Amandine Le Pape
Amandine is a founding member of the European Open Source Academy where she heads the Business and Impact section, and a co-founder and Guardian of the Matrix.org Foundation. The Foundation is the custodian for the Matrix open standard, aiming to democratise secure online communication and solve the problem of fragmentation in current Chat, VoIP, VR and IoT technologies. Matrix makes open real-time-communication as universal and interoperable as email, and brings the power back to the user on choosing who they trust with their data and how they want to communicate.
Amandine is also COO and co-founder for Element, the company building the eponym open source, secure and interoperable collaboration tool built on Matrix. Element delivers Matrix solutions to millions of users, including the German Armed Forces, the Swedish and French governments, the UN, and private companies like Mozilla or Red Hat.
Amandine has a degree in telecommunications engineering from Ecole Supérieure de Chimie, Physique et Electronique de Lyon as well as an EMBA from ESC Rennes.