Jean-Baptiste Kempf is the creator of the VideoLAN non-profit and a key figure behind VLC media player. Heavily involved in the past 20 years in the open source ecosystems, he is the maintainer of dozens of open source projects, has founded multiple startups in the multimedia and gaming space, advised VCs and numerous startups and has led large engineering teams at scale. After being CTO/VP Engineering of several startups and scaleups, he is currently CTO of Scaleway, where he focuses on building a true sovereign European cloud provider. He is also the creator and leader of Kyber, a new open technology start-up made to control machines, drones and robots in real time.
