AI.dev | Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, San Jose
2023-12-12 08:00 - 2023-12-13 17:00 UTC
AI.dev is a nexus for developers delving into the intricate realm of open source generative AI and machine learning. At the heart of this event is the belief that open source is the engine of innovation in AI. By uniting the brightest developers from around the world, we aim to ignite discussions, foster collaborations, and shape the trajectory of open source AI.

The Turing Way Practitioners Hub Showcase Event
2024-03-06 09:30 - 17:00 UTC | The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Rd., London NW1 2DB, British Library, 96 Euston Rd., London, NW1 2DB, United Kingdom
Join us at The Turing Way Practitioners Hub Showcase Event for a special showcase featuring case studies, expert panels, and attendee-led discussions on the co-adoption of open source and AI.
Date: 6 March 2024
Time: 09:30 am – 5:00 pm GMT
Location: Online/Hybrid
Register here: The Turing Way Practitioners Hub Showcase Event | The Alan Turing Institute
Engage in insightful panel discussions:
1. “Demystifying AI for Sectors”
2. “Leveraging Knowledge from Growing Sectors”
Participate in group discussions on open source, reproducibility, and inclusive collaboration in data science and AI.
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub, supported by Innovate UK BridgeAI, is more than a forum—it’s a dynamic space for industry practitioners to collaborate on cutting-edge AI practices.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to celebrate, learn, and express your interest in being a part of the second Cohort!

THE 2nd OSPO SUMMIT
2024-03-28 08:00 - 2024-03-29 17:00 UTC
27 – 29 March, Shenzhen, China
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Keynote: “The Future of Open Source – What lies ahead?” and Book Club with the translators of the Mandarin edition of Open Source Law, Policy and Practice.

Open Source Summit 2024 North America
2024-04-16 08:00 - 2024-04-18 17:00 UTC
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today.
Dr. Dawn Foster, Director of Data Science for CHAOSS and Open UK Board Member, will be participating as a speaker at the panel discussions of the event.

OCP Regional Summit
2024-04-24 - 2024-04-25 | Lisbon, Portugal
The OCP Regional Summit brings together EMEA technical and business leadership along with the OCP Community to address important and emerging challenges such as rising concerns around data center sustainability, including energy efficiency and heat-reuse, to learn how hyperscale DC operator innovations can be part of the solution, and showcase deployments of OCP recognized data center equipment in EMEA.
Academic Passes are also available and gives FREE access to keynotes, technical sessions, Future Technologies Symposium, Expo Hall, Innovation Village and FTS Tech Demos.
To apply for an Academic Pass, here is the Academic Pass Request Form (also available on the OCP Regional Summit’s Registration page): https://lnkd.in/eGuSHUrz

TRANSFORM Bern 2024
2024-05-08 09:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Rathaus Bern, Rathausplatz 2, Rathaus Bern, Rathausplatz 2, Bern, Sweden
8 May | Bern, Switzerland
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Keynote: “Opening the public sector to the future”

LinaroConnect Madrid 2024
2024-05-14 - 2024-05-17 | Melia Avenida America, Melia Avenida America, Madrid, Spain
LinaroConnect Madrid 2024
14 – 17 May | Madrid, Spain
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Keynote: “Open Source Under Threat!”

Stockholm Tech Show 2024
2024-05-22 - 2024-05-23 | Arne Beurlings Torg 5 Kista Sweden, Arne Beurlings Torg 5 Kista Sweden
22 – 23 May, 2024 | Sweden
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK, Headline Speaker, “Innovating the future with open source software”
50% discount on the conference ticket. Use LINK

OPEN SOURCE FOUNDERS SUMMIT 2024
2024-05-27 - 2024-05-28 | 159 Quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris, France, 159 Quai de Valmy, 75010, Paris, France
Open source companies face challenges and opportunities that proprietary software companies never encounter. General startup programs, investors and your own employees often won’t understand how to navigate these challenges or take advantage of the opportunities unless they have open source experience. The open source founders summit gives founders a place to learn from each other and support each other in building open source companies.
Event Details:
— It’s invite-only, in the hopes that OSFS2024 can really create an environment that allows people to be vulnerable and honest
— It’s focused on a broad view of open source companies, including DevTools and non-devtools, venture-backed and bootstrapped companies
— It’s interactive by design — there’s talks in the mornings and interactive break-out workshops in the afternoons

