Program Committee

Akihiro Suda is a software engineer at NTT Corporation. He has been a maintainer of Moby (dockerd), BuildKit, containerd, runc, etc. He is also a founder of nerdctl and Lima (CNCF project).

Alexander is currently employed by Intel as Principal Engineer, Cloud Software, focusing on various aspects in Kubernetes: Resource Management, Device plugins for hardware accelerators, Cluster Lifecycle and Cluster APIs. Alexander has over 25+ years of experience in areas of Linux distributions, SCM, Networking, Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Cloud Orchestration, Continuous Integration & Delivery. Alexander is an active member of Kubernetes SIG-Node and CNCF TAG-Runtimes.

Amit is a Director of Engineering at Qualcomm and has worked with the upstream Linux kernel community in the areas of power, performance and thermal management for two decades. He is, on occasion, found lost in the ZephyrRTOS community too.

In the last decade, he has built a company that offers turnkey electronics design and manufacturing services (mbedrock.com), led the Power Management working group at Linaro that brought Energy-aware scheduling to Linux, helped lead the 96boards.org effort to bring powerful developer boards at low-cost to the software community and helped several SoC vendors work with the upstream community and help themselves build more maintainable software along the way.

Outside of work, he spends time helping guide students into the world of system programming. His main hobby though is to learn to grow his own food.

Ana is the OSPO Program Manager at the Linux Foundation project TODO Group, formed by an open community of practitioners who aim to create, share knowledge, and develop best practices practices on open source management in organizations and ¡ run successful Open Source Program Offices. Formerly she worked at Bitergia, where she finished her MSc in Data Science, whose final thesis focused on measuring DevRel’s success within Open Source development communities.

Anita is a Developer Advocate and technical writer with a track record leading great efforts in open source and cloud communities on a global scale. Her dedication extends to fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) within the tech ecosystem.

Annie Talvasto is an award-winning international technology speaker and leader. She has spoken at over 60 technology conferences worldwide, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Microsoft Build & Ignite. She has been recognized with the CNCF Ambassador, Azure & AI Platform MVP awards. She has co-organized the Kubernetes & CNCF Finland meetup since 2017. In the past, she has also served as a track chair for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Program Chair for Secure AI Summit (powered by Cloud Native).

Atish Patra is a Linux kernel developer at Rivos and an open-source champion driving advancements in RISC-V Linux support, including boot process standardization, UEFI support, virtualization enablement, confidential computing, and performance monitoring. A vocal advocate for open-source innovation, he is a regular presenter at conferences like OSS/ELCE, LPC, and the RISC-V Summit. Atish maintains the RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI) specification and co-maintains OpenSBI, an open-source runtime firmware for RISC-V that enables seamless compatibility across platforms and empowers developers globally.

Ayumi Watanabe is a core member of OpenChain Japan community and known as an evangelist who is certified by the Linux Foundation Japan. Her strong point is a knowledge of many tools for SBOM generation and management, a wide range of experiences as an OSS management consultant, and strong connection with communities regarding OSS compliance. She is also a member of Hitachi OSPO.

Bandan is an engineer at Red Hat focused on systems architecture and virtualization. His primary interests are in performance optimization and in investigating new usecases for emerging technology in virtualization such as confidential computing. Bandan is part of the Red Hat Research program and has co-published papers in topics related to fuzzing and systems security.

Bastien Guerry is the Free Software Officer of the French Public Administration, founder of the BlueHats movement in 2018 and director of https://code.gouv.fr since 2021.

Benjamin Cabé is a technology enthusiast with a passion for empowering developers to build innovative solutions. He has over 15 years of experience leading developer engagement initiatives with some of the top communities and companies in the IoT, embedded, and AI space. He has invented an award-winning open source and open hardware artificial nose that he likes to use as an educational platform for people interested in diving into the world of embedded development. He is currently a Developer Advocate for the Zephyr Project at the Linux Foundation and lives in Toulouse, France, where he enjoys baking sourdough bread with the help of his artificial nose.

Carles has been a firmware developer at several hardware, semiconductor and software companies for over 20 years, with a focus on microcontrollers. For the last 10 years he has worked at Nordic Semiconductor, where he was part of the team that brought to market Nordic’s first ever Bluetooth Low Energy chip, and has remained a member of the software development team since. During this time at Nordic he has also co-authored a book on Bluetooth LE and contributed to different areas of the software development effort, driving an internal push to contribute an existing proprietary Bluetooth LE Controller implementation as an open source component to the Zephyr project. With the controller now part of the Zephyr codebase, he widened his focus beyond Bluetooth Low Energy, helping ensure that Zephyr becomes the best possible open source all-purpose RTOS available.

