OpenUK

Summit: Rochester Institute of Technology- Open work in Academia
2022-09-07 - 2022-09-09 | Hyatt Regency Rochester, 125 East Main Street, Rochester, NY, 14604, United States
Why Now?
The time is ripe to look at Open Work across communities to compare, contrast,
and cross-pollinate best practices.

The National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for funding to support “Open Source Ecosystems” to improve sustainability, impact, and translation of “open source research products.”
The National Institutes of Health has released new policy to improve and refine the sharing of, and collaboration around, research data.
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) have issued a tool kit to improve and encourage university support of Open Scholarship.
Across the European Union, the creation of national policies on Open Science and Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) for Government is accelerating.
OSPOs have been created by a few universites to utilize techniques pioneered in private industry to better facilitate academic Open Work.

Join Us
Open@RIT invites professionals from the Academic, Research and Open Source communities for a two and a half day gathering to explore topics such as:

Measures of value, impact and translation of Open Work
Policies around support and promotion for success in that work
Building, sustaining and promoting Open Communities and Ecosystems
Managing information overload and ferment in the field+
Existing practices and resources provided by academia to support Open Scholarship and industry

SCALE 19x
2022-07-28 - 2022-07-31 | Los Angeles, Hilton LAX 5711 W. Century Blvd, Los Angeles, 90045, United States
Join Amanda Brock CEO on Friday 22nd July at SCaLE speaking about the State of Open Source in Government.

OpenUK Summer of Open Source Software Security: Security Advisory Board
2022-07-27 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | City of London
This weeks Security Session is a Panel Session with OpenUK’s Security Advisory Board, led by Andrew Martin, Founder Control Plane and OpenUK’s Chief Technical Security Officer; Dr Jacqui Taylor, Founder Flying Binary; and Sonya Moisset, Principal Security Engineer, Snyk.
Andrew Martin – An incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise and government. He is CEO at https://control-plane.io.
Dr, Jacqui Taylor – As #15 Most Influential Woman in UK Technology and 21 Most Inspiring Women in Cyber she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science in recognition of her international web science work on inclusion for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). One of the 250 Founders of Tech City, in 2016 she pivoted her company FlyingBinary to meet the challenges of the Metaverse and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with spectacular results.
She is recognised as one of the 100 Global Leaders, is a Top Ten Global IoT innovator, and an independent industry analyst for IIoT. An Expert Advisor to the European Commission in a Fire-Starter role for the Future Digital Economy, with a specific focus on innovation and improving the health and well being outcomes for 450 million citizens. A Top 20 UK Impact entrepreneurs, most influential UK web scientist in 2021, Top 34 IoT Influencers on Twitter. Shortlisted for a Cyber Security industry award she was invited to speak in Davos on the future of the Cyber Security Industry.
Globally recognised as the world’s first Smart City Tsar, and a Strategic Advisor to the UK Government, Cities lead on Digital Built Britain, Principal UK Expert lead for BSI international team for Technology, Data, Smart Cities and AI. She has recently taken an appointment back in the UKs Cabinet Office to create the Open Standards for the UK Government and is an Expert Advisor to the United Nations for the 2030 plan.
She has founded the Empathy Economy to share the secrets of her global success plan with entrepreneurs via a unique membership offering. The Empathy Economy Online launches in 2022. She has personally committed to support 1 million entrepreneurs with resources to meet the challenges of a post Isolation Economy and transition them to grow their companies in the IIoT.
Sonya Moisset –
A Senior Security Advocate and a lifelong traveler who lived in the Middle-East, North Africa and Asia. Always looking for new challenges – she made a career change from International Business Consultant in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore to Full Stack Software Engineer in South Korea to Cybersecurity in the United Kingdom.
She’s passionate about Open Source, DevSecops and Cloud Computing. She’s the founder of Epic Women in Cyber and Epic Women in Tech, two initiatives to showcase women in the tech and cyber industries. She is an ambassador for Girlcode, OpenUK, and a GitHub Star.
Sonya is a DevSecOps/Cloud Security Advocate and a public speaker in the world tech scene. She is also a mentor for women in tech, a cybersecurity writer for FreeCodeCamp publications and an active member of the tech community in the UK.

