FIWARE Global Summit 2023
2023-06-12 - 2023-06-13
Vienna City Hall

International Telecoms Conference - In partnership with DSIT
2023-06-12 09:00 - 18:30 UTC
Amanda Brock will be speaking on a panel on 12 June, 2023.

OpenInfra Summit Vancouver 2023
2023-06-13 - 2023-06-15
Collaborate directly with the people building and running open source infrastructure using Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes and 30+ other technologies.
Early bird registration is available until February 15, 2023.

State of Open Subset - Episode 7
2023-06-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Fyne and Go: Native graphical apps for all platforms with a single codebase
Speaker: Andy Williams
Andrew Williams has two decades of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages and has been a core developer in large open source projects such as Enlightenment, EFL, Maven and Fyne. Since 2018 he has been focused on Go development and is working hard to apply the high quality design principles of mobile app development to cross-platform applications.
Andrew is the author of “Building Cross-Platform GUI Applications with Fyne” and “Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go” and is also the founder of the Fyne toolkit presented in this talk.

OW2con
2023-06-14 - 2023-06-15
June 14-15, 2023
Paris, France

DevOpsDays Birmingham & TechMids, UK 2023
2023-06-15 - 2023-06-16 | Millennium Point, Curzon St, Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 7XG, United Kingdom
DevOpsDays Birmingham Is CoLocated with TechMids.
Amanda Brock will be giving a talk on “Will Open Source Fail?” on 16 June 2023.

Berlin Buzzwords 2023
2023-06-18 - 2023-06-20
“We are back with exciting news: Berlin Buzzwords will return June 18-20, 2023!
As always, we will kick of the conference with our traditional barcamp on Sunday, followed by two days filled with exciting talks.
Stay tuned for more information and follow us on Twitter and Linkedin as we will be launching our Call for Papers and ticket shop soon!
We very much hope to see all of you next year, be it online or in Berlin!”

Berlin Buzzwords
2023-06-18 - 2023-06-19
June 18-19, 2023
Berlin, Germany

CommCon 2023
2023-06-19 - 2023-06-23
Amanda Brock will be keynoting

State of Open Subset - Episode 8
2023-06-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Getting started with container security
Hannah Foxwell – Hannah Foxwell is Product Director at Snyk, based in the UK. She leads a team of Platform Engineers and Product Managers who are focussed on building wildly successful Platforms with Cloud Native technologies. Hannah is organiser of DevOpsDays London and is a champion of the HumanOps movement with a keen interest in engineering practices and processes that life better for the humans who work in tech today.
Adrian Mouat – Adrian has been involved with containers from the early days of Docker and authored the O’Reilly book “Using Docker”.
He works at Chainguard whose mission is to make the software lifecycle secure by default. His current focus is on improving the standard of security and provenance guarantees in container images.

Patent Licensing USA
2023-06-21
June 21, 2023
Washington DC, USA
Event Information

Africa Open Source Festival
2023-06-22 - 2023-06-24
June 22-24, 2023
Lagos, Nigeria

London Meet Up - 22 June - Midsummer Madness
2023-06-22 18:00 - 21:00 | The Forum, 5th Floor, 30 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us for our June Midsummer Madness Meetup at
The Forum, 5th Floor, 30 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BD
Nearest train stations: Bank & Monument, Fenchurch Street train station
Date: 22 June
Time: 6pm-9pm
Nearest train stations: Bank & Monument tube stop <6 mins walk; and Fenchurch Street train station: <3 mins walk. This event will be a little different to previous events – we’ll be running it in “The Forum” on the 5th Floor of the building. Pizza and Ice Cream will be served.
Please see the pop-up sign in the lobby, and enter the door on the left in the ground floor.
We’ll be talking about how to engage with open source communities and make your first contribution -the recurring theme of our last few meetups.
Speaker: Kunal Kushwana
FireSide Chat: Hosted by Cheryl Hung
Community Game: Carla Gaggini and Dominic Top
MidSummer Madness Hosted by: Bart Farrell
All Welcome, any questions, contact admin@openuk.uk

State of Open Subset - Episode 9
2023-06-27 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
OpenUK’s State of Open Subset are weekly digital talks across 10 weeks per season.
Speaker: Paula Kennedy Working in the IT industry for over 20 years, Paula is passionate about community, diversity, equity and inclusion. In her day job, she is co-founder and Chief Operating Office of Syntasso, developing cloud-native and open-source technologies. Paula is part of the organising committee for Kubernetes Community Days UK and DevOps Days London, and is also a regular conference speaker and meetup organiser. Based in Hampshire, Paula enjoys walking her dog and attempting to run half-marathons.

