Explore Open Source, Open Hardware, Open Data and the Open Web with the world's top technical, business and thought leaders, and the most vibrant communities, for two days (Oct 30-31) in the heart of Paris's downtown business and entertainment district.

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Our speakers

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Mike
Hendrickson

O’Reilly

Speaker

Gijs
Hillenius

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Cyrille
Savelief

MNCC

Speaker

Chloé
Bonnet

Five by Five

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Andrey
Sadovykh

SOFTEAM

Speaker

Benjamin
André

Cozy Cloud

Speaker

Diana
Puyo

Bibliothèque sans frontière

Speaker

Pierre
Ficheux

OpenWide

Latest news

A word from the #OWF14 President

Nov 6, 2025

This edition definitely achieved to convince me and my team of VPs of one thing : the Open World Forum is unique and amazing. Our “Take Back Control” motto established an obvious link between the various topics, whether it’s Big Data, Open Data, Embedded, Internet of Things, Cloud computing, DevOps, Privacy, Security or all others. We proved that [...]

Student Demo Cup Results

Oct 31, 2025

The Student Demo Cup, which has be held on October 30th during the Open World Forum, has awarded some student projects : THINK category Martin GUBRL, for the project Measure Net Neutrality CODE category Julien MOREAU-MATHIS, for the project Community Play 3D EXPERIMENT category Simon BELBEOCH, for the project Intuitive Communication Then, Julien MO [...]

Embedded

Oct 15, 2025

Interview: Gaël Blondelle, Embedded track leader Can you describe to us in few words your track? The Embedded Track is about initiatives to use Open Source in industries that create Embedded Systems like Automotive, Railway, Energy, Aerospace or Telecommunications. Even if Open Source has been well adopted for Operating Systems and a lot of IT doma [...]

Big Data

Oct 6, 2025

Interview: Ori Pekelman, Big Data track leader Big Data, what is it? In a way, all data these days is big, or potentially big, simply because the standard technological stack (well, for those not stuck in the 90s) is starting to support this; You know, one of the rules of computing is that disk spaces occupation is always expressed in percentage ne [...]

Open Law

Sep 11, 2025

Open Law is a "legal co-creation program" organized by the OWF, DILA, Etalab and NUMA, launched Friday, October 31 at the OWF. It relies on Open Data datasets recently released in France and aims to stimulate and promote the reuse of legal data within a collaborative and open legal innovation that brings together the public and private sector. The [...]

« When Open Source Fosters Open Innovation »

Jul 11, 2025

« We need to be innovative in the area of innovation itself » 1 Open Innovation disrupts the traditional conception of innovation by establishing the idea of a social innovation where the aim is no longer to create first but to have better designs and more inventions with the help of others. Transposed to technologic industry, this brand new par [...]

A word from the #OWF14 President

Student Demo Cup Results

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