Intervenants 2021

Gaël Blondelle joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2013 where he is now Managing Director of Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH and VP, Ecosystem Development, of the Eclipse Foundation. Gaël joined the Eclipse Foundation with the desire to help companies to work in open source as the best way to implement open innovation and open collaboration. Gaël has been involved in open source for more than 16 years in various roles, including as the co-founder of a startup developing an open source project, as a business developer of an open source systems integrator, and as a manager of a research project aiming to create an open source ecosystem for industrial players.
In 2021, he is the chair of the program committee of Open Source Experience in Paris.

Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, is co-editor of the W3C MiniApp standards, and represents Huawei in Web-related standards bodies.
Martin was the Manager at the W3C Spanish Chapter, representing W3C and establishing developer relations in the Spanish-Speaking countries. 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. Martin led the former European open data initiative, organizing exclusive meetings with top representatives in the EU national governments and gathering the technical community to implement transparency and open data initiatives through Web standards. Also, he was involved in different European Commission’s ISA (Interoperability Solutions for the European Public Administrations) working groups, which develop technologies and mechanisms to enable interoperability among public sector bodies.

François Armand, papa x3, développeur passionné, persuadé que les logiciels libres et les développements soutenables sont notre avenir, Scala depuis 2006, fan de FP (je suis tombé dans OCaml et COQ lorsque j’étais petit), CTO de Rudder : continuous audit & configuration.

Emmanuel Bacry currently serves as the Scientific Director of the French Health Data Hub. In parallel, he is a Senior Researcher at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) at Paris Dauphine University. For over 4 years, he served as the head of the Big Data & Data Science Initiative at Ecole Polytechnique. A national and international AI expert and general chair of various summer schools on AI and data science, Emmanuel Bacry is also a member of several French and international scientific boards and committees. Emmanuel holds a PhD in Mathematics from ENS (École normale supérieure de Paris) where he graduated in 1992. He additionally obtained his Accreditation to Supervise Research (“Habilitation à diriger des recherches”) in 1996.

Dr. Alessandra Bagnato is a research scientist and the Head of Modelio Research Unit in Softeam Software (Docaposte Group). She holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Télécom 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 ECSEL AIDOaRt, H2020 MORPHEMIC, H2020 Databio, H2020 CPSwarm, H2020 QRapids, H2020 CROSSMINER), GDPR and Privacy (H2020 PoSeID-on) and on measuring software engineering (ITEA 3 MEASURE).

Eloi Bail is director of operations at Savoir-faire Linux Rennes. As technical leader and project director, Eloi works on various industrial projects using Yocto in the energy, transport, medical and robotics sectors. Finally, Eloi is the technical correspondent of Savoir-faire Linux at LF Energy, which Savoir-faire Linux joined in 2020.

Lucian Balea est Directeur de Programme Open Source chez RTE, gestionnaire du réseau de transport d’électricité français. A ce titre, il dirige la stratégie open source adoptée par RTE pour décupler l’efficacité et l’innovation dans activités logicielles cœur de métier. Lucian est également Président du conseil de gouvernance de LF Energy, une fondation open source créée en partenariat avec la Linux Foundation et consacrée aux besoins des systèmes électriques et aux enjeux de transition énergétique. Auparavant, Lucian a exercé diverses responsabilités managériales au sein de RTE, dans les domaines de la recherche et développement, des marchés de l’électricité et de la finance.

Philippe Bareille est chargé de mission Open Source à la Ville de Paris et également chef de projet technique au Bureau de l’Ingénierie Logicielle et du Développement à la Direction des Systèmes d’Information et du Numérique. Fort d'une expérience de 10 ans en tant qu'ingénieur logiciel Java, Philippe Bareille est également passionné de logiciels libres dans le secteur public en particulier, où l'argent public doit contribuer à financer du code public. Fervent défenseur et représentant de la plate-forme de services numériques développée par la Ville, Lutece, il est en charge des relations externes et internationales relatives à la communauté d’utilisateurs et contributeurs du projet.

fondateur de BlueMind
co-président du CNLL
VP du Hub Open Source de Systematic
Président de SoLibre

Self-taught and passionate, Cyril Becker have worked on many Opensource platforms hosted in homemade data centers or in the cloud for many highly scalable projects since 2007. At the beginning of his career he worked on intensive computing clusters for The French Ministry of Defence and pharmaceutical industry. Then he joined the ranks of startups dedicated to mobile advertising and mobile video games publishing such as Voodoo. Since 2020 he is CTO of Alter Way Clou Consulting, a consulting company of 20 experts, partner of the CNCF and certified on Kubernetes.

Diplômé de l'ESSEC et de Télécom Paristech et démarre ma carrière en 1997. Je lance ma première société en 1999 puis crée DynFi en 2001.

Après une dizaine d'années consacrées à l'audit des sites Internet complexes, je monte le système de DNS primaire de l'Angola. Parallèlement à ce projet je démarre une activité consacrée aux firewalls Open Source et devient partenaire de pfSense®.

En 2016 je coordonne le développement d'un système de gestion centralisée pour pare-feu Open Source qui aboutira en 2018 au lancement de DynFi Manager.
En 2019 je décide de mettre au point le premier pare-feu Open Source français DynFi Firewall, lancement prévu en octobre 2021.

DynFi est l'un des partenaires Français de Proxmox, nous contribuons à la diffusion de ces technologies de virtualisation Open Source et à leur mise en œuvre au sein de Data-Center.

J'anime une équipe Européenne de développeurs avec un focus cybersécurité.

