Chris Howard
(He/Him)
Lead Open Source Program Manager
EPAM
Manchester, United Kingdom
Speaks: English
Biography
Chris has over 10 years’ experience consulting for a broad spectrum of organisations in devising and delivering corporate transformation programmes. At EPAM Systems he leads the Open Source Program Office supporting employees and clients with their consumption, contribution and maturity in Open Source. He is engaged in a number of wider industry initiatives including leading a non-profit organisation, Intertech, promoting diversity in technology where he has been awarded a number of accolades for his advocacy in this area. Chris is Chief Learning Officer of OpenUK and a member of the FINOS diversity and inclusion special interest group. He is also Chair of a Federation of primary schools in Hackney and sits on a number of advisory boards focused on increasing access to technology for young and diverse individuals. He has a keen interest in the overlaps between open source and sustainability and talks on this topic regularly.
Activity History
2023
Oct 5
Sustainable Green Software Development
To tackle the climate crisis we have to go beyond simple steps to reduce our consumption and instead think about engineering a world around us that helps contribute to reducing carbon emissions - we can do this through building better and greener software. Building Green Software means designing and developing software that is responsible for emitting fewer greenhouse gases and leveraging a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices to help do that. The Green Software Foundation is focused explicitly on this, and through three actions, seeks to help developers, designers and architects across the world build solutions that use less physical resources, less energy & ensure that energy is used more intelligently.
Sustainable Green Software development
wearecommunity.io
May 2
The Open Source Approach is Revolutionizing the Business World
The Open Source Approach is Revolutionizing the Business World - Meet Christopher Howard, Lead Open Source Program Manager at EPAM...
greensoftware.foundation
2022
Aug 19
Open Source Software and Collaboration Could Curb Climate Change
How fundamental openness and collaboration will be to solving sustainability challenges. Open source software can provide a foundation for this.
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