Program Committee

As a Technical Trainer for Linux Foundation Education, I develop, update, and deliver training for in-person, online, and virtual courses crafted to enhance technology professionals’ understanding and utilization of open source projects in the cybersecurity and development spaces. The courses, micro-courses, and workshops I develop and deliver cover a range of topics, including SBOM workflows for compliance, IAM for microservices, web application security, vulnerability management tooling, automated AI workflows for security processes, and WebAssembly application development and debugging.

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.

Tech leader with 10+ years in AI accelerator architecture and 20+ years industry experience. Expert in HW/SW/algorithm integration from concept to product. Collaborated with Fortune 500 clients on customized solutions. Innovation demonstrated through multiple AI optimization patents. Skilled in tech strategy, team leadership (80+ engineers), complex project management with hands-on approach to new technologies. Experience analyzing LLMs and optimization techniques including KV cache, Mixture of Experts (MoE), quantization and more, with comprehensive understanding of software/hardware architectural implications across diverse platforms, edge AI, RAGs, and AI agent implementations

Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast. He chairs the CDF Technical Oversight Committee and serves on the CDF Governing Board. Andrea is a maintainer of Tekton and CDEvents and he leads the PyTorch multi-cloud CI working group. He is a strong advocate for transparency in open source. Andrea has spoken at cdCon, Open Source Summit, PyTorch Conference, FOSSASIA, FOSS Backstage, KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, and more.

Animesh Pathak is a Developer Relations Engineer with a strong focus on Database DevOps, testing, and open-source innovation. Currently at Harness, he plays a key role in building and evangelizing scalable DBDevOps workflows, bridging the gap between developers and data teams to accelerate secure, reliable software delivery.

Anna is a Senior Software Engineer at Nvidia, where she leads the development of AI tooling for operations. Previously at VMware, she led a machine learning team in the Open Source Program Office, contributing to and shaping upstream AI/ML projects.

Annie Talvasto is an award-winning international technology speaker and leader. She has spoken at over 100+ tech events 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) and hosted Cloud Native Live, a weekly livestream by CNCF, for over 3 years.

Software engineer at Google. Worked on Java build tooling for GCP and containers (Jib) for many years. Currently involved in containers via the distroless project and in package ecosystem security via the SLSA and Sigstore projects.

Aramis is a senior software engineer at DoorDash working on CI/CD and monorepo developer experience for DoorDash web developers. He is also a core maintainer for Backstage, focusing on the OpenAPI tooling, CLI tooling and documentation project areas.

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.

Benjamin Cabé is a technology enthusiast with a passion for empowering developers to build innovative solutions. He has 20 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.

Dr. Brad Topol is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of AI and Cloud Open Technologies. In his current role, he leads a development team with responsibility for contributing to and improving several AI and cloud-native open source technologies including PyTorch, vLLM, InstructLab, LMCache, llm-d, KubeFlow, KServe, Kubernetes, and Tekton. He also serves as a member of the LF AI & Data Foundation Governing Board, and as a CNCF al-ternate Governing Board Member. He is a co-author of Hybrid Cloud Apps with OpenShift and Kubernetes, a book published by O’Reilly Media in 2021. In addition, he is a co-author of Kubernetes in the Enterprise, a book published by O’Reilly Media in 2018. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998.

Cara Delia is the Manager of the AI Community Architecture team within Red Hat’s Open Source & AI Program Office, where she leads the upstream strategy for Red Hat’s contributions to open source AI communities. Her work focuses on building sustainable, collaborative ecosystems that accelerate innovation across the AI landscape. Cara has been an active contributor across multiple Linux Foundation initiatives, including the CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG, Kubeflow, FINOS, and the PyTorch community, helping shape open, community-driven approaches to AI development and governance.