Prof. Knut Blind was a senior researcher and departmental head at Fraunhofer ISI between 1996 and 2010, before returning to ISI in October 2019 as the coordinator of the Business Unit Regulation and Innovation. Between 2010 and 2019, he worked in the Innovation Management Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems as a project manager. Since 2006, he is also Professor for Innovation Economics at the Technical University Berlin. Between 2008 and 2016, he also held the Endowed Chair in Standardization at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

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 which is a program offered by the Grouping of National Economics and Statistics Schools in France.

My name is Victory Brown, a student of English Language in the University of Port Harcourt. I am a UX designer(research and writing) contributing to open source projects . I love analyzing and asking the questions ''why" and "how". I enjoy problem solving, advocating and also speaking for designers in Open source. I'm a member of the opensource design team, and also the Sustain Badges working group. I contribute to the Indian open source foundation, and a member of the Diversity and inclusion channel in Gnome. I love Chocolates, Jazz music and Classical music(mostly Beethoven). I also play Lawn tennis and love talking with new people over a cup of tea.

Benjamin is a technology enthusiast with a passion for empowering developers to build innovative solutions.
A long-time open source advocate, he co-founded the Eclipse IoT Working Group in 2011 and grew from scratch a vibrant open-source community of hundreds of developers and dozens of deeply engaged companies.
He is currently working at Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager for Azure IoT, where he is leading developer engagement initiatives with some of the top communities and companies in the embedded, AI, and open hardware space.

Aprés plus de 15 ans d'expérience en développement d'application C++/Qt/Python, je mets aujourd'hui mes compétences au service du développement d'application SIG OpenSource chez Oslandia.

Je suis un contributeur régulier de QGIS et un fervant supporter des solutions SIG libres (PostGIS, GDal, QGIS...)

Thierry Carrez is the Vice-President of Engineering at the Open Infrastructure Foundation. A systems engineer by trade, he was involved in the inception of the OpenStack project, and still contributes to its governance and release management.

With a personal interest in the intersection of sociology and technology, Thierry spoke about open innovation and open source at various conferences around the world, including OSCON, LinuxCon, and FOSDEM. He was recognized as a Python Software Foundation fellow in 2012, and previously worked as the Technical lead for Ubuntu Server at Canonical, an operational manager for the Gentoo Linux Security Team, and an IT manager in various companies.

Après près de 30 années passées dans les laboratoires de recherche d’un grand groupe et la direction de bureaux d’études d’électronique, Bertrand Castagnet dirige depuis 7 ans le CATIE, association à but non lucratif qu’il a créée avec le soutien de la région nouvelle aquitaine. Fort d’une cinquantaine d’experts le CATIE a pour mission d’accompagner les plus petites entreprises dans la compréhension et l’intégration des nouvelles technologies du numérique. Parce que l'innovation dans le numérique est portée par les usages et l'intégration multi-technologique, le CATIE a opté pour une organisation originale visant à décloisonner et à conjuguer 3 grandes compétences fonctionnant généralement en silo : les Facteurs Humains et la Cognition, les Data-Sciences et l'Embarqué.

Data scientist and contributor @association Aura

Co-fondateur et CEO de Enalean, j'ai passé les 16 premières années de ma carrière au sein d'entreprises technologiques à rechercher comment développer du bon logiciel. Je me suis intéressé aux processus innovants à mettre en oeuvre, aux bonnes pratiques du monde libre et open source, et notamment à l'agilité depuis 2005. Cela m'a amené à créer Tuleap, pour accompagner les industriels dans leur transformation agile et numérique.

Founder and CEO of Logilab, that has been pionneering Free Software, Python and Semantic Web in France for the past 20 years.

Sihem Cherrared received a master degree in Networks and Distributed systems from the University of Science and Technology, Algeria, in 2015, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Orange labs, INRIA lab and the University of Rennes 1 in 2020. She has experience from academia research, telecom industry, machine learning, network automation, and data analysis applied to network vulnerabilities (faults and intrusions) detection and recovery. At Alter Way, she is currently working as a R&D Engineer on data management pipelines and machine learning projects, highlighting multiple network use cases such as Cloud costs simulation.

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 and in 2013 achieved a MBA focused on Systemic and new kinds of management and organizations and became the "Open Source Strategist". 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 » [1] and chose technologies you are able to control. He is a cross-entreprises cooperation activist on Open Source : VP of the "French-Speaking PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group" [2] , VP of TOSIT (The Open Source I Trust) [3] and recently VP of IMA (Innovation Makers Alliance) [4].

Julien Cloarec is a privacy and AI researcher at Université Laval (Canada) and a former engineer in computer science. His research deals with the impact of big data and artificial intelligence on marketing and information systems. His work has been presented at numerous conferences, including those of the American Marketing Association, the Association for Consumer Research, the European Marketing Academy, and the European Group for Organizational Studies. He has also presented his work at the invitation of various institutions: Temple University (USA), York University (Canada), Cass Business School (UK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and Universidad de la Sabana (Colombia). He was the recipient of a fellowship from the Association for Consumer Research and was awarded the prize for the best thesis in management science by the French Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE).

Passionné d’informatique, je me suis reconverti en data science afin de me rapprocher de sujets qui m'intéressent réellement. Je suis notamment contributeur au projet Aura.

Bruno Cornec has been managing various Unix systems since 1987 and Linux since 1993 (0.99pl14).
Bruno first worked 8 years around Software Engineering and Configuration Management Systems in Unix environments.

Since 1995, he is Open Source and Linux (OSL) Strategist and Evangelist, initially for an HPE reseller and now for Hewlett Packard Enterprise directly in the Customer Innovation Center. Bruno is also HPE WW Linux Community Lead.

Bruno is a contributor in various OSL projects: MondoRescue, Mageia, LinuxCOE, Tellico, FOSSology. He is also project leader for MondoRescue (GPL disaster recovery solution), project-builder.org (GPL build service), python-redfish.

