Adam is the Co-Founder of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation and has been involved in open source for 20 years. He is also the founder of FLOSS Manuals, Book Sprints, Booktype, and other open source projects. Adam is also a fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation.

Front-End Development & Cyber Security are Adelina's main focuses and interests. The love for web programming and information security made her focus into those fields. Besides the main web programming languages she is practical with Python & Java. She also is a devoted Open-Source technology user and advocate.

Born in Albania, moved for studies in Italy at age of 18. Graduated at the University of Verona, Italy, with Master degree in Quantum Cryptography. He has been working as full stack developer for CLXEurope across Europe. Moved to Ireland in 2015 to help one of the biggest European gambling company, PaddyPower Betfair, to develop the online EGaming platformr. Author of Real Uploader, and a series of small Javascript plugins. Actually working for the biggest Ireland online property company Daft.ie part of Distilled Schibsted international group.

Albert is a Web/App Designer based in Prishtina and Open Data Kosovo is where he spends his workdays. He loves design but what he loves the most is the psychology of design. This led him seek an another perspective how design works. Now his main focuses are user friendliness and user-centered design.

Aldo is a software developer with a sweet spot for cutting edge technology. He uses Atom (the Open Source code editor) to write Ruby on Rails (also Open Source) code in a Linux machine (again, Open Source).

Alex Lakatos has been a Mozilla Representative Mentor and contributor to the Mozilla project for the past six years, based in London. JavaScript developer building on the open web, he has been pushing its boundaries every day. You can check out his github profile or get in touch on twitter. When he’s not programming, he likes to travel the world, so it’s likely you’ll bump into him in an airport lounge.

Alex has been testing open source software for the past 10+ years and has found thousands of bugs. He's been the installation test lead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 during the entire lifecycle of the product. During the last few years he's been working more closely with upstream communities and experimenting with various testing tools and techniques.Alex likes to program in Python and Ruby and is the author and maintainer of several packages. Some more popular ones are django-s3-cache, django-chartit and Cosmic Ray.

Alex considers himself an all-round software engineer. Early on he has worked with embedded systems where he designed hardware as well as software for real-time systems. Later he moved into Telecom, creating software for mobile phone operators from various countries around the world. Moving on, he joined Amazon to work on the OpsWorks service, an infrastructure management tool. Recently he joined CoreOS to continue being on the cutting edge of infrastructure technologies. He's currently developing the next generation of Kubernetes deployment tooling.

Ardi earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of La Sapienza and his M.S. of first level in Internet Technologies from University of Pisa. He primarily develops software in Java, but also has experience with other languages and primarily Open-Source Technologies. He has worked as a webmaster for Fondazione Mondo Digitale (mondodigitale.org) mastering web technologies and LAMP. He is currently working as VAS Senior Specialist for Plus Communication Sh.a.(plus.al) and has designed, developed and deployed many Java Enterprise Applications. Both developers and managers seek out his perspective on software development. He likes best practice and new technologies and is focused at making software development easier, faster, safer and funny.

Ardian is member of FLOSSK, an organization promoting FLOSS in Kosovo.He has been contributing to Fedora and Mozilla in promoting the opennessof the community and their ideology. Lately his is inspired to get the internets to Mount Everest.

Arion Banishta (17 y/o), study Computer Science and Engineering at High School at last year. He is Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS ) and Open Knowledge activist since 2014. The last couple of years, he's been working on promoting and developing Free and Open Source Software through Prishtina Hackerspace and FLOSSK – in general, promoting FLOSS in Kosovo and abroad. Also he is a programmer, a cyber security enthusiast, and work with 3D Printers, Open Hardware and DIYs As an active community guy he is part of some different NGOs and organizations as a Senior Member at Prishtina Hackerspace, Member for more than a two years at FLOSSK, Member at PEN, Mozillian at Mozilla and he's passionately developing Mozilla Community Kosovo He's one of the organizers of Software Freedom Kosova 16 the biggest annual FLOSS Conference in Balkans and other related (FLOSS tech) activities that happened since 2009 in Kosovo including Richard Stallman’s lecture in Prishtina.

