Speakers

Virgile Prevosto

Virgile Prevosto is researcher at CEA List. He holds an Engineering degree from École Polytechnique and a PhD in CS from Université Paris 6. After a post-doc at Max-Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and a stay at Inria Rocquencourt, he joined CEA List in 2006, and has been since then a core developer of the Frama-C platform and acted as CEA's principal investigator for various collaborative projects, including the coordination of the French-German DEVICE-Soft and ANR U3CAT projects.

Antonio Kung

Antonio Kung is co-founder of Trialog. With more than 30 years of experience in the field of cyber physical systems and the Internet of Things, he brings expertise and know-how particularly on architecture, interoperability or data security and protection. He was the coordinator of numerous national and European collaborative projects in these fields. He is active in standardisation on the Internet of Things, security and data protection, and the editor of ISO/IEC standards 27550, 27556, 27030, 27570, 21823-3. He became CEO of Trialog in 2018. Antonio has a master degree from Harvard university and an engineering degree from Ecole centrale Paris.

Yod Samuel Martín

Yod Samuel Martín is a Researcher at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). His research work focuses on different categories of non-functional software and service requirements, especially on the categories of accessibility and privacy, understood from different points of view. Yod-Samuel is currently the Scientific and Technical Lead of the H2020 project PDP4E, and has also participated in other EU-funded projects, as well as in national and private research projects. The results from his research have been applied, in collaboration with private companies, to fields like telecommunications, banking and financial services, social networks, transportation, etc.

Cédric Thomas

Cedric Thomas is OW2 CEO. An IT industry veteran with twenty-five years of experience in strategic and marketing consulting for IT vendors and systems integrators, Cedric has masterminded the launch of the OW2 Consortium. Previously, as both an investor and a consultant with FronTier Associates, the consulting company he founded in 1997, he actively took part in three IPOs, contributed to the launch of several technology start-ups, helped establish a start-up incubator in Paris and set up technology firms in Boston and San Francisco. Before that, he was VP and Research Director at PAC, an independent provider of consultancy and marketing studies for the IT industry where he established successful research programs in Open Systems, IT spending and Outsourcing. Cédric studied for his PhD in Economics at the Sorbonne and holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Paris. He teaches business strategy in several master programs.

Philippe Krief

Philippe Krief is the Research Relations Director of the Eclipse Foundation. He is a project leader, expert in object-oriented design, embedded development, development tools, and Agile-Scrum development process. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University Paris 8, France in 1990.
He has a passion for Eclipse since its beginning, early 2000 when he was involved in the early versions of the Eclipse platform. Before joining the Eclipse Foundation staff, he worked 18 years for IBM as Senior Architect, CALM evangelist, and R&D Development Manager.
Today, Philippe is supervising 8 European research projects (H2020, ITEA3 & ECSEL), mainly for dissemination, community building, and open-source best practices tasks.