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.

OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: Building Resilience and breaking dependency in enterprise and public sector AI – how can open source support this?
2026-02-18 10:30 - 11:25 (Asia/Kolkata)
Panelists
Moderator: Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Speakers:
1. Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
2. Laura Gilbert, Senior Director of AI, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
3. Anastasia Stasenko, Co-founder and CEO, Pleias
4. Mishi Choudhary, Founder, SFLC.in
18 Feb 2026, 10:30 – 11:25
Room number 15, Bharat Mandapam

About
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.

Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales is a globally recognized futurist and visionary tech entrepreneur, celebrated for founding Wikipedia—the world’s fourth‑most‑popular website and a cornerstone of the free-access knowledge movement. Since launching in 2001, Wikipedia has become a global utility, used billions of times monthly, and a leading bulwark in the fight against misinformation.
Driven by a passion for innovation and trust‑based community building, Wales is also the author of the forthcoming book The Seven Rules of Trust (co‑written with Dan Gardner), which distills the principles that made Wikipedia possible into a practical guide for building lasting institutions and relationships in an era of declining credibility.
Among the world’s most sought‑after keynote speakers, Wales offers audiences deep insight into topics ranging from AI and misinformation to digital governance and societal resilience.
Audiences praise his optimistic vision, eloquent delivery, and ability to translate complex ideas into memorable, inspiring narratives, exemplified by praise such as: “We were all inspired… by his presence here.” (McCann/Thiess)
A recipient of honors such as TIME’s 100 Most Influential People and recognition by the World Economic Forum as one of the top 250 leaders shaping our global future, Wales is also active in global tech discourse. In recent interviews he’s cautioned about AI
overreach—calling current systems like ChatGPT “terrible at writing Wikipedia” due to hallucinations, while calling for tools to flag errors and preserve human editorial standards.
He advocates for media literacy, transparency, and policies that support open collaboration over heavy-handed regulation.
Wales lives in London and continues to engage with global audiences and institutions, drawing on his unique blend of entrepreneurial insight, community-driven values, and unwavering belief in trust as the foundation for enduring progress.
Photo credit: Perry Seymour-Marsh

Laura Gilbert, Senior Director of AI, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Dr Laura Gilbert is Senior Director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where she leads the AI Innovation Lab, working with governments worldwide to harness AI for more effective public services and better outcomes for citizens. She is also a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics School of Public Policy.
From September 2020 to January 2025, Laura worked in 10 Downing Street as the founding director of 10DS, the government’s data science team, and the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI). Her teams delivered rapid, high-impact modelling and analysis to support policy decisions, while pioneering AI solutions for public services. She was awarded a CBE for Services to Technology and Analysis in the New Year’s Honours 2024.
Laura holds a doctorate in Particle Physics from the University of Oxford and undergraduate degrees from the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Analytics, and is fluent in seven programming languages.
Before government, Laura spent a decade as CTO of Rescon, a medical technologies company she helped build from startup to acquisition. Her work spanned wearable technology, systems architecture, and data security—she is named on four patents, including as lead inventor on two. Earlier in her career, she worked in quantitative finance and defence intelligence. Outside work, Laura has represented Great Britain seven times in Savate kickboxing.

Anastasia Stasenko, Co-founder and CEO, Pleias

Anastasia Stasenko is the co-founder and CEO of Pleias, a Franco-German startup developing full open-source small reasoning models trained exclusively on permissively licensed data. A senior associate lecturer in data analysis and digital strategy at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, she coordinated the creation of Common Corpus, the largest fully open dataset for training LLMs, with over two trillion tokens. Under her leadership, Pleias built Albert, France’s first sovereign AI co-pilot for civil servants, and developed fully offline LLM assistants for frontline health workers and teachers in West Africa. She is an advocate for ethical, transparent and decentralised AI development.

Mishi Choudhary, Founder, SFLC.in

Ms. Mishi Choudhary, Founder of SFLC.in. She is a technology lawyer and an online civil liberties activist who practices law in New York and New Delhi. Currently, she leads the legal department and IP monetization business at Washington DC based cybersecurity company, Virtru. Mishi Choudhary found SFLC.in in 2010. Under her leadership, SFLC.in became the premier non-profit organization representing the rights of Internet users and free software developers in India. In 2025, SFLC.in won the EFF pioneer award. She works at the forefront of digital rights on internet freedom, privacy, innovation, and free and open source software.

