Dr. Alessandra Bagnato is a research scientist and the Recherche Responsible in Softeam Software (Docaposte Group). She holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from TELECOM SudParis and Université Evry Val d’Essonne, France and a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Genoa, Italy. At Softeam, she leads the Softeam Software Modelio team research activities around innovative model-driven engineering methods in Modelio workbench in the area of Cyber-Physical Systems, Cloud and Big Data (like H2020 MORPHEMIC, ECSEL AIDO@Rt, H2020 Databio, H2020 CPSwarm, H2020 QRapids, H2020 CROSSMINER), GDPR and Privacy (H2020 PoSeID-on, ANR UPCARE) and on measuring software engineering (ITEA 3 MEASURE).

Alexander has studied politics in Marburg and later has been an MEP Assistant in Brussels for three years and the General Manager of Digitale Gesellschaft e.V. in Berlin for four years. Furthermore he is the founder of NoPNR!, a campaign against the retention of travel data. He now works as Policy Consultant for the Free Software Foundation Europe.

Antoine jobs has always been related to software. Starting with embedded software development, quickly moving to server side software in the Java ecosystem, then shifting to consulting and training, moving on with community management for Bonitasoft, an open source company and finally leading a technical team by becoming OW2 CTO.
The common theme about all those experiences is probably the love for technology, but also a deep interest in sharing the knowledge. And Open Source is a key factor here that allow to learn and collaborate with many people each of them having a unique background.

Senior account manager

Ben Liu is the marketing manager of Huawei Quick App, has been devoting himself to promoting the product, during which the MAUs of Quick App have been increased to hundreds of millions.

French software engineer, I have been working as a web-developer for the last 12 years and am the co-founder and the technical director of Startin'blox, a french cooperative whose ultimate goal is to build the WordPress of Web3 !

Boris Baldassari is an expert in open source and software development methods and tools, with 18+ years of experience working on complex development processes for small and large companies.
He notably worked for Telelogic and IBM, servicing the industry in the bank, insurance, automotive and aeronautics domains. Boris joined the SequeL research team at the Université Lille 3 in 2011 to work on a research project about "mining software engineering data for useful knowledge", and obtained his Ph.D. in 2014.
He founded and led Castalia Solutions to help companies better understand their data and improve their development processes, and now works for the Eclipse Foundation as a specialist in open source, AI and cloud technologies.

Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer.

Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.

Identity Solutions Manager by Worteks, contributor on LemonLDAP::NG, LDAP Tool Box, LSC, FusionIAM.

As Centreon software tech lead, drawing from more than 15 years of engineering experience in the field, I manage technical projects for Centreon since August 2017, and am instrumental in adding strategic integration-ready functionalities within Centreon’s core solution. My expertise in C/C++ combined with a holistic knowledge in multiple Linux infrastructures allows me to successfully complete projects in monitoring and test driven development. I hold an MSc in Algorithmic Mathematics and have achieved the highest teaching degree in Mathematics.
Being a lifetime learner, I obtained two years ago a data science certification with a focus on machine learning, text and graph mining which is a program offered by the Grouping of National Economics and Statistics Schools in France.

Donghui Chen received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2021. He is a senior software engineer at Huawei, China. His research interests include time-series analysis and AI for system.

Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company.

In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany

Eric Jazédé is Specialist in middleware technology & Product Owner RabbitMQ as well as various common infrastructure services at Orange France.

Fabien Vallon is Open Source Lead Product Manager. In his role, Fabien is in charge of product strategy, roadmap and development follow-up for PrestaShop, an open source e-commerce solution, leader in Europe and Latin America.
Fabien has been able to evolve in open environments and companies of all sizes, such as Alcove, Devoteam or Genymobile, with an appetite for open source, an end-to-end product vision and an ability to evolve with all business lines.

Building communities

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Programming since 0.000048 GB of RAM was an industry standard.
Using Linux since version 0.99 pl13.

Information Logistics Strategist.
Data Integration and Orchestration Consultant.

