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OpenUK Events & Round Tables

Digital and AI Sovereignty – Building a Sovereign Future in a Globally Collaborative World

10 June : 14:00 - 15:00
Fieldfisher
Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln

Roundtable in Parliament, Filling the Skills Gap with Open Source

28 January : 10:30 - 12:00
Portcullis House
1 Victoria Embankment

Roundtable in Parliament, The UK Data Library and GaiaX

14 July 2025 : 15:00 - 16:30
House of Parliament
1 Parliament Square

OpenUK AI for Public Good Report Launch and Drinks

3 July 2025 : 18:30 - 21:00
House of Commons Terrace

Green Digital Action Roundtable at COP29

16 November 2024 : 09:00 - 11:00

Roundtable Discussion on the Role of Analog Arts in a Digital AI World

4 November 2024 : 17:00 - 20:30
House of Lords
Parliament Square

OpenUK AI Openness Round Table

11 September 2024 : 10:30 - 12:30
House of Lords
Parliament Square

OpenUK AI Events

AI Openness and Access for All, Delhi

11 August 2025 : 16:00 - 18:30
CBIP, Malcha Marg
New Delhi

AI Openness and Access for All – Mumbai

9 August 2025 : 14:00 - 17:00
ITM Institute of Design and Media ( ITM IDM) Floor 1
Suvidha Square, Junction of Ceaser Road, Swami Vivekananda Rd Sector 4

AI Openness and Access for All – Bangalore

8 August 2025 : 18:00 - 21:00
Infosys
Plot No, 44, Hosur Rd Konappana Agrahara

AI Openness and Access for All – Hyderabad

4 August 2025 : 18:00 - 21:00
Infosys
Plot No, 44, Hosur Rd Konappana Agrahara

In-Person Events

COP26

Open Technology for Sustainability Day 2023

Open Source Software: Infrastructure, Curation and Security, Thought Leadership Event

State of Open Con 23

State of Open Con 24

State of Open: The UK in 2023 Report Launch

OpenUK Summer Burns Supper

OpenUK Black History Month Lunch

KuberTENes

OpenUK’ State of Open: The UK in 2024 Report Launch Day

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Meetups

OpenUK London Meet-up: “Agentic AI in Financial Services”

22 October : 18:00 - 20:30
Infosys Ltd
10 Upper Bank St, Canary Wharf Estate

OpenUK Rising Ambassadors Meetup in London – October 2026

21 October : 18:00 - 20:30
Red Badger
4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard

OpenUK London #29: Greener Software (Hybrid)

10 November 2025 : 18:45 - 20:45

OpenUK London #28: AI Unconference (Hybrid)

22 October 2025 : 18:45 - 20:45

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Show and Tell

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 2024

20 December 2024 : 16:00 - 17:30

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell September 2024

27 September 2024 : 16:00 - 17:30

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell July 2024

12 July 2024 : 16:00 - 17:30

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell 17 May 2024

17 May 2024 : 16:00 - 17:30

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Future Leaders

OpenUK State of Open Phases One & Two

9 July 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Command-Line Interface Design: Philosophy and Practice

25 June 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Source and Licensing in 2021

11 June 2021 : 16:00 - 17:00

The AGPL, Network Copyleft and the Cloud

21 May 2021 : 16:00 - 17:00

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Future Founders

Future Founders Training: Session 9

1 July 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Future Founders Training: Session 8

13 May 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Future Founders Training: Session 7

1 April 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Future Founders Training: Session 6

11 March 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

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Summer of Open Source Software Security

Open Source Software: Infrastructure, Curation and Security, Thought Leadership Event

17 October 2022 : 10:00 - 17:30
Bristows LLP
100 Victoria Embankment

OpenUK Summer of Open Source Software Security: Security Advisory Board

27 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

Engaging the Public Sector in the OpenSSF Mobilization Plan

20 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

How the Department of Defense moved to DevSecOps to move at the pace of relevance

13 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

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State of Open Subset

Open Source Software: Infrastructure, Curation and Security, Thought Leadership Event

