Speakers
Amanda Casari
Researcher & Engineer, Google OSPO
Amanda Casari is a researcher and engineer in the Google Open Source Programs Office co-leading research and open data projects to better understand risk and resilience in open source ecosystems. For over 18 years, she has worked in a breadth of cross-functional roles and engineering disciplines, including developer relations, data science, complexity science, and robotics. Amanda co-authored an O’Reilly book, Feature Engineering for Machine Learning Principles and Techniques for Data Scientists. She was named an External Faculty member of the Vermont Complex Systems Center in 2021. She is persistently fascinated by the difference between the systems we aim to create and the ones that emerge, and pie.
Anne Lanigan
Divisional Manager - Technology, Services & Consumer, Enterprise Ireland
Anne is a member of the Senior Leadership Team in Enterprise Ireland, the State Agency that supports Irish companies to start and scale. The agency also invests in innovation capability in universities and regional projects throughout Ireland. Anne is currently Divisional Manager for their Technology, Services & Consumer Division, based in Dublin. She joined Enterprise Ireland in 2003 and has held a number of management positions, including Director of the Tokyo office, Head of the Brexit Unit and more recently Regional Director for Europe when she was based in Amsterdam. Anne is a mechanical engineer by profession and previous to joining Enterprise Ireland worked in software development, banking, and medical device manufacture as well as running her own business. Anne is also currently on the boards of Brussels based Trade Promotion Europe and the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland.
Barry Lowry
Chief Information Officer for the Irish Government
Barry Lowry has been the Chief Information Officer for the Irish Government since April 2016 with the primary task of taking forward the Government’s digital agenda. This includes developing the use of shared services, digital ID, digital services and data to better serve the people of Ireland and ensure that Ireland is well-placed to influence and exemplify the EUʼs digital ambitions for 2030.Barry is also the Chief Adviser to Government on all Digital matters affecting the State and its citizens.Barry was previously the Director for IT Shared Services and Strategy and Head of the IT Profession within the Northern Ireland Civil Service. He is a Fellow of the Irish and British Computer Societies, a former winner of the BCS Northern Ireland IT Professional of the Year and in 2017 he was awarded an OBE for services to the Government and IT Industry in Northern Ireland.
Bill Higgins
IBM Vice President and Distinguished Engineer
Bill Higgins is an IBM Vice President and Distinguished Engineer who leads watsonx Platform Engineering and IBM’s Open Innovation efforts. As VP of IBM’s watsonx Platform Engineering organization in IBM Research, Bill leads a team of experienced software engineers who, in collaboration with partners at Red Hat, build IBM’s strategic AI platform components, via contributions to strategic open source communities.
As Chair of the IBM Open Innovation Community, Bill guides IBM’s 120,000-person global technical community to work better together and accelerate IBM’s strategy through the power of community. Bill previously led the transformation of IBM’s internal development toolchain, including the largest deployments of Slack and GitHub Enterprise in history. Bill graduated from Penn State University in 2000 with a B.S. in Computer Science. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his family.
Ciarán O'Riordain
Senior Policy Advisor, OpenForum Europe
Senior Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe, Ciarán O’Riordan has been working in Brussels since 2004 with a focus on EU policy related to free and open source software. Before 2004 he worked as a software developer and has been using GNU/Linux since 1998. Topics he has worked on include patents, copyrights, GDPR and market regulation such as the Cyber Resilience Act.
Clare Dillon
Co-founder Open Ireland Network, CURIOSS Community Lead, PhD Candidate, University of Galway
With over 25 years' of experience in the technology industry, Clare Dillon is currently a researcher with the University of Galway, focusing on researching open, collaborative software development practices. She works with Lero’s OSPO (Open Source Program Office). In 2021, Clare co-founded Open Ireland Network, a community for those interested in promoting open source in Ireland. Clare is a community lead with CURIOSS, a global community for those who work in university and research institutions OSPOs. From 2021-2023, Clare served as the inaugural Executive Director of InnerSource Commons, the world’s largest community of InnerSource practitioners. Previously, Clare was a member of the Microsoft Ireland Leadership Team for 8 years, heading up their Developer Evangelism Group. Clare is also a qualified coach.
