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InnerSource Summit 2024

Registrations are Now Open

20th & 21st November 2024 - online

Join us at the world’s leading gathering of InnerSource practitioners.

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InnerSource is a software development approach that incorporates the principles and practices of open source software development within companies. The InnerSource Commons (ISC) is a large community of InnerSource practitioners dedicated to exchanging knowledge and promoting InnerSource. You have the opportunity to join this community on slack.

The ISC organizes annual summits where members and non-members can gather to learn about global InnerSource trends gain insights from others who are implementing InnerSource share their own experiences connect with like-minded individuals who are enthusiastic about achieving success with InnerSource in their organizations

Registration

Click here to register for the InnerSource Summit 2024. There are three ticket options for the summit:

Once you have ordered your tickets, full details of how to access the event will be emailed to you one week before the event.

Sponsorship

Does your organization want to reach the global InnerSource audience and support the work of the InnerSource Commons Foundation? If so, we have also added an option for you to sponsor the Summit. With our $2,000 sponsorship package, sponsors will be:

  • Be listed as an event sponsor on our Summit webpage, all summit branding and recordings of our popular talks.
  • Be named and thanked at key points throughout the Summit.
  • Receive a goody bag with a selection of our popular InnerSource Commons t-shirts and stickers to share with your employees.

Formal invoices and receipts can also be provided for sponsors.

Sessions

Our summit is planned over multiple time zones so we look forward to seeing you there, no matter where in the world you are sitting. The summit will comprise of 2 x 4 hour sessions, each timed for our community in particular regions. Each session will have a unique set of speakers in two tracks that run simultaneously. One registration covers both sessions, and we hope many of you will join us for both.

Part 1 is timed for Europe, Africa, East Coast US, and early birds on the US west coast: (Wed 20th Nov UTC 3-7pm / CET 4-8pm / EST 10am-2pm / PST 7-11am)

Part 2 is timed for APAC, Europe, Middle East, & Africa: (Thur 21st Nov UTC 7:30-11:30am / CET 8:30am -12:30pm / IST 1- 5pm / AEST & CST 6:30 -10:30pm)

Agenda

Day 1: Wednesday, November 20th

UTC 15:00-19:00 - Timed for Europe, Africa, East Coast US, and early birds on the US west coast.

UTC 15:00 - 15:20 Welcome to the Summit
Including an address by Russ Rutledge, InnerSource Commons Executive Director
UTC 15:20 - 15:50 Henry Chesbrough
Keynote: What InnerSource Offers to Open Innovation, and Vice Versa (Show Abstract)
TRACK 1 TRACK 2
UTC 15:50 - 16:15 Brittany Istenes (Fannie Mae)
Empathetic Engineering and InnerSource (Show Abstract)

Yuki Hattori (GitHub)
The Importance of InnerSource in the AI Era (Show Abstract)
UTC 16:15 - 16:40 Justin Gosses (Microsoft) & Jeff Bailey (Nike)
How the ISPO working group can help you (Show Abstract)

Micaela Eller (IBM Research)
InnerSource Beyond Code (Show Abstract)

UTC 16:40 - 17:05 Matthieu Vincent (Sopra Steria)& Thomas Boni (R2Devops)
The Raiders of the Lost CICD and the quest for the Innersource Grail (Show Abstract)
Shane Coughlan (Linux Foundation)
Understanding How OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974 Support InnerSource (Show Abstract)
UTC 17:05 - 17:35 Break
TRACK 1 TRACK 2
UTC 17:35 – 18:00 Benjamin Ihrig (SAP SE)
Repository Linter@SAP (Show Abstract)
Joachim de Lezardiere (Lenstra)& Carole Ciboire Daghfal (Kering)
Enabling Data Mesh in Large Organizations with InnerSource (Show Abstract)
UTC 18:00-18:25 Lizzie Salita (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Countercultural: InnerSource for Consultants (Show Abstract)

Sally Deering (Capital One)
The InnerSource Flywheel (Show Abstract)
UTC 18:25 - 18:50 Katie Schueths (Analog Devices)
Building Trust Across Teams Through Documentation (Show Abstract)

Addie Girouard (Thirdman Agency)
Creating Desire for InnerSource in the Middle (Show Abstract)
UTC 18:50-19:00 Wrap up Day 1