17 October 2022 : 10:00 - 17:30
Bristows LLP
100 Victoria Embankment

OpenUK Summer of Open Source Software Security: Security Advisory Board

27 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

Engaging the Public Sector in the OpenSSF Mobilization Plan

20 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

How the Department of Defense moved to DevSecOps to move at the pace of relevance

13 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

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All Past Events

OpenUK Launch of the Space Tech Radar

29 October : 13:00 - 17:00

OpenUK London Meet-up: “Agentic AI in Financial Services”

22 October : 18:00 - 20:30
Infosys Ltd
10 Upper Bank St, Canary Wharf Estate

OpenUK Rising Ambassadors Meetup in London – October 2026

21 October : 18:00 - 20:30
Red Badger
4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard

State of Open Con 26 On The Road: Belfast

6 October : 09:30 - 18:30

OpenUK Rising Ambassadors and Ambassadors Evening

10 September : 18:00 - 21:00
Civo Tech Junction
32-37 Cowper Street

Digital and AI Sovereignty – Building a Sovereign Future in a Globally Collaborative World

10 June : 14:00 - 15:00
Fieldfisher
Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln

OpenUK Cyber Regulation Report 2026 Press Launch

9 June : 08:30 - 09:30
Fieldfisher
Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln

State of Open Con 26 On The Road, Edinburgh: Opening the AI Stack

5 June
Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre
175 Glasgow Rd

OpenUK & OpenHQ Rwanda Meetup

11 March : 18:00 - 20:00

OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: Building Resilience and breaking dependency in enterprise and public sector AI – how can open source support this?

18 February : 10:30 - 11:25

AI Impact Summit Fringe Event Hackathon – Hackathon for Geospatial AI for good

18 February : 09:00 - 13:00

The Open Source Leaders Roundtable: An AI Impact Summit Fringe Event

17 February : 18:00 - 20:00

OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: MCP, Open Standards and Data Workshop

17 February : 10:30 - 11:25

Roundtable in Parliament, Filling the Skills Gap with Open Source

28 January : 10:30 - 12:00
Portcullis House
1 Victoria Embankment

Christmas Party 2025

16 December 2025 : 18:00 - 20:30
Civil Service Club, Trafalgar Rooom
13-15 Great Scotland Yard

Agent Open Unconference with the AI Alliance

21 October 2025 : 10:00 - 18:00

AI Openness and Access for All, Delhi

11 August 2025 : 16:00 - 18:30
CBIP, Malcha Marg
New Delhi

AI Openness and Access for All – Mumbai

9 August 2025 : 14:00 - 17:00
ITM Institute of Design and Media ( ITM IDM) Floor 1
Suvidha Square, Junction of Ceaser Road, Swami Vivekananda Rd Sector 4

AI Openness and Access for All – Bangalore

8 August 2025 : 18:00 - 21:00
Infosys
Plot No, 44, Hosur Rd Konappana Agrahara

AI Openness and Access for All – Hyderabad

4 August 2025 : 18:00 - 21:00
Infosys
Plot No, 44, Hosur Rd Konappana Agrahara

Roundtable in Parliament, The UK Data Library and GaiaX

14 July 2025 : 15:00 - 16:30
House of Parliament
1 Parliament Square

OpenUK AI for Public Good Report Launch and Drinks

3 July 2025 : 18:30 - 21:00
House of Commons Terrace

OpenUK London #25: Documentation (In-Person signups)

18 June 2025 : 18:30 - 20:30
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

OpenUK London #22: Save the Date

19 March 2025 : 18:30 - 20:45
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

OpenUK Digital Meetup #6 A fireside chat with core maintainers

12 March 2025 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

OpenUK London #21: Open Databases

26 February 2025 : 18:30 - 20:30
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

OpenUK Apprentice meet-up #6

12 February 2025 : 18:00 - 20:30
Red Badger
4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard

State of Open Con 25

4 February 2025 : 08:00 - 5 February 2025 : 17:00
Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., St Paul’s London EC4M 7DQ
Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq.

