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Sonia Cooper
30th April 2020

Driving better outcomes with an open approach to data, Sonia Cooper, Microsoft

Microsoft’s mission to empower every organization on the planet to achieve more, aims to put the tools for building and using AI into the hands...

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James Kingston
7th April 2020

Hack from Home and fight the Coronavirus

Last weekend,  822 developers, designers, product managers, subject experts and concerned citizens from over 40 countries came together to build privacy-preserving applications that can help...

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Camilla Siggaard Andersen
28th March 2020

The Local Smart City Experiment: What Covid-19 is teaching us about urban living

2020 is  an extraordinary year. This year, people across the world will experience for the first time, first-hand, a completely different lifestyle to the one...

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Amanda Brock
12th March 2020

Covid-19 and OpenUK

Coronavirus remains a great unknown in our planning of 2020. As a tech community, financial ebbs and flows and travel bans aside, we are used...

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Karen Sandler
6th January 2020

Karen Sandler talks “Digital Autonomy” in advance of her OpenUK Healthcare keynote in London on 6 February

Digital autonomy – our ability to choose and control how technology integrates in our live- has never been more important. It also has never been...

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Amanda Brock
3rd January 2020

Dominic Cummings and Number 10 need you!

It’s the start of a new decade and with Brexit on January 31, inevitably a new era for the UK.

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Amanda Brock
24th December 2019

How open source can live up to its name in a post-Brexit world

Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK and keynote speaker at Tech Leaders Summit, explores how open source can thrive in a post-Brexit world

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Amanda Brock
6th December 2019

“Some people have all the luck” Neil McGovern, Executive Director, Gnome Foundation

Some people have all the luck – by Neil McGovern.

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Amanda Brock
18th November 2019

DG Connect: Open Source 2020 and Beyond

The European Commission is taking Open Source, Open Hardware and Open Data seriously and recognising the need to take real and defined steps to move...

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Amanda Brock
7th October 2019

OggCamp

On October 19th and 20th, long running open source event OggCamp will have its next outing in Manchester, UK. OggCamp is named for the file...

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