OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell 17 May 2024
2024-05-17 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell 17 May 2024

Opportunity to see the best of global research and reporting in open source software at OpenUK’s regular Research & Reporting Show and Tell.
Fri, 17 May 2024 16:00 – 17:30 BST

Agenda

Host – Dr Jennifer Barth
16:00 – 16:30 “CHAOSS” Project Research and Metrics, Dr Dawn Foster, CHAOSS

16:30 – 17:00 “EPAM” Reporting, Chris Howard, EPAM
17:00 – 17:30 “OpenUK Survey and Economics of Open Source Report”, Dr Jennifer Barth, Symmetry Research

Assets
Chris Howard’s EPAM Reporting

OpenUK London Meetup #14: Cybersecurity
2024-05-21 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | Online
Join us on Tuesday 21st May for our 14th OpenUK London community meetup, where we will be talking about all things Cybersecurity. And bring swag to swap!
Please update your RSVP to online if you can no longer join us in-person.
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Common Cloud Controls Project Demo which aims to develop a unified set of cybersecurity, resiliency, and compliance controls for common services across the major cloud service providers (CSPs). Demo by Adrian Hammond followed by QnA. (Livestream/Recording starts now.)
7:15 pm: State of Open Source Security Panel with Dominique Top, Sal Kimmich, Spyros Gasteratos, Francesco Cipollone. (Livestream/Recording ends after panel.)
7:50 pm: TBA interactive breakout workshop
8:30-8:45 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 Avanade 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.

Stockholm Tech Show 2024
2024-05-22 - 2024-05-23 | Arne Beurlings Torg 5 Kista Sweden, Arne Beurlings Torg 5 Kista Sweden
22 – 23 May, 2024 | Sweden
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK, Headline Speaker, “Innovating the future with open source software”
50% discount on the conference ticket. Use LINK

OpenUK Digital Meetup #1: Maintainers, Maintainers, Maintainers!
2024-05-22 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Online
Join us on Wednesday 22nd May for the FIRST OpenUK Online Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
This will be a lunch-time webinar, where you’ll get to hear from maintainers about their highs and lows about working in the open, which ties into May being GitHub’s Maintainer Month. The event will not be recorded.
Our speakers to be announced in the next couple of weeks.
Agenda:
1200 Start
1205 Let’s hear from maintainers about the joys and not-so-joyous parts of maintaining
1245 Questions
1300 End
To make it easier to chat as a group of remote folks, we’ll use the #online-meetup-chatter channel on the OpenUK Slack for live event discussion.
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s privacy policy [https://openuk.uk/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.

OPEN SOURCE FOUNDERS SUMMIT 2024
2024-05-27 - 2024-05-28 | 159 Quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris, France, 159 Quai de Valmy, 75010, Paris, France
Open source companies face challenges and opportunities that proprietary software companies never encounter. General startup programs, investors and your own employees often won’t understand how to navigate these challenges or take advantage of the opportunities unless they have open source experience. The open source founders summit gives founders a place to learn from each other and support each other in building open source companies.
Event Details:
— It’s invite-only, in the hopes that OSFS2024 can really create an environment that allows people to be vulnerable and honest
— It’s focused on a broad view of open source companies, including DevTools and non-devtools, venture-backed and bootstrapped companies
— It’s interactive by design — there’s talks in the mornings and interactive break-out workshops in the afternoons

AI for Good Global Summit
2024-05-30 08:00 - 2024-05-31 17:00 UTC | International Telecommunication Union (ITU), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Place des Nations 1211 Geneva 20, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland
Enabling openness in the AI ecosystem: An interactive workshop
30 May | Geneva
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Melinda Claybaugh, Director of Privacy Policy, Meta
Marie McAuliffe, Head of the Migration Research & Publications Division, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Recent breakthroughs in AI, and generative AI in particular, have demonstrated what those developing these technologies have long known – they have the potential to help people do incredible things, create a new era of economic and social opportunity, and give individuals, creators, and organizations new ways to express themselves and connect with people. As the global community seeks to address global challenges by building applications that work toward societal benefit, it’s important to consider the role Open Source AI can play in the AI ecosystem. This workshop will consider different perspectives on the benefits and facilitate an interactive discussion surrounding these emerging opportunities. This workshop will include breakout discussions on policy and implementation.