AI for Good Global Summit
2024-05-30 08:00 - 2024-05-31 17:00 UTC | International Telecommunication Union (ITU), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Place des Nations 1211 Geneva 20, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland
Enabling openness in the AI ecosystem: An interactive workshop
30 May | Geneva
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Melinda Claybaugh, Director of Privacy Policy, Meta
Marie McAuliffe, Head of the Migration Research & Publications Division, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Recent breakthroughs in AI, and generative AI in particular, have demonstrated what those developing these technologies have long known – they have the potential to help people do incredible things, create a new era of economic and social opportunity, and give individuals, creators, and organizations new ways to express themselves and connect with people. As the global community seeks to address global challenges by building applications that work toward societal benefit, it’s important to consider the role Open Source AI can play in the AI ecosystem. This workshop will consider different perspectives on the benefits and facilitate an interactive discussion surrounding these emerging opportunities. This workshop will include breakout discussions on policy and implementation.

IP Essentials for Early Career Researchers
2024-05-31 09:30 - 15:00 UTC | Digital Catapult Centre, 101 Euston Road, London, NW1 2RA, United Kingdom
REASON are hosting a workshop on IP Essentials for Early Career Researchers, led by Dan Warren (Samsung).
Agenda
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Intro from Dan Warren
10.05 ‘IP basics’ – Ean Davies, Appleyard Lees
11.00 Coffee
11.30 ‘IP realities’ – Phil Hodges, Ericsson
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Panel on IP exploitation routes – panel members tbd.
14.50 Closing comments from Dan Warren
15.00 End of event
Full details and registration can be found on our Eventbrite page

Bridging the hardware and software gap to optimize HPC
2024-06-24 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online
Bridging the hardware and software gap to optimize HPC

June 24 2024, 11:00 – Noon

Stephanie Schmidt, Intel Corp
Jeff Wittich, Ampere Computing
Amanda Brock, OpenUK

Open Source in Finance Forum 2024 | LF Foundation
2024-06-26 08:00 - 18:30 UTC | PARK PLAZA WESTMINSTER BRIDGE LONDON, 200 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7UT, United Kingdom
The Open Source in Finance Forum is a conference for experts across financial services, technology and open source to deepen collaboration and drive innovation across the industry in order to deliver better code faster.
Financial services firms make extensive use of open source, and are now starting to take full advantage of this incredible resource. By becoming strategic contributors to open source projects, companies decrease development costs, improve security, attract developers, and innovate faster. This event will showcase recent developments and the direction of open source in financial services; provide practical knowledge and guidance on best practices, tools and technologies; explore how to build a successful community; and provide unparalleled opportunities to network with the executives and individuals driving open source in financial services.
View the schedule

London Data Week 2024
2024-07-01 - 2024-07-07
Data is part of our everyday lives as Londoners, from choosing the best Tube route to finding your next pair of trainers. Join us at London Data Week for a citywide festival about data to learn, create, discuss, and explore how to use data to shape our city for the better. After an incredible first year in 2023, London Data Week is back for 2024!
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IEEE 6G Summit Leeds 2024 in Conjunction with WINCOM
2024-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
IEEE 6G Summit Leeds 2024 in Conjunction with WINCOM
July 25, 2024
Leeds, UK
https://www.wincom-conf.org/WINCOM_2024/
IEEE 6G Summit Leeds 2024
6G is expected to leverage technologies like terahertz frequencies, advanced antenna systems, and artificial intelligence to enable faster and more efficient wireless communication. It may also involve innovations in areas such as holographic communications, immersive augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), and the integration of communication networks with other emerging technologies.

The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 Hong Kong
2024-08-21 08:00 - 2024-08-23 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Kerry Hotel, Hong Kong, 38 Hung Luen Rd, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference joins with Open Source Summit and AI_dev to gather adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Hong Kong from 21-23 August 2024. Join us and immerse yourself in the heart of cloud native computing, open source innovation, and the intricate realm of generative AI and machine learning.
Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK, will be attending this event.

Percona University Istanbul Open Source Databases Meetup 2024
2024-09-07 09:30 - 16:30 (Europe/Moscow) | Workinton the Kozyatağı, Umut Sokak #10-12 Ataşehir, İstanbul, Turkey, 34752
Sept 7, 2024, İstanbul, Turkey
OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will be talking at this event. Topic TBA.
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Percona University comes to İstanbul, Turkey! We organize an in-person free database meetup on September 7th and invite everyone to join us.
This is a great opportunity to discover more about open source software, tools, and services, and to bring your open source database questions to our experts and featured speakers. Build your knowledge and get up to speed on hot database topics.
Experts will present talks about open source, cloud, PostgreSQL, monitoring and other topics.
Agenda:

