Alessio Buscemi is a Senior Scientist at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. His work focuses on the assessment and governance of AI systems.

Alfonso Cancellara is a Technical Account Manager at Red Hat specialized in OpenShift and the cloud-native ecosystem, though his true passion lies in the "Open Source Way", the art of balancing enterprise-grade stability with the rapid, unbridled innovation of the community.

A familiar face at Red Hat summits and IBM events, Alfonso is equally at home in local community meetups. He is a dedicated community builder, notably serving as the primary orchestrator for Red Hat’s involvement in Linux Day Italy.

Andreas Prins is Global Head of Sovereign Solutions at SUSE, where he leads the company's work on digital sovereignty.
He advises governments and enterprises on operational autonomy, resilience, and the security of their software supply chains, and spends much of his time in closed-door briefings with executives and regulators who have to make these decisions under real constraints.
He speaks regularly at industry conferences on what sovereignty means in practice rather than in principle. He also trains leaders in Ethiopia work that keeps his view of leadership, transformation and team performance grounded in what organisations can actually operate.

Angel Borroy is Developer Evangelist at Hyland, working on Alfresco and Nuxeo, where he has spent the last several years on the search and AI side of open source enterprise content management: the migration from a patched Apache Solr fork to Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, permission-aware retrieval, and on-premises RAG.
He is a Docker Captain and a member of the Alfresco Order of the Bee, and has spoken at
OpenSearchCon, FOSDEM, DockerCon, the Linux Foundation EMEA Open Source Summit and
OpenExpo Europe.
Based in Zaragoza, Spain.

Armen Sulejmani is a Research Engineer in the Software Engineering RDI Unit at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Université Paris-Saclay. His work focuses on low-code and model-driven platforms, as the lead developer of the open-source platform BESSER, and on smart dashboards for urban climate transition within the European Climaborough project. His background also includes research in machine learning, explainability, and formal methods.

An open source software contributor since 2013. In the past core member of Akka.NET and F# GraphQL server. Currently: maintainer of Yrs - a library used for building collaborative, local-first applications.

Bastien Guerry joined Software Heritage in October 2025 as Head of Partnerships, Public Sector & Industry. With a background in cognitive science, he became deeply involved in the Free Software movement and served as a maintainer for GNU Emacs Org Mode. In 2018, he brought this Free Software expertise to the French public administration, where he founded and led the Open Source Program Office for the interministerial digital directorate from 2021 until 2024.

Known for his work on open source and open data, Benjamin Jean is currently CEO of inno³, an independent consultancy specialising in open models at the intersection of private (industrial and social economy), public (administrations and municipalities) and community actors. He is also co-founder and former president of " Open Law*, Le droit ouvert ", a French non-profit organisation promoting activities to support the transformation of the legal sector through digital co-creation programmes based on the principles of open data, open source and open innovation. Strongly mobilised by the opportunities offered by these open models in the digital transformation of professions and major industrial sectors, Benjamin Jean regularly intervenes as an expert at several events and conferences on these topics. In fact, in addition to his full-time job at inno3, he teaches intellectual property law at several universities, is a Master Conferences at Science Po and works as a consultant at the law firm Vercken & Gaullier. Actively involved in the open digital ecosystem, he collaborates and participates with many committed actors in this field. He is also present in several free software communities, administrator of Framasoft, and co-founder of Veni Vidi Libri and the annual conference cycle " European Open source & Free Software Law Event " (EOLE).

Benoît Piédallu is a digital project manager in the Shared Digital Services division of the Digital Directorate for Education at the French Ministry of Education. He is in charge of the Apps.education.fr platform and the “Webinaire de l’État,” a sovereign and open-source videoconferencing service available to the entire French government.

Bernard is a community coordinator at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Global Cyber Hub in Luxembourg. He draws on humanitarian-sector experience and a technical background to help connect humanitarian organizations with the open source community. He is an avid advocate of open source software and believes it is in humanity’s best interest when public-interest tools are developed in the open. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and is interested in photography, music. His personal motto is “Evoliuvo: Evolve to help!”

Bert Boerland has been part of the Drupal community for over 25 years. He registered the drupal.org domain in its earliest days and handed it to Dries Buytaert, organized DrupalCon Amsterdam (2005) and co-led DrupalCon Barcelona (2007), founded DrupalJam and the Splash Awards, and served as a Drupal Association board member. He currently chairs Stichting Drupal Nederland and is a 2026 candidate for the Drupal Association's At-Large Board seat. By day he works in enterprise Linux and Kubernetes sales at SUSE. Bert writes and speaks regularly on open source governance, sovereignty and infrastructure funding, and is currently organizing a community working session on FAIR at DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 with contributors from across the Drupal, TYPO3 and WordPress ecosystems.

Ivan Minutillo
Ivan Minutillo is a co-creator/maintainer of Bonfire, an open-source framework for building community-governed, federated digital spaces. His work brings together product design, software development, usability research, and participatory co-design. Through Bonfire, he collaborates with communities, researchers, publishers, and educational institutions to explore how open protocols and adaptable software can support more autonomous, inclusive, and democratically governed online spaces

Mayel de Borniol
A developer and builder of digital projects who enjoys understanding and hacking systems, and occasionally designing and building new ones. Mayel is the co-creator/maintainer of Bonfire, a modular framework for building federated social apps, enabling communities to determine their own governance and moderation practices, and control every aspect of the functionality and user experience. Instead of one-size-fits-all platforms, Bonfire is built from extensions that can be assembled into different apps that federate with any other ActivityPub apps.

