Tech Bio
Sean Dague fell in love with programming in college during the early days of the world wide web. Since then he's spent much of his professional life working on open source software, across a wide range of areas and programming languages. He's been a major contributor to SystemImager, OpenHPI, Xen, OpenSim, NFS Ganesha, OpenStack, and Home Assistant.
In 2003 he created HV Open, which runs a monthly lecture series on open technology topics. It serves the Hudson Valley of New York state.
He is currently part of the IBM Quantum team, making IBM's Quantum Computers available via the cloud.
Climate Bio
Sean Dague is a volunteer with Citizens' Climate Lobby, a grassroots climate advocacy organization that exists to create the political will for climate solutions, and by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power. He is one of the leaders of the Mid Hudson Chapter of CCL, as well as active in the NY State Action team, and a NY State Coordinator. In those roles he's given dozens of climate presentations, and lobbied members of congress and NY State reps on over 40 occasions, pushing for climate solutions.
He's excited about how much better a clean energy future will be after his experience converting his home in the town of Lagrange to geothermal heating and cool. His day job is as a software architect with IBM's Quantum Computing team.