Invited speakers

Invited Speakers

Bastien Guerry, Chief Free Software Officer at the French Inter-Ministerial Digital Directorate

Bastien Guerry studied Philosophy and Cognitive Science. He became interested in the Free Software movement in the 90s and taught himself to code by contributing to GNU Emacs. In 2017, he joined the Public Interest Entrepreneurs program at Etalab, the open data agency. There, he discovered the challenges that public institutions face when it comes to using and publishing free software. In 2018, he co-started the BlueHats movement, bringing together Free Software enthusiasts from the public sector, and since 2021, he's the Free Software officer for the Interministerial Digital Directorate, leading its "Open Source Program Office", code.gouv.fr.

Giacomo Tenaglia, Chair, CERN Open Source Program Office

Giacomo Tenaglia is a computer scientist with 25 years of experience in designing, building and running services based on free and open-source software components. He works at CERN IT department on the team responsible for configuration management and scientific computing services. Over the past few years, Giacomo has led the creation of CERN's Open Source Program Office, where he currently serves as chair.