Serge Linkels, Managing Directors of the Digital Learning Hub which is kindly sponsoring the venue, will welcome speakers and attendees.
Introducing LMDDC as supporter of the Conference as well as user, supporter and producer of Open Source software for the EdTech sector.
Keynote of Minister for Research, Higher Education and for Digitalisation
In times of geopolitical turmoil and technology-fuelled disruption, States - not least in the European Union - are considering their options for safeguarding their national sovereignty and security. Luxembourg's Ambassador for Cybersecurity and Digitalisation will explore the contribution that open-source software can make to strengthening national and European resilience in the digital field.
By 2030, the Interoperable Europe Act aims for all key public digital services in EU member states to be interoperable, enabling seamless cross-border information exchange. Open source software is a key tool and lever for achieving the ambitious yet critical goals. Significant investment, guidance, and collaboration will be needed to ensure the European public sector sphere can effectively adopt and sustain open source solutions.
This talk presents findings from an in-depth study of five mature cases where local governments have adopted, developed, and collaborated on open source software from three perspectives:
- Local governments and public sector organisations as drivers and users of open source solutions.
- Community actors that enable collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Service suppliers (public, private, and civil society) providing technical capabilities for planning, development, maintenance, and operations.
The presentation offers three takeaways for the attendees. First, the case studies show how local government open source projects have evolved through various stages, what challenges they have experienced, how these have been managed, and how sustainability is planned for. Second, a set of archetypes is defined to support actors in identifying their own role and those of others in the open source ecosystem to foster successful open source collaboration in a specific context. Finally, specific recommendations are provided to guide local governments, community actors, and service suppliers to cooperate in developing and supporting open source solutions with the potential to scale cross-border collaboration.
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In this talk, we will discuss how we tame the complexity of software development at LIST by using a low-code approach. By specifying the blueprints of the software to be built, we can (semi)automate its development, including its AI features and components (chatbots, neural networks...)
We will describe BESSER, the open-source low-code framework that makes this possible, and discuss you can use and extend BESSER to create your own tailored-made low-code solution for your organization.
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The Luxembourg Cybersecurity Factory (LCF) is set to become a groundbreaking hub for collaboration, enabling the seamless collection, analysis, and sharing of critical cybersecurity data—from threat intelligence and vulnerabilities to the effectiveness of protective measures. Designed as an open cybersecurity data space, the LCF will integrate advanced data tools, a dedicated Open Source Program Office (OSPO), and robust governance frameworks to strengthen risk mitigation across sectors.
This initiative will empower organisations, especially SMEs, to develop innovative, autonomous cybersecurity solutions, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of data, tools, and real-world applications. In a second phase, the LCF will expand its partnership with the Luxembourg AI Factory (L-AIF), integrating AI capabilities to further enhance its impact.
By attracting cybersecurity data providers to contribute their datasets and supporting data curation for AI applications, Luxembourg aims to position the LCF as a global leader in open-source-driven cybersecurity innovation.
This contribution, delivered by Sven Thomsen, CIO of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, outlines the state’s pioneering path toward digital sovereignty through Open Source and Open Innovation. It highlights the risks of dependency on proprietary software—including lack of transparency, inflated costs, and reduced security—and positions Open Standards and Open Source as essential for autonomy, resilience, and competitiveness. The speech details Schleswig-Holstein’s concrete migration from proprietary to Open Source solutions across its administration, supported by strategic planning, procurement reforms, and budget shifts. Initiatives such as the state’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and innovation hubs foster collaboration between government, industry, academia, and civil society, ensuring sustainable adoption and stimulating regional economic growth. Emphasizing both national security and Europe-wide competitiveness, the keynote calls for collective action to establish Open Source as the new normal in public IT systems, framing the transformation as a shared European mission for digital independence.
