Lane Becker
President, Wikimedia Enterprise
Wikimedia Foundation
October 28–30 · Vancouver
Portrait: ZMcCune (WMF) · CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait adapted with AI-generated scenery and lettering. Adapted artwork shared under the same license.
Lane Becker leads Wikimedia Enterprise. Wikipedia is free; keeping it available takes people, infrastructure, and money. He brings a view from inside the work of sustaining the knowledge that AI depends on.
About Lane Becker
Lane Becker is President of Wikimedia Enterprise and Senior Director of Commercial Partnerships at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia. His work connects the human-created knowledge commons with the companies that rely on it, helping sustain free knowledge as AI changes how the web is used. Previously, he worked at Code for America and the US government's Technology Transformation Service, where he started and ran 10x, a fund supporting public-interest technology ideas from civil servants. He also co-founded the pioneering user-experience firm Adaptive Path and the customer-service community platform Get Satisfaction.