Ben Caudron is a professor and head of program at the Erasmus University College Brussels. As a sociologist Ben studies the complex relation between technology and society and he regularly writes columns and essays on this topic.

Dr. Philippe De Ryck travels the world to train developers on web security and security engineering. World-leading tech companies, financial institutions, and healthcare companies rely on Philippe to keep their developers up-to-date with the latest security best practices.

Entrepreneur, founder, leader, sparring partner and mentor - scaling organizations, driving change, nurturing culture. Feminist sustainability and free software advocate. Jutta has also been a very early Drupal user (17 years!)

25 years of experience in the IT sector: After holding various engineering roles, Jutta founded her own software development & consulting company, Data in Transit in 2006 and grew it successfully over a decade.
Later, 5 years at eyeo saw her in various roles, including COO, CTO and Managing Director. She led the company until the end of 2022, scaling it from 100 to 250 employees.

Dr. Merlijn Sebrechts is a senior researcher at imec and teaches at Ghent University. He develops deployment platforms and helps companies streamline how they deliver software in the cloud and on devices. He teaches topics such as Systems Design, Open Source ecosystems, and Computer Security. Merlijn has extensive experience building open source communities and is currently serving on the Ubuntu Community Council. He's also worked on a number of open source projects and is currently standardizing WebAssembly System Interfaces for IoT devices together with the W3C and the Bytecode Alliance.