Carol is a Cloud Architect with a strong focus on security, observability and AI, boasting over 8 years of experience in cloud-native technologies. She is an open-source contributor to Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes Release, and CNCF Glossary. Carol is an active member of the community, serving as a TAG Lead in Operational Resilience, CNCF Ambassador, AWS Community Builder, and Cloud Native chapter organizer, together with KCD events in Brazil.

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

Chris Hoeppler is a member of the Bosch Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and serves on Bosch’s corporate Open Source Expert Team. During his over ten years at Bosch Research, he developed deep expertise across the full spectrum of open source topics, from compliance and governance to strategic planning. Having transitioned from Bosch Research six months ago, Chris currently focuses on enabling internal teams across Bosch with their open source contributions and strategies. He is actively working on automation solutions for the contribution lifecycle to reduce friction and improve collaborative open source engagement.

Christoph is a technology and business leader with a focus on Open Source software. He’s an architect and senior principal engineer with Red Hat, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and the Chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Governing Board.

Chuck Wolber is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow primarily focused on Linux Operating System engineering for airborne avionics. He has developed multiple DO-178C certified Linux platforms currently in service on Boeing production aircraft. Chuck has been a Linux user since 1995 and has served as president and board member of the Tacoma Linux Users Group. Chuck is co-author of the book Linux Toys and is credited with contributions to multiple early editions of the Red Hat Linux Bible. Chuck holds a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science.

Dan Appelquist is Open Source Strategist at Samsung Open Source Group. He is a web & mobile industry veteran and long-time participant and leader in open source and open standards. He is co-chair of the W3C Advisory Board and previously was co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group since 2013. He is a participant in the C2PA standards efforts and has been a member of the OpenSSF’s Technical Advisory Council. He is also a co-founder of Open Web Docs. He’s led efforts at Vodafone, Telefónica, Samsung and the UK Government relating to open standards and the open web.

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.

Daniela Barbosa serves as General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation and as Executive Director of Hyperledger Foundation with overall strategic and operational responsibility for staff, programs, expansion and execution of Hyperledger’s mission. Daniela has more than 20 years of enterprise technology experience, including serving for four years as Hyperledger Foundation’s Vice President of Worldwide Alliances with responsibility for the member community as well as broader industry and business community outreach and overall network growth. She started her career at Dow Jones where she worked with the top global brands across various sectors, including finance, consumer and energy, to architect and deliver enterprise systems, ontologies and semantic web solutions. In the early 2000s, Daniela became involved in the early web 2.0 community helping to advance the concept of digital identity and data portability as the pathway for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications.

Dr. Dawn Foster is an OSS strategy consultant. She is also on the board of CHAOSS and OpenUK, and was previously a co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy Technical Advisory Group. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community, strategy, governance, and metrics. 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, 3D printing, and traveling.

Dr. Deborah Dahl is an expert on Conversational AI and related standards. She has developed many natural language processing systems and has over 20 years of experience in standards work at the World Wide Web Consortium and the Linux Foundation AI and Data Foundation. Dr. Dahl has written many technical papers and four books, most recently Natural Language Understanding with Python, published in 2023.

Diego Gosmar serves as Chief AI Officer, specializing in Artificial Intelligence with a particular focus on Multi-Agent Systems, Generative Conversational AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Conversation Analysis, AI Agent Interoperability and Automation, as well as Sustainable and Ethical Conversational AI.
He leads AI Competence Centers in both the Customer Care and Supply Chain domains. 

Diego is member of the Voiceinteroperability.ai and Trustmarkinitiative.ai from the Linux Foundation AI & Data, two groups dedicated to the definition of standards and guidelines for Agentic Conversational AI ethical, scalable and responsible use. 

He is the author of the following publications related to AI (original researches):
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=3HtoxzsAAAAJ

He has been a trainer and speaker over the past two decades at various international events focused on innovation, telecommunications technologies, and artificial intelligence.
Here it is a list of Diego’s speeches:
https://www.gosmar.eu/index.html#events

Previously, Diego has also led the international expansion of the XCALLY AI-Driven omnichannel software solution, reaching over 60 countries worldwide, managing partners and hundreds of customers scattered from Singapore to the Middle East and Japan, Europe, South Africa, United States, Brazil, and more. 

