Benjamin Bellamy
A passionate advocate for Free and Open Source Software, Benjamin is Business Development Manager for AI Solutions & Community Management at LINAGORA, where he turns open, privacy-respecting AI into practical products and helps grow vibrant contributor communities.
He also founded Ad Aures, creator of Castopod, a free and open source podcast-hosting platform built to empower creators and strengthen the open podcasting ecosystem.
Active in the Podcast 2.0 community, he contributes to the french radio show Libre à vous, a radio show produced by April (an association whose mission is to promote and defend Free/Libre Open Source Software), and hosts the podcast RdGP (Rien de Grave Patron).
Most recently, he joined WikiPortraits, a collective providing freely licensed, high-quality portraits for Wikipedia.
Session
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.