Keiichi Seki is a leading member of the open source program office in NEC Corporation, and is responsible for NEC’s open source strategy. He leads NEC’s developer teams who are actively contributing to open source communities, such as Kubernetes and OpenStack. He also helps encourage people in the NEC group of companies to join and contribute to open source communities. He handles intellectual property issues regarding open source software patents, and has been a technical committee member of the Open Invention Network since 2019.