Karen Sandler's keynote about Free and Open Source Software and the need for their use in the medical field, as well as in other key sectors of our society, including personal use.

Karen M. Sandler was at the time the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation and prior to taking up this position had been General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Karen continues to do pro bono legal work with SFLC and Question Copyright and serves as an officer of both the Software Freedom Conservancy and SFLC. Before joining SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also co-host of the "Free as in Freedom" podcast.

Karen's personal blog, GNOMG, can be found at http://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/.