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Dawn Foster is Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware. She has over 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in open source software, community building, community management, market research, strategic planning, management, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. […]

Andrew Katz Andrew is Managing Partner and head of Technology Law of Moorcrofts LLP and is CEO of Orcro Limited, a compliance business specialising in risk management around software supply chain management, with particular emphasis on open source software. Formerly a software developer, Andrew qualified as a barrister in 1990 and subsequently requalified as a […]

Josh is a consultant for the ODI, with a focus on international development, private sector data sharing, and data portability initiatives such as open banking. James is a consultant for the ODI, with a focus on public and private sector innovation with data, as well as research and development.

Dr Sara Thomas is the Scotland Programme Coordinator for Wikimedia UK, part time. She was the Wikimedian in Residence at the Scottish Libraries and Information Council, working primarily with public libraries in Scotland, between August 2017-April 2018. She was also Resident at Museums Galleries Scotland from January 2015 - July 2016, working nationally to advocate […]

Shane Coughlan leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. We managed to steal a few minutes of his time to talk about OpenChain, open source, compliance and security. But first, a brief backgrounder on Shane. Shane has been involved in open source in one way or another since 1998.

Adam Jollans is a product marketing manager in the worldwide LinuxONE marketing team. In this role he is responsible for developing the marketing strategy for IBM’s LinuxONE server and its ecosystem. He has been involved with Linux and open source since 1998, including leading the cross-IBM Linux strategy. He joined IBM in 1984, and has […]

Frank is the founder of Nextcloud and Own Cloud and talks about commercial models for open source and running a business based on GPL code.  

John Laban of the Open Compute Project is an OpenUK director and talks today about how open hardware will contribute to the circular economy.

Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK shares her thoughts on the impact of the very imminent Brexit, Geopolitical shift across Europe, the US and Asia and the need for ongoing transparent and open collaboration on a global basis, to improve Government trust and faciliate innovation.  

Tomas Lamanauskas, a leader in the mobile sector explains 5G and OpenRAN to the OpenUK Future Leaders group, sharing his thoughts as OpenUK launches its Emerging Mobile Work Group being led by Tomas as part of their 2021 Policy initiatives.  

Armijn Hemel, Founder Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions is a leader in the container space, as one of the co-authors of the Linux Foundation report on containers, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/ Armijn is a rare beast, someone who understands both the technology and the governance of containers. His session will explain everything you need to know about containers, which […]