As part of his work he has made numerous presentations for LinuxCon (EMEA and NA), Linux.Conf.au, OSCON, Fosdem, Paris OSS...

Bruno also likes early music, singing and playing recorder.

Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ADLINK Technology Inc. where he looks after corporate technology strategy and innovation, leads the Advanced Technology Office and the Software and Technology Business Unit.

Angelo is a world top expert in edge/fog computing and a well known researcher in the area of high performance and large scale distributed systems. Angelo has over 100 publications on referred journals, conferences, workshops, and magazines. Angelo has co-authored over ten international standards.

Cadre associatif et animateur du groupe libre association de l'April ; groupe dont l'objet est de construire des ponts entre logiciels libres et monde associatif

Future ingénieure diplômée en Informatique et Statistiques à Polytech Lille, Coralie Cousin est actuellement en stage dans le domaine de la data science à Makina Corpus.

Cédric intervient en gestion de projets sur les dossiers “applications métiers” chez Atol CD. Il a par exemple travaillé pour l’ANFR, au développement de REMOcRA et sur un plugin carto pour Pentaho. Avec une approche pragmatique basée sur le besoin client, il intervient également en avant-vente sur des applications cartographiques notamment. Il dit volontiers qu’il n’est pas “un féru de code ou de technique”, ce qui compte pour lui, c’est la satisfaction du client !

Il fait partie des experts en développement Web, et donne également des formations au sein de Makina Sapiens ainsi qu'à l'école d'ingénieur ENSEEIHT (N7) de Toulouse au sein du cursus Fullstack (JavaScript, VueJS, CI/CD, qualité avec TU et E2E).

Après ses études en Management-Marketing International, avec un attrait pour les nouvelles technologies collaboratives, Olga rejoint CEO-Vision (2014), éditeur de GoFAST Digital Workplace. L’objectif étant d’accompagner le développement de l’entreprise et des services de Gestion du Changement auprès des clients-utilisateurs. Olga a contribué à la forte croissance de l’éditeur (> 50%/an), qui répond aux besoins de Grands Comptes et Administrations prestigieuses en France (ex. AIFE–Ministère des Finances, Départements, Régions, Mairies…) et à l’étranger (ex. AMRTP, Agence Fédérale Belge Enabel…). Aujourd’hui experte en transformation digitale et AMOA, Olga est associée de la société et gère des projets complexes autour du déploiement de la plateforme GoFAST, du remplacement du serveur de fichiers, sortie des GAFAM comme MS SharePoint-Office365-Teams, et la mise en place du télétravail qui a pris une dimension centrale depuis le début de la crise sanitaire.

Marc Pierrot Deseilligny est directeur de recherche à l'Institut National de l'Information Gépgraphique et Forestière où il occupé plusieurs fonction en tant que chercheurs et responsable de la recherche.

Ses recherches depuis plus de 30 ans portent sur l'analyse d'Image afin d'automatiser la création d'informations géographique et plus particulièrement sur la photogrammérie (modélisation 3D à partir d'images stéréoscopiques).. Il est l'initiateur et coordinateur du projet de photogrammétrie open-source MicMac.

Ex founder and CEO of neopixl, a mobile apps agency, a great deal of my past experience has been on Java -as programmer and architect- but as an Electronics, Informatics and Signal & Systems engineer, I have also got my hands 'dirty' in thrilling embedded real time C & assembler projects and writing of drivers for Linux.
Open Source addict, I've been using it since the beginning of my work experience. I've been involved in Open Source whether as a contributor (Jakarta Slide, OsWorkflow, Shark), project creator (Eclipse JWT), or 'evangelist' (Linux solutions, ObjectWeb Con, 01 seminaries,…). I've been also providing OS services for over 10 years now (part of this activity was the Open Wide in France), working tightly with OS communities such as OW2 and Eclipse.

Specialties: management, consulting, tech, innovation, IoT, mobile, a bit of ML and beer crafting 🍺and drummer 🥁

Jean-Sébastien est depuis 4 ans architecte/chef de projet multi-casquettes au sein de l'IT de Capital Fund Management, un hedge fund qui met la recherche et la technologie au centre de sa stratégie. Fort de plus de 15 ans d'expérience dans l'IT/IS, il a été développeur chez Dassault Système, Neoxam et Tech Lead à la Société Générale. Après une intense période en C++ il a découvert Python il y a une dizaine d'année pour vraiment le mettre en pratique industriellement il y a 5 ans. Séduit par les capacités du langage, il a souhaité aller plus loin que de petites contributions et a travaillé à ouvrir son projet Pytest-Monitor, y voyant un intérêt au delà de l'utilisation interne chez CFM. Cette première contribution ayant été bien accueillie, il a décidé de libérer aussi Monitor Server API. Toujours en quête du meilleur outil pour ses projets , il n'hésite pas à contribuer aux outils existants voire à en créer quand il ne trouve pas le bon.

Sébastien Dinot évolue dans le libre depuis 1998. Il fournit aux équipes et aux clients de CS GROUP du support dans les dimensions technique, juridique, communautaire et économique du logiciel libre, et les accompagne dans la libération des logiciels, l'élaboration de leur gouvernance et leur animation. Il est l'auteur de la gouvernance du logiciel libre de CS GROUP et membre du comité qui supervise la libération de logiciels développés par CS GROUP et les contributions de l'entreprise à d'autres logiciels.

Créateur du logiciel XWiki et CEO de XWiki SAS. Sorti de Polytechnique (X90) et de Telecom Paris-Tech, Ludovic Dubost commence sa carrière comme architecte logiciel chez Netscape Communications Europe. Après un passage dans une startup de mesure d'audience, il crée en 2004 le logiciel XWiki afin d'aider les organisations à mieux partager les connaissances. Depuis les 16 dernières années, Ludovic gère la société XWiki SAS, qui propose des services sur le logiciel XWiki, maintenant utilisé mondialement par plus de 6000 organizations privées et publiques, dont Amazon, INSEE, DINUM, SFR, SNCF ou encore Lenovo. XWiki SAS a aussi crée le logiciel CryptPad, première solution collaborative chiffrée de bout en bout. Ludovic intervient aussi lors de conférences pour partager l'expérience d'XWiki sur la production de logiciel libre tout en gérant une entreprise durable. Ludovic est aussi membre du board d'OpenFoodFacts.

Creator of XWiki and CEO of XWiki SAS. XWiki SAS, 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.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 Europe. He then joined NetValue as CTO, a company doing online usage analysis. In 2004 he created the XWiki Open Source software and launched XWiki SAS. 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.

Pierre FICHEUX is currently CTO at Smile-ECS, a software service company specialized in open source technologies.
Pierre is also a teacher and manager for the GISTRE (Génie Informatique des Systèmes Temps Réel et Embarqués) speciality at EPITA, a famous french school of computer science.
He's also author of 4 editions of "Linux embarqué" (Embedded Linux), a reference book about building and using Embedded Linux systems (Eyrolles editions).

Sylvain Garcia est directeur commercial et associé de BlueMind.
Ingénieur système et réseau de formation, il a participé aux plus gros projets de messagerie Opensource en France en tant qu’intégrateur et expert technique avant de basculer du côté du commerce.
Passionné par le domaine de la messagerie, son expertise fonctionnelle et relationnelle lui permet de diffuser et accompagner les projets BlueMind en France et à l’étranger.

Je suis Senior SRE chez Deezer où je conçois des plateformes pour une architecture microservice & containerisée.

A côté de ça, je suis également rédacteur du site blog.zwindler.fr, où je parle d'administration Linux, de virtualisation, de supervision et l'automatisation.

Je fais du Python et j'automatise tout ce que je trouve avec Ansible.

T. Gomez-Diaz est Ingénieure CNRS au Laboratoire d'informatique Gaspard-Monge (LIGM) depuis 2002, où sa mission est de rendre les logiciels LIGM visibles et accessibles. Elle y participe à l’amélioration des conditions de développement et de diffusion de ces logiciels, et a eu un rôle similaire au niveau national, lors de sa participation au Projet PLUME (2007-2013), où elle a lancé et contribué au catalogue des logiciels de la recherche.

Elle a travaillé dans plusieurs laboratoires et entreprises dans les domaines de mathématiques et d'informatique en France, Espagne et Grande Bretagne, et a été Experte pour la Commission européenne dans les domaines de Infrastructures et Science Ouverte.

En collaboration avec le Prof. Tomas Recio (Université Nebrija, Madrid), elle a proposé le protocole CDUR pour l'évaluation des logiciels de la recherche et une définition de la Science Ouverte qui souligne l'objectif de rendre les productions scientifiques visibles, accessibles et réutilisables.

Gilles is Director and a senior open source strategy advisor in Wipro's Open Source Consulting Practice. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he provides open source and blockchain strategy consulting and advisory services to Wipro's key customers worldwide.

He has a pragmatic approach to open source, and regularly advises global companies, start-up, and venture capitalists on open source strategy, licensing issues, business models...

Nicolas works as Principal Engineer at Symfony, the company. Before, he was CTO for Blackfire.io, the PHP profiler that we were all missing. He started sending pull requests to Symfony by the end of 2013 and since nobody told him to stop, he ended up being a core team member & top-ranking contributor. He likes figuring out how to take the most out of the PHP engine, optimizing CI matrices and removing lines of code.

Archiviste de formation et titulaire en parallèle d'un master en management des organisations de l’IAE de Paris, option organisations associatives, Alice GRIPPON a travaillé pendant presque 15 ans à l'Association des archivistes français avant de rejoindre le Programme Vitam 2019 en tant que directrice de la diffusion et des partenariats. Elle anime le Club utilisateurs tout en assurant la coordination des actions internes et externes de communication.

Laurent est le CEO / CTO de Claroline depuis 2015, il est à la base administrateur système GNU/Linux et professeur de sciences au collège. Ce qui lui donne une casquette technique et une fonctionnelle sur le domaine applicatif (LMS) de Claroline.

Paula Grzegorzewska is a Senior Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe. She is engaged in topics such as Open Source Software, ethical and trustworthy AI, Open Source Hardware and blockchain. Paula is one one the authors of the study on the impact of Open Source for the European Commission. Before, she supported women in closing the gender gap in ICT and entrepreneurship with an NGO in Luxembourg. She has a keen interest in ways that technology can be open, equal, sustainable and beneficial for the society.

Titulaire d'un Master en Génie des Systèmes industriels, je suis dans le groupe SNCF depuis plus de 20 ans. Après une expérience opérationnelle de près de 15 ans, j'ai intégré les études d'ingénierie d'exploitation, d'abord chez Systra puis chez SNCF Réseau. En intégrant DGEX Solutions, j'ai pu concevoir et développer différents outils de simulation ou d'optimisation. Aujourd'hui, je suis chef de projet d'un outil de simulation pour concevoir les service de transport ferroviaires de demain.

An internationally known open source strategist and community engagement expert, Leslie Hawthorn has spent her career creating, cultivating, and enabling open source communities. She has driven open source strategy in Fortune 10 companies, pre-IPO startups, and Foundation Boards including senior roles at Red Hat, Google, the Open Source Initiative, and Elastic. She currently leads the team responsible for vertical community strategy within Red Hat’s Open Source Program Office in the Office of the CTO.
A frequent speaker on all topics open source and digital transformation, Leslie enjoys dreaming about how open source and open standards can create citizen-centric Smart Cities. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, Leslie has called Europe since 2014 and resides in Bonn, Germany with her daughter, their two canaries, Elle and Nana, and a small cat named Fee.

