Open Source Experience Paris 2024
2024-12-04 08:00 - 2024-12-05 17:00 UTC
Palais des congrès – Paris
Open source your IT solutions!
1ST OPEN SOURCE BUSINESS EVENT IN EUROPE
Supported by Systematic Paris-Region, Open Source Experience is the Tech – Usage – Business event dedicated to Open Source IT solutions, bringing together over 6,000 professionals and players in the digital sector over 2 days!Open Source Experience focuses on open source technologies, solutions and challenges in France and Europe, and highlights the driving role of open source innovations in the digital transformation of organisations in technologies such as AI, Data Management, IoT, Cloud and Blockchain.As an international showcase for the technological excellence and economic dynamism of the French open source sector, the event brings together global technology players, professional associations, companies and public authorities, a vast network of SMEs and research bodies.In 2022, the open source market in France was of €6 billion, representing 11% of the global digital market. This growth is sustainable, and has increased 40-fold in less than 20 years. With growth of 8.6% over the previous year, France has consolidated its position as European leader.
https://x.com/OSXP_Paris #OSXP #OSXP2024

Building Resilient Apps and Environments: Is Less More? at AWS re:Invent
2024-12-04 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Join OpenUK Ambassador Michael Cade of Veeam on 4 December at 1pm local to hear more about Resilient Apps and Environments

OpenUK AI Openness Round Table
2024-12-11 15:00 - 16:30 UTC | House of Commons Committee Room G, Houses of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom
OpenUK AI Openness Round Table
11 December, 15:00 – 16:30
Committee Room G, House of Lords Sponsored by Lord Wei
Speakers : Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK;
Ed Shee, CTO, Ignitus;
Prof Elena Simperl, Professor of Computer Science, Kings;
Dr Jennifer Barth, Chief Research Officer, OpenUK
Dr Laura Gilbert, Director of the Incubator for AI, 10 Downing Street;
Robbie Jerrom, AI Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager, RedHat;
Simon Wardley, Founder, Swardley Maps Ltd;
Tobias Hooton, CEO, Stelia

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #4
2024-12-11 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 11th December for our 4th OpenUK Apprentice meetup hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Justin Cormack, CEO, Docker
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 Red Badger 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.

OpenUK's Christmas Cracker
2024-12-17 13:00 - 20:30 UTC | Civo Tech Junction, 32-37 Cowper Street, London, EC2A 4AW, United Kingdom
An afternoon of discussion of Open Source and AI followed by an evening of Christmas Drinks Space limited – Sign up now!

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 2024
2024-12-20 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 2024

Date changed

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:00 – 17:30 GMT

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.
Attendance at this event is subject to the following OpenUK policies:-

Code of Respect
Privacy Policy
Competition Policy
Sustainability Policy

If you would like to hear more about OpenUK, please sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #5
2025-01-08 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 8th January for our 5th OpenUK Apprentice meetup hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Dawn Foster, CHAOSS Project
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 Red Badger 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.

OpenUK Digital #5 Self-hosting: open source tools for every day
2025-01-15 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 15th January for the Fifth OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
We will have the speaker info to be announced soon. 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 #5 Self-hosting: open source tools for every day
Wednesday, 15 January · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/npr-nyyv-uta

OpenUK London #20: Open AI
2025-01-15 18:30 - 20:45 UTC
Wednesday 15th January we’re back with our 20th OpenUK London community meetup! We’ve had the hype, now let’s get real with how AI is working for us, of course the open source kind! (Open AI in the title is not to be confused with OpenAI because that is not open.)
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!)
Add to our whiteboarding brainstorm
6:45 pm: Welcome, reminder of code of conduct, and discussion of whiteboard
7:00 pm: State of AI Openness 2024 explained with Amanda Brock, OpenUK CEO
7:20pm: Speech to Speech translation with a cascade of open source models, presented by AI developer Nikita Krasnytskyi
7:40 pm: Unum Cloud, advanced AI computing company for scaling intelligence, presented by founder Ash Vardanian
8:00 pm: presentation by Matt Carey
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave. Bring tupperware so we don’t waste 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.

​POSAIS: Paris Open Source AI Summit
2025-01-22 09:00 - 20:00 (Atlantic/Azores) | 3 mazarium, 3 Rue Mazarine, Institute De France, Paris, 75006 Paris, France
​POSAIS is a key precursor to the AI Action Summit in February 2025, under the French Presidency. By focusing on Open Source AI, we aim to prepare for broader discussions on AI’s societal, economic, and governance impacts. This summit also marks a milestone for the OpenLLM Europe community, bringing members together in person for the first time to foster collaboration. By uniting diverse stakeholders, the AI Open Source Summit aims to foster dialogue, inspire collaboration, and shape the future of open source AI.
Panel moderated by me AI Openness – what does this mean and why do we care
https://ai-uk.turing.ac.uk/
My attending the AI Action Summit, hosted by French government in Paris on the 10th February
https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia

FOSDEM 2025
2025-02-01 08:00 - 2025-02-02 17:00 UTC | ULB Solbosch Campus, Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, Brussels, 1050, Belgium
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don’t need to register. Just turn up and join in!

