OSPOs for Good 2024 – Speakers
Speakers
Adriana Groh
Co-Founder, Sovereign Tech Fund
Aeva Black
Section Chief, Open Source Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Amandeep Singh Gill
UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, OSET
Andreas Reckert-Lodde
Director, Zendis
Anir Chowdhury
Policy Advisory, Aspire to Innovate (a2i), Government of Bangladesh
Armando Manzueta
Digital Transformation Director, Ministerio de Economía, Planificación y Desarrollo
Arun Gupta
Vice President and General Manager for Open Ecosystem, Intel
Ashley Kramer
Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Marketing Officer, GitLab
Astor Nummelin Carlberg
Executive Director, OpenForum Europe
Bastien Guerry
Head of the Free Software Unit, French Inter-Ministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs
Bayissa Badada
State Minister, Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Ethiopia
Ben Cerveny
President and Chairman, Foundation for Public Code
Bernardo Mariano Junior
Assistant Secretary General & Chief Information Technology Officer, OICT
Chris Szymczak
Digital Public Goods Lead, Office of Innovation, UNICEF
Craig Ramlal
Head of the Control Systems Group, The University of The West Indies at St. Augustine
David Nalley
President, Apache Software Foundation
Demetris Cheatham
Chief of Staff to the CEO, GitHub
Dirk Schrödter
Head of the State Chancellery, Schleswig-Holstein
Gesa Ziemer
Academic Lead, United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities (UNITAC) Hamburg
Hans Vestberg
CEO, Verizon Communications
Hilary Carter
SVP Research & Communications, The Linux Foundation
Juliano Seabra
Chief, Innovation and Creativity Division, Inter-American Development Bank
Lucy Harris
COO, Digital Public Goods Alliance
Mark Anthony Thomas
CEO, Greater Baltimore Committee
Mark Pereira
Founder, Zed Labs
Markus Richter
State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
Mehdi Snene
AI and Digital Transformation Senior Advisor, UN OSET
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation
Mitchell Baker
CEO, Mozilla Corporation
Omar Mohsine
Open Source Coordinator, OSET
Omkhar Arasaratnam
General Manager, Open Source Security Foundation
Pearse O’Donohue
Director, Future Networks Directorate, DG CNECT, European Commission
Philip Thigo
Special Envoy on Technology, Government of Kenya
Rahul Kulkarni
Volunteer Technologist, iSPIRT
Richard Gevers
CEO, Open Cities Lab
Robert Opp
Chief Digital Officer, UNDP
Ruth Ikegah
Open Source Manager, OSPO Now
Sachiko Muto
Chair, OpenForum Europe
Salima Bah
Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation, Government of Sierra Leone
Sameer Chauhan
Director, UNICC
Sasha Luccioni
AI & Climate Lead, Hugging Face
Sergio Gago Huerta
Managing Director of AI and Quantum Computing, Moody’s Analytics
Sophia Vargas
Researcher and Analyst, Open Source Programs and Operations, Google
Stefano Maffulli
Executive Director, Open Source Initiative
Talla Kebe
Coordinator, United Nations System Task Force on Africa
Tajh Taylor
Vice President, Data Science and Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation
Sunita Grote
Lead, UNICEF Ventures
Tawfik Jelassi
Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO
Vincent Martin
Director, Office of Innovation, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Viraj Tyagi
CEO, eGov Foundation
