The founding theme for the 2012 Open World Forum will be « Open Digital Strategies: vision and roll-out ». This 5th show has its sights set firmly on the user, and will be held in Paris on the 11th, 12th and 13th October 2012. The President at the show will be Patrice Bertrand and the Vice-Presidents Louis Montagne and Jean-Luc Raffaelli*.
The organisation of the OWF is led by the Systematic Paris-Region Competitiveness Hub, working with a Forum Committee that brings together OWF’s main partners contributors (Smile, AF83, Alter Way and the Systematic Free Software Special Group - Groupe Thématique Logiciel Libre de Systematic).
The 2012 Show will be dedicated to the user: businesses, the government and organisations. The OWF 2012 stays true to its origins, and will bring a new outlook to its founding principles when it began, namely transforming both society and business. Open data, open government, open innovation, open content, free software and open source, content and knowledge that is as good as communally shared … these are initiatives that might once have seemed utopian, and that are now demonstrating their power.
Businesses today are asking themselves what impact these changes will have on their businesses, and whether they should fear them or utilise them. The OWF 2012 is an opportunity to consider these matters during the course of exchanges with experts from all over the world.
As in 2011, the event is organised into three sections: « Think » (consideration, analysis and future outlook), « Code » (source code source & information development at the heart of the digital economy), and « Experiment » (open innovation as experienced by the individual).
The 2012 show will home in on three central themes:
OWF2012 President Patrice Bertand said of the event « The OWF debates the major world issues, the major social trends and the benefits of a more open world. But the participants who hail from the five continents are most importantly providing their vision of the articulation between the societal and the technological, they are explaining how social trends impact on technology and likewise how technology moves society forward. Free Software/Open Source has an important place in this meeting point of policy, society, technology and economy. »
Open World Forum is the first world summit to bring together deciders, communities and developers to cross-fertilise technological, economic and open society initiatives in order to build a digital future. The event was founded in 2008 and is now held in Paris every year, with over 80 speakers from 40 countries and an international audience of 1,900 in 2011. The forum is governed by a steering organisation that brings together the main international technology communities (Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, Open Source Initiative, OW2 Consortium, Qualipso Consortium), and the main French-speaking Free Software organisations (Adullact, AFUL, CNLL, PLOSS, ‘Silicon Sentier’), together with the support of the principal European institutions involved (the European Commission) as well as French organisations (the Paris Mayor’s office, the Ile-de-France regional authority, the Agency for Regional Development). 70% of the major IT technology players are involved in the forum.
The organisation of the OWF is led by the Systematic Paris-Region Competitiveness Hub, working together with a Forum Committee that brings together OWF’s main partners contributors (Smile, AF83, Alter Way and the Systematic Free Software Special Group - Groupe Thématique Logiciel Libre de Systematic ).
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Patrice Bertrand is President of the French National Free Software Board (Conseil National du Logiciel Libre), which brings together the main Free Software organisations and business special groups. He is also the co-founder and Director of Smile, a business member of the Free Software Special Group from the Competitiveness Hub of the Systematic Paris-Region and the author of various works and articles dealing with Free Software and Open Source.
Louis Montagne is co-founder and leader of the companies Bearstech and af83. He is also co-founder of ‘La Cantine’, a pioneer of the Barcamps and Coworking spaces, which have a significant presence in the USA, and is also secretary of ‘Silicon Sentier’ [Silicon Pathway] and President of the Web domain and Free Software community of the Cap Digital Competitiveness Hub.
Jean-Luc Raffaëlli is Director of the Strategic Project at the IT Department of the French postal service ‘La Poste’ and is also a member of AFUL , the French Association of Free Software Users. He works in consultation with trade, and for a number of years has represented the Open Source and Cloud Computing Governance of the Group, notably during meetings of CIGREF, the French association of large scale businesses promoting digital culture as a source of innovation and high performance. Jean-Luc also takes part in workshops lead by the IT Department Group of Digital Strategy at the French postal service ‘La Poste’.
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