Arjen Kamphuis worked for IBM as IT-architect in the '90's. From 2002 to 2010 he advised several European countries on IT-strategy, opensource and open standards. Since 2006 he helps secures the information systems of corporates, national government and NGO's. His work ranges from regular privacy-compliance and security-awareness up to countering espionage against companies, journalists and governments. To keep up technically Arjen is involved with the global hacker-scene and keeps in touch with (former)employees of spy agencies and other professionals who work at the front of critical infrastructure protection.In 2014 he co-wrote the handbook 'Information Security for Journalists' for the London Centre for Investigative Journalism that can be downloaded for free as Creative Commons material in several languages.

Arturo is the co-founder and lead software developer of the OpenObservatory of Network Interference (OONI), a free software projectunder The Tor Project that has been examining internet censorship aroundthe world since 2012. Arturo is also the co-founder and Vice Presidentof the Hermes Centre for Digital Human Rights. He previously worked asone of the core developers of GlobaLeaks, the first open sourcewhistleblowing platform that enables groups and individuals to report oncorruption, human rights violations, and other injustices in a secureway. He also helped develop Tor2Web and Atlas, amongst many otherprojects. Arturo studied mathematics and computer science at Universitàdi Roma “La Sapienza”. He is a well-known security and networkmeasurement researcher and regularly gives lectures at internationalconferences.

Besfort is founder and CEO of OpS-IN. OpS-IN is startup company focused in Spatial information and databases including GIS solutions. He was software developer in different companies. He is member of FLOSSK & HOTOSM. Open Data Advocate.

Bledar loves building software, loves the ideas behind open source (FLOSS)  and what it constantly brings to the software development world and technology in general. Developing better, more secure and robust software to serve a purpose is his goal at the moment

Boris is a young high school student, who's really passionate about Free Open Source culture. His first joined Open Labs at 28 February 2015 and ever since he started contributing to various open source projects such as Mozilla, Fedora, Wikipedia, Nextcloud. He then started to experiment with open source hardware such as Arduino. In 2016 he coorganized OSCAL, the first annual conference in Albania organized to promote software freedom, open source software, free culture and open knowledge. Gave talks at OSCAL 2015, Mozilla & Fedora Activity Days, MozAcademy, Mozilla Tech Speakers Training #2, WikiWeekend 2016. Sysadmin; beginner programmer

Brennan Novak is an informally trained hacker/maker who was formally trained at a prestigous design school before droping out. After over a decade of working and freelancing in entertainment, advertising, and startups Brennan ex-patrioted from those, as well as America. Now residing in Berlin he has been working on brining great design to open source by co-founding Mailpile, Open Source Design, as well as contributing to Qubes OS, Transparency Toolkit, and other privacy and encryption projects.

Brian (bex) Exelbierd is the Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator on behalf of the Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat. At Red Hat, Brian has worked as a technical writer, software engineer, content strategist and now as an Open Source community manager. Brian spends his day enabling the Fedora community by clearing road blocks and easing the way for the community to do great things. Before Red Hat, Brian worked with the University of Delaware as the Director of Graduate and Executive Programs in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and as a Budget Analyst. Brian’s background in software engineering stretches back years before his university work and includes stints at small, medium, large and governemental organizations. “Glue Code” is how a lot of Brian’s projects could be described. These are projects that fill in the interstitial spaces between large systems and provide continuity and ease of use. Follow him on Twitter @bexelbie or via his blog at www.winglemeyer.org.

Bruno is a coder from Croatia with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and English Language. He’s the editor of SitePoint’s PHP channel and a developer evangelist for Diffbot.com.

Chris is polyglot freelance computer programmer who is the author of dozens of free projects and contributor to 100s of others. He has been an official Debian Developer since 2008 and is currently highly active in the Reproducible Builds project where he has been awarded a grant from the Core Infrastructure Initiative to fund my work in this area. In his spare time Chris avid classical musician and Ironman triathlete.

Red Hat Czechia Community Development lead, Pythonista and long-term Fedora user and FLOSS ambassador. My experience in Community development includes: lead organizer for DevConf.cz (220 speakers, 1500 participants, CZ), and QEcamp (70 speakers, 300+ participants; globally distributed events, including CZ and CN), co-lead organizer for Pycon.cz (sponsorships, keynotes, panel). I am also experimenting with some ideas around developing a FLOSS community oriented interview podcast where I tease out inspiring stories from influential and high impact contributors across the globe (https://soundcloud.com/chris-ward-908424795).

