​Description

​The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is celebrating its 10th year, and we're spilling our secrets to the community! Come learn about our beginnings as a startup, the successes, hard lessons learned, and get a sneak peek into our plans for the next 10 years ahead. We'll have special guests joining as well, so sign up to be a part of OSTIF's future improving open source security!

​Speaker Info

​Derek Zimmer is a privacy activist, hacker and mathematician. He started his first business in 2000, selling hand-designed PCs to gamers, engineers, and businesses. In 2012 Derek helped found VikingVPN, a VPN service focused on speed, security, and privacy in response to the increasing problems with surveillance on the internet by marketing entities. The May 2013 disclosures by Edward Snowden motivated him to work in the privacy and infosec full-time, and to focus his work on countermeasures against advanced persistent threats.

​He has personally funded the entirety of the startup costs for OSTIF. He believes in the merits of the open source movement and wants to design systems to help open source infrastructure to thrive. The ultimate goal of OSTIF is to help open source software and hardware to be a trusted de-facto standard for computing.

​Amir Montazery is the Managing Director and Cofounder of Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc (OSTIF). Amir comes from a background in Finance, IT and Internal Auditing, applying years of experience to help develop OSTIF’s processes and partnerships. Furthermore, Amir is responsible for negotiating and organizing over 12,000 hours of security-focused work for organizations like Google and Amazon Web Services along with groups like Mozilla Foundation and Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).