Aagam is just a small kid with relevant skills and passion to make the world a better place. He was awarded with scholarship from Google for Udacity’s Android Developer Nanodegree, which allowed him to boast himself as an Android Developer. But life had his own plans, he found his interest in Data Science and tried a few projects, which eventually landed him at Red Hat in Fabric 8 Analytics team. Right now, his day usually involves solving problems which are a mix of Software Engineering and Data Science.

Aayush is a field Marshal of Frontend Applications, thriving to innovate frontend with accessible Interfaces. An innovation strategist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bootcamper graduate, he brings 4+ years of experience in Web Development, Accessibility with his expertise in Angular Framework. Since, 2+ years, he has mentored around 1 lakh students across the globe for Udacity under Google Scholarship programmes and 20+ startups under Pluralsight. Aayush has always been a prominent voice for FOSSASIA during GSoC and has been contributing continuously to the growth of the communities such as FOSSASIA, NASA and CloudCV.He has a passion for solving Accessibility issues and is working as an Instructor & Product Engineer at Coding Blocks, New Delhi.

Abhinav is one of the lead developers of the Open event project. He was a Google Summer of Code student in 2017, and has been mentoring the project since. Currently he is working on taking the new version of the open event into production phase. 

Aiko works as a consultant and developer for ThoughtWorks. He is passionate about software craftsmanship, clean code, and software development methodologies. While working with clients he focusses on improving the development process and code quality of the teams he's working with. Lately, he has worked with clients to deliver large-scale machine learning solutions.

Akshat Garg is a passionate developer and enthusiast, who loves to build products and technology. He has a demonstrated history of working in the startup industry and is very keen to learn new technologies that pushes human race forward. He has worked on developing web applications, with an expertise in front-end development with React & Redux. He believes that language and frameworks should never be a barrier for building awesome products . He has been actively contributing to various open source organisations like FOSSASIA, Mozilla, etc. Apart from technology, he loves travelling and enjoys his hobby of photography.

I am a 2nd year undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna), India. I am a full stack web developer and an Open Source enthusiast.

I successfully completed my Google Summer of Code 2018 with FOSSASIA, and have been an active contributor to its various projects since then. I worked on FOSSASIA's SUSI.AI project, which is a rule-based personal assistant. I have also been a Google Code-in 2018 Mentor in FOSSASIA. I was also a featured speaker in Jugaadfest 2018.

I am a tech geek who love learning about new stuff. I'm deeply passionate about software development. Apart from web development, I have recently been involved with Machine Learning and Blockchain technology too and found these fields extremely interesting.

Experienced Senior Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Database technology(MySQL, IBM DB2, Sybase). I've around 20 years of experience and have worked with companies like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and Sybase. I'm technically skilled in MySQL, SQL, Unix, Linux, Shell Scripting and Java. I'm currently responsible for testing of Optimizer and InnoDB features and enhancements in MySQL. I manage and technically lead a team of QA Engineers who takes care of testing MySQL,creating/maintaining frameworks and tools and benchmarking various features.

Open Source Enthusiast, Google Summer of Code'18 Student with KDE, Google Code-in Mentor 2018. An undergraduate engineering student, pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering.

I am a voluntary Open Source contributor to Mozilla. I have fixed bugs related to DOM and Core Module for firefox and developed personalized web applications. I have completed Masters in Computer Engineering and currently work as a Java/Php developer in a consulting firm. 

Anand is a co-founder of Gramener, a data science company. He is ranked as one of India's top 10 data scientists, and leads a team who tell beautiful visual data stories.

He is a gold medalist at IIM Bangalore and an alumnus of IIT Madras, London Business School, IBM, Infosys, Lehman Brothers and BCG.

Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast.He has contributed to OpenStack for several years, with focus in Quality Engineering and CI/CD, with the role of Project Technical Lead of the QA Program for one year. He's a strong advocate for transparency in open source. He likes working on IaaS projects as well as machine learning, trying to combines the two worlds.Before joining IBM he was QA Technical Lead at HP/HPE for the Helion Public Cloud and OpenStack Distribution. Earlier he worked as integration engineer and architect, delivering IT projects for Telcos for several years.

