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Open Source is often associated with license free, although the real benefit comes with the community contributing their free time to evolve the product. Baddý Sonja Breidert, CEO at 1xINTERNET, presented the reasons to be open and how a web agency benefits by contributing to Open Source.

Old School for the Win: Linux New Media was founded in the mid 90´s and became the world´s largest Linux and Open Source content providers. Brian Osborn, Publisher and CEO at Linux New Media, shared his insights and portraited how a publisher went through the waves of digitalization - and succeeded by ignoring the digital transformation.

In their session "From Monolith to Microservices: A Start Up's mission in Software Architecture" Amber Riedl, Co-Founder & CMO at Makerist, and Jana Kazmina, Head of Product at Makerist, lead through the process of how their company transformed a monolith into microservices.

Timothy Lehnen, Executive Director of the Drupal Associaton, gave an Open Source Keynote and talked about horizons in digital publishing and digital experiences. In this, he focused on four horizons and ambitions: omnichannel, AI first, decentralization, and emerging markets.

Winning ultra-distance 24h races in the jungle of Nicaragua or the solitude in Iceland - to achieve goals like these one can´t stay in the comfort zone. Vanessa Gebhardt is Ultra Run Champion, Obstacle Race Champion and Training Specialist at Freeletics. She gave insights on how she can motivate herself to prepare for huge milestones and how everybody can build positive habits.