Carol is a Cloud Architect with a strong focus on security and observability. She brings over seven years of experience in cloud-native technologies—including containers and Kubernetes—and works closely with customers to drive adoption and develop new use cases. She is a maintainer for the Spanish documentation of Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and the CNCF Glossary, and also contributes to other open-source initiatives such as the Kubernetes Release Team. An active member of the community, Carol serves as a CNCF Ambassador, AWS Community Builder, and organizer for CNCF Cloud Native chapters and Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) events. She is also a technical writer and conference speaker.

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.

Daniel Izquierdo is a researcher and co-founder of Bitergia and currently holding the position of CEO, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Daniel earned a PhD in free software engineering in 2012 focused on the analysis of buggy developers activity patterns in the Mozilla community. He is board member at CHAOSS community, President of the InnerSource Commons Foundation, and board member at the Apereo Foundation.

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, International Speaker, Published Author

Daniel Goldscheider is founder and Executive Director of the OpenWallet Foundation. Before that he was CEO of yes.com, an open banking scheme, and co-founded Mediaguide with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers as well as Aureus Private Equity.

He is a Vice Chair of the Supervisory Board of Valamar Riviera d.d., Croatia’s largest tourism company and served on the board of Identity Trust Management AG and the Global Footprint Network.

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community, strategy, governance, metrics, and more. She has spoken at over 100 industry events and has a BS in computer science, an MBA, and a PhD. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.

David Leach has been a software engineer through various technology fields for almost 40 years. He joined Freescale Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors) in 2015 as a software architect to help lead connectivity and various standards engagements. For the last several years, he has been participating in NXP’s open-source software activities and is currently leading the MCU Open-Source Software team in the Security & Connectivity Business Line.

Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, advocating for and contributing to its projects. She is a Kubernetes documentation maintainer and a co-chair for the SIG Community under the Bytecode Alliance. As one of the KCNA exam creators and a lead for the Asian chapter of the CHAOSS Project, she is invested in making technical communities & technologies more accessible & inclusive.

Linux kernel engineer focused on ARM and RISC-V SoCs.

Passionate open-source advocate for 20+ years. Leading operational teams at Percona. Organizer of Sysarmy, a tech community with 10+ years of history, and Nerdearla, one of Argentina’s leading tech events.

Elena Zannoni is an Senior Director of Linux Engineering at Oracle, with focus on Toolchain and Tracing. Elena has presented at many Linux Foundation conferences on various development related topics, like Tracing, BPF, DTrace, CTF, and more. Elena has been part of the LPC committee, and part of the OSS/LinuxCon Program committee for several years.

👋 Hi, I’m Ezequiel Lanza (Eze), and I’m passionate about helping people explore the thrilling realm of artificial intelligence. As a regular AI conference presenter, I take pride in creating impactful use cases, tutorials, and guides to assist developers in adopting open source AI tools.

With a solid foundation in engineering and a decade of experience assisting customers and developers in the software realm, I bring a wealth of practical knowledge to the table. Currently, I’m writing my thesis as I pursue a Master’s in Data Science from Universidad Austral in Argentina (Yeah, it was AI before ChatGPT:) ).

I’m usually an AI speaker at conferences like Open Source Summit, Kubecon, All Things Open, ODSC and AAAI among other relevant AI events. 

Gabriele Paoloni is an Open Source Community Technical Leader at Red Hat where he defines best methodologies and requirements to qualify Linux for functional safety usage.

He is a passionate technologist and has strong experience in both functional safety and Linux Kernel development, including previous roles leading FuSa software architecture for Intel platforms, CCIX vice chairman of the TDL working group and HiSilicon PCIe Linux maintainer.

Gabriele received a master’s degree with honours in electronic engineering from the University of Rome.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is among a distinguished group of software developers who maintain Linux at the kernel level. In his role as a 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. He also works closely with Linux Foundation members and projects, and on key initiatives to advance Linux.

Greg created and maintains the Linux Driver Project. He is also currently the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of different subsystems that include USB, staging, driver core, tty, and sysfs, among others. Most recently, he was a Fellow at SUSE.

Greg is an adviser to Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab and a member of The Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board. He has delivered a variety of keynote addresses at developer and industry events, and has authored two books covering Linux device drivers and Linux kernel development.