Andrew Lee (Hualian, Taiwan) – an active Open Source Liaison focusing on the Debian and LXDE Projects. He worked on localization efforts of various kinds of local dialects and aborigines languages in Taiwan. He created various localization related packages in Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian distros, and also creates and maintains packages in Debian for LXDE project.

Andrew Lee works as a software developer in the Build and Infrastructure team at Collabora and has 5 years of experience working with the Open Build Service(OBS) building both rpm and deb format packages and distribution creations for many different projects and clients. He is now making an efforts on packaging OBS in Debian distro.

Working with big data at IBM.

A student/entrepreneur who loves experimenting, discovering and creating.

Anshuman is a pre-final year undergrad. from IIIT Vadodara pursuing Computer Science. He is a full stack web developer specializing in JavaScript and is an active open source contributor.

Anton is a long time developer, CTO, and tech-lead who is spending a large amount of his time as an open-source contributor to various Terraform & AWS projects, terraform-aws-modules, modules.tf and a few others. The most popular one is where he manages a collection of verified Terraform AWS modules (terraform-aws-modules on GitHub) downloaded more than 2 million times. The newest one is where he describes Terraform best practices learned during several years of working with Terraform and established within the community (www.terraform-best-practices.com). He also leads AWS, DevOps and HashiCorp User Groups in Norway, organizes DevOpsDays Oslo, and often speaks at various technical meetups and conferences. He is passionate about all-things-cloud and solution architecture combined with automation and scripting.

I am Anuj, and I work for Espressif Systems - the folks behind the ESP8266 and ESP32 chipsets. I work on different projects that help make it possible to build better consumer products faster - with firmware, phone apps, and cloud.

I -

- used to make interactive public installations https://mkrv.in, 

- was part of a team who crowdfunded a OSHW BLE dev board in '14 https://www.crowdsupply.com/revealing-hour-creations/tah,

- interned at Beagleboard in 2013 (as part of GSoC) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F0S5ajq-Ls 

I <3 OSHW, motorcycles, serverless functions, and movies.

Anup Kumar is a Distinguished Information Architect (Open Group) at IBM Singapore with significant experience in deploying large distributed big data platforms and data warehouses across telco, banking, and other sectors. He also brings software lab development experience building Industry data models, search &amp; unstructured data analytics products. In current role, his major contribution is architecting modern analytical application leveraging Hadoop, spark &amp; open source stacks. Currently, he is championing a new &quot;architecture for modern Information Fabric&quot;. The architecture leverages advancement in technology such as HTAP and needs for real-time event-driven applications, data science &amp; deep machine learning in a hybrid cloud deployment model.

I'm a GSoC 2018 graduate from FOSSASIA. I've mentored the GCI 2018 in the same organization.

Arihant is a support engineer at GitLab with over 10 years of experience across full stack development, process automation and providing support to Enterprise customers including fortune 500 companies. In his free time, he likes to automate things, try experimenting with new technologies and collecting stamps.

Arundhati Gupta is a passionate developer who works mainly in the app and web development. She is an open source enthusiast and has been actively contributing to FOSSASIA. She shows great interest in getting involved with the open source communities and has always proactively taken steps to motivate women in tech. Apart from the technical stuff, she writes, sings and plays synthesizer.

Astrid Mager is a scholar in Science and Technology Studies with a particular interest in Internet technologies and socio-political developments. Her research is concerned with the Internet and society, search engine policies, algorithms and aspects of privacy, critical theory, as well as digital methods against the background of science and technology studies and technology assessment.

Organizer of the largest OSS community fb.com/hackmum in Bombay and its longest running tech meetup (over 5 years) fb.com/mumtechup [#mumtechup] in Bombay

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/augustine-correa-3582300793

Docker Mumbai Community Leader

Kubernetes Mumbai, Hashicorp Mumbai & DCOS Mumbai meetup organizer

Meteor Mumbai captain

https://www.meetup.com/members/26318352/

Microsoft MVP 2018-19

Aurélien Géron is the author of the best-selling book "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow" (O'Reilly, 2017). A former Googler, he led YouTube's video classification team from 2013 to 2016. He also founded Wifirst, a leading Wireless ISP in France. Before this he worked as a software engineer in a variety of domains: healthcare, media & telecommunications, finance, defense, manufacturing and more. He recently moved to Singapore where he founded kiwisoft.io, a Machine Learning consulting & training firm.