OpenUK & OpenHQ Rwanda Meetup
2026-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
​Event format: Fireside Chat
​Speaker: Amanda Brock
Interviewer: Didas Mbarushimana
​Date: 11 March 2026
​Time: 6:00 PM
​Location: Digital Transformation Center Rwanda
​The session will be a fireside chat, followed by an open Q&A with the audience.
​Capacity: 50 attendees

State of Open Con 26 On The Road, Edinburgh: Opening the AI Stack
2026-06-05 | Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre, 175 Glasgow Rd, Edinburgh, EH12 9SB, United Kingdom
Date: 5 June
Time: 09:30 – 18:00
Location: RBS Conference Centre
175 Glasgow Rd, Edinburgh EH12 9SB
State of Open Con 26 On The Road, hosted by OpenUK takes the UK’s open technology conference, now in its 4th year, across the UK. Where better to kick off than in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, on 5th June? The day will focus on the AI stack, working up from Compute through Models and Agents to user experiences and ROI. You can guarantee that there will be a fair level of debate around sovereignty in the AI Stack as we look at open source software, data, hardware, standards and AI. Tickets include catering and the conference party on 4th June.
​State of Open Con 26 On The Road will also be in Cambridge, Bristol, and Belfast, and info will be shared in the OpenUK Newsletter, and LinkedIn.

OpenUK Cyber Regulation Report 2026 Press Launch
2026-06-09 08:30 - 09:30 UTC | Fieldfisher, Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London, EC4R 3TT, United Kingdom
Cyber Regulation Report 2026 Press Launch
Speakers
Professor Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK & OpenHQ
Andrew Martin, CEO, ControlPlane
Dr Jennifer Barth, CRO, OpenUK
Karan Saini, Research Manager, OpenHQ
Matt Barker, CEO & Co-Founder, BoltMCP
​Tuesday 9 June 2026, 08:30 – 09:30 AM
​FieldFisher Office
To attend, please email mailto:admin@openuk.uk

Digital and AI Sovereignty - Building a Sovereign Future in a Globally Collaborative World
2026-06-10 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Fieldfisher, Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London, EC4R 3TT, United Kingdom
Speakers
Moderator, Professor Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK & OpenHQ
Professor Anil Madhavapeddy, Cambridge University
George Robinson, Head of Government Affairs, VodafoneThree
Jonny Williams, Chief Digital Adviser for UK Public Sector, Red Hat
Julia Lopez, MP, Conservative Party
Laura Gilbert, Senior Director of AI, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Matt Barker, Founder and CEO, BoltMCP
Matthew Crawford, Director of IP and AI Compliance, Arm
Max Beverton Palmer, Head of Public Policy UK, Nvidia
Mike Bracken, Founding Partner, Public Digital
Lord Nat Wei, House of Lords
More speakers to be added
​​Wednesday 10 June 2026, 14:00 – 15:30
​FieldFisher Office
To attend, please contact mailto:admin@openuk.uk

OpenUK Rising Ambassadors and Ambassadors Evening
2026-09-10 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | Civo Tech Junction, 32-37 Cowper Street, London, EC2A 4AW, United Kingdom
​This evening will bring together our recently announced cohorts of OpenUK Ambassadors, Rising Ambassadors and OpenHQ International Ambassadors, in an evening in London showcasing the Rising Ambassadors’ work in open source and AI.

​Sponsored by Civo

​18.00 Arrival and Drinks
​18.30 Welcome, Amanda Brock
​18.45 – 19.30 Lightning talks by Rising Ambassadors
​19.30 – 20.30 Meet the other Ambassadors

Please contact mailto:admin@openuk.uk to attend this event

State of Open Con 26 On The Road: Belfast
2026-10-06 09:30 - 18:30 UTC
Date: 6th October
Location: To be announced soon
Registration coming soon

OpenUK 7th Annual Awards and Gala Dinner
2026-11-05 18:30 - 22:30 UTC
OpenUK 7th Annual Awards and Gala Dinner
House of Commons, 18.30 – 22.30
Attendance by invitation only