Opening talk: State of Open Source Databases by Peter Zaitsev (Founder, Percona);
Moving MongoDB Workloads to Postgres by Peter Farkas (CEO & Co-founder at FerretDB);
Unusual Useful Types for Postgres by Yurii Rashkovskii (Founder at Omnigres);
Database Design and Modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL byAlkin Tezuysal (Executive VP Global Services, ChistaDATA);
An introduction to TiDB by Daniël van Eeden (Technical Support Engineer, PingCAP);
Navigating Postgres and Pgpool with a MySQL Expert’s Perspective by Patrick Galbraith (Principal Engineer, Consultant);
Cloud-native Postgres Observability Peter Zaitsev (Founder, Percona);

Attendance is free for everyone. Register to save your spot!

6th Annual Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Conference 2024
2024-09-09 - 2024-09-10 | Nobu Hotel Portman Square, 22 Portman Square, London, W1H 7BG
Sep 9 – 10 2024, London
OpenUK CISO; ControlPlane Founder and CEO Andrew Martin is speaking about ‘Defending AI on Kubernetes: Red Team Playbook’
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? ControlPlane is at the 6th Annual Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Conference 2024, helping to shape the future of AI in finance
Explore groundbreaking advancements and share insights on secure and scalable cloud native infrastructure ☁️ Andrew Martin is speaking about ‘Defending AI on Kubernetes: Red Team Playbook’ ❗https://lnkd.in/e4uHD4bd
? When: 10th September, 9:00 am – 9:30 am BST
Follow our LinkedIn page to get more information on this event soon ?️ For registration, please visit the event page: https://lnkd.in/eXMPqWTM

Open Source Summit Europe
2024-09-16 08:00 - 2024-09-18 17:00 UTC
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.

CIO100 Awards UK
2024-09-19 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | County Hall, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 7PB, United Kingdom
Awards Ceremony: 19 September 2024 | Venue: County Hall London
Entries open: 28 March 2024
Deadline: 14 June 2024
Recognising the best technology leaders in the UK

Percona.connect
2024-10-10 13:00 - 18:30 UTC | Civo Tech Junction, 32-37 Cowper Street, London, EC2A 4AW, United Kingdom
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK will participate in a Fireside chat from 3:30pm to 4:00pm.

OCA 10th anniversary
2024-10-22 08:00 - 2024-10-24 17:00 UTC | H’art Museum, Amstel 51, 1018 DR, Amsterdam, Netherlands
H’art Museum, Amsterdam
This year OCA celebrates it’s 10th anniversary! To celebrate this remarkable milestone, we have organized a special three-day event that highlights our achievements and strengthens our community. Starting in Amsterdam we will set the stage for an even more exciting future. Below you find more information on the event.

AI for the rest of us
2024-10-24 08:00 - 2024-10-25 17:00 UTC | 155 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TQ, 155 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 3TQ, United Kingdom
AI for the rest of us
24 – 25 October 2024, London
A dedicated AI conference designed for everyone. We’re creating an inclusive, creative and inspiring AI learning experience without the jargon or confusing terminology. We make no assumptions and meet you where you are. AI is ready for you, but who is helping you get ready for AI?

Open Source Summit Japan 2024
2024-10-28 08:00 - 2024-10-29 17:00 UTC
Open Source Summit Japan is the leading conference in Japan connecting the open source ecosystem under one roof, providing a forum for technologists and open source industry leaders to collaborate and share information, learn about the latest in open source technologies and find out how to gain a competitive advantage by using innovative open solutions.

KubeCon North America 2024
2024-11-12 08:00 - 2024-11-15 17:00 UTC
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.
See the schedule here.

OpenUK Ambassador Carla Gaggini, Isovalent at Cisco, will be participating in the program “Meet the CNCF Code of Conduct Committee – Bill Mulligan & Carla Gaggini, Isovalent at Cisco; Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft; Tim Pepper, CISA“
Control Plane will be running CTF for the 4th year. See details here.

OpenForum Academy Symposium
2024-11-13 08:00 - 2024-11-14 17:00 UTC
About the event
The OFA Symposium is the only academic conference covering questions relating to the social, political and economic impact of Open Source. The Symposium enables the linking of research agendas, growth of the research community, and the understanding of the societal value of Open Source.
The 2023 edition of the OFA Symposium at TU Berlin set the OFA’s agenda for Open Source research for the coming years. The 2024 edition is hosted by the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard to evolve the concept even further and raise the ambition level of the quality and impact of academic open source research.
The OFA Symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary set of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world to Harvard Business School, Boston, in order to explore the transformative power of Open Source software and hardware.
Under the theme Open Source in the Global Digital Economy the OFA Symposium will focus on the social, political, and economic implications of open source. We will examine how open source is changing the way we work, communicate, and interact with each other, and how it is shaping the future of technology and society.
OpenUK Team
Dawn Foster will be talking at the OFA on the panel about “Measuring the impact of public funding for open source software: Methodological considerations and reflections from the field”
Presentation