Colm Harte
Head of Delivery, Europe
Colm is responsible for the successful delivery of bespoke software solutions across Nearform’s range of clients, from well-funded startups to large enterprises. He led Nearform’s engagement with Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) during the COVID-19 pandemic to create the Covid Tracker App for tackling the spread of coronavirus. It was open-sourced by the HSE and later donated to the Linux Foundation Public Health initiative. Nearform was founded on the principles of open source technology, recognising its ability to foster innovation, accelerate development and deliver scalable, efficient solutions.
Conor O'Neill
VP of Product and Engineering
Conor O’Neill has spent decades at the forefront of new technologies from mobile to AI. His open source journey began as a user in 1992 with GNU tools and eventually led to launching the first open source smartwatch powered by machine learning in 2019 and a groundbreaking performance tool for Node.js.
He has worked with some of Ireland’s biggest startup success stories including S3, Integral Design, FeedHenry (Red Hat), NearForm, Tines and now ServisBOT.
In ServisBOT, like with much of his career, he focuses on wrangling powerful new tech into useful products for businesses. Working with the ServisBOT teams in Product, Engineering and Bot Building, Conor is leading the charge in getting the incredible capabilities of LLMs safely into production so they can solve real-world problems for customers.
When he’s not talking about AI, Open Source or IOT, you can usually find him ankle deep in mud, running on Irish trails and mountains.
Danese Cooper
Danese Cooper has been an outspoken Free and Open Source Software activist for more than 20 years. Over that time she has consistently worked for the health and welfare of the FOSS movement at jobs such as CTO of Wikipedia, Chief Open Source Evangelist for Sun, Senior Director of Open Source Strategy for Intel, and Board Member with the Drupal Association, the Open Hardware Foundation and the Open Source Initiative. Seven years ago while running PayPal’s OSPO, Danese started thinking, talking, and writing about InnerSource as the logical next step to sustain the FOSS movement. Today, Danese is a director of the InnerSourceCommons.org, a US 501(c)3 non-profit. She still consults on Open Source (and InnerSource) via DaneseWorks, Ltd and lives in Western Ireland.
Daniel Izquierdo
Research and CEO, Bitergia
Daniel Izquierdo is a researcher and co-founder of Bitergia and currently holds the position of CEO, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis, and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Daniel earned a PhD in free software engineering in 2012 focused on the analysis of buggy developers' activity patterns in the Mozilla community. He is a board member at the CHAOSS community and the Apereo Foundation, and President of the InnerSource Commons Foundation.
Dermot Casey
Chief Executive Officer, IRDG
Dermot became CEO of IRDG (the Irish Research and Developement Group) in January 2022. He joined IRDG from Resolve Partners a leading Innovation Consultancy where he built accelerators, supported fundraising, and worked with founders, researchers, Universities, and Corporates. Over his career he’s ranged from investing and supporting deep technology companies in NDRC, as COO growing Storyful from 2 to 35 staff and over a decade in technical and management roles in GE. Dermot has been an adjunct lecturer at the UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School and is a Director of the Festival of Curiosity.
Dr Wolfgang Gehring
Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation OSPO
Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an ambassador for Open and Inner Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz and its IT subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation (MBTI). A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to help enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. He has a passion for communities, leads MBTI’s Open Source Program Office, is a member of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence, and a Director of the Eclipse Foundation. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is an avid traveller and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.
Dr. Maria Doyle
Dr. Maria Doyle is a bioinformatician and the global community manager for Bioconductor, a leading open-source project that includes over 2,000 developers and is downloaded by over 1 million users annually. Bioconductor provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data. Dr. Doyle is the principal investigator of projects supported by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, participating in global efforts to advance open-source bioinformatics, champion developers, and deliver train-the-trainer programs that expand Bioconductor in Latin America and Africa. She was recently awarded the YERUN Open Science Award in 2023. At the National Open Source Innovation Summit, she will share the Bioconductor story, highlighting how open-source research outputs can drive innovation and create significant social impact.
