Speaker - Hugh Blemings

Hugh has had a long standing association with Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware and, in particular, Linux and POWER/PowerPC. His career has spanned everything from Linux kernel development to engineering team management, electronics design to product management at the likes of IBM, Canonical and AWS. A long time participant in the free technical commons, he has previously served in a voluntary capacity on the Council of Linux Australia in various roles including President and is a former member of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board. Hugh served as the Executive Director of the OpenPOWER Foundation and was instrumental in the opening up of the POWER ISA to be an Open ISA. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, Hugh currently wrangles the Linux operating systems used at Amazon Web Services on a surprisingly large number of computers with a particularly fun bunch of folk.