I’m an embedded software/firmware engineer and a passionate open source developer. I started working on various open source projects back in the late 1990s and have not stopped since. I am mostly committed to writing low-level, hardware-near device drivers and communication protocols. Over the years I have been working on various, in-house embedded Linux and FreeBSD BSPs but nowadays my work (and my spare time) has shifted to working on the Zephyr Project, a small real-time operating system (RTOS) for connected, resource-constrained embedded devices.

After 20 years of working as a software engineer, Jake stopped writing software and started writing *about* software—and more—at LWN.net. 17 years later, he’s still at it. He lives in Baja California Sur, México with his wife and a loony dog.

Jeremy is an international speaker and is currently the Director of DevRel at OneStream Software, previously at CircleCI, Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area, including support, system and database administration, application and web development, project management, program management, and systems analysis, Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com, and organizer for DevOpsDays Kansas City. A lover of all things coffee, community, open source, and tech, he’s also house-broken, and (generally) plays well with others.

For more than 19 years I have been helping organizations being Lean\Agile and modernizing their App Portfolios and Software Development Life Cycle. Using DevOps, Cloud, PaaS, Containers, Microservices, API we increased delivery velocity and reducing TCO.
Passionate by Open Source, as a pragmatic leader I’m used to work with partners and technologies from everywhere and building bridges between traditional IT and innovative approaches.

As a community member, I have been engaged in various non-profit communities to contribute and promote Open Source. Throughout my career I have been active on producing content as Blog posts, articles, videos about technologies.

Jonathan Corbet is the kernel documentation maintainer, co-founder of LWN.net (and the author of its Kernel Page), 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.

Jory Burson is the VP of Standards for the Linux Foundation, where she helps projects identify opportunities for standardization and collaborate on specifications. She is an open source developer-turned-standards practitioner, who is passionate about bringing the best of open source and standards-making best practices to bear in open projects. With over a decade of experience in the field, Jory has worked with several private and non-profit organizations including OASIS Open, W3C, Ecma International, and the web standards consultancy Bocoup, to name a few. She is known for her expertise in web standards, open source governance, and community management.

Jory has played a role in shaping the open source ecosystem through her work with critical open source projects such as jQuery, Node.js, and MDN Content. Jory is a passionate advocate for open source software, diversity, and inclusion in the tech industry.

Working within the Chief Technology Office in building an Open Source Program Office for the Dutch Tax and Customs administration. 

Karen Chu leads efforts focused on the Swift community for OSPO at Apple. Having participated in the cloud native community since 2015, she is a CNCF Ambassador, Helm community manager/maintainer, emeritus Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee member, meet-up organizer, and conference organizer. She has also worked on The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes book series. When she’s not connecting dots in the community, you can find her pursuing photography, cooking, and sipping on chai lattes.

Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. She has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, as well as supporting other embedded projects. With more than 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles in software development, architecture, and product management, primarily in the tooling and embedded ecosystem working with international teams.

Katherine Druckman is an Open Source Evangelist at Intel where she enjoys sharing her passion for a variety of open source topics. She is a long-time open source advocate, developer, and podcaster, and is currently the host of Open at Intel and a co-host of the FLOSS Weekly and Reality 2.0 podcasts. Previously, Katherine spent over a decade as Director of Digital Experience at Linux Journal. A passionate Drupalist since she first downloaded a tarball in 2005, she has also been a Drupal contributor and a Software Engineer.

Kerim is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp, where he coaches operators and developers on sustainable infrastructure and orchestration workflows.

Before he joined HashiCorp, Kerim worked on Industrial IoT for the Amsterdam airport and helped museums bring more of their collections online.

When Kerim isn’t working, he’s either spending time with his daughter, enjoying aerial photography, or baking a cake.

Kersten Rocket joined the Linux Foundation in Jan of 2024 as a Senior Documentation Architect for the RISC-V International team. With over 25 years of experience, Kersten is a proud support of clear, concise documentation and the Oxford comma. 

In her spare time, Kersten enjoys walking her dogs, reading, and writing. You can find her children’s books online at various sites. She lives in Minnesota with her family.

