Deb Bryant, US Policy Director

Deb’s deep appreciation of open source models and culture comes out nearly two decades years of management in open source organizations – leading enterprise IT policy in state government as an early adopter of open standards and open source; building one of the world’s pioneering open-source labs at Oregon State University; conducting and publishing research and consulting to US and foreign government as a trusted advisor on adoption of open source; and more recently building and leading one of the world’s largest and most influential Open Source Program Offices (OSPO) at Red Hat for eight years. In 2010 Deb was honored with the O’Reilly Media Open Source Award in recognition of her contribution to open source communities and for her pioneering advocacy of open standards and the use of open-source software in the public sector. You can follow her on Twitter as @debbryant