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Open Source is great, but very few companies can afford to release all their source code to the world. Yet, it is still possible to benefit from open source best-practices and culture for in-house software projects and more. This exactly what InnerSource is. In session we will share about how we are driving InnerSource at SAP.
Discover how the OpenRail Association is pioneering open-source solutions for the railway sector, tackling legal, cultural, and organizational challenges while driving innovation in areas such as infrastructure simulation, timetable creation, and digital train technologies.
Seeing governments being more and more keen to use open source software is great, but a big challenge is to also fix how they procure it. This talk will discuss the current situation, why it isn’t sustainable and how public and private organisations should change the way they buy open source software.
Uniting efforts of Apache Airflow, ASF, PSF, Alpha-Omega fund in experimental project aimed at review and help with security of the whole 700+ dependencies of Apache Airflow.
Go behind the scenes of creating and building OpenSearch—a bold fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana that defied taboos, sparked public drama, and redefined open source governance. This talk dives into the challenges, lessons, and breakthroughs that shaped the project and a journey to balance community, corporate influence, and innovation.
This talk gives an introduction into the efforts in building open digital infrastructures for public health in Germany within the project GA-Lotse since 2021. We will talk about the challenges in procurement, development, maintenance and scaling open digital infrastructures into the highly distributed world of health departments in Germany.
ZenDiS, Germany’s Center for Digital Sovereignty, aims to strengthen public IT against rising geopolitical threats by promoting Open Source alternatives and reducing tech dependencies. In her keynote, Jutta Horstmann will present ZenDiS’s platform, products, and cross-European collaboration efforts.
EMBAG is a swiss federal law that has been in force since 1 January 2014 and in Article 9 obliges the federal administration to publish source code that it creates itself or has created.
The report’s authors will present their analysis of open source policy developments across the EU. The study examines how open source technologies are being integrated into public sector operations, focusing on digital sovereignty, data privacy, and infrastructure control.
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