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The Luxembourg AI Factory, launched in April 2025, is a flagship national initiative designed as a “one‑stop shop” for start‑ups, SMEs and large enterprises to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence. At its technical core is MeluXina‑AI, a sovereign, AI‑optimized supercomputer equipped with over 2 100 GPU‑AI accelerators and capable of multi‑exaflop performance. The Luxembourg AI Factory consortium of 5 core partners and 7 associated national partners delivers the additional services which are necessary to develop innovative AI solutions: training, expert support, access to curated datasets, regulatory guidance and sandboxing, funding advice. As one of the 13 European AI Factories under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, L‑AIF is focused on four strategic vertical domains: finance, cybersecurity, space, and the green economy, with the aim of accelerating Luxembourg’s AI ecosystem and strengthening Europe’s AI sovereignty and innovation capacity. Open source software and open AI models are key enablers to achieve these aims.

By Daniele Pagani

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important in the public sector. F13, an open-source AI platform, offers public authorities new opportunities to leverage the power of LLMs safely. The presentation highlights the potential, challenges and conditions for using F13 in public authority structures.

By Michael Hilberer

The European Union is in the process of investing significant amounts of public funding in deploying advanced AI infrastructures across the continent, which are expected to support EU businesses (particularly startups and SMEs) develop new AI models by providing easy access to the computational power they need. This talk will introduce how the €3B Important Project of Common European Interest on Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) is developing an open source software stack that will provide those AI Factories with a sovereign alternative to the proprietary solutions offered by non-EU Big Tech vendors. This stack is already being deployed across Europe as part of Fact8ra.AI

By Tino Vazquez

The Open Source Initiative has, nearly one year ago, introduced the Open Source AI Definition. While still open to modifications, the definition points out that openness in AI is a matter of both licensing rights and offering enough components so that anyone is able to meaningfully "fork" an AI system or a model for whichever purposes. Unfortunately, already many widely publicized soi-disant "Open Source" AI models and system fall way short on both counts. This is an issue of grave importance, also for the implementation of the EU AI Act -- which grants some lighter touch regulation for Open Source AI.

By Carlo Piana

In his presentation, François Thill, will briefly present the strategy developed by the Ministry of the Economy for cybersecurity and highlight its importance for SMEs and innovation in general. The aim of the strategy is to reduce the costs and complexity of cybersecurity tools for all. To achieve this goal, the OSPO of the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity will play a predominant role by publishing open source tools, raw and contextualized data as well as AI models together with the training data. Code, data and AI models are made available to a large audience to foster the creation of new cybersecurity services by the private sector with SMEs as a target audience. The development of these tools is supported in Luxembourg by state aid, SMEs investing in these solutions are financially supported. Furthermore, Luxembourg intends to create an European cybersecurity initiative through a “joint action” at the level of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC). In this endeavour, the OSPO of the House of Cybersecurity will play a major role.

By François Thill

The Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE) initiative, led by ITU and UNDP with support from the European Commission, empowers governments and local ecosystems to harness open source for digital public goods and infrastructures. With pilot deployments in Kenya and Trinidad & Tobago, and a growing affiliate network spanning 25 countries, OSEE is creating the first international network of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs). This session highlights progress, country experiences, and the roadmap toward sustainable, inclusive, and innovative digital transformation.

By David Manset

CERN, the physics lab near Geneva, operating the Large Hadron Collider, has a rich history of Open Source contributions and in Open Science. In this talk we will present the work the CERN OSPO has done over its first two years of existence, with particular attention to the impact of CERN's Open Source beyond high-energy physics, CERN's main area of research.

By Giacomo Tenaglia

Digital sovereignty has become a central theme in European debates on technology, and the Netherlands is no exception. Governments are becoming increasingly aware that the ability to control and trust their digital infrastructure is not just a technical matter anymore. It’s also a matter of democratic resilience and autonomy.

This talk explores the Dutch government’s evolving approach to open source and digital sovereignty. Digital autonomy and transparency are increasingly embedded in our national policy, with measures such as the “open, unless” principle. But policy alone is not enough: the real challenge is to embed these values across the National Digitalisation Strategy (NDS) and to turn open source policies into practical initiatives (and vice versa!).

As Interim Lead of the Dutch gov’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), Gina will share insights into how digital sovereignty translates into practice. Key questions include:

Attendees will gain perspective on the Dutch context, lessons for other EU member states, and practical steps for aligning open source policy with long-term digital sovereignty goals.

By Gina Plat

Since June 2025, the OSPO Alliance has been supporting two initiatives for FLOSS public sector organisations: one to define a schema to describe OSPOs, what they are and what they do (OSPOmeta), the other to inventory OSPOs in public administrations around the world (floss-pso.network). The presentation will provide an introduction and update on the evolution of the OSPOmeta schema, as well as the inventory of public sector OSPOs and how it is already helping to create opportunities for collaboration.

By Bastien Guerry

During this presentation we will introduce you to the newly formed European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Digital Commons. What is an EDIC? What is the background? How did practical cooperation between EU Member States grow into the EDIC and what will be its tasks? Moreover; how can the EDIC become a European response to strategic digital dependencies?

By Marieke Mol