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Panel: Europe as the World’s Home for Open Source - EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026

Can Europe position itself as the global home of open source excellence — and what would it take to make that ambition real? This session will examine how Europe’s regulatory frameworks, investment instruments, and research policies interact with the open source ecosystem, and what conditions are needed to sustain innovation at global scale. Panellists will discuss the role of initiatives such as the EU Sovereign Tech Fund, the impact of legislation including the DMA, AI Act, and CRA, and the importance of open governance, skills, and IT user capacity. Drawing comparisons with international strategies the discussion will explore whether Europe’s advantage lies in its developers, companies, foundations, or all of them together. Speakers: Fabrizia Benini (Head of the Future Internet Unit, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission), Baddý Sonja Breider (Board Chair, Drupal), Deborah Bryant (Interim Executive Director, Open Source Initiative), James Lovegrove (Director of Public Policy, EMEA & APAC, Red Hat), Daniel Stenberg (President, European Open Source Academy) & Ruth Suehle (President, Apache Software Foundation)