Gilles Dubois work as head developer in FactorFX Company. As he used to say, he is an open-source enthusiast. He is a contributor of many open-source projects. With FactorFX team, Gilles Dubois brings pertinent evolutions to OCS Inventory.

Head of Community open source program at Orange France

My background : Architect specialist of telco IS and BI during 15 years, and Software Asset Manager at Orange France for 6 years.
I became head of the Community Open Source Program at Orange France since 2017 where I developed a financial engineering to facilitate partnerships with the open source ecosystem. I am convinced that sharing knowledge on how to deploy Open Source in industry is a central point to facilitate its ecosystem sustainability for industrial purposes. To encourage this, I am involved in the open source ecosystem in TOSIT as Vice President and in OW2 board as the representative of Orange. I also initiate a lot of sharing experiences with other affiliates within Orange Group.

Grazia Cazzin is the offering manager for Data & Analytics competency center in the Research and Innovation Division of Engineering Group S.p.A.. She is the KNOWAGE Labs Director, the founder of the SpagoBI project and its historical project leader. Working in the IT field since 1992, she has been involved in enterprise application development, data modelling, data warehousing, dimensional analysis and business intelligence; she has gained valuable expertise working in several market sectors (industry, finance, public administration) and covering several thematic areas (ERP, MRP, MPS, Enterprise Portals, CRM, DWH and BI, Big Data, Analytics). She’s currently involved in all the activities concerning Big Data Analysis, as for SmartCity and Industry 4.0 scenarios.

Ilker Aydin is a serial entrepreneur and technology enthusiast that was born and raised in 1982 in Cologne, Germany. During his studies at the CBS International Business School Ilker founded the first gaming website in Turkey in 2004 (Kraloyun.com) and 2006 in Germany (Spielaffe.de). After a successful exit in 2014 he sold his company Kaisergames GmbH to Ströer and founded Famobi in 2014. Famobi is a financially independent game development studio that specialises in HTML5 game development. When Ilker is not deep diving into new technologies he is a world traveller, life coach, sports addict and passionate designer.

Isabelle de Sutter (F) is a Senior Adviser working as national contact points (NCP) within Digital and Space at the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. (MESRI)
Isabelle is NCP lead for the largest European Research and Innovation Programme Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Digital and Space.
She has degrees in European Marketing Sciences, Master in Business Administration (MBA)
Since 2009, She has worked at SYSTEMATIC Paris-Region as the head of European Affairs helping companies, academia and research institutes to apply for funding/grants in European calls for tenders/proposals. She has led the implementation and development of the European strategy for the French deep tech cluster SYSTEMATIC.
Isabelle has been “Intuitu personæ” involved in two French national contact points (NCP) under the European frame programme Horizon 2020 programme: Secure Societies and ICT. Before that, Isabelle spent over 20 years of experience working in business development and as a freelance European consultant. She has demonstrated skills in project management, providing support to SMEs and start-ups in their international development. https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelled/

Italo Vignoli is a founding member of The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project, an Open Source Initiative (OSI) board member, and the Chairman Emeritus of Associazione LibreItalia. He co-leads LibreOffice marketing, PR and media relations, co-chairs the certification program, and is a spokesman for the project. He has contributed to several large migration projects to LibreOffice, and is a LibreOffice certified migrator and trainer. From 2004 to 2010 he has been involved in the OOo project.

Jan is a codebase steward at the Foundation for Public Code. He has been a policy advisor on digital issues in the European Parliament for a green MEP, mainly working on the copyright directive. Before that, he ran a consultancy called Open by Default, which helped public organizations use open licenses to publish open data and make open source software. Previously he was the CEO of Wikimedia Sverige after co-founding the chapter and being its chairman.

After 20 years working for several companies (Capgemini, Atos, Scalian) and currently acting as a cloud database consultant at Orange Business Service in Professional Services team,
I worked on several high stake projects and I like climbing and practicing capoeira.

