Frank Karlitschek
Founder / CEO
About
Frank Karlitschek is a long time open source contributor and former board member of the KDE e.V. He founded ownCloud in 2010 and the successor Nextcloud in 2016 to create a fully open source and decentralized alternative to big centralized cloud companies. Frank was an invited expert at the W3C to help to create the ActivityPub standard. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN, Harvard and ETH. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud GmbH. He is also a fellow of Open Forum Europe and an advisor to the United Nations regarding Open Source. Frank won the European SFS Free Software Award 2023 and the Acteurs du Libre European Award 2023.
Sessions by Frank Karlitschek (2 sessions)
Cut me loose: Wie der EU der digitale Befreiungsschlag gelingt
Eine Diskussion mit: Axel Voss, Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments Alexandra Geese, Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments Dr. Julia Pohle, Wi...
How the EuroStack initiative is fighting for Digital Sovereignty in Europe
Europe’s digital public sphere is built on infrastructure, platforms, and standards largely controlled by a handful of non-European Big Tech compan...