Chris Harding, Principal, Lacibus Ltd. Dr. Chris Harding founded Lacibus to develop, promote, and exploit a new data platform paradigm, the Virtual Data Lake, following many years as a Forum Director of The Open Group. Virtual data lakes enable applications to mix and match data from different sources, applying distributed access control to ensure the right people have the right data. The core virtual data lake implementation is open source, and incorporates ideas developed by Chris during his work at The Open Group. Chris started his career as a software engineer, and was then a consultant. He has a long and wide experience of the IT industry, on which he draws in his contributions toward The Open Group work, and in online blogs and articles.