OpenUK

OpenUK AI Openness Round Table
2024-09-11 10:30 - 12:30 UTC | House of Lords, Parliament Square, London, SW1A 0PW, United Kingdom
OpenUK AI Openness Round Table
11 Sep, Weds, 11:00 – 12:30
Committee Room G, House of Lords Sponsored by Lord Wei

SERA and OpenUK Fringe: The Intelligent Environment: Building Sustainable Data Centres
2024-09-22 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
Sunday, 22 Sep 2024 11:00 – 12:00
The Labour Environment Hub, ACC Liverpool

SME4Labour and OpenUK Fringe: Opening AI
2024-09-22 13:00 - 13:50 UTC
SME4Labour and OpenUK Fringe: Opening AI
Sunday, 22 Sep 2024 13:00 – 13:50
SME4Labour pod, Arena Room 7, ACC Liverpool

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell September 2024
2024-09-27 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell September 2024
Licence Shifts, Open Washing and Forking in Open Source
Date and time

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:00 – 17:30 BST

About this event
OpenUK has been reporting on open-source software since 2021 and encouraging a collaborative approach across the global research community, leading this with bi-monthly events. Each meeting is free to attend and anyone is welcome to join and learn more about what research is being undertaken and the reporting coming down the line.
Attendance at this event is subject to the following OpenUK policies: Code of Respect and Competition Policy
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Resources
Slide Deck – Show and Tell Deck
James Governor – Open Source Business Models & License Changes

RedMonk Focus on licence changes and economics

Dr Dawn Foster – License Changes and Forking Data

https://chaoss.community/practitioner-guide-organizational-participation/
https://github.com/chaoss/wg-data-science/tree/main/dataset/license-changes/fork-case-study/notebooks
https://chaoss.community/
https://github.com/chaoss/wg-data-science
https://github.com/chaoss/wg-data-science/tree/main/dataset/license-changes/fork-case-study
https://chaoss.community/about-chaoss-practitioner-guides/

Recent Articles on Forking:

Amanda Brock

https://thenewstack.io/why-open-source-forking-is-a-hot-button-issue/
https://www.computing.co.uk/opinion/2024/open-source-is-not-a-business-model

Stephen O’Grady

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/07/16/post-valkey-world/

Stephen Walli

https://medium.com/@stephenrwalli/forked-communities-whose-property-is-it-anyway-2ddee71f2ef1

OpenUK Data Centre Round Table
2024-10-09 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | House of Commons Committee Room G, Houses of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom
OpenUK Data Centre Round Table
9 October, Weds, 14:00 – 15:30
Committee Room G, House of Lords Sponsored by Lord Wei
Please arrive 30 minutes before for an airport-style security check

OpenUK Filling the Gap in the UK Tech Sector Skills with Open Source Round Table
2024-12-03 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | House of Commons Committee Room G, Houses of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom
OpenUK Filling the Gap in the UK Tech Sector Skills with Open Source Round Table
Tuesday, 3rd December 2024, 11:00 – 12:30
Please arrive by 10:30
Committee Room G, House of Lords Sponsored by Lord Wei
Speakers : Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK;
Dawn Foster, Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project;
Dr Jennifer Barth, Chief Research Director, OpenUK;
Russ Shaw, Founder, Global Tech Advocates;
Sam Hepburn, Community, Tessl

OpenUK AI Openness Round Table
2024-12-11 15:00 - 16:30 UTC | House of Commons Committee Room G, Houses of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom
OpenUK AI Openness Round Table
11 December, 15:00 – 16:30
Committee Room G, House of Lords Sponsored by Lord Wei
Speakers : Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK;
Ed Shee, CTO, Ignitus;
Prof Elena Simperl, Professor of Computer Science, Kings;
Dr Jennifer Barth, Chief Research Officer, OpenUK
Dr Laura Gilbert, Director of the Incubator for AI, 10 Downing Street;
Robbie Jerrom, AI Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, RedHat;
Simon Wardley, Founder, Swardley Maps Ltd;
Tobias Hooton, CEO, Stelia

OpenUK's Christmas Cracker
2024-12-17 13:00 - 20:30 UTC | Civo Tech Junction, 32-37 Cowper Street, London, EC2A 4AW, United Kingdom
An afternoon of discussion of Open Source and AI followed by an evening of Christmas Drinks Space limited – Sign up now!

