Dawn Gibson Wages
Dawn Wages is the Director of Community and Developer Relations at Anaconda, responsible for the most popular AI and ML Python distribution in the world. She is a software engineer, ethical open source advocate, and community leader who previously served as Chair of the Python Software Foundation. Her work emphasizes inclusive practices and sustainable growth in open source ecosystems, combining technical knowledge with attention to equity, sovereignty, and developer collaboration.
When not working on Python, she enjoys watching Star Trek in Philadelphia with her wife and two dogs.
Session
Your intelligent application is your castle, and your security practices are the moat that protects it. Inside your castle, you must aim for full visibility into what you’re running and why, with freedom to iterate without vendor rate limits or surprise API changes. Your moat creates your security perimeter, ensuring no proprietary data leaves your castle and enforcing best practices including data provenance, cryptographically signed models, evaluation tools, build pipelines and reproducible environments.
Build on your infrastructure, answer to your requirements, scale on your terms.