IP Essentials for Early Career Researchers
2024-05-31 09:30 - 15:00 UTC | Digital Catapult Centre, 101 Euston Road, London, NW1 2RA, United Kingdom
REASON are hosting a workshop on IP Essentials for Early Career Researchers, led by Dan Warren (Samsung).
Agenda
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Intro from Dan Warren
10.05 ‘IP basics’ – Ean Davies, Appleyard Lees
11.00 Coffee
11.30 ‘IP realities’ – Phil Hodges, Ericsson
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Panel on IP exploitation routes – panel members tbd.
14.50 Closing comments from Dan Warren
15.00 End of event
Full details and registration can be found on our Eventbrite page

CommCon London 2024
2024-06-05 08:00 - 2024-06-06 17:00 UTC | Cloudflare, 6th Floor, Riverside Building, The County Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 7PB, Cloudflare, London, SE1 7PB, United Kingdom
London
Wed 5 June & Thu 6 June
Join us in the heart of London for two days of CommCon goodness: a day of hacking (Wed 5 June) and a day of technical talks (Thu 6 June).
Bringing all the same cutting edge knowledge and good vibes that you’d expect from a CommCon full-scale residential, don’t miss out on this small-but-perfectly-formed event.
Sponsoring
Want to sponsor? We’d love that! Here’s some more info on opportunities.
Speakers
Check out our speaker list for all our London speakers and a list of their talks.

Book launch: ‘The Atomic Human - understanding ourselves in the age of AI’
2024-06-05 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Bush House, Strand Campus, London, Bush House, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom
Book launch: ‘The Atomic Human – understanding ourselves in the age of AI’

The Centre for data Futures celebrates the publication of ‘The Atomic Human’ by Professor Neil Lawrence with a cross-disciplinary conversation.
Professor Sylvie Delacroix, Director of the Centre for Data Futures, will host a conversation with Neil about The Atomic Human, whose publication comes at a pivotal point in the so-called ‘AI revolution’. What does it take for us to not only choose but carve out a future where ‘AI is a tool for us’? Who does the ‘us’ stand for? Does the fact that this revolution is powered by a resource -data- that largely comes from us change anything?
Extract from The Atomic Human’s synopsis:
‘‘By contrasting our capabilities with machine intelligence, The Atomic Human reveals the technical origins, capabilities and limitations of AI systems, and how they should be wielded. Not just by the experts, but ordinary people. Understanding this will enable readers to choose the future we want – either one where AI is a tool for us, or where we become a tool of AI’

Schedule:
19:00: A conversation with Neil Lawrence including a Q&A
20:00: Drinks Reception

Celebrate Kubernete’s 10th Birthday With OpenUK
2024-06-06 18:30 - 21:30 UTC | Red Hat Innovation Lab, Peninsular House, 30-36 Monument St, London, EC3R 8NB, United Kingdom
Join our OpenUK party celebrating Kubernete’s 10th birthday at Red Hat’s Innovation Lab in Monument, in the City of London.
Celebrate Kubernetes’ 10th Birthday with OpenUK on 6th June.

Important: This is not a conference, it’s not a meetup… it’s a party!

We want to use this occasion to celebrate how far we’ve come as a community and give thanks to all the people in the UK who have contributed to Kubernetes and the Cloud Native ecosystem. This event is for you!
Location: Red Hat Innovation Lab, 6th June from 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm

Suggested Dress Code: Please wear your most iconic vintage swag from Kubernetes, Kubecon or your favourite CNCF project!

Huge thanks to Red Hat for sharing their Innovation Lab and Roof Terrace with us and to our sponsors Civo, ControlPlane, Docker, Dragonfly, Isovalent, Red Hat, Prism Digital and Venafi for helping us mark the occasion!

We are looking for more companies to sponsor this event so if you are interested contact admin@openuk.uk

PlatformCon Live Day London 2024
2024-06-12 | 10 South Place, London EC2M7EB, United Kingdom, London, EC2M7EB, United Kingdom
Join 300 Platform practitioners for the first ever Live Day:

– A full day of talks and panels from  the top platform engineering leaders

– Connect with fellow practitioners,  share your story, enjoy one of the best locations London has to offer

– Get hands on with our workshop program

SUSECon Berlin 2024
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-19 | Estrel Congress Center Sonnenallee 225, Neukölln, 12057 Berlin, Germany, Estrel Congress Center Sonnenallee 225, Neukölln, 12057, Berlin, Germany
SUSECON is an annual global conference where SUSE customers, partners and community members delve into how the latest open source advances can meet the technical needs and business challenges of the enterprise IT customer. Join to share experiences, knowledge, best practices and innovations for the future.

OpenUK London Meetup #15: Sustainability and Open Source
2024-06-18 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us Tuesday 18th June for our 15th OpenUK London community meet-up we will be collaborating over greener open source and sustainability!
Sign up now!
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
Book signings of Building Green Software – buy your own copy ahead or be one of 30 to win a free copy!
7:00 pm: Greener Open Source Panel (Livestreaming for this part only) with Anne Currie, Ruby Dickinson, and Charles Humble, moderated by Jennifer Riggins.
7:45 pm: Breakout session including how to evaluate, measure and reduce the impact of your open source contributions.
8:15-8:30 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 Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza, and for sponsoring the books!
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.

