Leaving London for Amsterdam today to head to Kubecon Europe/ Cloud Native Rejekts, my first international conference this year, I’m really pleased to be able to do this leg of the journey by train in a more sustainable way than much of our travel.
I’m talking at Rejekts on Sunday morning, and will be asking “Will Open Source Fail?” It’s a common theme across my talks and keynotes at open technology conferences in 2023. Next week I have a very different talk to give, a keynote I’m delivering to a more hardware focused crowd at the Open Compute Summit, in Prague, which will be nothing like my Sunday morning talk to the Kubernetes crowd in Amsterdam.
All of my submissions to Kubecon have been rejected, year on year (queue sound of violin playing a sad song) so, I am delighted to join others who’ve not made it onto the Kubecon roster at Rejekts.
Whilst I didn’t make the grade (apparently only 10% of talks are accepted), that’s not true of many of the OpenUK team. If you make it to Amsterdam or watch on line, then you can enjoy these talks by the OpenUK team:
Dawn Foster, OpenUK Board member and Director Open Source Community Strategy, VMware
- Keynote – Building a Sustainable CNCF Project Contributor Base – 19 April, 10.05
- TAG Contributor Strategy: What we get out of it (and You Could Too!) – 20 April, 15.25
Paula Kennedy, OpenUK Ambassador, and Co-Founder and COO Syntasso
- A Beginner’s guide to Conference Speaking, 18 April, 17.55
- Grow your own Community – Lessons Learned from Running Kubernetes Community Days across Europe – 19 April, 11.55
Thomas Meadows, OpenUK Chief Apprentice Ambassador and Solutions Engineer, Jetstack
- Cert-Manager Can do SPIFFE, Solving Cloud Workload Identity Using a De Facto Standard tool – Talk – 19 April, 11.00
Andrew Martin, OpenUK CISO and Control Plane Co-Founder and CEO
- An Introduction to Cloud Native Capture The Flag – 19 April, 11.55 and again at 15.25
- Back to the Future: Next Generation Cloud Native Security – 20 April, 11.00
Matt Jarvis, OpenUK Board Member and Snyk
- Grow your own Community – Lessons Learned from Running Kubernetes Community Days across Europe – 19 April, 11.55
- Back to the Future: Next Generation Cloud Native Security – 20 April, 11.00
Katie Gamanji, OpenUK Chief Future Founder and Apple
- Going for Graduation: Crossing the Chasm – 19 April 14.30
Max Korbacher – OpenUK International Ambassador, and Liquid Reply
- Grow your own Community – Lessons Learned from Running Kubernetes Community Days across Europe – 19 April, 11.55
- Love, Death and Robots – with Wasm &K9s on Boston Dynamics Spot – 19 April, 16.30
Michael Cade, OpenUK Ambassador and Kasten by Veeam
- What went wrong with My Persistent Data – 20 April, 14.30
Liz Rice, OpenUK Board Director and Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
- Building a Successful Business in Cloud Native – 20 April, 15.25
- Keeping it simple: Cilium Networking for Multicloud Kubernetes – 21 April, 16.55
Justin Cormack, OpenUK Ambassador and CTO Docker
- Securing the Container Supply Chain with Notary -21 April, 14.00
Bart Farrell, Sate of Open Con Advisory Board Member and Community Consultant
- Community Leaders Tell All – 20 April 14.30
Of course, that’s not everyone from the UK who’s speaking, other UK companies like Civo, G Research, Jetstack, Skyscanner, Snyk and Weaveworks have speakers and the UK’s Canonical is running the co-located Operator Day, on the 17th – the above list is just the folk who are actively involved in making OpenUK tick…
We are so lucky in the UK to really be a centre of excellence in open source software and in particular in Kubernetes. That has increasingly been attracting folk to the UK and as one investor said to me last week, about half the people working in London on open source are international and have used the post Brexit visas to come to the UK to work.
Look out for our next report, State of Open: The UK in 2023, Phase One, being shared during the conferences… https://openuk.uk/stateofopen
