(Community Leadership Coach, author of The Business of Belonging, and former Co-founder of CMX)
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-Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, podcaster, and VP / Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft and GitHub. He has been blogging for over 20 years, podcasting for more than 1,000 episodes, and speaking to developers around the world about technology, community, and the open web.
+Sarah Novotny is an open source leader and self-described "Open Source Wonk" whose work has helped shape the modern open source ecosystem for more than two decades. She has led open source strategy and ecosystem teams at Google Cloud and in Microsoft Azure's Office of the CTO, and represented both companies on the Linux Foundation Board of Directors. Along the way she has championed projects and communities including Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, NGINX, and MySQL, and guided the merger of the Node.js and JS Foundations into the OpenJS Foundation. She serves on the advisory board for State of Open Con 2026 and continues to be a leading voice on open governance, developer relations, and the future of open collaboration.
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+Kelsey Hightower is a former Distinguished Engineer at Google and one of the best-known voices in cloud native computing and open source. He is the co-author of *Kubernetes: Up and Running*, the creator of the popular tutorial *Kubernetes The Hard Way*, and a keynote speaker at conferences around the world, including KubeCon and PlatformCon, known for teaching complex infrastructure with clarity and humor.
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-Sarah Novotny is an open source leader and self-described "Open Source Wonk" whose work has helped shape the modern open source ecosystem for more than two decades. She has led open source strategy and ecosystem teams at Google Cloud and in Microsoft Azure's Office of the CTO, and represented both companies on the Linux Foundation Board of Directors. Along the way she has championed projects and communities including Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, NGINX, and MySQL, and guided the merger of the Node.js and JS Foundations into the OpenJS Foundation. She serves on the advisory board for State of Open Con 2026 and continues to be a leading voice on open governance, developer relations, and the future of open collaboration.
+Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, podcaster, and VP / Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft and GitHub. He has been blogging for over 20 years, podcasting for more than 1,000 episodes, and speaking to developers around the world about technology, community, and the open web.
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