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In recent years, global political changes have put digital sovereignty at the forefront of the discourse again. While governments focus on the industrial side of the equation, this talk will explore how the more mundane and smaller scale practices of homelab and self hosting matter, and how it relate to the subject of sovereignty. It will present various french initiatives, but also global communities around self hosting. We will also explore how free software communities can help by following some best practices in their project.
For several years now, the city of Échirolles has been engaged in an original and innovative digital transformation. A proactive and structured approach to serve the inhabitants, based on free software and open data.
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Governance is a key aspect of software development, especially in Open-Source Software (OSS), where the collaborative nature of the process requires clear guidelines and policies to ensure effective decision-making and accountability. While some mature projects have established clear governance structures, many others rely on informal practices, which can lead to misunderstandings, conflicts, or lack of accountability. The rise of increasingly diverse contributors—including not only people from different backgrounds but also AI-powered agents—adds a new layer of complexity to governance. This raises important questions: Who gets to decide? How are rules enforced? And how do communities remain transparent and fair when the lines between human and non-human contributors blur? In this talk, we will explore the growing governance challenges facing OSS projects, why they matter for the sustainability of open collaboration, and potential pathways to making governance more explicit, transparent, and adaptable.
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Director Thibaut Kleiner (DG CNECT – Future Networks) will set out a practical European vision for open source as a driver of digital sovereignty, competitiveness, and trust. His intervention will show how openness translates into five levers—transparency, interoperability, portability, security by scrutiny, and stronger European supply chains—so that public administrations, SMEs, industry, researchers, and communities can all benefit.
Director Kleiner will outline two complementary pillars: the Open Internet Stack, a new catalogue of trustworthy, deployable building blocks aligned with EU rules, and the Digital Commons EDIC, a Member-State consortium designed to steward, maintain, and scale critical open technologies over time. Together with national OSPOs and smarter public procurement (including forthcoming cloud/AI guidance to support choice and portability), these efforts aim to make European, secure, sustainable services easier to adopt.
A dedicated section addresses keeping OSS secure—from supply-chain safeguards (reproducible builds, SBOMs, signed releases) to ongoing Commission work around the Cyber Resilience Act, including support for community-driven standards and guidance, and a study on security attestations that will support the Commission’s reflections on effective approaches for open-source projects.
The talk closes with a call to action: align roadmaps, reuse what works, and invest in long-term stewardship - so Europe offers a trusted, open digital choice that people can use every day.
The EU OS project pools on one side existing case studies on Linux for desktop computers in the public sector. On the other side, it proposes a realistic concept on how the public sector in the EU could switch from Microsoft Windows to a common Linux OS within rather months than years to gain more digital sovereignty. In this talk, project lead Robert Riemann gives a status update, calls for action and answers your questions.
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Open source has become a cornerstone for innovation, collaboration, and trust in the digital era. By enabling transparency, interoperability, and inclusivity, open source technologies create opportunities for countries and communities of all sizes to participate in shaping digital ecosystems. This talk will highlight how open source principles—shared ownership, peer collaboration, and collective problem-solving—are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensuring that digital transformation benefits everyone.
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Danna Ingleton, ED of HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems) will share why free and open source software (FOSS) is essential for justice-oriented work. Beyond ethical alternatives to big tech, open source tools safeguard security, protect data sovereignty, and empower practitioners in human rights, social justice, and humanitarian response. This talk will highlight the urgent need for interoperability within the FOSS community to build the critical technology infrastructure that civil society needs to claim rights, seek justice, and recover from crises.
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Today, decades into digitalization, we are seeing fundamental changes in the technology landscape. These changes are prompting international actors, including humanitarians, to seek new ways to operate globally. Open source has been identified as one possible solution.
