Program Committee

Katherine Druckman is a senior technologist, speaker, and longtime advocate for open ecosystems. She specializes in developer experience, combining software ecosystem strategy, content creation, and community building, grounded in a foundation of hands-on software engineering experience and proven leadership. She is a long-time open source advocate, developer, and podcaster, and is currently the host the Reality 2.0 podcast.

Sheng Liang is cofounder and CEO of Obot.ai. Previously, Sheng founded and served as CEO of successful open source software companies, including Rancher Labs and Cloud.com, and served in executive roles at SUSE and Citrix. He started as an engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he worked on the Java Virtual Machine. Sheng has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University.

Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the ​Agentic AI Foundation

An award-winning educator and international keynote speaker, Angie shares her extensive knowledge with software companies and conference audiences worldwide.

As a Master Inventor, Angie is recognized for her innovative, out-of-the-box thinking, which has led to 27 patented inventions in virtual worlds, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet initiatives, and software development processes.

Arkadip Maitra is a MLE at Red Hat on the PyTorch engineering team, focusing on PyTorch and ecosystem projects. He has published research in CVPR, WACV and ACM, Springer transactions in areas including sign language AI and AI for humanitarian technology.

Sam is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, where he leads development of the GitHub MCP server. He works on AI developer tools and helps shape agentic workflows at GitHub. In a past life he was also a professional drummer.