UK Open Source Awards

Frank Karlitschek is a long time open source contributor and former board member of the KDE e.V. He managed engineering teams for over 20 years and worked as head of unit and managing director at different internet companies. In 2001 he founded the openDesktop.org social network for Linux Desktop users. In 2010 he started the ownCloud project. In 2016 he forked it into Nextcloud to create a fully open source and decentralized alternative to big centralized cloud companies. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN and ETH and keynoted LinuxCon, Latinoware, Akademy, FOSSASIA, openSUSE Conf, Campus Party and many other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud GmbH. He is also a fellow of Open Forum Europe.

Stephen is a principal program manager in the Azure Office of the CTO at Microsoft. Prior to that, he has been a distinguished technologist (HPE), technical executive, a founder, a consultant, a writer, a systems developer, a software construction geek, and a standards diplomat. He loves to build teams and products that make customers ecstatic. He has worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor, working with open source for almost 30 years. He tweets as @stephenrwalli. He blogs at "Once More unto the Breach", opensource.com, and Medium.

Keith Bergelt is the Chief Executive Officer of Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, created to support freedom of action in Linux as a key element of open source software.

Amanda is the CEO of Trustable Software, www.trustable.io and joint organiser of the UK Open Source Awards, having been a judge of the awards in 2014 and 2015. Trustable Software is a new initiative looking at risk and transparency in Software. 
She was General Counsel of Canonical, setting up the global legal team and running this for 5 years and has worked in a variety of sectors, ranging from Fashion to Fintech, across EMEA, US, AsiaPac and Emerging Markets, based out of the UK and Amsterdam. 
As well as many years of structuring and negotiating a multitude of deals, her roles have included contribution to and leadership of a number multi-organisational collaborative projects and open source initiatives. She has exerptise in open source software, governance, IP, compliance audits, policies and processes as well as commercialisation and contracting around open source.  Amanda was a member of the Open Stack Drafting Committee in 2012.
Amanda is a regular international speaker and author covering technology, collaboration and legal issues. 
As well as her role at Trustable, Amanda is currently a European Representative of the defensive patent pool, the Open Invention Network; a Director of Open UK; an Executive Editor and Founder of the International Free and Open Source Law Review; on the OASIS Open Projects' Advisory Council (open source and open standards); and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Dawn works on OSS Strategy at Pivotal in London. She has more than 20
years of experience at companies like The Scale Factory, Puppet Labs,
Intel, Jive Software, and others. She has expertise in community
building, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate
about bringing people together through a combination of online
communities and real-world events along with analyzing the data
associated with participation in developer and open source
communities. Dawn is on the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s
CHAOSS project and is a maintainer for the Diversity and Inclusion WG.
She holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich along with an MBA and
BS in Computer Science. She has spoken at dozens of industry events,
including many Linux Foundation events, OSCON, SXSW, FOSDEM and more.

Terence Eden is the Senior Technology Advisor in NHSX. He is long-time advocate of open source and open standards in government. You can read his personal blog at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/ or follow him on Twitter at "

Allison Randal is a computer scientist and open source strategist. In over 30 years as a developer, she has worked on everything from games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, and shipping fulfillment, to compilers, hypervisors, database replication systems, deployment automation, mobile apps, and talking smart-home appliances.

Stuart is the CEO and founder of OpusVL which was established in 1999. Having a passion for Open Source software, Stuart developed one of the first e-commerce platforms using Linux which was widely successful. The solution included numerous systems and methods which are only now being used in the marketplace. In recent times Stuart has launched initiatives within the Open technology communities and has supported the UK Government with it’s transition to Open Source and Open Standards.

Sachiko Muto is the Chief Executive Officer of Open Forum Europe with the overall responsibility for developing and communicating OFE’s external strategies and policies in partnership with its members and partners. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government relations. She returned with her family to Brussels after spending five years in California to take on the role of CEO when Graham Taylor retired in 2016. Prior to OFE, Sachiko worked for several years in public affairs, first in London and then in Brussels. With degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics, she has been a guest researcher at UC Berkeley and is currently continuing her research at TU Delft where she takes an interest in the social and political implications of technological change. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and has published on the topic of ICT standards and the environment.

Richard is owner and managing director of Bramble Hub, which helps SMEs work with the UK public sector, by providing access to government procurement frameworks. He is an entrepreneur, a programmer, an IT and business consultant, and a mathematician. He is also a director of OpenForum Europe, with a particular interest in procurement issues around Open Standards and Open Source for the UK government. He has a meticulous eye for detail and a real understanding of how public sector organisations work.

Peter is a Director of the Apperta Foundation, a not for profit spin out of NHS England charged with driving the design, development, and delivery of the next generation of open digital tools and services for efficient, safe, and compassionate care delivery, particularly through it’s code4health initiative. Peter has held senior positions across central and local government driving digitally enabled service improvement, most recently with NHS England & NHS Digital. He has been instrumental in successfully bringing a number of open source products and services to the health and care system including openEyes, openEP, and DIADEM to name but three.