Name:Kate Stewart

Bio:

Kate Stewart is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation. She is responsible for the Open Compliance programs encompassing the SPDX, FOSSology, OpenChain, and other compliance related projects. Kate was one of the founders of SPDX, and is currently the specification lead. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has also launched collaborations on metrics (CHAOSS), Real-Time Linux and Zephyr Project. She also supports other key embedded projects, including Yocto.

With over 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and during the last 20 years, has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China. She received her Master’s in computer science from University of Waterloo and Bachelor’s of computer science (co-op program) from the University of Manitoba.

Country:United States

Affiliation:Linux Foundation

Research interests:Source Code Provenance, Automating Compliance, Security and Safety Critical Embedded Open Source