The Open Source Conference 2025 will take place the 1st of October 2025 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

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Open Source software and Digital Sovereignty

Following a very successful first edition of the Open Source Conference in combination with the LibreOffice Conference, this year we invite you to participate to discover how organisations and institutions from the EU and around the world use and contribute to Open Source software.

Open Source software, together with data sovereignty, form the basis to achieve Digital Sovereignty as an inclusive effort where all the participants cooperate to create the tools we need to protect our data while sharing the technologies that improve everyone’s digital lives.

This year’s main tracks provide the opportunity to share the experiences of those that have chosen to produce and implement Open Source tools and platforms that improve security, resilience and data protection

Public sector

The public sector has always been one of the major market drivers for the acquisition and implementation of many technologies and standards.

More recently various public sector organisations and institutions have become not only users of Open Source software but also active participants in the development and funding of many projects.

Let’s hear from some of the involved parties about their journey from being passive users of technologies to being active contributors to small and large projects and how their Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) helped with the transition.

Artificial Intelligence

Despite the hype and the recreational uses of new tools that make intensive use of power hungry GPUs there are many areas where Large Language Models (LLMs) and Algorithmic Inference (aka Artificial Intelligence or AI) can bring real benefit to organisations and society.

To make these systems effective they need to ingest large amount of data which often include personal and sensitive information making offerings from hyperscalers unsuitable for many uses.

Many Open Source projects aim to democratise AI allowing small and large organisation to benefit from these new tools while protecting the data being used and reducing the environmental impact of these technologies.

Cyber Security

In a world where practically every device is or has a built in computer security should be the main concern for everyone.

Open Source software helps in reducing the attack surface but it still requires experts that hunts for potential vulnerabilities and coordinate eventual responses.

Luxembourg is renowned for its investments in cyber security and for being a major producer of Open Source tools that help in securing our digital lives.

Cyber security experts will provide you with useful insights on some of the Open Source software that have become essential tools in the fight against cyber threats.

EdTech

LibreOffice is not only a Free and Open Source office suite, is also an educational project that can also be used to teach how to contribute to large projects in many ways.

There are many other projects and communities specialised in the technologies that help the educational sector in provide the Open Source tools that students can use and modify to become the next generation of creators instead of consumers of technologies.

We would like to bring together local and international EdTech organisations that share our same passion for Open Source tools.