UN Open Source Week 2025 — Speakers
Adriana Groh
Co-founder, Sovereign Tech Agency
Amandeep Singh Gill
Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies
Amandine Le Pape
COO & Co-Founder, Element
Amreen Taneja
DPG Standard Lead, DPGA
Avni Khatri
Senior Director, Education, GitHub
Bastien Guerry
Chief Free Software Officer of the French Interministerial Digital Directorate
Bernardo Mariano Junior
Chief Information Technology Officer, Assistant Secretary-General, OICT
Craig Ramlal
Head of the Control Systems Group, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Daniel Murenzi
Principal Information Technology Officer, East African Community (EAC)
David Cuartielles
PhD, IxD Lecturer and Co-Founder, Arduino
Dmitry Mariyasin
Deputy Executive Secretary, UNECE
Emily Dickens
Chief of Staff, Head of Government Affairs & Corporate Secretary, SHRM
Franck Greverie
Chief Technology & Portfolio Officer, Head of Global Business Lines, Capgemini
Frederik Blachetta
Partner and Global Public Sector Data & AI Leader, PwC Germany
Gabriele Columbro
General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe & Executive Director, FINOS
Guilherme Canela
Director, Division for Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation, Secretary of the Information for All Programme (IFAP), UNESCO
Hakim Hacid
Chief Researcher, Technology Innovation Institute
Hannah Aubry
Board of Directors, Mastodon
Jane Munga
Fellow, Africa Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Marc Lepage
Principal IT Specialist
Masayuki Yamada
Head of Data Unit, Digital Agency, Government of Japan
Miller Abel
Principal Technologist & Deputy Director, Gates Foundation
Momar Kouta
Senior Statistics Information Systems Officer, AfDB
Nabiha Syed
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
Nithya Ruff
Head of Open Source Program Office (OSPO), Amazon
Nora Hauptmann
Partnership Lead, GovStack Initiative
Ozzeir Khan
Director & CIO, Operations & Country Engagement, Information Technology Solutions, World Bank
Rebecca MacKinnon
Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Roberto Di Cosmo
Director, Software Heritage & Chair, Software College of the French Open Science Committee
Sabrina Farmer
Chief Technology Officer, GitLab
Sachiko Muto
Chairman, OpenForum Europe
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure & Director of the OSPO, CMU Libraries
Stephanie King-Chung Hung
Chief Information Officer, Asian Development Bank
Tiffany Farriss
Chief Executive Officer, Palantir.net
Tshilidzi Marwala
Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Vilas Dhar
President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Wolfgang Gehring
FOSS Ambassador & OSPO Lead, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
Yolanda Martinez
Practice Manager for Digital — Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank