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Technology Patent Network 2022
2022-03-09 - 2022-03-10 | Online
The Go-To Event for Global IP Leaders
The 2022 virtual edition will showcase leading experts from around the world.
Join an unparalleled line-up of in-house counsel, regulators, private practices, technology providers and other key industry stakeholders and delve into global developments and strategies for IP in frontier technologies.
OpenUK’s Amanda Brock will be speaking at this event on Day 2, Thursday 10th March at 3 pm.

OpenUK International Women's Day Lunch - Sponsored by OVHcloud and Hosted by Baroness Kennedy
2022-03-07 12:00 - 14:30 UTC | House of Lords, Parliament Square, London, SW1A 0PW, United Kingdom
OpenUK is hosting a lunch sponsored by OVHcloud at the House of Lords for International Women’s Day and hosted by Baroness Kennedy.
Baroness Kennedy’s work supporting 100 Female Judges in Afghanistan has been incredible: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/21/qc-baroness-helena-kennedy-calls-on-uk-to-support-female-judges-at-risk-in-afghanistan
Three of the Judges will join us.
The format for the day will include a half hour workshop on the Social Justice Charter Baroness Kennedy released at COP26 and some questions around the intersection of law, technology and Social Justice. We will release this as part of our Sustainability work for IWD.
Contact admin@openuk.uk if you are interested in attending.

Future Founders Training: Session 5
2022-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology.
Session 5: Revenue Generation and Models
Speakers: Amanda Brock, Dawn Foster, Lorna Mitchell
Moderator: Liz Rice
Topics:
– Commercial companies involvement in open source
– Business models : Open Core / As a service / Subscription/ Support etc
– Risks for different models
– Interaction with open source licensed code and considerations

Women in IT Awards | UK Edition
2022-02-28 19:00 - 2022-03-01 00:30 UTC | JW Marriott, Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, W1K 7TN, United Kingdom
CELEBRATING OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY.
DiversityQ is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Women in IT Awards UK 2022!
The winners will be revealed at our first in-person awards ceremony since 2020 on Monday 28 February 2022 at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House, London.
Now in their eighth year, the prestigious awards have recognised and celebrated over 1,000 women, allies, and organisations across the UK for their outstanding contribution to the technology industry.
Since 2015 we’ve provided a regional and global platform to showcase amazing professionals that are working to break digital boundaries and promote the importance of a more inclusive tech sector.

Future Founders Training: Session 4
2022-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology.
Session 4: Sales in Open Source Businesses
Speakers: Lee Wright, Paul Holt, Victor Tuson Palau
Moderator: Matt Barker
Topics:
– The differences between selling in proprietary vs open source companies.
– Identifying a buyer vs a user of your project
– Selling value on top of open source
– SaaS, on-prem and multi cloud sales approaches

FOSDEM 2022
2022-02-05 - 2022-02-06 | Virtual
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
This year, it will be virtual. We are planning a UK Wide FOSDEM Watch Party on 5 February. Hold the date and watch this space for more information of Hubs to join across the UK.
Submit a Dev Room or talk at FOSDEM’s site.

Future Founders Training: Session 3
2022-02-04 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology.
Session 3: Corporate Structure and IP considerations for Open Tech businesses Open Source Licensing
Panel: Amanda Brock, Andrew Katz, Chris Eastham, and Rochelle Farmer
Topics:
– Copyright and code
– What is open source – OSD and what that means
– What does an open source licence mean – outbound
– Taking contributions and contribution agreements
– building a business on open source licensed code
– Open core and licensing
– Non code assets and licensing – creative commons
– Contribution agreements -inbound
– Controversy and licence shifts
– Standards and open source
Company Structure
– Limited companies and structuring for IP maximisation
– Patents and defensive organisations
– Brands and TradeMarks – open source trademark policies
– Community interactions with brand
– Naming projects, products and your company
– Foundations
– Corporate or fiduciary sponsors
– Open Chain, policies, procedures and governance

The EU Open Source Policy Summit
2022-02-04 09:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Virtual
OpenUK will be leading on sustainability with CEO, Amanda Brock, moderating a panel including Cristian Parrino, OpenUK’s Chief Sustainability Officer, at the Open Forum Europe policy day on 4th February.
OpenUK is also delighted to be the Bronze sponsor of the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2022 organised by OpenForum Europe on 4 February 2022.
This year’s theme: Open Source & the Grand Challenges.
Register now to join global technology and policy leaders to discuss how collaboration and competition are being rethought as we are innovating to solve the complex global challenges.

Future Founders Training: Session 2
2022-01-28 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology.
Session 2: Product Market Fit / developing a product
Panel: Fiona Nielsen, Justin Cormack, Sam Weaver, Tom Wilkie
Moderator: Matt Barker
– Feature development – internal resources, community, customers
– Building a road map
– Features which will be free v features which will be paid for
– Implementing the right pricing structure
– Customer onboarding and delivery

Future Founders Training: Session 1
2022-01-21 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology.
Session 1: Introductory session: Why found an Open Source Business?
Panel: Alexis Richardson, David Mytton, Liz Rice
Moderator: Matt Barker
Discussion topics:
– How did founders enter open source tech?
– Why did they start an open tech business
– What challenges did they face
– How did they overcome those challenges
– How do they view the state of open source today?
– Why should someone start an open source business?
– What advice would you give to any potential founders

Webinar: COP26 and beyond: How IT can help achieve net zero
2022-01-19 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Online
BCS President, John Higgins CBE FBCS, chairs a focused analysis of IT’s critical place in addressing the climate crisis.
Panel chair
BCS President, John Higgins CBE FBCS
Panellists

