Speakers
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach has spent over a decade developing programming languages, compilers, and software libraries. He is a Principal Architect at NVIDIA, where he leads HPC programming language efforts and drives the technical roadmap for NVIDIA's HPC compilers and libraries. Bryce is passionate about C++ and is one of the leaders of the C++ community. He has served as chair of INCITS/PL22, the US standards committee for programming languages and the Standard C++ Library Evolution group. Bryce served as the program chair for the C++Now and CppCon conferences for many years. On the C++ Committee, he has personally worked on concurrency primitives, parallel algorithms, executors, and multidimensional arrays. He is one of the founding developers of the HPX parallel runtime system.
Alicia Gibb
Alicia Gibb is an advocate for open hardware, researcher, and a hardware hacker. Alicia has worked within the open source hardware community since 2008. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), a non-profit organization to educate the benefits of building and using open source hardware. Alicia founded the Association after founding and chairing the Open Hardware Summit, a conference where the open source hardware community discusses business, manufacturing, legal implications, and all things open source hardware.
Samuel Mbuthia
Samuel Mbuthia leads the WHO Open Source Programme Office. He is based in Berlin at the WHO Division of Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems (WSE) which incorporates the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. Before joining WHO last year, Samuel spent many years working on technology in public health, leading technical aspects of various projects to develop and deploy care coordination tools for health workers. In recent years, he was leading software development capacity-building efforts and heading the Open Source community of practice for the Community Health Toolkit at Medic, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Samuel Mbuthia has an engineering and systems development background with a Master of Science focused on Computer-Based Information Systems.
