Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit 2025
2025-10-28
Ghent, Belgium
as the organisers put it
Where LF Europe participants foster collaboration, innovation & partnerships while advancing Europe-wide open source strategy.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Gabriele Columbro | 39m |
Says open source now powers the AI stack and attracts big capital — commercial open source averages about $9 billion a year while open source AI rounds hit… | ||
| Thomas Dohmke, Former CEO, Github in Conversation with Gab Columbro, GM, Linux Foundation Europe | Thomas Dohmke, Gabriele Columbro | 29m |
Argues that digital sovereignty is the wrong question and that Europe must instead learn to win in the market by investing in three concrete things: data… | ||
| Margo Project Update | Paul Brooks | 15m |
Margo builds an open source deployment layer that lets industrial apps be published once, distributed to fleets across offline sites and competing fleet… | ||
| Challenges Using OSS in Financial Services | Renzo Cherin | 15m |
Lloyds Banking Group (29 million customers, 65k employees) moves from vendor lock‑in to open source core tech, standardizing on Kubernetes and OpenShift… | ||
| Energy Update | Christophe Villemer | 18m |
Europe needs a software‑defined grid now: LF Energy grows to 60+ member organizations and 30+ active projects while utilities face €100 billion in grid… | ||
| Driving Automotive with Open Source: From Compliance to Collaboration | Philipp Ahmann | 19m |
Claims that open source is now a competitive weapon for automotive with concrete examples: cross-foundation projects like ELISA project and Eclipse SDV… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Open Source Enabling Industrial Innovation | 31m | |
Open source cuts typical product cycles from about 1 year to roughly 3 months by using commodity hardware and shared stacks, breaks automotive vendor lock‑in… | ||
| Keynote | Daniele Tonella | 18m |
ING is a 20,000‑person technology-first bank running 300,000+ pipelines/week across 400 tribes, 3,000 squads and about 50 GitHub projects, arguing that… | ||
| NeoNephos: Building a Sovereign Cloud Native Technology Stack | Peter Giese | 15m |
European initiative NeoNephos builds an open source sovereign cloud stack funded via the IPSI program and the Apura project, with ~113 organizations across 12… | ||
| The State of Play of Open Source in Europe | Hilary Carter | 10m |
Survey of 871 respondents with 317 European responses shows European organizations lag on formal open source programs — only 22% OSS program formation versus… | ||
| Closing the Backdoor: Digital Sovereignty for EU & Public Authorities with Open Source | Sebastian Raible | 14m |
European policy makers now ask whether mainstream products contain backdoors and APELL offers a practical response: push for auditable, open source stacks… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Public & Private Support of the Open Source Ecosystem | 23m | |
Europe already runs public services on open source (Commission sites on Drupal, servers on Red Hat) and large vendors build on open toolchains (Visual Studio… | ||
| LF Europe Update: Policy, Projects, Priorities | Mirko Boehm | 33m |
Servo secures a €450,000 grant routed via Egalia, the CRA training course becomes the Linux Foundation’s fastest‑taken offering, and LF Europe records 200… | ||
| Keynote: Closing Remarks | Gabriele Columbro | 17m |
Recap emphasizes concrete shifts: research shows 7.7 billion global contribution to open source and a recent industry move where five banks lead a fork of… | ||
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