Jean-Pierre Laisné has over 30 years of experience responsible for the definition, organisation and implementation of innovative solutions in different sectors, such as insurance and industry, all around the world. He is a very strong supporter of any initiative bringing Open Source to the enterprise. In 2016 Jean-Pierre explores the disruptive effects of new open technologies such as BlockChain.In 2014 and 2015, Jean-Pierre is president and co-fonder of CloudOrbit, the #1 Cloud Services Brokerage enabler. Since 2011, Jean-Pierre has lead CompatibleOne, the open source Cloud Service Broker. CompatibleOne provides interoperability, portability and reversibility and thus helps break vendor lock-in. Since 2004, Jean-Pierre is Chairman of ObjectWeb and now named OW2, a consortium composed of world wide (from Europe to China and Brazil) leading Industry actors joining efforts to produce free/libre middleware. President of the first edition of Open World Forum (openworldforum.org) in 2008, Laisné is the initiator and coordinator of a prospective study about FLOSS named 2020 FLOSS Roadmap.Since 2001, Jean-Pierre joined Bull Group to introduce Open Source best practices within the company's operations. With his worldwide experience, Jean-Pierre's challenge was to make Bull one of the European leaders of Open Source vendors.Before Bull, Jean-Pierre was in charge of Linbox, an European start up specialised in network computing solutions based on Linux. Jean Pierre was previously Pick Systems' Technical Director and evangelist for Europe, for more than 4 years. During this period, he converted dozens of Pick Systems' VARs to Linux.In 1997, Jean-Pierre is co-founder and VP of AFUL, an active organisation for Linux and Open-Source software expansion.Specialties: New Technologies, Alliance development, Competitive analysis, Open Source legal and financials, Software Architecture