Jean-Baptiste Kempf & Marvin Scholz

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.

Marvin Scholz is a software developer from Germany interested in multimedia and contributing to various open-source projects, among others the popular VLC Media Player and the multimedia swiss army knife FFmpeg.