Dan Kohn is Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus. He also helped create the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative as an industry-wide response to the security vulnerabilities demonstrated by Heartbleed.

Molly de Blanc works at the GNOME Foundation, serves on the Open Source Initiative board, is a Debian Developer, and volunteers with the Software Freedom Conservancy. I.e, she is a FOSS activist who talks often about the ethics and ecosystems of OS. She'll be trekking from beautiful New England, which we hear is even colder than NYC. 🥶🥶🥶

Pía Mancini is a democracy activist, open source sustainer, co-founder & CEO at Open Collective - a platform to help open source projects be financially sustainable. She also co-founded and helps run the SustainOSS conference every year (sustainoss.org)

Andy Bonventre leads the Go open source project at Google. Previously he was on the Chrome team focused on developer productivity. (PS This is the emoji that comes up with a search for Go – 🧻🧻🧻–#nocomment) 

Travis Fischer is the Founder & CEO of Saasify, a platform that makes it easy to fund OSS projects by offering paid APIs on top of them. He promised us he'd be sassy; a joke he's never heard before. Previously, Travis worked at Microsoft and FACEBOOK, which – while capitalized – definitely doesn't have as cool a name.

Sumana Harihareswara is an independent consultant who works for nonprofit, for-profit, academic, and
other open source software. She has recently done some successful grant writing to support key Python packaging and distribution tools, and is slowly writing a book on maintainership. If you need a grant, she's your person. 

Daniel Zaltsman is a passionate community leader and developer advocate at DigitalOcean. He helped create and continues to manage Hacktoberfest, runs a typewriter haiku company and loves pronouncing toasts at any occasion possible.