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 2024
2024-12-20 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 2024

Date changed

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:00 – 17:30 GMT

About this event
OpenUK has been reporting on open source software since 2021 and encouraging a collaborative approach across the global research community, leading this with bi-monthly events.
Each meeting is free to attend and anyone is welcome to join and learn more about what research is being undertaken and the reporting coming down the line.
Attendance at this event is subject to the following OpenUK policies:-

Code of Respect
Privacy Policy
Competition Policy
Sustainability Policy

If you would like to hear more about OpenUK, please sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #5
2025-01-08 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 8th January for our 5th OpenUK Apprentice meetup hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Dawn Foster, CHAOSS Project
8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Red Badger for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Digital #5 Self-hosting: open source tools for every day
2025-01-15 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 15th January for the Fifth OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
We will have the speaker info to be announced soon. This will be a lunchtime webinar. The event will not be recorded for publishing but for transcript purposes.
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s Privacy Policy. By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead. If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter.
Join here
Digital Meetup #5 Self-hosting: open source tools for every day
Wednesday, 15 January · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/npr-nyyv-uta

OpenUK London #20: Open AI
2025-01-15 18:30 - 20:45 UTC
Wednesday 15th January we’re back with our 20th OpenUK London community meetup! We’ve had the hype, now let’s get real with how AI is working for us, of course the open source kind! (Open AI in the title is not to be confused with OpenAI because that is not open.)
6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
Add to our whiteboarding brainstorm
6:45 pm: Welcome, reminder of code of conduct, and discussion of whiteboard
7:00 pm: State of AI Openness 2024 explained with Amanda Brock, OpenUK CEO
7:20pm: Speech to Speech translation with a cascade of open source models, presented by AI developer Nikita Krasnytskyi
7:40 pm: Unum Cloud, advanced AI computing company for scaling intelligence, presented by founder Ash Vardanian
8:00 pm: presentation by Matt Carey
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave. Bring tupperware so we don’t waste pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

State of Open Con 25
2025-02-04 08:00 - 2025-02-05 17:00 UTC | Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., St Paul’s London EC4M 7DQ, Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., London, London, EC4M 7DQ, United Kingdom
The UK’s Open Technology Conference
Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Data,
Open Standards, & AI Openness

4 and 5 February, 2025
Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq.,
St Paul’s London EC4M 7DQ

OpenUK Apprentice meet-up #6
2025-02-12 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 12th February for our 6th OpenUK Apprentice meet-up hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs
8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Red Badger for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London #21: Open Databases
2025-02-26 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
SIGN UP TO SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday 26th February for our next meet-up. We’ll be sharing what we’ve learned with open databases. Want to be involved? Tell us in our OpenUK Slack community!
6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
TBD
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building. Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
The link for the online version of this event will be added about a week before, so please check back.
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Digital Meetup #6 A fireside chat with core maintainers
2025-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 12th March for the 6th OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
This will be a lunchtime webinar. The event will not be recorded for publishing but for transcript purposes.
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s Privacy Policy. By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead. If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter.
Join here
Digital Meetup # fireside chat with core maintainers
Wednesday, 12 March · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Time zone: Europe/London
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/okb-vufi-ejh

