Access the Insights of the First Edition
The first edition of the Digital Resilience Forum served as a central hub for essential discussions on how to make our software-driven societies, public and private services, and digital infrastructure more sustainable over time.
Read the inaugural edition report to gain critical insights into the topics we discussed, understand the fundamental starting point of this initiative, and discover the path forward for digital resilience.
This event is meant to be the spark that ignites this collaborative effort, bringing together all our different viewpoints to explore the immense potential in strengthening our digital foundations.
Together, we can map a path to a more secure and dependable technological world. We can shed light on the real risks of our interconnectedness and inspire everyone to put resilient strategies into action.
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Why You Should Attend
The Digital Resilience Forum is an opportunity for you to learn from thought leaders in their fields! Our speakers and attendees are an international group that brings vast experience in sectors from business to government to education. And they come from highly respected organizations like the UN, the Linux Foundation, and the University of Cambridge.
We are all stakeholders in building stronger digital foundations. At the forum, you’ll be able to:
- Learn from other industries like automotive, banking, and technology.
- Understand how different sectors can collaborate and learn from each other.
- Network with experts and industry leaders from all over the world.
- Discover strategies and solutions to ensure a resilient digital future at your organization.
Come to connect with the experts, learn, and join the conversation!
AGENDA
The forum features keynote speakers, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, offering a space for meaningful dialogue and idea exchange. Key topics include the state of European policies, public procurement processes in Europe, the Spanish ecosystem, the role of stewards in the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), cybersecurity, open source AI, data privacy, and international collaboration.
Time
Session Title
Speaker
Location
8:30 - 9:15
Registration, Morning Coffee & Sweets
La Fuentecilla
9:15 - 9:30
Welcoming
Daniel Izquierdo, CEO, Bitergia
Main Auditorium
9:30 - 9:50
UN Development Goals: Making Digital Public Infrastructure more Resilient
Omar Mohsine, OSS Coordinator, United Nations
Main Auditorium
9:50 - 10:10
Why do you trust software? I don’t. (And Why That Matters for Digital Resilience)
John Ellis, President and Head of Product, Codethink
Main Auditorium
10:10 - 10:30
The Engine Room for Digital Sovereignty
Adriana Groh, CEO, Sovereign Tech Agency
Main Auditorium
10:30 - 10:50
Digital Sovereignty and Other Fables
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK and Executive Producer State of Open Con
Main Auditorium
10:50 - 11:10
The Digital History of the BBC
Tanu Sahnan, Head of Software Engineering, BBC.
Main Auditorium
11:10- 11:30
Coffee Break AM
La Fuentecilla
11:30 - 12:10
Growing Resilience: International Initiatives and Lessons Learned
Moderator: Jennifer Tridgell
Panelists:
Tanya Suarez Ph.D, CEO and founder of IoT Tribe, an equity-free tech ecosystem builder that brings start-ups and corporates together to do business with hubs in the UK, Europe and APAC.
Gina Plat, Interim Lead for the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Gar T. MacCriosta, Health Service Executive (HSE)
Main Auditorium
12:10 - 13:10
Hands on Workshops
Kick-starting your OSPO: a practical approach
Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Senior Project Manager, the Linux Foundation
Dawn Foster, Open Source Strategy Consultant | Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project
Main Auditorium
12:10 - 13:10
Hands on Workshops
Building Resilient Digital Trust Infrastructure with First Person Credentials
Drummond Reed, Founder, First Person Project
Main Auditorium
13:10 - 14:10
Lunch
La Fuentecilla
14:10 - 14:50
Sustainable Innovation Through Open Ecosystems: Governance, Talent, and Collaboration
Moderator:
Emily Omier, OSS Consultant, OSS Founders Summit co-founder and Host of Business OSS Podcast
Panelists:
Alberto P. Martí, VP of Open Source Innovation, OpenNebula Systems.
Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Senior Project Manager, the Linux Foundation
Clare Dillon, InnerSource & Open Source Advocate, Open Ireland Network.
Melanie Wollnik, facilitator at OpenRail Association
Main Auditorium
14:50 - 15:30
Workforce 2025: Digital Skills, Institutions, and the Path to Resilience
Moderator:
Elzbieta Godlewska, Global Partnership, Linux Professional Institute
Panelists:
Maria Antonia Bravo , Technology & Data for Social Impact Leader, Computational Social Scientist, Open Source Strategist and Programme Manager at Giga a UNICEF–ITU initiative connecting schools to the internet
Juan Corro, Madrid City Council CIO
Carlos Vázquez Director do Centro de Novas Tecnoloxías de Galicia (CNTG), Consellería de Emprego, Comercio e Emigración Xunta de Galicia
Virgilio D., Deputy Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Service at C3NIA Science Park, Carlos III University of Madrid
Main Auditorium
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break PM
La Fuentecilla
16:00 - 17:00
Hands on Workshops, led by BBC
Disaster Recovery
Tom Sadler, Principal Software Engineer at the BBC and Member of the InnerSource Commons Foundation
Main
16:00 - 17:00
Hands on Workshops
The impact of public funding in Technology
Paloma Oliveira, Technologist at Sovereign Tech Agency
Omar Mohsine, OSS Coordinator, United Nations
Main Auditorium
17:00-17:40
Digital Resilience in Practice: Securing the Digital Supply Chain.