Professional software engineer and consultant.Daniel Pocock has developed enterprise grade solutions for some of the giants of the financial services industry, including secure connectivity for UBS (using Apache Camel, the first customer-facing WebRTC contact solution on Wall Street at Interactive Brokers, enterprise-wide real-time monitoring for Barclays Capital (based on Ganglia and a wide range of real-time financial trade capture and risk management solutions for Thomson Reuters. Despite the highly proprietary nature of these enterprises, Pocock has remained a champion of efficient, cost effective free and open source solutions to meet demanding business requirements.Pocock actively contributes to a range of free software projects with a focus on real-time communications (RTC) and VoIP, in particular, Lumicall, JSCommunicator, DruCall for Drupal, reSIProcate, Ganglia and Flactag. Pocock is the author of the RTC Quick Start Guide and is part of the team behind the O'Reilly book Monitoring with GangliaPocock is a Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora Developer and an OpenCSW package maintainer. He is a licensed radio amateur with the callsigns VK3TQR, M0GLR and HB9FZT

Daniele Scasciafratte, the Open Source Multiversal guy, he should work in his web agency, Codeat in Rome, and in the rest of the day collaborate in many opensource projects.

During the office hours for the WordPress world is a Core Contributor, plugin developer, project translator editor and WP Roma meetup co-organizer.

He fight with the superpower of a Mozilla Rep for an open web, is co-leading the participation team of Mozilla Italia and sometimes is an Italian gestures speaker.

Dashamir is a Computer Engineer with experience in software engineering, linux administration, network, configuration managment, documentation writing, etc.

Bulgarian political scientist who currently works as Free Knowledge Ambassador of the Wikimedia Movement to the EU. He is based in Brussels where his major focus is to“fix copyright”. Loves coffee, hates carrot juice and considers Twitter a benign version of the Internet.

Dimitar is an openSUSE Advocate from Bulgaria. In his free time he is spreading the word about it and helping others to adopt it.He works as a business intelligence/data integration consultant at a local Bulgarian company which is a main provider of solutions based on the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform for customers in finance, insurance, and etc. He also has experience with software by other vendors including Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and Tableau.From an OSS perspective he is trying to keep up with the latest developments from Talend, Pentaho, CloverETL, and others. He believes that OSS can provide a reliable alternative to the status quo in various areas of life.

Edmond earned his B.S. in Digital Communication @State University of Milan and since then has worked in telecom companies for nearly 9 years. He held Tier 3 Support Engineer position @Vodafone Albania. He has a good experience in open source by working as Unix System Administrator managing its start-up systems & designing fault tolerant systems. Currently he is VAS Senior Specialist @Plus Communication and is using his experience and new technologies in the field of software development from a different perspective.

Elvis is a digital marketer and consultant. Though not a developer by trade he operates as a professional user and implementer of open source software throughout all his projects and consultancies.

Engjell Rraklli is an entrepreneur. He has a computer science degree and a big passion for game development. He started designing games at the age of 15 and at the age of 21 he started his entrepreneurial journey founding his own software development company. He is very passionate about games in general, studying the technical aspects also the business side of it. Another thing he is very found of is open source technology. He is an avid user of linux and of open source software like libre office, Godot Engine, jMonkey engine and so on so forth.

Young open-source enthusiast, developer, Fedora Ambassador for Czech Republic. Works as Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat and is editor in chief on mojefedora.cz .

Full stack developer, open source addicted, mozilla tech speaker an community member

George Roter is currently Head of Core Contributors, Participation at Mozilla, responsible for increasing the impact of contribution and external collaboration on Mozilla's products and technologies.Prior to Mozilla, George was CEO and co-founder of Engineers Without Borders Canada, a leading innovation, advocacy and talent development NGO aiming to spark and accelerate the system-changing ideas that will end poverty and inequitable development globally. George spent 14 years building EWB Canada into both an organization and also a movement of thousands of young leaders in Canada and Africa.His life’s work is to tackle, headlong, the world’s most complex problems by unlocking the potential of millions to take action. He is a passionate, principled, mobilizer of people and unreasonable ideas, a great motivator, an experienced leader and manager, and a big thinker.George takes pride in bridging perspectives, moving fluidly between the non-profit, business and government sectors.He is humbled to have received three honorary Doctorate degrees (University of Calgary, Queen's University and McMaster University) along with a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo.