He is the Head of AI Advisor for several start-ups and Mentor at the I3P, the Polytechnic University of Turin Innovative Companies Incubator, including Clearbox.AI leading company specializing in Explainable AI and Synthetic Data generation for AI Ethical models.

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 working on being-up and upstreaming of RISC-V SoCs.

Elena Zannoni is a Senior Director of Linux Engineering at Oracle,
with focus on Toolchain, Tracing and Ksplice services. With 30 years
experience in the Linux area, Elena has presented at many Linux
Foundation conferences on various development related topics, like
Tracing, BPF, DTrace, CTF, and more. Some of the current most visible
projects in Elena’s team are writing a GCC backend for BPF and
SFrame. Elena has been part of the Linux Plumbers Conference
committee, and part of the OSS/LinuxCon Program committee for several
years. In addition Elena is a member of the Sourceware Project
Leadership Committee.

I founded ejTalk Inc where I drive R&D for human-computer conversation systems, creating systems to do real-time intelligent and natural conversations with humans. These range from voice based, wearable embedded and exploratory R&D systems. I have rich experience over the entire scope of the relevant technologies. I personally prefer conceptually hard problems. I am Sr Architect for the LF AI&Data Open Floor Protocol standard.

Evan Anderson is the founder of Custcodian, a software supply chain company that aims to remove the pain and friction of tracking security standards. He’s also a founder of the Knative (CNCF — serverless), and Minder (OpenSSF — supply chain) projects, and a member of CNCF TAG-Security and OpenSSF Baseline. He’s previously worked at Google, VMware, and Stacklok. Father, recovering SRE, ongoing runner.

👋 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. I received my 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. 

India’s First Technical Trainer for The Linux Foundation, Course Maintainer, Author, Moderator & Kubestronaut.

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.

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems | 8+ years accelerating software delivery, scalability, and resilience for national and international companies, leading high-performing multidisciplinary teams in DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering.
As Head of DevOps & Cloud and Tech Manager, I’ve designed, built, and scaled modern Kubernetes platforms, led complex cloud migrations, and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with GitOps consistently achieving DORA.

Key achievements & current focus:
Technical and people leadership of multidisciplinary teams (12–20 members), fostering a culture of continuous feedback, structured PDIs, weekly 1:1s, and personalized career development.
40% reduction in AWS infrastructure costs through rigorous FinOps practices
Full implementation of observability stacks and Chaos Engineering practices.
Design and operation of self-service Cloud Native platforms using IaC and developer experience at scale.
Global speaker and contributor at top Kubernetes and Cloud Native events (KubeCon, KCDs, …) having visited 14+ countries and actively engaged with the world’s leading technical communities.
Technical reviewer of the book “Learning eBPF”.

With extensive high-impact professional experience including consulting for large enterprises and public sector organizations.
I specialize in transforming DevOps and platform engineering into true competitive advantages: faster delivery, higher reliability, built-in security, and controlled costs, always with an obsessive focus on operational excellence.

After 20 years of working as a software engineer, Jake stopped writing software and started writing *about* software—and more—at LWN.net. 19 years later, he’s still at it. He lives in Baja California Sur, México with his wife and a loony dog.

Janet Kuo is a Staff Software Engineer at Google Cloud. She has been shaping the Kubernetes landscape since its early days, contributing before the 1.0 launch in 2015. Her leadership in the community includes roles as a Kubernetes project maintainer, current lead of both Kubernetes SIG Apps and the WG AI Conformance, and KubeCon Co-chair Emeritus. When not immersed in Kubernetes, she enjoys exploring the world through travel and photography.

