The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit

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The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit

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18 September, 2023

Bilbao, Spain

#LFEuropeMemberSummit

Thank you for Attending

Thank you to all who joined us for the Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit!
We look forward to seeing you at future events.

Videos

To experience the best of this year’s event, be sure to watch session recordings, available on The Linux Foundation’s YouTube Channel.

Presentations

Review session slides from speakers who provided them via the event schedule.

This event is dedicated to Linux Foundation Europe participating organizations.
Learn more and join Linux Foundation Europe.

The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit is an annual gathering for Linux Foundation Europe members, along with invited speakers, sponsors and media.

This event cultivates collaboration, open innovation, and partnerships among those in the private public sectors working to drive digital transformation through open collaboration. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance a Europe-wide open source strategy and mobilise resources in their organisations to collaboratively influence the largest shared technology investment of our time.

The event will feature prominent speakers from the private and public sectors and existing and upcoming Linux Foundation projects, as well as offer an opportunity for members of LF Europe to share their organisational priorities and put forward collaboration opportunities to the Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board and membership at large.

Interested in becoming a Linux Foundation Europe Member and/or attending the event? Please email us here.

the ONSITE EXPERIENCE

Featured Speakers

  • Gabriele Columbro headshot

    Gabriele is an open source executive and technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures, whether it’s for an early-stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm, or a non-profit foundation. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, as Executive Director Gabriele grew the Fintech Open Source Foundation FINOS from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster, leveraging open source as a model of collaboration. Gabriele holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation, and advises open source startups. He’s a passionate soccer fan, reggae music connoisseur, and special needs dad and advocate wannabe.

  • Rimma Perelmuter headshot
    Rimma Perelmuter VP of strategic growth of FINOS & LF Europe, Linux Foundation Europe
  • Luka Mustafa headshot

    Luka Mustafa is working full-time on IoT and advanced embedded systems at Institute IRNAS www.irnas.eu that he founded in 2014 in Slovenia. He leads a multidisciplinary team developing open systems and devices for the most challenging environments and uses, ranging from custom CNC machines, to electronics and fibre optic systems (wireless optical system KORUZA www.koruza.net)

  • Mirko Boehm headshot
    Mirko Boehm Senior Director, Community Development, Linux Foundation Europe
  • Hilary Carter headshot

    Hilary Carter is SVP Research and Communications at the Linux Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit technology consortium. Here, Hilary recently launched Linux Foundation Research, a division dedicated to creating and sharing decision-useful insights on the subjects that matter in the world of open source technologies and standards which underpin much of the digital infrastructure on which the global economy depends.Previously, Hilary launched and operated the Blockchain Research Institute’s Syndicated Research Program where she managed the BRI’s research team, staff, and the member and partner ecosystem.
    Hilary is the author of a number of blockchain-specific research projects. Her titles include Social Media on the Blockchain (2018); Blockchain for Saving Our Seas (2019); and Journey to Blockchain: A non-technologist’s guide to the Internet of value (2019). With Don Tapscott and Jill Rundle she co-authored Networked Hotbeds of Blockchain: Creating Global Hubs for the Internet’s Second Era (2018). Hilary also contributed to Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott’s Blockchain Solutions in Pandemics (2020), and New Directions for Government in the Second Era of the Digital Age (Tapscott, Williams, Sandberg, 2021).
    A sought after thought leader, Hilary has been featured by the CBCGlobe and MailCTV NewsGlobal News, and other media outlets for her expertise on blockchain and digital transformation. She is a regular speaker at technology industry conferences including Blockchain Revolution Global, Blockchain Live, Hyperledger Member Forum, and United Nations Blockchain for Impact Summit.
    Hilary’s career began in financial services with experiences in Corporate Finance, Research and Analysis, and Global Private Banking. Her career pivoted to digital technology where she focused on mobile communications and digital media consulting, working with the C-Suite. Her writing on digital transformation has been featured in the Globe and Mail on topics such as diversity in blockchaindigital leadershipprofessional online brandinginnovation and entrepreneurship, and leadership with disability.
    In addition to her role at the Linux Foundation, Hilary serves as an advisor to technology startups including VeriTX, a blockchain-based manufacturing and supply chains solution serving the aerospace and healthcare markets, and LinkSports, a blockchain-based microfinance and sponsorship platform for aspiring athletes. She earned a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and holds both Canadian and Irish citizenship.

  • Robert Reeves headshot
    Robert Reeves Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Linux Foundation
  • Justin Colannino headshot
    Justin Colannino Director, Developer Policy and Counsel GitHub & Assistant General Counsel: Open Source| Standards | Open ML Microsoft
  • Philippe Ensarguet headshot
    Philippe Ensarguet VP of Software Engineering, Orange
  • Lucian Balea headshot

    Lucian is Deputy Director of R&D and Open Source Director at RTE. He is leading the open source strategy of RTE which aims at moving the digitalization of the power grid into a new era. Early 2018 he started a collaboration with The Linux Foundation to launch LF Energy, an open source coalition to speed technological innovation and support the energy transition across the world.

  • Philipp Ahmann  headshot

    Philipp Ahmann is a technical business development manager at Robert Bosch GmbH with focus on Open Source activities. He represents the ELISA project of the Linux Foundation as ambassador and TSC chair. In 2023 he also became advisory board member of the Linux Foundation Europe. He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of Linux automotive SW base platforms working as engineer, team leader for testing and as project manager. All of these projects utilized complex multi-core chipsets. In his current position he contributes to a project focusing on embedded Linux and open source software in industrial applications and wider IoT scope beyond Automotive.

  • Sachiko Muto headshot

    Sachiko Muto is Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer of OFE. She is also a senior research fellow at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Prior to OFE, Sachiko worked for several years in public affairs, first in London and then in Brussels. With degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics, she has been a guest researcher at UC Berkeley and at TU Delft. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and has published on the topic of regulation and ICT standards.

  • Astor Nummelin Carlberg headshot
    Astor Nummelin Carlberg Executive Director, OpenForum Europe
  • Stefano Maffulli headshot
    Stefano Maffulli Executive Director, Open Source Initiative (OSI)
  • Mark Lane headshot
    Mark Lane Head of Software, Lloyds Baking Group
  • Ibrahim Haddad headshot

    Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is the Executive Director of the LF AI & Data Foundation . Throughout his career, Haddad has held technology and portfolio management roles at Ericsson Research, the Open Source Development Labs, Motorola, Palm, Hewlett-Packard, the Linux Foundation and Samsung Research. He writes and speaks on topics ranging from legal compliance to using open source as an R&D tool to drive collaboration and innovation. [@IbrahimAtLinux]