Engaging the Public Sector in the OpenSSF Mobilization Plan
2022-07-20 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | City of London
“Engaging the Public Sector In The OpenSSF”
Brian Behlendorf (born March 30, 1973) is an American technologist, executive, computer programmer and leading figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the Apache Software Foundation. Behlendorf served as president of the foundation for three years. He has served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003, Benetech since 2009 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. Currently, Behlendorf serves as the General Manager of the Open Source Security Foundation.

GUADEC 2022
2022-07-20 - 2022-07-25 | Guadalajara Connectory, Av. Ignacio L. Vallarta 3300-Piso 2, Vallarta Nte.,, Guadalajara, 44690, Mexico
GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference. Every year we bring together users, contributors, and community members for a week of talks and workshops.

How the Department of Defense moved to DevSecOps to move at the pace of relevance
2022-07-13 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | City of London
Former U.S Air Force and Air Force Chief Software Officer – Departed October 2021
Mr. Nicolas M. Chaillan was appointed as the first Air Force Chief Software Officer (CSO), under Dr. William Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, Arlington, VA. He was also the Co-lead for the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Initiative (DSOP) with the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer. As the Air Force’s former senior software czar, Mr. Chaillan was responsible for enabling Air Force programs in the transition to Agile and DevSecOps to establish force-wide DevSecOps capabilities and best practices, including continuous Authority to Operate (c-ATO) processes and faster streamlined technology adoption.
The Chief Software Officer worked with the Program Executive Officers (PEOs) and was responsible for analyzing current software and cloud migration plans to avoid vendor lock-ins while allowing for rapid prototyping and a streamlined process for deployment. To keep up with the pace of technology, Mr. Chaillan evaluated and authorized new commercially available off-the-shelf software and cloud-related technologies to help with their adoption across various AF programs based on their mission needs.
Mr. Chaillan was the Special Advisor for Cloud Security and DevSecOps at the Department of Defense, OSD, A&S and Special Advisor for Cybersecurity and Chief Architect for Cyber.gov at the Department of Homeland Security. He designed the new robust, innovative and holistic .Gov cybersecurity architecture (Cyber.gov) that mitigates cyber threats by leveraging best practices and implementable solutions with minimal impact to workforce efficiency.
In addition to his public service, Mr. Chaillan is a technology entrepreneur, software developer, cyber expert and inventor. He has over 19 years of domestic and international experience with strong technical and subject matter expertise in cybersecurity, software development, product innovation, governance, risk management and compliance. Specifically, these fields include Cloud computing, Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, Big Data, multi-touch, mobile, IoT, Mixed Reality, VR, and wearables.
Mr. Chaillan is recognized as one of France’s youngest entrepreneurs after founding, WORLDAKT at 15 years of age. Mr. Chaillan founded 12 companies, including AFTER-MOUSE.COM, Cyber Revolution, Prevent Breach, anyGuest.com, and more. Over the last eight years alone, he created and sold over 180 innovative software products to 45 Fortune 500 companies. In addition, Mr. Chaillan is recognized as a pioneer of the computer language PHP.
He is a sought-after adviser and speaker, and participates in multiple industry conferences and has experience working in close collaboration with many Fortune 100 companies and the U.S. Government.

Open Source Finance Forum
2022-07-13 | Etc Venues, Liverpool St, London, EC3A 7BX, United Kingdom
Brought to you by the Linux Foundation and Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), Open Source in Finance Forum London is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards.

SBOM's and Standards in Open Source Security
2022-07-06 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | City of London
Kate has over 30 years of system software and application tools product development, production and release in the Linux/UNIX environment. Over 15 years of managing international development and quality assurance teams interacting with open source projects.
Expertise working with international teams and software architects to pragmatically and effectively integrate proprietary technologies with the open source ecosystem.

Future Founders Training: Session 9
2022-07-01 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online
Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology.
Session 9: Revenue Generation, Pricing and Packaging
Speakers & Topics: TBC!