AI_Dev Open Source Gen AI & ML Summit Paris 2024
2024-06-19 - 2024-06-20 | Paris, France, France
AI_dev is a nexus for developers delving into the intricate realm of open source generative AI and machine learning. At the heart of this event is the belief that open source is the engine of innovation in AI. By uniting the brightest developers from around the world, we aim to ignite discussions, foster collaborations, and shape the trajectory of open source AI. Attendees will join to dive deep in hands-on sessions, engage in robust technical discourse, and harness the collective expertise to push the boundaries of what’s possible in the AI realm with open source.

RISC-V Summit Europe 2024
2024-06-24 08:00 - 2024-06-28 17:00 UTC | MOC – Event Center Messe Munich, Lilienthalallee 40, 80939 München-Schwabing-Freimann, 80939, Germany
Submission for the Call for Presentations is extended! Make sure you get your ideas ready for submission until March 20, 2024.
Registration is open. Secure the early bird rate until May 10, 2024.
The RISC-V Summit Europe is the premier event that connects the European movers and shakers – from industry, government, research, academia and ecosystem support – that are building the future of innovation on RISC-V.
RISC-V, the open standard instruction set architecture (ISA), is enabling a range of new applications and research that will define the future of computing in Europe. The region has been central to RISC-V’s success, with one-third of RISC-V’s global community based in Europe.
RISC-V Summit Europe takes place from Monday 24th to Friday 28th June, 2024. The combination of strong industrial and academic communities is key to the success of RISC-V in Europe, and for this reason the conference is designed to help attendees to explore both commercial and research applications.
RISC-V Summit Europe is an opportunity not to be missed. Come to Munich to be part of the new wave of European computing innovation!

Bridging the hardware and software gap to optimize HPC
2024-06-24 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online
Bridging the hardware and software gap to optimize HPC

June 24 2024, 11:00 – Noon

Stephanie Schmidt, Intel Corp
Jeff Wittich, Ampere Computing
Amanda Brock, OpenUK

Open Source in Finance Forum 2024 | LF Foundation
2024-06-26 08:00 - 18:30 UTC | PARK PLAZA WESTMINSTER BRIDGE LONDON, 200 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7UT, United Kingdom
The Open Source in Finance Forum is a conference for experts across financial services, technology and open source to deepen collaboration and drive innovation across the industry in order to deliver better code faster.
Financial services firms make extensive use of open source, and are now starting to take full advantage of this incredible resource. By becoming strategic contributors to open source projects, companies decrease development costs, improve security, attract developers, and innovate faster. This event will showcase recent developments and the direction of open source in financial services; provide practical knowledge and guidance on best practices, tools and technologies; explore how to build a successful community; and provide unparalleled opportunities to network with the executives and individuals driving open source in financial services.
View the schedule

London Data Week 2024
2024-07-01 - 2024-07-07
Data is part of our everyday lives as Londoners, from choosing the best Tube route to finding your next pair of trainers. Join us at London Data Week for a citywide festival about data to learn, create, discuss, and explore how to use data to shape our city for the better. After an incredible first year in 2023, London Data Week is back for 2024!
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OpenUK’ State of Open: The UK in 2024 Report Launch Day
2024-07-03 12:00 - 19:00 UTC | Great Hall of Kings, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
OpenUK’s State of Open: The UK in 2024 Report Launch Day
Date: 03 July 2024 Event Time: 12:00 – 18:00
Location: Great Hall, King’s College London
Celebrating our 4th year of “State of Open” Reports with the launch of “The UK in 2024: The Open Manifesto Report,” OpenUK continues the evolving narrative of open source software and open data in the UK, bringing to life the reality of open source through our communities’ stories couple with hard data. Our launch event convenes the conversation as part of London Data Week and we are grateful to the incredible speakers of a world-leading calibre including:
Keynotes from economist and journalist Will Hutton author of “This Time No Mistakes”, and Google DeepMind Professor of ML Professor Neil Lawrence, author of “The Atomic Human”, who will also be participating in a book signing and give away. Speakers include Andreas Liesenfeld, Dawn Foster, Professor Elena Simperl, Justin Cormack, Lee Fulmer, Liz Rice, Dr Margaret Hartnett, Matt Barker, Dr Rebecca Taylor, Richard Granville-Hanson and Sonia Cooper.
The pathway to digital success for the UK includes open source and OpenUK has 3 asks of our new government as it convenes the UK’s open source communities. You can add your individual and organisation’s voice by signing The Open Manifesto.
This new Report shared in the launch event, explores the Manifesto’s 3 asks:

Skills development – stem migration, fill the skills gap and bring jobs to the rural economy by enhancing the UK’s open source contributing community;
Enable the public sector to do open source – build the next generation of public sector open source engagement, using the UK’s late mover advantage to leapfrog the Open Source Program Office; and
AI openness.

