Sponsors_List

Platinum Sponsors

Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. The Group is the number three mobile operator and the number one provider of broadband internet services in Europe and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies. The Group has been actively involved for more than 10 years in Open Source communities through the ObjectWeb and OW2 Consortiums and is today Strategic Member of OW2. A large level of contribution to open source software is continuously provided by Orange, often from Orange Labs R&D.

Gold Sponsors

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Driven by a commitment to sound operations, ongoing innovation, and open collaboration, we have established a competitive ICT portfolio of end-to-end solutions in telecom and enterprise networks, devices, and cloud technology and services. Our ICT solutions, products, and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. With more than 180,000 employees, Huawei is committed to enabling the future information society, and building a Better Connected World.

Silver Sponsors

The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of developers and over 300 member organizations with a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. The Foundation is home to the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE, and over 375 projects, including runtimes, tools, and frameworks for cloud and edge applications, IoT, AI, automotive, and more.

Engineering Group is the Italian leader in Digital Transformation, with over 50 offices in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Republic of Serbia, Latin America (Brazil and Argentina) and the United States. With more than 10,300 employees, the Group manages IT initiatives in over 20 countries worldwide with projects in all vertical markets. Its Technical, Research and Innovation Department, relying on 250 resources, includes the Open Source, Big Data & Analytics Competency Centers, which manage the free/open source SpagoWorld initiative including three main projects: SpagoBI, Spagic and Spago4Q. Engineering Group is also provider of the Knowage suite for modern business analytics over traditional sources and big data systems.

Thousands of Microsoft engineers use, contribute to and release open source every day across every platform, from the cloud to client operating systems, programming languages and more. Microsoft’s open source repositories live on GitHub which the company acquired in 2018 and of which it is among the site’s most active contributors.

H2020 MORPHEMIC project proposes an unique way of adapting and optimizing Cloud computing applications. The project is an extension of the multi-cloud platform developed in the H2020 project MELODIC. The project extends the MELODIC open source platform with 2 main innovative pillars:
- Polymorphing architecture, when a component can run in different technical forms, i.e. in a Virtual Machine (VM), in a container, as a big data job, or as serverless components and
- Proactive adaptation that aims to forecast future resource needs and possible deployment configurations.

ONLYOFFICE is a free software office suite developed by experienced IT experts from Ascensio System SIA, leading IT company with headquarters in Riga, Latvia. This complete and feature-rich online solution comprises online editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations highly compatible with Microsoft Office and OpenDocument file formats. ONLYOFFICE provides users with multiple editing tools and collaborative features ensuring greater team workflow, and seamless work with complex formatting and objects within your web solution.

The Open Infrastructure Foundation builds communities that write open source infrastructure software that runs in production. With the support of over 110,000 individuals in 187 countries, the Open Infrastructure Foundation hosts open source projects and communities of practice, including infrastructure for AI, container native apps, edge computing and datacenter clouds. Join the OpenInfra movement. www.openinfra.dev

The City of Paris is the administration, municipal and departmental representatives of Paris. They brings together skills and profiles of various origins: civil servants of the city or the state, contractual ones coming from private or academic, associations, Arts and sports. City of Paris is leader of the Lutece OW2 project, a free and powerful Java based Content Management Framework.

Bronze Sponsors

RedHat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.

After a few years working with free and open source companies and facing the "growing pressure" of our customers, we decided to create a company whose positioning would be focused on technical expertise. Indeed, many players have made their job integration of open source solutions, but they are, quite rarely, to offer exclusively a high level of expertise.
It is in order to fill, in part (we do not pretend to be unique), this gap that we decided to create Worteks. Worteks' objective is to bring together and put at the disposal of its clients high-level skills in this sector, which is essential for information and communication technologies.

Research Projects

DECODER stands for DEveloper COmpanion for Documented and annotatEd code Reference. The project participants develop an open source Integrated Development Environment dedicated to improve the efficiency of software development and maintenance and the quality of software in medium criticality systems, such as in IoT, cloud computing and HPC.

FASTEN stands for Fine-Grained Analysis of Software Ecosystems as Networks. Tthe project will introduce a service that tracks dependencies at the method call-graph level and performs sophisticated analyses of security vulnerability propagation, licensing compliance and dependency risk profiles.

ReachOut is an H2020 Coordination and Support Action (CSA), aiming at helping research projects or European SMEs to develop connections with their markets and potential end users. ReachOut provides a platform and methodology to help projects create and implement their first beta-testing campaigns, collect user feedback and develop their ecosystem. ReachOut will run from January 2019 to December 2021.

Community Partners

APELL (Association Professionnelle Européenne du Logiciel Libre) is Europe’s Open Source Business Association. Founded in 2020 to bring national Open Source Software organisations together into a European network to provide them with peer support and collective marketing, as well as capacity building and policy support for public affairs, both nationally and on the EU-level.

The CNLL (France’s Free Software and Open Digital Enterprise Union) is a trade association representing about 200 “pure players” companies (specialized or with a significant activity in free software): open source software vendors, systems integrators, consulting companies, etc. The CNLL’s main missions are to represent the OSS professional ecosystem to public authorities and existing national and international organizations, to ensure greater visibility of the entire ecosystem – its software and service offer, its specific assets and its needs, particularly in terms of employment and training; to enable the players in the sector to recognize themselves within it, to exchange and work together to develop the market, while respecting common values. Follow : @cnll_fr.

The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation fosters the continued development of technologies and open source projects based on/around the Erlang and Elixir computer languages and the BEAM Virtual Machine. Within the EEF working groups, open source critical pieces of technical infrastructure contribute to build the next generation of advanced, reliable, realtime applications.

OpenExpo Europe has been one of the disclosure windows in Technological Innovation, Digital Transformation and Open Source for 7 years.
This year OpenExpo Europe is moving to OpenExpo Virtual Experience, from June 17th to 21st.
This initiative arises after the enormous success of our online activities within Innovation, Digital Transformation and Open Source, in which topics such as have been discussed Cybersecurity, Blockchain, IA, Virtual Reality, IoT, Big Data, etc. Enjoy more than 50 activities and network with technology and innovation professionals, with the aim of promoting the ecosystem and generating networking.

RIOS is a network of Italian companies highly specialised in Open Source technologies develop enterprise projects offering expertise and support.
RIOS represents a reference point in Italy for whoever wants to exploit Open Source benefits with the security, stability, support and guarantee of enterprise-level solutions

The South Tyrol Free Software Conference, SFScon, is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software. SFScon promotes the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness in the region. Here decision-makers and developers meet, learn and get inspired.

Systematic Paris-Region, a global competitiveness cluster, federates and leads an ecosystem of excellence with 900 members, focused on Deep Tech (Data Science & AI, Cyber & Security, Digital Infrastructure and IoT, Digital Engineering, Optics & Photonics, Free & Open Source Software). Systematic thus addresses 3 major economic and societal challenges: the digital transformation of territories, industry and services as well as that of society. The cluster accelerates digital projects via collaborative innovation, SME development, networking and business sourcing in the sectors of the future: energy, telecommunications, health, transport, information systems, factory of the future, digital cities, and digital security. The cluster is also responsible for promoting its actors, its region and its innovation projects in order to increase its visibility and develop the Paris Region's attractiveness. Systematic's activities are supported, in particular, by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF),French State Agencies (DGE, DGA, Agence Innovation Defense) and ParisRegion.