Embedded software engineer, FPV Drone Racing Pilot, Tech Blogger, YouTube, Regular speaker.

Balasubramanian Kandasamy has been working as a Senior Software Development Manager in MySQL Release Engineering team at Oracle since 2012. He is responsible for Linux packaging and distribution of various MySQL products. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, Surat.

Bunnie is best known for his work hacking the Microsoft Xbox, as well as for his efforts in designing and manufacturing open source hardware, including the chumby (app-playing alarm clock), chibitronics (teaching electronics through arts and crafts), and Novena (DIY laptop).

Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, supporting several upstream communities such as Ansible and ManageIQ. She has been actively involved in open source communities while working for Jolla and Nokia previously. In addition, she also has experiences in software development/integration in her 12 years in the mobile industry. On a personal note, Carol plays the Timpani in an orchestra in Tampere, Finland, where she now calls home.

Worked in the Linux and open source world industries for 20 years in several countries on all sides of the globe, has contributed to several open source projects and is best known for founding the Enlightenment window manager project and having written lots of graphics related code for X11. That's 20 years of programming mostly in C and assembly on top of Linux, shipping in 100+ million devices around the globe.

I'm a Co-Founder of a Startup where few of its products are powered by Full-stack JS. I'm an Auth0 Ambassador, Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group. I have started working with NodeJS since 2012 and I love it. I Co-founded Colombo JS Meetup in 2013 and keep educating and having discussions about JS for almost four years now. Currently working on Full-stack POS app which has NodeJS backend to serve API and React Dashboard, Electron Desktop app with React Native Mobile app. 

Chris Travers has nearly three decades of IT and programming experience and has been around PostgreSQL for nearly two decades.  He heads the database team at Adjust GmbH, has contributed to the PostgreSQL core codebase, and helps out with database administration, design, extension, and scaling.

studied IT security and informatics, works as a web developer, writes packages for OS distros, tinkers with firmware

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Darren has over 20 years of experience working with open source across industries including consulting, finance, internet, scientific research and telecoms.

At Microsoft, he works with customers focusing on containers, Kubernetes, Linux, microservices, DevOps Tooling and open source software in general.

Davide works as a FOSS Programme Manager at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to code and develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

Born 1963 in Schrobenhausen Germany. Diploma in Computer Science at Fachhochschule Augsburg in 1987. Software Development at PCS GmbH in Munich, responsible for porting Oracle RDBMS Software to PCS CADMUS (Munix) Hardware. Developer, Trainer and Consultant for the Ingres RDBMS. Consulting and Traing in large scale RDBMS Projects as freelancer. Since 1997 founder and executive director of independIT Integrative Technologies GmbH. Focus on large Data Warehouse projects and IT Workload Automation since 2002 and deeply involved in the design and development of the schedulix Enterprise Job Scheduling System.

Dilum De Silva is an open source enthusiast who studied at Royal College Colombo and currently he is reading a degree in software engineering at Informatics Institute of Technology. He is completing his third year as a trainee associate software engineer at Zone24x7 Inc. and also, He is a GitHub campus expert and mentor at JBos who’s interested in conducting tech talks in domains such as open-source contribution, IoT Development, Java,  WordPress, and mobile application development. Other than that, he loves volunteering.

I am a sophomore pursuing bachelors of technology in Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Patna. I am a full stack web developer and an iOS developer.

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Dorn Bouttasing is the founder and director of Green Laos Community Volunteers, a not-for-profit community-based research group, and a freelance consultant working on community development and environment. Experience in research, surveys, training, and fact-finding. She is a self-taught, freelance filmmaker and community organizer working on preserving indigenous culture, language and women’s empowerment in remote areas of Laos since 2009.

Dr Koh Tat Suan is the Director, Lifelong Learning. He oversees the management of the Lifelong Learning Institute and supports the Lifelong Learning Council to promote lifelong learning mindset among Singaporeans under the SkillsFuture. He has been a public service officer for nearly 38 years, of which 22 years serving the Singapore Armed Force; 3 years at the Ministry of Education; and currently serving the then Workforce Development Agency, and now SkillsFuture Singapore, since 2016. He is an Engineer by training. He completed his Bachelor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National University of Singapore, Masters in Education Management from University of Western Australia and Education Doctorate from Institute of Education, University of College London.

