Stefan Richter

As senior business & ecosystem development manager of Grid Modernization at Red Hat, Stefan is working to bring open source software and in particular Linux to the world's power grids. He has dedicated his career to the advancement of modern software engineering in the electrical and machine industry. He has experience in diverse roles including software engineer, researcher, R&D project manager, sales person and professor, in industry and academia across domains including electrification, railway and industrial automation. He has worked with a wide range of systems from small-factor embedded systems with microsecond response times to large distributed systems.