OW2con'23 Program

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Head of open source software edition and community animation.

to come soon.

Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006 For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm. Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies” President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”). Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE • Intellectual property • IT contracts • Open Source • Artificial intelligence • Personal data • Business secrecy • Web3 DIPLOMAS • Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990) • DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992) • DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994) • US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002) • Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994) LANGUAGES French and English

to come soon.

to come soon.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Head of open source software edition and community animation.

to come soon.

Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006 For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm. Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies” President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”). Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE • Intellectual property • IT contracts • Open Source • Artificial intelligence • Personal data • Business secrecy • Web3 DIPLOMAS • Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990) • DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992) • DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994) • US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002) • Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994) LANGUAGES French and English

to come soon.

to come soon.

Since 2016, Elisa NECTOUX is working for Belledonne Communications (the editor of the Linphone software) as Sales and Marketing Manager. Her mission is to develop new revenue models and markets to support the growth of the company. Over the years she acquired a strong expertise in the complex needs of unified communication solutions’ developers. Having a master’s degree in management, she thrives in a technical environment and is sensitive to the free software philosophy.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Head of open source software edition and community animation.

to come soon.

Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006 For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm. Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies” President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”). Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE • Intellectual property • IT contracts • Open Source • Artificial intelligence • Personal data • Business secrecy • Web3 DIPLOMAS • Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990) • DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992) • DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994) • US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002) • Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994) LANGUAGES French and English

to come soon.

to come soon.

Since 2016, Elisa NECTOUX is working for Belledonne Communications (the editor of the Linphone software) as Sales and Marketing Manager. Her mission is to develop new revenue models and markets to support the growth of the company. Over the years she acquired a strong expertise in the complex needs of unified communication solutions’ developers. Having a master’s degree in management, she thrives in a technical environment and is sensitive to the free software philosophy.

Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, has been **involved in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) since 2005** as W3C Technical Manager for Spain and LATAM, taking part in dozens of development projects early in his career. From 2009 on, along with the W3C role, Martin has worked as a consultant, performing various tasks as an interoperability, transparency, and accessibility advisor. He has been involved in numerous W3C Working Groups, leading some Semantic Web activities and developing technical standards for **data interoperability and e-government**, especially focusing on open data at the European level. He has represented Huawei in several standard organizations since 2020, in concrete on Web-related standards in W3C.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Head of open source software edition and community animation.

to come soon.

Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006 For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm. Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies” President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”). Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE • Intellectual property • IT contracts • Open Source • Artificial intelligence • Personal data • Business secrecy • Web3 DIPLOMAS • Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990) • DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992) • DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994) • US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002) • Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994) LANGUAGES French and English

to come soon.

to come soon.

Since 2016, Elisa NECTOUX is working for Belledonne Communications (the editor of the Linphone software) as Sales and Marketing Manager. Her mission is to develop new revenue models and markets to support the growth of the company. Over the years she acquired a strong expertise in the complex needs of unified communication solutions’ developers. Having a master’s degree in management, she thrives in a technical environment and is sensitive to the free software philosophy.

Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, has been **involved in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) since 2005** as W3C Technical Manager for Spain and LATAM, taking part in dozens of development projects early in his career. From 2009 on, along with the W3C role, Martin has worked as a consultant, performing various tasks as an interoperability, transparency, and accessibility advisor. He has been involved in numerous W3C Working Groups, leading some Semantic Web activities and developing technical standards for **data interoperability and e-government**, especially focusing on open data at the European level. He has represented Huawei in several standard organizations since 2020, in concrete on Web-related standards in W3C.

Yury Korchagin is an experienced Professional Services Engineer at ONLYOFFICE with a strong background in professional technical services, a deep understanding of DevOps practices. Highly skilled in troubleshooting complex technical issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing scalable solutions. Experienced in various DevOps tools and methodologies, including continuous integration and deployment, containerization, and infrastructure automation. Has made significant contributions to optimizing support processes and achieving faster resolution times, has successfully resolved numerous complex cases. Dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, his main drive is to keep complex things simple and user-friendly.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Head of open source software edition and community animation.

to come soon.

Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006 For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm. Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies” President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”). Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE • Intellectual property • IT contracts • Open Source • Artificial intelligence • Personal data • Business secrecy • Web3 DIPLOMAS • Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990) • DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992) • DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994) • US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002) • Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994) LANGUAGES French and English

to come soon.

to come soon.

Since 2016, Elisa NECTOUX is working for Belledonne Communications (the editor of the Linphone software) as Sales and Marketing Manager. Her mission is to develop new revenue models and markets to support the growth of the company. Over the years she acquired a strong expertise in the complex needs of unified communication solutions’ developers. Having a master’s degree in management, she thrives in a technical environment and is sensitive to the free software philosophy.

Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, has been **involved in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) since 2005** as W3C Technical Manager for Spain and LATAM, taking part in dozens of development projects early in his career. From 2009 on, along with the W3C role, Martin has worked as a consultant, performing various tasks as an interoperability, transparency, and accessibility advisor. He has been involved in numerous W3C Working Groups, leading some Semantic Web activities and developing technical standards for **data interoperability and e-government**, especially focusing on open data at the European level. He has represented Huawei in several standard organizations since 2020, in concrete on Web-related standards in W3C.

Yury Korchagin is an experienced Professional Services Engineer at ONLYOFFICE with a strong background in professional technical services, a deep understanding of DevOps practices. Highly skilled in troubleshooting complex technical issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing scalable solutions. Experienced in various DevOps tools and methodologies, including continuous integration and deployment, containerization, and infrastructure automation. Has made significant contributions to optimizing support processes and achieving faster resolution times, has successfully resolved numerous complex cases. Dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, his main drive is to keep complex things simple and user-friendly.

Jérôme Poisson is a French developer with expertise on XMPP. Jérôme has been a member of the XSF (XMPP Standard Foundation) for many years, and the author of several XEPs (XMPP Extension Protocol). After working for various companies on topics such as set-top boxes, intuitive OSes for simplified computers or FOSS software for journalists, he is now working full-time on the Libervia project. Jérôme has given talks in various events, including FOSDEM, RMLL, JDLL, PSES, PyCon France, Parinux, Ubuntu Party, LinuxDays (Prague), Linuxwochen (Vienna), Fêtons Linux (Lausanne). Jérôme has a long commitment to Free (as in Freedom) Software.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Head of open source software edition and community animation.

to come soon.

Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006 For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm. Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies” President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”). Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE • Intellectual property • IT contracts • Open Source • Artificial intelligence • Personal data • Business secrecy • Web3 DIPLOMAS • Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990) • DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992) • DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994) • US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002) • Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994) LANGUAGES French and English

to come soon.

to come soon.

Since 2016, Elisa NECTOUX is working for Belledonne Communications (the editor of the Linphone software) as Sales and Marketing Manager. Her mission is to develop new revenue models and markets to support the growth of the company. Over the years she acquired a strong expertise in the complex needs of unified communication solutions’ developers. Having a master’s degree in management, she thrives in a technical environment and is sensitive to the free software philosophy.

Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, has been **involved in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) since 2005** as W3C Technical Manager for Spain and LATAM, taking part in dozens of development projects early in his career. From 2009 on, along with the W3C role, Martin has worked as a consultant, performing various tasks as an interoperability, transparency, and accessibility advisor. He has been involved in numerous W3C Working Groups, leading some Semantic Web activities and developing technical standards for **data interoperability and e-government**, especially focusing on open data at the European level. He has represented Huawei in several standard organizations since 2020, in concrete on Web-related standards in W3C.

Yury Korchagin is an experienced Professional Services Engineer at ONLYOFFICE with a strong background in professional technical services, a deep understanding of DevOps practices. Highly skilled in troubleshooting complex technical issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing scalable solutions. Experienced in various DevOps tools and methodologies, including continuous integration and deployment, containerization, and infrastructure automation. Has made significant contributions to optimizing support processes and achieving faster resolution times, has successfully resolved numerous complex cases. Dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, his main drive is to keep complex things simple and user-friendly.