The ICRC has always operated in challenging environments to respond to the needs of people affected by armed conflict or other violence. Today, as the ICRC grapples with how to operate effectively amidst that changing technology landscape, our technology strategy was reshaped to strengthen resilience against cybersecurity risks and to ensure critical information systems’ availability. The strategy outlines the technical foundation needed to respond in a responsible way. It is aligned with the exclusively humanitarian nature of the ICRC’s activities; the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence that support our mission; and the ICRC’s standard ways of working, which are critical to establishing and maintaining trust, access to affected people and the security of ICRC staff in the places we work.
Open source plays an important role in our technology strategy and in this talk we will share some reflections and initial learnings on how the open source journey has been starting at the ICRC, where we are, and where we are aiming. We are also seeking support and guidance from the open source community on questions and dilemmas that have arisen to date on our trip.
Finally, we are here to collaborate on the question, quo vadis open source?
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During this presentation we will introduce you to the newly formed European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Digital Commons. What is an EDIC? What is the background? How did practical cooperation between EU Member States grow into the EDIC and what will be its tasks? Moreover; how can the EDIC become a European response to strategic digital dependencies?
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This talk introduces a strategic approach for organizations to explore open-source tools in the creation and management of learning pathways that align with microcredential frameworks. Targeted at administrators, HR professionals, and organizational leaders, the initiative supports Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by enabling the design of modular, verifiable learning experiences that contribute to recognized digital skill credentials. The approach supports strategic competence supply planning, internal mobility, and measurable progress tracking.
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The AI-Horde demonstrates that crowd sourcing computing power for generative AI is viable. Our volunteers provide their resources for overwhelming altruistic reasons, with many believing that generative AI has profound educational and artistic benefit. By providing a platform for those volunteers to offer their compute in a fair and equitable way using our ‘kudos’ system, we have demonstrated that significant ideological will exists to provide these services for free to the public.
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Digital sovereignty—the ability to control and influence one’s digital future and infrastructure—is increasingly at the centre of political and technological agendas. Recent signals, such political signals and shifts in attitude toward non-European cloud providers, underscore a broader momentum. While governments pursue different and sometimes overlapping strategies, open source consistently emerges as a key enabler. Through open strategic autonomy, sovereignty can be gained while fostering interoperability, reuse, and collaboration. Open source provides a path to influence without requiring exclusive ownership, balancing self-reliance with global interconnectedness.
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However, leveraging open source effectively requires capabilities and know-how across society and industry. This implies actions at multiple levels: cross-cutting training and workforce development, sustainable business ecosystems, supportive policies and OSPO structures in both public and private sectors, long-term procurement strategies, targeted government facilitation and funding, and investments in the maintenance of foundational technologies. Strategic planning is essential to align these capabilities with societal and industrial goals. This talk will delve into how Europe can grow Digital sovereignty through open source, and leverage the strategic opportunity it provides.
At CIRCL (Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg), part of the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity (LHC), we embarked on a journey to build and sustain open-source solutions for CSIRTs. With over 14 years of experience, we’ve gained valuable insights into open-source software development and community engagement in the cybersecurity field. Below are some of the key lessons we’ve learned along the way. The talk will also include an overview of the tooling developed by CIRCL over the past 14 years.
An overview of all open-source tools developed by CIRCL to support CSIRT operations, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), and digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) will be also included in this talk.
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Since June 2025, the OSPO Alliance has been supporting two initiatives for FLOSS public sector organisations: one to define a schema to describe OSPOs, what they are and what they do (OSPOmeta), the other to inventory OSPOs in public administrations around the world (floss-pso.network). The presentation will provide an introduction and update on the evolution of the OSPOmeta schema, as well as the inventory of public sector OSPOs and how it is already helping to create opportunities for collaboration.
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The rapid adoption of AI-assisted coding tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT has accelerated software development processes, but it has also introduced significant risks. Developers may unknowingly use AI-generated code that violates licensing restrictions or includes vulnerable third-party dependencies.
AI-generated code identification is essential to ensure responsible use of that code while enjoying the productivity gains.
