Dylan Dawson
General Member Representative, Elektrobit
Head of Partner Management Americas, Elektrobit
Dylan Dawson is Head of Partner Management for Elektrobit Americas. In this role, he is focused on identifying and developing strategic partnerships within automotive specializing in open-source software and cloud architecture. In addition, Dylan is also an AWS Alliance Lead and product evangelist for EB corbos Linux and EB Linux for safety.
Leveraging more than 10 years of experience in product and business development, Dylan is experienced in a broad range of automotive technologies. Prior to his role in Partner Management, Dylan was a Business Developer for autonomous driving/virtual technologies, and Project Management for Ford infotainment systems.
He earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington as well as a BARCH (Bachelor of Architecture) from Iowa State University. When not at work, he enjoys time outdoors and trips to the local record store.
Gabriele Paoloni
Governing Board Chair, Red Hat
Sr PE | Open Source Community Technical Leader, Red Hat
Gabriele Paoloni is an Open Source Community Technical Leader at Red Hat where he defines best methodologies and requirements to qualify Linux for functional safety usage.
He is a passionate technologist and has strong experience in both functional safety and Linux Kernel development, including previous roles leading FuSa software architecture for Intel platforms, CCIX vice chairman of the TDL working group and HiSilicon PCIe Linux maintainer.
Gabriele received a master’s degree with honors in electronic engineering from the University of Rome.
Matt Kelly
The Boeing Company
Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company
Matt Kelly is an Associate Technical Fellow at the Boeing Company with a focus on safety-critical software, automated verification, and static analysis. He has more than a decade of experience developing software across a broad range of use cases in the aerospace and defense industry. Recently, his work is focused on the use of open-source software within the company with a special focus on increasing use of Linux in embedded use cases. He holds a Master Degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Bachelor in Computer Science from Saint Louis University.
Philipp Ahmann
TSC Chair
Sr. OSS Community Manager, ETAS GmbH (BOSCH)
Philipp Ahmann is a Sr. OSS Community Manager at ETAS GmbH (BOSCH) with focus on Open Source activities. He represents the ELISA project of the Linux Foundation as an ambassador and TSC member.
He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of Linux automotive SW base platforms working as engineer, team leader for all test activities and as project manager. All of these projects utilized complex multi-core chipsets.
In his current position he contributes to a project focusing on embedded Linux in industrial applications and wider IoT scope beyond pure Automotive use cases.