Dr. Data Ng is an experimental Physicist, biohacker and hardware maker in Hong Kong.

Data founded the first biotech education and biotech equipment startup in Asia in 2016 - 42Lab which is a first portable and affordable biotech equipment for STEM Education which was incubated and invested by SGInnovate and Cyberport.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Semiconductor and Positron Physics and Biophysics and BSc. (Double majors: Physics and Finance; Minor: Astronomy) from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Data studied User Experience (UX) design course from Bloc in 2014. Data is the associate member of Institute of Physics.

Graham has been an open source developer since the 1980's, with early contributions to emacs, TeX, Debian, R, and is the developer of various Machine Learning toolkits. He remains a strong advocate for open source and is a practitioner, researcher, and educator in artificial intelligence. In his current role with Microsoft he leads a team of data scientists working with business to implement machine learning solutions and to drive open source product development. As Adjunct Professor/Fellow with ANU and UC in Canberra, Australia, he maintains an active role in research. He is the author of a number of books on machine learning and Mentor for AI Singapore. His open source software is used in teaching data science worldwide and for building solutions in business. He was previously Lead Data Scientist with the Australian Government.

Duane O'Brien is the Head of Open Source at Indeed.com, the world's #1 jobs site. He is passionate about enabling smart and meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem by both developers and corporations. Duane navigates the path between engineering and management, drawing on both his experience as a developer and program manager at companies such as Autodesk, Adobe, and PayPal, as well as his experience supporting Agile transformations.

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In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on big data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.

Making cloud things usable for admins and developers.

Joined VideoLAN in 2009 and became one of the main VLC developers.Working on demuxers and codecs (most media formats that goes in or out) side of VLC media player.Has an academical background in usability, wireless networks and owned his own web shopbot company.

Matthew is a technical and management lead in the development of the world class Linux Professional certification program of LPI. He works at a technical level with a team of international Subject Matter Experts.

Gerry is a system and network administrator by day, and a conference organizer by night. He is one of the main organizers of FOSDEM, the largest free and open source conference in Europe. He has been involved with the organisation of the event since 2005. He currently serves as the director of the not-for-profit behind the conference, and wears may other hats within the FOSDEM team. 

Mr. Gi is a teacher at Dunman High School in Singapore.

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Mr.Guruswamy Revana is an academician with around 16 years of experience.  I had been into this journey with Teaching, Research and Development, Mentoring, Counseling, Administration etc. Basically I am Electrical Engineer, my areas of expertise includes Renewable Energy Sources, Power Electronics, Electric drives. He is also interested in Assistive Technologies wherein Open source technologies are used to aid differently-abled. 

Hamish has always liked to bend hardware to his will, which led to a career as a Sys Admin and means that he is always trying to understand what is inside the black box.His quest to make computers do his bidding (and not theirs) has continued to drive his tinkering with software and hardware at home and at work.  He believes in empowering others to also bend technology along with him!Hamish currently lives in Hong Kong - tiny living with his many tiny computers.

I am working as Principal MTS with MySQL engineering team for the past seven years. My focus is on security features of MySQL server and client.

Harish Pillay serves as Head of Community Architecture and Leadership at Red Hat, Inc. and served as its Chief Technology Architect of South Asia since September 29, 2003. Harish co-founded the Linux Users' Group Singapore in 1993. He served as President of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter from 2013 to 2015. He has been a Trustee of Internet Society since June 18, 2016. He is a senior member of the Singapore Computer Society and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. 

Harshil Agrawal is a GitHub Campus Expert for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Vasad, a web and mobile developer and an open source enthusiast. He likes to spread knowledge and help others.

Android Developer and an avid tech blogger, Harshit is passionate about anything and everything related to android. He is one of the first Google certified Android developers in India and being an Open Source enthusiast, he’s also a part of various programs like Google Summer of Code and Google Code In as a Mentor. 

Harshit is working with Udacity and Coding Blocks, a startup in New Delhi focusing on creating more employable talent.

Hong Phuc Dang co-founded FOSSASIA in 2009 as a community devoted to improving people’s lives through sharing Open Technologies and knowledge and fostering global connections. She especially wanted to encourage developers from Asia to participate in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement.

As a software engineer and software development manager in finance and e-commerce sectors, Ilya gained more than 10 years of experience in leading the development of complex software in teams, large and small. Before starting his own business, he worked in Europe and North America for several multinational companies.