Gabriele Columbro
Executive Director / General Manager FINOS / Linux Foundation Europe
Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm or a non profit foundation. He has recently won the Tech Leadership Award at FinTech Futures USA Banking Tech Awards. As Executive Director Gabriele grew the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster, leveraging open source as a model of collaboration. He then led FINOS to join the Linux Foundation umbrella to accelerate growth, ensure long term sustainability of efforts and reduce fragmentation in the Foundation’s ecosystem. In 2022, he took on a dual role as General Manager of the newly launched Linux Foundation Europe, which was created to foster regional open collaborations in the European continent and expand the global platform of the Linux Foundation. Gabriele holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation and advises open source startups. He’s a passionate soccer fan, reggae music connoisseur and special needs dad and advocate wannabe.
Gar Mac Críosta
Sottware Architect and Digitial Advisor, HSE
Gar Mac Críosta is the Chairperson for the Public Health Advisory Committee at Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH). He is an IASA certified architect and spends much of his time trying to figure out what being a sociotechnologist is; so he can be one. He regularly engages in humane human experiments and is very certain that he spends most of his time being uncertain. Currently (since March 2020) he is the Product Lead for the COVID Tracker App in the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland (www.covidtracker.ie) a COVID-19 pandemic response app. Gar has worked as a Digital Advisor to the CIO in the HSE since early 2019. Gar is a Certified Architect Professional (IASA CITAP), a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, a LEGO Serious Play Practitioner (LSP) and in the process of becoming a Cynefin Practitioner.
Jane Dillon
Senior Client Advisor for Enterprise Ireland
Currently working as a Senior Client Advisor for Enterprise Ireland, leading clients in the Communications sector. With over 15 years’ experience in digital transformation consultancy, delivering end-to-end solutions to clients on a global scale. With a strong track record of defining digital transformation strategies across the Global Telecommunications and SaaS space. Have honed skills in leadership, communication and strategic planning. Passion for innovation and understanding of emerging technology trends, having recently completed an Executive MBA at University of Galway.
Joel Ratnasothy
Joel founded Interneuron in 2017, having previously worked as an executive for global technology companies, as an NHS surgeon and as an academic at Imperial College London. This range of executive, clinical and academic experience has given Joel insights into the key challenges our health sector faces, as well as the skills to tackle them. Interneuron provides professionally managed open-source software as a service in the form the Open Modular Care Record: openMCR.
John Durcan
Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland
John Durcan is the Chief Technologist for the Technology Division at IDA Ireland. His current areas of focus are AI, Cyber security, and the Semi-Conductor industry. Outside of technology, John is currently the chair of the Board of an NGO called Comhlámh and is a member of the Irish Aid Rapid Response Corp.
John Whelan
Technology Transfer Case Manager at Trinity College Dublin
John has a PhD in Physics and worked as a software developer and business analyst in Davy stockbrokers and Daiwa Securities in Tokyo. Founder of three tech start-ups two of which raised 7 figure venture capital rounds. One of these Alatto traded for 9 years. More recently a consultant to Vodafone Ireland and since 2008 has been a Technology Transfer Case Manager at Trinity College, Dublin responsible for the commercialisation of ICT research. While in Trinity he set up and ran Trinity College’s start-up accelerator LaunchBox, and became Executive Director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Trinity College, Dublin. Also, he designed and secured European funding to implement Trinity’s Connected Health accelerator “Validator “and a Europe-wide Tech Transfer training programme. Adjunct Lecturer in NUI Galway where he teaches the Innovation and Technology Transfer module as part of Masters in Technology management. Most recently as a part of his role in Trinity, he has set up and managed Trinity’s Open Source Programme Office. The mission of this office is to promote and support the principles of open source, and open data in knowledge transfer and industry engagement for TCD researchers.
Kathryn Lynch
Vice Chair of Innovate Island
Kathryn Lynch is a purpose-driven strategist who excels at turning complex challenges into actionable solutions. As CEO and Founder of Chronos Consulting, she’s like a business architect – designing future-ready operating models that help organisations thrive in an evolving landscape. Her influence extends far beyond her consultancy. As Vice-Chair of Innovate Island and National Chair of the Fine Gael Small Business & Enterprise Council, she champions Ireland’s SME sector. Her expertise has earned her seats at pivotal tables, from the Public Service Innovation Advisory Board to the EU Working Group for Industry/Academia Collaboration, where she brings a much-needed industry perspective to academic discussions. A firm believer in continuous learning, Kathryn holds two master’s degrees – One in Strategy & Innovation and most recently completing an MSc in Sustainable Enterprise, where her research spotlighted women’s leadership in sustainability. Her earlier work on Open Innovation in Irish Tech SMEs posed the provocative question: “If everybody’s doing it, why aren’t we?” Armed with advanced qualifications in executive coaching and emotional intelligence, Kathryn brings a uniquely holistic approach to business transformation. She combines strategic insight with deep understanding of human dynamics, helping organisations navigate change while building resilient, forward-thinking teams.
Liam Cronin
Chief Executive Officer, RDI Hub
Liam Cronin MSc, BSc, Grad. Dip, BA 34 years’ experience, working within both the public and private sector, as CEO RDI Hub in Killorglin the past 5 years, Commercial Director ADAPT Research Centre Trinity College Dublin for 3 years and Senior Executive roles in Microsoft Ireland and Western Europe for 25 years. As CEO of the RDI Hub Liam leads from the front on projects like NDRC, HBAN, Skillnet Innovation Exchange, Smart Regions AI Upskilling architecting strategic business plans. In ADAPT Research Centre Liam bridged the gap between Industry and Academia delivering impactful Digitalization and AI project collaborative projects for Scaleups, SME’s and Corporates, working closely with Professors, Post-Docs, PhD Students and the Technology transfer office. During Liam’s 25 years in Microsoft he gained experience across product development, operations, sales and marketing. Liam in 2024 was included by the Business Post in the top 100 people in Irish tech.
In RDI Hub Over last 5 years, 70 member companies created 350+ technology jobs in Southwest Ireland, 55 new products and services created by member companies, €8.7M R&D Investments by anchor tenants, €250M raised by RDI Hub member companies - €15M by startups and scaleups, 4,500+ training programme participants (Students / Startups / Scaleups / SMEs) and 10,000 visited the RDI Hub in person or virtually for events. Secured €1M Euros in Funding for AI Upskilling in 2024 from Enterprise Ireland for next 3 years to deliver monthly AI Masterclasses, Monthly 121 and Team AI Strategy Consultations and 1 day AI training courses.
Louise McKeever
CIO, Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine
Louise McKeever is Chief Information Officer at the Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine (DAFM). With extensive experience in helping implement large-scale transformational change and having cultivated over 25 years of experience working across ICT, Louise has an in-dept understanding of business leadership and change management. As CIO Louise is responsible for the Information Management and Technology (IMT) Group of Divisions that deliver ICT services as part of the Corporate Development function of the Department. In her capacity as CIO, she sets priorities and direction across all areas of ICT within DAFM, is a successful change leader and has a diverse background building and leading high performing teams. Louise has a degree in Business Administration and a master’s in Business Administration, Information Technology, from University College Dublin (UCD). In 2023, Louise completed a Professional Diploma in Executive Coaching in the Irish Management Institute, awarded, and accredited by University College Cork (UCC).
Malcom Bain
Malcolm Bain is partner responsible for Information Technology and IP law at Across Legal, boutique law firm in Barcelona specialising in IT and M+A. Malcolm has a wide experience representing commercial and public sector clients, foundations and non-profits, including several public administrations, universities and other research centres. Malcolm’s special focus is on the legal issues of open source software and content, including developing and freeing software, establishing licensing strategies and IPR enforcement. Malcolm is member of the Free Software Foundation Europe and lectures on the legal aspects of the open source software and ICTs, as well as participating in many conferences on these subjects since the good old days of IGC in Barcelona in 2002.