Hi, my name is John Mercouris. I'm a Computer Scientist with a passion for developing high quality human interfaces. The projects and research I work on center around the idea that we can make interactions with our programs beautiful, and logically beautiful.

Julien Mathis is Co-Founder and CEO of Centreon, leading global strategy and expanding markets throughout Europe and international regions. Previously, Julien served as Chief Technology Officer for Centreon, responsible for research and development. As CTO, Julien was instrumental in expanding the company’s Open Source software offering a commercialized, business-aware IT monitoring platform for customers with distributed IT operations and converging infrastructures. As a Co-Founder of Centreon, Julien has been hands-on in leading product development strategies. Prior to this, Julien served as an IT consultant, web developer and system administrator with the French Banking Federation. Julien holds a Master’s degree in computer science from EPITECH, the European Institute of Technology.

Justin Colannino has more than a decade of experience representing clients at the intersection of free & open source software communities and for-profit enterprises. As an Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft, he is part of a small team that oversees legal processes to enable responsible open source engagement at massive scale. As Senior Director at GitHub, he works advocating for public policies that enable developer innovation and collaboration across open source software ecosystems.

Mr. Colannino maintains an active pro bono practice for free & open source software communities. He currently serves on the board of the Open Source Initiative and provides ongoing legal counsel to Outreachy, a project that provides paid internships supporting diversity in open source.

Senior Architect, Technical evangelist,
Open Source supporter,
Part time professor ( University of Nantes ),
Creator of Telosys (code generator)

As a legal counsel, Lucas has background in contract and technology Law. Prior to FSFE, Lucas had experience in Brazil and Russia with e-commerce, transfer of technology, telecommunications and arbitration. Over the years he got experience in the academic sector as well, achieving a Master and PhD in law. For him Free Software is a precondition for a safe, neutral and healthy digital environment.

Creator of XWiki and CEO of XWiki SAS, Ludovic has been the gentle organizer of the XWiki SAS company for 17 years.

XWiki SAS, member of OW2, April, Euclidia, only building free & open-source software leads the development of the XWiki Software used by thousands of organizations and helps companies and organizations all over the world organize, share, and collaborate on content. XWiki SAS also leads the development of CryptPad (https://cryptpad.fr), the first end-to-end encrypted Collaboration Suite.

A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (X90) and Telecom Paris (95), Ludovic Dubost started his career as a software architect for Netscape Communications Europe. He then joined NetValue as CTO, a company doing online usage analysis. He left NetValue after the company was purchased by Nielsen/NetRatings, before creating the XWiki Open Source software and launching XWiki SAS in 2004. Ludovic has been a speaker at various events including Paris Open Source Summit, FOSDEM, OW2 Conference, RMLL, Capitole du Libre, speaking about Collaboration Software, Financing FLOSS software and Privacy Solutions.

He also is a member of Systematic Paris Region Open Source Hub committee and the OpenFoodFacts board.

Marco Cortella is Data visualization Specialist and Business Intelligence Consultant for Engineering Group, one of the main worldwide players in the field of digital transformation. For over a decade, he contributed to the creation and the evolution of KNOWAGE, the open source business intelligence suite.
Following his passion for data visualization projects and the latest tech, Marco played an active role in the FIWARE and OW2 open source European communities and collaborated with many universities and schools sharing his knowledge on data visualization and data analysis. Currently, he is Data Visualization lecturer at "Enrico Della Valle" IT & Management School in Rome.
In Italy, Marco is involved in some initiatives for data transparency and openness, specifically in the current scenario of the fight against Covid-19.

Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, joined Huawei in September 2020, focusing on Web-related standards bodies like the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and AIOTI. Martin has been involved in W3C since 2005 as W3C Spain Office Technical Manager, taking part in dozens of development projects early in his career, especially during the paradigm change towards mobile-first Web applications. He was involved in numerous W3C Working Groups, leading some Semantic Web activities and developing technical standards for interoperability for European governments. In 2009, Martin was appointed Manager at the W3C Spanish Chapter. Along with the W3C role, he has worked as a Web standards consultant, performing various projects for the European Commission as an advisor in interoperability, transparency, and accessibility.

