WIT Lunch with Paula Grzegorzewska

Thursday 30 Mar 2023, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Zurich

504/E-001 (CERN)

Are you interested to learn more about Open Source Projects? 

If yes, join us on Thursday 30th in Restaurant 2 (Building 504) for a lunch break @12 with Paula Grzegorzewska before her academic training lecture ("How to maximise the impact of Open Source projects on technological independence, competitiveness, and innovation") in IT Amphitheater on Friday where she will discuss the study on the impact of open source on the European economy she co-authored and the need for a change in how innovation is measured, as well as policy measures needed.

Bio:

Paula Grzegorzewska is the Strategic Partnerships Director at OpenForum Europe, an independent Brussels-based think tank focusing on open technology and digital policy. In her work, she analyses open source software and its impact in Europe, as well as open source hardware, artificial intelligence, and more recently, open silicon in another EU project. She is a co-author of the study on the economic impact of open source for the European Commission published in 2021. Paula continues her work by collaborating with a diversity of actors from academia, policy making, and broad open source communities on a variety of research projects and initiatives. Previously, she worked in an NGO supporting women in closing the gender gap in ICT and entrepreneurship.

We are looking to forward to seeing you!