Dario Taraborelli
Dario is the founder and director of the Open Source for Science Fund, a multi-donor fund by Renaissance Philanthropy launched in 2026 aiming to sustain and evolve the open source stack that powers scientific discovery. He previously led a portfolio of philanthropic investments in open science and open source at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, including the Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) program, which supported for six years multiple libraries and communities in the scientific python ecosystem.
Session
Open source software has fueled every major scientific discovery of the last two decades. Yet as scientific practice races toward agentic workflows, no-code interfaces, and AI-driven hypothesis testing, the open source infrastructure (and the maintainer communities who keep it alive) remain systemically underfunded and not yet designed for AI-native use.