As a Principal Engineer at Red Hat, Laura Santamaria loves to learn and explain how things work to bridge the gaps in engineering disciplines. She is the host of [Technically Leadership](https://packetpushers.net/podcast/technically-leadership/), a podcast on the Packet Pushers network, as well as a cohost for the the [Cloud Native Compass](https://cloudnativecompass.fm/) podcast and was the curator for [A Minute on the Mic](https://aminuteonthemic.com), a cohost for [The Hallway Track](https://thehallwaytrack.fireside.fm/) podcast, and the host of [Quick Bites of Cloud Engineering](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyy8Vx2ZoWlohOiedbaQqT5xYRkcDsm10). As a community member, she co-hosts multiple meetups in the Austin, Texas, area, including Cloud Austin. For many years, she taught Python for the Women Who Code Austin meetup, as well. She is an organizer for DevOpsDays Austin and PyTexas and advises KCD Texas, all community-run conferences, as well as a global core member for the DevOpsDays community. For the past few years, she has been a returning program committee member for Open Source Summit’s Cloud Open track that explores cloud infrastructure and cloud apps. Outside of tech, Laura runs, reads, and watches clouds—the real kind.

Lauren is an award-winning author, analyst, and digital systems designer for the U.S. government. She currently works on the founding Digital Service team at the State of Maryland’s Department of Labor, where her team is building the first cloud-native platform to provide paid caregiver leave in Maryland. Lauren’s first book, Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up, was published by The Pragmatic Programmers and adapted into two LinkedIn Learning courses. She also wrote an essay for the book 97 Things Every Application Security Professional Should Know, published by O’Reilly Media, and co-edited the textbook Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning, published by McGraw Hill. Lauren is a former community correspondent for OpenSource.com, wrote a chapter on inclusive communities for The Open Source Way guidebook, and speaks at open source events around the world, including DrupalCon North America, the Open Source Summits in North America and Europe, and All Things Open.

Lea Beiermann is Ecosystem Coordinator at the German Centre for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS), where she fosters strategic partnerships across the public sector and open source ecosystem to promote digital sovereignty through open source software solutions. With an academic background in STS and the history of technology, Lea brings a deep understanding of the social implications of technological transition, informing her current work ath the intersection of software and digital policy.

Marc-Etienne Vargenau is a member of the Open Source team at Nokia.

He has worked as an Open Source developer for many years. Among other projects, he contributed to FusionForge (https://fusionforge.org/) and PhpWiki (https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/).

He is contributing to the SPDX standard since version 1.1.

As part of Nokia OSPO, he helps ensuring compliance of Nokia usage and contributions to Open Source software. He works on tooling to automate handling of Open Source.

Marcel Kurzmann joined Bosch in 1997. After establishing the test-automation service team at Bosch Engineering and Acquisition Project Management in the automotive section he took over the Quality Management of Bosch Software Innovations in 2008. From 2015 he was responsible for the Open Source Management System of Bosch Software Innovations, member of the Center of Competence Open Source at Bosch and is now part of the Center of Excellence Open Source and Inner Source at Bosch Digital. He represents Bosch in the OpenChain Governing Board, is active member of the OpenChain Tooling Workgroup and Co-Maintainer of the Eclipse Apoapsis Project.

Marta Rybczynska has network security background, 20 years of experience in Open Source including 15 years 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 served as Vice-President and treasurer for KDE e.V. She has been involved in various Open Source projects, and also contributing kernel-related guest articles for LWN.net. In 2021, she founded Syslinbit, an Open Source consulting company. She has experience with presentations on both scientific and free software conferences, including LinuxCon, Open Source Summit, Embedded Linux Conference, Akademy, FOSDEM and FOSS-north.

Martin Jäger is an engineer and open source enthusiast. He is the founder of the Libre Solar Project, which aims to develop building blocks for off-grid renewable energy systems as open source hardware. He is also a regular contributor to other open source projects like the Zephyr RTOS. Prior to his time in IoT and power electronics, he spent nearly a decade in automotive battery development.

Mary Hardy has more than a decade of specialized experience as an in-house open source attorney for large tech companies, advising on all aspects of the use of, creation of, and interaction with open source. She helps enable the responsible contribution to and adoption of open source AI. She has advised on large-scale Linux kernel contributions, corporate merger and remediation strategies on open source, and authored and delivered open source training to thousands of engineers.

Maryblessing is a dedicated community architect and passionate advocate, with strong analytical and engagement skills in tech communities. She’s passionate about a sustainable tech ecosystem with a commitment to championing diversity, inclusion, and belonging within workplaces and the broader tech community.

Masae is a Staff Open Source Program Manager, leading the company’s open source business and community strategy alignment, and strategy consultations. Previously she led numerous programs that include large-scale DX/IT transformation as part of M&A at Cisco, security compliance process implementation, consumer platform development on Linux/Android/iOS at multiple companies including NEC and Renesas. She began her career as a software developer in Japan, then worked in the US/Microsoft, now lives in the UK with English husband and son.

Matthew Crawford has been working at Arm since 2017 mainly focussing on the Third Party Intellectual Property strategy and process management. His professional accomplishments include working to make Arm OpenChain conformant in 2019; involvement in the Google Summer of Code as a mentor and working with the SPDX community. He joined the OpenChain board in 2022 and has a strong passion for open source hardware and software governance, trust and security. Since 2022 Matthew has worked in AI compliance and leads Arm’s AI Office

Mirko Boehm is a Free and Open Source Software contributor, community manager, licensing expert and researcher, with contributions to major Open Source projects like the KDE Desktop (since 1997, including several years on the KDE e.V. board), the Open Invention Network, the Open Source Initiative and others. He is a visiting lecturer and researcher on Free and Open Source Software at the Technical University of Berlin. Mirko Boehm has a wide range of experience as an entrepreneur, corporate manager, software developer and German Air Force officer.

He joined the Linux Foundation in June 2023 as Senior Director for Community Development for LF Europe, where he focuses on driving engagement and collaboration between all European Open Source stakeholders.

Mirko speaks English and German and lives in the Berlin area.

Natali Vlatko (she/her) is an Open Source Architect at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, compliance, and governance, and is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time. Her academic background is in Egyptology and Archaeology; specifically, burial customs across the various kingdoms of Ancient Egypt. Ask her about dead stuff.

Nate is the CNCF’s Head of Mentorship and Documentation. He leads the TechDocs team, which includes a group of writers, designers, and web developers. Together, they deliver high-quality documentation that supports the cloud-native ecosystem. Nate and the TechDocs team help CNCF projects organize and write documentation, ensuring clarity, consistency, and accessibility.

Beyond his work in documentation, Nate also oversees the CNCF mentorship programs. Working with the TAG Contributor Strategy Mentoring Working Group, he helps CNCF projects prepare for mentorship programs such as LFX Mentorship, Google Summer of Code, and Outreachy. He also administers CNCF’s participation in the LFX Mentorship program, working with the Linux Foundation to foster the growth and development of new contributors.

Before joining CNCF, Nate worked as a Senior Creative Technologist at AKQA, where he helped build, install, and support interactive installations for retail spaces, conferences, and other events. His diverse background includes technical writing, systems administration, and embedded software development roles.

Nicole has worked in different projects developing safety relevant embedded software before starting as an independent safety assessor. 
With now more than ten years of experience as a functional safety expert, she supported several customers to show their compliance with ISO 26262 and/or other safety standards. Currently she is utilizing her experience regarding the development of highly reliable software to enable both closed and open source solutions to be used in critical products, focusing on safety, security and compliance.

Nigel is a Senior Developer Advocate based in Austin, Texas. He was drawn to the craft of software engineering because of the agency it provides people to build and interact with worlds of their own creation. He focuses on Cloud Native technologies and his passions in technology are community building, High Performance Computing, and free and open source software (and hardware).

Norio Kobota is a Senior Open Source Strategist in Sony Group Corporation. He is the chair of Open Source Software License Committee in Sony and works to improve OSS compliance and relationships with OSS communities. He represents Sony as a board member of OpenChain Project. And he is participating the SPDX Project and contributing the SPDX Lite.

Oleg is a developer tools hacker, community builder, and DevRel consultant. He’s a passionate open-source software, open ecosystems, and open hardware advocate. Oleg is a core maintainer of the Jenkins project, where he writes code, mentors contributors, and organizes community events. He is a CNCF and CDF ambassador, Testcontainers Champion, Kotlin Foundation Ecosystem Committee Member, and a former Jenkins Board member and CDF TOC Chair. Oleg has a PhD in electronics design and volunteers in the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation, as well as in Ukrainian support and Russian anti-war organizations. He has been a Kubecon | Cloud NativeCon PC Member since 2022.

Olivier Charrier obtained a Master’s degree in Software Engineering (DESS) from Bordeaux University in 1989. Prior to joining Wind River, Olivier worked for Alsys/Aonix developing and integrating Ada development environment for embedded systems.

After an almost 4 years in the Ada95 engineering center of Aonix located in San Diego, California, Olivier moved back to a South European role, providing consulting on integrating Ada COTS development environment for Mission Critical Space programs.