Co-founder of Flax, the UK's leading open source search consultancy before joining OSC in 2019, co-author of Searching the Enterprise, founder member of The Search Network and general all-round open source search fan!

I am Anita ihuman. A software developer(ReactJS) from Nigeria. I am passionate about advocating for open source and I love sharing my knowledge through technical writting.

Juriste spécialisé en propriété intellectuelle et fondateur du cabinet Inno³, Benjamin Jean est spécialisé en gestion de la propriété intellectuelle dans le cadre de modèles ouverts (Open Source, Open Data, Open Hardware, interopérabilité ou plus généralement Open Innovation et Open Access).
Depuis plus de quinze années, il travaille essentiellement sur les nouveaux usages et collaborations qui se développent autour de la création et de l'innovation (Open Source, Open Data ou plus généralement toute la mouvance en faveur d'une innovation ouverte).

Christophe Juillet est responsable de l’Architecture d’Entreprise pour le Groupe EDF. Il est le garant d’une maîtrise des architectures SI déployées dans le Groupe et pilote des dossiers de transformation transverse de ces architectures. La priorité à l’Open Source est une des politiques fondamentales de l’Architecture d’Entreprise du Groupe EDF. À ce titre, il participe activement aux travaux de TOSIT.

Co-fondateur de Obeo, il est aujourd’hui vice-président de la société, en charge du commerce.

Diplômé du Master Architecture logicielle de l'université de Nantes, Étienne Juliot possède plus de 20 ans d'expérience dans le domaine du génie logiciel et du MDE.

Très impliqué dans plusieurs communautés Open Source telles que Eclipse et PolarSys, il est conférencier de niveau international et membre du conseil d’administration de la fondation Eclipse.

Plusieurs années à accumuler de l'expérience pour maintenant participer à l'amélioration des démarches de l'État.

Né en Grèce ; venu en France pour étudier à Polytech Tours, puis à Polytech Sorbonne (ex UPMC). Ingénieur diplômé en Systèmes Embarqués, je travaille chez AdaCore en tant qu'ingénieur Software QA.

Philippe Krief is the Research Relations Director of the Eclipse Foundation. He is a project leader, expert in open-source, object-oriented design, embedded development, development tools, and the Agile-Scrum development process. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, option Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Development Environments from University Paris VIII, France in 1990.
He has a passion for Eclipse since its beginning, early 2000 when he was involved in the early versions of the Eclipse platform. Before joining the Eclipse Foundation staff, he worked 18 years for IBM as Senior Architect, Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management evangelist, and R&D Development Manager.
Today, Philippe is supervising 8 European research projects (H2020, ITEA3 & ECSEL), mainly for dissemination, community building, and open-source best practices tasks.

Denis Lafont-Lafont is a tech executive and former VC with a focus on open-source in the enterprise world. He is now at Freelance.com, a French company helping Fortune 2000 enterprises to find the best contractors.

Tobie Langel is the founder of UnlockOpen, a boutique consulting firm that helps large organizations build a strong open source culture and leverage it to recruit, retain, and foster top software engineering talent, improve team efficiency and boost innovation.

His clients include companies such as Google, Microsoft, Intel, Mozilla, Coil, or Airtable.

Tobie is the facilitator of AMP’s Advisory Committee, a voting member of the OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council, sits on the Advisory Council of OASIS Open Projects, and is a Founding Member of the Organization for Ethical Source.

Previously, he was a member of Facebook’s Open Source and Web Standards team, and was Facebook’s Advisory Committee representative at W3C.

Tobie Langel is known for having co-maintained the Prototype JavaScript Framework. He also edited a number of Web standards, including WebIDL, and led W3C’s Web platform testing effort.

Fabrice founded OCamlPro in 2011, a company that helps companies use OCaml in industrial projects, with prestigious clients such as Jane Street, the Citrix Xen Team, Esterel Technologies, MERCE, Samsung and Facebook, the Tezos Foundation, with the implementation of its prototype of Tezos from 2014 to 2018. He created Origin Labs in 2019, to develop the Dune Network blockchain, a fork of Tezos. A Former Computer Scientist at INRIA, Fabrice worked on improving Programming Languages, especially statically-typed functional languages, and Distributed Systems, in particular peer-to-peer networks.
He developed several open-source and free softwares, mostly in OCaml: JoCaml, MLdonkey (multiprotocol p2p client), MNPlight (jailbroken iPhone must-have), LAMP (Linux Animation and Movie Player, in C++). Fabrice has long been a member of the IRILL lab on Open-Source software, and a member of the steering committee of the open-source hub at Systematic.

VP Cloud/DevOps @ Paris Open source Summit 2019; Open Source Contributor for 15 years; France/Canada. For 15 years I have been passionate helping organizations being LeanAgile and modernizing their App Portfolios and Software Development Life Cycle. Using DevOps, Cloud, PaaS, Containers, Microservices, API we have been succeeding to increase delivery velocity and reducing Infrastructure TCO. Passionate by Open Source, as a pragmatic leader I'm used to working with partners and technologies from everywhere (Community, Red Hat/IBM, Anthos, GCP, AWS, Azure...) and building bridges between traditional IT and innovative approaches.

Emmanuel Lécharny est CTO de la société Busit.com depuis mi-2019. Il participe également aux projets Apache Directory et Apache Mina depuis 2005, et est membre de l'Apache Software Foundation.

I'm a passionate developer, currently employed at Zenika IT.

I like to get involved in long-term projects, where I can improve people's daily lives with custom software fitting their needs.