Boris is a long time open source enthusiast and contributor. Previously a methods and tools consultant for the industry, then a software engineering researcher, he joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2021 to help people and organisations adopt, understand and apply open source principles and best practices to their projects. He has also been a maintainer of the OSPO Alliance since 2021. He lives in Europe.

Caitlin is the Vice President of Product and Programs at DataKind, a global nonprofit advancing the use of data, technology, and AI for social impact. At DataKind, Caitlin leads the development of reusable, interoperable data and AI tools codesigned for real-world implementation across sectors such as education, community services, and humanitarian response.

Carlo is a lawyer based in Milan, Italy, practicing IT law, active for almost 25 years in advocacy and activism for digital freedoms. He has been involved in the battles for ensuring competition in networking protocols on behalf of Samba Team and FSFE in one of the largest at the time litigation on antitrust matters before the EU Courts. Regularly advises, also pro bono or partly pro bono, some of the most important Free Software entities and foundations, including Debian, The Document Foundation and the Blender Foundation. Has served as General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation Europe for more than ten years and as Chair of the Board of the Open Source Initiative, of which is Board Member, as well as founding and being editor of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review. He is also a contributing member of the Eclipse Foundation and is one of the designers of the OS compliance toolchain developed within the Eclipse Oniro projects. He is fellow of the Open Forum Academy and member of OpenChain. He was in the first advisory board for creating detail legislation favoring Open Source software over proprietary in Italian public procurement.

Christian is a highly respected open source strategy and governance expert with many years of international experience and has the honour of serving on the board of OW2. In 2020, Christian founded his consultancy company, Open Up, after leading the Open Source Governance team at Orange. During his tenure, he spearheaded the creation of the OW2 Open Source Accessibility Initiative and the OW2 Good Governance Initiative. Christian holds diplomas in Neurobiology from the University of Sussex and Cognitive Science from the University of Birmingham.

Passionate about technology and innovation, Christophe drives the evolution of Foyer Group’s IT platforms by combining automation, security, and pragmatism. Always attentive to user needs, he is committed to delivering a smooth and high-performing experience.
He firmly believes that technology should be an accelerator rather than a barrier, and that behind every line of code lies an opportunity to improve everyday life.

Head of Data & Platform Engineering – Foyer Group
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophe-boulanger-4b936183/
christophe.boulanger@foyer.lu

Security researcher at CIRCL since 2021. Core developer of Flowintel, Typosquatting-finder, Forensic Analyst, and other projects.

Passionate road cyclist in my free time.

Cynthia Wagner is the Chief Information Security Officer and Security Manager at the Restena Foundation, the national research and education network in Luxembourg. Previously, Cynthia was managing the Restena-Computer Security Incident Response Team. Besides her daily work, she is an active member in different working groups at Geant (the collaboration of European National Research and Education Networks) and CENTR (Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries).
In her spare time, she loves to exploit new recipes in her kitchen (successfully and not...).

Cédric Bonhomme is a computer scientist with a strong focus on cybersecurity, privacy, and open-source software. From 2010 to 2017, he worked as an R&D Engineer specializing in Multi-Agent Systems and cybersecurity. Since 2017, he has been part of CIRCL (Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg), contributing to CSIRT operations and developing open-source security tools and infrastructure.

He is the lead developer of Vulnerability-Lookup, an open-source platform for vulnerability intelligence, and works on vulnerability data, security automation, and AI/ML applied to cybersecurity. His work also includes GCVE, open vulnerability identifiers, and VulnTrain, a collection of open datasets and models for vulnerability analysis.

Hi, I’m Daniel 🤝

I’ve been a freelance software developer for 15+ years. My main interests are in open standards and communication protocols (Instant Messaging, E-mail, Fediverse). I’m the project lead on Conversations and Ltt.rs.

Most of my open source projects are hosted on Codeberg ⛰️.

I’m an active member of the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF), serving as the chair of the council and as a member of the editor team.

If you want to learn more about me checkout out my Mastodon 🦣 or my website 🌐.

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot has spent the last decade building open source infrastructure that millions of developers rely on, most visibly as co-creator and board chairperson of the Tauri framework, which has grown past 100,000 GitHub stars. Sustaining a project at that scale led him to found CrabNebula, the commercial steward of Tauri, where he now builds source-available security tooling including Achilles. The engineering work drew him steadily deeper into European software regulation, and he serves as ETSI TC CYBER Special Rapporteur for the browser and password manager security standards under the Cyber Resilience Act, a rare case of an open source maintainer writing the harmonised standards his own community will be assessed against. He has written three books on European software regulation and was named Maltese Cybersecurity Leader of the Year 2025.

Dave is Director of Strategic Partnerships at DataKind, where he develops mutually beneficial partnerships that enable the organization to build scalable, data-driven solutions for social impact partners around the world. Based in London, he works at the intersection of data science and social good, helping mission-driven organizations unlock the potential of their data.

David leads IT Infrastructure at Foyer, overseeing the reliability and modernization of critical systems. A flight instructor and competitive precision-flying pilot, he brings the same rigor and composure under pressure to both cockpit and datacenter.

Denim Latić is working as a security analyst and is part of the CSIRT for Fondation Restena, the NREN of Luxembourg.
Cybersecurty is an ever-evolving field and so, he embarks on a perpetual journey to do his best to be able to face new and old threats in the cyberspace. Furthermore, he is enthusiastic about raising awareness on cybersecurity related issues to both small and large audiences.

