Tim O’Reilly
Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media
Day 1 — December 2, 2026
Opening Keynote: Why AI Needs Open Source
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, a leading technology publishing and learning company. A longtime advocate for open source software and technology innovation, he has played an influential role in shaping many of the ideas that have transformed the technology industry, including open source, Web 2.0, the Maker movement, and government as a platform.
In 1998, O’Reilly helped bring together leading figures in the free software community at a pivotal gathering that contributed to the adoption and popularization of the term “open source.” Through O’Reilly Media’s publications, conferences, and educational initiatives, he has helped advance open technologies, foster developer communities, and promote the exchange of technical knowledge.
O’Reilly is the author of WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, which explores the impact of emerging technologies on business, work, and society. His current interests focus on the economic and societal implications of artificial intelligence, particularly how technological systems can be designed to create broadly shared value. He is also a co-founder of the AI Disclosures Project, a nonprofit initiative examining the emerging human-AI economy.
Dario Taraborelli
Founder and Director, Open Source for Science Fund, Renaissance Philanthropy
Day 1 — December 2, 2026
Keynote: Sustaining Open-Source Ecosystems
Dario Taraborelli is an open science leader with over 20 years of experience advancing scientific collaboration and knowledge production through principles of openness. He is the founder and Director of the Open Source for Science Fund, a multi-donor initiative at Renaissance Philanthropy dedicated to supporting and strengthening the open source software ecosystem underpinning scientific research.
Previously, Dario led a portfolio of partnerships and philanthropic investments in open science and open source at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, directing over $130 million in funding toward tools, platforms, and organizations that enable open scientific collaboration. Earlier, he served as Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia and its sister projects.
His research interests include online collaboration and commons-based peer production. He is a co-author of the Altmetrics Manifesto, a founder of the Initiative for Open Citations, and a former Marie Curie and ISI Foundation fellow. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Jason (Jay) Healey
Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Day 2 — December 3, 2026
Morning Keynote (with Chris Wysopal)
Jason (Jay) Healey is a Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, specializing in cyber risk, conflict, and international security. He has extensive experience spanning government, industry, and academia, with a focus on cybersecurity policy, cyber conflict, and critical infrastructure protection.
Healey was a founding member of the White House Office of the National Cyber Director and previously served as Director for Cyber Policy at the White House. He also helped establish the world’s first military cyber command in 1998, pioneering early approaches to cyber threat intelligence. In the private sector, he established Goldman Sachs’ first cyber incident response capability and served as Vice Chair of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC).
Previously, he was the founding director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative. He is the editor of A Fierce Domain: Cyber Conflict, 1986 to 2012, a foundational history of cyber conflict, and serves on the review boards of the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences.
Chris Wysopal
Chief Security Evangelist, Veracode
Day 2 — December 3, 2026
Morning Keynote (with Chris Wysopal)
Chris Wysopal is the Co-Founder and Chief Security Evangelist of Veracode, a leading application security company. A pioneer in software security and vulnerability research, he has spent more than three decades advancing secure software development, vulnerability disclosure practices, and the broader cybersecurity industry.
Before co-founding Veracode in 2006, Wysopal served as Vice President of Research and Development at @stake, a security consulting firm subsequently acquired by Symantec. In the 1990s, he was an original member of The L0pht, an influential hacker research collective that helped bring widespread attention to software vulnerabilities and systemic security weaknesses.
Wysopal has testified before the U.S. Congress on cybersecurity and software vulnerabilities and played an important role in establishing industry guidelines for responsible vulnerability disclosure. He is the author of The Art of Software Security Testing and has contributed to the development of security tools, including L0phtCrack and Netcat for Windows. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.