Jean–Philippe Balança is the CEO of Smile International, a European opensource service company, leader in Digital and one stop shop provider, based in 9 European countries. Smile is highly involved in Numeum, the French syndicate of IT and digital companies.. Jean–Philippe is also a founding member of the European Open Source Consortium gathering the European major Opensource independent opensource companies. Through Smile and the EOS consortium, he promotes an industrial, independent, sovereign and open technology sector in Europe to serve the future shape of European Data & Digital landscape.