Hi there, I'm Didier, a technology and information security enthusiast. I started my career as an information security Ninja, defending information systems against cyber threats using my Jedi skills. However, I also have another side to me that comes out at night, that of a benevolent hacker. I love using my skills to support the values of open source and firmly believe in them.

I believe that technology can be used to improve people's lives, but this can only be done if we work together and share our knowledge. That's why I'm also a strong advocate of collaboration and openness in the tech industry.

May the source code be with you!

The Digital Commons EDIC is a consortium of five EU member states and seven observers. The goal is to pool resources to connect, deploy and maintain the open-source tools Europe depends on.

Speaker BIO

Dimitrios Avramidis is the founder of AIONIO GmbH and AI consultant. He brings more than eight years of experience in data‑management, MLOps and artificial intelligence. His career spans consulting for international firms as well as in‑house consulting for large corporations, and he has led numerous AI projects as an independent advisor.

During his career he created modern MLOps frameworks on AWS and on Snowflake. The work was published as an AWS case study and presented at several summits and conferences. These experiences highlighted the lack of reliability in existing open‑source tools and the heavy dependence of European companies on US hyperscalers, prompting him to focus on building a sovereign, open‑source‑based data‑ and AI‑stack for Europe.

Dimitrios’ vision is to enable companies and institutions to adopt AI responsibly, ethically and without vendor lock‑in, thereby keeping the value created in Europe.

Elena Rossini is an Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer, based in Paris, France. Rossini is the author of the blog "The Future is Federated", which aims to educate and inspire others to embrace the fediverse as an ethical alternative to Big Tech social platforms.

Emilien Sanchez leads professional training at France Université Numérique (FUN), building shared public infrastructure for lifelong digital learning.

Evans is currently the OSEE Kenya Project Manager, supporting the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy to implement the National Open Source Program Office (OSPO). The Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE) is a project of the UNDP and ITU and funded by the European Commission.

Evans is a visionary IT consultant and entrepreneur at the intersection of cybersecurity, open source innovation, and African digital transformation. Based in Kenya, he is not just building enterprises, he is shaping the tech future of an entire region. Whether advising organizations, championing open source through initiatives like OSEE, he brings strategic clarity and execution power to every engagement.

Evans is a tech enabler and a policy architect. He is not just influencing the market, he is helping define the ecosystem it thrives in. His work bridges policy, innovation, and industrial growth in a way that reflects a long-term commitment to Africa’s self-determined digital and economic future. He is not just enabling change — he is architecting a blueprint for it.

I got a PhD in Cryptology from ENS de Lyon in 2018 and since then worked both in academia and Industry on post-quantum cryptography and fundamental aspects of cryptography. I’m now working on the CryptPad project at XWiki, helping enhancing the cryptography layer used in this end-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite.

Florence Njeri is a Cybersecurity Engineer at AsyncAPI Initiative. She led the incident response for both the Shai-Hulud byTeamPCP and Miasma supply chain attacks, which compromised packages with millions of weekly downloads. Florence specializes in GitHub Actions security, CI/CD pipeline hardening, and vulnerability management. With a background in software engineering, cybersecurity research and hands-on penetration testing, she combines theoretical security principles with real-world incident response experience. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Master's in Cybersecurity and is passionate about securing open source infrastructure.

Florian has been a free and open source enthusiast since 2004. He works for The Document Foundation, the nonprofit behind LibreOffice and previously volunteered in marketing and infrastructure. As a student, he designed educational computer systems for schools, including software deployment based on free software and was a frequent contributor to a variety of professional magazines worldwide on topics such as free software, open standards and legal matters. A proud uncle, he loves to spend time with the family and occasionally blogs about various topics, including community building, free and open source software and computer networks. Based around Munich, he helped to create the local open source meetings and shaped the tasty idea of open source cooking.

Deputy Head of the Future Internet Unit at DG CONNECT, CNECT-E3, European Commission

Gilles is a senior open source, inner source and innovation strategy advisor. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he provides innovation strategy consulting and advisory services to his key customers worldwide, through the application of open source, InnerSource, blockchain, metaverse, quantum and other highly innovative technologies. He can also offer service as a Chief Open Source or InnerSource Officer, or Head of Innovation for your company. After delivering these services for almost 10 years as part of Wipro's open source consulting practice, he is now proposing his skills and experience as an independent consultant.

Gina Plat was the Interim Lead of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) for the Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK). She recently joined the open source industry as Head of GovTech at OpenProject, where she helps governments become more digitally sovereign. Gina has firsthand experience with public sector challenges of procurement, policy, and governance around open ecosystems. As an advocate for open source alternatives, she has been active on Mastodon server Fosstodon.org for years and is a board member of F-Droid; a community-run, open source mobile app store.

Ingo Steuwer began focusing on the use of open-source infrastructures in small and medium-sized enterprises while still studying computer science at Bielefeld University. From 2000 to 2004, he worked as a self-employed IT consultant. When he joined Univention in 2004, he initially worked in product development. From 2006 onwards, he was responsible for Professional Services, and since early 2022 he has been Vice President Platform & Technology.

Jani Kylmäaho has been working with geospatial data infrastructures, data production, collaboration and digitalization in various roles for 25 years. He has been involved in national and international collaboration and projects, working both for the public and private sector. During his career, Jani has contributed to extended use of open source geospatial solutions and collaboration in the Finnish public sector. Currently Jani is the Chief Digital Officer at National Land Survey of Finland.

