Hub
Open Source
Bringing together members of different sizes, scopes and ambitions; federating the Hubs through their technological expertise; propelling the cluster’s challenges towards European success. The Open Source Hub: it’s about irrigating & growing.
The missions of the Open Source Hub are multiple. The first is to act as a platform for cross-disciplinary exchanges, both between its members and between Systematic’s Hubs and Stakes, where it will play a unifying role, creating levers and bridges for collaborative innovation.
AI is another context where most of the founding solutions are free and the many products based on them are not. Our technological ambition is therefore to fluidify the access to Open Source between end-users and open solutions.
Protecting users by educating publishers and suppliers is the major social issue for the Open Source community in a world tending towards increasingly digital and automatic approaches, favoured by the arrival of 5G and IoT deployment.
Economically speaking, the challenge is to reconcile the social progress driven by Open Source software with the commercial and financial constraints of the players in its ecosystem.
As publisher of the Systematic Blue Book, which offers an expert view of technologies and market specifics, the Open Source Hub also has a highly acclaimed editorial showcase.
A digital platform called Pulse! to optimise participation in the event and access more content remotely, for longer.
There’s certainly plenty to bring together and unite the entire Open Source community and user companies looking for information on this major lever for innovation at the Palais des Congrès de la Porte Maillot in Paris.
Upcoming Hub events
Don't miss any opportunity to network, discover, learn and share!
12 février 2026
Webinaire Innov’action – Focus Opportunités défense et Appels européens
Organisateur : Systematic Paris-Region
Prix : gratuit
17 février 2026
19 février 2026
Videos from the Hub
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Plénière d'ouverture : L’open source, clé de l’autonomie stratégique de l’Europe
[Plénière d'ouverture] Initiatives clés de l'industrie Open Source pour construire la souveraineté
Plénière d'ouverture (partie 2) d'Open Source Experience 2024
Plénière d'ouverture (partie 1) d'Open Source Experience 2024
Mythes et réalités des IA génératives et générales_Luc Julia, RENAULT GROUP_05 12 2024
Calls for projects
Systematic offers you a rigorous selection of current calls for projects
Starburst, leader du consortium qui a emporté le marché auprès d’EUDIS, a ouvert, le 16 décembre 2025, l’appel à candidature pour constituer la cohorte de 2026. Clôture des candidatures le 25 janvier 2026.
DEADLINE : 25 January 2026
HUB : Advanced Engineering & Computing
Cyber & Security Data Science & AI Digital Infrastructure Drones Industrie & Services One Health Open Source Optics & Photonics TerritoiresOpen Horizons proposes a novel approach towards covering the women-led companies funding and corporate network gap, by creating a full programme, from scratch, that relies in the work done by other initiatives (Women TechEU or Empowomen).
The consortium aims to invest 1.2M in startups and is comprised by an experienced consortium of partners as PEDAL (Reputed consultancy in EU projects also specialised in public procurement), SPLORO (experts on cascade funding) and INNOVX (EIC Partner and leading Accelerator).
Corporates are also linked to the proposal as partners like Migros (retail) or associated partners like Siemens Industry Software, Repsol (energy) and Stahl (Manufacturing) and planning to expand up to 10.
The projects structured approach includes identifying and formulating corporate challenges, inclusive talent scouting across Europe, and facilitating the funding and implementation of pilot projects within real-world corporate settings. Post-pilot, the programme focuses on expanding growth opportunities for startups by connecting them with investment channels and helping negotiate commercial agreements for long-term collaborations.
This comprehensive strategy not only provides a platform for women-led startups to showcase their innovations within major corporations but also integrates them into a broader corporate and innovation ecosystem, ensuring sustained growth and significant market presence.
