.

We currently develop and maintain Kubernetes Fury Distribution (KFD), and the Kubernetes Fury Installers. Our infra automation stack enables multi-cloud adoption, full operations automation and battle-tested cloud-native reference architectures. 

We are here to disrupt, raise the bar and introduce new standards in the Enterprise by leveraging the power of Open Source.

I am passionate about making technology work for our societies through real-life research, impactful and inclusive policy and innovative projects. 

Throughout the years, I covered digital policy topics such as Open Source Software and Hardware, standardisation, cloud computing and AI.

Peter Giese is Director of SAP Open Source Program Office. Peter is focusing on refining SAP’s open source strategy, developing new tools and approaches for managing open source at scale and on further promoting inner source at SAP. Since joining SAP in 1996, Peter has held several managerial and executive positions in application and technology development. Before joining SAP, Peter worked as researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) and as development manager at Kiefer & Veittinger Software Unternehmensberatung GmbH. Peter holds a M.Sc. degree in computer science from Kaiserslautern University of Technology.

Andrea Gallo heads up the Technical and Strategic Activities at RISC-V International with a mission to facilitate the technical vision, cultivate stakeholder engagement, and drive the strategy in a deeply engaged collaboration with RISC-V members across workgroups and committees and growing the adoption of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture. Prior to RISC-V International, Andrea held multiple roles at Linaro starting all Arm datacenter engineering activities ground up from firmware to complex cloud workloads, later as VP of Segment Groups he oversaw verticals from IoT to HPC including smartphones, and AI/ML. In his last years at Linaro he served as executive VP of Business Development, managing all membership contracts and starting new collaborative projects from automotive to Windows on Arm. Prior to Linaro, Andrea was Fellow at ST-Ericsson for smartphones and application processors and served as the first member representative in the Linaro TSC. Over the years at STMicroelectronics he consistently led the optimisation of hardware-software architectures for new ICs and set up remote teams in India. Andrea holds a University Degree in Telecommunication and speaks fluent French and English, in addition to his native Italian.

Eddie Knight is a Software and Cloud Engineer with a background in banking technology. When he isn’t playing with his 2-year-old son, he combines his passion and job duties by working to improve the security of open source software.

Eddie helps lead CNCF’s Security Technical Advisory Group, the FINOS Technical Oversight Committee, the OpenSSF Security Baseline, and the FINOS Common Cloud Controls project.

Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm or a non profit foundation. He has recently won the Tech Leadership Award at FinTech Futures USA Banking Tech Awards.

As Executive Director Gabriele grew the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster, leveraging open source as a model of collaboration. He then led FINOS to join the Linux Foundation umbrella to accelerate growth, ensure long term sustainability of efforts and reduce fragmentation in the Foundation’s ecosystem. In 2022, he took on a dual role as General Manager of the newly launched Linux Foundation Europe, which was created to foster regional open collaborations in the European continent and expand the global platform of the Linux Foundation.

Gabriele holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation and advises open source startups. He’s a passionate soccer fan, reggae music connoisseur and special needs dad and advocate wannabe.