Everyone recorded as speaking at UN Open Source Week, across years, linked to their profile.
| Person | Role / affiliation | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 'Bosun Tijani | Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy · Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Nigeria | 2025 |
| Adriana Groh | CEO · Sovereign Tech Agency | 2025, 2026 |
| Ahunna Eziakonwa | Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Regional Director for Africa, UNDP | 2026 |
| Alberto Gago | Director General, Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) | 2026 |
| Amandeep Singh Gill | Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies · UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) | 2025, 2026 |
| Amandine Le Pape | COO and Co-Founder, Element; Co-founder, Matrix.org Foundation · Element | 2025 |
| Ambrose Wong | Session Lead · UNU-EGOV | 2025 |
| Amreen Taneja | DPG Standard Lead · Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) | 2025 |
| Annisa Paramita | First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the United Nations in New York | 2026 |
| Armando Manzueta | Vice Minister for Public Innovation and Digital · Government of the Dominican Republic | 2025, 2026 |
| Assane Gueye | Co-Director, the Upanzi Network · Carnegie Mellon University – Africa | 2025 |
| Assista De | Deputy Regional Director, UNDP RBA | 2026 |
| Astor Nummelin Carlberg | Executive Director · OpenForum Europe (OFE) | 2025 |
| Aura Cifuentes | Session Lead · Co-Develop | 2025 |
| Avni Khatri | Senior Director, Education · GitHub | 2025 |
| Bakhtiyar Mukhametkaliyev | Vice Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan | 2026 |
| Bastien Guerry | Chief Free Software Officer · French Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) | 2025 |
| Belfor Fabio García Henao | Former Vice Minister of Digital Transformation · Government of Colombia | 2025 |
| Bernardo Mariano Joaquim Junior | Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer, UN Office for Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT) | 2026 |
| Bernardo Mariano Junior | Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer · UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) | 2025 |
| Brian Behlendorf | Independent Advisor, Consultant, Investor, and Board-Level Director | 2026 |
| Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava | Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, International Telecommunication Union | 2026 |
| Craig Ramlal | Head of the Control Systems Group · University of the West Indies | 2025 |
| Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar | President · InnerSource Commons Foundation | 2025 |
| Daniel Mazur | Councilor for Smart City, ICT, Science, Research, and Innovation; Member of the Prague City Council · Prague City Council | 2025 |
| Daniel Murenzi | Principal Engineer · East African Community | 2025 |
| David Cuartielles | Co-founder, Arduino; Senior Lecturer, Malmö University · Arduino / Malmö University | 2025 |
| David Manset | Senior Project Coordinator · International Telecommunication Union (ITU) | 2025 |
| David Porteous | Session Lead · Accion | 2025 |
| Dmitry Mariyasin | Deputy Executive Secretary · UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) | 2025 |
| Edoardo Totolo | Session Lead · Accion | 2025 |
| Franck Greverie | Chief Portfolio Officer · Capgemini | 2025 |
| Frederik Blachetta | Partner and Global Public Sector Data and AI Leader · PwC Deutschland | 2025, 2026 |
| Gabriele Columbro | President · Linux Foundation Europe | 2025 |
| Guilherme Canela de Souza Godoi | Director, Division for Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation · UNESCO | 2025 |
| Hakim Hacid | Chief Researcher · Technology Innovation Institute (TII) | 2025 |
| Hannah Aubry | Board Member · Mastodon | 2025 |
| Hon. Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni | Head of Government in charge of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform for the Kingdom of Morocco | 2026 |
| Hon. Amb. Audrey Marks | Minister of Efficiency, Innovation and Digital Transformation, Office of the Prime Minister, Jamaica | 2026 |
| Hon. Liisa-Ly Pakosta | Minister of Justice and Digital Affairs, Republic of Estonia | 2026 |
| Hon. Mr. Ankhbayar Nyamdorj | Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations | 2026 |
| Hon. Nthati Moorosi | Minister of Information, Communications, Science, Technology and Innovation, Kingdom of Lesotho | 2026 |
| Hon. Salima Bah | Minister of Communications, Technology and Innovation, Sierra Leone | 2026 |
| Hon. Sigmund Freund | Minister of Public Administration, Dominican Republic | 2026 |