In this talk, Philippe will share a new approach, using open source tools and open data, to identify and locate AI-generated code in software projects and products for safer, efficient, and more responsible and ethical use of AI-generated code.
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Digital sovereignty has become a central theme in European debates on technology, and the Netherlands is no exception. Governments are becoming increasingly aware that the ability to control and trust their digital infrastructure is not just a technical matter anymore. It’s also a matter of democratic resilience and autonomy.
This talk explores the Dutch government’s evolving approach to open source and digital sovereignty. Digital autonomy and transparency are increasingly embedded in our national policy, with measures such as the “open, unless” principle. But policy alone is not enough: the real challenge is to embed these values across the National Digitalisation Strategy (NDS) and to turn open source policies into practical initiatives (and vice versa!).
As Interim Lead of the Dutch gov’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), Gina will share insights into how digital sovereignty translates into practice. Key questions include:
• What is the role of opensource in digital sovereignty again?
• What initiatives have already been initiated, which still need to start, and how does policy support these?
• Where are the biggest opportunities and challenges for open source adoption in the public sector?
Attendees will gain perspective on the Dutch context, lessons for other EU member states, and practical steps for aligning open source policy with long-term digital sovereignty goals.
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Network access is increasingly becoming a prime target for attackers. As digital transformation blurs the boundaries between network segments, traditional separations are weakening. Every access from other network segments — whether from internal systems or external organizational networks — can pose a potential threat.
In this talk, we’ll explore real-world threat scenarios and discuss practical recommendations for securing your infrastructure. You’ll learn why VPN connections can introduce hidden risks, how attackers exploit weak segmentation, and — most importantly — how to secure vulnerable services and data without sacrificing usability.
Join us to gain actionable insights and strengthen your defenses against evolving network-based attacks.
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TAO is an open-source assessment platform designed to support a wide range of educational contexts. Its foundation on open standards makes it adaptable and interoperable, allowing institutions and governments to implement digital testing solutions that align with their local needs without dependence on proprietary technologies.
The open-source model is central to TAO’s mission. By removing licensing barriers, TAO ensures equitable access to assessment tools, regardless of institutional or regional resources. Its modular design encourages collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement across diverse educational ecosystems. TAO goes beyond open-source software; it fosters the exchange of experiences, use cases, and new ideas within the TAO open community. New insights emerging from this community through concrete and trial practices are expected to transform assessment practices, further amplifying TAO’s global impact.
Real-world deployments of TAO illustrate its ability to thrive in both well-resourced and low-resource contexts. Use cases from various regions will be presented to demonstrate how the platform has delivered secure, standardized assessments with low total cost of ownership, enabling stakeholders to redirect resources toward teaching, learning, and infrastructure. Even in challenging environments, TAO has proven to enhance educational opportunities and outcomes for learners and educators alike.
By embodying the principles of openness, transparency, and collaboration, TAO shows how open-source educational technology can drive systemic change. It is more than just a platform: it is a movement towards inclusive, sustainable, and trusted assessment worldwide.
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In this short talk, Jacek Plucinski, from SnT, University of Luxembourg, will share his insights on setting up an inside university task force, dedicated to help researchers deal with FOSS matters. Is an OSPO needed in a research center at university? How it started and how is it going few years later, and what are the key benefits of such service.
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CERN, the physics lab near Geneva, operating the Large Hadron Collider, has a rich history of Open Source contributions and in Open Science. In this talk we will present the work the CERN OSPO has done over its first two years of existence, with particular attention to the impact of CERN's Open Source beyond high-energy physics, CERN's main area of research.
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Range42 is an open cyber range platform developed by the National Cybersecurity Competence Center (NC3) under the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity with the help of DIGISQUAD. It automates the deployment of training environments for cybersecurity education and research, with current capabilities including automated provisioning on Proxmox, integrated monitoring, VPN connectivity, and an initial inventory of vulnerable and misconfigured environments. A visual designer for lab infrastructures is in development, alongside plans for expanded scenario coverage and multi-subnet support. This talk will provide a project status update and invite the open source community to contribute to scenario design, infrastructure automation, and user-facing tools.
