Open Source Experience 2025

The 2025 edition of the Open Source Experience (OSXP) was held December 10 & 11 under the theme ‘Open Source, key to Europe’s strategic autonomy’. The focus, as you might imagine, was wholly on redefining Europe’s digital future as one led by open source innovations across all technologies (including AI, Data Management, Cloud and Cybersecurity).

It was a 2 day event with 90 exhibitors, 130 sessions, 150 speakers and over 4,000 attendees - a conference of very large size, located at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie art museum in Paris. Talks were in both English and French.

Two of our team members were in attendance and had the opportunity to explore various exhibitors and event rooms spread across three floors. The talks lasted 20 minutes and, although too brief to go into detail, this format was an interesting way to discover new technologies and pique our curiosity at-a-glance.

There was a large turnout on the first day. We were happy to have the opportunity to meet OW2, Odoo, and Nextcloud, all of whom are proud open source providers and official partners of Data Bene.

Although the event was wholly focused on open source technologies as a whole, we were able to discuss topics such as PostgreSQL support, the difficulties and impacts for companies wishing to migrate to PostgreSQL, and the market demand to break free from Oracle licensing constraints with other conference attendees.

We were also delighted to have a discussion with Christophe Biquard from Thales on the development of CORE-V CVA6 open source processors, a topic highlighted at their booth.

The event was successful and well-run; the only thing that would have improved the experience would have been longer talks to more fully explore the different topics being discussed. For anyone interested in attending, it should be noted that the event was also interesting for prospecting new customers and companies to support or partner with - it was an excellent opportunity for networking.

All-in-all, we quite enjoyed the event and hope to attend next year!

Did you meet us there, but forget to get our contact information? Hopefully you find this blog post. 😉 Get in touch with our team, anytime: https://data-bene.io/en/#contact