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A WORD FROM THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS<\/h3>\n
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Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Guidet \u2013 CTO & Co-founder \u2013 FactorFX<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yannick Seiller \u2013 CEO \u2013 FactorFX<\/p><\/div>\n

“Open source is no longer an option”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It powers the Internet, clouds, critical infrastructures, AI models\u2014often without even being explicitly acknowledged. Open source no longer needs to be defended; it has already won!<\/strong> The real question lies elsewhere: will we embrace it as the backbone of an industrial and sovereign digital ecosystem, or continue to treat it as a mere commodity? The context leaves little room for ambiguity.<\/p>\n

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European regulation<\/strong> (CRA, NIS2, AI Act) imposes transparency, traceability, and control over dependencies. And the economy is brutally reminding us of the cost of inaction: arbitrary price increases, sudden license changes, forced migrations… Organizations that failed to anticipate are now paying for dependencies they accepted for too long.It is at this intersection that we position the Open Source Experience 2026 program, with a clear threefold approach: industrial, sovereign, and open source.<\/p>\n