UN Open Source Week 2025 — Speakers

Adriana Groh

Adriana Groh
Co-founder, Sovereign Tech Agency

Amandeep Singh Gill

Amandeep Singh Gill
Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies

Bernardo Mariano Junior

Bernardo Mariano Junior
Chief Information Technology Officer, Assistant Secretary-General, OICT

Frederik Blachetta

Frederik Blachetta
Partner and EMEA Public Sector Data & AI Leader, PwC

Gabriele Columbro

Gabriele Columbro
General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe & Executive Director, FINOS

Hakim Hacid

Hakim Hacid
Chief Researcher, Technology Innovation Institute

Marc Lepage

Marc Lepage
Principal IT Specialist

Masayuki Yamada

Masayuki Yamada
Head of Data Unit, Digital Agency, Government of Japan

Momar Kouta

Momar Kouta
Senior Statistics Information Systems Officer, AfDB

Nabiha Syed

Nabiha Syed
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation

Nithya Ruff

Nithya Ruff
Head of Open Source Program Office (OSPO)

Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon
Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Roberto Di Cosmo

Roberto Di Cosmo
Director, Software Heritage & Chair, Software College of the French Open Science Committee

Sabrinaa Farmer

Sabrina Farmer
Chief Technology Officer, GitLab

Sayeed Choudhury

Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure & Director of the OSPO, CMU Libraries

Stephanie King-Chung Hung

Stephanie King-Chung Hung
Chief Information Officer, Asian Development Bank

Tshilidzi Marwala

Tshilidzi Marwala
Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

Vilas Dhar

Vilas Dhar
President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Wolfgang Gehring

Wolfgang Gehring
FOSS Ambassador & OSPO Lead, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation

Yolanda Martinez

Yolanda Martinez
Practice Manager for Digital — Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank