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Florian Bankoley is the Chief Digital Officer of Bosch Mobility, leading the transformation of one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers into a software- and data-driven powerhouse. Appointed in May 2024, Florian drives Bosch Mobility’s digital and IT strategy with a focus on enterprise transformation, Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV), mobility services, and scalable cloud-native platforms.
Florian Bankoley was born on March 11th, 1980 and spent the first half of his childhood in Lomé/Togo. He started his studies in economics at the University of Bayreuth/Germany before completing his Master’s degree in European Management at the ESCP business school after stations in Paris, Oxford and Berlin. Florian Bankoley is married and has two children.
James Eggleston works for the European Space Agency, at the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany. He is the Head of Data Systems Infrastructure Section in the Mission Operations Data Systems Division.
James’ section is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of Ground Data Systems infrastructure for Mission Operations, which includes software for Spacecraft Monitoring and Control, Mission Planning, Data Analytics and Distribution, Mission Simulation and Mission Preparation, as well as supporting the processes and tooling required to create and deliver the solutions for internal customers and ESA member states. The current tool stack involves the use of many open-source products, including Eclipse’s projects such as RCP, RAP, EMF, XText, Sirius, and others.
ESA shapes and develops the space capability of its Member States, necessarily demanding inclusion of new features and technologies – which can conflict with the mission desires of re-using a stable and flight proven infrastructure that is available for decades. The use of open-source solutions is a key enabler to ensure long term availability and great stability for the ESA systems.
John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects for international-scale companies in a range of industries including Automotive, Finance, Medical, and IoT. Headquartered in Manchester, UK, Codethink has pioneered software industry thinking around concepts of trustable software, with a view to improving the quality of software engineering for societal good. Example customers include Arm, Bloomberg, BMW, Bosch, JLR, John Deere, Mercedes-Benz, Panasonic, Volkswagen, and Tesla.
As a former executive at Motorola, Global Technologist at Ford Motor Company, and a consulting and startup veteran, John led or participated in teams that built many of the innovations we see today in connected vehicles on the ground and in the air.
John is the best-selling author of The Zero Dollar Car , a former adjunct professor at University of Notre Dame, as well as a former translator in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
John can be found online @ www.johntellis.com
Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an Ambassador for Open and Inner Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz Group AG 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, and is a member of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence.
In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.
Kenji Kazumura is Senior Professional Engineer at Fujitsu Limited in Japan. After more than five years experience of the compiler development he has been working with Java for the enterprise mission critical systems. Now he is in charge of Fujitsu middleware products such as Interstage Application Server.
He has a lot of experience to optimize the several huge enterprise applications, specifically in the field of mobile communication and financial service, in order to run with high performance and reliability. These systems contribute a great deal to the social infrastructures in Japan. He is also now working to make the cloud environment be more useful with the container and microservices architecture technologies.
Matthias is a product owner and open source enthusiast. He leads the EGit and JGit projects and contributes to Gerrit Code Review.He also worked on Spark and Kafka and recently started contributing to Gardener ( https://github.com/gardener ) enabling Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes clusters on a large scale. He is also a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. Matthias works as a product owner for SAP Cloud Platform and leads its git team.
He holds a PhD and diploma degree in Experimental Physics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Rongze Wang is a senior open-source operations expert who has worked for Huawei for over 20 years. He has been responsible for the developer ecosystem’s “Fertile Soil Program” and worked as the assistant to the chair of the OpenHarmony project group, overseeing its operations.
Currently, he is responsible for open-source and ecosystem development in Huawei’s European region.
James (Jim) Wright is a well-known software architect and attorney who has been working in and around open source for 20 years. Jim is the author of the Universal Permissive License and has been with Oracle since 2009, where he currently serves as Chief Architect, Open Source Policy, Strategy, Compliance, and Alliances.
Before his time at Oracle, Jim was in private practice at Sidley Austin, where he handled a wide variety of technology transactional matters as well as patent litigation. Jim is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and in the decade before starting legal practice, he worked in engineering and management capacities at a variety of different IT enterprises.
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