Welcome to the SBOMs and Supply Chains devroom!

Alexios Zavras (zvr) is the Chief Open Source Compliance Officer of Intel Corporation. He has been involved with Free and Open Source Software since 1983, before they were called thus. He is a FOSS enthusiast and evangelist for all things Open. Besides his duties in Intel, he is an active participant in a number of industry-wide efforts around compliance issues, like SPDX and OpenChain. He has a PhD in Computer Science after having studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Greece and the United States.

Alexios has attended FOSDEM without fail since the beginning and he has all the T-shirts to prove it.

Kate has been working with Open Source communities for over 25 years. She was one of the founders of the SPDX project, and is a technical committee co-lead. Since she joined the Linux Foundation in 2015, she has been instrumental in launching the Zephyr, RT Linux and ELISA projects.

Thomas Steenbergen specializes in strategic open source management, helping organizations align their open source practices with their objectives. An expert in open source adoption, community building, and compliance – including Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs). Currently he is the executive director at the AboutCode foundation and advisor to the Open Source Program Office at SIVON (ICT co-op of Dutch schools). He previously led OSPO at EPAM and HERE. He is a OSS Review Toolkit, SPDX, TODO group maintainer and a regular contributor to FINOS’s Open Source Readiness and OpenChain. Thomas welcomes discussions on open source topics. For more information about the projects he is involved in and his contact details, visit github.com/tsteenbe.