Open Source: Past, Present and Future

We are happy to host this year annual board meeting of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in our premises. While OSI's board directors are in Berlin, we invite you to join them at a sharing session around Open Source and its impacts on society and business. A recap of history, present and future of Open Source will be presented.

AGENDA
18:00 Registration and Check In
18:15 Welcome and Introduction, Juliane Franke (Community Manager, Zalando)
18:20 Twenty Years of the Open Source Initiative, Patrick Masson (General Manager, OSI)
18:30 Panel Discussion: Past, Present and Future of Open Source

• Moderator: Mario Behling (CEO OpnTec)
• Speakers: Hong Phuc Dang (Board Director, OSI), Simon Phipps (Board Director, OSI), Till Jaeger (Attorney-at-law at JBB), Josh Simmons (Board Director, OSI)
  19:30 Open Source at the EU level, André Rebentisch (Policy Consultant)
  19:40 Closing Statement
  19:45 Social Exchange and Networking
  20:00 Event ends

About Open Source Initiative
For over 20 years the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has worked to raise awareness and adoption of open source software, and build bridges between open source communities of practice. As a global non-profit, the OSI champions software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement. https://opensource.org

Find out more about Open Source Initiative Board of Directors here:
https://opensource.org/docs/board-annotated