Jonas Heide Smith is Head of Digital at SMK (the national gallery of Denmark). He has a PhD from IT University of Copenhagen and believes that cultural heritage wants to be free. @jonassmith@mstdn.dk on Mastodon.

Jutta Horstmann is an entrepreneur, visionary leader, and advocate for digital sovereignty, sustainability, and Open Source Software.
Until July 2026, she led Heinlein Group as their Co-CEO, driving Open Source solutions in the public and private sector and fostering digital sovereignty.

She is also speaker of the Public Affairs Working Group of OSBA (Open Source Business Alliance), member of the advisory board of APELL and of Digital Independence Day, member of the digital council of the state of Thuringia and supervisory board member of Wechange.

Before, as the CEO of ZenDiS GmbH, Jutta lead efforts to empower public institutions in Germany to achieve digital independence through innovative open-source solutions.

With over 25 years of experience in the IT sector, she has successfully scaled organizations and driven transformative change, most notably during her tenure as COO and CTO at eyeo GmbH, where she oversaw the company's growth and technological innovation.

Jutta is a frequent speaker at international conferences, sharing insights on leadership, digital transformation, and the future of Open Source technologies.

Kevin Muller is a serial tech entrepreneur with 20 years of experience across France, Luxembourg, and India, where he spent 15 years building and scaling ventures. He is currently the CEO of Passbolt, an open source platform that empowers modern IT teams to securely manage passwords and secrets. Backed by $12M in funding, Passbolt is trusted by over 50,000 organizations in 100+ countries, including public institutions, defence agencies, governments, IT companies, and many SMBs and startups.

Beyond Passbolt, Kevin is an active startup mentor and occasional investor, with a strong focus on open source, cybersecurity, and healthtech.

Laurens Hof is an independent analyst, writer and consultant based in the Netherlands. He writes at his publication Connected Places, where he covers the open social web, such as the fediverse, the atmosphere and Matrix, and the institutions forming around them. His work focuses on protocol governance, digital sovereignty and the relationship between technical architecture and collective power.

Lea Beiermann is Partnership Lead at the German Centre for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS), where she fosters strategic partnerships across the public sector and the open source ecosystem to promote digital sovereignty. She has led multi-country projects on sovereign IT and has been involved in the recent establishment of the Digital Commons EDIC (DC EDIC). With an academic background in Science and Technology Studies and History of Technology, Lea brings a deep understanding of the social implications of technological transition, informing her current work at the intersection of software and digital policy.

Leon V. Schumacher is a technology leader, entrepreneur, author and senior advisor with decades of experience at the intersection of technology, cybersecurity and digital infrastructure. He previously served as Group Chief Information Officer of Novartis and ArcelorMittal and is a co-founder of the open-source projects Taler Systems, Paivana, Anastasis and pEp Security. He holds degrees from ETH Zurich and HEC Paris and completed post-MBA studies at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. His current work focuses on digital sovereignty, open-source technology, privacy, digital money and the strategic dependencies created by critical digital infrastructure.

Luc Dockendorf is Luxembourg's Cyber and Digital Ambassador since March 2025. He started working in international relations in 2003, after graduating with a Master in English and International Relations. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006 and has notably been in Luxembourg's team for the UN Security Council (2013-2014) and the Human Rights Council (2022-2024). Chaired the EU's Friends of the Presidency on Cyber Issues in 2015.

Lukas Kahwe Smith is a long-time open source contributor: a release manager for PHP 5.3 and a former member of the Symfony core team, with two decades of building, shipping, and adopting open source in production. He is a regular speaker at conferences around the world.

At Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) he works at the intersection of open source and public procurement. He leads intelliprocure.ch, a platform that collects public-procurement tenders and makes them transparent by structuring them, with tooling planned to help authorities write better tenders, for example through procurement-criteria best practices. He also works on ossdirectory.com, the only open source catalog that connects projects with the vendors who support them.

Manfred Zielinski is Project Manager for Digital Commons at the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. He leads the social.overheid.nl initiative, a government-hosted Mastodon instance in the Fediverse, enabling public sector organizations to communicate in a transparent, privacy-respecting, and interoperable way.

His work emphasizes public values like autonomy, trust, and open standards, ensuring that digital communication aligns with the principles of a responsible and ethical public sector.

At the Open Source Conference Luxembourg, he will share how Fediverse technologies can empower governments to uphold these values in their digital strategies.

Marc Linster is an open-source technology strategist and an instructor at the Digital Learning Hub in Luxembourg. With decades of experience across the US, Asia, and Europe, Marc was formerly CTO and Chief Product Officer at EnterpriseDB (EDB), guiding global enterprises through high-stakes migrations to open source.
He is the co-author of “AI-Ready PostgreSQL 18”, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and is an active member of the Luxembourg Business Angel Network.
Marc is a co-organizer of PGConf.EU, the largest annual Postgres conference, and he is actively advising leading PostgreSQL companies, such as DBtune, on using AI and Machine Learning to create high-performance autonomous database solutions.

Marco Minghini works as a Scientific Project Officer and Policy Analyst at the European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, supporting EU policies on geospatial data sharing and digital sovereignty, including open source software. He is a researcher, educator and advocate on open source software and open data. His background is in Geographic Information Science and he is a Charter Member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OGeo) since 2015. He is a regular speaker at global and European FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conferences. Since 2019, he co-organises a special European Track (dedicated to open source applications powering EU policies) at FOSS4G events happening in Europe.