Watch the sessions
3 July Event Agenda
“It’s not just about the future of open source but how open source can be a part of our future” Lord Wei
12.00 – 13.00 Registration and Networking
13.00 – 13.10 Welcome and Introduction to The Open Manifesto – A call to action Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
13.10 – 13.20 The Open Manifesto Report – an update on the UK’s position in open source Dr Jennifer Barth, Founder Symmetry and Chief Research Officer Open UK
13.20 – 13.35 Keynote “This Time no Mistakes” A new dawn – the economics of open source for a new government Will Hutton, Journalist and economist
13.35 – 13.50 Q&A with Will Hutton Hosted by Lesley Smith, OpenUK Policy Advisory Board Chair
13.50 – 14.00 OpenUK Skills Documentary produced by Dark Matter
14.00 – 14.30 Panel: Open Source supporting the UK digital skills gap

Dr Rebecca Taylor, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Southampton
Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
Matt Barker, Founder JetStack, VP Venafi and OpenUK Entrepreneur in Residence
Dawn Foster, Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project

14.30 – 15.00 Fireside Chat: Lessons learned in funding of open source Amanda Brock interviewing Richard Granville-Hanson, Heatweb
15.00 – 15.10 Keynote: The OSPO is Dead – Long live the OSPO Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
15.10 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 15.45 Keynote “The Atomic Human” Professor Neil Lawrence, Google DeepMind Professor of ML, Cambridge
15.45 – 16.00 Q&A with Prof Neil Lawrence Hosted by Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
16.00 – 16.15 Keynote: The AI Act and open washing Andreas Liesenfeld, Assistant Professor, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University
16.15 – 17.00 Panel What is open source in AI?

Margaret Hartnett, Co-Founder, progressio.ai
Professor Neil Lawrence, Google DeepMind Professor of ML, Cambridge
Andreas Liesenfeld, Assistant Professor, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University
Justin Cormack, CTO, Docker

17.00 -17.30 Panel The AI data Conundrum

Sonia Cooper, AGC IP, Microsoft
Professor Elena Simperl, Professor of Computer Science, Kings
Lee Fulmer, Senior Advisory McKinsey and Chair OpenUK Finance Advisory Board

17.30 -18.00 Book Signing 30 copies of each of Will Hutton’s book This Time No Mistake and Professor Neil Lawrence’s text Atomic Human will be given away – meet the authors and have your book signed.
18..00 Event Closes
OpenUK has been at the bleeding edge of research and reporting of open source since 2020, pushing the envelope in the topics covered, the approach to them and practice methodologies. Our collaborative approach has allowed others to build on our work and we share our work and that of others across the industry, new and established through bi-monthly Research and Reporting Digital Show and Tell at which all are welcome.
You will find State of Open: The UK in 2024, Phase Two: The Open Manifesto, and our past reports, case studies and thought leadership at openuk.uk/reports.
Attendance at this event is subject to the following OpenUK policies:- Code of Respect Competition Policy
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Keynote
Will Hutton, Economist and Journalist, Author of “This Time No Mistakes”

Will Hutton is a British journalist and author. He currently writes a regular column for the Observer, is the president of the Academy of Social Sciences, hosts its We Society podcast and is co-chair of the Purposeful Company. He was formerly economics editor of the Guardian, editor-in-chief of the Observer and Principal of Hertford College Oxford. Hutton’s books include the bestselling The State We’re In, How Good We Can Be, The World We’re In and The Writing on the Wall.
Keynote
Prof Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor, Machine Learning, University of Cambridge

Neil Lawrence is the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge where he leads the University’s flagship mission on AI, AI@Cam. He has been working on machine learning models for over 20 years. He recently returned to academia after three years as Director of Machine Learning at Amazon. His main interest is the interaction of machine learning with the physical world. This interest was triggered by deploying machine learning in the African context, where ‘end-to-end’ solutions are normally required. This has inspired new research directions at the interface of machine learning and systems research, this work is funded by a Senior AI Fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute. Neil is also a visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and the co-host of Talking Machines. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Atomic Human (release date 30th May 2024)
Keynote
Andreas Liesenfeld, Assistant Professor, Radboud University

Andreas Liesenfeld is an Assistant Professor at Radboud University where he researches the societal and regulatory implications of emerging language technologies. His current work focuses on technology assessment, open source generative AI, and comparative AI regulation. At the Centre for Language Studies (CLS), Andreas Liesenfeld is a member of the language technology expertise group and, in collaboration with the Netherlands eScience center, develops open source research software for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK

