The GRCon26 Organizer team is composed entirely of volunteers who spend countless hours taking care of the details to make the conference happen smoothly. Without them, GRCon would not happen at all!
Samantha Palazzolo
Samantha is a wireless networking engineer and long time GNU Radio user. She is a member of the GNU Radio General Assembly and has been helping to organize GRCon for the past few years (and attending them for even longer).
Toby Flynn
Toby is the CTO at Red Wire Technologies where he uses GNU Radio regularly, especially in an embedded environment. He has been using and contributing to GNU Radio since 2008.
Neil Rogers
Neil Rogers is an experienced engineering leader with over 20 years of technical and research experience in the Department of Defense. Most recently, he served as Senior Military Faculty and Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy, where he developed hands-on, research-driven learning experiences in communications, counter-UAS systems, robotics, antennas, and electromagnetics.
Josh Morman
Josh is the current president and previous co-maintainer of GNU Radio, and is Chief Scientist at Altio Labs. He has been heavily involved the last several years with the GR 4.0 rearchitecture and development.
Marcus Müller
Marcus has stuck around the project for a while now, has been maintainer, soul of the mailing list and supplier of LaTeX explanations in various emails. Being raised in a thoroughly GNU Radio-friendly lab, he's a freelancing SDR developer, software consultant, and all-around nerd-of-all-trades.
Michael West
Michael West has been developing driver software for software defined radios for over 12 years. He has been a fixture at the GRCon registration desk and helping on the organizing comittee for several years. And he operates a 120 year old steam locomotive for fun.
Marc Lichtman
Marc is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft in the Azure Spectrum Technologies group, and teaches part time as an Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland in CS. Marc, along with Derek and Martin, form the Board of GNU Radio.
Andrej Rode
Andrej is a member of the GNU Radio General Assembly and Infrastructure maintainer for the GNU Radio project. For GRCon the IT services for registration, ticketing, and publishing are set up and run with his help. He is pursuing a Dr.-Ing. at the Communications Engineering Lab of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research focuses on applying machine learning to the optimization of communication systems, particularly the physical layer.
Neel Pandeya
Neel is a Principal SDR Engineer and Group Manager at National Instruments (NI) in Austin, Texas, USA, and is an alumnus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Northeastern University (NEU). He has been involved with the GNU Radio software and the GNU Radio Conference since 2014.
Special Thanks
The SETI Institute is our co-organizer for GRCon. They've managed all of the finances for GRCon since 2020 in addition to providing support for contracts, communication, swag, and future planning.