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OW2 15 anniversary

This year the OW2 Consortium reaches the exciting milestone of 15 years of activity.

The celebrations OW2 15 anniversary will take place concurrently with the Cloud data center + Infra Symposium.

The event will take place in Paris on June 29 and 30 with more than 120 Experts and 3,500 visitors. Professionals in infrastructure, design and operation of distributed services will discuss challenges and current projects in the industry ecosystems. The Symposium will present solutions on the most “cutting edge” and innovative topics in the sector, with strong content and numerous round tables and conferences specialized by course.

Ow2 team will exhibit together with Xwiki project and KNOWAGE in booth D14, Hall 5.1.

Furthermore, OW2 will run the conference Open Cloud on June 29 from 16:30 to 18h and on June 30 from 9h00 to 12h00.

It includes: 

  • 2 OW2 Testimony talks, one of them by KNOWAGE Labs and Engineering Group.

This talk will tell the history of Engineering’s participation in the OW2 Community highlighting the motivation for Engineering as a large and recognized systems integrator to embrace the open source culture, the value provided to the OW2 codebase by the KNOWAGE open source BI and analytics project, the outcomes of the initiatives where Engineering has actively participated, the relationships with the European Research projects. Moreover, our speakers will present the best practices of open source have been disseminated during these 15 years through the company in such a way to enrich the development process by fostering collaboration and openness, which are among the pillars of modern architectures and digital innovation programs

  • Round table #1: on Open Source Governance
  • OW2con’22 Best Project Awards ceremony
  • Presentations of OW2 Open Source solutions for the Cloud 
  • Round table #2: Risks and opportunities for European open source publishers facing cloud giants

On June 29 evening, OW2 will also host a social event.

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More about the OW2 15 anniversary.

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Highlights from OW2 conference 2022

The last edition of the OW2 conference (June 8-9, 2022), focused on the main theme “Reliable and predictable Open Source“.

The event provided stimulating talks on the future of enterprise #opensource and how to face it, together with updates on the evolution of many OW2-powered projects.

In the opening session, Cedric Thomas and Pierre-Yves Gibello told about the indirect return of open source and the importance of addressing corporate information systems. OW2 Market Readiness methodology and Good governance initiative ensure OW2-powered solutions are solid and ready for market.

KNOWAGE contributed to the event with two speeches, showing the new features realeased in the first half of the year and the novelties that are yet to come. KNOWAGE director presented two real use cases where AI&ML algorithms allowed public entities to have reliable forecast on pandemic trends and manage public services monitoring and respecting social distancing measures.

Here the full recording of the event.

Recording of the talk “KNOWAGE evolution in 2022“

Recording of the talk “Data analysis for enterprises with open source – KNOWAGE use cases“

The next meeting with the OW2 community will be in Paris, on June 29-30, for the OW2 15 Year Anniversary event. The event will be held within the Conference Cloud-Datacenter+Infra and will include:

  • Testimony talks
    • 1) 15 years of Engineering @ OW2, Daniele Gagliardi and Stefano Scamuzzo, KNOWAGE Labs – Engineering Group
    • 2) 15 years of Sat4j @ OW2, the value of an open source community for an academic software, Daniel Le Berre, University d’Artois
  • Round table on Open Source Governance
  • OW2 Best Project Awards ceremony
  • Social event

OW2 is the European open source community event powered by OW2 Consortium and sponsored by Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.

More about OW2con22: https://www.ow2con.org/view/2022/

More about OW2: https://www.ow2.org/

More about KNOWAGE: https://www.knowage-suite.com/