| Indra Pradana Singawinata | Secretary-General, Asian Productivity Organization (APO) | 2026 |
| Ines O'Farrell | Session Lead · UNU-EGOV | 2025 |
| Jane Munga | Fellow, Africa Program · Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | 2025 |
| Jayantha Jayasuriya | Permanent Representative of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the United Nations · Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations | 2025 |
| Jayshree Venkatesan | Session Lead · Accion | 2025 |
| Jim Zemlin | Chief Executive Officer, Linux Foundation | 2026 |
| John Ellis | President and Head of Product, Codethink | 2026 |
| Jon Lloyd | Session Lead · Co-Develop | 2025 |
| Lucia Velasco | Senior Advisor · UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) | 2025 |
| Lucy Harris | COO · Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) | 2025 |
| Marc Lepage | Digital Technology Innovation Specialist | 2025 |
| Masayuki Yamada | Head of Data Unit, Digital Agency · Digital Agency, Government of Japan | 2025 |
| Maurizio Massari | Permanent Representative of the Italian Republic to the United Nations · Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations | 2025 |
| Mehdi Snene | Senior Advisor for AI and Digital Transformation · UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) | 2025 |
| Michael Downey | Open Source Specialist · United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | 2025 |
| Miller Abel | Deputy Director and Principal Technologist · Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) | 2025 |
| Mithusa Kajendran | Programme Management Consultant · UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) | 2025 |
| Momar Kouta | Senior Statistics Systems Information Officer · African Development Bank | 2025 |
| Moritz Fromageot | Associate Expert · UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) | 2025 |
| Nabiha Syed | Executive Director · Mozilla Foundation | 2025 |
| Nancy Norris | Chair · UNECE-UN/CEFACT | 2025 |
| Naveen Varshan | Session Lead · United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | 2025 |
| Nay Constantine | Session Lead · UNU-EGOV | 2025 |
| Nicholas Gates | Senior Policy Advisor · OpenForum Europe (OFE) | 2025 |
| Nithya Ruff | Head of OSPO · Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 2025 |
| Nora Hauptmann | Partnership Lead · GovStack | 2025 |
| Omar Mohsine | Open Source Coordinator · UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) | 2025 |
| Ozzeir Khan | Director and CIO, Operations and Country Engagement · World Bank | 2025 |
| Prakhar Bhardwaj | Session Lead · UNU-EGOV | 2025 |
| Rebecca MacKinnon | VP of Global Advocacy · Wikimedia Foundation | 2025 |
| Richard Gevers | Head of Service Design and Delivery, Digital Services Unit · Presidency of the Republic of South Africa | 2025 |
| Roberto Di Cosmo | Director · Software Heritage | 2025 |
| Ruth Ikegah | Open Source Manager · OSPO Now | 2025 |
| Ruth Suehle | President, Apache Software Foundation | 2026 |
| Sabrina Farmer | CTO · GitLab | 2025 |
| Sachiko Muto | Senior Researcher, RISE; Chair, OpenForum Europe · RISE Research Institutes of Sweden | 2025 |
| Sarah Steinberg | Head of Global Public Policy Partnerships · LinkedIn | 2025 |
| Sayeed Choudhury | Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure and Director of OSPO · Carnegie Mellon University | 2025 |
| Sergio Gago de Huerta | CTO · Cloudera | 2025 |
| Sheila Warren | CEO · Project Liberty Institute | 2025 |
| Sigmund Freund | Minister of Public Administration · Government of the Dominican Republic | 2025 |
| Stefano Maffulli | Executive Director · Open Source Initiative (OSI) | 2025 |
| Stephanie Hung | CIO · Asian Development Bank (ADB) | 2025 |
| Tiffany Farriss | CEO and Co-Owner · Drupal / Palantir.Net | 2025 |
| Tobi Kasali | Senior Analyst · UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) | 2025 |
| Tomas Lamanauskas | Deputy Secretary General · International Telecommunication Union (ITU) | 2025 |
| Tshilidzi Marwala | Rector and Under-Secretary-General · United Nations University (UNU) | 2025 |
| Vilas Dhar | President and Trustee · The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation | 2025 |
| Vipul Siddharth | Open Source Specialist · UNICEF | 2025 |
| Walid Mathlouthi | Representative · International Telecommunication Union (ITU) | 2025 |
| Wolfgang Gehring | FOSS Ambassador and OSPO Lead · Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation | 2025 |
| Yann LeCun | VP and Chief AI Scientist · Meta | 2025, 2026 |
| Yolanda Martinez | Practice Manager for Digital Development in Latin America and the Caribbean | 2025 |
| Zoran Jordanoski | Session Lead · World Bank | 2025 |