Philippe Ombredanne is a FOSS hacker on a mission to make it easier and safer to reuse FOSS code. He is the maintainer of ScanCode, the industry standard licence detection tool, and other open-source tools for software composition analysis and licence & security compliance at AboutCode.org.

Philippe is the project lead in two supply chain projects funded by NGI0: FOSS Code Supply Chain Assurancewhich is building a new system to help verify the integrity of deployed code packages and validate their origin with external data sources, with the potential to mitigate attacks on open-source packages supply chains such as detecting if a package in use is matching verified code by matching source and binaries exactly and approximately; and Free Software Vulnerability Database which is a resource set up to aggregate software updates.  

Catarina Pereira is a Senior Dissemination and Communication Specialist at Martel Innovate BV. Catarina’s career path started with marketing account management and press consultancy. Before joining Martel, she worked as a Dissemination and Communication team leader and project manager of many Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects in several topics, while co-writing proposals and training her team on Dissemination and Communication management. Currently at Martel, Catarina leads the Communication Task Forces of EUCloudEdgeIoT.eu and Next Generation Internet.

Catarina has a degree in Languages Applied to Business Relations and a bachelor in Communication Sciences from the University of Porto. She speaks Portuguese, Spanish and English.

Christine Plote is founding member and member of the board of the Open Search Foundation. She co-moderates the osf's working group ethics and the project #EthicsInSearch. A communication expert for more than twenty years, she is also responsible for the non-profit organisation's communications as well as the communication activities of the EU-project OpenWebSearch.eu. Her topics are Open Search, ethical aspects of Internet/Web Search, #EthicsInSearch, #SearchLiteracy. When it fits, she also gives talks and webinars in these areas.