Speakers

In this talk, André Foeken — CTO at Nedap Healthcare, shares his perspective on a tech industry in constant motion, and what that means for the next generation of engineers, founders, and creators.

Whether you’re thinking of building your own company, joining an existing one, or forging your own unique path, the key question remains: how do you stand out? This talk invites you to:

• carve out your own space — within companies, across your career, and beyond borders — to dream big and move fast,
• reflect on Europe’s place in the global tech scene and how we can shift the momentum,
• and explore the evolving role of AI and software development in shaping the future.

You’ll leave with a sharper sense of how to navigate your career in a world that doesn’t stand still — and how bold ideas, when acted on, can lead to real change.

Pedro is the Head of conferencing technologies at CERN, and Ajob is a software engineer for the Indico team at CERN.

They will talk about the challenges and benefits of running an open-source project for a long time. This includes topics like their collaborations with organizations like the UN, struggles with funding, the returned benefits and more. Essentially, the good, the bad and the ugly of open source projects. CERN, is best known as the place where the web was invented and where the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, pushes the boundaries of physics.

Beyond groundbreaking science, CERN is also a pioneer in technology and open collaboration. From distributed computing to open-source software used by thousands of researchers and institutions worldwide, CERN shows how technology created for science can ripple far beyond the lab.

Polylog is a Youtube channel with 100K+ subscribers where they do deep dives into all kinds of topics in computer science, with an emphasis on algorithms.

When designing algorithms, a lot of problems become much easier to solve (or even become possible to solve at all) if you give your algorithm access to randomness. This is counterintuitive: why should tossing a coin be helpful in a fundamental way? Starting from examples like quick sort, file checksums, and checking if equations hold, Polylog will build up an understanding of randomness, how it can help us fool the evil worst-case adversary, and where even coin flips can’t save us.

In the second half of the talk, they will discuss the behind-the-scenes aspect of making science education videos. What’s the process? What’s hard about it? How are animations made? How to get started?

Two data scientists from the AMLC will present the process from intelligence to investigation using in-house tools and open-source technology.

They will show how their tools, the AMLC suite, supports this process and makes crucial data available within their organization.

At AMLC we contribute to FIOD’s intel position on money laundering and we support in developing leads into criminal investigations. This is a combined effort of our data scientists, using latest tools and technology, analysts and anti-money laundering experts.

We also research the latest innovations in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning and how these technologies can help our data.

GÉANT is an organization that collaborates with different National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Europe and beyond.

Together with these NRENs, they deliver a network for the research and education sector and provide various products and services. This presentation focuses on the services they provide to improve the network's security and maintain its availability.

Jeroen is a software developer in the Security: Products & Services team at GÉANT. This team develops security products internally and for the community. He works mainly on following projects: eduVPN, eduroam, Firewall on Demand and NeMo (anti DDoS).