Community builder and ecosystem strategist, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), Freelance

Curious, outgoing, and deeply inspired by nature, I am passionate about bringing people together and building communities that create meaningful impact. My work sits at the intersection of community building, ecosystem strategy, and innovation, helping organizations foster engagement, collaboration, and growth.

With a background in international marketing, design thinking, and facilitation, I enjoy creating spaces where people can connect, learn, and contribute to a shared vision. Whether I'm designing workshops, developing partnerships, or supporting open and collaborative ecosystems, I'm motivated by purpose-driven work and human connection.

Marvin has been a free software developer for 20 years. He has been developing and contributing to interoperable instant messaging solutions for a decade, joined the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) seven years ago, and has served on the XSF Council for the past five years.

Mr. Massimiliano Merelli
Programme Director, UN Systems Digital ID Programme
United Nations International Computing Centre

Max Merelli is Programme Director for the UN Digital ID at the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), where he leads the development and deployment of secure, interoperable digital identity solutions across the UN system. With a background in enterprise systems and digital transformation, Max previously served as Team Lead and Head of SAP/ERP Services at the World Food Programme (WFP). He conceived the UN Digital ID concept that won the Reimagine the UN Together Challenge and has since driven its design, governance, and multi-agency piloting.
Max’s work focuses on pragmatic, privacy-preserving architectures that combine mobile-first user experiences with strong authentication, biometrics where appropriate, and distributed verification methods to reduce onboarding friction, streamline personnel services (including pensions and entitlements), and enable trusted cross-agency workflows. He engages diverse stakeholders -UN agencies, technology partners, donors, and field teams - to align technical standards, operational requirements, and policy safeguards so digital identity delivers measurable operational efficiency and better service for UN personnel.
Known for blending strategic vision with hands-on delivery, Max advocates incremental pilots, rigorous risk management, and inclusive design to ensure digital identity initiatives are scalable, secure, and ethically governed.

Matthias is a connector of Ideas, People & Innovation: he operates at the crossroads of technology, business, and science – as strategist in the public sector, with over two decades of experience in helping governments leverage technology to create public value.

His main focus is on Cloud-Edge Continuum, Artificial Intelligence, Industrie 4.0, Data Spaces and Innovation Management.

Currently responsible for the 8ra initiative at the DLR Project Management Agency, previously spent four years as a seconded national expert at the European Commission in the field of AI, data spaces, and digital innovation hubs. Further experience at European Center for Information and Communication Technologies, Deutsche Telekom, and the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment.

Matthieu Guérin is part of the team in charge of the project to set up a reference framework for the interoperability of digital services for education within the French Ministry of Education.

Fondateur de Pcfh Studio, co-auteur de Déclic (Les Arènes) avec la journaliste Anne-Sophie Jacques.

« Que peut-on fabriquer aujourd’hui qui puisse être éventuellement ressource pour ceux et celles qui viennent ? » Isabelle Stengers, Résister au désastre.

Michael Kromer is an IT architect and CTO at grommunio. Since 1998, he has been developing security and communications solutions for companies, government agencies, and critical infrastructure (e.g., intelligence services and the military). As a self-proclaimed nerd when it comes to firewalls, Linux, BSD, TCP/IP—and pretty much anything that contains at least one ESP32—he explains complex technical topics in an easy-to-understand, practical way and spices up his explanations with (sometimes bad ;)) humor.

Michael works at the intersection of technology, policy and society, with a focus on responsible and human-centred digital innovation. As an AI4Gov graduate and co-initiator of the PeaceTech Alliance, he brings together perspectives from research, public-sector innovation and international stakeholder engagement, with a particular interest in how emerging technologies can be designed and deployed responsibly in complex and crisis-affected environments.

Sysadmin, working at Red Hat in the Open Source AI Program Office

Current role

• Minister for Digitalisation
• Minister for Research and Higher Education

Biography

Stéphanie Obertin was born on 13 May 1974 in Luxembourg.

Education and qualifications

After completing her secondary school studies in mathematics at the Lycée Michel Rodange, Stéphanie Obertin went on to study general medicine at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg and then at the Université Henri Poincaré in Nancy. In 2006, she obtained her doctorate in medicine, with a qualification in general medicine.

Governmental posts

Following the legislative elections of 8 October 2023, Stéphanie Obertin was appointed Minister for Digitalisation and Minister for Research and Higher Education on 17 November 2023 in the coalition government between the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) and the Democratic Party (DP).

Professional activities

From 2007 until she joined the government, Stéphanie Obertin worked with four medical colleagues in their general practice in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie. Over the years, Stéphanie Obertin also engaged in a number of complementary activities related to her profession. She worked as a doctor undergoing specialisation in the oncohaematology department at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL), as a cooperating doctor in the CHL's emergency department and as an accredited general practitioner at the CIPA Gréngewald institution and the Hospices Civils de Pfaffenthal.

Her relentless curiosity and constant desire to broaden her skills led her to take part in multidisciplinary teaching in palliative care, geriatric care and diabetology. She also holds an inter-university diploma in Sports Medicine and Traumatology, as well as a university diploma in the theoretical bases and practical methods of antibiotic therapy in hospitals. Finally, in 2022 she took a course in the diagnosis of skin tumours using optical and digital dermoscopy.

From 2010 to 2022, Stéphanie Obertin was a member of the board of directors of the Cercle des médecins généralistes, and was its president from May 2019 to December 2022.

