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. Five 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 works at NearForm, Ltd., an Irish software consultancy specializing in capability building for companies looking to modernize their practices.

Jim is currently Executive Director of the Linux Foundation that promotes innovation through open source and Linux as well as supporting cooperation between global enterprises. His work at the company-neutral Linux Foundation gave him a unique and comprehensive view of the world’s technological trends, and he contributes to leading technical journals such as Businessweek and Wired in recognition of his far reaching insight to the changing economic environment of the technology industry. As well as regularly participating as a keynote speaker at industry events, he is also a Board member at the Global Economic Symposium, Open Source For America, and Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.