He is the one of the three Fedora Ambassador in Hungary, or like the others calls him the "Fedora Gamer". He got this name when he started to play windows games on Fedora linux with Wine approx. six years ago. Nobody thought six years ago we will have so many games on Linux like this year. More than 2000 games, and mostly natively runs on linux. Why we need games on linux ? Not just for fun. We can show the power of Linux, we can get more participants, we can more stronger within the Fedora community. The fact is, the bash not really exciting in all forms :-).We need to show some kind of eyecandy stuffs at the events, Fedora booth. In the hard life, He is an entrepreneur. He manage two companies, and give IT support to our clients, on desktop and server side too. The servers usually are Fedora servers. He has family, with two kids. His hobby is Dj-ing music in clubs.

Geron Imeraj works in "Vivo Communications" for seven years. He began as "Technical Support representatives" (2009) and now works as "Network Administrator" (2014-2017). He is passionate about security, specifically Cyber Security, Cisco Systems and Fedora. He has good skills on CentOS servers, RadiusManager, Backup/Restore server based on BASH Scripting, intrusion detection etc. Geron is studing about the implementation of OpenSource routing/firewall systems to challenge himself and checking for new oportunities.

Giannis Konstantinidis works as Technical Coordinator at Ura Design, an open-source design startup. He is a Mentor, FAmSCo Vice-Chairman and longtime Ambassador at the Fedora Project. Advocating for open web technologies is also on his list as Mozilla Tech Speaker and Representative. He writes for Sitepoint and focuses on free & open-source software. Meanwhile, Giannis is an undergraduate student at the Dept. of Information & Communication Systems Engineering of the University of the Aegean.

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; text-align: left; }Gjergji Hamiti is a PR and Communication strategist. Some of his areas of expertise include political PR and marketing, corporate communications strategies, media marketing campaigns and digital marketing.

Born on March 11^th, 1985 in Tirana, he has been graduated in IR and political science by the UNYT in 2008. In 2012, Gjergji followed his post-graduate studies in Media and Political Communication by City University London.

He is currently the Corporate Communications Officer of Local Web, an international company, Premier Google Partner, offering online marketing services and consultancy to small-medium Italian and British enterprises.

During his professional career, Gjergji Hamiti, has been engaged with different projects, including business sector, public administration, I/NGOs, media and education sector. He he has offered consultancy, for several political organizations and governments inside and outside the country. In addition, Gjergji has leaded and developed communication strategies for big Albanian and international corporates such as M&D, Brown-Forman, Mast-Jaegermeister, Top Media, Local Web and other international non governmental organizations projects such LAWA-UK and IADSA project for “School as Community Centers”.

Gjergji has written several academic and newspaper articles covering political, educational, PR, media and social topics and phenomena’s. He has also been Media and Communication advisor to the minister of Education and Sports of Albania and sessional lecturer by the Albanian Mediterranean University.

Lately, Gjergji is engaged in several social programs focusing on online industry young people capacity building skills. He believes that the current technological revolution offers to the Albanian “millenials” generation great opportunities for their future career. That is why he things it is a prerogative that ICT should be on top of the political agenda so Albania can be a regional leading country in exporting ICT services in the international markets.

Italo Vignoli is a founder and a team member of The Document Foundation, focused on marketing, communications and media relations. He is a spokesman for the project, which he represents at open source conferences around the world. In 2014, he has founded Associazione LibreItalia, the not for profit which groups the Italian LibreOffice community. In 2016, he has been elected to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors.Italo has been advocating free open source software since 2004, when he has entered the OpenOffice community to handle marketing and media relations, in Italy and worldwide. Since then, he has been in charge of OpenOffice until 2010 and then of LibreOffice since 2010.Italo is a communications consultant with over thirty years of experience in the field of high technologies, a member of Ferpi - the Italian Association of Public Relation Professionals - and a visiting professor of high tech marketing, public speaking and public relations in universities and post-graduate courses.Italo Vignoli has a Degree in Humanities at the University of Milan, and Master Degrees in Marketing, Public Relations and Journalism at different US and Italian universities.