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Since 2020, La Digitale has been offering alternatives to big edtech companies through a set of free and open-source digital tools used by more than 3 million teachers, learners, and education professionals in over 160 countries.
In this presentation, you will discover, through practical illustrations, a quick overview of the four main categories of tools featured in the project: setting up collaborative activities, editing and creating multimedia content, classroom management and facilitation, and resource sharing.
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Lessons learned from 13 years at The Document Foundation and LibreOffice
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This presentation offers a concise overview of the current state of the art in AI and robotics, highlighting key developments, capabilities, and limitations of modern systems such as ChatGPT and its counterparts. We will explore the growing societal and technological fascination with AI-driven agents and machines, and what this means for the future of human-machine interaction. From breakthroughs in large language models to advances in autonomous systems, this talk invites reflection on how far we've come—and where we might be heading next.
L'automatisation et l'intelligence artificielle sont les piliers d'une cybersécurité efficace. Dans ce talk, nous dévoilerons une solution complètement personnalisée qui fusionne Wazuh pour la détection, OpenSearch pour l'analyse et Ansible pour l'action.
Nous démontrerons comment des playbooks Ansible permettent de déployer et de gérer des centaines d'agents Wazuh, du déploiement initial à la réponse aux incidents. Oubliez la gestion manuelle ; nous vous montrerons comment orchestrer l'intégralité du cycle de vie de votre infrastructure de sécurité.
Nous plongerons ensuite dans les capacités de Machine Learning d'OpenSearch. Apprenez comment le ML transforme les données brutes en renseignements exploitables, en détectant des menaces subtiles que les règles traditionnelles ne peuvent pas capturer. Nous vous montrerons comment l'IA peut identifier des comportements anormaux pour déclencher des actions de remédiation automatisées via Ansible.
À la fin de cette présentation, vous aurez une feuille de route pour construire une plateforme de sécurité proactive et résiliente, où l'automatisation et l'intelligence artificielle travaillent ensemble pour vous protéger.
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The Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE) initiative, led by ITU and UNDP with support from the European Commission, empowers governments and local ecosystems to harness open source for digital public goods and infrastructures. With pilot deployments in Kenya and Trinidad & Tobago, and a growing affiliate network spanning 25 countries, OSEE is creating the first international network of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs). This session highlights progress, country experiences, and the roadmap toward sustainable, inclusive, and innovative digital transformation.
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In his presentation, François Thill, will briefly present the strategy developed by the Ministry of the Economy for cybersecurity and highlight its importance for SMEs and innovation in general. The aim of the strategy is to reduce the costs and complexity of cybersecurity tools for all. To achieve this goal, the OSPO of the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity will play a predominant role by publishing open source tools, raw and contextualized data as well as AI models together with the training data. Code, data and AI models are made available to a large audience to foster the creation of new cybersecurity services by the private sector with SMEs as a target audience. The development of these tools is supported in Luxembourg by state aid, SMEs investing in these solutions are financially supported. Furthermore, Luxembourg intends to create an European cybersecurity initiative through a “joint action” at the level of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC). In this endeavour, the OSPO of the House of Cybersecurity will play a major role.
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The Open-Source information system mapping tool Mercator provides organizations with a platform to visualize and understand and secure their IT environments. IT teams can use Mercator to improve IT service management through its interactive diagrams and data integration and flexible visualizations which help them navigate complex infrastructures.
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Most AI today runs on giant, opaque, black-box models — this talk explores how open source language models offer a sovereign, transparent, and responsible alternative.
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Perfect Storm: "A confluence of events that drastically aggravates a situation."