Longtime open source developer, technical writer, and community leader & bottle washer. Currently managing Red Hat’s relationships with communities in automotive, edge, and hardware enablement, including RISC-V. 

10-time award winner in Artificial Intelligence and Open Source and the co-author of the book ‘Sculpting Data For ML’, Jigyasa Grover is a powerhouse brimming with passion for making a dent in this world of technology and bridging the gender gap. AI & Research Lead, she has many years of ML engineering & Data Science experience in deploying large‐scale low-latency systems for user personalization and monetization on popular social networking apps like Twitter and Facebook, and e‐commerce at Faire, particularly ads prediction, sponsored content ranking, and recommendation with a recent focus on Generative AI. She is also one of the few ML Google Developer Experts and Google Women Techmaker Ambassadors globally. As a World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper, she ensures the leverage of her technical skills and connections for solution-building, policy-making, and lasting change.

Recently, she was featured at the Google I/O 2024 main keynote and introduced by Sundar Pichai on the stage as she spoke about my experience using Gemini 1.5 Pro’s 1 million token context window. As a part of the Google Developer Advisory Board (gDAB) she collaborates with experts and contributes to shaping the future of Google’s developer ecosystem. She is also involved with Google Developer Experts and Google for Startups, and most recently was on the Generative AI panel with some renowned folks from the industry and startup world.

Technology leader in financial services driving platform engineering, DevSecOps, and automation to improve reliability and delivery speed at scale. I am deeply interested in practical open source adoption, specifically governance, security, and real-world operating lessons. I am eager to apply my experience in securing software workflows to the Program Committee, ensuring the selected sessions offer rigorous, practical technical value to the community.

John is a Principal Consultant at ControlPlane, where he helps some of the world’s most security-conscious organizations build and assure mission-critical platforms. He is a maintainer of the Witness and Archivista sub-projects under in-toto and serves as a co-chair of the CNCF’s TAG Security. John is also actively involved in several initiatives within the OpenSSF. Prior to joining ControlPlane, he was the Director of Open Source at TestifySec and held engineering leadership roles at VMware.

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

Senior engineering leader with more than 30+ years in software development in both open and closed source solutions. Currently focusing on standardization of AI systems. and is an AI expert at IEEE, ISO, She chairs the SPDX AI/Dataset profile working group.

Karen Chu leads Swift community initiatives for Apple’s Open Source Program Office. With 10+ years in OSS, 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.

I have worked with embedded firmware for over 2 decades, across several different industries. I’ve been in my current role at Google for over 8 years and I’m the technical lead for the Embedded Controller used on Google Chromebooks. I am currently a member of the Zephyr Technical Steering Committee and I am the chair of Zephyr’s Process Improvement working group.

Kerim is a senior developer advocate at IBM, where he coaches operators 

and developers on sustainable infrastructure and orchestration workflows.

Before he joined IBM, Kerim worked on Industrial IoT for the Amsterdam airport 

and helped museums bring more of their collections online.

As a Community Architect at Red Hat, Laura Santamaria bridges engineering disciplines by breaking down complex systems to foster open-source collaboration. She serves as a global core member for DevOpsDays, a steering committee member for Cloud Native Rejekts, and a long-standing program committee member for Open Source Summit. In addition, she organizes DevOpsDays Austin, PyTexas, and Cloud Austin to serve the Austin community. With a background in technical education, she spent years teaching Python for Women Who Code ATX, helping to lower the barrier to entry for engineering disciplines. While she is a veteran podcaster (currently heard on Technically Leadership from Packet Pushers and Cloud Native Compass with David Flanagan (rawkode) and previously on things like Quick Bites of Cloud Engineering), her primary focus remains building sustainable, contributor-driven ecosystems. Outside of tech, Laura runs, reads, and watches clouds—the real kind.