Jérôme Poisson is a French developer with expertise on XMPP. Jérôme has been a member of the XSF (XMPP Standard Foundation) for many years, and the author of several XEPs (XMPP Extension Protocol). After working for various companies on topics such as set-top boxes, intuitive OSes for simplified computers or FOSS software for journalists, he is now working full-time on the Libervia project. Jérôme has given talks in various events, including FOSDEM, RMLL, JDLL, PSES, PyCon France, Parinux, Ubuntu Party, LinuxDays (Prague), Linuxwochen (Vienna), Fêtons Linux (Lausanne). Jérôme has a long commitment to Free (as in Freedom) Software.

Matthieu FAURE is Open Source project manager at [ADULLACT](https://adullact.org/), a French non-profit of local governments. He is the creator of [Asqatasun](https://asqatasun.org/) (formerly EvalAccess and Tanaguru), the open source web accessibility analyser, reputed for its reliability. Matthieu is also a volunteer instructor at [Les Glenans](http://www.glenans.asso.fr/) sailing school.

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Head of open source software edition and community animation.

to come soon.

Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006 For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm. Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies” President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”). Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE • Intellectual property • IT contracts • Open Source • Artificial intelligence • Personal data • Business secrecy • Web3 DIPLOMAS • Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990) • DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992) • DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994) • US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002) • Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994) LANGUAGES French and English

to come soon.

to come soon.

Since 2016, Elisa NECTOUX is working for Belledonne Communications (the editor of the Linphone software) as Sales and Marketing Manager. Her mission is to develop new revenue models and markets to support the growth of the company. Over the years she acquired a strong expertise in the complex needs of unified communication solutions’ developers. Having a master’s degree in management, she thrives in a technical environment and is sensitive to the free software philosophy.

Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, has been **involved in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) since 2005** as W3C Technical Manager for Spain and LATAM, taking part in dozens of development projects early in his career. From 2009 on, along with the W3C role, Martin has worked as a consultant, performing various tasks as an interoperability, transparency, and accessibility advisor. He has been involved in numerous W3C Working Groups, leading some Semantic Web activities and developing technical standards for **data interoperability and e-government**, especially focusing on open data at the European level. He has represented Huawei in several standard organizations since 2020, in concrete on Web-related standards in W3C.

Yury Korchagin is an experienced Professional Services Engineer at ONLYOFFICE with a strong background in professional technical services, a deep understanding of DevOps practices. Highly skilled in troubleshooting complex technical issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing scalable solutions. Experienced in various DevOps tools and methodologies, including continuous integration and deployment, containerization, and infrastructure automation. Has made significant contributions to optimizing support processes and achieving faster resolution times, has successfully resolved numerous complex cases. Dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, his main drive is to keep complex things simple and user-friendly.

Jérôme Poisson is a French developer with expertise on XMPP. Jérôme has been a member of the XSF (XMPP Standard Foundation) for many years, and the author of several XEPs (XMPP Extension Protocol). After working for various companies on topics such as set-top boxes, intuitive OSes for simplified computers or FOSS software for journalists, he is now working full-time on the Libervia project. Jérôme has given talks in various events, including FOSDEM, RMLL, JDLL, PSES, PyCon France, Parinux, Ubuntu Party, LinuxDays (Prague), Linuxwochen (Vienna), Fêtons Linux (Lausanne). Jérôme has a long commitment to Free (as in Freedom) Software.

Matthieu FAURE is Open Source project manager at [ADULLACT](https://adullact.org/), a French non-profit of local governments. He is the creator of [Asqatasun](https://asqatasun.org/) (formerly EvalAccess and Tanaguru), the open source web accessibility analyser, reputed for its reliability. Matthieu is also a volunteer instructor at [Les Glenans](http://www.glenans.asso.fr/) sailing school.