Nathan Coyle is a British PeaceTech and digital innovation specialist based in Austria. He is an Expert Advisor for PeaceTech at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and Founder and Principal of the PeaceTech Alliance, an Austrian collaborative bringing together universities, peacebuilding organisations, technology institutions and international partners to develop responsible, human-centred approaches to technology for peace.

His work sits at the intersection of peacebuilding, technology governance, community development, data and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on ensuring that technology is shaped by the realities of peacebuilders and affected communities. His research covers areas including peacebuilder-centric design, community development as a design metric, data sovereignty and data colonialism, responsible AI, Do No Harm approaches to data, AI infrastructure inequalities, misinformation and trust, and technology diplomacy.

Coyle regularly contributes to international policy and diplomatic discussions on emerging technology and peace. His work has included engagement with the United Nations, OSCE and European Union, including speaking at UN events in Geneva and Vienna, contributing to discussions on emerging technologies, peace and human security, engaging with diplomatic and government delegations through the OSCE community in Vienna, and contributing to European discussions on future peace and conflict research. He also represents and communicates emerging Austrian thinking on PeaceTech internationally, helping connect research, peacebuilding practice and diplomacy.

He has advised governments and public institutions across Europe, Africa, Latin America and North America and is the author of Open Data for Everybody, published by Routledge in 2024. His recent academic and policy work examines the gap between PeaceTech design and practitioner realities, community-centred approaches to AI and PeaceTech in Africa, and global inequalities in AI compute, training data and exposure to armed conflict.

His wider career spans community development, public engagement, policy, research and digital transformation. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vice, HuffPost and the New Statesman, he is a TEDx speaker, and in 2024 he was named Thought Leader of the Year at the UK Innovation Awards.

Across his work, a consistent question is who technology is designed for, who has the power to shape it, and how communities can have greater influence over the technologies and data that affect them.

Nathan Lenas is a Software Engineer at the Luxembourg Media & Digital Design Centre (LMDDC), where he builds digital platforms for the Luxembourg education sector: web applications, learning management systems, and AI solutions for education

Account Manager at XWiki, helping organizations design, structure, and scale knowledge management and documentation platforms. Passionate about open source, I work with teams to build collaborative, sustainable, and future-proof knowledge ecosystems.

Niko Bonnieure is a software engineer specialized in encryption, local-first and linked data technologies. After working in big data startups for several years, and following the Snowden revelations in 2013, he decided to quit those jobs and dedicate his time to building a decentralized platform for malleable apps based on graph databases and local first principles. He then added CRDTs to the mix to solve consistency issues in P2P setting, and E2EE to preserve privacy.
Niko is a strong advocate for Digital Sovereignty in Europe and Open Source. He leads the NextGraph project and the ELFA consortium, and is co-lead of the SuperStack coalition.

Ola Adach works as a Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe, a Brussels-based think tank dedicated to championing the transformative power of open technologies in society. She contributes to OFE's policy and research outputs, providing data-driven analysis and advice on issues related to semiconductors, standards, and AI, among others.

Omar Mohsine, UN Open Source Coordinator

Omar Mohsine leads the open source team within the UN Office of Information and Communication Technologies and serves as the co-chair of the UN Open Source Community of Practice. With over 15 years of experience working in various capacities across different continents, Omar Mohsine is a digital cooperation and open source advocate working at the intersection of technology, policy, and multilateral collaboration. He has contributed to shaping global initiatives such as the UN Open Source Principles and plays a key role in advancing open digital ecosystems within the United Nations. His work focuses on fostering innovation, promoting collaboration across institutions, and leveraging open technologies to address global challenges.

Graduated in 1998 with a degree in Computer Engineering from Padua, he began working on one of his first passions, Computational Linguistics, at EURAC Research and then at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering of the Free University of Bolzano. In 2008 he left research and joined the IT Division of the Province of Bolzano, where he worked for the Office of Strategic Orientation and IT Planning in the Enterprise Architecture Group. In 2016 he was appointed to the Directorate of Italian Education and Training as Technical Inspector and Coordinator of the FUSS Project. He began exploring the world of Free Software in the 1990s while studying at the University of Padua. After returning to Bolzano, together with some friends he helped found the Linux User Group Bolzano–Bozen–Bulsan (LUGBZ) with the aim of promoting the Free Software culture in South Tyrol–Alto Adige.

Patrick Jacobs works at C-smart in Belgium, supporting local authorities in their digital transformation through enterprise architecture and AI. With a background in technology leadership and public-sector ICT, he connects strategic ambitions with practical implementation. His focus is on digital sovereignty, open-source solutions and collaboration across European municipalities. Through his work on EU-OS, Patrick explores how local governments can strengthen control over their digital infrastructure, data and services while building a sustainable foundation for innovation.

In the beginning... There was teaching English.

But I began writing professionally for the countercultural Spanish tech magazine @rroba in the 90s, and then went on to be the editor/layout monkey/translator/jack-of-all-trades of the Spanish edition of "Linux Magazine – Chronicle of the Revolution".

When that closed, I also quit teaching completely and became editor-in-chief of Linux Magazine — the German one this time, but again in Spanish. I founded a publishing house with German partners in 2004. We published several tech magazines for a decade, covering free software, Linux, open hardware, and mobile technologies. I wrote scathing editorials criticising big tech, public administrations, proprietary vendors, opportunistic politicians, and everything in between. I did layout, marketed the mag to readers and advertisers, unloaded trucks full with pallets of copies, built an online subscription portal, and learned everything about the publishing business I could, just in case it would come in handy.