Moderator
Juan Rico, Senior Program Manager at Eclipse Foundation Europe
Panelists:
Philippe Ombredanne, Lead Maintainer of AboutCode
Stefano Zacchiroli, Co-founder and CSO (Chief Scientific Officer) of Software Heritage
Georg Link, Open Source Strategist and Director of Sales at Bitergia.
Darío García de Viedma, Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute in the fields of technology and digital policy
Main Auditorium
17:40 - 18:00
Closing Remarks
Main Auditorium
Agenda subject to change as we confirm speakers
Sponsors
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Friends
AboutCode Foundation
The not-for-profit AboutCode Foundation develops and advances open source code, data, and standards to empower users to automate and secure their software supply chains.
CEI-Sphere
CEI-Sphere is focused on empowering innovation in the Cloud-Edge-IoT (CEI) ecosystem. Its goal is to drive Large-Scale Pilots and support the development of an open, interoperable, and competitive ecosystem.
CHAOSS
CHAOSS is a Linux Foundation project focused on creating metrics, metrics models, and software to better understand open source community health on a global scale.
Drupal Association
The Drupal Association is the non-profit organization focused on accelerating Drupal, fostering the growth of the Drupal community.
The Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of developers and 300+ member organisations with a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation.
Linux Professional Institute
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals.
OpenForum Europe
OpenForum Europe is a not-for-profit, independent organisation dedicated to fostering an open, competitive European IT market and ensuring IT users have open, competitive choices.
Open Ireland Network
The Open Ireland Network is a not-for-profit social enterprise that enables Ireland’s growing community of organisations and individuals across the island of Ireland who are passionate about all things open source.
The Open Logistics Foundation
The Open Logistics Foundation is a non-profit organisation that offers companies a neutral platform for the collaborative development of open source software.
OpenNebula Systems
OpenNebula is a powerful, but easy-to-use, open source platform for your enterprise’s private, hybrid, or edge cloud infrastructure. OpenNebula unifies public cloud simplicity and agility with private cloud performance, security, and control.
OpenRail Association
The objective of the OpenRail Association Initiative is to provide an open space to foster innovation and software development in the railway sector.
Open Source Conference Luxembourg
The conference that provides the opportunity to learn more about planned, ongoing and completed implementation of Open Source projects and platforms and to establish synergies with the people that have already worked through these upgrade processes.
Open UK
OpenUK is the unique open tech industry body for the business of open technology in the UK. It spans the opens – software, hardware, data, standards and AI and is the convening point for the UK’s business, academic and contributing communities across open tech.
OSS-COMPASS
OSS-Compass is an open-source ecosystem evaluation platform that provides data-driven insights and metrics, helping people analyze and understand the health、value and evolution of open-source projects.
OSPOlogy
OSPOlogy is a framework for organizations and local communities to use when organizing conferences related to open source management and OSPO setup. From Birds of a Feather to OSPO Tooling Workshops, templates are freely available for any organization to adopt at their events
TODO Group
TODO is an open community of practitioners with over 10 years of experience, whose mission is to identify key policy and process choices related to open source management and engagement within organizations, and to create educational materials that promote best practices
Sovereign Tech Agency
The Sovereign Tech Agency is the first publicly funded organization in Europe tasked with strengthening critical digital infrastructure. It identifies and invests in foundational open source software components and supports open technologies with broad societal importance.
UC3M- Carlos III University
The UC3M is a public university focused on innovation and internationalization. In 2009 the Spanish Government awarded UC3M as a Campus for International Excellence.
Forum Organizers
Adam Herzog
Ana Jiménez Santamaría,
Clare Dillon
Daniel Izquierdo
Dawn Foster
Elzbieta Godlewska
Georg Link
Huyền Phạm Thị
Jamie Ayala
Juan Rico
Julia Lawson
Michael Meagher
Thank you for being a part of this incredible journey!
We hope you’re as excited as we are about the future of collaboration, innovation, and the power of people in driving meaningful change.
Let’s continue to build connections, learn from each other, and create something extraordinary together.
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