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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

Lord Clement-Jones CBE Spokesperson, House of Lords Bio ​ Lord Clement-Jones CBE was awarded CBE for political services in 1988 and life peer in 1998.  He is the Liberal Democrat House of Lords spokesperson for Science, Innovation and Technology and a current member of the Industry and Regulators Committee.  He is former Chair of the

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

Emma Thwaites Director of Corporate Affairs, Open Data Institute Bio Emma’s portfolio at the ODI encompasses public policy, events and engagement, Data as Culture, communications and marketing, product and innovation, ODI Membership and the ODI Summit. Emma’s team comprises individuals with multi-disciplinary expertise to deliver behaviour and culture change consultancy – specialising in the global

Terence Eden Principal Privacy Architect, Our Future Health UK Bio Terence Eden is a technology expert with a focus on open standards. He is an open source coder, open data publisher, and freelance cyber-security consultant. He was formerly the UK Government’s representative to the W3C. He speaks around the world on open standards, open source