Director of Paris Agency

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Head of open source software edition and community animation.

to come soon.

Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006 For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm. Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies” President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”). Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE • Intellectual property • IT contracts • Open Source • Artificial intelligence • Personal data • Business secrecy • Web3 DIPLOMAS • Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990) • DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992) • DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994) • US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002) • Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994) LANGUAGES French and English

to come soon.

to come soon.

Since 2016, Elisa NECTOUX is working for Belledonne Communications (the editor of the Linphone software) as Sales and Marketing Manager. Her mission is to develop new revenue models and markets to support the growth of the company. Over the years she acquired a strong expertise in the complex needs of unified communication solutions’ developers. Having a master’s degree in management, she thrives in a technical environment and is sensitive to the free software philosophy.

Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, has been **involved in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) since 2005** as W3C Technical Manager for Spain and LATAM, taking part in dozens of development projects early in his career. From 2009 on, along with the W3C role, Martin has worked as a consultant, performing various tasks as an interoperability, transparency, and accessibility advisor. He has been involved in numerous W3C Working Groups, leading some Semantic Web activities and developing technical standards for **data interoperability and e-government**, especially focusing on open data at the European level. He has represented Huawei in several standard organizations since 2020, in concrete on Web-related standards in W3C.

Yury Korchagin is an experienced Professional Services Engineer at ONLYOFFICE with a strong background in professional technical services, a deep understanding of DevOps practices. Highly skilled in troubleshooting complex technical issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing scalable solutions. Experienced in various DevOps tools and methodologies, including continuous integration and deployment, containerization, and infrastructure automation. Has made significant contributions to optimizing support processes and achieving faster resolution times, has successfully resolved numerous complex cases. Dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, his main drive is to keep complex things simple and user-friendly.

Jérôme Poisson is a French developer with expertise on XMPP. Jérôme has been a member of the XSF (XMPP Standard Foundation) for many years, and the author of several XEPs (XMPP Extension Protocol). After working for various companies on topics such as set-top boxes, intuitive OSes for simplified computers or FOSS software for journalists, he is now working full-time on the Libervia project. Jérôme has given talks in various events, including FOSDEM, RMLL, JDLL, PSES, PyCon France, Parinux, Ubuntu Party, LinuxDays (Prague), Linuxwochen (Vienna), Fêtons Linux (Lausanne). Jérôme has a long commitment to Free (as in Freedom) Software.

Matthieu FAURE is Open Source project manager at [ADULLACT](https://adullact.org/), a French non-profit of local governments. He is the creator of [Asqatasun](https://asqatasun.org/) (formerly EvalAccess and Tanaguru), the open source web accessibility analyser, reputed for its reliability. Matthieu is also a volunteer instructor at [Les Glenans](http://www.glenans.asso.fr/) sailing school.

Director of Paris Agency

https://xguer.in

Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.

Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl). He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads [NGIZero](https://nlnet.nl/NGI0), a family of research programmes including [NGI0 Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) and [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core), part of the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at [Technische Universiteit Eindhoven](http://www.tue.nl) and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at [Tilburg University](http://www.uvt.nl). He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as [The Commons Conservancy](https://commonsconservancy.org) (chair), [OpenDoc Society](http://www.opendocsociety.org) (vice-chair), [SCION Foundation](https://scion.org) (Board of Advisors), [SIDN Fund](http://sidnfonds.nl) (Board of Advisors), and [Petities.nl](http://www.petities.nl) foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of [Technology Commons Trust](https://technologycommons.org). In 2022 he was awarded the [NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award](/news/2022/20220510-NLUUG_Award.html).

Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.

After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.

Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.

https://github.com/garronej Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations. I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.

Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.

As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.

I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Stefano has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. First for Spagobi and now for KNOWAGE, he manages complex projects both in Italy and abroad, leading the team of more than 10 consultants from KNOWAGE Labs as well as colleagues and team members from Engineering Group.

Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today - Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France - Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.

Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.

to come soon.