Day 2: Thursday, November 21st

UTC 7:30-11:30am / CET 8:30am -12:30pm / IST 1-5pm / AEST & CST 6:30-10:30pm

UTC 07:30 - 7:50 Welcome to the Summit Day 2 & InnerSource Commons Update
UTC 07:50 - 08:20 Joachim Herschmann
Keynote: Accelerate Innovation by Initiating Innersourcing (Show Abstract)
TRACK 1 TRACK 2
UTC 08:20 - 08:45 Matt Cobby (InnerSource Commons)
Enhancing Developer Experience through InnerSource and Platform Engineering (Show Abstract)
Dr. Wolfgang Gehring (Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH)
(Y)Our Journey to Inner Source (Show Abstract)
UTC 08:45 – 09:10 Thomas Froment (Eclipse Foundation)
Overcoming InnerSource Challenges: 3 pitfalls and 2 key success criteria (Show Abstract)
Ana Jiménez Santamaría (Linux Foundation, TODO Group)
Ways DevRel skills could save your internal contributor community (Show Abstract)
UTC 09:10 - 09:35 David Terol (Philips)
DevEx at scale through InnerSource (Show Abstract)
Dr. Apostolos Kritikos (InstaShop / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
When there is no alternative to InnerSource (Show Abstract)
UTC 09:35–10:05 Break
TRACK 1 TRACK 2
UTC 10:05 - 10:30 Clare Dillon (Lero)
ISPOs and OSPOs - differences and similarities (Show Abstract)

Olivier Liechti (Avalia Systems)
Building an Internal Developer Platform with Backstage? Apply InnerSource Patterns to drive its adoption and evolution! (Show Abstract)
UTC 10:30 - 10:55 Takeshi Yaegashi (Bandai Namco Studios Inc.)
Implementing an All-Inclusive InnerSource Portal for Large Enterprises (Show Abstract)

Gilles Gravier (Wipro Limited)
Stories from the Trenches (Show Abstract)
UTC 10:55 – 11:20 Georg Grütter (Robert Bosch GmbH)
The InnerSource Laundry List (Show Abstract)
Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar (Bitergia)
The Agile and InnerSource playground (Show Abstract)
UTC 11:20 - 11:30 Wrap up & Event Close

Keynote speakers

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Henry Chesbrough (Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley)

Henry Chesbrough is best known as “the father of Open Innovation”. He is the founding Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he has served as an Adjunct Faculty member for 20 years. He is also Maire Tecnimont Professor of Open Innovation and Sustainability at Luiss University in Rome. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, an MBA from Stanford, and a BA from Yale University. He has written books such as Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), Open Business Models (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), Open Services Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2011) and Open Innovation Results (Oxford, 2020). The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation, with Agnieszka Radziwon, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, will be published in March of 2024. His research has been cited more than 110,000 times, according to Google Scholar. An academic entrepreneur, he launched the Berkeley Innovation Forum at Berkeley Haas in 2005, which currently has 30 member companies. He started the European Innovation Forum with Wim Vanhaverbeke in 2012. He started up the World Open Innovation Conference in 2014, which annually hosts more than 200 scholars and managers. He originated the weekly Open Innovation Research Seminar, which has met online weekly at Berkeley since 2016. He has been recognized as one of the leading business thinkers by Thinkers50 several times. He received an Innovation Luminary award from the European Commission in 2014. He received the Industrial Research Institute Medal of Achievement in 2017, the Herbert Simon Award of the Rajk College for Advanced Studies in Corvinus University in 2020, the Viipuri Prize from Lappeenranta University of Technology in 2022, and holds four honorary doctorates

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Joachim Herschmann (Gartner)

Joachim Herschmann is a VP Analyst on the Software Engineering Design and Development team. He helps CIOs, IT and Software Engineering Leaders build their software development strategies. Mr. Herschmann’s research focuses on AI-augmented software development, continuous quality, digital immunity and delivering insights through Software Engineering Intelligence and DevOps Platforms. He is the Key initiative leader for Software Engineering Technologies and his insights and coverage of these technologies enables clients to make faster and smarter technology decisions.

Speaker Bios

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Addie Girouard (Third Man Agency)

Addie Girouard is a strategic communications synergist, with over 15 years of experience building engagement and community in senior leadership roles. She is an InnerSource advocate, actively contributing to various open source projects including InnerSource Commons Foundation and Cardano. She has worked with organizations including TetraTechnologies, Elanco, Input Output Global, and Analog Devices, as well as consulting for numerous start-up companies. In 2008, she founded Third Man Agency.

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Ana Jiménez Santamaría (Linux Foundation, TODO Group)

Ana is a senior Project Manager at the Linux Foundation’s TODO Group project, an open group of practitioners who want to collaborate on best practices and tools to effectively manage open source operations through Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs). Formerly she worked at Bitergia, a Software Development Analytics firm, and she has recently finished her MSc in Data Science, whose final thesis focused on measuring DevRel’s success within Open Source development communities.

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Dr Apostolos Kritikoss (InstaShop / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Dr. Apostolos Kritikos, is a seasoned Software Engineering Manager with over 10 years of experience leading diverse software engineering teams. He holds a Ph.D. in Software Resilience and Software Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Professionally, Dr. Kritikos currently serves as a Software Engineering Manager at InstaShop, a leading company in the q-commerce industry and part of Delivery Hero group of companies. In the past he has worked as a software project manager to several ICT projects with research institutions, founded Social Mind, a digital marketing agency in Greece, where he had the role of the CTO. He has also served the software as a service industry as an engineering team leader at Toggl, leading multiple cross-functional teams. In 2019 he was involved in the preliminary study of the European Union’s Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023, the first of its kind for the EU.
Dr. Kritikos is an advocate of Open Source Software, Open Data, and Open Governance and he is actively supporting several networks that are promoting the aforementioned initiatives. The Internet Archive, Mozilla Foundation, MyData Global, WordPress Community, are a select few. He has also been the curator of the Open Coffee Thessaloniki meetings, between 2010 and 2020.

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Benjamin Ihrig (SAP SE)

Benjamin Ihrig is a Cloud Native Developer with 7+ years, specializing in SAP BTP and Kubernetes as well a trainer for the Cloud Native Developer Journey, sharing his experience with colleagues within SAP. Currently, as InnerSource Officer, he passionately promotes collaboration through InnerSource, guiding teams to adopt and live this methodology.

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Brittany Istenes (Fannie Mae)

Brittany Istenes started off her career as an elementary school educator which then led to a path of tech. Brittany has led advisory councils, special interest groups, open source contributions, community building, InnerSource initiatives and all the gray areas in between. At Fannie Mae, Brittany is sharing these best practices for OSS and InnerSource with the teams across the enterprise and beyond. Her main goal is to create a frictionless developer/centric environment in the FINTECH world.

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Clare Dillon (Lero)

Clare Dillon is an open source and InnerSource advocate and currently works as a researcher with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. From 2021-2023, Clare served as the inaugural Executive Director of InnerSource Commons, a global non-profit foundation for InnerSource practitioners. She currently serves on the board of InnerSource Commons. Clare also works with CURIOSS, a community for university and research institution OSPOs. Before discovering a passion for InnerSource, Clare had a long career in the technology industry leading developer engagement programs in organizations like Microsoft and as a product manager in a number of startups.

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Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar (Bitergia / InnerSource Commons)

Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open and InnerSource ecosystems. Currently holding the position of Chief Executive Officer, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Izquierdo Cortázar earned a PhD in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid in 2012 focused on the analysis of buggy developers activity patterns in the Mozilla community. He is in an active contributor and board member of CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software), President of the InnerSource Commons, and recently elected as Board Member at the Apereo Foundation.

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David Terol (Philips)

Engineering and Program Director with 25+ years of global leadership across Communication, Semiconductor, and Healthcare sectors. Proven track record at industry technology leaders like Ericsson, Marvell Technology, and Royal Philips, directing multidisciplinary hardware/software teams and global digital transformation programs. Known for direct customer engagement, and reporting to VP-level executives. Passionate about promoting open collaboration, streamlining processes and breaking down internal barriers to enhance customer value and optimize performance. Public speaker on Digital Transformation, InnerSource, and Developer Experience topics.

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Georg Grütter (Robert Bosch GmbH)

Georg Grütter is an InnerSource evangelist and Developer Advocate at Robert Bosch. He co-founded and led the first InnerSource community at Bosch in 2009 and also co-founded the InnerSource Commons Foundation in 2020. Previously, he held various positions and roles at Robert Bosch, Line Information, the Zurich System House, and DaimlerChrysler. Georg is passionate about sharing his enthusiasm for InnerSource and loves to inspire developers and companies to engage with InnerSource.

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Gilles Gravier (Wipro Limited)

Gilles is a director, and a senior open source strategy advisor in Wipro’s Open Source Program Office. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he provides innovation strategy consulting and advisory services to Wipro’s key customers worldwide, through the application of open source, InnerSource, blockchain, metaverse, quantum and other highly innovative technologies. He can also operate as a Chief Open Source or InnerSource Officer, or Head of Innovation on contract for his clients.

