OPEN for GOV (BE)
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Please join us the 11th of December 2025 for a new edition of OPEN for GOV, thé Belgian open source event for the Public Sector. During half a day we'll gather some enterprise-ready open source players around the table. And you'll meet your peers around the table so you can learn from each others experiences.
Meet your peers at OPEN and save your seat!
Agenda
| When | What |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome coffee |
| 09:30 - 10:15 |
Why Sovereignty Matters & Open Source AI Thanks to open source sovereignty you'll restore balance. You'll own your data, control your infrastructure, trust your software & retain your know-how; the 4 pillars of a sustainable digital future. |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Use Case by FOD Financiën - SPF Finances Antoine & his team at FOD Financiën - SPF Finances, will give us a behind-the-scenes look at their infrastructure landscape, with a focus on OpenShift and explain the set up & the rationale behind their choices. |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 - 11:55 | Red Hat AI Inference Server Red Hat will join the conversation because they can help you build & run AI solutions. As part of the Red Hat AI platform, Red Hat AI Inference Server optimizes inference capabilities to drive down traditionally high costs and extensive infrastructure. |
| 11:55 - 12:40 | EDB PGVector To fully unlock the potential of AI, you'll need some clearance in databases. Let's understand the difference between building AI solutions with just a vector database vs. an AI database vs. an AI data platform. |
| 12:40 - 13:45 | Lunch. |
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FOD/SPF Finance - Customer Testimonial
by Antoine Patte, Member of a Linux/Unix team at FOD Financiën - SPF Finances
The FPS Finance is a large organization with around 20,000 employees and primarily provides services to citizens and manages the resources needed to meet the collective needs of our society.
Antoine and his team at FPS Finance, will give us a behind-the-scenes look at their infrastructure landscape, with a focus on OpenShift and explain the set up, the rationale behind their choices and how Kangaroot supports through implementation and long-term expertise.
Why Sovereignty matters & Open Source AI
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Why Sovereignty Matters
In an age where digital dependency is the norm, sovereignty has become essential for resilience and innovation. Organizations increasingly rely on global cloud providers and proprietary software — often hosted and governed outside their control. This creates hidden risks: vendor lock-in, data exposure, and loss of strategic autonomy.
Open Source Sovereignty restores balance. It empowers organizations to own their data, control their infrastructure, trust their software, and retain their know-how — the four pillars of a sustainable digital future.
At Kangaroot, we help governments, enterprises, and service providers build open, sovereign IT ecosystems that are transparent, secure, and aligned with European values and regulations.
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Open Source AI Foundations
Artificial Intelligence is transforming how organizations innovate — but relying on closed, proprietary AI systems often means losing control over your data, your models, and your future. Open Source AI offers a different path: transparent, secure, and fully customizable AI infrastructure that you own and operate.
At Kangaroot, we help companies build and run open AI platforms — from Large Language Model (LLM) deployment and inference to OpenShift AI clusters — ensuring full sovereignty over their data and compute.
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