Adam Gibson

CTO, Konduit

Adam is the CTO of Konduit and a Strategic Board Director for the Eclipse Foundation. Before this, Adam was the cofounder of Skymind. Adam has been using open and producing open source software since 2010 and has been developing machine learning systems since 2012. Adam is a published author and speaker on the field of deep learning on topics ranging from the deployment of Production Machine Learning Systems to NLP. Adam grew up in Michigan in the US, spent a few years in Silicon Valley and now resides in Tokyo, Japan.

Arnaud Le Hors

IBM

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Chris Aniszczyk

CTO/COO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

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Dan Lorenc

Software Engineer, Google

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Jim Zemlin

Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

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.

Jonas Werner

Dell Technologies

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Kate Stewart

The Linux Foundation

Kate is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs responsible for the Open Compliance programs encompassing the SPDX, FOSSology, OpenChain and other compliance related projects. Kate was one of the original founders of SPDX, and is currently the specification lead. Since joining the Linux Foundation, Kate has also launched the Real-Time Linux and Zephyr Projects. With almost 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India and China. She received her Masters in Computer Science from University of Waterloo in 1987, and Bachelors of Computer Science (co-op program) from the University of Manitoba in 1985.

Shintarou Okada

Engineer, Preferred Networks

Shintarou Okada is an engineer at Preferred Networks, Inc. Shintarou has been working on model optimization and framework development for deep learning model inference. Shintarou developed Menoh which is an ONNX runtime engine. Menoh has simple C API and there are a lot of programming language bindings of it. Shintarou loves C++ programming language and is one of the organizers of C++ MIX which is casual study group of C++ in Japan.

Steven Tan

VP & CTO of Cloud Solutions, Futurewei

Steven Tan is OpenSDS TSC chair, and VP & CTO Cloud Solution at Futurewei where he is responsible for cloud solutions, and open-source collaboration. Steven brings over 20 years of engineering experience spanning cloud, virtualization, data security, data management, and storage. He held various leadership roles including co-founder/CTO at Cloudena Inc., VP Engineering at ProphetStor Data Services, and VP Engineering at CipherMax. Steven is an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore

Tina Tsou

Enterprise Architect, ARM

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