OW2con'25

Ludovic Dubost, XWiki

Creator of XWiki and CEO of XWiki SAS, I have been developing the free XWiki SAS company for 20 years, as well as being a board member of the Open Food Facts association.

XWiki SAS, a European company based in France and Romania, develops only Open Source application software in the field of knowledge sharing and secure collaboration. XWiki is used by thousands of organizations to organize, share and collaborate on information. XWiki SAS also develops CryptPad software (https://cryptpad.org), an innovative solution enabling collaboration while protecting data confidentiality.

I have been participating for more than 10 years and presented at the Open Source Experience, FOSDEM, OW2Con, Capitole du Libre conferences, talking about collaboration or privacy software as well as on business models and the financing of Open Source software.


Session

06-17
11:40
20min
IA, SAAS et Open Source, challenges or opportunities for Open Source Companies ?
Ludovic Dubost, XWiki

AI is starting to appear in many collaborative SaaS applications, with a significant impact on the business models of these services.

What impact will the arrival of these functionalities have on the prices of these services?
Should users expect price increases?
Will they have the choice of whether or not to use and pay for AI services?
What about data protection?

Challenges or opportunities for Open Source companies ?

AI, Data, Cloud-Edge and Security
Main stage