The machine economy will be open source or will not be

By Frédéric Desbiens of Eclipse Foundation
Time: 16:00 Room: S4

Abstract

The machine economy is on our doorstep. Embedded technologies play a critical part in building it.
While the industrial revolution improved our lives, it was not built on sustainable energy sources and infrastructure. We cannot afford to build the machine economy in the same way. A sustainable machine economy will only emerge from a shared, vendor-neutral ecosystem, inside which commercial and non-profit organizations will pool resources towards common goals. In other words, the European machine economy platform must be open source, and its governance must be under the stewardship of a truly European open source foundation.
In this presentation, you will learn how open source upends the old dynamics found in the industrial automation and automotive industries to foster truly open ecosystems. You will also find Eclipse Foundation initiatives, such as Oniro, Sparkplug, and Software Defined Vehicle (SDV), that you can leverage and join.

Biography

Frédéric Desbiens is a Program Manager and Evangelist for IoT and Edge Computing at the Eclipse Foundation, Europe's largest open-source organization. His job is to help the community innovate by bringing devices and software together. He is a strong supporter of open source. In the past, he worked as a product manager, solutions architect, and developer for companies as diverse as Pivotal, Cisco, and Oracle. Frédéric holds an MBA in electronic commerce, a BASc in Computer Science, and a BEd, all from Université Laval (Québec City, Canada).
Frédéric is the author of "Building Enterprise IoT Solutions using Eclipse IoT Technologies: An Open-Source Approach to Edge Computing," published in December 2022 by Apress (ISBN: 978-1484288818).