Is The Future for Secure Computer Systems Open Source?
2022-06-29 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Digital Catapult Centre, 101 Euston Road, London, NW1 2RA, United Kingdom
Will our industry end up completely open source? How are tech companies already embracing open source as an ethos and practically? Will it make our systems safer and more secure? Is there an alternate future?
Hosted by renowned cybersecurity journalist and author, Geoff White, the event will begin with a keynote address by Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source initiative, before other feature presentations and a panel discussion with audience Q&A on – ‘Does open sourcing code make for less vulnerable code?’
What do you think?
Perens will be joined by Amanda Brock – CEO of OpenUK, the UK body for Open Technology, Andrew Martin, CEO – ControlPlane, and OpenUK CISO, and Mark Nicholson – Morello Project – Arm. Other research and industry leaders to be announced.
The event will feature presentations jam-packed with industry insights and future-gazing predictions. Attendees are invited to join the speakers for food, drinks, and further discussion in the latter part of the session.
17:00 – 20:00 BST
Event location: Digital Catapult, London NW1 2RA
Register to attend here. Spaces filling fast.

RISC-V at Embedded World
2022-06-21 - 2022-06-23 | Nuremberg, Germany
Join us at Embedded World 2022 in Nuremberg, Germany June 21 – 23, 2022 bringing the community together to show the power of open collaboration on innovation, product successes across the ecosystem, and the technical strength of RISC-V.
RISC-V is the free and open ISA
… Driven through Open collaboration
… Enabling freedom of design across domains and industries
… Cementing the strategic foundation of semiconductors
RISC-V: THE OPEN ERA OF COMPUTING

Open Source Summit
2022-06-21 - 2022-06-24 | Austin, Texas
Open Source Summit connects the open source ecosystem under one roof. It’s a unique environment for cross-collaboration between developers, sysadmins, devops, architects and others who are driving technology forward.

Open Source Lisbon 2022
2022-06-17 | Lisbon, Portugal
Open Source Lisbon is an event for business professionals & tech enthusiasts, with interest in everything related to Open Source.

Berlin Buzzwords
2022-06-12 - 2022-06-14 | Berlin, Germany
Berlin Buzzwords is Germany’s most exciting conference on storing, processing, streaming and searching large amounts of digital data, with a focus on open source software projects.
The conference will kick off with a barcamp day followed by two days of talk, workshops and discussions!

OpenUK Summer Burns Supper
2022-06-09 18:00 - 2022-06-10 00:00 UTC | House of Commons Members Dining Room, Parliament Square, London, SW1A 0PW, United Kingdom
Join us for a special Burns Supper (delayed from January due to Covid!).
Anyone interested in buying a Corporate Table sponsorship at £1,100 per table or attending as an individual at £100 per head should contact admin@openuk.uk.

Federated Africa and Middle East Conference on Software Engineering
2022-06-07 - 2022-06-08 | Egypt / Uganda
The Africa and Middle East Conference on Software Engineering (AMECSE) and Software Engineering in Africa (SEiA) conference have joined forces and grew into the so-called Federated Africa and Middle East Conference on Software Engineering (FAMECSE).
FAMECSE aims at promoting and strengthening the Software Engineering community in Africa and the Middle East by gathering practitioners and researchers to present and share the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of Software Engineering of interest to the region.

EMF Camp 2022
2022-06-02 - 2022-06-05 | Eastnor, UK, Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Eastnor, HR8 1RQ, United Kingdom
Imagine a camping festival with a power grid and high-speed internet access; a temporary village of geeks, crafters, and technology enthusiasts that’s lit up by night, and buzzing with activity during the day. Thousands of curious people will descend on our friendly open space to learn, share, and talk about what they love.

Percona Live
2022-05-16 - 2022-05-18 | AT&T Hotel and Conference Centre, 1900 University Avenue, Austin, TX, 78705, United States
Percona Live 2022 will be May 16-18 at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center in Austin, Texas, USA.
Percona Live is a 3-day event of keynotes, educational sessions, hands-on activities, and more:

Hear the biggest names in the industry discuss their experience, dive deep into software, and offer actionable advice.
Learn about how open source database technology can power your applications, improve your websites, secure your data, and solve critical database issues.
Get top tips from database experts to help you make the most of your open source database environments.

OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock will be providing a Keynote on Tuesday 17th May at 9am entitled “How is open source shaping up to survive and thrive in the Roaring 20’s?”.
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KubeCon and Cloud Native Europe (In Person & Virtual)
2022-05-16 - 2022-05-20 | Feria Valencia, Avenida de las ferias s/n, Valencia, 46035, Spain
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Valencia, Spain from May 16 – 20, 2022. Join containerd, CoreDNS, Envoy, etcd, Fluentd, Harbor, Helm, Jaeger, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Open Policy Agent, Prometheus, Rook, TiKV, TUF, Vitess, Argo, Buildpacks, Cilium, CloudEvents, CNI, Contour, Cortex, CRI-O, Crossplane, dapr, Dragonfly, Emissary Ingress, Falco, Flagger, Flux, gRPC, KEDA, KubeEdge, Longhorn, NATS, Notary, OpenTelemetry, Operator Framework, SPIFFE, SPIRE, and Thanos as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

Future Founders Training: Session 8
2022-05-13 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 8: People, Hiring and Scaling
Speakers: Matthew Yonkovit, Murielle Brenon, Paul Holt
Moderator: Lee Wright
Topics:
– when to bring on your first employees
– hiring process
– what roles to hire
– hiring from community
– managing community
– scaling issues

ScotlandIS - Digital Technology Awards 2022
2022-05-12 | Radisson Blu Glasgow, 301 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL, United Kingdom
The ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards showcase excellence within the industry rewarding the innovation, expertise and ambition of businesses large and small – and the people who drive them.
After a successful virtual event in 2021, we are pleased to once again be gathering in person on Thursday 12th May to celebrate everyone involved in the industry and highlight some of the great achievements within the tech sector over the last 12 months.
With only four award categories last year, we are back up to our usual number – with a few brand new categories to shake things up for 2022. Applications open from 17th December 2021 and close on 16th March 2022 – apply here now.
We look forward to you joining us for a night of food, fun and celebration of the industry!
Digital Tech 2022 will take place on Thursday 12th May, at the Radisson Blu hotel in Glasgow.
If you have any questions about this year’s Digital Tech Awards or would like to register interest for tickets, please contact our Events Producer, Catriona Blair, at catriona.blair@scotlandis.com.

Future Founders Training: Session 7
2022-04-01 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 7: Community and DevRel in Open Tech
Speakers: Alison Dowdney, Dominique Top, Laura Czajkowski
Moderator: Matt Barker
Topics:
– Why do you need a community?
– Building community and engagement with a community
– Contributing to your own community
– Hiring from a community
– Why communities fork
– Successful models with and without community contributors
– Customer to community, community to customer

Legal and Licensing Workshop (Date TBC)
2022-04-01 | Gothenberg, Sweden
Since 2008, the FSFE Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop (LLW) has been the world’s premier event for debating, discussing, and sharing knowledge about Free Software legal affairs.
In 2022, share your knowledge with other legal experts, technologists, and thought leaders. By submitting your topic for consideration for the LLW 2022, you will be part of the momentum to advance the state of the art of knowledge in the field of Free Software legal and licensing issues.

Exploring the UK's Data Hub with Gaia-X - Workshop for Enterprises and the Public Sector - REGISTRATION CLOSED
2022-03-31 13:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | BTIC (Business Technology Innovation Centre) – Atos, Midcity Place, 71 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6EA, United Kingdom
Sponsored by: OpenUK, Atos, OVHcloud, Vodafone
This workshop will seek to establish moving ahead with Gaia-X Hub for UK over next 12 months.
More Information Here
Any questions or to attend please contact admin@openuk.uk

FOSS Backstage (In Person & Virtual)
2022-03-17 - 2022-03-18 | TUECHTIG, Oudenarder Straße 16 (Building D06, 1st Floor),, Berlin, 13347, Germany
The conference on everything related to governance, collaboration, legal and economics within the scope of FOSS.
Join us for two days of discussion and learning about non-technical aspects of open source development. Topics include open source project leadership best practices, community management, open source project metrics, open source strategy for enterprise, adopting open source collaboration in corporations, legal matters when dealing with open source and many more.

Future Founders Training: Session 6
2022-03-11 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 6: Raising and Runway in Open Tech Businesses
Panellists: Adrian Colyer, Henry Nash, Leanne Kemp, Sam Weaver
Moderator: Matt Barker
Topics:
– Explaining your open source business to investors
– Creating a pitch for an open source business
– Advantage of ubiquity
– When to raise
– Investors: UK, Europe and US
– Runway

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.
