Tobie Langel is the Founder and Principal of UnlockOpen, a boutique consulting firm specializing in open tech ecosystem strategy.
He advises:
Before establishing UnlockOpen, Tobie led Facebook’s standards initiative, representing the company at W3C and spearheading the Web Platform Tests open source initiative as a W3C Fellow.
He is well-known for having co-maintaining one of the world’s largest JavaScript libraries, editing multiple web standards implemented in all modern browsers, and for his public speaking and keynotes at key industry events.
Twitter: @tobie
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tobielangel
Website: unlockopen.com
Pronouns: he/him
On November 20, 2024 the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) was published in Official Journal of the European Union, starting a three year race for compliance by the global technology industry. This legislation sets new cybersecurity requirements that manufacturers and the open source projects they rely upon must meet.
In this presentation, we will provide an overview of these compliance requirements and outline how the Open Regulatory Compliance (ORC) Working Group of the Eclipse Foundation is collaborating in the open with numerous open source foundations, SMEs, and the industry to address them.