In "The Perfect Storm," we'll explore the critical confluence of digital sovereignty, the NIS2 directive, and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). These new regulations create a "perfect storm" that significantly increases personal liability for C-level, with fines reaching up to €10 million per incident. This session will outline who is liable and the immediate actions you must take to achieve and maintain compliance.
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Shortening URLs allows to deal with the problem of sharing difficult to digest internet page references. To avoid suffering from the various pitfalls of commercial online services, Fondation Restena deployed a public service for the attention of the Education and Research community--edu.lu & NGSOTI projects--. It leverages the OSS tool "short" from SURFnet.nl/edu.nl. In light of further securing our service and avoiding to shorten potentially malicious URLs, we are currently working on complementing the shortener with an URL Checker internal service in the backend: production target is February 2026, as per NGSOTI. The URL Checker Webservice will in the future collect the qualification of the scanned URLs, potentially orchestrate periodic rescans, interface with the URL Shortener Service and contribute to the open reporting of unsafe URLs.
Under the hood, the webservice will specifically leverage internally designed tools that request analyses from various providers (depending on URL's type: from open "local" sources--Lookyloo/MISP--or from "external" providers--VirusTotal,...--), as well as perform more targeted local sanity and security check actions. In addition, we intend to evaluate how running locally checks--YARA rules--can help us in catching potentially unreported malicious URLs and avoid completely external commercial dependencies.
By fusing all these results, the URL Checker Tools will derive indicators and finally triage URLs as safe or unsafe.
In the current talk, we put the focus and provide insights into the development of the URL Checker Tools, sharing our observations and analyses while exploring our results.
When it comes to AI in Education, RAG software is what most people are after. The ability to create a knowledge base and use it with a Large Language Model to generate answers for a private chatbot is a common requirement. We are developing at the LMDDC a mainstream solution for education leveraging open source software. During this presentation, Pierre will walk you through our journey and explain which open source solutions we used.
The Open Source Initiative has, nearly one year ago, introduced the Open Source AI Definition. While still open to modifications, the definition points out that openness in AI is a matter of both licensing rights and offering enough components so that anyone is able to meaningfully "fork" an AI system or a model for whichever purposes. Unfortunately, already many widely publicized soi-disant "Open Source" AI models and system fall way short on both counts. This is an issue of grave importance, also for the implementation of the EU AI Act -- which grants some lighter touch regulation for Open Source AI.
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Researchers, educators, and developers face a common challenge when building robust, ethical, and sustainable AI software: the lack of accessible full-stack development resources and expertise. Low-code platforms promise to address this gap by automating parts of the coding process and reducing development time. But an important question remains: are these platforms truly open, or do they lock users into proprietary ecosystems?
Often, proprietary low-code tools create vendor lock-in and limit user freedom. We argue for more open-source alternatives that empower users to use, extend, and even adapt the tools to fit their specific needs.
In this workshop, we present BESSER, an open-source low-code platform for smart software development. Participants will get hands-on experience creating applications, databases, AI agents, and chatbots directly from our web modeling editor. Beyond these exercises, we will also explore the advantages of BESSER’s open-source ecosystem, which gives users the freedom to extend the platform, adapt it to their own domains, and contribute new features to the project, building and sharing their own model-driven solutions.
Open source software is the foundation of modern technology, yet many corporations treat it as a free resource rather than a critical supply chain component. New legislation, like EU’s Cyber Resilience Act, is going to change that. This session will explore the risks that arise from this passive approach and propose a new model: one where corporations transition from being mere consumers to active stewards of the open source ecosystem. We have heard from numerous companies that they need new standards in this area.
This talk is a summary of those ongoing conversations and an invitation for others to join in this crucial effort. We will outline a framework for building new internal processes and advocating for an industry-wide standard on open source sustainability. Attendees will learn how to go beyond basic vulnerability detection and proactively assess the long-term health of the projects they depend on, informing a new kind of risk management.