Malvika Sharan
Malvika Sharan is a cofounder of OLS (previously Open Life Science), a non-profit organisation dedicated to skills and capacity building in open science. Through mentoring and community-based learning processes, OLS’s training programmes empower researchers to learn about open science principles, build collaborations with experts, and adopt best practices in their communities. Malvika is also a senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute with a focus on open research and community building. She co-leads a team of research community managers and a community project, The Turing Way, which aims to make data science reproducible, collaborative, ethical, and inclusive for researchers around the world. Malvika is an active contributor to several open science initiatives, a Software Sustainability Institute fellow and one of the 2024 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™. Sharan, originally from India, spent over a decade in Germany and now resides in the UK.
Martin Hickey
Open Source leader at IBM
Martin Hickey is a Senior Technical Staff Member and an Open Source strategic leader at IBM. For over eight years, he has been contributing to various Open Source projects, most notably, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTelemetry, OpenStack, and the Elastic community. Martin is a core maintainer of the Helm project and a TOC member of the Helm organization. He has been a speaker at various conferences like KubeCon, Helm Summit and Elasticon, CNCF events and workshops, and local Open Source Meetups. He founded the Cork Open Technology Meetup to help support Open Source locally. Martin has many years’ of experience in the creation of enterprise software for different industries, from Telcos to Cloud.
Martin Woodward
VP Developer Relations, GitHub
Martin is the Vice President of Developer Relations at GitHub where he helps developers and open source communities to create delightful things. Prior to that he was part of the team at Microsoft building the tooling for DevOps teams inside and outside the company where he helped change how the company built software, by helping them change how they work with open source communities and how they talk with developers. He was the original creator of the Microsoft org on GitHub. While there he also helped set up the .NET Foundation bringing in other companies like Amazon, Google, Samsung and RedHat to help drive the future direction of the open source platform. Martin joined Microsoft after they acquired his small five person start-up that was based around the Eclipse Java-based platform and was part of the acquisition team for GitHub.
Michelle Doran
Ireland’s national open research coordinator at NORF
Dr Michelle Doran is Ireland’s national open research coordinator. In this role, she guides the delivery of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030, in the context of Impact 2030, Ireland’s Research and Innovation Strategy. Michelle has a background in research and project management. Michelle initially joined the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) in 2022 as project manager for the National Open Research Forum (NORF). In this role she supported NORF, liaising with projects successful in securing funding from the NORF Open Research Fund and supporting NORF communications and engagement. Prior to this appointment, Michelle was a project officer and research fellow at the Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Digital Humanities (DH@TCD) where she supported the smooth operation of DH@TCD’s suite of national and international research projects, and core academic activities. She also served as Irish Principal Investigator of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network, a project funded by the AHRC/IRC to undertake research and consultation towards the implementation of a permanent Digital Humanities association for the UK and Ireland. Michelle holds a PhD in Early and Medieval Irish Studies and an MA in Digital Humanities.
Michelle Kearns
Head of IT, Boots Ireland
Michelle Kearns is Head of IT and a member of the Irish Leadership Team for Boots Ireland. Michelle is responsible for the IT functions, a multi-faceted role that includes internal systems and boots.ie. Michelle joined Boots Ireland following almost 17 years working for Caredoc, a GP co-operative providing healthcare services throughout Ireland, most recently as the Chief Information Officer, a role she fulfilled for the last four years of her tenure with the company. During this time, she was seconded to the HSE as a founding member of the Council of Clinical Information Officers and spent time as an adviser to the World Health Organisation. In 2016, she founded One HealthTech Ireland, a network that supports and promotes openness, inclusion, kindness and diversity in health innovation.