Started professionally around 1998/1999. Been writing code since the late 80’s. Linux, Windows, Android, CPU and GPU architectures, DSP and signal processing, cloud-native, containers, Kubernetes, OSS maintainership, project management, front-end, back-end, all-the-stacks.

Maciej is a passionate developer with almost two decades of experience in many languages. Currently he’s working on Kubernetes for Defense Unicorns. Whereas at night he is hacking on side projects with python. In his spare time he enjoys reading a good book or taking photos.

I am currently working as an EU Policy Advisor with a focus on cybersecurity and open-source software. I serve as a bridge between OpenSSF (and its community), other technical communities and policymakers, helping position OpenSSF as a trusted resource within the global and European policy landscape. I am also representing OpenSSF in the European Commission’s CRA Expert Group, and Linux Foundation Europe in the European Standardization Organizations contributing to the CRA implementation guidelines and standards discussions.

Marina Moore is a Research Scientist at Edera where she does research on cloud native security and container runtimes. She is a maintainer of The Update Framework (TUF), a CNCF graduated project that provides secure software update and delivery. She is also a chair of CNCF’s TAG Security where she contributes to security assessments and whitepapers, as well as providing technical security leadership to CNCF projects.

Her research interests include container isolation, software supply chain security, and cloud security.

IT consultant to SMBs in Mumbai. He serves as the Github Admin + NMC to Kubernetes Project.

Marta Rybczynska has network security background, 20 years of experience in Open Source including 15 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. She’s a member of the security team of the Yocto Project, Technical Steering Committee of OpenEmbedded, and a co-maintainer of meta-security.

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.

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.

I am organizing the Japan OSPO Local Meetup in Japanese, supported by TODO Group and OpenChain Japan WG. I work on leading Open Source strategies with different business units as Open Source Promotion WG Leader under Software Strategy Committee.

Matthew Suozzo is a Software Engineer on the Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST), where he leads the OSS Rebuild project. His work focuses on strengthening the open-source supply chain by applying reproducible build principles to package ecosystems.

Maureen Helm is a Distinguished Engineer in the Software & Digital Platforms Group at Analog Devices, focusing on embedded microcontroller software. She is an upstream maintainer in the Zephyr Project and former chair of the Technical Steering Committee.

Natali Vlatko (she/her) is a Director of Open Source Software Engineering at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, and governance. She is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes and a member of the TODO Group Steering Committee. 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.

Navitha is a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, leading enterprise transformation in test automation and developer experience. With over 20 years of engineering and DevOps expertise, she has pioneered efforts to scale quality practices across hundreds of cloud-native teams. Her work focuses on building centralized platforms that accelerate innovation through automated quality insights, and intuitive developer tooling. A strong advocate for simplicity, standardization, and community collaboration, she has helped foster a culture of shift-left testing and shared ownership of quality. She actively mentors engineers, leads Communities of Practice, and speaks on topics ranging from continuous delivery to platform-driven transformation. Her leadership has directly contributed to faster, more reliable releases and improved developer confidence across the enterprise.

Nick Chase is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in AI/ML, cloud computing, and education. Currently the AI/ML Practice Director and Senior Director of Product Management at CloudGeometry, he drives product development and strategy for AI/ML solutions. 

He has a strong background in content creation, technical marketing, and curriculum development, and is the author of “”””Machine Learning for Mere Mortals””””. His expertise spans AI/ML project management, product strategy, and technical communication.

Nicole Pappler is a Functional Safety expert at AlektoMetis, specializing in the intersection of safety, cybersecurity, overall dependability, and open source. With 20+ years of experience in automotive software and industrial automation — including a decade at TÜV SÜD — she bridges the gap between rigid standards and modern development. 
Within the Linux Foundation, Nicole serves as the Functional Safety Manager for the Zephyr Project and is a lead contributor to the SPDX Functional Safety Profile, focusing on machine-readable safety documentation. She is also an active member of the ELISA Project. 
Nicole is a frequent speaker and community collaborator who believes that transparency is the only way to solve the industry’s shared challenges.