Ilya Verbitskiy is the founder of WebStoating s.r.o., an agency helping companies to create a successful online business. Outside of work, he's a husband and father and enjoys sports, games and learning everything about everything.

Originally from Colombo Sri Lanka, where I got graduated in 2015, having BSc in Computing and Information Systems. I worked as a Software Engineer for a well known ERP software vendor, IFS from Q2 2015 to Q3 2018 in both their Business Intelligence and IoT offering. In September 2018, I have moved to Malaysia and joined my current company, working as a Software Developer for Intelligent apps.

Jason Zaman is a Gentoo Linux developer and maintains the SELinux policies and userspace libraries. He is also an upstream maintainer on the SELinuxProject and Community Lead on TensorFlow's SIG-Build.

For a long while now, Jean has been constantly disturbed by the level of intrusion information and communication technologies have in businesses and personal lives of people. 

Born in Spain and with a full career in IT, he eventually realized he was deeply linked to Asia and moved to Malaysia in 2012 where he started volunteering full time for a number of organizations in both Malaysia and the Philippines.

Supporting their IT needs became his personal action to be able to provide some levels of protection and ensure data ownership of citizens, especially those who have less access to knowledge.

In 2018, he took the leap of founding The IO Foundation and to establish a more solid and targeted direction to address Digital Rights of users. Jean believes that it will take no time that we, ourselves, become digital citizens; if we are not there already. TIOF intends to work with pertinent regional and international agencies in crafting and implementing a Universal Declaration of Digital Rights (UDDR) which aims to be grounded from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Long shot or not, he strongly believes it is a much needed step into the future.

Jens works at Red Hat on i18n engineering. He contributes to the Fedora and Haskell communities. Last year at Fossasia he gave a talk on the Four Temperaments.

A coding veteran and part time entrepreneur. Since 2000 he architects, builds and runs Java based eCommerce applications. Jens is fanatic about performance. For Jens improving application performance is the key to reduce latency and provide a great User Experience. On the other hand, as Agile Coach and Scrum Master Jens also likes to improve the performance and happiness of development teams.

Jason Zaman is a Gentoo Linux developer and maintains the SELinux policies and userspace libraries. He is also an upstream maintainer on the SELinuxProject and Community Lead on TensorFlow's SIG-Build.

Jogendra is pre-final year student at IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He is an iOS Developer and active Open Source contributor. He also has experience in developing Android, Web and Windows Apps. Currently, he is working on Machine Learning and Blockchain technology. Apart from Coding, he loves going hackathons, attending conferences, and Travelling.

Jollen Chen is the creator and lead developer of Flowchain, an open source based IoT blockchain solutions. Before Flowchain, he has been working on embedded software and full-stack web development for many years. His research interests are the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and IoT data security. Jollen holds a Master's degree in Manufacturing Information and Systems from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. You can find him online at http://jollen.org.

Jonas is shaping the Blockchain and DLT activities from the technology perspective within Daimler. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science and Japanese Studies from University of Bonn. Main focus topics were Metadata and Data Quality as well as Neural Networks. He is a member of the Governing Board of Hyperledger.

Jonathan is Field CTO, Cloud Infrastructure Services team, @ Capgemini. He helps French Fortune 40 (CAC 40) companies implementing Cloud-native Open Source technologies as Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, OpenStack... Previously he was Director of Engineering Engagement and Release Platforms at Manulife/John Hancock in Canada. For 15 years, Jonathan has been passionate open source technologies. As a pragmatic leader he is used to work with partners and technologies from everywhere (Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Cisco...) and build bridges between traditional IT and new approaches. As a community member he's been engaged in different non-profit communities to contribute and promote open source and help users.

Jorge is an OpenShift Developer advocate. He has huge experience on DevOps and he's a fanatical Java developer. He helps developers understand the benefits of a Platform-as-a-Service and customers while also helps Red Hat to improve the product based on their experience. He's old enough to have other hobbies than his family for his occasional spare time.

Joao Bilhim does Cloud stuff with Azure Kubernetes Services.

Kitman Cheung is the CTO, IBM Data & AI for IBM Asia Pacific. Throughout his 17 year career with IBM, Kitman has focused his attention on analytics related technologies, and has served in many technical roles within development, product management, partner ecosystem and technical pre-sales organizations. In his current role, his responsibilities include working with key IBM customers in various industry segments to transform their information infrastructure for the Big Data and Analytics era.

