Keynote Speakers

Dan Cauchy is the General Manager of Automotive at The Linux Foundation and the Executive Director of Automotive Grade Linux, a cross-industry effort to build an open software platform for automotive applications. Cauchy has over 22 years of experience spanning the automotive, telecom, networking, and mobile business verticals. Prior to his current position, he was the VP and GM of MontaVista’s Automotive Business Unit (acquired by Mentor). During this period, Cauchy served on the Board of Directors of the GENIVI Alliance and was responsible for the creation of the GENIVI Compliance Program, which he chaired for three years. He also has extensive startup experience and served as the Director of Product Management at Atrica (acquired by Nokia-Siemens Networks) and the Director of Architecture and Strategy at BlueLeaf Networks (now Picarro). Cauchy also previously held senior management and engineering leadership positions at Cisco Systems, Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel), and Nortel.

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.

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.

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.

Omar Mohsine is a member of the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy on Technology. He additionally leads the open source team within the UN Office of Information and Communication Technologies and serves as the co-chair of the UN Open Source Community of Practice. In this role, Omar is the primary organizer of the annual “OSPOs for Good” conference held at UN headquarters.

With over 15 years of experience working in various capacities across different continents, Omar has spearheaded numerous projects for the UN, focusing on public-private partnerships and innovation management. He has also designed UN open source competitions aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Omar is deeply committed to building new partnerships with technology stakeholders to support the United Nations’ mandate.

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.

Kaz Sato, a Staff Developer Advocate from the Cloud AI team, has authored over 25 ML/AI blogs and demos for Google Cloud’s official blog. His work has garnered attention from Jeff Dean and Eric Schmidt, and been featured in Newsweek and The New Yorker. He’s a regular speaker at Google I/O and Cloud Next, and has presented internationally in 17 countries. Kaz also shares ML/AI updates with his 20,000 X followers.

Nithya has been in open source leader for over 25 years. She is a bridge builder working with companies large and small to create productive and strategic paths to working with open source. She led the Amazon OSPO & prior to Amazon, she started and grew Comcast and SanDisk’s OSPOs.

Nithya has been director-at-large on the Linux Foundation Board for the last 5 years and in 2019 was elected to be Chair organization. Nithya is an advisor to the UCSC OSPO and to rising leaders in open source.

Ramón Roche is General Manager of the Dronecode Foundation, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation supporting drone and robotics development. He leads a global ecosystem behind technologies like PX4 and Pixhawk, and has over a decade of experience in open source. Ramón also organizes the PX4 Developer Summit, uniting hundreds of drone developers and innovators each year.

Sachiko Muto is Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer of OFE. She is also a senior research fellow at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Prior to OFE, Sachiko worked for several years in public affairs, first in London and then in Brussels. With degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics, she has been a guest researcher at UC Berkeley and at TU Delft. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and has published on the topic of regulation and ICT standards.

Vivek Bhan serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of High Performance Computing at Renesas Electronics Corporation. He has held his current role since January 2024. He is responsible for the company’s custom and application-specific high computing products.

Previously, he held the position of Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager of the High Performance Computing, Analog, and Power Solutions Group at Renesas, appointed in January 2023.

Bhan joined Renesas in 2021, following the acquisition of Dialog where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Custom Mixed Signal Business (CMS). Bhan was responsible for leading global teams to drive revenue growth, diversify Dialog’s customer base, and expand product offerings. He also oversaw P&L, product marketing and definition, system and application engineering, design engineering, software development, program management, operations for the various product lines, and central engineering, which comprises process technology, CAD, Tools, and IP.

Prior to joining Dialog, Bhan previously held executive level and senior management positions at Fujitsu Semiconductor, Freescale, and Motorola. In his previous capacities, Bhan led global product groups and teams providing solutions across multiple technologies including 2G/3G/4G, Zigbee, iDEN, GPS, Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE), power, battery, display, audio, RF, and digital SoCs.

Bhan holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Arizona State University. He holds multiple patents and publications.

Yuichi Nakamura, Ph.D. has been engaged in OSS for over 20 years, beginning with contributions to SELinux. He has built an ecosystem that bridges business and OSS contributions through Keycloak at Hitachi, and he leads the Hitachi OSPO to expand this ecosystem across the Hitachi global. He is also serving as a Linux Foundation Japan Evangelist and launched Cloud Native Community Japan (CNCJ) together with community colleagues.

Noriaki Fukuyasu is currently VP of Japan Operations at The Linux Foundation. Noriaki brings experience from previous roles at Finantix, Turbolinux, Zend Japan and Turbolinux India. He holds a 1998 – 2001 MA in International Relations, International Development at Nagoya University. With a robust skill set that includes Business Development, Marketing, Eto, Linux, Platform and more.

Jim’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through the use of open source and Linux.

At The Linux Foundation, Jim works with the world’s largest technology companies, including IBM, Intel, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, and others to help define the future of computing on the server, in the cloud, and on a variety of new mobile computing devices. His work at the vendor-neutral Linux Foundation gives him a unique and aggregate perspective on the global technology industry.

Jim has been recognized for his insights on the changing economics of the technology industry. His writing has appeared in Businessweek, Wired, and other top technology journals, and he is a regular keynote speaker at industry events. He advises a variety of startups, including Splashtop, and sits on the boards of the Global Economic Symposium, Open Source For America, and Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.