Managing Director, Research and Advisory Services - Bitergia; Strategic Advisor, Hedera Foundation

Diane led Community Development for Red Hat's Hybrid Cloud Platform focusing on cross-community collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and driving both customer and developer community initiatives to ensure the success of OpenShift, the world's leading Open Source Container Platform along with Operators, OKD, OpenStack and other Cloud Native initiatives at Red Hat. She serves as a co-chair, of the OKD Working group, the Community Distribution of Kubernetes that powers Red Hat OpenShift. https://okd.io Diane was the founder and executive director of OpenShift Commons, based the ecosystem-based open source community model that focuses on cross-community collaboration and creating healthy engaged peer-to-peer connections, learn more about OpenShift Commons here: http://commons.openshift.org She has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and manufacturing systems at F500 corporations for over 30 years. She believes deeply in the transformative power of open source to drive the development of innovation that benefits both enterprises and humanity at large. Diane believes strongly in giving back to the communities locally and founded GetMakered Labs (http://www.getmakered.com) to help launch hyper-local makerspaces to make technology more accessible and help connect people to new technology by making magical interactive experiences possible anywhere. She is long-time XBRL evangelist (www.xbrl.org) and supporter of Open Government and Transparency initiatives and having served on both the XBRL International Steering Committee and the Best Practices Board, chairing the software interoperability working group and the XBRL Rendering Technical Working Group, and has been a past member of the RIXML.org working group. She was named one of the top 100 Cloud Professionals on Google+: http://getvoip.com/blog/2014/04/23/top-100-cloud-pros-google and one of 2015 Top Ten Women in Cloud http://cloud-now.org/top-10-women-in-cloud-2015/