Speaker - Lynn Westfall

Lynn Westfall, AKA The Modem Lisa is a Software Supply Chain Expert with over 25 years of experience in the IT Procurement, IT Asset Management, and Software Composition Analysis fields. She started her journey with FOSS as a teen seeking freely available tools in the 1990s to help create music and websites and she quickly fell in love with the many tweaks and adjustments needed to make audio drivers work on different Linux distros. Later in her career, she found herself working in a corporation developing software on Sun, soon to be Oracle stack software and hardware, and this transition prompted a deep dive into the world of software licensing. Creating effective open source policies and the processes to support them throughout the SDLC and entire organization became a true passion for Lynn. Always an advocate for responsible open source software use within software development organizations, she stumbled upon working within the CISA Community groups working on their SBOM initiatives in early 2023. She recently reopened the business she started in 1999, The Modem Lisa, and hopes to help companies of all sizes manage their FOSS with knowledge and respect.