OpenUK London #22: Save the Date
2025-03-19 18:30 - 20:45 UTC | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
SIGN UP TO SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday 19th March for our next meet-up. Have an open topic you want us to talk about in 2025? Tell us in our OpenUK Slack community!
6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
TBD
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building. Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
The link for the online version of this event will be added about a week before, so please check back.
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London #25: Documentation (In-Person signups)
2025-06-18 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Wednesday 18th June for our next meetup. Since docs are essential to open source success, this month, we have a Collab with our friends at the Write The Docs London Meetup!
This meetup will be all about the thing likely most lacking but important for your open source project to be found and to engage people from all walks in using your project — DOCS! How can you ensure you have good documentation? How can you translate to other languages? Can GenAI help or hinder your Docs? Any open source tools that help?
6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
6:50 pm: Welcome, code of conduct and warmup
7:00 pm: Blessing Ene Anyebe on Building a Documentation Culture in Open Source Communities, joining us remotely from Nigeria
7:30 pm: Hanku Lee, asking Where has documentation automation gotten us? Including open source projects: Fedora, Rocky Linux (localization), Ubuntu docs (localization team), and Hugo Paige, joining us remotely from South Korea
8:00 pm: Our meetup co-host Jennifer Riggins will run a workshop on engaging, readable (by humans and Google documentation) — feel free to nominate your doc to talk about!
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
This remains an interactive Hybrid event, however, the meetup invites are split up and RSVPs for in-person are opened three weeks out. Please only sign up for this event if you can definitely attend in person. We welcome everyone sign up for the online version even as a save the date!
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building. Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
The link for the online version of this event will be added about a week before, so please check back.
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK AI for Public Good Report Launch and Drinks
2025-07-03 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | House of Commons Terrace
Launching OpenUK’s latest AI Openness report with a drinks reception at the beautiful Pavilion and Terrace at the House of Commons.
Hosted by Sarah Edwards, MP
Join us to meet contributors to our report, which updates the landscape on AI Openness in 2025, and share the real challenges and conversations in this space:

Geopolitics and the new landscape
Shifting the language -open source to Public Good and disaggregation
Data and AI inputs
The DeepSeek effect and OpenAI’s upcoming open language model LLM
The role of open source tooling in global AI governance
Securing Agentic AI and Quantum Readiness
Return on Investment
The data centre bubble
Why the UK doesn’t need an open source policy for software or AI
The Journey to the India AI Summit and its focus on access

The evening will be a celebration of our report, during which you will hear from a few of our contributors.

Agenda

18:00 Arrival
18:30 – 21.30 Drinks and canapes
19:00 – 19:40 Report launch and speakers

Roundtable in Parliament, The UK Data Library and GaiaX
2025-07-14 15:00 - 16:30 UTC | House of Parliament, 1 Parliament Square, London, SW1A 2 JR
Sponsored by James Naish MP
Please note data change to 14 July at 15:00
This roundtable will discuss the proposed UK Data Library and its potential to interact with the EU’s GaiaX. Speakers will include GaiaX CEO, Ulrich Ahle.

AI Openness and Access for All - Hyderabad
2025-08-04 18:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Infosys, Plot No, 44, Hosur Rd Konappana Agrahara, Electronic City Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560100, India
One of a several events across India coalescing the open source and AI openness communities to support shaping the AI Impact Summit agenda

AI Openness and Access for All - Bangalore
2025-08-08 18:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Infosys, Plot No, 44, Hosur Rd Konappana Agrahara, Electronic City Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560100, India

AI Openness and Access for All - Mumbai
2025-08-09 14:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | ITM Institute of Design and Media ( ITM IDM) Floor 1, Suvidha Square, Junction of Ceaser Road, Swami Vivekananda Rd Sector 4, Kharghar Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400058, India

AI Openness and Access for All, Delhi
2025-08-11 16:00 - 18:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | CBIP, Malcha Marg, New Delhi, 110021

Agent Open Unconference with the AI Alliance
2025-10-21 10:00 - 18:00 UTC

Christmas Party 2025
2025-12-16 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Civil Service Club, Trafalgar Rooom, 13-15 Great Scotland Yard, London, SW1A 2HJ, United Kingdom
An evening of festive fun at the Civil Service Club, London
Join some of the OpenUK Community over drinks and a buffet supper, as we welcome a very special guest this Christmas
Tickets are limited and will sell out in advance.

