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Our final keynote announcement for 2018 is Stephen Walli!

Stephen is a principal program manager working in the Azure engineering team at Microsoft. Prior to that, he was a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Stephen has been a technical executive, a founder, a writer, a systems developer, a software construction geek, and a standards diplomat. He has worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor, working with open source for 25 years. He blogs about open source and software business at [Once More unto the Breach](https://stephesblog.blogs.com/), [opensource.com](https://opensource.com), and on Medium.

That's four out of four 2018 keynoters now revealed. We're thrilled to host these brilliant people and honoured that they agreed to present. Please join us on November 9-10 and hear for yourself what they have to say!