Consultant formateur chez Zenika Lille. Loïc réalise des missions variées autour de Java, de la JVM, de l’architecture solution et de la performance. Ni le Cloud, ni Kubernetes, ni Kafka ne lui font peur; il aime relever des défis et apprendre de nouvelles choses. Contributeur Quarkus depuis plus de 2 ans, il contribue à plusieurs extensions et parle régulièrement de Quarkus (et d’autres sujets) dans des meetups ou des conférences et même parfois sur son blog.

Bérengère MATHIEU, docteure en "image, information et hypermédia" travaille comme Data Scientist au sein du pôle d'expertise en data science de Makina Corpus. Elle met en œuvre sa maîtrise des différentes techniques de data science pour industrialiser les projets intégrant de l'IA en travaillant en collaboration avec les équipes d'experts en développement Web.

Nicolas is an information security expert since 13 years and was involved in various security consulting engagements, from penetration tests to global risk assessments and security operations implementation. Today, he is currently working as a red teamer and in automating security operations at a large scale with open-source and Patrowl.io solutions.

I have an engineering background in Telecommunications and Computer Science from INSA Lyon, and joined Ibexa’s precursor, eZ systems, in 2004. Today, as co-CEO, I have overall responsibility of all commercial and business developments activities in the different markets Ibexa operates in. A passionate advocate on evolving trends in digital experiences, business transformation and business model innovation, I love to write and present on these subjects and I enjoy helping Ibexa’s clients grow and transform their businesses.

Graduated from École Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Marseille and École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Benoit Maujean is dealing with the general management of R&D team and projects supervising, to enable the development of innovative services and production solutions. Benoit is also a board member of Cap Digital, the French business cluster for digital and ecological transformation.

An expert in e-commerce, its automation and agile project management, Lillie helps her clients to:
– define their e-commerce visual and ergonomic needs by writing a technical and functional project scope;
– optimize user experience through site mapping, prototyping, wireframing;
– establish their brand identity with custom made UX / UI design in line with current market trends;
– create engaging online experiences with responsive or mobile-first web development;
– determine operational workflow;
– decrease operational costs with automation functionalities;
– increase customer retention rate with digital tools;
– resolve conversion funnels problems;
– go global with cross-border e-commerce.

Currently Lillie is Web & E-commerce Project Manager at Rocket Conseil, a web studio based in Paris, France.

Simona Meriam is a Big Data Engineer at Nielsen Marketing Cloud, where she specializes in research and development of solutions for big data infrastructures using cutting-edge technologies such as Spark, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.

Rishabh has a Masters in CS from the University of California San Diego and currently works at Twitter as an ML Engineer in the Timelines Quality team. He's passionate about identifying and tackling novel and practical problems using his ML expertise and his contributions have led to several research publications in competitive ML conferences like RecSys, ACL, and WSDM. The datasets he collected as part of his research have been very well received by the ML community. He was recently ranked in the top 20 dataset contributors on the Kaggle platform and his dataset on Sarcasm Detection was also used in Deeplearning.ai's Natural Language Processing in TensorFlow course on Coursera for teaching purposes. He also likes to explain convoluted concepts in an accessible manner and has written several blogs with the TowardDataScience online publication.

Jehan Monnier, diplômé de l’ENSERG en Architecture des Systèmes de Traitement numérique de l'Information démarre en 1999 sa carrière dans la division télécommunication de Hewlett-Packard à Grenoble. Il se spécialise dans l’écriture de logiciel serveur de voix sur IP basé sur le tout nouveau protocole de signalisation SIP. En 2010 il fonde Belledonne Communications avec Simon Morlat l’auteur du Logiciel libre Linphone pour se consacrer pleinement au développement de logiciel open source dans le secteur des télécommunications.

François Nollen est responsable opérationnel des équipes Bots & IA chez e.Voyageurs SNCF.

Une cinquantaine de personnes conçoivent, développent et exploitent des agents conversationnels comme le bot OUI.sncf ou AlloCovid parmi les plus connus, ainsi que d’autres services IA autour du traitement du langage naturel et l’apprentissage automatique.

François est également committer et contributeur actif de la plateforme Open Source « Tock : The Open Conversation Kit » (https://doc.tock.ai).

I have worked with databases since the start of my career, starting with proprietary solutions before coming (and staying) within opensource ones. I am working full time on PostgreSQL and have been serving for the last 4 years as the secretary of the PostgreSQL FR association.

Identity Management expert.

CTO of Adelean, working with search and providing consulting services and expertise around Elasticsearch, Lucene and Solr. She brings her energy to leveraging search engines, as they become more and more essential in every domain.

Lancelot PECQUET est consultant en stratégie et management depuis 2006, co-fondateur (2011) et président du cabinet Will Strategy qui a réalisé l'enquête sur l’état des lieux de la filière open source en France 2020/2021 pour le CNLL.

Il est également chercheur et eneignant depuis 1998 (universités Paris Sorbonne, Paris Est, Nanterre, Berkeley, Sydney, Poitiers, Inria, Bell Labs, Polytechnique, CentraleSupelec, Institut Mines-Télécom, ESSEC, Sciences Po, ENA…), maître de conférences en informatique et mathématiques et doctorant en psychologie (Université Paris Nanterre).

Il est également président d’Inria Alumni (28 000+ experts en sciences du numérique).

Administrateur système et serveur d'application depuis de nombreuses années, je me suis spécialisé dans la gestion des serveurs et le déploiement continue d'applications. J'utilise ce savoir-faire dans la mise en place d'outils de surveillance, la gestion des installations, la résilience et la scalabilité. Je suis également l'auteur de livres sur Ansible et Kubernetes publiés aux Éditions ENI.