Roundtable in Parliament, Filling the Skills Gap with Open Source
2026-01-28 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | Portcullis House, 1 Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JR, United Kingdom

OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: MCP, Open Standards and Data Workshop
2026-02-17 10:30 - 11:25 (Asia/Kolkata)
Hosts:
1 Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
2 Karan MV, Developer Relations, GitHub
Workshop Leaders:
1 Simon Hansford, COO, Civo
2 Saiyam Pathak, Founder, Kubesimplify
3 Rohit Ghumare, Ambassador, OpenUK
4 James Lovegrove, Head of Policy, RedHat
5 Naresh Vyas, Founder and CTO, TwoCents.ai
6 Anil Madhavapeddy, Cambridge University
7 Shivay Lamba, Program committee, JSNation
17 Feb 2026, 10:30 – 11:25
Room number 16, Bharat Mandapam

About
1 Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK

OpenUK CEO and Executive Producer State of Open Con, Amanda’s 25 years’ legal experience includes being instrumental in shaping open source’s legal frameworks and internet law in 2000’s. Sought-after international keynote speaker, tech press contributor and editor “Open Source: Law, Policy and Practice” (2022).
Recognition: Raconteur 50 CEOs (2025); Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential Women (2023-2025); Computing IT Leaders 100 (2023 – 2025); Lifetime Achievement WIPL (2022); Women Who Will (2023); INvolve Heroes (2022, 2023); Novi Awards (2024).
Advisory: Public Boards UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure; KDE. Commercial Boards: Mimoto; Scarf; FerretDB and Space Aye. Fellow, Open Forum Academy; Distinguished Fellow, Rust Foundation; European Representative, OIN; Ambassador, Open Charge Alliance; Board Member Mojaloop Foundation; and Expert Network, Digital Innovation Board of ITU.

2 Karan MV, Developer Relations Leader, GitHub

Karan is the Director, International Developer Relations at GitHub, where he works closely with developers across enterprises, startups, nonprofits, academia, and the open source community. He operates at the intersection of AI and open source, helping organizations and individuals accelerate software development with GitHub at the center of their workflows. Karan represents GitHub’s developer and ecosystem strategy in India, playing a leading role in shaping how the company engages with one of the world’s fastest-growing developer communities. He has featured in major developer keynotes alongside Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, where he showcased GitHub’s products and shared the story of how AI and open source are transforming software development. A hands-on developer himself, Karan writes code daily and brings a unique blend of technical depth, ecosystem experience, and business insight. He is deeply passionate about the convergence of AI and open source, and how this intersection is shaping the next generation of developers and software.

Workshop Leaders:
1 Simon Hansford, COO, Civo

Simon Hansford is a veteran technology entrepreneur and the Chief Commercial Officer at Civo, a global challenger hyperscaler and pioneer in cloud-native infrastructure. A specialist in scaling high-growth technology businesses, Simon previously co-founded and led UKCloud as CEO, establishing it as the premier cloud provider for the UK Public Sector.
Civo is at the forefront of the “neocloud” movement, spearheading the development of relaxAI—a sovereign, privacy-first AI assistant designed to challenge traditional black-box models. At the AI Impact Summit, Simon shares insights on how open standards and Model Context Protocol (MCP) are essential for building secure, transparent, and truly agentic AI ecosystems.

2 Saiyam Pathak, Founder, Kubesimplify

Saiyam Pathak is the Founder of Kubesimplify and Head of Developer Relations at Loft Labs, where he works at the intersection of Kubernetes, AI infrastructure, and platform engineering. He is the author of AI for Enterprises, Co-Chair of KubeCon India, and Chair of the CNCF TAG Operational Resilience. With over a decade of experience, Saiyam has worked across multiple facets of Kubernetes in production, including platform design, multi-tenancy, security, observability, and large-scale AI workloads. He is passionate about helping organizations adopt cloud-native and AI technologies through practical education, hands-on workshops, and community-driven initiatives.

