Experts involved

Mos Amokhtari has been Cloud Technical Manager at Red Hat France since May 2023. He began his career in 2000 working for start-ups as a consultant, before moving on to a role as service manager at Quallaby and Micromuse. When Micromuse was acquired by IBM in 2006, he joined IBM’s pre-sales team as a solutions architect. He then joined BDNA as Technical Director Europe. In 2011, Mos joined CA Technologies as a key account architect, notably in the banking sector, before becoming Technical Director of CA France in 2014. When CA was acquired by Broadcom in 2018, he decided to move into open source, first at Kong as solutions architect and Global Lead Partner Enablement, then at Red Hat. Mos is a graduate of ENSCM and holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in Telecoms.

Pierre Baudracco is the founder of BlueMind, the French alternative to Microsoft Exchange/M365 and Google. Throughout his career, he has led some of France’s biggest Open Source messaging projects. Today, he is co-Chairman of the Conseil National du Logiciel Libre, Chairman of the Hub Open Source de Systematic-Paris Region and an expert speaker on Open Source business models.

Simon CLAVIER is a french engineer whose backgound is electrical and biomedical engineering before specialising on IT, through a wide diversity of missions, from development to governance through sysadmin. He is working for SNCF Group since 2007, achieved in 2013 a MBA focused on Systemic/new kinds of management into organizations, and became responsible of the Open Source Strategy. He is since convinced these two sujects are key factors of a successfull and sustainable digital transformation, as you have to act with people through a «reinvented organization » and chose technologies you are able to control. He is a cross-entreprises cooperation activist on Open Source : President of “TOSIT (The Open Source I Trust)[1]”, Vice-President of the “French-Speaking PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group”[2], member of the “OpenRail Association” Team [3] .

Creator of XWiki and CEO of XWiki SAS, Ludovic I’m the gentle organizer of the XWiki SAS company for now 20 years.

XWiki SAS, a European company based in France and Romania, 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 also leads the development of CryptPad (https://cryptpad.org), the E2EE Real-time Collaborative Suite.

I’ve been a speaker at various events including Paris Open Source Experience, FOSDEM, OW2 Conference, JDLL, Capitole du Libre, speaking about Collaboration Software, Financing FLOSS software and Privacy Solutions.

I’m also member of the OpenFoodFacts board.

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.

Florent has been involved (both personally and professionally) in the FLOSS community since 1999. Professionally, Florent has worked for nearly 20 years in a consulting company as a Open Source advisor for large companies, helping them with software quality, Open Source governance, licensing, Innersource, as well as change management. Today, as Open Source Services Team Lead, he’s helping (new) Eclipse members and projects better understand, manage and master Open Source. He’s also an active participant in the OSPO Alliance and the Good Governance Initiative. On his personal side, he’s an administrator and board member at LinuxFr.org (reference french-speaking, community driven website about Free and Open Source software).