I am a Software Engineer specializing in managing Kubernetes clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure public clouds. At Confluent, we run stateful and data-intensive applications such as Kafka and Flink on Kubernetes clusters.

With expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend development, I help design scalable, resilient cloud-native solutions. 
Previously, I worked on Oracle’s Kubernetes Engine team, enhancing its managed Kubernetes service. 
I’m passionate about solving complex engineering challenges in cloud environments.

Apart from learning about distributed systems and infrastructure, I enjoy cycling & cooking!

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.

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 is also a Program Evaluator (PEV) in Software Engineering (BSSE) for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET.)

Phil is a Principal Engineer at AWS and a long-time open source contributor and maintainer in the cloud native ecosystem. Phil maintains the CNCF containerd project and speaks publicly about container runtime technology at events around the globe.

Philipp Ahmann is a Senior OSS Community Manager at ETAS (a Bosch subsidiary), specializing in safety-critical automotive open source software. With 15+ years’ experience in Linux automotive platforms, he has held roles from software engineer to project & line manager.
He currently holds the position of the technical steering committee chair for the Linux Foundation ELISA project to Enable Linux in Safety Applications. Additionally, he is member of the Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board.

Rachel Leekin is a Solutions Engineer at Isovalent, specializing in enterprise networking and security solutions. Her extensive background in the cloud-native ecosystem includes senior architecture roles at AWS, VMware, and IBM, with a core focus on Kubernetes and application modernization. Beyond her professional work, Rachel is a Chelsea FC enthusiast and a martial artist currently pursuing her 3rd-degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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.

Ricardo currently works at Snowflake as a Cloud Infrastructure Lead helping automate AI/ML infrastructure with cloud native technologies. He’s an open source enthusiast and co-chair of the CNCF TAG-Runtime. He has been working in tech for more than 20 years and comes from a diverse professional background, having been in different roles at large companies such as Rakuten, Cisco and VMware as well as startups such as Branch Metrics, Coupa, Hytrust, Exablox, and SnapLogic.

Richard is the Head of Product and Operations for Ant Ling (the foundational LLM from Ant inclusionAI), with dedicated focus on building innovative products to showcase the capabilities of the LLM base model. 

Prior joining Ant Ling, Richard built Ant Group’s first OSPO and has been leading and growing the team from a strategy initiative to a full functional 10 people team in 4 years. He is in charge of Ant OSS governance, operations, strategy and international growth initiatives and is actively working with all open source projects and external partners.

As an ex-Square, ex-Microsoft engineer by training, Richard enjoyed leading strategic initiatives from scratch to fruition and building products that developers and end-users love to use.

Richard has been studying and working for more than 5 years each in 4 different countries (Singapore, Canada, USA and China) with immensely cross-cultural collaboration experience.

Ronald Petty is a consultant at RX-M, a global AI and Cloud Native advisory and training firm. Ronald is an consultant/board-member for companies in high tech research and energy spaces. In addition, he authors and edits technical material around programming languages and software development techniques. He participated in the creation of CKA and CKAD certification exams. He is chair of the both SF Bay area chapters of the Internet Society and Association for Computing Machinery. He is co-lead of the CNCF AI WG, CNCF Ambassador, and Kuberstronaut.

Rose Judge is a Senior Software Engineer at Docker, where she works on the Supply Chain Security team building secure and hardened container images. Previously, she was an Open Source Engineer at Broadcom (formerly VMware), where she worked on the Security, Compliance, Open Source, and Privacy Engineering team within the VMware Cloud Foundation. At VMware, Rose was an open source project maintainer for Tern, a container inspection tool that generates SBOMs for container images. She currently serves as Chair of the SPDX Steering Committee and contributes to the SPDX Tech and Security Profile, helping advance SBOM standards and best practices for software supply chain security and transparency.

