New CEO at OpenTalk: Strategic course set for digital sovereignty

With the appointment of Agathe Hütter as CEO, OpenTalk is sending a clear signal for the next phase of development of the open source video conferencing solution. The decision underlines the company's ambition to establish secure and sovereign video communication as a viable European alternative in the long term – especially for public authorities, companies and organisations with high data protection and compliance requirements.

OpenTalk operates in a market that is increasingly characterised by geopolitical dependencies, regulatory requirements and growing security awareness. Against this backdrop, digital sovereignty is becoming increasingly important strategically. The new management team brings extensive experience in building and scaling digital platforms in regulated environments, thereby strengthening OpenTalk's long-term positioning.

The focus of the coming phase will be on clear product and market positioning, sustainable growth and the consistent further development of an open, transparent and GDPR-compliant video conferencing solution. OpenTalk will continue to pursue a technology-neutral approach with flexible operating models – both as SaaS from German data centres and on-premises in its own operations.

As part of the Heinlein Group, OpenTalk is firmly anchored in an ecosystem that has stood for secure communication, open source and digital independence for decades. The new leadership therefore does not mark a change of course, but rather a strategic focus: towards greater scalability, greater visibility and a stronger role for European IT infrastructures in the digital everyday life of organisations.

The full press release can be found here.