Speakers

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  Catherine Paganini

  Buoyant

  Head of Marketing & Community

  See Bio
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  Dawn Foster

  VMware OSPO

  Director of Open Source Community Strategy

  See Bio
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  Carolyn Van Slyck

  Microsoft

  Principal Software Engineer

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  Josh Berkus

  Red Hat

  Kubernetes Community Manager

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Catherine Paganini

Buoyant

Catherine Paganini is co-chair of the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee, maintainer of the CNCF Cloud Native Glossary, and Head of Marketing at Buoyant, the creator of Linkerd. A marketing leader turned cloud native evangelist, Catherine is passionate about educating the broader community on the cloud native stack and the critical flexibility it provides.

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Dawn Foster

VMware OSPO

Dawn is Director of Open Source Community Strategy within VMware’s OSPO. She is a Governing Board member / maintainer for CHAOSS, Steering Committee member for the TODO Group, co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy TAG, and OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, governance, metrics, and more. Dawn holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich along with an MBA and a BS in Computer Science. She has spoken at over 100 industry events, including many Linux Foundation events, KubeCon, OSCON, SXSW, FOSDEM and more. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.