Flexible Document Storage with Postgres
2023-06-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Postgres has always had strong support for relational storage. However, there are many cases where relational storage is either inefficient or overly restrictive. Postgres is a flexible relational database, designed to be extensible from its inception. One aspect of this extensibility is document storage.
Postgres has many features designed to manage document data effortlessly, including full text search, JSON, trigrams, and specialized indexing methods to allow efficient data access. This talk will cover all of these features.
Agenda:
✅ Why non-relational storage?
✅ XML: Storing and working with XML documents in Postgres.
✅ JSON: Native support for storing, querying, and manipulating JSON data in Postgres.
✅ JSONB: Taking JSON handling to the next level with binary JSON in Postgres.
✅ Character strings: Managing and optimizing document text data.
✅ Document-optimized indexing: Leveraging specialized indexing methods like trigrams, GIN, and GiST for efficient searching and retrieval.
This webinar will cover a new topic (from Bruce Momjian) exclusively for our subscribers. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your knowledge of Postgres and discover its powerful capabilities for document management ?
❗ Also, webinar recording will only be available for registered users, so be sure to register – it takes less than a minute.

Cloud Anonymous
2023-07-12 17:00 - 20:00 | The Vintry, EC4 The Vintry, Off Abchurch Lane Abchurch Lane London EC4N 5AX, United Kingdom
We’re debunking myths, discussing the realities of cloud adoption and exploring when the term cloud, became so clouded. We’re bringing together cloud architects, engineers and technologists to unpick the unspoken realities of cloud – tackling topics such as reliance on suppliers, data sovereignty, sustainability and more.
No bulls**t – just open debate and discussion with peers
Register now to reserve your space and join the radical honesty movement.
Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, will be giving a talk along with Founder and film director Daniel Tremayne-Pitter, CISO & Cloud Security Podcast host Ashish Rajan, and ControlPlane CEO Andrew Martin.

London Meet Up - 18 July
2023-07-18 18:00 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Details

Join us at Avanade’s new offices, 30 Fenchurch Street!
July’s meetup is the last in the series of community before we take a break in August and prepare to get things going again in September.
Our first speaker is Robert Castelo, long time contributor to open source web content management system Drupal. As well as being a key contributor to Drupal security, Robert has led the London and UK Drupal community since 2005, running meetups, delivering training, and consulting on large projects. Robert will describe his experiences of working in the community, why a community of users is vital for project success, and what newer communities can learn from those more established.
Our second speaker is Angus Fox who will talk about managing the politics of community. Angus helped organise the UK Twitter development community for over 10 years during which time both the Twitter community and Twitter company had strong, often different opinions on which direction to take. Angus will present his experiences of navigating the politics of company and community to try and please all the people all the time.
Date: 18 July
Time: 6:30pm-9pm
Please see the pop-up sign in the lobby, sign yourself in, and then enter the door on the left in the ground floor.
Access to the floor
In order to provide visitor passes, we’ll need you to have a full name set on your profile. If your last name is missing, you will need to sign in on the day at the front desk.
You will require ID in order to sign in.
Refreshments
Drinks will be served at 6:30pm, and food will be served at 7:30pm.
Dial-in link
A dial-in link will also be provided closer to the event, for remote joiners.

Campus Party
2023-07-25 - 2023-07-30
July 25-30, 2023
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Public Domain and Open Source SW License Conference 2023
2023-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Diamond Hall, 22nd floor, The Plaza Seoul Hotel, Korea, Republic of
Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, gave a keynote on “The Challenge of AI, Is Open Source the Answer” at Public Domain and Open Source Software Licensing Conference.

Civo Navigate
2023-09-05 - 2023-09-06 | The Brewery, 52 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SA, United Kingdom

Percona University London: Open Source Databases Meetup
2023-09-07 08:00 - 17:00 | University of London
We are pleased to invite you to a free one-day tech event in London, UK.
In partnership with FerretDB.
This is an excellent 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.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to network with your peers, discover and hear how others are solving their database challenges!

International experts recognized as the most influential in the database and open-source community such as Peter Zaitsev and Amanda Brock;
5-hour meetup of knowledge and network, personal certificate of completion to each attendee;
Talks about PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kubernetes, and other Open Source solutions.

Presentations will be provided in English.
Attendance is FREE! Space is limited, so register today to save your spot.

Borderless Cyber
2023-09-12 | Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Borderless Cyber Conference
Royal Holloway, University of London
https://borderlesscyber2023.oasis-open.org
OASIS Open and Royal Holloway, University of London will host a unique conference, focusing on the convergence of the cybersecurity and privacy disciplines and addressing new technologies, research, operationalization realities, risks, and solutions. It will bring together international experts and offers opportunities for networking, good dialogue, and future collaboration.
Anyone from industry, government, or academia responsible for developing, influencing, regulating, and managing security and privacy risks in networked applications – are welcome to join.
Our OpenUK community is entitled to a 25% discount. Use the code ‘BC-Open’ by 30 July. Affordable accommodation is available on campus and nearby in Egham, Windsor and Slough. The Royal Holloway campus is accessible by train from London and only 15 minutes from Heathrow.
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK, will be giving a talk on “Open Source AI”.

