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Dear Readers,

As September comes to an end, we are engaging across the new government with monthly events in parliament and with two events at the Labour Party Conference. If you would like to join any of these do please sign up. If there are future topics we should be discussing then let us know.

We will also be hosting a Thought Leadership Day in London on the 11th of October and would love to see you there. This will focus on shaping markets – what drives success in adoption of open source in a market beyond law, from skills development to procurement processes and terms and building healthy communities.

OpenUK’s Second Open Source Thought Leadership Day

OpenUK is back with its second open source Thought Leadership Day focusing on Shaping Markets for Open Source, from standards, procurement and skills development, with keynote speakers will include Mike Bracken, Founding Partner, Public Digital.

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The Open Manifesto

If you are in the UK sign-up as an individual and add your organisation’s support and logo to The Open Manifesto. Have your voice heard and support OpenUK’s work and openness in our UK Digital policy. Please share with friends and colleagues.

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OpenUK Awards 2024, 5th Edition

Nominations for our 5th annual awards are now closed and our judges are considering them to create a shortlist of up to 3 nominees per category announced which will be announced in early October 202. The nominees will be our gushes at an awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner at the House of Lords, sponsored by Lord Wei on 28th November. Can’t wait to see who is listed!

Thanks to our sponsors AutoGPT, Avanade, Control Plane, DevTank, Iain G Mitchell KC, Jetstack Consult, ODI, Red Badger, Runa Capital; for making this possible.

OpenUK at Labour Conference

OpenUK will be co-hosting two events at this year’s Labour Party Conference reflecting on the current drivers in UK tech – data centres becoming categorised as critical national infrastructure last week.

OpenUK Round Tables

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell

OpenUK Meetups

OpenUK in the Press

The New Stack reports Why Open Source AI Has No Meaning Read now

Events of OpenUK will be at

AI for the rest of us 24 – 25 October, London OpenUK will have a number of speakers from its AI Advisory Board joining this event in a fishbowl and panel session Get Tickets

NextGenAI 26 November, London OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will be giving a talk about “Where next with AI?” Get Tickets

Events of Interest

Python Brasil 2024 16 – 20 October, Brazil Sign Up

Swiss Python Summit 2024 17 – 18 October, Switzerland Sign up

Lots to get involved with at this critical time for openness and the UK.  If you have questions or would like to get more involved with our work, join an Advisory Board or participate in their work contact.

I hope to see you at one of our events soon.

Best wishes,

Amanda

Amanda Brock, CEO

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