OW2con'25 Keynotes Speakers
OW2con'25 will welcome a range of high profile and world-class keynote speakers, including:
Invited Country: UK, by Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock has built one of open source's most recognised and impactful organisations. Executive Producer of State of Open Con (2023- 2025), Amanda’s a globally sought-after keynote speaker.
A lawyer with 25 years’ experience, 5 as GC of Canonical, she’s been instrumental in shaping open source’s legal frameworks, as she was internet law during the early 2000’s.
Regularly contributing to tech press, she edited “Open Source: Law, Policy and Practice”, 2nd edition (2022).
Recognition: Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech (2023, 2024) listed as #20 in 2024; Computing IT Leaders 100 (2023, 2024); Lifetime Achievement Award WIPL (2022); Women Who Will Changemaker (2023); INvolve Heroes (2022, 2023); Novi Awards (2024); and Ambassador, Open Charge Alliance.
Advisory Board Appointments: UK Cabinet Office Open Standards Board; UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure; UKRI Exascale; KDE; commercial boards – Mimoto, Scarf, FerretDB and Space Aye; and Fellow, Open Forum Academy; Distinguished Fellow, Rust Foundation; and European Representative, OIN and Board Member Mojaloop Foundation.
Owning your AI, by Yann Lechelle, CEO and Co-founder, Probabl.
Yann is an entrepreneur & tech executive, co-founder & CEO at Probabl.ai, an INRIA spinoff whose mission is to distribute open source data science and machine learning technology globally around Scikit-learn and its more than 2 billion downloads. Previously, he was CEO at Scaleway, a leading regional cloud provider with unique European attributes and values. Over the past decades, he has founded, grown and exited a total of 6 tech startups, including Snips.ai, a privacy-by-design voice processing deep-tech acquired by Nasdaq-listed Sonos.
Yann gives back to the community as an angel investor, as digital expert to Matignon’s Secretary General for Investment in its France 2030 investment committees, as co-founding member of France Digitale and board member and VP Ecosystem at HUB France AI, as well as board member at One-o-One and JEDI. Yann holds a Bachelor of Computer Science summa cum laude from the American University of Paris, as well as an MBA from INSEAD.
Impacting Europe: how can an AI empowered Commission change your life, by Artur Queiroz, Deputy Head of Unit, DIGIT.B.1, European Commission.
I am a computer scientist by education, with 15 years of experience in IT working both in the private and public sectors. I’m fond of Enterprise Architecture, but most of my career has been spent in IT project management, support and software development. Currently I am the Deputy Head of Unit in DIGIT.B.1 in the European Commission, developing IT products and services in the fields of Data, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Web, managing the content offering for the Europa websites.
The AI Challenges in the perspective of the French National Geographical Institute, by Matthieu Porte, AI coordinator at IGN, French National Geographic Institute.
Matthieu, a mathematician, now coordinates AI activities at IGN - the French National Geographic Institute. He is in charge of building and implementing IGN's AI roadmap, and also works on applying AI to Lidar HD data.
The (R)evolution in Data and Computer Science: anticipating opportunities and distinguishing Science from Science Fiction, by Alberto Pace, Head of IT Education, CERN.
For several years, Alberto led the CERN group that develops and operates the scientific computing services and the data center infrastructure required by the laboratory and its experiments to achieve their research mission. He represents CERN on the advisory boards of the Internet Society (isoc.org) and the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c.org). He has also been a programming professor at the University of Lausanne. He graduated in engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), when he received the first IEEE prize among electronic engineering students in the Northern Italy section.
When Corporate IT meets Cloud Native principles: Open Digital Architecture & Discobole, by Antoine Borragini & Louis Marie, Software Architects, Orange.
As Software architects at Orange, Antoine Borragini & Louis Marie work on hot topics for IT: Cloud Native applications, Open-source alternatives, Platform Engineering.