Silona Bonewald

Silona Bonewald is the Queen Bee at Leadingbit Solutions. Her experience in Open Source governance informed her work launching the IEEE SA OPEN platform, as its Executive Director, and continues to inform her work as a founding member of the Foundation for Open Source Ecosystems Technology. Previously, she was vice president of community architecture at Hyperledger, a global open source collaborative effort hosted by The Linux Foundation, where she integrated leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things (IoT), supply chains, and manufacturing. She is grateful to share with and learn from the amazing groups at OSPO Alliance, CHAOSS, InnerSource Commons Foundation, Foundation for Public Code, Eclipse’s Good Governance Initiative, Government Blockchain Association, Global Business Blockchain Council and Open Forum Europe.