Sasha helps maintain the Linux Kernel Stable and LTS trees. He is currently employed by NVIDIA where he helps make Linux better. Previously, Sasha was employed by Google, Microsoft, and the Ksplice team in Oracle.

Seth Newberry brings more than 25 years of experience at the intersection of national standards development, governance policy, and industry-led technical initiatives. He leads the Linux Foundation’s PAS submission program, coordinating ISO/IEC JTC 1 formalization of specifications from open source and open standards communities. At the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), he directs adoption and conformance efforts, working with U.S. cities and utilities to enable interoperable infrastructure standards. He previously served on the board of the Volumetric Format Association (VFA), supporting governance and standards development for volumetric and immersive media.

Shaun is a principal program manager at Red Hat, where he works with the CentOS and Fedora projects to bridge the gap between contributors and enterprise ecosystems. He is an open-source leader, developer, and technical writer with over two decades of experience fostering collaborative communities. Shaun is also a longtime member of the GNOME community, having served as maintainer, documentation team leader, Foundation president, and treasurer.

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.

I am a seasoned engineering leader with over 15 years of experience in distributed systems architecture, databases, security, and AI/ML-powered systems at scale. At LinkedIn, I architected a privacy platform handling 20 million queries per second and built the Trusted Graph system with over 100 million verifications — delivering mission-critical infrastructure that sat at the intersection of distributed systems, data, and security.
My areas of expertise span AI/ML application development, large-scale distributed systems, database architecture, and security and privacy platforms. I am passionate about advancing open technology ecosystems and bringing practitioner perspectives to conversations around scalability, reliability, and responsible AI. I am eager to contribute to the Open Source Summit community by helping shape a program that reflects the real-world challenges engineers face when building intelligent, secure, and highly available systems at scale.

Stefano Stabellini is a Fellow at AMD, where he leads system software architecture and the virtualization team. Previously, at Aporeto, he created a virtualization-based security solution for containers and authored several security articles. As Senior Principal Software Engineer in Citrix, he led a small group of passionate engineers working on Open Source projects. Stefano has been involved in Xen development since 2007. He created libxenlight in November 2009 and started the Xen port to ARM with virtualization extensions in 2011. Today he is a Xen Project committer, and he maintains Xen on ARM and Xen support in Linux and QEMU.

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, member of the LF AI & Data Foundation and Open AI Alliance, and author of several titles with O’Reilly, Apress, and McGraw Hill. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including AI DevSummit, Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne, Shift, Joker, swampUP, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing developers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do AI, embedded, and robot programming together with his daughters.

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.

Sundeep Bobba is a Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer at Southwest Airlines with 15+ years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native CI/CD and platform engineering systems. He focuses on AI-powered DevOps, responsible automation, and governance in modern delivery pipelines. Sundeep is a frequent speaker, author, and peer reviewer, with publications on DevOps, AI, and secure software delivery. He has served as a program committee member, organizer, and session chair across industry and academic conferences, and is passionate about advancing high-quality, practitioner-driven research and open-source innovation at cdCon.

Tasha Drew leads Product Engineering for the AI team in the VCF Division of Broadcom. Her team is responsible for building a common platform for customer workloads to be able to build, manage, and scale their AI Agents and Inference workloads. Her team is also responsible for delivering VCF Intelligent Assist, the in-product Agents and AI capabilities for VCF itself. She lives in beautiful San Francisco, California with her husband, boys, and dog.