OpenUK London #20: Open AI

15 January 2025 : 18:30 - 20:45

OpenUK Digital #5 Self-hosting: open source tools for every day

15 January 2025 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #5

8 January 2025 : 18:00 - 20:30
Red Badger
4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 2024

20 December 2024 : 16:00 - 17:30

OpenUK’s Christmas Cracker

17 December 2024 : 13:00 - 20:30
Civo Tech Junction
32-37 Cowper Street

OpenUK AI Openness Round Table

11 December 2024 : 15:00 - 16:30
House of Commons Committee Room G
Houses of Commons, Palace of Westminster

OpenUK Filling the Gap in the UK Tech Sector Skills with Open Source Round Table

3 December 2024 : 11:00 - 12:30
House of Commons Committee Room G
Houses of Commons, Palace of Westminster

OpenUK Data Centre Round Table

9 October 2024 : 14:00 - 15:30
House of Commons Committee Room G
Houses of Commons, Palace of Westminster

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell September 2024

27 September 2024 : 16:00 - 17:30

SME4Labour and OpenUK Fringe: Opening AI

22 September 2024 : 13:00 - 13:50

SERA and OpenUK Fringe: The Intelligent Environment: Building Sustainable Data Centres

22 September 2024 : 11:00 - 12:00

OpenUK AI Openness Round Table

11 September 2024 : 10:30 - 12:30
House of Lords
Parliament Square

OpenUK Summer Picnic

14 July 2024 : 14:00 - 17:00
Regent’s Park

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell July 2024

12 July 2024 : 16:00 - 17:30

OpenUK’ State of Open: The UK in 2024 Report Launch Day

3 July 2024 : 12:00 - 19:00
Great Hall of Kings, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Strand Campus, Strand

Celebrate Kubernete’s 10th Birthday With OpenUK

6 June 2024 : 18:30 - 21:30
Red Hat Innovation Lab
Peninsular House, 30-36 Monument St

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell 17 May 2024

17 May 2024 : 16:00 - 17:30

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell March 2024

15 March 2024 : 16:00 - 17:30

State of Open Con 24

6 February 2024 : 08:00 - 7 February 2024 : 17:00
The Brewery, 52 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SA

OpenUK Scotland, Glasgow Meetup

31 January 2024 : 19:00 - 21:00
BBC Scotland 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow
40 Pacific Quay

Developing the future UK tech sector through open source contributions

17 January 2024 : 17:30 - 19:00
House of Commons Committee Room G
Houses of Commons, Palace of Westminster

OpenUK meet-up in Edinburgh

22 November 2023 : 18:00 - 21:00
Scottish Widows, 69 Morrison St, Edinburgh EH3 1HL

OpenUK London #9: Platform Engineering

21 November 2023 : 18:00 - 21:00
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

State of Open: The UK in 2023 Report Launch

21 November 2023 : 08:30 - 10:30
BFI Cinema Stephen Streeet

OpenUK London Meetup #8: Future of Open Source in 2024

24 October 2023 : 18:30 - 21:00
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

OpenUK Black History Month Lunch

13 October 2023 : 12:00 - 15:00
House of Lords
Parliament Square

What does the Labour Party need to know about AI Openness?

10 October 2023 : 16:00 - 17:00
Tate Liverpool

State of Open Subset – Episode 11

29 September 2023 : 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual

State of Open Subset – Episode 10

22 September 2023 : 12:00 - 13:00
Virtual

OpenUK London Meetup September – Open and AI?