Jan-Christoph Borchardt is an open source designer focused on Nextcloud and Open Source Design.

John has been programming since 1977, and started using GNUemacs since around 1987, which makes his configuration file older than some people with PhDs. He hopes he is still learning, and is happy to share the delights of the most powerful editor and user interface program.

Joni Baboci is a planner, architect and all-around urban enthusiast. He is currently working as the General Director of Planning and Urban Development at the Municipality of Tirana leading a team of 100+ architects, planners and engineers. His previous experiences include stints in the private sector, a number of successful international architecture competition results as well as a multi-year experience leading a groundbreaking planning and architecture start-up for the Albanian Government nicknamed Atelier Albania. He has meddled with planning and development at different scales working on the national plan for Albania, the regional plan for the coast of the country, and the regional plan for the economic generator of the country, the Tirana-Durres region. His responsibilities at the Municipality of Tirana consist of the surprises, urgencies and expectations of a bustling vibrant capital in the center of the Balkans. Collaborative creative processes, leading from behind, alternative planning methodologies, and quick and practical fixes would best describe his daily duties; but dealing with administrative bureaucracy, piles of paperwork, building permitting and cross-institutional collaboration, often gets in the way. He is extremely passionate about architecture and planning and is currently focused on exploring innovation in urban redevelopment while employing more sustainable, implementable and functional planning methodologies.

Justin W. Flory is a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Fedora Project contributor. He contributes in various parts of the Fedora community, contributes data to MusicBrainz, helps lead open source events and outreach at his university, and is passionate about open source communities.

Manel Rhaiem, a women in tech, from Tunisia, Manel joined the IT World since 2010, started as developer involved in Club of open source in her University focusing more in the web technologies. Helping always in organizations stuff, facilitating sessions and trying to improve more her Skills in Talks, Mozilla Representative since 2013 and Tech speaker recently, Helped in the RTL work for Firefox OS and mozilla.org project, contributed in QA for unit Test, automation Test and Integration Test, and now Contribution in connected devices program specially with haiku and metrics Team. you can read more about her experience in Mozilla here mermi.xyz <3 Love Mozilla <3Tech Speaker program: her Interest of speaking about Woman in Tech "it doesn't mean everything had to be pink", about Connected Devices, Metrics, importance of Data, Teaching for the future generation the Web, Session about web languages and git, etc

Marc Balmer is a long time contributor to open source software. He has developed many subsystems for the various BSD operating systems, wrote a lot of Software in the Lua space and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He runs his own software development compay micro systems in Switzerland and is a former lecturor and member of the board of the institute HyperWerk of the Basel University of Applied Sciences.

Marcus Streets is the Programme Director for the Core Infrastructure Initiative at the Linux Foundation. The CII was founded just over three years ago as a response to the HeartBleed bug. It aims to support Open Source projects focused on Security as well as tools that improve overall coding standards and projects such as Reproducible Builds.Prior to joining the CII he worked in commercial cryptography for the last 20 years, mostly on firmware for the Thales nShield Hardware Security Module. He co-wrote the KMIP standard and has worked on GlobalPlatform Standards for the Trusted Execution Environment.

Maria works with the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) project where she examines internet censorship in collaboration with international partners. She also works with Tactical Tech on the Security in-a-Box project and occasionally facilitates digital security workshops for journalists and human rights activists. Previously, Maria worked in India with the Centre for Internet and Society where she examined India's surveillance laws, schemes, and technologies. Maria has interned with Privacy International and with the Parliament of Greece, and holds a MSc in Security Studies from the University College London (UCL).

Marie Gutbub, born 1990 in France, studied cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts. After graduating with a thesis about the sustainability of new online media she got involved with privacy groups in Berlin. Since 2014, Marie has organized CryptoParties in Berlin and across Europe to spread the movement through talks and workshops. She also teaches information security for journalists at several universities and conferences. Marie, a former volunteer for the Tor Project, has been involved in running several campaigns and events about privacy, human rights, whistleblowing and journalism, including the Logan CIJ Symposium 2016 in Berlin with the Centre for Investigative Journalism. Her articles have been published in Der Freitag, Le Monde and Rue89, among others. She is currently leading the #IamWikileaks campaign for the Courage Foundation.

