Wolfgang Mauerer is a professor of theoretical computer science at the Technical University Regensburg, and a senior key expert at Siemens Corporate Research, Competence Centre Embedded Linux. He serves on the technical steering committee of the Linux Foundation's Civil Infrastructure platform. His academic research deals with socio-technical software engineering, and the industrial use of open source. His speaking experience includes ELC, ABS, ELCE, OSSJ, OSSNA, and many other industrial and scientific conferences.