David Walter, Vice President, Open Source Program Office & Special Projects, Kiteworks

David Walter is Vice President, Open Source Program Office & Special Projects at Kiteworks, where he stewards the open source projects and drives digital sovereignty strategy globally. He's been part of the ownCloud ecosystem since 2014, holding roles from community contributor to Chief eXperience Officer before taking on large-scale government deployments and open source governance. At heart, he's still a script kid who happens to translate between business, community, and engineering. He holds an B.A and an LL.M., is based in Berlin, and volunteers with Germany's Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW).