Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy services. He also previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, OpenAdvantage, and consulted and advised a range of organizations. Bacon is a prominent author and speaker on community management and best practice, and wrote the best-selling The Art of Community (O'Reilly). He writes columns for Forbes and opensource.com. Bacon has provided community management consultancy for both internal and external communities for a range of organizations. This includes Deutsche Bank, Huawei, GitLab, Intel, SAP, HackerOne, data.world, Sony Mobile, Samsung, Open Compute Project, IBM, Dyson, Mozilla, AlienVault, and others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California with his wife, Erica, and their son, Jack.