Terence “Tex” McCutcheon is an open source advocate and governance practitioner dedicated to strengthening the people and projects that power decentralized ecosystems. He serves as Open Source Program Manager at Intersect, where he leads the Open Source Office and supports the Open Source Committee in stewarding sustainable, transparent funding for Cardano’s open source infrastructure.
Tex’s work centers on a simple premise: open source does not sustain itself by accident. His focus is building structures that allow contributors to do their best work without sacrificing transparency, accountability, or community voice. Through the development and operation of the Paid Open Source Model (POSM) and open source strategy design, he helps design and deliver milestone-based funding programs that support maintainers, developers, and ecosystem tools ensuring that treasury resources are used responsibly.
Deeply engaged in community collaboration, Tex works across committees, technical working groups, and contributor networks to reduce friction between governance and builders. He believes sustainable open source requires more than funding. Requirements include clarity of mandates, measurable outcomes, and the humility to adapt programs subject to the needs of the ecosystem. Listening to maintainers, engaging with developers, and incorporating feedback from the broader Cardano community are core elements of his approach.
Whether developing funding frameworks, refining governance policies, supporting developer onboarding, or strengthening security programs, Tex’s mission remains consistent: build durable systems that empower open source contributors and protect the long-term health of open source ecosystems.

Thomas Petazzoni is the CEO of Bootlin, an engineering company specializing in Embedded Linux and Zephyr, with a strong focus on open source. A seasoned open-source contributor, he has authored over 900 patches to the Linux kernel and more than 5,000 patches to Buildroot, where he also serves as a co-maintainer. With more than 18 years of experience in Embedded Linux, Thomas has been a regular speaker at the Embedded Linux Conference and has been service for several years on its program committee.

Tim Bird is a Principal Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony use Linux and other open source software in their products. Tim is the organizer of the Linux Boot-Time Special Interest Group and is involved with various Linux Foundation projects (including previous membership on the LF board of Directors and the Linux kernel Technical Advisory Board). Tim created the Embedded Linux Conference, and has been involved with
Linux (and particularly embedded Linux) for over 30 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.

Tracy Ragan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DeployHub and a recognized leader in secure software delivery and software supply chain defense. She has served on the Governing Boards of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) and currently serves on the Technology Advisory Committees of both organizations, helping shape industry standards and practical guidance for securing modern DevOps pipelines.

With more than 25 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, and delivery automation, Tracy focuses on closing critical security gaps in live, deployed systems. She is also the Community Director for Ortelius, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation, and is widely known for bridging DevOps workflows with open-source security tooling to enable faster, risk-driven vulnerability remediation at scale.

Elliott is an innovative pragmatist that has worked in infrastructure development for over a decade. He is currently a lead engineer in the AI and Advanced services group of VMware by Broadcom. He has previously worked at Salesforce as a platform engineer, writing tools to make it easier for developers to ship code faster. Additionally, he was a core contributor to the Habitat project at Chef Software, writing and maintaining the Habitat build server. Elliott holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Tyler. Follow Elliott on LinkedIn as @libsysguy, or on GitHub as @elliott-davis.

Utkarsh Kumar Sharma is a Full-Stack AI/ML Engineer based in United Kingdom with over six years of experience shipping production-grade systems across AI, cloud, and data. He holds an MSc in Big Data Science with Distinction from Queen Mary University of London and has worked with organisations including Cisco Systems, Capgemini, and Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TCS). Currently at Acutro, he specialises in building LLM-powered scalable products, alongside time-series ML pipelines for predictive maintenance across IoT data. A passionate open-source advocate, Utkarsh has been recognised by The Linux Foundation with the Top CDF Contributor and Ortelius Most Valuable Contributor awards in 2024. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking and trekking, finding that time in the outdoors fuels the curiosity and resilience he brings to building intelligent systems.

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.

Yoshitake Kobayashi is the Senior Manager 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.

Yuichi Nakamura,Ph.D has been engaged with OSS over 20 years, contributed to SELinux, given presentations in many OSS events such as Linux Security Summit, Embedded Linux Conference and KubeCon. He also launched ecosystem of business and OSS contribution model based on Keycloak in Hitachi,Ltd. He is one of the first Japan evangelists of the Linux Foundation and launched Cloud Native Community Japan as CNCF Japan Chapter with community colleagues. He is also a board of the Linux Foundation and CNCF.