A lot has happened in The Qt Project within the last two years. Volker Hilsheimer has taken over the Chief Maintainer role, after Lars Knoll's decision to step down, and Pedro Bessa joined The Qt Company as the new Community Manager. Moreover, after almost two years with Qt 6 we are now getting close to the feature freeze of the second Qt 6 LTS release, Qt 6.5. Volker and Pedro will introduce themselves to the Brazilian/Latin American community, and share their ideas, plans, and hopes for Qt as an Open Source project and community. Volker will share what he sees as the important drivers for Qt beyond Qt 6.5, and what he has learned from the Qt maintainers about their plans.

Speakers' bio

Pedro Bessa: seeks to engage, inform, surprise, delight, and impact the audience, producing high-quality content and strategy in order to deliver measurable KPIs aligned with business goals. He works at building the two-way bridge within the gap between organisations and communities. His specialties include: digital media, community management, social media marketing, copywriting & editing, and content creation & strategy.

Volker Hilsheimer: as a hands-on contributor and software engineer he has designed, implemented, improved and maintained specific product features, and coordinated product creation and release processes. He has worked very closely with customers and users in the Open Source community, as well as focused on optimising and managing the Software development life-cycle within the R&D organisation. Specialties include: native and cross-platform C/C++ software development, software architecture and design, API design and technical documentation, technical product support and customer relations, solutions selling and sales support, personnel and operational management of engineering teams, and release engineering and program management.

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