Awards Committee

OpenUK Awards

The OpenUK Awards ceremony will take place on the evening of 20 October. We will be awarding prizes for individuals, projects and corporate usage in open source software, open hardware and open data.

Judging panel

Jeni Tennison

Board Adviser

Jeni Tennison is the CEO of the Open Data Institute, which has a mission to...

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Henry Nash

CTO Advocacy, Hybrid Cloud

Henry works as CTO Advocacy, Hybrid Cloud at IBM, and has been a core contributor...

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Katie Gamanji

Cloud Platform Engineer, American Express

As a Cloud Platform Engineer at American Express, Katie contributes to the build-out of a...

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Chair

Jonathan Riddell

KDE and Blue Systems

Jonathan has been bringing Linux to the desktop for 20 years, working for Canonical and...

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Committee members

Andy Bennett

Founder, Register Dynamics and BCS Open Source Software Group

Andy trained as an Electronic and Electrical Engineer and has a background in consumer electronics,...

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Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK

Amanda is CEO of the UK body for “open”, OpenUK, the Chair of the Open...

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David Jobling

Director of Xyron

David is the Director of Xyron, supporting public sector organisations to develop, implement and maintain...

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Ritwik Sarkar

Student and Open Source Rep, Edinburgh University

3rd year Computer Science with Management student working as the University’s Open Source Champion

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Dominique Top

Developer Relations & Community Manager at Babylon Health Ever since moving to London in 2016,...

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