Mélanie Bats is CTO at Obeo. In her daily work, she is in charge of the R&D team. She is mainly focused on the development of modeling tools with Eclipse Sirius like UML Designer. She is also committer for the EEF and the Sirius projects. She is also involved in the Eclipse community as being the Eclipse Planning Council chair. In her free time she is also a free software activist who has organized and participated in free software events in the Toulouse area.