Danese Cooper

A renowned open source evangelist, Danese is VP of Special Initiatives at NearForm, President at InnerSource Commons Foundation, and formerly Head of Open Source at Sun Microsystems, Intel & PayPal. She served as the CTO of Wikimedia Foundation, and has served on the boards of the Drupal Association, the Open Source Initiative and the Open Hardware Association and has advised Mozilla and the Apache Software Foundation. She also runs a successful open source consultancy, which counts the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation among its clients.