Extreme Hangout at COP29, Baku
2024-11-15 15:00 - 15:30 UTC
Extreme Hangout at COP29 is hosting youth-led discussions and workshops in the Green Zone, exploring solutions to climate challenges.
Amanda Brock: My Nephew’s Wisdom and Lessons from his Auntie
Friday 15 November 15:15-15:30
Session Overview
In this keynote, Amanda Brock shares how her path to becoming a Sustainability Advocate began with a conversation with her 8-year-old nephew, Ronan. Inspired by Sir David Attenborough, Ronan’s passion for the planet sparked Amanda’s awareness of the concerns of today’s youth. However, like many, Ronan was unaware of the envrionmental impact of his digital life. Through a mutual exchange of knowledge, Amanda educated him on the environmental effects of technology, while he deepened her understanding of sustainability. This intergenerational learning experience has accelerated Amanda’s work in driving sustainability through technology.
Meet Your Speaker
OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock’s built one of open source’s most recognised and impactful organisations. Executive Producer of State of Open Con (2023- 2025), Amanda’s a globally sought-after keynote speaker.A lawyer with 25 years’ experience, 5 as GC of Canonical, she’s been instrumental in shaping open source’s legal frameworks, as she was internet law during the early 2000’s.
Regularly contributing to tech press, she edited “Open Source: Law, Policy and Practice”, (2022).Recognition: Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech (2023, 2024); Computing IT Leaders 100 (2023, 2024); Lifetime Achievement Award WIPL (2022); Women Who Will Changemaker (2023); INvolve Heroes (2022, 2023); and Novi Awards (2024) and Ambassador, Open Charge Alliance.Advisory Appointments: UK Cabinet Office Open Standards Board; UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure; UKRI Exascale; KDE; commercial boards – Mimoto, Scarf, FerretDB and Space Aye; and is Fellow Open Forum Academy; Distinguished Fellow Rust Foundation; and European Representative, OIN.‍
Hosted by
OpenUK

Bringing Digital Public Good to tech Infrastructure with the Green Digital Action Plan and Open Source?
2024-11-16 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
Extreme Hangout • COP29, Baku
Bringing Digital Public Good to tech Infrastructure with the Green Digital Action Plan and Open Source?

Saturday 16 November 17:00-18:00

The Linux Foundation Member Summit
2024-11-19 08:00 - 2024-11-21 17:00 UTC | Silverado Resort, 1600 Atlas Peak Rd, Napa, CA, 94558, United States
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations.
An annual gathering for Linux Foundation members that fosters collaboration, innovation, and partnerships among the leading projects and organizations working to drive digital transformation with open source technologies. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation, and investment in their organizations and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time.

NextGenAI
2024-11-26 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | St Paul’s, London, Convene Sancroft St Paul’s (Rose Street off Paternoster Sq.), London, United Kingdom
NextGenAI
Intelligent Banking,
Intelligent Future
26 November 2024 | St Paul’s, London
Event summary
NextGen: AI – https://www.nextgenai.world/
Date: Tuesday 26 November
Location : Convene Sancroft St Paul’s (Rose Street off Paternoster Sq.)
Agenda: https://www.nextgenai.world/agenda
Amanda Brock, CEO OpenUK, will be talking at a panel.
12.00-12.30 – Where next with AI?
The rise of ChatGPT as a mass consumption natural language model in 2023 marked the era of GenAI democratisation. While most financial services players remain bullish on the future of GenAI, the numerous use cases may change their mind. GenAI analyses customer behaviour, discovers preferences, and has the power to unlock important insights, leading to more personalised user experiences and improved customer service. We are already witnessing a shift from traditional chatbots to sophisticated ones that are highly trained in semantics and can provide knowledgeable responses. The technology is capable of not only generating immediate, precise, and natural-sounding answers, but it can also analyse a customer’s financial history and credit rating and help them source and choose the best loan option for their unique situation. AI assistants can also help staff to more quickly access key information for clients, and more intelligent robotic process automation (RPA) allows a level of usability with AI enhancements that will make it more valuable to enhance workflows and automate decisions. In addition to this, advances in natural language processing (NLP) combined with other traditional AI that can spot trends and anomalies unlocks a more complete picture.
