Speakers

Julian Bouzas is a Spanish Swiss-born computer science graduate of the University of A Coruna in Spain, and he currently works at Collabora as a Multimedia Software Engineer. Julian is passionate about Open Source Software in general, he also loves nature, sci-fi books and enjoys traveling to meet different cultures and people. He has made contributions to GStreamer and worked in London and Barcelona for multimedia companies using mostly open source projects. He is also interested in the graphics stack and wrote a window manager for X11 and several OpenGL applications.

Will is a Distinguished Engineer in the kernel team at Arm, Cambridge and co-maintains the arm64 architecture port as well as various other parts of the Linux kernel. His interests lie in system and CPU architecture, memory consistency models, locking, atomics and generally anything low-level enough to require compiler abuse.

When he’s not fighting with subtle concurrency issues, Will enjoys brewing beer and catching trout on the fly.

Patrick started to develop Linux Kernel drivers for media devices in 2004 out of curiosity and technical interest. Among other this lead him to a career of embedded and real-time software developments at different companies. Since 2016 he is working as a Freelancing consultant and cross-field expert, still in the embedded/kernel area but also touching  application, integration and software-testing.

Helen Leigh is a creative technologist specialising in sound who works in Berlin and London, home to some of the most interesting music technologies and sound artists in the world. She will take you on a whistle stop tour of several strange and beautiful creations made by herself and members of the communities she belongs to, including gesture controlled musical instruments, a pipe organ made of Furbies and live coding rave culture. You’ll be able to hear what a cello sounds like after you’ve bounced the sound off the moon and watch a live performance of a pair of singing capacitive touch circuit sculptures.

Which technologies will change our musical landscapes in the future and which will become forgotten curiosities?

Lucas has been involved with open-source graphics since he started hacking on the Nouveau driver for NVIDIA devices for fun in his free time. a while later he joined Pengutronix, where he helped to develop the Etnaviv driver for Vivante GPUs found on a number of popular SoCs. At Pengutronix he’s also responsible for getting recent mainline Linux kernel and core infrastructure integrated into customer projects.