3 Rohit Ghumare, Ambassador, OpenUK

Rohit Ghumare is a recognized Open Source champion, serving as a CNCF Ambassador (Marketing Chair 2025), Google Developer Expert Cloud/AI and Docker Captain. He is a passionate AI & DevOps Advocate and true Community Evangelist, leading multiple communities and fostering AI, DevOps, and Developer Relations awareness. Rohit’s contributions to the open-source ecosystem include projects serving millions, delivering presentations, crafting documentation and blogs, and contributing code. Currently leading Developer Relations at Motia.dev and Founder of DevRelAsService, his focus includes innovating within the AI Agentic Infrastructure technology stacks, drawing on his expertise in LLMs, Kubernetes, and cloud-native solutions. Creator of CreateMVPs.app, and AgenstSkills.com

4 James Lovegrove, Head of Policy, RedHat

James Lovegrove is Public Policy Director for EMEA and APAC at Red Hat, the world’s leader of open source solutions. James works at the public policy intersection of open source, AI, cybersecurity and digital sovereignty. With over 25 years of experience spanning technology, law, and government, James advises policymakers and industry leaders on how regulation impacts open source and the broader open innovation ecosystem. James co-leads Red Hat’s legal/policy activity on global sovereignty work and co-chairs the EMEA pubsec sales team.

5 Naresh Vyas, Founder and CTO, TwoCents.ai

Technology leader in Financial Services delivering AI‑driven, digital banking platforms across major institutions, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Standard Chartered Bank. Currently based in Silicon Valley, he is the Co-founder and CTO of Twocents.ai, making advanced financial strategies of the top 1% available to everyone. Naresh serves on advisory boards focused on AI ethics and robust controls for Gen AI in highly regulated environments. He has led open collaboration with big tech, startups, and universities, helping form joint ventures to address climate change, legal accessibility, and universal health care.

6 Professor Anil Madhavapeddy, Cambridge University

Anil Madhavapeddy is the Professor of Planetary Computing at the Department of Computer Science and Technology in the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a J M Keynes Fellow.

7 Shivay Lamba, Program committee, JSNation

Shivay Lamba is a Machine Learning Engineer and open source maintainer passionate about AI and edge computing. With experience across startups and enterprise tech, he focuses on simplifying complex technologies for developers. Shivay actively speaks at global conferences, organizes community events, and contributes to projects in cloud-native ecosystems, WebAssembly, and machine learning. He has also built and mentored educational programs like Google Summer of Code to bridge gaps in emerging tech adoption. When not coding, he enjoys writing, traveling, and mentoring young technologists.

The Open Source Leaders Roundtable: An AI Impact Summit Fringe Event
2026-02-17 18:00 - 20:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
17th February, 18.00 – 20.00 India International Centre (IIC), Annex
By invite only
If you are a leader in open source and would like to join our Leaders Roundtable and the Mozilla party, please contact mailto:admin@openuk.uk as space is limited.

AI Impact Summit Fringe Event Hackathon - Hackathon for Geospatial AI for good
2026-02-18 09:00 - 13:00 UTC
AI Impact Summit Fringe Event
Hackathon for Geospatial AI for good
— two brief talks on open tech: TESSERA and CoRE
— hack session for a few hours to get everyone going in those technologies
Led by Aaditeshwar Seth and Anil Madhavapeddy
Date and Time: 18th February 2026 09:00 – 13:00 IST
Venue : India International Centre, Annexe, Lecture Room 2

Organisers: OpenUK and OpenHQ
​Attendance at this Hackathon is subject to having Python skills. For the purpose of this Hackathon, the data collected here will be due to our Privacy Policy and Competition Policy, and also shared with our community companies, but will not be used for marketing.
50 places only. Tea will be provided.