Omar Mohsine
Open Source Team Lead, United Nations
Omar Mohsine is a member of the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy on Technology. He additionally leads the open source team within the UN Office of Information and Communication Technologies and serves as the co-chair of the UN Open Source Community of Practice. In this role, Omar is the primary organizer of the annual “OSPOs for Good” conference held at UN headquarters. With over 15 years of experience working in various capacities across different continents, Omar has spearheaded numerous projects for the UN, focusing on public-private partnerships and innovation management. He has also designed UN open source competitions aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Omar is deeply committed to building new partnerships with technology stakeholders to support the United Nations' mandate.
Paul Bradley
Transformation Lead at AIB
Paul Bradley, is a Transformation Lead at AIB with extensive expertise in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and open-source technologies to drive innovation and transformation in the financial services sector. With a deep understanding of AI-driven solutions, process optimisation, and digital transformation, Paul is skilled at implementing scalable technologies that enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.
His knowledge spans the intersection of AI and financial services, allowing him to navigate complex challenges and deliver impactful results. Paul focuses on combining his technical insight with a strategic approach to problem-solving, ensuring that innovative solutions align with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
Phil Weir
CEO, Flax & Teal
Phil Weir runs Flax & Teal, an open-focused web and data science consultancy in Belfast, part of an open technology consortium called Avata Industries. He has worked both in academia, modelling floating structures in the Antarctic, and industry, performing data analysis and prediction in a range of engineering and business fields. Phil is a founding organiser of the Northern Ireland Developer Conference, and jointly runs BelFOSS, Belfast’s annual FLOSS event.
Prof Noel O'Connor
CEO, Insight (SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics)
Prof. Noel E. O’Connor is a Full Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU) Ireland. He is CEO of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland’s largest SFI-funded research centre. He was previously Academic Director of DCU’s Research and Enterprise Hub on Information Technology and the Digital Society, with the responsibility of coordinating multi-disciplinary ICT-related research across the university. The focus of his research is in multimedia content analysis, computer vision, machine learning, information fusion and multi-modal analysis for applications in security/safety, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging, IoT and smart cities, multimedia content-based retrieval, and environmental monitoring. Since 1999 he has published over 400 peer-reviewed publications, made 11 standards submissions, and filed 7 patents. He is an Area Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier) and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Image and Video Processing (Springer). He is a member of the ACM and IEEE. https://www.dcu.ie/electronics/people/noel-oconnor
Sachiko Muto
Chair, OpenForum Europe; Research, RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
Sachiko Muto is the Chair of OpenForum Europe and a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government relations and then as CEO. Sachiko has degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics; she received her doctorate in standardisation policy from TU Delft.
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure; Director of the Open Source Programs Office Carnegie Mellon University
Sayeed is the Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure, Director of Open Source Programs Office, and Executive Director of the Open Forum for AI
Stefano Maffulli
Executive Director, Open Source Initiative
Stefano is the executive director of the Open Source Initiative. An experienced leader of open source organizations, from non-profits advocacy groups and trade organizations to business ventures and community projects across countries. With a proven track record in community building, he’s also an active contributor to open source projects. When not basking in front of a monitor, you’ll find him teaching sailing or perfecting his pizza technique.
Stephen Walli
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft OSPO
I’m a principal program manager at Microsoft in the Azure Office of the CTO. I was technical director at the Outercurve Foundation, and an open source software start-up founder. I’ve been around open source software for 35+ years. I’m presently Microsoft Strategic Board member to the Eclipse Foundation, steering committee chair for Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle WG, Board alternate for the Linux Foundation Board, and governing board member for the Confidential Computing Consortium. I am adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon University teaching open source software engineering.
Tony Shannon
Head of Digital Services, OGCIO
Tony is the Head of Digital Services in the Office of Government Chief Information Officer, part of the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform in the Government of Ireland. He has over 20 years experience as a Medical Doctor in emergency medicine and informatics in Ireland, UK & the US. He has been involved in a range of change/digital programmes & projects at local/regional/national/international levels over the last 20 years, initially in healthcare, then local government, and now government/public sector. Tony is interested in change, complex systems, societal & economic wellbeing, leadership, service improvement, and information technology.