Marina Latini studied Computer Science at the University of Perugia, and is a free software advocate since 2007, promoting free software and open standards. In 2010, she was one of the first Italian members of the LibreOffice community. She has also been an active member of the Fedora Project from 2009 to 2013, and she is an openSUSE advocate since October 2011. Marina Co-Founded Associazione LibreItalia, and has been involved in several events, migrations and trainings related to LibreOffice. She is currently working at Studio Storti, and is leading the LibreOffice Division.

Marios is a long-term Wikipedian. He is one of the developers of AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) a semi-automated MediaWiki editor designed to make tedious or repetitive editing tasks quicker and easier. He is a Mathematician with Msc in the Foundations of Informatics and currently a phD candidate in Data Security. He was worked as research assistant at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Oldenburg. His programming knowledge includes C++, C# and Python. He is currently residing in Greece.

Matteo studies physics at the University of Milano Bicocca. About one year ago he became part of the WikiToLearn community. He contributes at WikiToLearn as Communication and Socials Manager and as a member of the promotional team. Despite his recent activity in the world of open source, he has attended several events and conferences (WikiMania, WikiToLearn Sprint @CERN, Akademy) where he could spread the word about WikiToLearn and get in touch with experts in open education and free learning. He is the author of a blog series "Wiki, what's going on?" and "Reports" for WikiToLearn and he works as community builder. He is interested in how to use the web to spread high quality knowledge in an accessible way all around the world, because "knowledge only grows if shared"! Themes such open education, open textbooks and learning are his main concern in his open source activity with WikiToLearn. Coding is not his prime occupation within the open source world but he is fond of it and constantly follows WikiToLearn tech team's activity and KDE updates.

Matthias Kirschner is President of FSFE. In 1999 he started using GNU/Linux and realised that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Matthias is convinced that this technology has to empower society not restrict it. While studying Political and Administrative Science he joined FSFE in 2004.He helps other organisations, companies and governments to understand how they can benefit from Free Software -- which gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt and share software -- and how those rights help to support freedom of speech, freedom of press or privacy.Matthias loves playing with his baby son, and in his spare time assists in wilderness first aid seminars, enjoys comics like XKCD and Transmetropolitan; Monty Python and Die Ärzte.

Oliver believes that misinformation is one of the biggest threats to global stability and societal progress. He is the founder of WorldBrain.io - Verifying the Internet with Science and started to work on a way to battle #fakenews way before it was cool. He is an Open Science/Source and Decentralisation Advocate and and anti-allergic of everything that contains peanuts.

Orges Çiço holds a "laurea" (a.k.a. MSc) in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy and is currently a PhD Candidate at Tirana University in the Department of Statistics and Applied Informatics. His PhD field topic is in Cloud Computing Business Solutions and Cloud Software Reliability concerning Fault Tolerant Techniques.Currently he is a Full Time Lecturer at Canadian Institute of Technology (CIT) and the Director of the Metropolitan Incubator Center (MI) (NGO part of the University Metropolitan Tirana).His research interest are related to Cloud Computing Software Systems mainly concerning their reliability and fault tolerance. Most of the publications have been done recently during the last 3 years of his PhD in international conferences: ● ÇIÇO Orges, DIKA Zamir, “Performance and load testing of cloud vs. classic server platforms (Case study: Social network application)”, IEEE Embedded Computing (MECO), 2014 3rd Mediterranean Conference on, 15 – 19 June 2014, pp 301 -306● ÇIÇO Orges, DIKA Zamir, “Models and Techniques to evaluate system and software reliability based on software reliability engineering methodology. Case study: Attitude Control System, In Proceedings of the 10th Annual South-East European Doctoral Student Conference, DSC 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece.● Orges ÇIÇO, Luada TORO, Kristjano MONKA “Development of a Virtual Device Driver for a Multicore Embedded Systems Hosting Multiple Operating Systems”, International Conference: “Information systems and technology innovations towards a digital economy” ISTI 2013 (Best Paper Award)● Orges ÇIÇO, Silvia SADUSHI, Suela KODRA “Business Planner Mobile Application Development Through Kivy Platform”, International Conference: “Information systems and technology innovations towards a digital economy” ISTI 2014● ÇIÇO Orges, DIKA Zamir, “Temporal and data diversity fault tolerant techniques used to increase reliability for Google Cloud Applications. Case Study: Windfarmdesigns”, International Journal of Science, Innovation and New Technology, June 2015 ● ÇIÇO Orges, DIKA Zamir, “Developing Reliable IoT Systems For Improving Quality Of Life Through The Exploitation of Cloud, Mobile and BLE Based Technologies. Case Study: SunProtect UV”, 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Information Systems and Technology Innovations: the New Paradigm for a Smarter Economy”, ISTI 2016 Orges has started his Lecturing Career at Epoka University since 2012 and has been involved since then in other Universities by teaching topics such as Operating Systems Introduction and Design, Software Engineering, Introduction to Computer Science and OO Programming as well as Distributed Programming. He has also held a strong correlation to Software Industry, by providing outsourcing services to Norwegian Market in close collaboration with Google Engineers. Many of the projects are related to Google Cloud Applications and Mobile development.

