Jean-Baptiste Kempf
French engineer; president of the VideoLAN non-profit and a lead developer of VLC.
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- Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a French software engineer who leads VLC.
- He joined the project as a student at École Centrale Paris and took on its leadership in 2006, then set up VideoLAN as an organisation separate from the university and became its president.
- In 2012 he founded Videolabs, a company that builds services around VLC.
- He received the European SFS Award in 2025.
Key facts
- Role
- President of VideoLAN; one of the lead developers of VLC2
- Founded
- Videolabs (2012)1
- History
- Joined VLC at École Centrale Paris in 2003; led the project from 20061
- Honours
- Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite (2018); European SFS Award (2025)1
- Born
- 30 March 19831
Roles
Leads
- VideoLANOrganization
president source on VideoLAN
Founded
- VideoLANOrganization
set up the organisation separate from the university · since 2008 source on VideoLAN
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