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Jennifer (Jen) Madriaga is the Senior Manager for Global Community Event Strategy on the Events team in Marketing Communciations at Red Hat. Jen provides event management and event marketing expertise for a variety of open source and community events. She collaborates regularly with a number of community leads, helping them and their communities achieve outreach goals with users, contributors, and other stakeholders. "I make fantastic things happen. I connect people. I create and facilitate relationships. I organize tasks and get them done. I help make life easier for other people. And I have fun doing all these things. All under the guise of events guru."