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Amandine Le Pape Co-Founder & COO, Element/Matrix Bio Amandine is COO and co-founder of Element (https://element.io), an open source, secure and interoperable communication platform built on Matrix (https://matrix.org), the open standard for secure and open communications. Element brings sovereign communications to heterogeneous organisations who can’t rely on commercial cloud offerings, let alone non end-to-end encrypted […]

Tomas Lamanauskas Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union: The Green Digital Action Declaration Bio Tomas Lamanauskas is Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, elected at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference of 2022, and taking up duties as of January 2023. His 25 years of experience spans across sectors of telecoms and digital policy, regulation and strategy, stemming from executive level

LUCIE Open Source generative AI Bio Born in France in 2024, LUCIE is the first truly Open Source generative AI, combining innovation, transparency, and sustainability. Trained on 3 trillion tokens across five languages, she embodies European values of inclusivity and digital sovereignty. Backed by the OpenLLM Europe community, LUCIE offers cutting-edge capabilities while prioritizing energy

Michel-Marie MAUDET Co-Founder and Managing Director, LINAGORA Bio Michel-Marie MAUDET has led LINAGORA (https://www.linagora.com/) as its Managing Director and co-founder for almost 25 years. He is a pioneer in the world of the free software in France and Europe since thirty years.                                                                                                                      LINAGORA has become a leader in Open Source software provider and services in

Chi Onwurah MP & Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee on Science, Innovation and Technology Bio Chi Onwurah is the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010. Current: Representation: Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West [4 July 2024-Present] Party Affiliation: Labour

Anastasia Stasenko Co-founder & CEO, Pleias Bio Anastasia Stasenko is the co-founder of the French startup Pleias, which developed the first LLMs trained exclusively on permissively licensed data. She has also coordinated the collection of CommonCorpus, the largest open dataset for training LLM. Among her recent projects is the development of Albert, the first sovereign AI

Alex Newson Senior Lawyer, Networks and Research at BT Bio Alex is a senior lawyer at BT. He supports BT’s Networks & Research area, working on complex contracts, disputes, and a range of other subject matters. Previously, he was the senior lawyer for litigation & IP at another FTSE 100 business, and has also worked

Dr Laura Gilbert Head of AI for Government, the Ellison Institute of Technology, and Expert Advisor in AI to the Digital Centre of Government (formerly director of data science and AI at no10), DSIT Bio Dr. Laura Gilbert is the Head of the AI for Government Program at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford.

Paula Hunter Executive Director, Mojaloop Foundation Bio Paula Hunter is the Executive Director of the Mojaloop Foundation – a charitable nonprofit organization focused on extending the financial inclusion efforts of the Mojaloop open source software project. She leads the organization’s strategic planning and direction; grant, membership and strategic partnership development; and evangelism for the organization

Anandhi Bumstead Director of Engineering at OpenSearch, AWS Bio Anandhi Bumstead, director of engineering at OpenSearch within Amazon Web Services, brings nearly three decades of experience in distributed systems and open-source software. With a background in cloud computing, Anandhi made significant contributions during her tenure at Microsoft and most recently at AWS, where she leads