Introduction to Open Source - Part 1
2020-03-20 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
OpenUK Future Leaders Talk by Sami Atabani

Sami is an experienced Director Of Intellectual Property with a demonstrated history of working in the semiconductors industry. Skilled in IP Licensing, Open Source Software, Embedded Software, EDA, Management, Commercial Licensing, and Business Modeling. Strong legal and commercial professional with a Diploma focused in Management from Institute of Management (UK).

Introduction to Open Source - Part 2
2020-03-27 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
Sami is an experienced Director Of Intellectual Property with a demonstrated history of working in the semiconductors industry. Skilled in IP Licensing, Open Source Software, Embedded Software, EDA, Management, Commercial Licensing, and Business Modeling. Strong legal and commercial professional with a Diploma focused in Management from Institute of Management (UK).

Licensing Deep Dive
2020-04-03 12:00 - 23:59 UTC
OpenUK Future Leaders talk by Andrew Katz, Licensing Deep Dive, 29th May 2020
Andrew is Managing Partner and head of Technology Law of Moorcrofts LLP and is CEO of Orcro Limited, a compliance business specialising in risk management around software supply chain management, with particular emphasis on open source software. Formerly a software developer, Andrew qualified as a barrister in 1990 and subsequently requalified as a solicitor. He is Irish and British and is also an Irish solicitor (non practising).
He has advised companies worldwide, including global multinationals, on issues relating to open source software and software supply chain compliance. Both Moorcrofts and Orcro are partners of the Linux Foundation’s OpenChain compliance programme, and Andrew is heavily involved in the development of OpenChain’s processes and materials, including the OpenChain specification which is currently under consideration as an ISO standard. Andrew also has an interest in open hardware, having drafted the popular Solderpad Open Hardware licence, and he is also on the core drafting team of the CERN Open Hardware Licence. Andrew has been a board member of several industry and open bodies, including the Telecommunications Industry Association, Public Software CIC and the MariaDB Foundation.
He is a visiting researcher at the University of Skövde in Sweden where he has published a number of papers, and his work includes a collaboration on the definition of open standards which has been adopted as public policy by the Swedish Government. He is a Fellow of Open Forum Academy and sits on the IP Advisory board of the UN’s Technology Innovation Lab project, and his work has been published by the OUP and EUP among others. He spoken at conferences worldwide, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Far East.

A Covid19 response discussion
2020-04-07 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
Terence Eden
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Hat Labs and Hacking
2020-04-14 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
James Kingston
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The OSI and OSD
2020-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
OpenUK Future Leaders talk by Patrick Masson, the OSI and OSD, 17th April 2020.
Patrick Masson joined the Open Source Initiative as General Manager after working in higher education for over twenty years, including roles as Director of the UCLA Media Lab, CIO within The State University of New York and, CTO at the University of Massachusetts’ Office of the President.
As GM, Patrick manages all aspects of the OSI’s operations, membership, advocacy, development, and serves as an ex officio member of the OSI Board of Directors.
Patrick is an Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, teaching Open Source Principles and Practices within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and serves on Brandeis University’s Graduate Professional Studies Advisory Board. Patrick was elected to his local Board of Education in 2014.

Open Healthcare
2020-04-21 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
Kumar Jacob MBE
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Open Source Procurement
2020-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
OpenUK Future Leaders talk by Iain Mitchell QC, Open Source Procurement, 24th April 2020.
Iain graduated from Edinburgh University in 1973 and was called to the Scottish Bar in 1976, taking silk in 1992. He was called to the English Bar in 2012. He is recommended in the Legal 500 and Chambers Directory for IT Law, IP Law, and commercial dispute resolution.
As well as being the Chairman of the Scottish Society of Computers & Law, he is also Chair of the CCBE Surveillance Working Group, a Member of the CCBE IT Committee; a member of the Bar Council IT Panel, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and serves on the Electronic Evidence Working Party of the Centre for European Policy Studies. He holds an honorary lectureship in IT Law in the ITM Institute at the Wilhelms-Universität, Münster and his publications include chapters in Electronic Evidence (Butterworths) and in Open Source Software: Law, Policy and Practice (OUP). He is also one of the joint editors of JOLTS.

Wardley Maps & Open Source History
2020-05-01 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Simon Wardley is a researcher for the Leading Edge Forum focused on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination for economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether in behavioural patterns, the environmental risks of chemical pollution, developing novel computer systems, or managing companies. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditisation, innovation, organisational structure, and cybernetics.