Open Technology for Sustainability Day
2023-09-14 10:00 - 17:00 | Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AS, United Kingdom
OpenUK invites you to “Open Technology for Sustainability”
Date: 14 September 2023
Event Timing: 10.00am – 5.00pm, registration open from 9.00am
Event Address: Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Rd, Edinburgh EH8 8AS
Lunch will be provided
Event sponsored by Intel & Open Compute Project

Questions: admin@openuk.uk
Attendance at this event is subject to our Privacy Policy & Code of Conduct

Open Technology for Sustainability Day: OpenUK Scotland Social
2023-09-14 17:30 - 19:30 | Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AS, United Kingdom
OpenUK are hosting an Open Technology for Sustainability Day at Dynamic Earth on Thursday 14th September.
Join us afterwards for a social event, meeting other Open Technology enthusiasts and practitioners and discussing how we can raise the OpenUK profile across Scotland. Drinks will be served.
Attendance at this event is subject to our Privacy Policy & Code of Conduct

SODA DATA VISION 23
2023-09-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Itsasmuseum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK, will be talking on a panel with Andrew Martin about “Let us talk about Data Governance and Regulations”.
SODA Data Vision 2023, by SODA Foundation, is the premier open source conference for Data and Storage Management. This one day hybrid event, In conjunction with OSS Europe 2023, will bring together 650 (150 in-person) leading experts, architects, developers, end users, vendors and integrators to discuss the most recent innovations, future trends, real use cases, and practical challenges for data and storage. It will provide deep insights to current solutions, research and how the future is getting shaped in Data and Storage Management for cloud-native, containers, distributed computing, big data, AI, machine learning, and more.
In addition to technical sessions, the conference provides excellent opportunities for attendees to exchange ideas, learn the latest technologies in the industry, networking and find potential partners for collaboration. We look forward to welcoming you at SODA Data Vision 2023.

Open Source Summit Europe 2023
2023-09-19 - 2023-09-21 | BILBAO, SPAIN, Spain
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today.
Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, will be giving a talk about “ADHD – The Power of Diagnosis”.

OpenUK London Meetup September - Open and AI?
2023-09-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us September 19th to discuss the hot topic of 2023: Artificial Intelligence (AI).
AI is much talked about, everywhere from the news, in Parliament, to the boardroom and pubs across the country, but, what really is AI, and how does openness matter with it?
To get things kicked off, Matt Armstrong-Barnes from HPE will present a level set on AI, what it is, who is using it, what it is being used for, and possible directions.
Next Wendy Ding from the Alan Turing Institute and contributor to the recent OpenUK AI Openness Report will discuss the importance of open in AI and why open approaches lead to better results.
Food and drinks will be provided and there will be plenty of time to chat with other attendees and debate with the speakers.
Thank you once again to Avanade for sponsoring the venue and providing the refreshments.
Matt Armstrong-Barnes
As a Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Matt has a passion for artificial intelligence and data science.
He has held senior management positions and been accountable for the overall architecture (including Business, Security, Integration and Technology), technical risks, IT strategy, and technology change for customers.
He holds a Degree in Computer Science, with a Masters in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, Chartered IT Professional and Chair of Smart Cities at TechUK, and was awarded the title of Chartered Engineer by the Engineering Council.
Wendy Ding
Jennifer Ding is a senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, co-leading the Research Application Management (RAM) team. Previously, she was a startup founder and data scientist at several public interest tech companies, creating data products for industry and government partners. She enjoys massaging data big and small, and is a co-founder of London Data Week.
Date: 19 September
Time: 6:30pm-9pm
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Refreshments
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State of Open Subset - Episode 10
2023-09-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Open Source DEI: Transitioning from Intentions to Impact
Speaker: Anita Ilhuman
Anita is a Developer Advocate and technical writer. With 2+ years of experience, she has a track record in Web development and DevRel on a global scale. She is passionate about educating the developer market about new tools and technologies. She has spoken at various international conferences like KubeCon China, DevConf.cz, FOSSBackstage, FOSDEM and many more. Her favourite topics to write and speak about include Cloud technologies, Documentation, Open source, DEI best practices, and Women in Tech.

Benefits and Challenges of Open Source
2023-09-29 | NYU Stern School of Business, New York, United States
The Benefits and Challenges of Open Source: Fostering Innovation, Igniting Growth, and the Promise of Equitable Design
Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, will be participating in a panel at NYU Stern School of Business, New York, on 29th September 2023.

State of Open Subset - Episode 11
2023-09-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Data consistency and recovery Operations on Kubernetes
Speaker: Michael Cade
