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Linaro Connect 2025
Boosting the Next Wave of Arm Innovation
14-16 May 2025 | Lisbon, Portugal

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Keynote Speakers

  • Grant Likely

    Grant Likely

    Chief Technology Officer

    Linaro

    Grant Likely is a Linux kernel developer and maintainer of the Device Tree subsystem. Grant's first involvement with Linux development was back in 2004 while working on an embedded system. Linux didn't support his platform, so after he got Linux to boot, he posted his changes publicly and got them merged into mainline. Since then, he has been actively involved in improving the state of embedded Linux and has worked with many different embedded systems. Currently, Grant chairs the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board and is a Fellow at Linaro.

  • Mike Bursell

    Mike Bursell

    Executive Director

    Confidential Computing Consortium

    Mike Bursell is the Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, having been involved since its foundation in 2019, and Co-chair of the OpenSSF’s Global Cyber Policy working group. He is one of the co-founders of the open source Enarx project and was CEO and co-founder of the start-up Profian. He has previously served on the Governing Boards of the CCC and the Bytecode Alliance and currently holds advisory board roles with various start-ups. Previous companies include Red Hat, Intel and Citrix, with roles in security, virtualisation and networking. He regularly speaks at industry events in Europe, North America and APAC and has a YouTube channel dedicated to cybersecurity education. Professional interests include: Confidential Computing, Cyber Policy, the EU Cybersecurity Resilience Act (CRA), Linux, trust, open source software and community, security, decentralised and distributed systems, Web3, blockchain. Mike has an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Open University, and is author of "Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud", published by Wiley. He holds over 100 patents and previously served on the Red Hat patent review committee.

  • Marta Rybczyńska

    Marta Rybczyńska

    Founder

    Ygreky

    Marta Rybczynska has network security background, 20 years of experience in Open Source including 15 in embedded development. She has been working with embedded operating systems like Linux and various real-time ones, system libraries and frameworks up to user interfaces. Her specialties are architecture-specific parts of the Linux kernel. In the past, Marta served as Vice-President and treasurer for KDE e.V. She is involved in various Open Source projects, and also contributing kernel-related guest articles for LWN.net. She's working on security in the Eclipse Foundation, and also a member of the security team of the Yocto Project. She has experience with presentations on both scientific and free software conferences, including LinuxCon, Open Source Summit, Embedded Linux Conference, Akademy and FOSDEM.

  • Leendert van Doorn

    Leendert van Doorn

    SVP Engineering

    Qualcomm

    Leendert van Doorn holds the position of Senior Vice President at Qualcomm, where he leads the Central Software Engineering (CSE) organization. In this capacity, he oversees Qualcomm's software strategy and spearheads the company's AI Software initiatives. Before that, he was a Distinguished Engineer/VP in Microsoft Azure Core team where he is best known for his work to enable ARM64 servers as first-class citizens in Microsoft Azure datacenters. He has also been working on disaggregation computing and he represented Microsoft on the board of Directors for the Compute Express Link (CXL) and the Gen-Z organizations.

  • Dr Xiong

    Dr Xiong

    Chairperson of openEuler Committee

    openEuler

    Xiong Wei is the Chairman of the openEuler Committee and the Vice Chairman of the Technical oversight Committee of the OpenAtom Foundation. Xiong Wei graduated from Nankai University with a doctor's degree in engineering and has been engaged in the R&D of system software such as operating systems for a long time. Worked as a R&D leader in companies such as TurboLinux, WindRiver, and Huawei. In-depth technical background and industry understanding of operating systems.

  • Kate Stewart

    Kate Stewart

    Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems

    Linux Foundation

    Kate Stewart is Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation. She works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Since joining the foundation ten years ago, she has launched the Zephyr and ELISA Projects, among others. With more 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China.

  • Henk van Bremen

    Henk van Bremen

    Vice President Development

    ADlink

    Degree in Civil Engineering and Computer Sciences. Based in Taiwan since 1991, working in the embedded computing industry throughout this time. With ADLINK since 2004 as General Manager of the Computer on Modules division. Currently serving as Vice President for Development at ADLINK Technology.

  • Pedro Matos

    Pedro Matos

    Business Development Manager

    Siemens Energy

    Since February 2024, Pedro joined Siemens Energy in southwest Europe business development team, leading Portugal market, coordinating infrastructure business in the region and supporting major customers. Since 2011, Pedro has been working on the Energy Transition, leading EDP networks business strategy team and several projects on smart grids, renewables integration, flexibility, storage… Fostering cross-team collaboration and permanent overview on the energy sector, capturing the best value creation opportunities. Since 2003, after his Electrical Engineering graduation, Pedro started on the telecom sector, working first for Siemens R&D, and then as a wireless engineer and product manager for Huawei. After his MBA he joined Navigator marketing division in the Paper industrial sector. Pedro loves to travel around the world, immerse himself in different cultures and interact with people in 7 languages. Early riser who takes too many photos and is always up for a good challenge!

  • Richard Kerslake

    Richard Kerslake

    Market Development Manager for Connected Device Standards

    FIDO Alliance

    Richard is the Market Development Manager for Connected Device Standards at the FIDO Alliance, focusing on edge/IoT technologies like FIDO Device Onboard (FDO). Joining in 2023, he previously managed Intel’s Edge Controls platform and led efforts on AI vision-based industrial robotics. Richard also supported Secure Device Onboard (SDO), now a key component of FDO, and co-chaired the FDO IoT Working Group. Before Intel, he had a long career at Texas Instruments, working in wireless and IoT. Richard lives in San Jose, CA.

  • Bhumik Patel

    Bhumik Patel

    Director, Software Ecosystem Development

    Arm

    Bhumik Patel has 20+ years of expertise in driving technical partnerships across the virtualization and cloud software ecosystem. This includes formalizing joint GTM strategies, solutions development and enablement in a cross-functional manner delivering successful business results. Bhumik Patel serves as Director, software ecosystem development at Arm. In that role, Bhumik is responsible for driving the software GTM strategy and execution for the Arm Infrastructure group’s vision of powering next-generation cloud to edge infrastructure. He leads a team that incubates, builds, and grows partnerships across the cloud to edge software ecosystem to drive adoption of the Arm Neoverse based platforms. Prior to joining Arm, Bhumik was Director, Strategic Alliances at VMware responsible for leading business initiatives with strategic partners across the VMware product portfolio. He has presented at many leading industry conferences and partner events and has a MS in Computer Science degree from Cal State Long Beach.

  • John Thompson

    John Thompson

    Senior Director of Software and Ecosystems

    Arm

    John is Senior Director of Software and Ecosystems in the IoT business at Arm, where he and his team define and deliver software products and tooling to serve a broad range of markets, from smart home to industrial vision and robotics.

  • Pedro Miguel Justo Teixeira

    Pedro Miguel Justo Teixeira

    Partner Software Developer

    Microsoft

    Pedro Miguel Justo Teixeira is a Partner Software Developer in the Microsoft CoreOS team, specializing in new platform bring-up, ABI and Exception Model, and mixed-architecture compatibility layers. Known as the "Itanium Guy" in some circles, Pedro has a background in Electrical Engineering and extensive experience as a kernel developer. This unique combination allows Pedro to effectively bridge the gap between hardware and software architecture, as well as micro-architecture design. Pedro is also a member of Arm’s Technical Advisory Board.

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