Alan Martinovic is a Software Consultant for the domain of Linux and IoT with eight years of experience in the field of embedded Linux engineering. Alan has been involved in all steps of a lifecycle of an embedded Linux product from early pre market evaluation phase through automating device assembly processes all the way to support and maintenance of production devices in the field and managing customer’s technical expectations and identifying product use cases.

Alan has experience in a wide range of topics related to embedded Linux with a sub specialization in build systems (Yocto, buildroot, ptxdist), QA pipelines (gitlab, jenkins, avokado, labgrid) and embedded system architecture (systemd. Dbus, userspace IPC). He is currently working for Northern.Tech as an external consultant to improve the technical presales process.

Alex has been working with embedded and Internet of Things devices since the mid-nineties.

Around the turn of the century he started playing around with this "Linux" stuff he found on some 1.44in floppy disc distros and wondered if he could get this up and running on the single-board computers the company he worked at made.

He hasn't looked back...

Amir Kirsh is a C++ lecturer at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo and at Tel-Aviv University, previously the Chief Programmer at Comverse, after being CTO and VP R&D at a startup acquired by Comverse. He is also a co-organizer of the annual Core C++ conference and a member of the ISO C++ Israeli National Body. Recently Amir joined Incredibuild as a C++ Dev Advocate.

Andrei Gherzan has been living in the FOSS world for 10 years+. During this period of time, he was involved in different projects working at various layers of the Linux ecosystem. With strong experience in automotive, Over-The-Air (OTA) updates and software architecture, Andrei played various roles in both start-up companies and corporations understanding the nuances of FOSS in various environments.

He is currently working for Huawei's Open Source Technology Center as a Principal Open Source Architect.

Bruce has been working professionally with Linux since 2000, and a user since
1995. He currently works as a Principal Systems Engineer for AMD, spending
time as maintainer for the Yocto project reference kernel, meta-virtualization
and meta-cloud-service slayers. Although most of Bruce's effort is spent in the
kernel and virtualization, his experience ranges from build systems and shell
scripting, to userspace and graphics toolkits. Bruce has spoken at ELC in the
past, at internal conferences/showcases and technology presentations to smaller
audiences.

Require a lot from himself and want to extend his knowledge. He's now focused on Linux embedded systems but also is interested in the modern automotive industry and microcontroller programming. A lover of Japanese culture and a self-taught of the Japanese language.

David Reyna has been part of the Wind River Linux team since 2005.

David is a long time contributor to Yocto Project, including the Conference Team, the Working Group, the Advocacy Group, the 5-Year Planning team, and is the maintainer for Toaster and the SRTool.

Drew is currently a Technical Solutions Architect for the Torizon Industrial Linux system at Toradex. He previously was part of the Mender.io open-source project to deploy OTA software updates to embedded Linux devices. He has worked on embedded projects such as RAID storage controllers, Direct and Network-attached storage devices, and graphical pagers.

He has spent the last 10 years working in Operating System Professional Services helping customers develop production embedded Linux systems. He has spent his career in embedded software and developer tools and has focused on Embedded Linux and Yocto for about 15 years.

Drew has spoken at various conferences, including Embedded Systems Conference, All Systems Go, Embedded Linux Conference, and FOSDEM.

He worked previously as a Technical Project Manager and Professional Services Engineer for Mentor Graphics. Previous to that, he has worked with Red Hat, Intel, and Monta Vista Software. He was raised in Tampa, Florida, and attended the University of Florida.

Harald is a long time developer who worked in a wide range of different fields and roles, mostly, but not exclusively, as developer in projects where C++ played an important role.

He works as a freelancer in Stockholm, currently in an assignment at Tobii, the global leader in eye tracking and a pioneer of attention computing.

In his spare time he likes to be with his family, contribute to open source software and manage communities. One of his favorite activities is organizing the Stockholm C++ meetup group, StockholmCpp.

Senior Product Line Manager – Wind River Systems Linux
Jay is the product line manager for Linux at Wind River Systems. Wind River Systems is the market leader for commercially supported embedded Linux and offers a source-based Linux distribution builder derived from the Yocto Project “Wind River Linux” as well as a binary distribution “Wind River Linux Distro”.