Doing open source governance before it was cool

Vincent Picavet est ingénieur en mathématiques appliquées. Après quelques années passées à travailler en imagerie satellitaire, il se consacre aux Systèmes d'Information Géographique, concevant et implémentant des infrastructures de données spatiales avec des outils opensource. Il fonde Oslandia en 2009, fournissant des services en SIG opensource. Vincent intervient régulièrement dans des conférences francophones et internationales, telles que PGConf.eu, le FOSS4G, et d'autres événements liés aux infrastructures de données spatiales et aux logiciels libres.

David Pilato discovered Elasticsearch project in 2011. After contributed to the project and created open source plugins for it, David joined elastic the company in 2013 where he is Developer and Evangelist. He also created and still actively managing the French spoken language User Group. At elastic, he mainly worked on Elasticsearch source code, specifically on open-source plugins. In his free time, he likes talking about elasticsearch in conferences or in companies (Brown Bag Lunches AKA BBLs - https://www.elastic.co/blog/free-lunch-for-open-source-engineers). He is also author of FSCrawler (https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler) project which helps to index your pdf, open office, whatever documents in elasticsearch using Apache Tika behind the scene.

Consultant digital et innovation pendant 15 ans. En charge de la feuille de route régionale Numérique responsable.

After ten years as an Intellectual Property lawyer with Ralph Lauren and BIC, where she developed her experience in IP portfolio management and anti-counterfeiting, Audrey decided to focus her expertise on new technologies by joining Sage, the world's 3rd largest editor of management software, in 2010, where she set up the IP Department, and OVHcloud since 2017, as Head of IP, in charge of capturing and protecting innovation and managing all the IP assets of the company.

Kamil Potrec is a Senior Security Engineer at Snyk, working on security around Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Kamil has spent most of his professional career in offensive security, testing and researching cloud native solutions. Now he uses his skillset to help others build more secure solutions in the cloud.

Lucian Precup founded [Adelean](http://adelean.com) and offers, since 2010, consulting services and expertise around Elasticsearch, Lucene and Solr. He helps companies and associations building or improving their own search engines. Lucian's latest project is [a//.site](http://all.site), your collaborative search engine.

Jérôme Quévremont is RISC-V and open hardware project leader at Thales Research and Technology (TRT), Palaiseau, France. He serves as the chair of the OpenHW Group Technical WG and the technical leader of the CVA6 (formerly ARIANE) application core project. He is also the chairman of the Functional Safety special interest group at RISC-V International. His past experience includes the development of telecom and security integrated circuits at Texas Instruments and Thales Communications then the management of a development lab specialized in secure- and crypto-chips, mostly in ASIC technologies. He joined TRT in 2020.

Jonathan Rivalan, is R&D manager at Alter Way. He has numerous experiences in leading R&D Open Source developments, including data management oriented topics, such as microservices data collection and scoring over time series. He is currently managing machine learning oriented topics, including an ongoing Phd thesis in the field of continuous optimisation through time series analysis.

Frédéric Rodrigo is one of the first OpenStreetMap contributor in France, the main maintainer of Osmose-QA an OpenStreetMap data Quality Assurance tool, co-funder of OpenStreetMap-France, was CTO and co-funder of Mapotempo a route planning optimizer and now OpenStreetMap Expert at Makina Corpus a service company in Libre software.

Passionné par le développement de logiciels et par le SIG, j'ai travaillé pendant plus de 10 ans pour des grands comptes.
Depuis 2020, j'interviens en tant qu'un Architecte Logiciel sur le développement de la plateforme cartographique OpenSource d'Orange

Bernhard "bero" Rosenkränzer has been a Linux developer ever since he became curious about a stack of 84 floppy disks in the first half of the 1990s.
Some of his code can be found in anything from the Linux kernel to the KDE Plasma user interface.
He is currently a principal architect at Huawei's Open Source Technology Center, and a cofounder of OpenMandriva.
Previous workplaces include Linaro and Red Hat.

Working with Open Source software since 2007, I'm the Product Architect of ElasticSuite since several years.

Vincent holds a Master Degree in Engineering from the French Ecole des Mines de Nantes and has been in the embedded and cloud industry for 15 years.

He initially joined Windriver Systems to work on the debugging tools for the VxWorks operating system (dynamic module loading, multiprocessing, shells and interpreters).

In 2013, he relocated to San Francisco to join the Windriver Hypervisor team, then as a tech lead on the avionics-certified/DO-178C version of VxWorks, working in C, assembly and Python.

After that, he got the opportunity to join Datameer, an SF startup developing a new Apache Spark big data project. Part of the Datameer San Francisco engineering team, he built the cloud-enabled platform for this new tool using Java, React and Kubernetes (along with Helm and Terraform) running over Amazon EKS and Google GKE. It it this mix of cloud-based experience, along with the technical knowledge in the embedded industry that Vincent brings to Iot Bzh as Cloud Architect.

David Simplot est Responsable Inria Academy et chargé de mission formation continue à Inria. Professeur des universités, membre de l'Institut Universitaire de France en 2009, il a été responsable de l'équipe-projet Pops travaillant sur les objets connectés. Il a contribué à la mise en place de l’équipement d’excellence (EquipEx) FIT – Future Internet (of Things) et a reçu en 2014 le Grand Prix Kuhlmann pour l’ensemble de ses travaux. Ancien auditeur de l’Institut des hautes études pour la science et la technologie, il s'est toujours particulièrement investi dans des entités régionales telles que le CITC-EuraRFID, Sophia Club Entreprises, Telecom Valley, ou les pôles de compétitivité. De 2011 à 2019, il fut directeur du centre Inria Lille - Nord Europe puis du centre Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée. D'avril 2018 à février 2020, il a été porteur du projet 3IA Côte d'Azur qui est l'un des quatre "instituts interdisciplinaires d'intelligence artificielle" créés en France en 2019.

Tech Lead by day, Author by night, Bogdan likes to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and teach about them. His favorite talking subjects are streaming data, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and cloud technologies.

