Speaker Feature: Audrey Lobo-Pulo, Jack Moffitt

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Audrey Lobo-Pulo

Audrey Lobo-Pulo

Evaluating government policies using open source models

10:40am Wednesday 14th January 2015

Dr. Audrey Lobo-Pulo is a passionate advocate of open government and the use of open source software in government modelling. Having started out as a physicist developing theoretical models in the field of high speed data transmission, she moved into the economic policy modelling sphere and worked at the Australian Treasury from 2005 till 2011.

Currently working at the Australian Taxation Office in Sydney, Audrey enjoys discussions on modelling economic policy.

For more information on Audrey and her presentation, see here. You can follow her as @AudreyMatty and don’t forget to mention #LCA2015.


Jack Moffitt

Jack Moffitt

Servo: Building a Parallel Browser

10:40am Friday 16th January 2015

Jacks current project is called Chesspark and is an online community for chess players built on top of technologies like XMPP (aka Jabber), AJAX, and Python.

He previously created the Icecast Streaming Media Server, spent a lot of time developing and managing the Ogg Vorbits project, and helping create and run the Xiph.org Foundation. All these efforts exist to create a common, royalty free, and open standard for multimedia on the Internet.

Jack is also passionate about Free Software and Open Source, technology, music, and photography.

For more information on Jack and his presentation, see here. You can follow him as @metajack and don’t forget to mention #LCA2015.