B K Oberoi, also known as Kogi, received his Batchelor of Science (1st Class Hons) from Manchester University. His industrial career spanned 40 years during which he accumulated vast experience working as a 'hands-on' Mechanical Engineer. He worked in various industries and countries whilst based in the UK. He attributes his success to a 'Professional Tool Kit' which he assembled as his career progresssed. Born in Kenya, Kogi completed his school education there. He obtined his first degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Sceince, India.

Kumar Rishav sees himself as an enthusiastic software developer, specializing in web application architectures, build tools, and product development.

He is a Software engineer at PayPal, working out of Chennai, India, on the Web engineering platform team, where he works on the Nodejs application and Docker. You can find him giving talks internally at PayPal and in various meetups. He has been an open source contributor to Mozilla Firefox OS project.

As the CEO of Science Centre and Vice Dean of NUS Mr Lim Tit Meng promotes STEM as an engine for knowledge-based innovation economy; engages stake holders to share the mission and champions creative science communication. His goal is to inspire youth to see STEM as a powerful means to create their own future as well as solutions for the future.

Padmal is a open source hardware designer with amazing skills in software development. He is an active contributor to PSLab project by FOSSASIA for quiet some time and working towards making the project great. Currently he works parallel on NeuroLab project!

He's an undergraduate from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka; following a degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering.

https://github.com/m3nu

Marian is a system administrator by heart. He is working with Linux for almost 20 years. Currently he is Head System Architect of Siteground.com. He is a big fan of FOSS and regularly speaks at different FOSS conferences around the world. Marian also helps with the organization of OpenFest - Bulgaria's biggest FOSS conferences. In his spare time he teaches Linux system administration and Network security courses in Sofia University and SoftUni.

Mario Behling is the CEO of OpnTec. He is a technologist with 15 years of experience in leading international development teams in Europe, Asia and India. He helped to get FOSSASIA started and works with the community on SUSI.AI and Open Hardware solutions like Pocket Science Lab. Mario also steers the development of the eventyay project. He is fascinated about drums and global music and has an interest in architecture. In Vietnam he designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel and in Afghanistan he setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.

Martin Michlmayr is a free and open-source software advocate and Debian developer, currently president of Software in the Public Interest. Michlmayr was elected as Debian Project Leader in 2003. He contributed to Debian's New Member process, participating in the recruitment of over 120 new members. Michlmayr completed a doctorate in technology management at the University of Cambridge in 2007. The focus of this research was on quality improvement in free software and open source projects, and particularly on release management processes and practices. In 2013, O'Reilly awarded an open source award to Michlmayr, putting him in "the 'unsung heroes' category—the people who devote themselves to the important but not always glorious jobs that keep open source healthy". Between 2008 and 2014 Michlmayr served on the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative, acting as the organization's secretary.

When I was a child, I was playing many games from SQUARE ENIX, and I wanted to work at this company.

I join Fujitsu as a new graduate, and now I’m working at SQUARE ENIX.

Masayuki Igawa is a software engineer for over 20 years on a wide range of software projects, and developing open source software related to Linux kernel and virtualization. He's been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is a core member of some OpenStack QA projects such as Tempest, subunit2sql, openstack-health and stackviz. He currently works for SUSE to make Upstream OpenStack better for everyone and downstream. He has previously been a speaker at OpenStack Summits, LinuxCons Japan and the other open source related conference events.

Mashrin Srivastava works as a Deep learning Engineer with the innovation group (Ideas2Reality) at Intel, specializing on Intel platforms and products and has worked on projects in Data Science/ IoT space including connected healthcare, homes, smart city, mobility and edge AI. He has exhibited his contributions and represented Intel at several conferences.He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology. He is passionate about data science, algorithms and graph and the use of the technology to bring disruptive changes. He has served as a contributor and Directly Responsible Individual to the Stanford Scholar Initiative and open source contributor to Processing Foundation.

Mathura Bikash Tripura is the Executive Director of Zabarang (a local NGO in CHT, Bangladesh). Currently he is leading a group of young professionals in carrying out different programs on the issues of community empowerment, quality education, good governance and sustainable development, as well as support to mother tongue-based multilingual education.

