Mario Behling
Mario Behling is a technologist and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in open source development and digital innovation. He is the co-founder of FOSSASIA, the open source community in Asia, which plays a key role in advancing the FOSS movement across the region. Mario has launched numerous open source initiatives and companies spanning software and hardware, and continues to promote open technologies through education, community building, and enterprise solutions. He is the CEO of OpnTec, a German open source company focused on sustainable tech, and advises international organizations including the UNESCO on digital transformation strategies. He also served as a board member of the Open Source Business Alliance Germany, supporting open source adoption across public and private sectors.
Session
This session looks at where open hardware is heading, starting from recent ground up developments at FOSSASIA and extending to global trends across the open hardware community. With perspectives from FOSSASIA developers and open hardware experts, it explores decentralised collaboration, open silicon and firmware stacks, manufacturing realities, and how openness can be sustained at scale.