Alan Clark is an experienced industry and corporate leader who specializes in engineering external research and development. He currently contributes to open source as a member as a Director for the Open Mainframe Project. He also participates as an individual contributor to many additional open source projects and foundations. Alan is a member of the CTO Office and Director for Industry Initiatives, Emerging Standards and Open Source at SUSE.

Len Santalucia has been in the IT industry since 1973. He is presently the Chief Technology Officer and the Business Development Manager for Vicom Infinity, a Converge Company, the Chairperson for the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project Governing Board, a member of the IBM Z Academic Initiative advocate leadership team, an Advisory Board member at Hofstra, VCU, and NCAT Universities, an IBM Champion, and the consulting specialist for the Binghamton University ES2 Research Center. Len is also a 30 year IBM veteran. Len was a Senior Consulting Certified Sales Specialist for IBM Americas Linux Impact Team and a Certified IBM Systems and IT Specialist. He has vast experience with Data Center Design and Implementation, Linux, z/OS, z/VSE, z/VM, and their associated subsystems as well as with today’s emerging Mobile, Cloud, Big Data and Analytics, Security, and Social Media technologies. He was also the first member of the elite IBM Linux Impact Team formed in 2000. In this role, he specialized in Linux, Open Systems, Large Scale Virtualization, Object Oriented, LAN, and Web 2.0 technologies for the Financial Services and Banking Sector. Len is a key liaison in providing IBM customer requirements into the IBM Systems hardware and software labs and co-sponsors the IBM z Systems Executive Councils and User Groups across the East coast. He is also frequently sought after for presenting IBM's Systems Hardware, Software, Linux, Virtualization, and OSS Strategy and Directions at the IBM Executive Briefing Centers, IBM Linux Center of Competence, IBM Palisades Conference Center, IBM Hawthorne Research Center, IBM Top Gun Classes, International Conferences, Consultant Conferences, as well as to individual customers all over the world. He has established thousands of contacts at business, technical, and financial levels in public and private sector organizations worldwide.

Meredith is the VP, IBM Z Ecosystem, helping to build skills and a strong community of partners for IBM Z. She and her team work with clients, universities, students, professional developers and partners around the world to build critical skills needed in the marketplace by IBM and the broader ecosystem. She also leads developer outreach activities including hackathons, meetups, and trial programs to increase awareness of the platform. Meredith has worked with a broad range of IBM software solutions and much of her background is in the Business Intelligence and analytics field where she has worked as a business analyst, enterprise implementation consultant, program manager and leader for Business Analytics technical and sales enablement. Meredith has recently been serving as the IBM Liaison to the SHARE Board and was appointed as the IT Industry Subcommittee Chair for the State of California Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships.