Isabell Claus
thinkers.ai
Biography
Isabell Claus is a serial tech entrepreneur, managing director of thinkers.ai, winner of the Europe State Award 2022, Innovator of the Year 2022 in Austria and Austrian Entrepreneur of the Year 2020.
From 2012 to 2018, she was a member of the leadership team at RadarCyberSecurity, the European market leader for continuous cybersecurity monitoring. During this time, the start-up transformed from nothing into one of the Top 100 fastest-growing companies in the EMEA region, receiving awards five years in a row from the Financial Times and Deloitte. After the team sold the venture, Isabell co-founded her second tech company thinkers.ai, which has built the first ‘find engine’ in the ‘search engine’ market.
Before her tech venture, Isabell worked at a stock exchange and Wellington Partners Venture Capital. She studied business and legal studies, and completed her doctorate in strategic finance, having studied at Vienna, Harvard, Dubai and Singapore Universities, and the London School of Economics. Isabell is also a university lecturer, author of many books and publications on cybersecurity and AI, and an active and leading figure in the global entrepreneur community.
Organisation
thinkers.ai
Corporate
The "find engine" in the "search engine" market.
Speaker session
PLENARY 1 : Towards Digital Commons: Charting the Course for Europe's Digital Future
Digital commons – non-rivalrous and non-exclusive resources defined by distributed and communal production, ownership and governance of informational capacities and technologies – have great potential to play a crucial role in making this vision reality. With a big part of free and open-source software, hardware, standards, and data fitting this definition digital commons power a large part of the internet infrastructure and servers and can be considered key components of modern digital infrastructure. This call for a reflection of their impact on the future developments of the internet and key aspects such as security, privacy, and the strategic value of digital commons in building a human-centric and trust-worthy digital future for all that is at the heart of the European Declaration on Digital Principles and rights.
The panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges in the development and maintenance of digital commons in Europe, the current investment schemes at national and European level and the possible avenues for a European approach to stimulate further the existing community of ‘commoners’.
Moderated by Monique Calisti, CEO, Martel Innovate
Gabriele Columbro
Linux Foundation Europe
Biography
Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart.
He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US.
He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures, whether it's for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm or a non profit foundation. He has recently won the Tech Leadership Award at FinTech Futures USA Banking Tech Awards. As Executive Director Gabriele grew the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster, leveraging open source as a model of collaboration.
He then led FINOS to join the Linux Foundation umbrella to accelerate growth, ensure long term sustainability of efforts and reduce fragmentation in the open source finance ecosystem.
In 2022, he took on a dual role as General Manager of the newly launched Linux Foundation Europe, which was created to foster regional open collaborations in the European continent and expand the global platform of the Linux Foundation.
Gabriele holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation and advises open source startups. He's a passionate soccer fan, reggae music connoisseur and special needs dad and advocate wannabe.
Organisation
Linux Foundation Europe
Corporate
The Linux Foundation is a global federation of projects collaborating on open technologies, supported by the global developer community and our member organizations. For more than 20 years, we have enabled some of the largest and most successful collaborations in open source software, hardware, standards and data - spanning all industries and all layers of the stack.
Europe is home to a thriving community of open source contributors - from individuals to enterprises to governments - who deliver innovation that positively impacts the region and the world.
Today, open source is widely recognized by policymakers as a unique tool to achieve ambitious European-wide goals like the digital commons and digital sovereignty. As digital transformation accelerates and open source innovation continues to be a critical competitive differentiator, we established Linux Foundation Europe, a Bruxelles based non-profit, in September 2022 under the leadership of General Manager, Gabriele Columbro.
Linux Foundation Europe's mission is to accelerate the growth of thriving open collaborative efforts focused on challenges and opportunities of all European constituencies, from individuals to public and private sectors, while providing an on-ramp for European projects and companies to succeed and collaborate on a global scale.
Speaker session
PLENARY 1 : Towards Digital Commons: Charting the Course for Europe's Digital Future
Digital commons – non-rivalrous and non-exclusive resources defined by distributed and communal production, ownership and governance of informational capacities and technologies – have great potential to play a crucial role in making this vision reality. With a big part of free and open-source software, hardware, standards, and data fitting this definition digital commons power a large part of the internet infrastructure and servers and can be considered key components of modern digital infrastructure. This call for a reflection of their impact on the future developments of the internet and key aspects such as security, privacy, and the strategic value of digital commons in building a human-centric and trust-worthy digital future for all that is at the heart of the European Declaration on Digital Principles and rights.
The panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges in the development and maintenance of digital commons in Europe, the current investment schemes at national and European level and the possible avenues for a European approach to stimulate further the existing community of ‘commoners’.
Moderated by Monique Calisti, CEO, Martel Innovate
Koen de Jonge
Open Internet Discourse Foundation
Biography
Koen is a Hacker in the field of Open IT Infrastructure, Open Storage, Open Source.
He is founder of ProcoliX and it's brand Protagio a company focused on delivering IT Infrastructure (Cloud, Hosting) based on three values: Human Rights, Sustainability and Transparency. ProcoliX/Protagio runs Mastodon and Peertube servers and hosts a lot of websites for the public good in the Netherlands since 2000.
Koen is board member of the NLUUG and the Open Internet Discourse Foundation, with which he is part of the Fediversity Project for the NGI Pilots program.
Husband of Tessa Peters, Father of three very nice children. As hobbies Koen plays Viola (though not as often as he would like) and he rides Horses (dressage) at a local manage.
Organisation
Open Internet Discourse Foundation
Start-up
Speaker session
PLENARY 1 : Towards Digital Commons: Charting the Course for Europe's Digital Future
Digital commons – non-rivalrous and non-exclusive resources defined by distributed and communal production, ownership and governance of informational capacities and technologies – have great potential to play a crucial role in making this vision reality. With a big part of free and open-source software, hardware, standards, and data fitting this definition digital commons power a large part of the internet infrastructure and servers and can be considered key components of modern digital infrastructure. This call for a reflection of their impact on the future developments of the internet and key aspects such as security, privacy, and the strategic value of digital commons in building a human-centric and trust-worthy digital future for all that is at the heart of the European Declaration on Digital Principles and rights.
The panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges in the development and maintenance of digital commons in Europe, the current investment schemes at national and European level and the possible avenues for a European approach to stimulate further the existing community of ‘commoners’.
Moderated by Monique Calisti, CEO, Martel Innovate