Open and Trademarks
2020-05-15 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Pamela is the Principal of Chestek Legal. Pam has been studying trademark law as it relates to open source software for over a decade.

Intro to Open Chain Compliance
2020-05-22 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)

M&A and Open Chain
2020-05-29 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Andrew is Managing Partner and head of Technology Law of Moorcrofts LLP and is CEO of Orcro Limited, a compliance business specialising in risk management around software supply chain management, with particular emphasis on open source software. Formerly a software developer, Andrew qualified as a barrister in 1990 and subsequently requalified as a solicitor. He is Irish and British and is also an Irish solicitor (non practising).
He has advised companies worldwide, including global multinationals, on issues relating to open source software and software supply chain compliance. Both Moorcrofts and Orcro are partners of the Linux Foundation’s OpenChain compliance programme, and Andrew is heavily involved in the development of OpenChain’s processes and materials, including the OpenChain specification which is currently under consideration as an ISO standard. Andrew also has an interest in open hardware, having drafted the popular Solderpad Open Hardware licence, and he is also on the core drafting team of the CERN Open Hardware Licence. Andrew has been a board member of several industry and open bodies, including the Telecommunications Industry Association, Public Software CIC and the MariaDB Foundation.
He is a visiting researcher at the University of Skövde in Sweden where he has published a number of papers, and his work includes a collaboration on the definition of open standards which has been adopted as public policy by the Swedish Government. He is a Fellow of Open Forum Academy and sits on the IP Advisory board of the UN’s Technology Innovation Lab project, and his work has been published by the OUP and EUP among others. He spoken at conferences worldwide, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Far East.

Patent Risk in an Open Source Centric World
2020-06-05 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
OpenUK Future Leaders talk, Keith Bergelt, The Management of Patent Risk in an Increasingly Open Source Centric World, 5th June 2020
Keith Bergelt is the CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, created to support freedom of action in Linux and adjacent open source technologies. Funded by Google, IBM, NEC, Philips, Sony, SUSE and Toyota, OIN has more than 3,200 community members and owns approximately 1,300 global patents and applications.
Having previously led two hedge funds, served as a technology advisor for Texas Pacific Group, headed business development, IP, and licensing for the Kelso & Company portfolio company Cambridge Display, and acted as General Manager of the Strategic Intellectual Asset Management business unit at Motorola, he is a frequent speaker on corporate strategy, finance and intellectual property management.

The History of Open
2020-06-12 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
Neil McGovern has been involved with open source software for over 20 years, both personally and professionally. Starting in the Debian project, he held various roles, cumulating in him becoming Debian Project Leader from 2014-2015. He has also served on the boards of numerous organisations, including Software in the Public Interest, Inc. and the Open Rights Group. Professionally, Neil has run the engineering team of a large open source software consultancy, and is currently the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. He lives in Cambridge, UK. In his spare time he enjoys socialising with friends and has a private pilot licence.

KDE is All About the Apps
2020-06-19 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
Jonathan has been bringing Linux to the desktop for 20 years, working for Canonical and now Blue Systems he made the Ubuntu flavour Kubuntu and now works directly in the original and best Linux on the desktop community KDE to make KDE neon, bringing modern DevOps techniques to Linux distros.
He is based in Edinburgh, Scotland and his consultancy is Edinburgh Linux.

Open Source: Where Are We Now
2020-06-26 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Amanda is CEO of the UK body for “open”, OpenUK, the Chair of the Open Source and Intellectual Property (IP) Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs, the European Representative of the world’s biggest defensive patent pool, the Open Invention Network and a member of the OASIS Open Projects’ Advisory Council (open source and open standards);
Amanda was a joint-organiser of the UK Open Source Awards in 2019, having been a judge of the awards in 2014 and 2015; CEO of the Trustable Software Engineering Project, a project focused on solutions to risk in Open Source Software during 2019 and continues as a Director of this organisation; General Counsel of Canonical, one of the world’s biggest open source companies and the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, setting up the global legal team and running this for 5 years having worked as a lead lawyer in a variety of sectors, ranging from .com to a data centre and Fintech on the mobile, across EMEA, US, AsiaPac and Emerging Markets, based out of both the UK and Amsterdam.
As well as many years of structuring and negotiating a multitude of deals, Amanda’s roles have included contribution to, and leadership of, a number of multi-organisational collaborative projects and open source initiatives. She has expertise in open source software, strategy, governance, IP, compliance audits, policies and processes as well as commercialisation and contracting around open source and provides consultancy and advisory services around these.
Amanda was a member of the Open Stack Drafting Committee during its set up in 2012. She is a regular international keynote speaker and panel member and an author covering open source, collaboration and legal issues, in particular open for good and commercial models of open source. She is an Executive Editor and co-Founder of the Journal of Open Law Technology and Society (formerly IFOSSLR), a Fellow of the Open Forum Academy.
Amanda is the Editor of the book, Free and Open Source Software: Law, Policy and Practice”, 2nd Edition, to be published by Oxford University Press in August 2020 with open access sponsored by the Vietsch Foundation and contributed to by 20 leading figures in open source.

