Panel: Public Procurement for Digital Sovereignty
UA2.118 (Henriot) | Day 2 | 10:30 - 11:05 | Speakers: Sebastian Raible, Maurice Hendriks, André Rebentisch, Rasmus Frey, Julian Schauder, Emma Ghariani
Abstract
Roundtable discussion with policymakers and the community: how can the public procurement framework, that is currently being reformed, be used to achieve digital sovereignty goals? Open Source provides many answers to the questions digital sovereignty raises, but how can public procurers be empowered to buy more Open Source, what are their expectations, and what hurdles exist?
Speakers
Sebastian Raible is Director EU Government affairs for APELL – The European Open Source Software Business Association. APELL represents European business associations and the Open Source industry. Among the businesses represented by APELL's members are primarily SMEs, some large companies, as well as public administrations, research institutions and individuals. As a computer scientist and political consultant, Sebastian has many years of experience with the Open Source ecosystem. Sebastian has worked as a policy advisor in the European Parliament from 2015-2024, and contributed to a range of relevant dossiers. Most recently, Sebastian was part of the Parliament's negotiating team for the Artificial Intelligence Act, the Product Liability Directive, and the Data Act.
Maurice Hendriks is the open source expert at the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. In this role, he advices the ministry and all associated organization into adopting open source, develops all kinds of instruments and knowledge that make it easy to do so, and he writes a lot about his work. He works open source on policy as much as he can.
Due to his efforts, the new Digital Public Infrastructure that should improve Healthcare data availability, is being developed fully open source.
Overview of open source policy instruments by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
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For two decades, André has steered complex software projects across industry and the public sector while charting the equally intricate landscape of European digital policy, a project manager in practice and a zoon politikon in digital affairs at heart. Based in Berlin, Germany.
Rasmus Frey is Chief Executive and Secretary at OS2, Denmark’s open source community for public digital collaboration.
He works at the intersection of governance, innovation, and technology, helping municipalities and public institutions co-develop and reuse digital solutions through open collaboration and shared ownership.
Rasmus contributes to European networks on open-source governance and digital sovereignty, with a focus on institutional design and democratic digital infrastructure.
Rasmus is an experienced speaker with several annual appearances at national and international events.
Specializing in secure software delivery, automation, and sustainable software infrastructure. Advocate for open source, digital sovereignty, and transparent software supply chains. Contributor to ISO 5230:2020 and ISO 18974:2023 via theLinux Foundation’s OpenChain Project, the ZenDiS/BSI SSDLC initiative, Bitkom’s Open Source Guidelines, and the PostgreSQL community. Computer Scientist from HSNR.
Emma Ghariani is the Director of the Open Source and Digital Commons division at the French Interministerial Delegation for Digital Affairs (DINUM). She is focused on developing and supporting meaningful public-commons cooperations in France and Europe.
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