Miguel Montesinos is a computer science engineer with a Masters Degree in Game Development. After 10 years running his own game studio he joined Huawei and for the last two years he has been the Gaming Technical Leader, helping game developers reach new players publishing their games in AppsGallery.

Mike Nolan a software engineer and open source community strategy consultant currently helping run Open@RIT as the Assistant Director. I also act as the director for the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists.

With work experience stemming from tech companies such as Amazon and GIPHY to large humanitarian organizations such as the International Rescue Committee and UNICEF, I seek to develop better ways to create technology that benefits humanity.

Paweł Skrzypek is a highly experienced architect of ICT systems, with extensive knowledge of machine learning and Big Data solutions. Chief Multi Cloud Architect, working on MELODIC project and other Cloud Computing projects, focusing on multi cloud and serverless approach.

Philippe Bareille is an Open Source Officer at the City of Paris. He has a 10-year experience as a Java software engineer and as an Open Source enthousiast, he spreads the word of FLOSS in the public sector, where public money should fund public code. As a Paris signature platform Lutece's advocate, he is in charge of external relationships regarding the framework.

Philippe is the lead maintainer of ScanCode the industry leading FOSS software composition analysis and license scanning tool, creator of Package URL, co-founder of SPDX and ClearlyDefined. He is a long time FOSS contributor and mentor and co-founder and CTO of nexB Inc., makers of DejaCode.

Radek is currently employed by 7bulls.com as an IT systems architect. He holds a master's degree in computer science, specialization: internet and mobile technologies. He is a longtime administrator of budget-, enterprise- and HPC-class computer systems and networks, with particular emphasis on virtualization and containerization technologies (QEMU, KVM, Docker, LXC, containerd, podman, CRI-O) and cloud technologies (OpenStack, Kubernetes). Radek is also an experienced Python and Node.js programmer. He is responsible for projects of IT systems and integrations between them.
Certification-wise, he is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA), and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Security Specialist (CKS) and Application Developer (CKAD).

He is an active contributor in open source projects, including OpenStack, holding the position of core reviewer in various OpenStack projects, primarily related to deployment (Kolla, Kolla-Ansible). He also served as a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee (TC) for a year where he held the position of vice-chair.

In his scientific career, he has an open doctoral dissertation, in which he deals with the issue of feature selection using a method based on a measure rooted in the information theory and novel clustering algorithms. Previously, he worked on formal languages and general machine learning.

In his free time, Radek loves to develop his IT knowledge as well as learn foreign languages with preference for Romance languages. He is also a volunteer for a charity which helps kids grow more self-confident where he recruits and trains new candidates and oversees the tutoring process in his team.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rados%C5%82aw-piliszek-5558097b/

Ralph Soika is project lead in the open source project Imixs-Workflow and founder of the Imixs Software Solutions GmbH. He is consulting companies building custom business process management solutions and architectures. Ralph Soika develops BPM systems in the Jakarta EE environment and is a committer in the open source project Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler.

Pr. Smail Niar, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF) CNRS and MESRI, France, received his PhD in computer Engineering from the University of Lille (France) in 1990. Since then, he has been professor at UPHF where he is director of the computer science department at the “Laboratory of Automation, Mechanical and Computer Engineering”, a joint research unit between CNRS and UPHF. He is member of the European Network of Excellence Hipeac, EuroMicro society and IEEE senior. His research interests are AI/ML-based embedded systems and edge computing.
Since 2021, and in parallel with his research activities, he is NCP for Horizon Europe Calls in Cluster 4 -Digital at the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, France (MESRI).

Sylvain Le Bon is a telecommunication engineer and has been an entrepreneur for more than 10 years. He is the co-founder of Startin'blox, and an expert in interoperability of data on the web.

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