Open Source Community Matters
2020-07-03 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
Matt has spent most of the last 20 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems, in companies ranging from startups to global enterprises. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences across the world, including FOSDEM, Open Infrastructure Summit and All Things Open, a past winner of the OpenStack Outstanding Community Contributor award, and has served on program committees for several international conferences, including OpenStack Summits and MesosCon. At D2iQ Matt leads the company’s open source and community efforts, including the Open Source Program Office and worldwide developer advocacy.

Being a Good Corporate Citizen in Open Source
2020-07-10 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Dawn Foster is Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware. She has over 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in open source software, community building, community management, market research, strategic planning, management, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.
Prior to joining Pivotal, Dawn’s most recent positions included Consultant at The Scale Factory, Director of Community at Puppet, and Community Lead within Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. She has also worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and The Timken Company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist. Dawn holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich, an MBA from Ashland University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Kent State University.
In her spare time, Dawn contributes to a number of technology projects and events. She is on the Governing Board for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project and is a maintainer for several working groups within this project. She is on the Board of Advisors for Bitergia, an open source software development analytics company. She has been on the organizing team for community events, such as Devopsdays London, Devopsdays Portland, Monitorama, and Configuration Management Camp. She was a co-founder and board member of Legion of Tech, a non-profit chartered with organizing free events for the Portland, Oregon technology community. As part of her work with Legion of Tech, Dawn was an organizer for Portland BarCamp, Ignite Portland and other events. She was also a co-founder and community evangelist for the location-based startup, Shizzow.
Dawn has been a regular contributor to The New Stack, Linux.com, GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily, and other blogs. She is the author of the books, What Dawn Eats: Vegan Food That Isn’t Weird and Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy.

Open Hardware
2020-07-17 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
Andrew Katz
Andrew is Managing Partner and head of Technology Law of Moorcrofts LLP and is CEO of Orcro Limited, a compliance business specialising in risk management around software supply chain management, with particular emphasis on open source software. Formerly a software developer, Andrew qualified as a barrister in 1990 and subsequently requalified as a solicitor. He is Irish and British and is also an Irish solicitor (non practising).
He has advised companies worldwide, including global multinationals, on issues relating to open source software and software supply chain compliance. Both Moorcrofts and Orcro are partners of the Linux Foundation’s OpenChain compliance programme, and Andrew is heavily involved in the development of OpenChain’s processes and materials, including the OpenChain specification which is currently under consideration as an ISO standard. Andrew also has an interest in open hardware, having drafted the popular Solderpad Open Hardware licence, and he is also on the core drafting team of the CERN Open Hardware Licence. Andrew has been a board member of several industry and open bodies, including the Telecommunications Industry Association, Public Software CIC and the MariaDB Foundation.
He is a visiting researcher at the University of Skövde in Sweden where he has published a number of papers, and his work includes a collaboration on the definition of open standards which has been adopted as public policy by the Swedish Government. He is a Fellow of Open Forum Academy and sits on the IP Advisory board of the UN’s Technology Innovation Lab project, and his work has been published by the OUP and EUP among others. He spoken at conferences worldwide, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Far East.
Steve Helvie
Steve is currently the VP of Channel for the Open Compute Project (OCP). In this role he helps to educate organisations on the benefits of open hardware designs and the value of “community-driven” engineering for the data centre. He works closely with Solution Providers and Manufacturers to help organisations adopt Open Compute across all regions and segments of the market.
Steve spent the last 14 years living and working in Asia holding various Leadership and Channel Development roles for companies like Microsoft (Asia Pacific) and Rackspace (UK). He recently moved to London to focus on building the OCP Channel in EMEA.

