Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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Jean Baptiste Kempf

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf is the creator of the VideoLAN non-profit and a key figure behind VLC media player. Heavily involved in the past 20 years in the open source ecosystems, he is the maintainer of dozens of open source projects, has founded multiple startups in the multimedia and gaming space, advised VCs and numerous startups and has led large engineering teams at scale.

Since close to 20 years, he has been a key contributor to numerous open source projects, such as FFmpeg, x264, dav1d, VLC and a few others, which are powering most of the video streaming services. Active proponent of the open source ecosystem, he has also been the president of the VideoLAN foundation, since its foundation in 2008.

He is also the creator and leader of Kyber, a new open technology start-up made to control machines, drones and robots in real time.

JB is also member of the European Open Source Academy.


Events

Title Day Room Track Start End
Enabling Intelligent Media Playback on RISC-V: VLC with Whisper STT and Qwen T2T on Next-Gen RISC-V AI PCs
Saturday K.4.601 Open Media devroom 13:05 13:25