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October 23-26, 2017 - Prague, Czech Republic
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Thursday, October 26 • 12:00 - 13:30
Lunch Panel: Diversity & Inclusion: On the Path to Increasing the Ten Percent - Moderated by Guy Martin, Autodesk

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The technology industry has been a major source of innovation and economic growth, but its ability to encourage diversity among its ranks lags. In 2016, women and underrepresented minorities accounted for 30% of the larger tech industry, while comprising roughly 10% of the Linux and OpenStack communities. To harness the full power of technology to tackle a broader set of societal challenges will depend, in part, on our ability to encourage a diversity of ideas, experiences and talent. Join us for an interactive discussion as we explore the numbers and what they mean, and in turn, discuss concrete, actionable steps that we can collectively take to foster a diverse, inclusive environment within our larger open source community.
Moderators
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Guy Martin

Director of Open Source Strategy, GAN Consulting
Guy Martin is Director of Open Source Strategy at GAN Consulting, responsible for providing customized consulting services for open source strategy, execution and collaborative projects. He has over two decades of experience in the software industry, where he has consistently focused... Read More →

Speakers
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Dawn Foster

Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware
Dawn is the Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware within the Open Source Program Office. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about... Read More →
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Daniel Izquierdo

Director of Consulting, Bitergia
Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open source ecosystems. Currently the chief data officer at Bitergia, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis, and studies... Read More →
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Jeffrey Osier-Mixon

Program Manager, Linux Foundation
Jefro worked as a technical writer and developer in both software and hardware for more than 20 years, focused on open source since 1992, and he has been a leader in Linux Foundation projects since 2011. Jefro is currently a program manager at Linux Foundation helping to make open... Read More →
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Nithya Ruff

Board Chair, Linux Foundation, Comcast
Nithya Ruff is a well-known and well-regarded leader in Open Source. As the Head of Comcast’s Open Source Practice, she is responsible for growing Open Source culture inside of Comcast and engagement with external communities. She is a passionate advocate for opening doors to new... Read More →
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Amye Scavarda

Gluster Community Lead, Red Hat
Amye Scavarda is the Gluster Community Lead at Red Hat. She's spoken at previous Open Source Leadership Summits on open source project management, leadership, strategic contribution and engagement in an open source environment. In her spare time, she's a law student at Mitchell Hamline... Read More →

Thursday October 26, 2017 12:00 - 13:30
Karlin I-III
  Diversity Summit

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