FOSS Backstage 2025

Samuel Paccoud

Samuel is currently working for the French government at the Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs, in charge of building La Suite numérique (https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr), an sovereign digital workplace for the French public sector. In this role, Samuel leads a team focusing on developping opensource technologies, in a joint effort with Zendis, their German counterparts.

Before joining DINUM, Samuel headed the technical team at France Université Numérique, where he worked on creating and promoting digital commons for open education. Throughout his career, Samuel has consistently demonstrated a strong commitment to open-source software and driving digital transformation in the public sector.


Session

03-11
10:35
30min
How FR and DE are developing their digital sovereignty
Samuel Paccoud, Lea Beiermann

A few months ago, France and Germany decided to pool their resources to jointly develop sovereign digital applications for their respective administrative workplaces, based on common open source modules. Here's a look back and forward at this dynamic project, which is set to expand across Europe in the coming months.

Growing Open Source
Auditorium