Gilles Gravier - Biography
Gilles is a director, and senior open source, inner source and
innovation strategy advisor. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he
provides innovation strategy consulting and advisory services to his
key customers worldwide, through the application of open source,
InnerSource, blockchain, metaverse, quantum and other highly
innovative technologies. He can also offer service as a Chief Open
Source or InnerSource Officer, or Head of Innovation for your
company. After delivering these services for almost 10 years as part
of Wipro's open source consulting practice, he is now proposing his
skills and experience as an independent consultant.
He is currently engaged with the State
Administration of
Geneva’s IT Services (OCSIN) where, after creating their open
source strategy, he
is driving its implementation as open source and InnerSource
programs.
He has a pragmatic approach to open source, and regularly advises
global companies, start-up, and venture capitalists on open source
strategy, licensing issues, business models... He also believes
strongly that metaverse technologies, likely based on blockchains,
will be a natural part of the IT landscape of the coming decades,
enabling a fully collaborative and distributed services world. He is
also a user of Bitcoin and is convinced that crypto currencies will
be a key to tomorrow's shared economy models.
Prior to that, Gilles was Director of Product Management for the Quantum-Safe
Network Encryption Solutions (including Quantum
Key Distribution Servers) product lines, as well as for the Quantum
Random Number Generators, at ID Quantique, a company that
is the leader in high-performance multi-protocol network encryption,
based on conventional and quantum technologies, and aiming at
providing future-proof encryption for data requiring long term
protection.
During his career, Gilles has always been involved in both security
and open source. In particular in roles such as Chief Technology
Strategist for Security and Open source at Sun Microsystems,
advising the largest accounts globally on their IT security strategy
as well as their open source activities. He moved on to develop
global market and business development strategies for open source
and security in the public sector still at Sun and then Oracle. He
has been active as a technology
evangelist, in particular for these companies, around
cryptography, DRM, open source and open standards.
He has worked extensively with venture capitalists as a strategic
adviser for their due diligence process on IT start-ups, and is
member of the boards (advisory or directors) of several start-ups.
As a regular speaker at industry events as well as often being
interviewed, there are multiple recordings where you can see Gilles
in action. A collection is
available here.
In December 2012, he co-founded Why Open Computing!, a
Swiss company focusing on selling sustainable laptops that can be
user-serviced and community supported for years on.
He is former CISSP #91529,
member of the Open
Invention Network, April,
and FSF Europe Fellowship.
He posts on his blog on Medium
and has a LinkedIn
profile where you can find more about his activities.
Gilles is a passionate photographer and
travels either with his Canon EOS
6D or PowerShot
G7 X Mark III. He also shares his interest in astronomy with
the neighboring elementary school children.
Combining his passion for photography and music, he is president and
co-founder of La
Compagnie Divague, a non for profit organization that aims a
promoting lyrical arts to all audiences, all ages, all social
groups.
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