Amanda Brock CEO, Open UK
John Booth MBCS, CDCAP, CDCSP, Carbon3IT
Adam Leon Smith CITP FBCS

Agenda
13:00 – Webinar starts on Zoom
14:30 – Close
Synopsis
COP26 brought the world’s attention to bear on climate change and the need to deliver net zero within a shrinking time frame.
Many smart, internationally agreed, well financed, equitable and timely solutions are needed. The task seems huge but, we do have a powerful ally: technology.
Tech can play a leading part in achieving net zero – if there is the global political will and funding to do so, according to a recent press release published by BCS.
A panel of BCS experts chaired by our President, John Higgins CBE FBCS, explores our industry’s role and the contribution it can make to achieving net zero.
Momentum around this critical topic is gathering and so is necessity.
COP27 will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt on 7-18 November 2022. As such, the online session will be interactive.
Please come prepared with questions for our experts, many of whom are part of the new BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group (F-TAG).
Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over.
For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event, please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.
This event is brought to you by: BCS The Chartered Institute for IT

FIWARE Smart Fest
2022-01-19 - 2022-01-20 | Virtual
Get ready to make Data Spaces really happen.
Meet users and experts from leading industries, European associations, advisory boards and governmental organisations to discuss the very next steps to take – and learn about the current state of play of the development of data spaces.
One to the biggest – and free of charge – virtual events of the season about Data Spaces. Grab your ticket to this unique interactive event.

Westminster eForum: Data protection and the future of data regulation in the UK
2022-01-18 08:30 - 13:00 UTC | London
This conference will consider key priorities for the future of data protection and regulation in the UK in the context of key developments, including:

a consultation on the future of the UK’s data regime, building on the National Data Strategy
plans to reform the role and scope of the ICO
the development of future ‘data adequacy’ partnerships to boost growth and trade

OpenUK Office Hours
2021-12-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-11-16 08:00 - 09:00, 2021-11-12 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-10-19 08:00 - 09:00, 2021-10-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-09-21 08:00 - 09:00, 2021-09-10 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Paris) | London
Twice monthly update with OpenUK CEO. Hear more about our work and ask any questions.

Internetdagarna - Publicly Financed Code and Data as Digital Commons
2021-11-22 - 2021-11-23 | London
The Internet Days is Sweden’s most important knowledge hub for everyone who loves the Internet. The conference is organized by The Swedish Internet Foundation and takes place on November 22-23 2021.Internetdagarna (The Internet Days) is a conference where people meet for two days to gain new and in-depth knowledge of the Internet and the impact of digitalization on society. Their goal is that as many as possible of those who want to participate in the Internet Days should have the chance to do so without breaking the bank.
Join Amanda Brock as she speaks about the extent open source is used on an international level.

UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) 2021
2021-11-01 - 2021-11-12 | Scottish Event Campus, 53 Stobcross Rd, Glasgow, G3 8YW, United Kingdom
The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

All Things Open 2021
2021-10-17 - 2021-10-19 | London
All Things Open 2021, the largest open source/tech/web conference on the U.S. east coast will take place October 17-19. More than 200 speakers will deliver 200+ open source sessions across more than 20 tracks. Nearly 7,500 from around the globe attended and participated in 2020. At least that many are expected in 2021.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
2021-10-12 - 2021-10-15 | London
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities from October 12-15, 2021. Join containerd, CoreDNS, Envoy, etcd, Fluentd, Harbor, Helm, Jaeger, Kubernetes, Open Policy Agent, Prometheus, Rook, TiKV, TUF, Vitess, Argo, Buildpacks, CloudEvents, CNI, Contour, Cortex, CRI-O, Dragonfly, Falco, gRPC, KubeEdge, KubeVirt, Linkerd, NATS, Notary, OpenTracing, Operator Framework, SPIFFE, SPIRE, and Thanos as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

Ada’s List Conference 2021
2021-10-08 - 2021-10-09 | London
Ada’s annual conference is back! Last year they welcomed over 30 speakers and 300 attendees.

They will be meeting virtually over two days, so save the dates now: October 8-9, 2021
Full speaker line up and pathways to be announced shortly, so sign up for updates here.

Open Source Strategy Forum
2021-10-05 | London
Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. We bring together experts across financial services, technology, and open source to engage our community in stimulating and thought-provoking conversations about how to best (and safely) leverage open source software to solve industry challenges.

OSPOCon
2021-09-29 - 2021-10-01 | London
Introducing OSPOCon.
This event is designed for those working in open source program offices in organizations that rely on open source technologies to learn & share best practices, experiences & tooling to overcome challenges. Presenting by The Linux Foundation and TODO Group, and being held with Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference 2021, join us at OSPOCon to learn and share best practices and experiences to help create better, more efficient open source ecosystems.
Registration will open in Spring 2021 – sign up to be notified here: https://bit.ly/2ZGCXQa.
Call for Proposals is now open – learn more here: https://bit.ly/2ZJmRVV.

Linux Foundation European Summit 2021
2021-09-28 - 2021-10-01 | Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell St, Seattle, WA, WA 98101, United States

Kubernetes Community Days UK 2021
2021-09-15 - 2021-09-16 | London
Kubernetes Community Days UK is a virtual event bringing together the cloud native community from across the UK to learn, network and collaborate. Kubernetes Community Days UK is supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and organised by community group leaders.
Over the course of two days we will share stories of people using these technologies, both successes and failures – through in-depth technical talks, demonstrations of open source projects and workshops.
