AI UK 2025
2025-03-17 08:00 - 2025-03-18 17:00 UTC
AI UK 2025, Talk, “AI Openness – what does this mean and why do we care”, London – Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
The UK’s national showcase of data science and artificial intelligence (AI)
Hosted by The Alan Turing Institute, AI UK is an in-depth exploration of how data science and AI can be used to solve real-world challenges. Our diverse programme was thematically structured around the latest innovations from across the AI ecosystem. With a broad range of interactive content, covering the latest thinking on fundamental AI, digital twins, algorithmic bias, AI ethics – and much more.

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.

NMI Semi35 Conference
2025-03-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
NMI Conference 2025 | Glasgow
Join us at this one-day event in Glasgow as we consider the technology and business trends which will shape the global semiconductor industry over the next decade. Learn how UK companies are innovating now to create world-class products ready for 2035.
Products for future markets in quantum, photonics, med-tech, sustainability, net zero, space and autonomous mobility.
The next ten years will see significant change through digital transformation, exascale compute, 6G connectivity and at-scale deployment of AI and quantum.
The global semiconductor market is forecast to be $2tn by 2035 driven by these growth end markets and the drive to Net Zero and sustainability.
Hear from startups, scale-ups, international players and researchers how the UK sector is building its place in the future.
With a keen market focus, we will hear from leading companies in the UK as well as internationally how the industry will grow to take on emerging challenges and opportunities in the next decade.
Alongside the conference, the NMI exhibition will showcase the latest products and innovations from across the semiconductor value chain and provide a unique networking opportunity for designers, manufacturers, suppliers and end-users to create valuable business connections. The research institute poster session will also return this year as we aim to highlight leading UK research innovation.

Kubernetes in the UK, Kubecon Europe 2025
2025-04-02 17:00 - 17:30 UTC | ExCeL London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock,, London, E16 1XL, United Kingdom
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in London, England on 2nd April, 2025. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

OpenUK London #23: Save the Date
2025-04-23 18:30 - 20:45 UTC | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
SIGN UP TO SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday 23rd April 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.

29 April, Open Charge Alliance webinar, Open source and open standards - the highway to governance
2025-04-29 18:00 - 19:00 UTC

The Benefitting from the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan Summit 2025
2025-05-07 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
The Benefitting from the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan Summit 2025 7th May.

Linaro Connect 2025
2025-05-14 - 2025-05-16 | Lisbon, Portugal
Fully immerse yourself on how to best implement, leverage and foster Arm solutions. Don’t miss our keynotes, sessions, live demos and the opportunity to talk to our Arm software experts!

15 May, Institute of Directors AI event, “How much ‘regulation’ is enough without stifling innovation?”
2025-05-15 17:00 - 20:30 UTC

Open Source Founders Summit 2025
2025-05-19 - 2025-05-20
Open Source Founders Summit 2025
Paris, France – La Rotonde de Stalingrad
The conference about building financially successful and sustainable open source companies.

OpenUK Digital Meetup #7 Data Sovereignty
2025-05-21 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 21st May for the 7th 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 #7
Wednesday, 21 March · 12:00 – 13:00pm
Time zone: Europe/London
Video call link: meet.google.com/okb-vufi-ejh

Kubecon China 2025
2025-06-10 08:00 - 2025-06-11 17:00 UTC
Save the Date!
June 10-11 2025
Hong Kong, China
#KubeCon
#CloudNativeCon

Kubecon Japan 2025
2025-06-16 08:00 - 2025-06-17 17:00 UTC
Save the Date!
June 16-17 2025
Tokyo, Japan
#KubeCon
#CloudNativeCon

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.

Open Source Summit North America 2025
2025-06-23 08:00 - 2025-06-25 17:00 UTC
Save the Date!
June 23-25, 2025
Denver, CO
#OSSummit

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

AI For Good Global Summit 2025
2025-07-08 08:00 - 2025-07-11 17:00 UTC
The AI for Good Global Summit is the leading UN event on AI that brings together top names in AI, with a high-level lineup of global decision makers.
Our goal is to identify practical applications of AI, accelerate progress towards the UN SDGs and scale solutions for global impact.
AI for Good is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – the UN specialized agency for information and communication technology – in partnership with 40 UN sister agencies and co-convened with the government of Switzerland.