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Isabel Drost-Fromm (Europace)

Isabel Drost-Fromm is co-founding director of the InnerSource Commons Foundation as well as (former board) member of the Apache Software Foundation. Interested in all things search and text mining with a thorough background in open source collaboration she is working at Europace AG as Open Source Strategist. True to the nature of people living in Berlin she loves giving friends a reason for a brief visit - as a result she co-founded and is still one of the creative heads behind Berlin Buzzwords, a tech conference on all things search, scale and storage and FOSS Backstage.

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Jeff Bailey (Nike)

Jeff is a software development leader at Nike with 25+ years of experience building full-stack applications on numerous platforms to solve business problems. Jeff applies knowledge of several programming languages to deliver high-quality software solutions. With a continuous improvement mindset he focuses on leading software product development communities, boosting productivity, and automating almost everything. His work at Nike revolves around growing Communities of Practice, InnerSource, and evangelizing global adoption of Platform Engineering to drive efficiency.

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Joachim de Lezardiere (Lenstra)

Joachim (Joe) de Lezardiere is a seasoned professional with twelve years of expertise in consulting and entrepreneurship. As a Partner at Lenstra, he focuses on implementing reliable, self-sustaining IT solutions that drive business performance. Lenstra excels in transforming IT infrastructure to meet economic objectives with thoroughness and commitment. Previously, Joe co-led the data science consulting firm MFG Labs, driving impactful transformations in Logistics, Operations, Product Development, and Marketing through innovative software solutions. He holds a Master’s degree in Statistics from The University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Université de Paris Dauphine.

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Justin Gosses (Microsoft)

Justin is a senior program manager within Microsoft’s Open Source Program Office focused on providing Inner Source guidance to developers and data work that either delivers measurements of code collaboration across organizational boundaries or enables new developer experiences that reduce developer toil. Before joining Microsoft, Justin worked as a NASA contractor, where he held various roles in program management, data science, and software engineering. His work centered on two main objectives: reducing friction in open source, inner source, and open data initiatives, and rapidly prototyping innovative data science solutions in collaboration with partner teams.

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Katie Schueths (Analog Devices)

Katie leads the InnerSource program Office at Analog Devices, Inc, where she is implementing processes to improve collaboration, code reuse, code quality, and documentation across the internal engineering organization. She is on the InnerSource Commons Foundation Board of Directors. Prior to working at ADI, Katie started the InnerSource program at Indeed and helped build the open source community at IEEE SA OPEN.

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Lizzie Salita (Booz Allen Hamilton)

Lizzie Salita is a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton’s Chief Technology Office where she currently serves as Product Owner for the company’s Backstage developer portal and as a strategist for developer experience and InnerSource. Her background in software engineering and consulting includes frontend development for a variety of federal government clients. Lizzie earned a B.S. in Computer Science from William & Mary and lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband and two children.

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Matt Cobby (InnerSource Commons)

For most of his career, Matt Cobby’s mission has been to improve the daily lives of software engineering teams, wrangling people and technology through engineering enablement. He is a veteran of developer experience over the past eight years and believes that InnerSource is a key factor in building a good developer experience. Previously a Director of Engineering for Deloitte, Matt consulted with technology executives on engineering strategy and has also worked with RWE Supply and Trading, BP, Shell and National Australia Bank where he ran a large scale InnerSource program. With over 20+ years transformation experience in the UK, Europe and Australia, Matt has a passion for mentoring engineers towards engineering excellence and is an active supporter of technical and local communities. Matt serves on the board and is a Member of the InnerSource Commons.

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Matthieu Vincent (Sopra Steria)

Matthieu Vincent, Engineering Platform & Innersource leader @ Sopra Steria, in IT for 17 years now. Matthieu evolves in DevSecOps world for a long time, and try to contribute to promote it internally and through innersource initiatives. In charge of deploying software engineering and innersource practices, Matthieu strongly believes in the power of sharing knowledge, ideas to make it a “one team” approach and leverage everyone.

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Micaela Eller (IBM)

Micaela is passionate about building innovation community ecosystems by developing servant leaders who create culture that celebrates collaboration and nurtures the creative process. She is fascinated by understanding how people think, make decisions and learn, and loves exploring new techniques or ways of working that drive innovation at the intersection of technology, infrastructure and human behavior. Micaela is a sought-after thought leader, speaker and panelist on InnerSource enterprise scalability, ISPO/OSPO operational design & governance, open innovation and Agile techniques. She is an advocate for women in tech and mental health awareness and shares her own journey as a source of inspiration for others.