An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems. Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative. Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.

to come soon.

Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.

Christian is an open source strategy consultant and founder of Open Up. He has launched several open source initiatives, spoken at events and advised peers across multiple domains. Previously, Christian was head of the Open Source Governance for Orange where he spearheaded the launch of Good Governance and Accessibility initiatives. As well as assisting clients, he serves as VP on the OW2 board, contributes actively to the OSPO Alliance, and is part of the IEEE open source governance best practices working group. Christian also chairs the OW2 Quick App Initiative on behalf of Huawei. When not at work he enjoys current affairs, walking, travel and reading. He has also been known to play a video game or two. Academically, Christian holds neurobiology and cognitive science diplomas.

I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon

Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs. PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.

Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.

Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.

Head of open source software edition and community animation.

to come soon.

Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006 For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups. His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm. Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies” President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”). Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE • Intellectual property • IT contracts • Open Source • Artificial intelligence • Personal data • Business secrecy • Web3 DIPLOMAS • Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990) • DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992) • DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994) • US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002) • Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994) LANGUAGES French and English

to come soon.

to come soon.

Since 2016, Elisa NECTOUX is working for Belledonne Communications (the editor of the Linphone software) as Sales and Marketing Manager. Her mission is to develop new revenue models and markets to support the growth of the company. Over the years she acquired a strong expertise in the complex needs of unified communication solutions’ developers. Having a master’s degree in management, she thrives in a technical environment and is sensitive to the free software philosophy.

Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, has been **involved in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) since 2005** as W3C Technical Manager for Spain and LATAM, taking part in dozens of development projects early in his career. From 2009 on, along with the W3C role, Martin has worked as a consultant, performing various tasks as an interoperability, transparency, and accessibility advisor. He has been involved in numerous W3C Working Groups, leading some Semantic Web activities and developing technical standards for **data interoperability and e-government**, especially focusing on open data at the European level. He has represented Huawei in several standard organizations since 2020, in concrete on Web-related standards in W3C.

Yury Korchagin is an experienced Professional Services Engineer at ONLYOFFICE with a strong background in professional technical services, a deep understanding of DevOps practices. Highly skilled in troubleshooting complex technical issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing scalable solutions. Experienced in various DevOps tools and methodologies, including continuous integration and deployment, containerization, and infrastructure automation. Has made significant contributions to optimizing support processes and achieving faster resolution times, has successfully resolved numerous complex cases. Dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, his main drive is to keep complex things simple and user-friendly.

Jérôme Poisson is a French developer with expertise on XMPP. Jérôme has been a member of the XSF (XMPP Standard Foundation) for many years, and the author of several XEPs (XMPP Extension Protocol). After working for various companies on topics such as set-top boxes, intuitive OSes for simplified computers or FOSS software for journalists, he is now working full-time on the Libervia project. Jérôme has given talks in various events, including FOSDEM, RMLL, JDLL, PSES, PyCon France, Parinux, Ubuntu Party, LinuxDays (Prague), Linuxwochen (Vienna), Fêtons Linux (Lausanne). Jérôme has a long commitment to Free (as in Freedom) Software.

Matthieu FAURE is Open Source project manager at [ADULLACT](https://adullact.org/), a French non-profit of local governments. He is the creator of [Asqatasun](https://asqatasun.org/) (formerly EvalAccess and Tanaguru), the open source web accessibility analyser, reputed for its reliability. Matthieu is also a volunteer instructor at [Les Glenans](http://www.glenans.asso.fr/) sailing school.

Director of Paris Agency

https://xguer.in

In Horizon Europe, the largest European research and innovation programme, she manages the French NCP for Digital and Space. Isabelle holds a degree in European Marketing Sciences and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA). She has worked at SYSTEMATIC Paris Region (pôle de compétitivité) as the Head of the European Affairs Department. Isabelle has over 20 years of experience in business development. She has also worked as a freelance European consultant. She has supported innovative SMEs and start-ups in their international development and has proven project management skills.