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Poruri Sai Rahul is the CEO of the FOSS United Foundation, which aims to promote and support the Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem in India. He is also the Head of Software at Softcircuits Labs and an Advisor to the Saryan Vigyan Foundation. Rahul's background is in Physics, having earned B.S. & M.S. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has been contributing to the FOSS ecosystem for more than eight years, including code contributions and giving talks about FOSS technologies. He is interested in the incentives that enable or hinder the adoption of FOSS in India.

Heather Burns is a tech policy wonk based in Glasgow, Scotland. She works for an open web built around international standards of human rights, privacy, accessibility, and freedom of expression. She advocates for policy and technology developments which keep the internet open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. Heather is currently freelancing in the UK policy x digital and human rights space. She is also doing an MPhil in technology regulation and human rights at Strathclyde Law School. She is the author of a book on practical privacy for web professionals and students, published by Smashing Magazine in November 2022. Also in 2022, she completed the Internet Society Mid-Career Fellowship.