Mr. Tripura has a long experience working with indigenous peoples’ organizations and the government as well as in various civic movements at national level. He is the National Convener of the Committee on Celebrating 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, Bangladesh.

Matt Ware's been around digital a long time; back before the Y2K bug was even a thing. Prior to becoming Head of Operations at First, Matt helped realise the value of digital at Sensis, News Ltd, Reed Business Information and Dynamic Creative.

Over the last 20 years Matt has worked in the fields of SEO, Performance Media, Social, Mobile and CRO with a specific focus on how to improve Customer Experience and Engagement using Data and Analytics.

Most recently Matt has started to explore the value of AI, Machine Learning and how Voice enabled devices can be used to interact with customers in real time to answer their questions and needs. 

Some of the clients Matt has worked with include: Kmart, Target, Officeworks, Flight Centre, Fairfax Digital, TradeMe, BigW, Fiji Airways, UNSW, Dymocks, Grays Online, TAB and Qantas to name just a few.

Matt's relentless pursuit to know his clients and their competitors inside and out places him in a unique position to bring vital insight to First's clients. 

Matthew has been working on and contributing to Open Source software for most of his career. Matthew currently works for IBM Research developing open source software for quantum computing. He is also a long time OpenStack contributor and a former member of the OpenStack TC (Technical Committee) and was previously the PTL (project technical lead) of the OpenStack community's QA program. He has previously been a speaker at linux.conf.au, OpenStack summits, LinuxCons Japan, China, and North America, Open Source Summit Europe, SeaGL, OpenWest, and FOSSASIA.

Melvin is an avid programmer who enjoys designing and implementing novel algorithms.  As the CTO of Cosmiqo, Melvin is in charge of developing its sensor data aggregation and analytics platform. In

his spare time, Melvin works on the AI for MagArena, an open source card game project. Melvin received his B. Comp (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from NUS School of Computing.

Mete is a Developer Advocate at Google, focused on helping developers with Google Cloud. As a long-time Java and C# developer, he likes to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms. Originally from the island of Cyprus, he currently lives in Greenwich of London, not too far away from the prime meridian.

Michael is an independent trainer/consultant on Cloud Native (Docker, Kubernetes, Micro-services, Serverless, Unikernels) with more than 30 years of experience in IT and Telecom as Researcher, Developer, pre-sales and Delivery consultant, Developer Advocate.

Adventurous water-rat, Peichi's happy man, Chief Success Officer @Axelerant, Drusus & Jace's baba, whole-self enabler, ex-bomb squad, and million-mile traveler

Michael is the founder of SUSI AI, loklak and, the creator of the Peer-to-Peer Search engine YaCy. He is a Big Data Engineer consulting for some of the largest corporate players in Germany on search engine technology and digital transformation strategies. He is also the architect of the German Digital Library search portal.

Michael Downey is the Director of Community for the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) Open Source Center, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation. The Center is a collaborative community promoting knowledge sharing, collaboration, and co-investment in technology and human capacity to support positive social change in FOSS communities around the world.

Michael Ducy currently works as Director of Community & Evangelism for Sysdig where he is responsible for growing adoption of Sysdig’s open source solutions. Previously, Michael worked at Chef where we held a variety of roles helping customers and community members leverage Chef’s open source and paid solutions, as well as implement the ideas and practices of DevOps. Michael has also worked in a variety of roles in his career including Cloud Architecture, Systems Engineering, and Performance Engineering. Michael holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and an MBA from The Ohio State University.

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I'm a Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud Platform and working as a Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer at Sysco Labs which is the software are of Sysco Foods the largest food delivery company in USA. I have a lot of experience in both AWS an Google Cloud Platform and related tools like Kubernetes, Dockers, etc. I'm an Org Admin of SCoRe for both Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In. I'm a manager of GDG Sri Lanka and Google Cloud Developer Community Sri Lanka.

Misako Ito works as Advisor for Communication and Information at UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok. She is responsible for UNESCO’s Communication and Information programme in the Mekong countries and coordinates the UNESCO Memory of the World programme for safeguarding the documentary heritage in Asia and the Pacific. Before joining Bangkok, she spent six years at UNESCO Office in Rabat, Morocco, in providing advisory services for media development, its legislation on freedom of information as well as for the media and information literacy policies in Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia.

