I am Jos Poortvliet, co-founder and VP Communications and Product Strategy at Nextcloud. I’m a long time technology enthusiast and all-things-open evangelist. I have previously been community manager at SUSE and worked as a business consultant at government, finance and telecom companies in the Netherlands. I live in Berlin and love cooking for friends, family, colleagues and my dog!
Topic of speech:
Good news: the Sovereign Digital Workplace is real!
Open Source advocates have long whispered of a mythical ”year of the Linux Desktop”. While this is yet to appear, there is a strong movement towards more local control over online collaboration. In 2025, 2 million employees at medium and large organizations across the public and private sector began using sovereign video chat and document collaboration solutions like Nextcloud. Deployments with hundreds of thousands of users and use in critical industries like health care and banking show the technological challenge is resolved. So the question is: how to start planning the migration?
Session on:
Tuesday 6th of October, 2026 at 13:15-13:45
Auditorium 2 | Finnkino Cine Atlas (Koskikeskus)
This session will be a part of the upcoming Mindtrek Conference 2026 track program:
PUBLIC SECTOR