Director of Engineering, OpenStack Foundation
Thierry Carrez is the Director of Engineering at the OpenStack Foundation, helping ensure the long-term health of the OpenStack upstream open source project. He has been the Release Manager for the OpenStack project since its inception, coordinating the effort and facilitating collaboration between contributors. He is the elected chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, which is in charge of the technical direction of the project.
Software Engineer, HP
Sean Dague has been an Open Source developer for most of his professional life. He's part of the HP OpenStack team working to make OpenStack better, contributing to Nova, Devstack, Tempest, and the OpenStack Infrastructure. He created the Mid Hudson Valley Linux Users Group a dozen years ago exposing hundreds to the joys of Open Source.