DEADLINE : 29 January 2026
HUB : Advanced Engineering & Computing
Cyber & Security Data Science & AI Digital Infrastructure Drones Industrie & Services Open Source Optics & Photonics TerritoiresO-CEI’s overarching goal is to pilot the imperative of accelerating the uptake and upscaling of innovative Cloud-Edge-IoT solutions, strengthening Europe’s competitiveness and open strategic autonomy by orchestrating cross-domain data sharing, minimising energy footprint, stimulating multi-sided marketplaces, and promoting open standards for virtualisation and interoperability. For doing so, O-CEI will feed with such innovative technologies, and a comprehensive framework, to eight multidimensional real-world pilots framed in key strategic sectors: electricity grid, electromobility, software-defined vehicles, agrifood and agriculture, logistics and urban environments. It will swiftly create and implement innovative solutions across the cloud continuum; and effectively address the needs of existing and emerging individual and cross-sector business value chains. By designing blueprints and providing utilities beyond the State-of-the-Art, O-CEI will help project stakeholders (and 32 Open Call Upscaling and Uptake awardees) to achieve challenging objectives. All pilots are formed by technical and stakeholder actors covering the necessary value chains, having an outstanding cross-domain unifying thread: energy flexibility.
DEADLINE : 20 November 2025
HUB : Cyber & Security
Data Science & AI Digital Infrastructure Industrie & Services One Health Open Source Territoires
d'existence
Membres
Pierre BAUDRACCO, Founder and President of the publisher of the BlueMind open source messaging solution, the alternative to MS Exchange and 365
President of the Open Source Hub of the Systematic Cluster
The Open Source Hub has set itself the primary objective of bringing together the entire Open Source ecosystem, and is pursuing its initial mission of promoting all the industrial and academic players in Open Source in France and Europe. The issues supported by the Hub are many and intersecting between business and innovation, academic and technological communities, producers, suppliers and consumers, employment and training, and are ultimately European.
Open Source is one of Systematic’s 7 Deep Tech hubs, with a distinctive feature: it is a means to an end, not an end in itself!
As such, it has a cross-disciplinary vocation and works in collaboration with the other hubs, which focus on the technological challenges of AI, cybersecurity, IoT, development platforms and cloud infrastructures, 5G technologies, biometrics, quantum platforms, etc.
Taking into account and distinguishing between the two contexts in which Open Source is used (as tools and technological building blocks for building systems, or as an end-user solution) is a key factor in clarifying realistic approaches, expectations and business models for Open Source, depending on the context.
This will be an additional strength in the Open Source Hub’s ambitions to :
- Strengthen relations with all hubs, contacts, partners and organisations, such as the CNLL, Numeum, the Cigref, OW2, Eclipse ,or public authorities,
- Continue to federate and promote the sector through national and international studies and events such as OSXP,
- Highlighting integrators by encouraging the emergence of Open Source and standards-based technology foundations and building blocks,
- Supporting publishers in the development of sovereign solutions.
Governance
The President
Pierre BAUDRACCO
Founder and President of the publisher of the BlueMind open source messaging solution, the alternative to MS Exchange and 365
Founder and President of the publisher of the Open Source messaging solution BlueMind,the alternative to MS Exchange and 365, invested for many years in the Open Source ecosystem at Systematic, Pierre Baudracco has led some of France’s biggest Open Source messaging projects, after having founded and managed an Open Source software services company for 10 years.
A recognised expert in Open Source, and in particular in Open Source business models, he shares his dual entrepreneurial experience as an Open Source service and publisher with his peers through conferences and workshops, and through his involvement in promoting and developing the professional Open Source ecosystem over many years.
He is chairman of the Systematic Open Source Hub, co-chairman of the Conseil National du Logiciel Libre and is a member of the steering committee Open Source Experience (Paris Open Source Summit) whose programme he chaired in 2017 and 2018.
The Vice-Presidents
Jules DAUNAY
Communications & Marketing Manager
SensioLabs
VP schools & jobs
Yannick MOY
Engineer R&D
AdaCore
VP cyber
Members of the steering committee