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Europe faces the challenge of achieving digital sovereignty and innovation across a fragmented cloud landscape. The 8ra Initiative (IPCEI-CIS) is a pan-European, industry-driven response: it focuses on building a Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum (MPCEC), based on openness, interoperability, and resilience. With more than 120 partners across 12 member states, 8ra aims to create a European alternative to closed hyperscaler models - embedding Open Source as a guiding principle for governance and technology. By building the necessary components for a so called Multi-Provider-Cloud-Edge-Continuum stack, organizations will no longer be tied to a single provider and can run cloud-native applications wherever they choose. The developed open source components support, that data can be processed locally where it is produced, reducing latency, environmental burden, and data transfer costs by combining cloud and edge resources from multiple sovereign providers. Only an open source development will ensure the necessary acceptance to truly create a powerful ecosystem from the diversity of domestic providers.
Within this framework, driven by the ApeiroRA project, NeoNephos, a foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation Europe, ensures the long-term sustainability of 8ra outcomes. By integrating the components of the stack along the IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture (ICRA), NeoNephos provides an open, neutral reference model that is community-driven and collectively governed.
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The European Union is in the process of investing significant amounts of public funding in deploying advanced AI infrastructures across the continent, which are expected to support EU businesses (particularly startups and SMEs) develop new AI models by providing easy access to the computational power they need. This talk will introduce how the €3B Important Project of Common European Interest on Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) is developing an open source software stack that will provide those AI Factories with a sovereign alternative to the proprietary solutions offered by non-EU Big Tech vendors. This stack is already being deployed across Europe as part of Fact8ra.AI
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In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, training institutes—both public and private—have to balance both operational management and learning experiences. This presentation will showcase how Odoo, an open-core ERP platform, can provides a modular solution tailored to the specific needs of training organizations.
Drawing on NSI’s rich portfolio of real-world integration projects, both on the open source community version and the entreprise version, the talk will explore how Odoo’s modular architecture can be customized to address common pain points. Learn how Odoo enables seamless data consolidation, automates repetitive processes, and empowers staff and students.
Attendees will walk away with tangible insights from implementation experiences, including how to adapt Odoo for compliance, multilingual settings, and varying governance structures. The session will also highlight best practices, lessons learned, and pointers for sustainability and scalability in institutional contexts.
Whether you represent a public training body or a private academy, this talk delivers actionable strategies to enhance efficiency, transparency, and learner engagement.
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Incident response and threat intelligence teams often face a paradox: vast information but no structured way to manage cases, tasks, and collaboration, leading to duplication, silos, and delays.
FlowIntel, an open-source case and task management platform, solves this by giving analysts a modern environment with Markdown notes, templating, subtasks, attachments, and timeline views to turn fragmented work into structured investigations. Case templating allow to reproduce process and facilitate the work of the DFIR analyst. It also integrates natively with MISP, allowing direct linkage of threat intelligence, enrichment with events, use of taxonomies and galaxies, and export of structured reports.
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France Numérique Libre was born in April 2025 when local authority IT managers decided to get together and exchange information on free software solutions and services.
Firmly rooted in the French opensource eco-system, it is supported by national associations and the French government, which is offering more and more open-source solutions to local authorities.
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Open to the world and to new developments in the field, France Numérique Libre aims to accelerate the opensource dynamic in France, which is definitively gaining momentum.
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important in the public sector. F13, an open-source AI platform, offers public authorities new opportunities to leverage the power of LLMs safely. The presentation highlights the potential, challenges and conditions for using F13 in public authority structures.