When the magazine market went belly up in the late 2000s and early 2010s, we held on until 2014 and then called it quits, and I recycled myself into a "communications expert" because, why not?

I started working as a marketing consultant for KDE e.V. in 2017. I work with the members of the Promo team, setting goals, managing campaigns and analysing results. I also help KDE projects optimise their communication strategies, and I copywrite and proofread their websites and blog posts.

I also run most of KDE's fundraising efforts, and consult for GNOME on the stuff I have become experienced with.

Am I expert? I guess so. I think I can answer a lot of questions of what's going on in the open source market, and can figure out what will work in a campaign, and see opportunities where they are not obvious. Either way, I'll let you be the judge of that.

Developer and team lead at Discourse. Albanian-Canadian. Interested in open source, alternative social media and decentralized software.

Peter Leitmann is a Research Engineer at AIT in the Cyber Security research group and has been part of the team for several years. With a formal background in Cyber Security, he is a core developer of the OSINT platform Taranis AI, contributing across the software development lifecycle while designing and improving CTI analyst processes and workflows, as well as enabling cross-platform collaboration.

Philipp Reisner is a co-founder and CEO of LINBIT in Vienna, Austria. His professional career has centered on DRBD, a storage replication solution for Linux, which has been part of the mainline Linux kernel since 2005. In the early years (starting in 2001) that meant writing kernel code; today he leads a company of 40 employees with offices in Austria and the USA.

Pierre-Yves is the CEO of OW2 since 2022: a European non-profit FOSS foundation, we host open source projects, promote them, animate a community mixing academics, companies, public bodies, foundations, associations and individuals, promote FOSS by organizing or participating to professional events,
and advocate for it at political and social levels. OW2 is also involved in the Open Internet Stack and EuroCommons FOSS and commons funding programmes.
Before, Pierre-Yves was an open source supporter for 29 years, writing code, doing business and consulting, working with academia, teaching computer science and participating in OW2 as an elected Board representative.

Pierrick Pochelu is a DevOps Engineer at LuxProvide, Luxembourg's national supercomputing center. He contributes to the software development and operation of next-generation High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructures, including MeluXina, MeluXina-AI, and future EuroHPC systems.

His work focuses on two complementary objectives. From a top-down perspective, he strives to make HPC platforms more accessible and user-friendly for researchers and industry users. From a bottom-up perspective, he works to improve the energy efficiency, reliability, and security of large-scale computing infrastructures through automation, CI/CD, software architecture, and cybersecurity practices.

Pierrick currently plays a task-leading role in the EuroHPC SEANERGYS project, collaborating with 15 other partner institutions involved in the design of next-generation HPC systems.

Rik Viergever is the COO of Murena, a French company that makes the largest European mobile operating system: /e/OS.
In this talk, he explores how mainstream smartphones serve as constant data collectors, the risks this poses to privacy and digital autonomy, and why everyone European governments, businesses and citizens should seek European options for their mobile OS instead of iOS and Android.

Robert Riemann studied physics and informatics. Since 2017, he works for the EU in Brussels on technology policy and digital transformation. Witnessing the discussions on digital sovereignty from inside EU and member state administrations, he decided end of 2024 to develop in his personal capacity a vision of a common Linux-based OS for the public sector and other corporate use cases.

I am a Solution and Delivery Architect, specializing in cloud-native architectures, open-source technologies, and digital transformation. I am an advocate of open source and open standards, with a particular interest in digital sovereignty, interoperability, and the development of digital commons for the public sector.

Sachiko Muto, Chair, OpenForum Europe; Senior Researcher, RISE

Sachiko Muto is the Chair of OpenForum Europe, a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, and a Board member of the Drupal Association. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government relations and then as CEO. Sachiko has degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics; she received her doctorate in standardisation policy from TU Delft.

Sam Kafai is a cybersecurity student, currently in the third year of the BUT Réseaux et Télécommunications (Cyber track) at IUT Nancy-Brabois, in alternance with the Restena Foundation, Luxembourg's national research and education network.
Having completed a BTS Cybersecurity, he carried out a twelve-week internship at Restena where he implemented cross-operator quantum-key interoperability (ETSI GS QKD 020) in the open-source eduKMS key-management system, contributing the work upstream as a reviewable series of merge requests. He continues to work with Restena on its quantum-communication-infrastructure projects. His interests are in applied cryptography, network security, and secure software engineering.

Samuel is currently working for the French government at the Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs, in charge of building La Suite numérique (https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr), an sovereign digital workplace for the French public sector. In this role, Samuel leads a team focusing on developping opensource technologies, in a joint effort with Zendis, their German counterparts.

Before joining DINUM, Samuel headed the technical team at France Université Numérique, where he worked on creating and promoting digital commons for open education. Throughout his career, Samuel has consistently demonstrated a strong commitment to open-source software and driving digital transformation in the public sector.

Sandra Barthel is an interdisciplinary scientist and policy advisor who is based in Vienna and Berlin. She promotes open digital infrastructures and digital policy that serves the public good in Europe. She initiated the alliance Open networks and democratic public spheres, which is supported by more than 30 organisations and demands funding and usage of open protocols based social networks.

