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

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

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

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

Hakim Hacid
Chief Researcher, Technology Innovation Institute

Marc Lepage
Principal IT Specialist

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

Momar Kouta
Senior Statistics Information Systems Officer, AfDB

Nabiha Syed
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation

Nithya Ruff
Head of Open Source Program Office (OSPO)

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

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

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

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