Open Source Founders Summit 2025
May 19-20
Paris France

Speaker info

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Michael Widenius

CTO

MariaDB

Ulf Michael Widenius (often called Monty) is the main author of the original version of the open source MySQL database, a founding member of the MySQL AB company and CTO of the MariaDB Corporation AB. Additionally, he is a founder and general partner at venture capital firm OpenOcean.