State of Open Con 25
2025-02-04 08:00 - 2025-02-05 17:00 UTC | Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., St Paul’s London EC4M 7DQ, Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., London, London, EC4M 7DQ, United Kingdom
The UK’s Open Technology Conference
Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Data,
Open Standards, & AI Openness

4 and 5 February, 2025
Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq.,
St Paul’s London EC4M 7DQ

Trends in Semiconductor System Design
2025-02-06 08:30 - 17:00 UTC | Novotel Reading Centre, 25b Friar Street, Reading, RG1 1DP, United Kingdom
We will examine emerging trends in semiconductor system design with an emphasis on how AI/ML is used in product design and the design flow.

Artificial Intelligence Action Summit
2025-02-10 - 2025-02-11
On 10 and 11 February 2025, France will host the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, gathering at the Grand Palais, Heads of State and Government, leaders of international organizations, CEOs of small and large companies, representatives of academia, non-governmental organizations, artists and members of civil society.

OpenUK Apprentice meet-up #6
2025-02-12 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 12th February for our 6th OpenUK Apprentice meet-up hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs
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 Red Badger 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.

OpenUK London #21: Open Databases
2025-02-26 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
SIGN UP TO SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday 26th February for our next meet-up. We’ll be sharing what we’ve learned with open databases. Want to be involved? 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.

tech*STARS Milan unfog your DIGITAL MIND
2025-03-06 - 2025-03-07
tech.Stars Milano – the ultimate tech extravaganza. Are you searching for a platform to challenge the norms and object the old and rusty? Do you want to celebrate innovation and have a playground for your techy mind to unfold? tech.Stars Milano is crafted with you in mind.

A two-day tech event in Milan, delivering challenges and discussions at the heart of Italy, with solutions across diversity & inclusion; sustainability; finance, banking & insurance; healthcare, automotive and retail.

Unfog your mind: it’s about you, the trailblazer, the innovator, the forward-thinker.

And as the sun sets, dive into a festival of live performances – your heart racing, your inner geek grooving. Ready for a night of tech, beats, and eats?

SUSECON25
2025-03-10 08:00 - 2025-03-14 17:00 UTC | Universal Orlando Resort, 6601 Adventure Way, Orlando, FL, 32819, United States
SUSECON is our 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 us to share experiences, knowledge, best practices and innovations for the future.

OpenUK Digital Meetup #6 A fireside chat with core maintainers
2025-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 12th March for the 6th 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 # fireside chat with core maintainers
Wednesday, 12 March · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Time zone: Europe/London
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/okb-vufi-ejh

FOSSASIA Summit 2025
2025-03-13 08:00 - 2025-03-15 17:00 UTC | True Digital Park West, Soi Punnawithi 4, Bang Chak Subdistrict, Phra Khanong District, Bangkok, 10260, Thailand, True Digital Park West, Soi Punnawithi 4, Bangkok, Bang Chak Subdistrict, Phra Khanong District, 10260, Thailand
The FOSSASIA Summit is an annual event that has been at the forefront of open technologies for over 15 years, bringing together a global community of developers, innovators, enterprises, and educators. Since its founding in 2009, the summit has evolved into a crucial platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange in the free and open source software (FOSS) ecosystem.
The 2025 edition, set to take place in Bangkok, will be a 3-day hybrid event offering both in-person and online experiences. Building on the success of the 2024 summit in Hanoi, which drew over 5,000 participants, the event offers an opportunity to explore cutting-edge developments in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Web3, Robotics, Hardware and more. It will also serve as a critical forum for enterprises seeking flexible, sustainable open-source solutions while playing a key role in integrating open source into education, preparing the next generation of the tech workforce.
Information for international visitors

Venue: The event location of FOSSASIA Summit is: True Digital Park West, 111 Sukhumvit Rd, Bang Chak, Phra Khanong, Bangkok 10260. The venue is situated in the Punnawithi area and directly accessible via the BTS Skytrain (Punnawithi Station). Alternative transportation options such as taxis and ride-sharing services like Grab, Bolt, and Gojek are also available.

Accommodation: Bangkok offers a diverse range of accommodation options to suit every budget and preference. For hassle-free travel, choose a hotel near a BTS Skytrain or MRT station. If you’d like to stay close to the event venue, consider the On Nut or Punnawithi areas. For those looking to explore the city’s attractions, Sukhumvit, Silom, or Pratunam are highly recommended.

Visa: Many nationalities qualify for visa-free entry to Thailand for up to 30 days, while others may need a Visa on Arrival or a Tourist Visa. To find out the specific visa requirements based on your nationality, visit: https://www.thaievisa.go.th

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.
