2021-06-23 –, Auditorium
Open source has a critical role to play to enable sovereign infrastructure in Europe. This talk will explain what Open Infrastructure is, and how its interoperability, transparency and independence makes it an ideal fit for data and computing sovereignty. It will present how Gaia-X creates a framework for sovereign infrastructure services, and how Sovereign Cloud Stack bridges between Open Infrastructure and Gaia-X.
Thierry Carrez is the Vice-President of Engineering at the Open Infrastructure Foundation. A long-time elected member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, he has been a Release Manager for the OpenStack project since its inception, coordinating the effort and facilitating collaboration between contributors.
Thierry spoke about open innovation and open source at various conferences around the world, including OSCON, LinuxCon, and FOSDEM. A Python Software Foundation fellow, he was previously the Technical lead for Ubuntu Server at Canonical, an operational manager for the Gentoo Linux Security Team, and an IT manager in various companies.