Stéphanie Schaer
directrice interministérielle du numérique
Paris
Biography
Stéphanie Schaer, directrice interministérielle du numérique
Stéphanie Schaer, ingénieure générale des Mines, est, depuis septembre 2022, la directrice interministérielle du numérique (DINUM).
Ancienne élève de l'École polytechnique (1997), elle est également diplômée de l'École nationale supérieure des télécommunications/Télécom Paris.
Son parcours professionnel est notamment marqué par des passages à la direction centrale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (DCSSI devenue ANSSI) de 2002 à 2006 puis au ministère de l'Économie, de l'Industrie et de l'Emploi où elle est chargée de mission sur l'électronique embarquée puis chef du bureau de l'industrie du logiciel de la Direction générale de la compétitivité, de l'industrie et des services en 2008.
Elle devient plus tard directrice régionale adjointe des entreprises, de la concurrence, de la consommation, du travail et de l'emploi (Direccte) de Bourgogne, puis de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. En parallèle, en 2015, elle lance en tant qu'intrapreneuse la Startup d'État Signaux Faibles, qui permet de détecter précocement, pour mieux les accompagner, les entreprises en difficultés grâce à des données détenues par les administrations. Ce service, aujourd'hui déployé dans l'ensemble de la France, a bénéficié de programmes d'accompagnement de la DINUM : les entrepreneurs d'intérêt général (EIG) et le programme d'incubation des Startups d'État, Beta.gouv.
Stéphanie Schaer devient en 2019 directrice adjointe du cabinet d'Élisabeth Borne, au ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire puis au ministère du Travail où elle sera ensuite nommée à la tête du cabinet. Lorsqu'Élisabeth Borne est nommée à Matignon en mai 2022, Stéphanie Schaer devient conseillère auprès de la Première ministre.
Le 26 septembre 2022, elle est nommée à la tête de la direction interministérielle du numérique.
Speaker session
National and Local Governments' Role in Open Source: Champions, Creators, or Funders?
This session will cover the opportunities and challenges of governments taking on various roles in open source. We will compare and contrast the effort of diverse public services that are employing democratic innovation to improve public infrastructure. We will hear about the pooling of efforts on open source between administrations in cities and smaller municipalities. We will also discuss different ways of funding open source development. Representatives of the Sovereign Tech Fund and the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet initiative will share their insights on the subject.
Fabrizio Sestini
Senior Expert
Brussels
Biography
As a Senior Expert in Digital Social Innovation with the European Commission, Fabrizio Sestini has enjoyed launching and managing several research initiatives related to different aspects of Internet research and policy, from a multidisciplinary perspective focusing on the social applications of network technologies. Currently, his main interest is on distributed architectures for decentralized data governance, as part of the European Union's efforts towards a people-centric Next-Generation Internet. Previously, he had defined and launched the European Innovation Council's award on "Blockchains for Social Good", to stimulate decentralized social innovation projects, as well as the Collective Awareness Platforms initiative, centered on applications of network solutions for sustainability and social innovation, in areas as diverse as environment, digital democracy and the collaborative economy.
Organisation
European Commission DG Connect
EU Institutions
Speaker session
National and Local Governments' Role in Open Source: Champions, Creators, or Funders?
This session will cover the opportunities and challenges of governments taking on various roles in open source. We will compare and contrast the effort of diverse public services that are employing democratic innovation to improve public infrastructure. We will hear about the pooling of efforts on open source between administrations in cities and smaller municipalities. We will also discuss different ways of funding open source development. Representatives of the Sovereign Tech Fund and the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet initiative will share their insights on the subject.
Dan Sobovitz
Master of Ceremony
Biography
Dan is a Digital Communication Strategist for VIPs and international organisations; moderator and lecturer on tech and innovation; and civil society activist. He is the Founder of spreadable.io, a micro agency for macro projects; Managing Director of the EU Startup Prize for Mobility and Senior Adviser on Digital Communications at BCW.
For five years, Dan has led the digital presence and publications of the Vice President of the European Commission, with campaigns featuring livestreams from self driving cars, solar planes, VR of satellite launches and crowdsourcing of EU policies. In the field of tech, Dan presents and moderates at events such as Viva Tech, Slush, Beautiful Software Awards, Huawei Academia Salon, ChangeNow, Michelin Movin’on Challenge, and others. He also blogs and lectures about the interplay between technology, society, and politics. In 2013, he co-founded ‘Ceci n’est pas une crise’, a Belgian civil society organisation which analyses the current wave of populist nationalism. In 2023, he founded DemoCrisis, a platform bringing together pro-democracy civil society organisations from Israel, Hungary, Poland, and across Europe. He is on the board of several human rights organisations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Dan is a citizen of Israel, Switzerland, and Hungary and lives in Brussels with his husband and their two children.
Speaker session
National and Local Governments' Role in Open Source: Champions, Creators, or Funders?
This session will cover the opportunities and challenges of governments taking on various roles in open source. We will compare and contrast the effort of diverse public services that are employing democratic innovation to improve public infrastructure. We will hear about the pooling of efforts on open source between administrations in cities and smaller municipalities. We will also discuss different ways of funding open source development. Representatives of the Sovereign Tech Fund and the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet initiative will share their insights on the subject.