Jono Bacon is a renowned community and collaboration strategy consultant who has helped numerous companies in building powerful, productive communities and teams. Jono has authored two books "People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams" and "The Art of Community", besides being a prolific writer for publications like Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Fortune. He is also a respected advisor and investor in Coda, Mautic, AlienVault, Commsor, Moltin, HackerOne, Relate, Underscore.VC, among other organizations.

Jono has an honours degree in Interactive Multimedia Communication from The University of Wolverhampton, where he also worked as a web developer before moving on to focus on open-source consulting. Later, he worked as the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical Ltd. before being promoted to Director of Community at GitHub. Jono has also been the Senior Director of Community at XPRIZE, a Technical Advisory Board Member at AlienVault, and a Columnist at opensource.com and Forbes.

Jono Bacon has a wealth of experience as a community and collaboration strategy consultant, author, advisor, and investor. He is a seasoned professional in building productive communities and teams with expertise in open-source consulting and technical advisory roles. His interests lie in leveraging the power of human connections to drive businesses and brands towards success.