Cedric Thomas, is OW2 CEO. An IT industry veteran with twenty-five years of experience in strategic and marketing consulting for IT vendors and systems integrators, Cedric has masterminded the launch of the OW2 Consortium. Previously, as both an investor and a consultant with FronTier Associates, the consulting company he founded in 1997, he actively took part in three IPOs, contributed to the launch of several technology start-ups, helped establish a start-up incubator in Paris and set up technology firms in Boston and San Francisco. Before that, he was VP and Research Director at PAC, an independent provider of consultancy and marketing studies for the IT industry where he established successful research programs in Open Systems, IT spending and Outsourcing. Cédric studied for his PhD in Economics at the Sorbonne and holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Paris. He has taught business strategy in several master programs.

Open source evangelist at Prestashop, the open source ecommerce software. Founder of Une Jolie Musique, a not for profit studio using open source and open source based software only to record music and produce videos. I also teach and advise on open source, and write tutorials. Involved in various Open Source and Free Software projects and communities for many years. Ubuntu Studio co-founder.

Slim Trabelsi is senior security researcher. With a strong background on privacy, data protection and social media security , he is currently focusing his research activities on cyber security, threat intelligence and surveillance. He is also acting as security expert for the EU commission for the H2020 program and the SME instrument. Before joining SAP in 2008, he received a Ph.D on Security for ubiquitous environments.

Cedric is the CEO cofounder of France Labs, startup specialised in open source search engines and maker of Datafari. He manages the company and handles the innovation and marketing aspects. He is a member of The Search Network, an international community of search experts. In France, he is part of the board of the national cluster for open source companies. He also teaches Entrepreneurship at the Data Science European MsC of the EIT. Cedric holds the French grande ecole diploma from Telecom SudParis, with the Eurecom certificate.

D'abord chez les Devs sur des solutions embarquées, j'ai au fur et à mesure des mes postes basculé chez les Ops sur des solutions d'infrastructure diverses et variées. Pendant plus de 10 ans j'ai donc bossé avec les Devs et les Ops, affichant une volonté de proposer des choix autour des solutions Open Source. Je suis maintenant consultant depuis plus de 3 ans, et apporte aux entreprises mon savoir-faire sur des sujets d'automatisation et observabilité, en tant qu'Ops au service des Devs.

Italo Vignoli est membre fondateur de The Document Foundation, président émérite de l'Associazione LibreItalia, membre du conseil d'administration de l'Open Source Initiative (OSI) et coprésident de l'ODF Advocacy OASIS Open Project. Il codirige le marketing, les relations publiques et les relations avec les médias de LibreOffice, copréside le programme de certification et est le porte-parole du projet. Il a contribué à de grands projets de migration vers LibreOffice en Italie, et est un migrant et formateur certifié LibreOffice.

Détenant un diplôme d’ingénieur en informatique spécialité Réseaux et Virtualisation réalisé au sein de l’Efrei, Pierre Villard collabore depuis maintenant plus de trois ans chez Ilki.
Ambitieux et investi dans son travail, il s’orienta naturellement sur des missions d’automatisation, de containerisation et de migration. La réalisation de ses différentes missions lui permet aujourd’hui d’avoir une approche globale du déroulement d’un projet. Passionné par l’environnement Devops, il crée et dispense régulièrement des formations professionnelles (des bases à l’expertise) autour des nouvelles technologies telles que
Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform tout en ayant de solides connaissances sur les technologies legacy.
Pierre est également le créateur d'Agorakube, la première et unique distribution Kubernetes open source francaise certifiée par la Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Pierre Villard est Architecte Principal et Responsable de l’offre CaaS au sein du cabinet de conseil Ilki.

Robert VISEUR est Chargé de cours et Chef de service TIC au sein de la Faculté Warocqué d'Économie et de Gestion (UMONS).

After a master degree in electrical engineering I started to work at RTE in 2008 as a dispatcher in the grid control center. Since I wanted to know how it worked under the hood I moved to the R&D department to study the impact of RES (Renewable Energy Sources) on distance protections.
I did also some work on LPITs (Low Power Instrument Transformers) and HIL (Hardware in The Loop) simulation.
Since 2017 I’m working on virtualization/containerization of real-time and non-real-time automatons.
I’m currently in charge of the project that aim to develop, build, test and maintain a virtualized infrastructure for RTE next digital substation.

Dr. David A. Wheeler is an expert on open source software (OSS) and on developing secure software. He is the Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation and teaches a graduate course in developing secure software at George Mason University (GMU). Dr. Wheeler has a PhD in Information Technology, a Master's in Computer Science, a certificate in Information Security, a certificate in Software Engineering, and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering, all from George Mason University (GMU). He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He lives in Northern Virginia.

Matt Yonkovit has been in the Open Source Database Community for over 15 years working for MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems, Mattermost, and Percona. Matt has held technical roles, management, and executive roles serving the open source community. He is currently serving as Percona's head of open source strategy and growth (the HOSS), focused on helping developers, architects, and DBA's get the most out of their open-source database investments no matter what database or how they use them. Matt lives in Raleigh NC.

Florent Zara is a French & Canadian Engineer and has been involved, both personally and professionally, in the FLOSS community since 1999. He has been president of the Open World Forum 2014 edition and speaker at Paris Open Source summit, OpenExpoEurope and the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit. Today he is an admin at LinuxFr.org (reference french-speaking, community driven website about Free and Open Source software) and CTO and Open/Inner Source expert of Henix, editor of the Open Source quality software toolsuite Squashtest. He's been an Open Source advisor for large companies, helping them with governance, licensing as well as change management. Today at ENGIE Digital, he's the project leader of the Innersource initiative and also started a cross company workgroup on this topic. He also helps internal project who wants to go Inner/Open Source.