About EU Open Source Policy Summit
What are the concrete steps policymakers must take to address Europe’s most urgent digital challenges, and to realise the full value of open source at scale and at speed across the continent?
From the Cloud and AI Development Act and the Digital Networks Act to Chips Act II, from cybersecurity regulation to industrial policy and public procurement, the Summit will examine how openness as a governance model, an industrial policy instrument, and an innovation strategy enables Europe to innovate, compete, and retain strategic control. Openness as a strategy connects the dots and cuts through trade-offs.
About Open Forum Europe
Originally launched in 2002 to accelerate and broaden the use of Open Source Software (OSS) among businesses, consumers and governments, OFE’s focus has since evolved. As a non-profit think thank based in Brussels, OFE currently maintains a Policy Research and Development team based in Brussels, which is supported both by our network of partners and supporters, and by specific specialist advisors. The main policy topics that we cover are: Open Source, Open standards, Cybersecurity, Digital Government, Public Procurement, Intellectual Property, Cloud Computing and Internet Policy.