Amanda is the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology: open source software, open hardware, open data, open innovation, open standards and open access AI – with the purpose of UK Leadership and Global Collaboration in Open Technology. She is also the Executive Producer of State of Open Con 25 taking place 4 – 5 February 2025 in London and has produced 2023 and 24 events. Appointed member of the Cabinet Office’s Open Standards Board; and both UKRI’s UK Exascale Science and Industry Advisory Board and Digital Research Infrastructure Advisory Board, she is a commercial Advisory Board Member at California Cyber Security company Mimoto and at the Scottish Geo Spatial Data company Space Aye. She is also an Advisory Board Member of KDE and a European Representative of the Open Invention Network.
Amanda is a judge in the IDG Foundry CIO 100 in 2023 and 2024, having been a Judge in the We Are Tech Women Rising Star Awards in 2020-22. Listed as the 37th Most Influential Woman in UK Tech by Computer Weekly in 2023 and in Computing’s IT Leaders 100 2023, and the INvolve HERoes list of 100 global women executives driving change by example in 2022 -23. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards UK in 2022.
A regular contributor to the tech press, she is the editor of Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (2nd edition) published by Oxford University Press in October 2022, with open access thanks to the Vietsch Foundation https://amandabrock.com/books
Dr Jennifer Barth, Founder and Research Director, Symmetry and Research Director OpenUK

Jenn has more than 15 years of experience leading independent research on the intersections of emerging technologies and socioeconomic change. She provides companies with independent thought leadership and media engagement opportunities on global issues impacting and shaping our current and future technical-social lives.
Her work spans the digital through to social and economic change. She has looked at sustainability, workforce skills and organisational competitiveness strategies through and beyond the pandemic with Microsoft and many other big and small organisations and works as the Chief Research Office researching the role of Open Source Software and its potential to fuel the circular economy with OpenUK. She has experience working on the human impact of artificial intelligence (AI) through fieldwork experiments with IBM Watson, Microsoft and other providers. She is skilled at blending research methods and working with people to bring to life the stories behind numbers. Dr Barth earned her DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford.
Dawn Foster, Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for the CHAOSS project where she is also a board member and maintainer. She is an OpenUK board member and co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community building, strategy, open source, governance, metrics, and more. She has spoken at over 100 industry events and has a PhD, MBA, and BS in computer science. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.
Professor Elena Simperl, Professor of Computer, King’s College London

Elena Simperl is a Professor of Computer at King’s College London and the Director of Research for the Open Data Institute (ODI). She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow. Elena’s work is at the intersection between AI and social computing. She features in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade and in the Women in AI 2000 ranking. She is the president of the Semantic Web Sciences Association.
Justin Cormack, CTO, Docker

Justin Cormack is CTO of Docker, and serves on the Technical Oversight Board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. He has been involved in the open source community for many years, and has worked in publishing and financial services as well as software startups. He has been focusing on supply chain security and container and cloud native software delivery as an engineer and executive. He is based in Cambridge.
Lee Fulmer, Business Technologist

Lee is an experienced business technologist who has been creatively disrupting the technology, media and finance industries throughout his career. His blend of business acumen, creativity and technology experience brings a unique perspective on driving business change. From helping decentralise the Internet on the board of ICANN to building the foundations for BBC Online and OnDigital (the world’s first digital television service) to dreaming up the idea for the UK Faster Payments service then chairing the industry bodies that delivered it, to chairing the Bank of England’s strategic Transforming Data Collection Board he is always at the forefront of data and digital disruption.

Lesley Smith, Chair, Policy Advisory Board

Lesley Smith has been a successful VP, senior director and director of global corporate affairs, public policy corporate communications and investor relations for nearly three decades. In that time she’s covered financial services/fintech, retail, ecommerce, technology, telecoms, international market entry, tax policy, restructuring, education and transport, having started in parliament. She most recently worked as global corporate affairs director for Revolut and prior to that ran UK and Ireland public policy for Amazon.
Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She was Chair of the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee in 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O’Reilly.
She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, competing in virtual races on Zwift, and making music under the pseudonym Insider Nine.
Dr Margaret Hartnett, Co-founder of Progressio AI Ltd

Holding a PhD in AI & Analytical Chemistry, Dr Margaret Hartnett has been working with AI and algorithms in industry and academia for over 30 years. A senior researcher, European Patent Attorney, Chartered Patent Attorney and company director, Margaret has a track record of growing and exiting a hugely successful AI scale-up. Indeed, Margaret has spent almost 20 years developing into an executive-level research, innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) specialist. Bringing a rare interdisciplinary skill and perspective, Margaret bridges the gap between the commercial and technology functions of fast-growth, high-tech businesses. As co-founder of Progressio AI, she brings this expertise to bear to help AI-driven companies meet their obligations under the forthcoming EU AI Act.
Matt Barker, President and Co-Foudner, Jestack