Moreover, Sandra is co-organizing Berlin Fediday and Vienna’s net-political evening for many years, fostering dialogue on democratic alternatives to the platform economy. As a member of the Digitale Gesellschaft and Wikimedia Austria, she champions free knowledge and open, participatory digital spaces. Sandra also strengthens diversity and inclusion in tech through her involvement with FSFE Women, Women in Open Source Software and the Haecksen network. Sandra holds Diploma degrees in Geography as well as in Political Science from University of Vienna, and a Master degree in Journalism and New Media.
Activity Pub: https://chaos.social/@samvie

Sanjay Krishna Anbalagan is a software engineer at AWS and a researcher working at the intersection of human-computer interaction, agentic AI, and developer tooling.

His work focuses on how AI agents can interact safely with existing applications without replacing the interfaces, permissions and application semantics that humans already rely on. He created the open-source AgentFootprint ecosystem, which explores typed agent actions, runtime evidence, human-agent collaboration, and explainable execution.

Sanjay holds a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Lowell and has presented and published work on conversational interfaces, enterprise generative AI, and human-centered AI systems.

Sarra Hedhli is a product manager for educational digital commons at the French Ministry of Education, where she supports the development and scaling of digital products built as digital commons. Previously, she worked on European education policy, helping define France's positions during negotiations at the Council of the European Union. She contributed to the inclusion of the first European definition of digital commons in Council Recommendations on digital education and digital skills. Drawing on experience in both public policy and digital product management, her work focuses on how governments can enable sustainable digital commons through product thinking, collaborative governance, and public support mechanisms.

Stefano Maffulli is a recognized authority on Open Source, with decades of experience as an enthusiast, contributor, start-up manager, and non-profit executive. He's currently the chief revenue office of Grist, the Open Source no-code platform used to build sovereign workflows. He served as Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) - where he led the effort to define Open Source for Artificial Intelligence.

Stefano Zacchiroli is full professor of computer science at Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris.
His current research interests span digital commons, open source software engineering, computer security, and the software supply chain.
He is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Software Heritage, the largest public archive of software source code.
He is a former 3-times Debian project leader and a former board director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
He is recipient of several awards, including: the 2026 European Open Source Award, the 2022 Google Award for Inclusion Research, and the 2015 O'Reilly Open Source Award.

Thibault Milan est Head of Digital chez Paperjam, où il pilote la transformation numérique de l'un des écosystèmes médias les plus influents du Luxembourg: magazine, club business, annuaire, événements et formations.

Avant de rejoindre Paperjam en février 2026, il a passé plusieurs années comme Director of Innovation au sein du Groupe Smile, l'une des ESN leaders de l'open source en Europe, après des expériences chez KPMG et dans des startups en phase d'amorçage.

Son fil conducteur : rendre la technologie utile, lisible et humaine; avec une nette préférence pour les écosystèmes ouverts face aux solutions propriétaires. Un positionnement qu'il porte aujourd'hui dans ses choix d'architecture IA chez Paperjam, au cœur du sujet qu'il vient présenter.

Thomas is a Cloud Native Trainer and Owner of TSC Labs. Besides that, he's serving as a CNCF Ambassador and Tech Lead for the CNCF TAG Infrastructure. He helps organizations embrace cloud native by upskilling teams and designing developer platforms that improve the developer experience. Passionate about accessibility and community, Thomas contributes to open source projects and actively supports the growth of cloud native communities.

Violaine Louvet is a CNRS research engineer at the Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory of Applied Mathematics in Grenoble. She is a member of the Source Code and Software College of the French Committee for Open Science and a Software Heritage ambassador.
She is deeply involved in open science at the University of Grenoble Alpes (https://scienceouverte.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/), particularly through the OSPO of the University.

I help governments, universities, and communities build with Open Source.
At UNICEF Office of Innovation, I shape open source strategy across the UN system, guide Venture Fund startups, and work hands-on with policy, licensing, and Digital Public Goods standards. My work spans setting national open source policy with governments, building DPG academia programs with universities, and developing holistic community capacity.

Currently leading Open Source within the UNICEF Office of Innovation while staying close to the code, the licenses, the metrics, and the people.

William manages the technical team behind AS197692 at Conostix S.A. in Luxembourg. He’s been working in cybersecurity using free and opensource software on a daily basis for more than 25 years. Recently, he presented his work on SSL/TLS toolkits at Nullcon 2025 in Goa and Hack.lu 2025 in Luxembourg. He contributed to the cleanup and enhancement efforts done on SSLDump lately. He particularly enjoys tinkering with open (and not so open) hardware. Currently he likes playing around with new tools in the current ML scene, building, hopefully, useful systems for fun and, maybe, profit. When not behind an intelligent wannabe machine, he's doing analog music with his band of humans.

Zeynep Varoglu is a Senior Programme Specialist at UNESCO, where she leads the Open Solutions portfolio spanning OER, Open Access, Open Data, and FOSS to support open and interoperable knowledge infrastructures.

Ms Varoglu provides global leadership for the implementation of the 2019 Recommendation on OER and leads initiatives supporting equitable access to scientific communications.

Lukasz Gornicki has worked in open source since 2014 and full-time since 2020. At the AsyncAPI Initiative he is a maintainer, a member of the Technical Steering Committee, and a former Executive Director, which means he has spent years on the unglamorous side of open governance: how decisions get made, who gets to make them, and what happens when a maintainer walks away.

He also works with Open Source Europe on fiscal hosting for open source projects, which is the other end of the same problem: getting money to people who are not companies.

Earlier he drove open source development inside a corporate environment, working alongside internal OSPOs, and has spent a lot of time explaining to organisations why funding the software they depend on is not charity.