Apereo MicroConferences

Dr. Jeffrey Young is a principal research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working with the Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) as their Associate Director for Computing Innovation. Young is the co-director of the Center for Scientific Software Engineering, and director of Georgia Tech’s Open Source Program Office. He received his PhD in computer engineering in 2013 from Georgia Tech’s ECE department.

Alex Jenkins is a Fourth-Year Computer Engineering student at Georgia Tech, and he is the founder of LibreTech Collective, a student organization he launched in 2025 to promote free, libre, and open-source technology on campus. He is deeply passionate about software freedom and believes that technology should empower users through transparency, collaboration, and control - it is this principle that LibreTech Collective is also based on.

Dr. Wilma Hodges, Apereo Community Coordinator

Bryan Ollendyke - Full-stack developer / Change Agent / HAX Project Lead / HAX Lab Faculty - will be joined by the following co-presenters:

Bill Rose - Instructional Designer / HAX Product Owner

Dr. Jenny Frank - Associate Professor of Educational Psychology / HAX Lab Faculty

Dr. David Fusco - Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Master's Programs / HAX Lab Faculty

Winston JW White - M.S., Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations Software & Cybersecurity Engineer, Open Sourcerer (not too serious), 2x NASA Intern

Evelien Renders, President of EUNIS & Advisor on the Internationalization of Education at SURF

Inge Donkervoort, CEO of DLearning; Dr. Kirsten Heiss, CEO OpenCampus; Kate Valenti, CEO of Unicon; Salvador Pellicer Farreri, CEO of Entornos De Formacóin S.L. and Marcel Oostdijk, CEO of Outfox

Olawale Fabiyi, HEMIS Technical Advisor at The Gambia’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science & Technology