How Open Source Software intersects with AI

Описание: Talk from the CURIOSS Gathering in Dublin 2026.

Sarah Novotny explores the intersection between open source and AI - how they impact and also distort each other.

Speaker Bio
Sarah Novotny has long been an Open Source champion leading in projects such as Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, NGINX and MySQL. She has previously led an Open Source Ecosystem team from the Microsoft Azure Office of the CTO, an Open Source Strategy group at Google and represented both Microsoft and Google on the Linux Foundation Board of Directors. In the distant past, she ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name.

Sarah’s 20+ years of expertise extends beyond technical realms to encompass developer relations, marketing, sales engineering, and more. She has a proven track record of leading technical operations and development teams while effectively bridging the gap between customer requirements and technical vision.

Her current adventure includes relocating to Dublin Ireland and going back to school in the Political Science Department of Trinity College. There she is applying social data analysis to investigate questions relating to geopolitical impact of technological sovereignty and its implications for trust.