Olivier Joined Wind River in June 2001 as Senior Field Application Engineer for the South-western region of Europe dedicated to the Aerospace & Defence Market, supporting Thales, Airbus and Safran groups as well as their subcontractors.

In 2007 he became EMEA Aerospace & Defence Principal Engineer to support and coordinate EMEA wide A&D programs, provide consulting on Integrated Modular Avionics and the use of COTS Software Development environment and Operating Systems for Safety Critical systems, also participating in the definition of Wind River corresponding solutions in particular for Safety Certification using Multi-Core systems. In the same timeframe he joined the SAE/ARINC APEX Software Subcommittee to participate in the elaboration of the ARINC 653 standard.

Since January 2017 Olivier has been extending his scope to contribute to other markets, like Railway, Nuclear, Medical and Automotive, worldwide.
In 2021, Olivier joined the Linux Foundation’ s ELISA Project (Enabling Linux In Safety Applications) and recently became one of its Ambassadors.

Paul is a consultant at Codethink, with more than 30 years of experience in the automotive, semiconductor and mobile device sectors. He’s passionate about software engineering processes and the role that open source software and communities are playing in their evolution. His current focus is on the Trustable Software Framework, and the use of Linux and open source tools in the development of safety-related applications for the Automotive industry. He is a certified functional safety practitioner and a member of the technical steering committee for the ELISA project (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications).

Pete Brink is a Principal Consultant at UL Solutions and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Pete started his career in 1987 working on Jet Engine control systems and then did embedded systems development on print servers, cable scanners, in-circuit emulators, and satellite modems. Pete then worked at Intel where he developed a variety of PC-based technologies (multimedia, storage, USB) and culminated his Intel career by leading Intel’s ADAS demo at the 2015 CES. Pete then moved to PolySync where he was a Principal Engineer/Director of Engineering focused on creating a software infrastructure to enable autonomous driving. This was followed by a stint working on industrial lasers at nLIGHT.

Pete’s experience with software engineering, including safety-critical software, began with the work on jet engine control systems, but then expanded to be generalized across a wide range of high-quality and reliability products. For many products, up-time was a major consideration, including the embedded communications work across a variety of industries. Pete’s opportunity to reenter the safety-critical world began when he was the lead for the Intel ADAS work. Pete has been working continuously on safety critical software systems since 2012, doing either software development, management, software process control and evaluation or training on software engineering topics.

Since joining UL, Pete has been active in both safety and cybersecurity and has had several clients. He currently has a CFSX in ISO 26262, CASP in ISO 21448 (SOTIF) and CCSP in ISO 21434.

In addition to his engineering experience, Pete has also been an active contributor to the IEEE-CS Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBoK), the Software Engineering Competency Model (SWECoM) as a result of establishing a software engineering curriculum at Intel. Pete also is a Program Evaluator (PEV) in Software Engineering (BSSE) for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET.) Pete has now visited seven universities and evaluated their software engineering programs for accreditation.

Phil is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on core container technologies that power AWS container offerings like Fargate, EKS, and ECS.

Phil is currently an active contributor and maintainer for the CNCF containerd runtime project, and participates in the Open Container Initiative (OCI) as the member of the Technical Oversight Board (TOB). Phil has also been a long-time core contributor and maintainer on the Docker/Moby engine project where he contributed key features like user namespace support and multi-platform image capabilities.

Phil enjoys helping others understand and apply container and cloud native concepts and speaks worldwide at industry conferences and meetups, and is a member of the CNCF Ambassadors program.

Philipp Ahmann is a Senior OSS Community Manager at ETAS GmbH (a Robert Bosch GmbH subsidiary), specializing in safety-critical and automotive-grade open source software. With over 15 years of experience in Linux-based automotive software platforms, Philipp has held various roles including Software Engineer, Technical Team Lead, and Project & Line Manager. He also has experience in technical business development and product management for embedded open source software within Bosch, with a focus on Linux & IoT products.

Currently, Philipp chairs the Technical Steering Committee for the ELISA Project (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) at the Linux Foundation (LF) and leads the project’s Systems Working Group. He is further inaugural advisory board member of the Linux Foundation Europe.

Pieter De Gendt is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Basalte bv. Pieter started off as an all-round developer from embedded to web, but with a fondness of Linux on headless devices and bare-metal programming. After discovering Zephyr in 2020, Pieter became a full-time embedded developer and enthusiast, contributing both professionally and in Pieter’s spare time.

I am a Software Engineer at IBM, where I play a key role in developing the IBM CI/CD Offering based on Tekton Pipelines. As a lead on the platform development team, my primary focus is on designing and implementing prescriptive pipelines that cater to the diverse needs of hundreds of teams across the organization. I am also a maintainer for Tekton Pipelines and have been serving on the program committee since 2022.

Ryan has been working on software security and quality for 27 years. In his career, he has implemented security features in open source software stacks, been an offensive security researcher, been a developer and security architect for numerous open source projects including 3 different Linux distributions as well as Android. He has also been responsible for defining software security & quality development policies for multiple Fortune 500 companies. These days, he is Deputy Chief Product Security Officer for Carrier where he is focused on improving software development practices, Chair of the OpenSSF Security Tooling WG, and also spends time doing work as an expert witness testifying on quality software development practices.

Sahdev P. Zala is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Open Technology division. He has been an open source developer for over a decade and currently focused on the PyTorch and Kubernetes upstream development. Sahdev serves as a maintainer for the CNCF etcd project, which is a primary data store of Kubernetes. For his PyTorch contributions, Sahdev was recognized as a nominee for a Contributor Award at the PyTorch Conference 2024. Previously, Sahdev was a core contributor to the OpenStack project and a Technical Committee member of the OASIS TOSCA. 
Sahdev has served as a Track Chair and Program Committee Member for various KubeCon conferences with high quality and timely work. He has been a speaker at conferences such as All Things Open, KubeCon, Open Source Summit, OpenStack Summit, Open Source in Finance Forum, EGI, IBM Think, IBM TechXchange, and local open-source Meetups. Sahdev’s work has been published in the Journal of Grid Computing, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies, cncf.io, Container Journal, and IBM Developer. Sahdev also hosts quarterly open source Meetup in Raleigh, NC, for more than seven years.

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include building the largest open source governance community in the world through the OpenChain Project, spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network into the largest patent non-aggression community in history and establishing the first global network for open source legal experts. He is a founder of both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to open source. He currently leads the OpenChain Project and is a General Assembly Member of OpenForum Europe.

Shirley Bailes has been involved in developer communities and building open source programs for over 15 years. She is the Director of Software Ecosystem Strategy in Intel’s Office of the CTO, where she leads thought leadership and strategic initiatives to accelerate startup innovation and developer ecosystem growth. She previously led open source programs at AWS and served as Co-President of the Women at Amazon Global Board.

Shuah Khan is a Kernel Maintainer & Linux Fellow at The Linux Foundation. She is an experienced Linux Kernel developer, maintainer, and contributor. She authored, A Beginner’s Guide to Linux Kernel Development (LFD103) training course. She designed and leads the Mentorship program aimed at increasing diversity in open source and providing equitable access to learning resources.

She serves on the Linux kernel Code of Conduct committee and the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board.

Steven Rostedt currently works for Google on the ChromeOS baseOS performance team. He is the main developer and maintainer for ftrace, the official tracer of the Linux kernel, as well as the user space tools and libraries that interact with the Linux tracing interface. Steven is also one of the original developers for the Real Time patch (PREEMPT_RT) and still helps maintain the stable releases of the Real Time patch set. He also develops ktest.pl (in the kernel) and created the “make localmodconfig” option.

Takashi Ninjouji, Chief Engineer at Honda Motor Co., Ltd., focuses on software-defined vehicles (SDV) and the Open Source Program Office (OSPO). He is also interested in security assurance and SBOM. He spent 10 years in R&D in the telecommunications and mobile industries. In the past 15 years, he has established and operated OSPOs at companies in web/IT and infrastructure. He also contributes to the OpenChain, SPDX, and AGL.

Drawing from extensive experience in product strategy and organizational leadership, Taylor builds and mentors high-performing teams through a blend of strategic wit and thoughtful guidance. His methodology emphasizes rapid experimentation and calculated risk-taking, while maintaining a centered calm that enables clear decision-making in complex situations. By championing a culture of customer-centricity and measurable outcomes, Taylor has successfully guided organizations through digital transformation and market expansion initiatives.

Theodore Ts’o is the first North American Linux Kernel Developer, and started working with Linux in September, 1991. He also served as the
tech lead for the MIT Kerberos V5 development team, and served as a chair of IP Security working group at the IETF. He previously served
as CTO for the Linux Foundation, and is currently employed at Google. Theodore is a Debian Developer, and is the maintainer of the ext4 file
system in the Linux kernel. He is the maintainer and original author of the e2fsprogs userspace utilities for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file
systems.