Mishari is based in Thailand where he runs his company. He is participating in the Open Source community since 1990s. He is also a homeschool dad.

Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as featured speaker at hacker conferences, as international expert on the hackerspace movement, and for teaching introductory electronics workshops. He is also Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.

Imran “secfigo” Mohammed is a seasoned security professional with 8 years of experience in helping organizations with their Information Security Programs. He has a diverse background in R&D, consulting and product-based industries with a passion to solve complex security programs. Imran is the founder of Null Singapore, the largest information security community in Singapore where he has organized more than 60 events & workshops to spread security awareness. He was also nominated as community star for being the go-to person in the community whose contribution and knowledge sharing has helped many professionals in the security industry.

Mohit Kumar is a final year undergrad pursuing Computer Engineering from Delhi Technological University(DTU) formerly Delhi College of Engineering(DCE). Mohit is an avid open source enthusiast, a programmer and an android developer. He has knowledge in different areas namely Operating Systems, Database Management Systems, Algorithms, Digital Image Processing, Distributed Systems and Cryptography.

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Sharing how the cloud works at IBM.

- FOSS enthusiast

- IoT in Agriculture

Working on making the cloud work.

I am the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge Nepal, a non-profit civic tech organization comprised of openness aficionados, and program coordinator of Code for Nepal. I also serve as an executive member of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Nepal Community, a pioneer organization who has been leading the open source momentum in Nepal in the last 8 years through events, projects, campaigns, and lobbying. I recently co-founded Artificial Intelligence for Development, a not-for-profit organization established to promote research and development in Artificial Intelligence in Nepal to tackle local and community-based problems and provide solutions using AI technology. More information about my affiliation can be found on my website: http://www.neekes.com.np

Nisha Gopalakrishnan has been working as a system software developer for over 10 years and of which 7 years has been with MySQL, Oracle based out of Bangalore, India. She has been involved in sustaining and development efforts of the MySQL server for the last seven years. Prior to Oracle, she was working with Cisco for their network suite of products and with Wipro on platformsecurity.

Mathematician and Logician by education who after working at various universities (TU Wien, Universita di SIena, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is now working in the Research and Development lab of Accelia, Inc, Tokyo. His core interests are mathematical logic, computer science, machine learning, AI, security, software verification and specification. He got involved with TeX Live around 2003. In 2005 he packaged for the first time TeX Live for Debian (up to that time all distributions used teTeX).

Over the years Norbert became involved in TeX Live development, and after rewriting the whole TeX Live infrastructure in Perl, and providing the TeX Live Manager for online updates, he is now the responsible maintainer for most of the core support programs of TeX Live.

Since some years Norbert is also member of the board of directors of the international TeX User Group.

Omprakash is a Director at "ScaledV Consultancy Pte. Ltd.":https://www.scaledv.com, Singapore. He is a *Certified SAFe® 4 Program Consultant* (SPC), *Lean Six Sigma Black Belt* (BB) and *Project Management Professional* (PMP) with experience across Business Transformation, Agile Software Development, Lean Six Sigma Implementation, Reengineering, Project Management, Coaching and Trainings in domains like Healthcare, Energy Management and Embedded Systems.

His expertise lies in helping clients achieve Enterprise Agility through Agile Adoption Consultation, Process Definition, Training and Coaching of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Development Team.

He is instrumental in transitioning and transforming organisation _process_ and _practices_ to create an ecosystem that can help achieve Enterprise Agility. 

Khai Wei focuses on helping both start-ups and enterprise in technical solution architect and design of applications towards cloud via IBM Cloud platform across multiple technologies - Blockchain, Kubernetes, DevOps and so on. With his years of experience in software development and solution architecture, Khai Wei leverages past experiences to support enterprises in adopting open source technology such as Hyperledger Fabric and maximize what the technology can benefits in long term towards the industry. Before joining IBM, Khai Wei has worked as application developer in Malaysia. He joined IBM as Technical Specialist in Malaysia at year 2008, transitioned to Singapore in year 2013 to better support ASEAN Region.

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Oranee works as a project coordinator for the Foundation for Applied Linguistics (FAL). FAL supports the education of indigenous children in Thailand by promoting the use of the indigenous language in school along with the national language. This is known as ‘Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE)’.