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Open-source software is widely praised for its transparency, adaptability, and freedom. In educational technology, however, this openness often stops at the level of code and licensing, while the pedagogical assumptions and implicit theories of learning embedded in digital tools remain opaque. This talk argues that truly open educational technology must extend the principle of openness to pedagogy itself. Every platform—whether a learning management system or an AI tutor—encodes a particular conception of learning, shaping what teachers and learners can do, often without making these assumptions visible or debatable. Drawing on the distinction between the grammar of schooling (the institutional routines and constraints that structure formal education) and the grammar of learning (the evolutionary and socio-cultural dynamics of how humans learn), the talk shows how even open-source projects risk reproducing outdated models of schooling if their pedagogical underpinnings remain implicit. Advocating for “open pedagogy for open EdTech,” it proposes aligning code transparency with pedagogical transparency by co-creating tools with educators, embedding multiple theoretical and didactical options, and enabling communities to adapt technologies to diverse learning contexts. Such an approach would move open-source EdTech beyond technical freedom and toward supporting learning sovereignty—empowering learners and educators to shape technologies in accordance with how learning actually works.
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Mockoon is one of the most popular open-source API tools, built and maintained from Luxembourg. In this talk, its creator shares the journey of growing a developer tool used by thousands, without external funding. Learn what worked (and didn't) in the pursuit of sustainability through sponsorships, community, and a cloud SaaS offering.
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The Luxembourg AI Factory, launched in April 2025, is a flagship national initiative designed as a “one‑stop shop” for start‑ups, SMEs and large enterprises to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence. At its technical core is MeluXina‑AI, a sovereign, AI‑optimized supercomputer equipped with over 2 100 GPU‑AI accelerators and capable of multi‑exaflop performance. The Luxembourg AI Factory consortium of 5 core partners and 7 associated national partners delivers the additional services which are necessary to develop innovative AI solutions: training, expert support, access to curated datasets, regulatory guidance and sandboxing, funding advice. As one of the 13 European AI Factories under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, L‑AIF is focused on four strategic vertical domains: finance, cybersecurity, space, and the green economy, with the aim of accelerating Luxembourg’s AI ecosystem and strengthening Europe’s AI sovereignty and innovation capacity. Open source software and open AI models are key enablers to achieve these aims.
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The CRA is already here, and will impact software development worldwide. Organizations need efficient compliance processes, supported by excellent free and open source tools to correctly identify and manage software components and secure software supply chains.
Join us for the latest updates on how to use free and open source tools, data, and standards for better, faster, more efficient, and automated software supply chain management, for public and private organizations of all sizes.
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The education sector is a significant supporter of open source philosophy and creator of tools. However widespread adoption of the available tools is only possible when they can be easily integrated into the wider learning ecosystem.
This talk will look at the role of open standards in facilitating the development and growth of the open learning ecosystem.
Find out how the 1EdTech community collaborates on the development and governance of the open standards that underpin billions of learning interactions every year. We will also look at some new developments to make it easier to support European use cases in the global ecosystem.
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The public sector as a catalyst for Open Source businesses - Passbolt as an example
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This talk presents Gospel (Generic OCaml SPEcification Language), an emerging open source ecosystem for accessible formal verification currently under development through French National Research Agency funding. Gospel enables developers to write strongly-typed behavioral specifications that can be consumed by multiple verification tools.
While the work on static verification tools like Cameleer is in progress, the ecosystem demonstrates a "gradual verification" approach where organizations can start with dynamic testing of all code and progressively apply formal proofs to critical components. The Ortac tool, developed at Tarides, translates Gospel specifications into executable OCaml code for defensive programming, runtime assertion checking, and specification-driven testing.
The ecosystem emerging around Gospel provides a practical entry point to formal methods that industry can adopt today!
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This talk explores the similarities and differences in how organizations from the private and public sectors engage with Open Source. It highlights the growing relevance of Open Source for the digital economy and digital sovereignty, and examines typical organizational models for Open Source communities, including how both sectors can effectively collaborate with them.
A key focus will be on how Open Source can be leveraged as a competitive advantage — outlining not only the benefits, but also the challenges organizations face when embracing it.
These insights will be illustrated through the case of LibreOffice, the free and open source office productivity suite, serving as a role model for sustainable Open Source collaboration.
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