OpenUK London #26: Security (In-Person signups only)
2025-07-09 18:30 - 20:45 UTC
Join the OpenUK #LondonMeetup for an #OpenSource #Cybersecurity deep dive 9th July with Sal Kimmich, Daniel Appelquist and Vinit Patel!
We’ve got an action-packed evening planned with insightful talks and a fun, interactive game. Whether you’re a seasoned security expert or just starting to think about securing your projects, there’s something here for everyone.

7:00 PM: “Security, Privacy and Authenticity” by Daniel Appelquist.
7:20 PM: “Securing Agentic: Evolution of Security Posture” by Sal Kimmich.
7:40 PM: “Using LLMs to discover malware and undisclosed vulnerabilities in OS tools” by Vinit Patel of Aikido Security. This talk will cover a multi-year research project that led to improved open source security and open source intelligence.
8:00 PM: NPM Imposters Game! The team at Aikido Security is facilitating a fast, team-based game where you’ll put your skills to the test spotting malicious NPM packages. (This game is for in-person attendees only).

When: Wednesday July 9 2025
Time: Doors open at 6:30 PM
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to learn, network and enhance your cybersecurity knowledge within the open source community!

AESIN Conference 2025
2025-07-11 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
We are delighted to announce the AESIN Conference 2025 to be held on 11th July.
We will be celebrating UK’s outstanding automotive electronics related organisations as we bring technology to the forefront.
Once again we will be heading to the British Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire. The British Motor Museum holds the world’s largest collection of historic British cars, with over 300 cars on display from the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust and the Jaguar Heritage Trust.
Our network has been at the forefront of advancing and promoting the automotive electronics and software systems industry for over a decade, and we want to commemorate our continued success with a conference that you won’t want to miss.
Come together with fellow industry leaders and experts as we reflect on our achievements and look to the future of the automotive electronics industry. With inspiring keynote speakers, technical presentations, and engaging panel discussions, you’ll gain valuable insights and ideas to help elevate your own experiences and businesses.
NOTE: As this is a business event, please register with your organisations email address and not a generic address (Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail etc).

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.

CHEDDAR & Friends Symposium of Advanced Connectivity Industry Day
2025-07-15 - 2025-07-16
15 July — Friends of CHEDDAR Day
A Celebration of Dr Mallik Tatipamula (Ericsson), Royal Society Fellow
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK, Uk Research & collaborations
Talk Panel Speakers: Funding landscape experts (EU, DSIT, EPSRC, Innovate UK)
Funding insights
Drinks reception & poster session
16 July — Industry Day
Innovation & industry engagement
Standards – All You Can Eat!
Women in telecoms panel
Spin-off & innovation panel
Ronnie Vasishta, SVP Telecoms, NVIDIA, US
Dan Warren, Director, Communications Research, Samsung R&D UK
Drinks reception & poster session

MCPconference London
2025-07-24 09:00 - 17:00 UTC
Europe’s first developer conference dedicated to the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
We’re bringing together engineers, toolmakers, and contributors for a one-day event focused on MCP — the open standard for connecting AI systems to tools, APIs, and data.
Whether you’re building MCP clients into IDEs, running servers in production, or helping shape the spec, this is your space to connect, share, and define what comes next.
Topics will include AIOps, architecture, scalability, and real-world applications — led by core developers and early adopters.
The event takes place in London on 24 July 2025. Registration is now open and operates on a rolling, first-come, first-served basis. We’re updating the agenda as new speakers are confirmed — stay tuned.
Big thanks to our MCP community supporters for making this possible.

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

Open Source Summit India 2025
2025-08-05 08:00 - 2025-08-07 17:00 UTC
Save the Date!
August 5, 2025
Hyderabad, India
#OSSummit

Kubecon India 2025
2025-08-06 08:00 - 2025-08-07 17:00 UTC
Save the Date!
August 6-7 2025
Hyderabad, India
#KubeCon
#CloudNativeCon

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025
2025-08-06 08:00 - 2025-08-07 17:00 UTC | Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), Izzathnagar, Hyderabad, Kothaguda, Telangana, 500084, India
Register https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-india/
Schedule https://kccncind2025.sched.com/

BoF: Open Source in Kubernetes in the UK and India
Speakers: Amanda Brock and Andrew Martin

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

Open Source Summit Europe 2025
2025-08-25 08:00 - 2025-08-27 17:00 UTC
25-27 August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Panel Prepare for the CRA: Open Source Governance in the Age of Cyber Resilience including Amanda Brock and Andrew Martin

#OSSummit