Open Innovation in the Private and Public Sector
2020-07-24 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
Josh is a consultant for the ODI, with a focus on international development, private sector data sharing, and data portability initiatives such as open banking.
James is a consultant for the ODI, with a focus on public and private sector innovation with data, as well as research and development.

Open Knowledge is Not Neutral
2020-07-31 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Dr Sara Thomas is the Scotland Programme Coordinator for Wikimedia UK, part time.
She was the Wikimedian in Residence at the Scottish Libraries and Information Council, working primarily with public libraries in Scotland, between August 2017-April 2018. She was also Resident at Museums Galleries Scotland from January 2015 – July 2016, working nationally to advocate for the use of open knowledge in a heritage context.
She got an honorable mention in the “Wikimedian of the Year” category in the UK in 2018.
Sara has an MA(Hons) in English Literature, a PhD in Popular Music (both from the University of Glasgow), and a Diploma in Fundraising from the Institute of Fundraising.
From December 2016-December 2017 she was the Project Officer for Dig It! 2017. She’s worked for music venues, music festivals, heritage organisations, charities, amongst others.

OpenChain - A New Standard in Open Source
2020-09-25 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Shane Coughlan leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. We managed to steal a few minutes of his time to talk about OpenChain, open source, compliance and security. But first, a brief backgrounder on Shane. Shane has been involved in open source in one way or another since 1998.

IBM's Journey to Open Source
2020-10-02 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Adam Jollans is a product marketing manager in the worldwide LinuxONE marketing team. In this role he is responsible for developing the marketing strategy for IBM’s LinuxONE server and its ecosystem.
He has been involved with Linux and open source since 1998, including leading the cross-IBM Linux strategy. He joined IBM in 1984, and has worked in a range of technical, sales and marketing roles.
Prior to joining IBM, he worked as an application software designer and programmer.
He graduated from the University of Cambridge, England in 1980 with a degree in Computer Science, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer, and a Chartered IT Professional.

OpenUK Awards
2020-10-20 17:30 - 20:00 UTC
The highlight of 2020 for the Open Community
A celebration of UK Leadership in Open Technology, sponsored by Bristows law firm
Doors open 5.30pm. Allocated seating.
Event 6-8pm
Awards will be presented in 6 categories:
Individual
Young Person
Open Source Software
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Source in Finance (sponsored by FINOS)
OpenUK Kids’ Competition – Special Guest Imogen Heap will announce Kids’ Competition Winners
Keynote by Jono Bacon
Guest tickets, including a *goody box*, available by invite only to nominees and guests or through a *diversity scholarship ticket*, supported by FINOS. For information and to apply for a diversity scholarship https://openuk.uk/finos-scholarship-programme-application/ Applications must be received by 5pm on 30 September. Successful applicants informed by 7 October, registration required 8 October to receive a goody box.
Viewing tickets (include platform participation but not a goody box) available free of charge at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/openuk-digital-awards-ceremony-sponsored-by-bristows-tickets-110797979740
Table plan and joining instructions shared with ticket holders in advance

Why the GPL is Great for Business
2020-10-30 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Frank is the founder of Nextcloud and Own Cloud and talks about commercial models for open source and running a business based on GPL code.

Open Hardware and the Circular Economy
2020-11-06 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
John Laban of the Open Compute Project is an OpenUK director and talks today about how open hardware will contribute to the circular economy.

Open Source Lisbon 2020
2020-11-11 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
https://openuk.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/D18_15_TALK-Amanda.mp4

Brexit, GeoPolitical Shift and the Future of Open
2020-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK shares her thoughts on the impact of the very imminent Brexit, Geopolitical shift across Europe, the US and Asia and the need for ongoing transparent and open collaboration on a global basis, to improve Government trust and faciliate innovation.

5G and OpenRAN
2020-11-20 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Tomas Lamanauskas, a leader in the mobile sector explains 5G and OpenRAN to the OpenUK Future Leaders group, sharing his thoughts as OpenUK launches its Emerging Mobile Work Group being led by Tomas as part of their 2021 Policy initiatives.

Containers - Everything You Need to Know
2020-11-27 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Armijn Hemel, Founder Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions is a leader in the container space, as one of the co-authors of the Linux Foundation report on containers, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/
Armijn is a rare beast, someone who understands both the technology and the governance of containers. His session will explain everything you need to know about containers, which are critical to the platform infrastructure and create a new set of issues for governance.
