Inaugural Ceremony Programme
Thursday 30th of January, 2025
Agenda
| Opening Remarks | Pearse O'Donohue, Future Networks Director, European Commission |
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| European Open Source Academy Launch | Johan Linaker, Senior Researcher, RISE |
| European Open Source Inaugural Awards Presentation | Presentation of the European Open Source Achievement Award Award presenter: Omar Mohsine, Open Source Coordinator, UN-ODET Award recipient: Daniel Stenberg, Founder, cURL |
Presentation of the Skills & Education Award Award presenter: Felix Reda, Director of Developer Policy, GitHub Award recipient: David Cuartielles, Founder of Arduino and Assistant Professor in Interaction Design at Malmo University | |
Presentation of the Business & Impact Award Award presenter: Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman, Mozilla Foundation Award recipient: Amandine Le Pape, COO & Co-Founder, Element | |
Presentation of the Advocacy & Awareness Award
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| Closing Remarks | Astor Numellin Carlberg, Executive Director, OpenForum Europe |
The Inaugural Awardee Profiles
European Open Source Achievement Award
Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish Internet protocol expert and developer who has participated in and worked with Open Source for 30 years. He is most known for being the founder and lead developer of the curl project, one of the world's most widely used software components. He also participates in protocol development within the IETF and has authored books on curl, Open Source, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and more. Frequent public speaker. Daniel is employed by wolfSSL.
Business & Impact Award
Amandine Le Pape is COO and co-founder of Element, an open source, secure and interoperable communication platform built on Matrix, 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 ones. Matrix, which Amandine also co-founded, is a unique initiative aiming to democratise secure online communication and solve the problem of fragmentation in current Chat, VoIP, VR and IoT technologies. Since 2014, Amandine has been working on finding the best balance between growing a thriving open ecosystem via the non-profit Matrix.org Foundation and an sustainable open-source company with Element, which has the particularity of a strong focus on gov tech.
Skills & Education Award
David Cuartielles holds a PhD in Interaction Design and MSc in Telecommunications Engineering. He founded Malmo University’s IOIO Lab, formerly known as K3’s Prototyping Laboratory. He is also one of co-founders for the open source platform Arduino. With a decades-long career in education, David continues to collaborate with various universities as an educator in the fields of interactive art, creative coding, interaction design, and embedded technology.
Advocacy & Awareness Award
Lydia Pintscher is a free software and open knowledge enthusiast from Germany who has been contributing to free software projects for over 18 years. She studied computer science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She works for Wikimedia Deutschland as the Portfolio Lead for Wikimedia's knowledge graph Wikidata and dedicates a lot of her free time to KDE as the Vice-President of KDE e.V.