David Herrmann is a software engineer at Red Hat working on the linux kernel.

A mindful polyglot, Vincent Batts has spent the last 15 years participating in the Linux and open source community. Presently involved on the Open Containers Initiative as a maintainer and on the technical board. Still a current member of Slackware Core Team and has been a maintainer on the Docker project as well as the Go programming language for Fedora and Red Hat. He is currently working on container architecture in Red Hat's Office of Technology.

Tom works at Red Hat, and hacks on networkd and bus1.

Daniel Walsh has worked in the computer security field for over 30 years.
Dan is a Consulting Engineer at Red Hat. He joined Red Hat in August 2001.
Dan leads the Red Hat Container Engineering team since August 2013, but has
been working on container technology for several years. Dan has made many
contributions to the docker project. Dan has also developed a lot of the
software on Project Atomic. He has led the SELinux project, concentrating on
the application space and policy development. Dan helped developed sVirt,
Secure Virtualization as well as the SELinux Sandbox back in RHEL6 an early
desktop container tool. Previously, Dan worked Netect/Bindview's on
Vulnerability Assessment Products and at Digital Equipment Corporation working on the Athena Project, AltaVista Firewall/Tunnel (VPN) Products.
Dan has a BA in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross and a MS in
Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Twitter: rhatdan
Blog: danwalsh.livejournal.com
Email: dwalsh@redhat.com

I'm a Production Engineer at Facebook on the Operating Systems team.

CTO & co-founder at Kinvolk. Into rkt, bpf, systemd, kubernetes.

Drew is currently part of the Mender.io open source project to deploy OTA software updates to embedded Linux devices. He has worked on embedded projects such as RAID storage controllers, Direct and Network attached storage devices and graphical pagers.

He has spent the last 7 hears working in Operating System
Professional Services helping customers develop production
embedded Linux systems. He has spent his career in embedded
software and developer tools and has focused on Embedded Linux
and Yocto for about 10 years. He is currently a Technical
Solutions Engineer at Northern.Tech (the company behind the OSS project Mender.io), helping customers develop safer, more secure connected devices.

He worked previously as a Technical Project Manager and Professional Services Engineer for Mentor Graphics. Previous to that, he has worked with Red Hat, Intel, and Monta Vista Software. He was raised in Tampa, Florida and attended the University of Florida.

Marcel Holtmann is working at Intel's Open Source Technology Center. He is the maintainer of the BlueZ open source Bluetooth stack and has been working on Bluetooth technology since 2001. Marcel chairs the Bluetooth Internet Working Group and is a member of the Bluetooth Architectural Review Board.

Michael Olbrich is an open-source developer with a focus on platform integration on embedded Linux. He works as a full-time Linux developer for Pengutronix. His job is to provide a smooth Linux experience on embedded devices from init systems to graphics and multimedia frameworks. He is the main maintainer for PTXdist, an embedded Linux distribution. He has contributed to systemd in an effort to increase its usefulness on embedded systems.

Chris Down is a Production Engineer on Facebook's Web Foundation team, based in London. He is responsible for debugging and resolving major production issues, and improving the reliability and efficiency of Facebook's systems. He also is a contributor to Facebook's open source efforts, including osquery, an operating system instrumentation framework for OS X and Linux.

Ben Breard is the Technology Product Manager for Linux Containers at Red Hat where he focuses on driving the container roadmap, RHEL Atomic Host, and evangelizing open source technology in his free time.

• Education: Dresden University of Technology, diploma in Computer Science
• 2004 - 2016: Ubuntu developer at Canonical, most recently focusing on plumbing (particularly systemd), building distribution-wide CI, and release management
• since 2017: Developing Cockpit at Red Hat

Software engineer at Endocode (https://endocode.com), Berlin.

Djalal is an Open Source developer, systemd project maintainer, and a Linux kernel developer. Currently Djalal works on Embedded Linux projects and device drivers. He also works on the Linux kernel Self Protection Project, adding security mechanism for Containers, Embedded Systems and IoT. In the past, he worked on several research projects around Security and Software Verification based on compilers and GCC plug-ins.