About The Open World Forum

Explore Open Source, Open Hardware, Open Data and the Open Web with the world's top developers, technologists and business leaders for two days in the heart of Paris's downtown business and entertainment district.

A Unique Event

The Open World Forum is the first European summit to gather political representatives, decision-makers and experts, in one place, in order to debate the technological, economic and social impacts that the Free and Open-Source technologies bring to market. The forum was first held in 2008, and is now organized annually in Paris, France, with more than 200 speakers coming from 40 countries, and a global audience that was 2200-people strong in 2013.

Why attend ?

If you need a reason to attend the conference consider the following:

High quality speakers, some of the best in the country

Some of the best and most well known speakers in the open source industries will attend and speak. This is a great opportunity to hear and meet them in a personal setting. It's rare for this many great speakers to be in one place at one time where it’s easy to talk and exchange cards, etc.

The most relevant technologies will be covered – a great educational opportunity

Some of the most relevant and in demand technologies will be discussed. Whether you're a developer, programmer, scientist, data or system administrator, CIO, CTO, IT manager, or just someone interested in what's coming next you'll find sessions for you.

The most important companies and organizations in the open source space will attend and participate

Just a few include:

Open source specialists, from France and around the world

Abilian
Alter Way
Bearstech
CityPassenger
CloudOrbit
Ecreall
Entr'ouvert
Henix
Linkbynet
Maarch
MariaDB
Nayego
Normation
Open Wide
Red Hat
SensioLabs
SMILE
UShareSoft
VLC

Big companies that are deeply involved with open source

Alcatel-Lucent
Bureau Veritas
Cisco Systems
EDF
Éditions Francis Lefebvre
EDITIS - SEJER
Engineering Group
GFI Informatique
Groupe Beaumanoir
Hewlett-Packard
Numergy
Oracle
Orange / Orange labs
PSA Peugeot Citroen
Qualcomm
SNCF
Sopra
Thales
Valeo

Public administrations and organisations

Conseil régional d'Aquitaine
Direction de l'information légale et administrative (DILA)
European Commission - DG Informatics
Ministère de l'Education nationale / Pôle de Paris
Ministère de l'intérieur - DGGN - ST(SI)²
Ministère des Finances
Open Data Lab Belarus
Sécurité routière
UNESCO
Ville de Paris

Academic institutions

42
CNRS
Epitech
Inalco
Inria
Irill
UPMC (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Université Denis Diderot
Université Alioune Diop de Bambey du Senegal
Université d'Evry
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense
UVSQ
Vrije Iniversiteit Brussel

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Organization and Governance

The Open World Forum is held in partnership with the major international communities (Linux Foundation, Open Source Initiative, OW2, Eclipse Foundation) and the main French Free / Open Source Software organisations (Adullact, AFUL, CNLL, PLOSS, NUMA), with the support of French national and local (Paris City Hall, the Ile-de-France Region and the Paris Region Enterprises) governments.

The Open World Forum will take place at Eurosite Georges V, in Paris and will be organized, this year as well, by Systematic Paris Region who will be assisted by a Forum Committee which groups the main partners and contributors to the event (Abilian, Alter Way, Cap Digital, the Free Software Working Group of Systematic, Henix, Smile).