Petar Kochovski
University of Ljubljana
Biography
Petar Kochovski is an assistant professor and research associate at the University of Ljubljana, who holds a PhD degree in Computer Science, earned from the Institute of Computer Science and Technology at Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University. His research passions encompass blockchain technologies, Web3, and the assurance of reliability and trust within Edge-to-Cloud computing environments. He brings a wealth of experience as a software engineer, with a track record in designing and developing diverse software solutions. Furthermore, he has applied his expertise to a multitude of Horizon 2020 projects, including SWITCH, ENTICE, DECENTER, and ONTOCHAIN, and remains actively involved in ongoing Horizon Europe projects such as ExtremeXP and TRUSTCHAIN.
Organisation
University of Ljubljana
Educational institution
Speaker session
NGI Impact Stories showcasing exceptional contributions from NGI innovators
Moderated by Fabrizia Benini, Head of Unit, Next Generation Internet Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Workshop 6 - Meet the innovators behind the NGI impact stories
Pouhiou Lafon Roudier
Framasoft
Biography
Co-director of Framasoft and PeerTube's product owner.
I came to FOSS as an author (my playscripts and novels are published under CC-0), and content creator (I was a YouTuber in 2014-2016). Before becoming Framasoft's co-director, I managed communications, donation campaigns and community outreach.
Organisation
Framasoft
NGO
Framasoft is a French non-profit that promotes digital commons and emancipation through popular education. In France, we are mostly know to provide 17+ free, free/libre and ethically-hosted web-services to ~1.5 million monthly users.
One of our (many) project is developing PeerTube,a free-libre and federated software. Installed on a server PeerTube creates a video platform (as a self-hosted alternative to YouTube of Twich), than can be federated in the ferdiverse. PeerTube offers several technical options (activity-pub federation, peer-to-peer and classic video streaming, redundancy, remote storage, remote transcoding, etc.) that aim to democratize video hosting, to make it resilient, and thus to facilitate emancipation from tech giant's platforms.
Speaker session
NGI Impact Stories showcasing exceptional contributions from NGI innovators
Moderated by Fabrizia Benini, Head of Unit, Next Generation Internet Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Workshop 6 - Meet the innovators behind the NGI impact stories
Lucas Lasota
Free Software Foundation Europe
Biography
Organisation
Free Software Foundation Europe
Research centre
Speaker session
NGI Impact Stories showcasing exceptional contributions from NGI innovators
Moderated by Fabrizia Benini, Head of Unit, Next Generation Internet Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Workshop 6 - Meet the innovators behind the NGI impact stories