Ludovic Dubost, XWiki
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.
Session
Digital Sovereignty is a tough subject for the Collaboration software industry, which is heavily dominated by the large US cloud providers Microsoft & Google. This talk will address the importance for Europe to not give up this space, the challenges that lay ahead, the pitfalls we should avoid, the success that do exist, how Open Source matters to allow the industry to work better together to really challenge the status quo.