Business and Impact

The Business and Impact Award is honoring individuals who have demonstrated excellence in open source innovation, commercialisation, and impact.

Amandine Le Pape

Amandine Le Pape, Head of Section – Business & Impact at the Open Source Academy, is the COO and co-founder of Element, a secure and interoperable open source communication platform built on Matrix—the open standard she also co-founded. Element enables sovereign communications for complex organisations that cannot depend on commercial cloud solutions or unencrypted platforms, serving millions of users including NATO, the UN, the German Armed Forces, the US Navy, and companies like Mozilla.