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Olivier Liechti (Avalia Systems)

Olivier is CTO at Avalia Systems, which he co-founded in 2016. With a background in software engineering, Olivier has been doing applied research on the human factors in this field. Today, “Developer eXperience” is a buzzword that captures his interests and activities. Until 2021, Olivier was full professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, where he created the Software Engineering research group. Before that, he was software architect at Sun Microsystems. Olivier holds a Ms.C. in Computer Science from Fribourg University (Switzerland) and a Ph.D. from Hiroshima University (Japan).

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Russ Rutlege (InnerSource Commons)

Russ Rutledge is the Executive Director of the InnerSource Commons, a non-profit foundation dedicated to the teaching of InnerSource across the industry. Russ is a founding director of the foundation and has served in many leadership positions there. Russ has worked at several multi-national software companies and participated at all levels of InnerSource practice, both as individual contributor, director, and everywhere between. His drive and passion is to enable all software engineers worldwide to achieve incredible technical, business, and personal results via streamlined, collaborative, InnerSource process.

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Sally Deering (InnerSource Commons)

Sally Deering is the InnerSource Program Manager at Capital One. She brings to the role 30 years of experience in program and process management across Banking, Insurance, and Manufacturing. Her career has included product, technology, operations and risk functions at Gartner Group, General Electric, Bank of America and Capital One. Her passion for innersourcing blossomed when she realized so much of it meant a cultural movement and not only tools and process. Sally lives in Virginia where she enjoys many outdoor activities with her husband, family, and friends. She is also a tap dancer.

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Shane Coughlan (Linux Foundation)

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include building the largest open source governance community in the world through the OpenChain Project, spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network into the largest patent non-aggression community in history and establishing the first global network for open source legal experts. He is a founder of both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to open source. He currently leads the OpenChain Project and is a General Assembly Member of OpenForum Europe.

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Takeshi Yaegashi (Bandai Namco Studios Inc.)

Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Azure (2023, 2024) An engineer who enjoys working with relatively low-level technologies such as Unix, OSS, and Go language. Previously engaged in embedded system development and game server development, currently involved in platform engineering projects that support various research and development activities within the company.

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Thomas Boni (R2Devops)

Thomas Boni, Co-Founder and CTO of R2Devops, leverages 8+ years of building software supply chains to now ensure they are secure and compliant for companies. A strong believer in the power of inner source, Thomas views it as the non-negotiable path to revolutionizing software supply chains. His passion for rapid iteration drives him to relentlessly test, gather feedback, and refine solutions, cutting through complexity to achieve continuous improvement at speed.

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Thomas Froment (Eclipse Foundation)

Thomas is a passionate software engineer who has been developing DevOps transformation programs for years. He most recently served as the co-founder and CTO of Komyu, a consulting firm specializing in cross-functional management and ISPO/OSPO deployment. Thomas previously held several roles at Thales, including Head of DevOps & IT, Inner Source Transformation Lead and Agile coach. Thomas joined the Eclipse Foundation in February 2024 as Eclipse IDE Program Manager. Since 2024, he has been a Member of InnerSource Commons where he leads the French-speaking local chapter.

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Dr Wolfgang Gehring (Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH)

Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an Ambassador for Open and Inner Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation (MBTI). A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to help enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. He has a passion for communities, leads MBTI’s Open Source Program Office, is a member of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence, and a Director of the Eclipse Foundation. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is an avid traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

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Yuki Hattori (GitHub)

Yuki Hattori is a Senior Architect at GitHub with a strong background in cloud technology and DevOps. He enjoys helping customers optimize their services and processes. As a proponent of InnerSource, Yuki is leading in the InnerSource downstream movement and also serves as a community organizer in Japan. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and contributing to the growth of the InnerSource community.

What is the InnerSource Commons?

The InnerSource Commons (InnerSourceCommons.org) aka ISC is a consortium of representatives from over 500 companies and institutions. It utilizes open source methods to provide organizations pursuing inner sourcing a forum for discussing and improving the practice of InnerSource through the sharing of experiences (under the Chatham House Rule, creation and review of InnerSource patterns, and the open exchange of ideas.

Code of Conduct

All participants, vendors, and guests at InnerSource Commons events are required to abide by the code of conduct. All related conversations in the InnerSource Slack Channel will still be considered to fall under Chatham House Rules: information discussed can be shared but not attributed. Interested in getting involved? Email summit@innersourcecommons.org or join the conversation on the #innersourcecommons slack channel!