This talk explores how Free and Open Source Software creates value through community, trust and long-term adoption.
We’ll look at how everyday developer decisions: choosing tools, contributing to projects or maintaining them over time, influence which technologies organisations come to rely on. These choices shape not only adoption, but also how much control and flexibility organisations retain over their systems.
By focusing on real-world examples and ecosystem dynamics, we’ll highlight how open source enables more sustainable and transparent technology choices and why community-driven projects such as Payara Community, Jakarta EE and OpenJDK play a key role in building reliable, widely used infrastructure.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how their day-to-day work contributes to the success of open technologies and how those decisions influence trust, adoption and long-term control over the systems their organisations depend on.