Tex is an up and coming Open Source Program Manager leading various efforts such as community-maintainer pilots, a Developer Advocate program, and increased transparency across multiple channels with a large Community. He excels at finding unconventional solutions to common problems and adapts to quick moving projects of varied scope. 

Thomas Petazzoni is the CEO of Bootlin, a company specializing in embedded Linux and kernel engineering with a strong focus on open-source and upstream. He has contributed to the Linux kernel, particularly in hardware support, and is a co-maintainer of the Buildroot project. A seasoned trainer and speaker, he has delivered numerous courses and talks on embedded Linux.

Thomas Steenbergen specializes in strategic open source management, helping organizations align their open source practices with business objectives. An expert in open source adoption, community building, and compliance – including Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) – he previously led Open Source Program Offices at EPAM Systems and HERE Technologies. He is a maintainer of OSS Review Toolkit, SPDX, TODO group and a regular contributor to FINOS’s Open Source Readiness and OpenChain. A frequent speaker at global open source conferences, Thomas welcomes discussions on open source topics. For more information about the projects he is involved in and his contact details, visit github.com/tsteenbe. 

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.

As the VP of education, I’ve had the privilege of leading and nurturing an exceptional team of technology experts while embracing a dynamic set of responsibilities in growing our training program.

My passion revolves around introducing and championing emerging open source technologies. With an eye on cost control, I’ve successfully implemented transformative solutions, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity measures, and cloud-based applications. 

Collaboration is at the heart of my approach, forging strong working relationships across leadership teams, ensuring alignment with our organization’s strategic objectives. My focus lies in achieving the optimal organizational structure, integrating existing teams with acquired entities, and adapting to evolving business needs.

My technical experience spans training courses, application development, documentation, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cybersecurity. Staying ahead of technological advancements and ensuring our training program remains at the forefront of industry developments is my commitment.

Attracting, developing, and retaining top-tier technical professionals is a personal passion. I continuously evaluate and enhance teams to ensure they possess the necessary skills to excel.

A physicist by training, Tobias Kaestner has always been fascinated by the intersection of the physical with the digital world. His professional career started as a SW team lead in a medical device start-up and since then he has served a couple of roles for 15+ years in this industry. He is one of the maintainers of the Bridle project, an effort to publish integration patterns of FOSS into embedded devices and to promote the adoption of FOSS in safety regulated environments.

Venil Noronha is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Stripe. He’s been a contributor to open source projects in the service mesh domain, like Istio and Envoy proxy.

I am a software engineer working in the intersection of databases, security and cloud native technologies. I also serve as one of the tech leads of Kubernetes SIG Release

Victory Brown is a design researcher, community builder, and experienced storyteller, interfacing with designers and design communities on the state of digital, ethical, and open design practices

Vinod is subsystem maintainer of Linux Kernel’s soundwire subsystem, Generic Phy subsystem, and dmaengine subsystem, He also maintains the ALSA compressed audio framework & Library. Vinod has two decades of embedded development experience in Intel and Linaro in the area of BSP development, display, audio etc. Vinod runs Linux Kernel Bangalore meetup chapter and has spoken at ELC, LPC and other events.

Walt Miner has worked for The Linux Foundation as the Community Manager for Automotive Grade Linux since 2014. Walt has spoken at Automotive Linux Summit, Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg, Embedded Linux Conference, LinuxCon North America, and Open Source Summit North America and Europe. Walt has over 30 years of embedded software development and management experience in the automotive, mobile phone, and defense industries.

Xiaoya Xia is a member of the Ant Group OSPO, where she focuses on catalyzing open source success through data-driven insights. Before joining Ant Group, Xiaoya was a PhD at East China Normal University (ECNU), where she concentrated on research into open source ecosystem sustainability.

Yoshitake Kobayashi is the General Manager of Advanced Software Technology Office at Toshiba Corporation. A part of his team provides a Linux distribution 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 Project, which is hosted by The Linux Foundation.

Cloud AppMod Engineer at Google. Also I am SRE and Chaos Engineering Advocate. Love building software applications, reading blogs, writing articles, solving hard performance and resilience issues and teaching software concepts. 

With 8+ years of software engineering. +2 year as Technical Program Manager of SRE and +3 years of Cloud AppMod Engineer.