Sustainable Development Goals with Open Source
Kate Stewart
Talk Track One
The talk will discuss how open-source technologies, like the Zephyr Project, are critical to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, focusing on innovation in resource-constrained environments. It will cover implementation strategies, potential challenges, and the future requirements for the success of these initiatives.
About the Speaker
Kate Stewart is VP of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation. She is one of the co-founders of the SPDX project, and has been active in advocating for SBOMs to improve software transparency and enable automation of risk analysis. Since joining the Linux Foundation in 2015 she has launched and manages Real-Time Linux, Zephyr Project, and ELISA projects, among others.
With over 30 years of experience in the embedded software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China.