Speaker - Keith Packard

Keith Packard has been developing free software since 1986, working on the X Window System, Linux, amateur rocketry and educational robotics. He is currently a senior principal engineer with Amazon's Device OS group which helps build devices like the Halo, Echo, Fire TV and Kindle. He received a Usenix Lifetime Achievement award in 1999, an O'Reilly Open Source award in 2011 and sits on the X.org Foundation and Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) boards. Keith uses he, him and his pronouns.