Matt Barker is President and Co-founder of Jetstack. He’s spent his career in open source software vendors and was an early employee at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, and then NoSQL Database company MongoDB, seeing the company grow from a few millions of dollars in revenue to a successful Nasdaq IPO.
As a technical non-technical person he became interested in the business use cases around software containers, and started Jetstack to help companies get value out of Docker and Kubernetes. As CEO he grew the company organically to 30 people and in the process created one of the most-popular cloud native projects in the ecosystem, ‘cert-manager’ which is downloaded millions of times a day.
Jetstack was acquired by the founders of Machine Identity Management, Venafi Inc. in May 2020. Venafi subsequently took strategic investment from Thoma Bravo in Dec 2020, turning it into a cybersecurity Unicorn with a valuation of $1.15bn.
In January 2021 Matt was awarded as a top 100 Open Source Influencer by OpenUK.
Rebecca Taylor, IFHEA

Rebecca Taylor is an Associate Professor, Sociologist of work and organisations at the University of Southampton and co-director of the Work futures Research Centre. Her research interests are in unpaid work, digital labour and public service delivery with a focus on policy and practice. A central strand of this work is on Open Source labour and the organisational context to open source software development.
Sonia Cooper, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft

Sonia is the Assistant General Counsel, Open Innovation Team at Microsoft and Vice President of the IP Federation. Sonia has over 25 years of experience advising on IP and innovation in the tech sector, specialising in AI and IP. A Chartered and European Patent Attorney, Sonia worked extensively with Microsoft Research in Cambridge and now leads IP policy in the Open Innovation Team at Microsoft. Sonia is Vice President and Immediate Past President of IP Federation and Chairs the federation’s Data and Copyright Committee. Sonia is the Data Policy lead for Open UK and is a passionate advocate for open data.

OSPOs for Good 2024
2024-07-09 08:00 - 2024-07-10 17:00 UTC | United Nations Headquarters, New York, 405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, United States
The second edition of the OSPOs for Good symposium is set to be a multi-day conference held on 9th and 10th July 2024, with a richer global presence of diverse open source thinkers, with bigger ambitions and strides for championing OSPOs as a global network for good.
By building on the success of last year’s event, the goal of the 2024 conference is to be ‘bigger and better’ in every way. This action symposium aims to serve as a high-level coming out party for open source in the UN system, delivering high-level thematic tracks that address key areas of open source policy, as well as highlighting emerging examples of ‘open source for good’ from across the globe. It will prominently highlight the theme of ‘open source networks as enablers of global cooperation’.
While the 2024 conference will of course focus on the role of Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) like last year’s event, this conference will expand the scope to focus on how the conversation around OSPOs are enabling new forms of global cooperation around open source for good in countries.

OpenUK London Meetup #16: Cloud Native
2024-07-09 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Tuesday 9th July for our 16th OpenUK London community meetup we will be celebrating ten years of Kubernetes by talking to some of the UK’s cloud native maintainers! Let’s answer what’s a cloud native mindset and how can you apply that to an open source community? What are some of the challenges?
SAVE THE DATE!
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Panel including Syntasso’s Paula Kennedy, Otterize’s Nicolas Vermandé, Isovalent at Cisco’s Carla Gaggini and Akamai’s Alex Chircop! We will be discussing how cloud native can enable delivering safe and high quality software and value to customers without slowing down – and how does open source software and community drive this?
7:40 pm: TBA but it’ll include a breakout that gets people talking to each other!
8:15-8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
This will be our last meetup until September so not to be missed!
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!
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OpenUK Digital Meetup #2 What the Fork do we do now?
2024-07-10 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 10th July for the Second OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members. This will be a lunchtime webinar. The event will not be recorded.
Agenda:
1200 Start
James Humphries, OpenTofu
Dawn Foster, CHAOSS
1300 End
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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.

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell July 2024
2024-07-12 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
Opportunity to see the best of global research and reporting in open source software at OpenUK’s regular Research & Reporting Show and Tell.

Date and time

Fri, 12 Jul 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.
Show and Tell sessions are set for March 15, May 17, July 12, Sep 20, and Dec 06.
Attendance at this event is subject to the following OpenUK policies:-

Code of Respect
Competition Policy

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Resources

Columbia Convening Overview: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/introducing-columbia-convening-openness-and-ai/
Towards a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models, one of the documents associated with the Columbia Convening: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.15802
Dataset Convening Overview: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/dataset-convening/
Open GenAI: LLMs (simplified table) https://opening-up-chatgpt.github.io/figure.html
Show and Tell July 2024 (Including Dr Jennifer Barth’s reporting)

