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The EU’s economic security agenda emphasises reducing structural dependencies in critical and emerging technologies. In the public sector, this is closely linked to interoperability, control over digital infrastructure and the ability to sustain essential services. Open source already functions as a resilience mechanism through shared development and long-term maintainability.

This session will examine how the European Union’s public sector plays a key role in linking open source within economic security policy, with a focus on the Interoperable Europe Act, the revision of the European Interoperability Framework and reinforced by forthcoming initiatives such as the EU Open Digital Ecosystems Strategy. The role of open standards will take a central role. Panellists will also consider how standards are developed and governed, and how open source can align industrial policy, standard-setting and public sector digital transformation across the Union.

Speakers: Dirk Schrödter (Head of the State Chancellery (CdS) and Minister of Digitalization of the State of Schleswig-Holstein), Leontina Sandu (Head of Unit, Interoperability and Digital Government (DIGIT.B.2), European Commission), André Rebentisch (Software project and programme manager), Liv Marte Nordhaug (CEO, Digital Public Goods Alliance) & Dr. Jochen Friedrich (Technical Relations Executive, IBM)

Open technologies underpin, shape and drive our digital world and frontier innovation, yet their social, economic, and strategic impacts remain weakly evidenced in public policy discussions. This lack of coordinated, empirical research limits the ability of governments to recognise, value, and effectively leverage open technologies as part of their competitiveness, resilience, and digital sovereignty agendas.

This is the global launch of Open Technology Research, a joint initiative of OpenForum Europe, the Open Source Initiative, and the Open Knowledge Foundation. The initiative will build a shared research agenda, strengthen the global research community, and translate rigorous, policy-relevant evidence into decision-making processes at European and international level.

Speakers: Deborah Bryant (Interim Executive Director, Open Source Initiative), Astor Nummelin Carlberg (Executive Director, OpenForum Europe) & Renata Ávila (CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation)

In the highlighted attack-stop phases, the proposed resilient DMPC (left) keeps the formation geometry tighter and shows smoother trajectories, with a faster return to the desired offsets after each disturbance/attack event.

The video depicts a dynamic simulation of a multi-agent system that is operating in a structured delta formation while navigating through predefined waypoints. At the beginning, the agents move in nominal mode—following their trajectories and maintaining a stable formation using standard control inputs. As the simulation progresses, you can observe disruptions caused by FDI attacks (pink background), which disturb inter-agent communication and result in deviations from the desired paths.

Notably, the third frame of the video highlights the system’s resilient control scheme as described in the uploaded paper. In this phase, agents detect the cyber attacks through predictive anomaly detection based on set-membership conditions. Once an attack is identified, the affected agents apply stored control sequences (altruistic control) and may reconfigure their network topology (for example, by disconnecting from compromised parent links) to isolate the threat. This adaptive response enables the formation to quickly recover and resume proper trajectory tracking toward the mission waypoints.

Can Europe position itself as the global home of open source excellence — and what would it take to make that ambition real? This session will examine how Europe’s regulatory frameworks, investment instruments, and research policies interact with the open source ecosystem, and what conditions are needed to sustain innovation at global scale.

Panellists will discuss the role of initiatives such as the EU Sovereign Tech Fund, the impact of legislation including the DMA, AI Act, and CRA, and the importance of open governance, skills, and IT user capacity. Drawing comparisons with international strategies the discussion will explore whether Europe’s advantage lies in its developers, companies, foundations, or all of them together.

Speakers: Fabrizia Benini (Head of the Future Internet Unit, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission), Baddý Sonja Breider (Board Chair, Drupal), Deborah Bryant (Interim Executive Director, Open Source Initiative), James Lovegrove

Industrial policy is once again at the centre of Europe’s strategic agenda — in Brussels and across Member States. Yet while hardware, physical infrastructure, and data centre strategies are comparatively established, software requires a distinct approach. Competitiveness and sovereignty in software depend on long-term capability, open collaboration, and public–private alignment.

This opening discussion will explore how openness can underpin a European software policy that enables innovation, reduces dependency, and strengthens digital sovereignty. Bringing together policymakers, government leaders, and industry executives, the panel will consider how Europe can position its software ecosystem as a pillar of industrial strength and what frameworks are needed to make openness a defining element of European competitiveness.

Speakers: Aura Salla (Member of the European Parliament (EPP)), Shane Coughlan (Member of the General Assembly, OpenForum Europe), Andrea Gallo (CEO, RISC-V International), Daniel Glazman