Name: X-Road: The Open Source Project That Runs Countries (And What It Can Teach Your Project) - Gbemisola Mary Oladetoun, Fleetfox
Start: 2026-10-09T14:50:00+0200
End: 2026-10-09T15:30:00+0200

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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X-Road: The Open Source Project That Runs Countries (And What It Can Teach Your Project) - Gbemisola Mary Oladetoun, Fleetfox

Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST

Conference Hall (Floor 4)

X-Road started as Estonia's internal government data exchange layer. Today it is open source, deployed in over 20 countries including Finland, Iceland, and Japan, and maintained by a cross-border foundation. I build software on top of X-Road every day in Tallinn, so I interact with this system as a practitioner, not just someone who read about it.

This talk covers: the governance model that allows countries with different legal systems to contribute to the same codebase. How X-Road handles backwards compatibility when your users are governments that cannot afford breaking changes. The trust model that lets citizens see exactly who accessed their data. And what this journey from closed government software to open source infrastructure teaches other projects about sustainability.

I am not an X-Road maintainer. I am a software engineer who uses it in production and an HCI researcher who thinks about how people interact with systems like this. Most talks about X-Road come from the people who built it. This one comes from someone who lives with it.

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Gbemisola Mary Oladetoun

Full Stack Developer, Fleetfox

Gbemisola Oladetoun is a Full Stack Developer and HCI researcher at Tallinn University, Estonia. Originally from Nigeria, she has built AI-powered products serving 1,500+ users across three African countries and now builds fleet software for the European market. Her talks blend technical... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)

OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

OSS + ELC EU 2026

Gbemisola Mary Oladetoun

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