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June 23 - 25, 2025
Denver, Colorado
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BoF: Collaboration with Universities and Enterprises OSPO - Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University; Stephanie Liegg, UC Santa Cruz; Amazon; Natali Vlatko, Cisco
Monday June 23, 2025 11:20am - 12:00pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3G
Join the TODO Group and CURIOSS community for an interactive session where attendees can share use cases on how their organizations are investing in academic research. Explore practices for transferring knowledge from academia and the research community.

We welcome open source managers, OSPO leaders, and other stakeholders from organizations and universities engaged in research or interested to learn more.


Speakers
avatar for Nithya Ruff

Nithya Ruff

Director, Amazon OSPO, Amazon
Nithya is the Head of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office. Amazon’s customers value open source innovation and the cloud’s role in helping them adopt and run important open source services. She drives open source culture and coordination inside of Amazon and engagement with... Read More →
avatar for Stephanie Lieggi

Stephanie Lieggi

Executive Director, CROSS/OSPO, UC Santa Cruz
Stephanie Lieggi is executive director for the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) and the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office (OSPO). In her current roles she supports the work of academic-based open source projects and enables a sustainable contributor base... Read More →
avatar for Natali Vlatko

Natali Vlatko

Open Source Lead Architect, Cisco
Natali Vlatko (she/her) is an Open Source Lead Architect at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, and governance. She is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes and a member of the TODO Group Steering Committee. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time. Her academic background... Read More →
avatar for Sayeed Choudhury

Sayeed Choudhury

Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure; Director of the Open Source Programs Office; Executive Director of Open Forum for AI, Carnegie Mellon University
Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure, Director of Open Source Programs Office, and Executive Director of the Open Forum for AI.
Monday June 23, 2025 11:20am - 12:00pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3G
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