Speakers

Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Amanda is the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology: open source software, open hardware, open data, open innovation, open standards and open access AI – with the purpose of UK Leadership and Global Collaboration in Open Technology. She is also the Executive Producer of State of Open Con 25 taking place 4 – 5 February 2025 in London and has produced 2023 and 24 events. Appointed member of the Cabinet Office’s Open Standards Board; and both UKRI’s UK Exascale Science and Industry Advisory Board and Digital Research Infrastructure Advisory Board, she is a commercial Advisory Board Member at California Cyber Security company Mimoto and at the Scottish Geo Spatial Data company Space Aye. She is also an Advisory Board Member of KDE and a European Representative of the Open Invention Network.
Amanda is a judge in the IDG Foundry CIO 100 in 2023 and 2024, having been a Judge in the We Are Tech Women Rising Star Awards in 2020-22. Listed as the 37th Most Influential Woman in UK Tech by Computer Weekly in 2023 and in Computing’s IT Leaders 100 2023, and the INvolve HERoes list of 100 global women executives driving change by example in 2022 -23. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards UK in 2022.
A regular contributor to the tech press, she is the editor of Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (2nd edition) published by Oxford University Press in October 2022, with open access thanks to the Vietsch Foundation https://amandabrock.com/books

Dr Jennifer Barth, Founder and Research Director, Symmetry and Research Director OpenUK
Jenn has more than 15 years of experience leading independent research on the intersections of emerging technologies and socioeconomic change. She provides companies with independent thought leadership and media engagement opportunities on global issues impacting and shaping our current and future technical-social lives.
Her work spans the digital through to social and economic change. She has looked at sustainability, workforce skills and organisational competitiveness strategies through and beyond the pandemic with Microsoft and many other big and small organisations and works as the Chief Research Office researching the role of Open Source Software and its potential to fuel the circular economy with OpenUK. She has experience working on the human impact of artificial intelligence (AI) through fieldwork experiments with IBM Watson, Microsoft and other providers. She is skilled at blending research methods and working with people to bring to life the stories behind numbers. Dr Barth earned her DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford.

Aviya Skowron, Head of Policy and Ethics, Eleuther AI
Aviya is the Head of Policy and Ethics at EleutherAI, where they focus on policy for openly available AI models. They translate EleutherAI’s expertise in machine learning into policy recommendations informed by the latest LLM research and promote best practices among open source and “open-ish” AI developers. In addition to open source advocacy, Aviya works on data documentation and licensing for generative AI.

Andreas Lisenfeld, Associate Professor, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Andreas Liesenfeld is an Assistant Professor at Radboud University where he researches the societal and regulatory implications of emerging language technologies. His current work focuses on technology assessment, open source generative AI, and comparative AI regulation. At the Centre for Language Studies (CLS), Andreas Liesenfeld is a member of the language technology expertise group and, in collaboration with the Netherlands eScience center, develops open source research software for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Mark Dingemanse, Associate Professor, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Mark Dingemanse is Associate Professor in Language and Communication at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is a PI of Futures of Language, a transdisciplinary research programme that looks at artisanal and artificial ways of languaging. The research in his group is funded by generous talent grants from the Dutch Research Council NWO and is strongly collaborative in nature. His work on generative AI is aimed at fostering critical AI literacy among researchers and the general public.

OpenUK Summer Picnic
2024-07-14 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom
Join us for a fun-filled OpenUK Summer Picnic on date! Let’s enjoy the sun, good food, and great company together.
OpenUK will be hosting a summer picnic on Sunday 14 July from 2-5 pm in Regents Park, London. The exact location will be provided before the event.

Mainframerz: Containers on Z (Online)
2024-07-18 17:30 - 19:00 UTC
Details

Come and join our next Mainframerz event on the theme of Containers on Z.
The agenda will be something like this:

Welcome & icebreaker – Mat Comer/ Stuart Ashby
Presentation 1: Introduction – Mey Beisaron (Forter)
Presentation 2: A containerised Python example on ZCX – Sujit Neb (BMC)
Presentation 3: What is z/OS Container Platform (a brand new offering on Z) – Dipesh Rawat (IBM)
Presentation 4: Containerised z/OS Connect – Andrew Smithson (IBM)
Q&A
Wrap-up

The event will be fun, informal and engaging, hopefully with some live demos too.
Everyone is welcome whether you are new to Z, new to containers or keen to hear more.
You can catch up on previous events by visiting our YouYube page: https://www.youtube.com/@mainframerzmeetup4293
For this event we will be using Microsoft Teams.
To register, follow the link which requires a full name and email address. Then you will receive a confirmation email with a url to join the actual event.
www.ibm.biz/mainframerz
or full link:
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3ed859e9-acdb-4523-91bc-c9e98f7b024c@fcf67057-50c9-4ad4-98f3-ffca64add9e9
See you on the 18th!

