Invited speakers

Invited Speakers

Clare Dillon, Community Lead at CURIOSS (Community for University and Research Institution OSPOs)

Clare Dillon is community lead for CURIOSS, a community for university and research institution OSPOs. Clare is also a PhD researcher with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and a member of Lero's OSPO team. From 2021-2023, Clare served as the inaugural Executive Director of InnerSource Commons, a global non-profit foundation supporting open collaboration methods in corporate software development. In 2021, Clare co-founded Open Ireland Network, a community for those interested in advancing open source at a national level in Ireland. Before discovering a passion for open source, Clare had a long career in the technology industry leading the Developer and Platform Group in Microsoft Ireland and working as a product manager in a number of startups.

Bastien Guerry, Chief Free Software Officer at the French Inter-Ministerial Digital Directorate

Bastien Guerry studied Philosophy and Cognitive Science. He became interested in the Free Software movement in the 90s and taught himself to code by contributing to GNU Emacs. In 2017, he joined the Public Interest Entrepreneurs program at Etalab, the open data agency. There, he discovered the challenges that public institutions face when it comes to using and publishing free software. In 2018, he co-started the BlueHats movement, bringing together Free Software enthusiasts from the public sector, and since 2021, he's the Free Software officer for the Interministerial Digital Directorate, leading its "Open Source Program Office", code.gouv.fr.

Giacomo Tenaglia, Chair, CERN Open Source Program Office

Giacomo Tenaglia is a computer scientist with 25 years of experience in designing, building and running services based on free and open-source software components. He works at CERN IT department on the team responsible for configuration management and scientific computing services. Over the past few years, Giacomo has led the creation of CERN's Open Source Program Office, where he currently serves as chair.

Pierre-Yves Gibello, CEO@OW2

Pierre-Yves, initially a software R&D engineer, is the CEO of OW2, a European open source foundation, since 2022: before, he was an open source supporter for nearly 30 years, writing code, doing business and consulting, working with academia, teaching computer science and participating in OW2 as an elected Board representative.

Ying Wang, Technology and Licensing Manager at ETH transfer - IP & Licensing, ETH Zurich

Ying received her MS and PhD in biogeochemistry from the California Institute of Technology. She later worked as a postdoctoral fellow in astrobiology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and as a research scientist in atmospheric chemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Ying also received a Juris Doctor degree from Georgia State University College of Law, specializing in Intellectual Property law. She has interned with Equifax and Georgia Lawyers for the Arts.

In 2022, Ying joined ETH transfer, where she is responsible for the patenting and licensing of technologies developed at ETH Zurich. In 2023, she became a founding member of ETH Zurich's Open Source Software (OSS) Working Group, which focuses on establishing the university's OSS policy framework and supporting researchers in understanding the challenges and opportunities related to the use, distribution, and commercialization of OSS.