Jay has built an extensive career in product management including using social media for client collaboration, product positioning, driving future product directions, and evangelizing the capabilities and future directions for dozens of enterprise products.

In addition to his product management experience, Jay has held a variety of technology roles at including marketing, manager of a technical architecture team, briefing center staff presenter, SAP systems management consultant, and a system programmer and administrator.

Josef has been active for more than 15 years as a "Complete”-Stack developer for industrial controls by now. He's done everything from debugging hardware to writing drivers, from application development to web front ends.

A passion for showing, telling and teaching people in a both entertaining and engaging way led Josef to northern.tech, where he tries to make the world a better, and more secure place by enabling OTA updates for as many devices as possible.

Taking this passion, combining it with a keen interest in building systems and how they can be brought to the next generation of developers, Josef has been awarded Yocto Project Ambassador status and is a practicing Gitpod Community Hero.

As such, Josef has also reached many thousands of aspiring developers not only through his presentations at various events and conferences but also by livecoding sessions and webinars.

Joshua is a Software Engineer for Garmin since 2009. He has been using the Yocto project since 2016 and is a member of the OpenEmbedded Technical Steering Committee

Marta Rybczynska has network security background, 20 years of experience in Open Source including 15 years in embedded development.

She has been working with embedded operating systems like Linux and various real-time ones, system libraries and frameworks up to user interfaces. Her specialties are architecture-specific parts of the Linux kernel. In the past, Marta served as Vice-President and treasurer for KDE e.V. She has been involved in various Open Source projects, and also contributing kernel-related guest articles for LWN.net.

In 2021, she founded Syslinbit, an Open Source consulting company. She has been contributing to the Eclipse Oniro project from April 2021 as a consultant.

She has experience with presentations on both scientific and free software conferences, including LinuxCon, Open Source Summit, Embedded Linux Conference, Akademy, FOSDEM and FOSS-north.

Michael Opdenacker is the current maintainer of the BitBake and Yocto Project Manuals. He started using OpenEmbedded in 2004, being blessed by guidance from some of the Founding Fathers, in particular Mickey Lauer and Phil Blundell. After a long pause, he is back and happy to see what has changed, and what hasn't.

Quentin is an embedded Linux and Linux kernel engineer mainly working in BSP development and maintenance. He currently works at Theobroma Systems Design und Consulting GmbH.

He has presented multiple talks at Embedded Linux Conferences and has contributed mainly to the Linux kernel and U-Boot bootloader.

His experience with Yocto Project goes from trainer, BSP maintenance, support on IRC to contributions to the documentation.

Richard Weinberger is a long term contributor to various open source projects, in the Linux project he maintains UBIFS, UserModeLinux and the MTD subsystem.
At day he runs a small contracting company, sigma star gmbh, which provides software consulting services with focus on security and Linux.

Principal Yocto Engineer at Arm Ltd.

Saul has been involved with the Yocto Project over the last 10+ years, working closely with the maintainers in the early days, and is current the co-maintainer for devtool and eSDK. Saul has maintian various user-space recipes and contributed to various core classes and tooling over those years. He has spoken at the various LinuxCon Events and Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux Conference and at past Usenix and JavaOne conferences. He has also presented at other regional and local Linux users groups around the world and served on the Usenix and Java Virtual Machine Conference Committees.

Tim Orling is a Principal Software Engineer at Konsulko Group. Tim joined Konsulko Group at the end of 2021. Tim was elected to the OpenEmbedded Board in 2022. He has spent many years as a volunteer developer for OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project. He has been an open source software and embedded hardware enthusiast for many years. He taught in a university setting for more than 5 years and has given many well-received training sessions and technical talks at conferences. Tim is currently working in areas of over the air updates, secure boot and disk encryption. Tim has driven updates in the Python recipe infrastructure to keep up with upstream packaging changes and the introduction of Rust extensions. Tim has been tinkering at home with microcontrollers via Zephyr Project, MicroPython and CircuitPython.

With 14 years of experience designing and building continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) solutions for a variety of embedded software stacks. I am currently employed for Linaro as a Senior Engineer. I have spent the last couple of years building AWS infrastructure for TuxSuite (https://tuxsuite.com/) .