IEEE 6G Summit Leeds 2024 in Conjunction with WINCOM
2024-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
IEEE 6G Summit Leeds 2024 in Conjunction with WINCOM
July 25, 2024
Leeds, UK
https://www.wincom-conf.org/WINCOM_2024/
IEEE 6G Summit Leeds 2024
6G is expected to leverage technologies like terahertz frequencies, advanced antenna systems, and artificial intelligence to enable faster and more efficient wireless communication. It may also involve innovations in areas such as holographic communications, immersive augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), and the integration of communication networks with other emerging technologies.

SUSE Cloud Native Meetup UK #2
2024-08-01 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | 90-94 Oxford Road (near train station) · Manchester M1 5WH, 90-94 Oxford Road (near train station), Manchester, M1 5WH, United Kingdom
Details

Hi Everyone
We’re back with #2, but this time in Manchester. Join us for our second Meetup in August. We have 3 interesting talks on the agenda:
Timeline

6.00 – Walk-in/Doors open ?
6.15 – Food & Drinks ??☕️
6.45 – Welcome by Nelson Batsford
7:00 – Talk One ‘Taking Kubernetes beyond the Availability Zone’,Andrew Hill, Cloud Native Architect, Portworx
7:30 Talk Two Speaker ARM, Talk TBC
8:00 Break ??
8:30 Talk Three ‘Distributed Platforms. How platform engineering is at the core of the next evolution in the cloud native world’ David Stauffer, Director Product Management – Rancher Prime
9:00 – Time is up! See you next time. ?

We hope to see you there!
Abstracts:
Taking Kubernetes beyond the Availability Zone, while saving on storage and sleeping better:
* Deliver highly available stateful applications to your cluster and learn how to failover those applications, and their data, in the event of failure of a disk, node, or even an entire availability zone
* Learn how to provide globally accessible stateful applications by leveraging Portworx DR with Stork
* Stop over provisioning and overpaying for your storage and automatically manage and scale your capacity management in the cloud
These are just some of the challenges you may experience when running Kubernetes in production, and we can help you solve them.
Distributed Platforms. How platform engineering is at the core of the next evolution in the cloud native world

Distributed platforms. Run workloads where it makes most sense.
Platform engineering. Create a scaleable and sustainable platform.
Lifecycle. Security and compliance considerations through the whole lifecycle.

The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 Hong Kong
2024-08-21 08:00 - 2024-08-23 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Kerry Hotel, Hong Kong, 38 Hung Luen Rd, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference joins with Open Source Summit and AI_dev to gather adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Hong Kong from 21-23 August 2024. Join us and immerse yourself in the heart of cloud native computing, open source innovation, and the intricate realm of generative AI and machine learning.
Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK, will be attending this event.

LF Energy Summit 2024
2024-09-05 - 2024-09-06 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
The world is facing immense challenges to achieve decarbonization targets and prevent the worst impacts of climate change. The only way to meet these targets is to work collaboratively to develop digital technologies and standards to optimize physical infrastructure, orchestrate supply and demand, and rapidly onboard clean energy resources. LF Energy accelerates the energy transition by building communities to develop open technologies and standards. LF Energy Summit will gather the LF Energy community including electric utilities, technology vendors, global energy companies, researchers, and other industry stakeholders to learn about LF Energy and its projects, collaborate, and share best practices.

Percona University Istanbul Open Source Databases Meetup 2024
2024-09-07 09:30 - 16:30 (Europe/Moscow) | Workinton the Kozyatağı, Umut Sokak #10-12 Ataşehir, İstanbul, Turkey, 34752
Sept 7, 2024, İstanbul, Turkey
OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will be talking at this event. Topic TBA.
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Percona University comes to İstanbul, Turkey! We organize an in-person free database meetup on September 7th and invite everyone to join us.
This is a great opportunity to discover more about open source software, tools, and services, and to bring your open source database questions to our experts and featured speakers. Build your knowledge and get up to speed on hot database topics.
Experts will present talks about open source, cloud, PostgreSQL, monitoring and other topics.
Agenda:

Opening talk: State of Open Source Databases by Peter Zaitsev (Founder, Percona);
Moving MongoDB Workloads to Postgres by Peter Farkas (CEO & Co-founder at FerretDB);
Unusual Useful Types for Postgres by Yurii Rashkovskii (Founder at Omnigres);
Database Design and Modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL byAlkin Tezuysal (Executive VP Global Services, ChistaDATA);
An introduction to TiDB by Daniël van Eeden (Technical Support Engineer, PingCAP);
Navigating Postgres and Pgpool with a MySQL Expert’s Perspective by Patrick Galbraith (Principal Engineer, Consultant);
Cloud-native Postgres Observability Peter Zaitsev (Founder, Percona);

Attendance is free for everyone. Register to save your spot!