C language is my profession, and Linux is my religion, says Paul about his life-long experience. He is a born Information Technology professional, as he has acquired his university degree in Digital Electronics, and gained a versatile experience as a programmer, system administrator, and university teacher. Open Source stand apart in his professional interests, and he strongly supports the use of the Open Source solutions in solving technical problems, and advancing broad technological knowledge. Paul's expertise has been recognized through invitations to participate in national and international projects and programmes, which attach importance to Open Source solutions, as well as cyber security of complex systems where hardware, software, and networking interleave.

Renata Gegaj is a Computer Science student with a passion for open source technologies and Human–computer interaction (HCI). She is involved in several activities with the local FLOSS community in her country. Renata recently completed an internship with Outreachy where she worked on usability testing for GNOME.

Riccardo is the founder of WikiToLearn and an enthusiastic open source developer. Furthermore, he is a physicist, designer and a community manager, based in Milano, Italy.

Roman is working in Red Hat from 2014. He is mostly converting good music to Ruby code with a bit of JavaScript for ManageIQ team.

Sam loves how working with data at scale for Mozilla brings out the power and beauty of mathematics. Previously he helped Industrial Light and Magic bring the power and beauty of giant robots out to movie screens everywhere.

Sidorela is a student in software engineering. She is Open Labs Hackerspace member. She is passionate in coding and open source projects such as OpenStreetMap, Nextcloud and Wikipedia.

Sopot Çela has been working with Java since the day he graduated from the Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranes (Technical University of Tirana) in 2010. First with server back-end applications and then as a core developer of the Eclipse open source project.In April 2015 he joined Red Hat to work full time as an open source Eclipse developer and Fedora packager. His main work areas are working on the core platform components of Eclipse Platform and include packaging Eclipse for Fedora. Technology-wise his main experience is Java development, design patterns, dependency injection containers, language support etc.He frequently speaks at Eclipse conferences throughout the world about new and cool features of Eclipse.

I am an Albanian Business Informatics student, finishing my master studies in Information Systems at the University of Tirana. Iam a hacktivist of Open Labs, passionate about Open Source and the philosophy of transparency and cooperation that FLOSS represents. I have been working on promoting FLOSS in Albania and Fedora Localization Project to bring everything around Fedora closer to the local users.I am also focused on drawing attention on  woman empowerment issues in open technology and culture.

Thomas Levine is a dada artist interested in sleep. He has been writing free software for about twelve years.

Vangjel is the founder of Stavro Consulting, a software development studio. He has been actively developing web apps for 6 years. Most of the apps are based on open-source software and they run in production grade Linux servers.

Zacharias started contributing to the Project when he was just 16 years old. He is a representative of the project and entrusted with the duties of the regional treasurer for the EMEA region. His interests lie in software engineering, including web and mobile technologies, showing particular interest in Ruby and Javascript. He is currently studying at the the University of the Aegean in Samos, Greece