19 September 2023 : 18:00 - 21:00
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

Open Technology for Sustainability Day: OpenUK Scotland Social

14 September 2023 : 17:30 - 19:30
Dynamic Earth
Holyrood Road

Open Technology for Sustainability Day

14 September 2023 : 10:00 - 17:00
Dynamic Earth
Holyrood Road

London Meet Up – 18 July

18 July 2023 : 18:00 - 21:00
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

State of Open Subset – Episode 9

27 June 2023 : 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual

London Meet Up – 22 June – Midsummer Madness

22 June 2023 : 18:00 - 21:00
The Forum, 5th Floor, 30 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BD

State of Open Subset – Episode 8

20 June 2023 : 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual

State of Open Subset – Episode 7

13 June 2023 : 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual

State of Open Subset – Episode 6

6 June 2023 : 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual

State of Open Subset – Episode 5

30 May 2023 : 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual

24 May 2023 : 18:00 - 21:00
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

State of Open Subset – Episode 4

23 May 2023 : 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual

OpenUK May Town Halls

State of Open Subset – Episode 3

16 May 2023 : 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual

State of Open Subset – Episode 2

9 May 2023 : 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual

State of Open Subset – Episode 1

2 May 2023 : 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual

Meetup 26 April – London

26 April 2023 : 18:00 - 21:00
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

London Meet-Up March 21

21 March 2023 : 18:00 - 21:00
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

OpenUK Town Hall Late Option

8 March 2023 : 17:00 - 18:00
Virtual

OpenUK Town Hall Early Option

8 March 2023 : 08:00 - 09:00
Virtual

State of Open Con 23

7 February 2023 : 10:00 - 8 February 2023 : 17:00
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
Broad Sanctuary

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OpenUK Awards – Third Edition

30 November 2022 : 18:00 - 22:00
House of Lords
Parliament Square

29 November 2022 : 18:00 - 21:00
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

OpenUK London Meet-Up

25 October 2022 : 18:00 - 21:00
Avanade
30 Fenchurch St

Open Source Software: Infrastructure, Curation and Security, Thought Leadership Event

17 October 2022 : 10:00 - 17:30
Bristows LLP
100 Victoria Embankment

OpenUK Summer of Open Source Software Security: Security Advisory Board

27 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

Engaging the Public Sector in the OpenSSF Mobilization Plan

20 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

How the Department of Defense moved to DevSecOps to move at the pace of relevance

13 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

SBOM’s and Standards in Open Source Security

6 July 2022 : 15:00 - 16:00

Future Founders Training: Session 9

1 July 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Is The Future for Secure Computer Systems Open Source?

29 June 2022 : 17:00 - 20:00
Digital Catapult Centre
101 Euston Road

OpenUK Summer Burns Supper

9 June 2022 : 18:00 - 10 June 2022 : 00:00
House of Commons Members Dining Room
Parliament Square

Future Founders Training: Session 8

13 May 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Future Founders Training: Session 7

1 April 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Exploring the UK’s Data Hub with Gaia-X – Workshop for Enterprises and the Public Sector – REGISTRATION CLOSED

31 March 2022 : 13:00 - 17:00
BTIC (Business Technology Innovation Centre) – Atos
Midcity Place, 71 High Holborn

Future Founders Training: Session 6

11 March 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

OpenUK International Women’s Day Lunch – Sponsored by OVHcloud and Hosted by Baroness Kennedy

7 March 2022 : 12:00 - 14:30
House of Lords
Parliament Square

Future Founders Training: Session 5

4 March 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Future Founders Training: Session 4

25 February 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Future Founders Training: Session 3

4 February 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Future Founders Training: Session 2

28 January 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

Future Founders Training: Session 1

21 January 2022 : 12:00 - 13:00
Online

OpenUK Office Hours

10 December 2021 : 13:00 - 14:00

OpenUK Office Hours

16 November 2021 : 08:00 - 09:00

OpenUK Office Hours

12 November 2021 : 13:00 - 14:00

OpenUK Office Hours

19 October 2021 : 08:00 - 09:00

OpenUK Office Hours

8 October 2021 : 13:00 - 14:00

OpenUK Office Hours

21 September 2021 : 08:00 - 09:00

OpenUK Office Hours

10 September 2021 : 13:00 - 14:00

OpenUK State of Open Phases One & Two

9 July 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Command-Line Interface Design: Philosophy and Practice

25 June 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Source and Licensing in 2021

11 June 2021 : 16:00 - 17:00

The AGPL, Network Copyleft and the Cloud

21 May 2021 : 16:00 - 17:00

Entering the Open Source Emerging Market

14 May 2021 : 16:00 - 17:00

Unlocking the Power of Data for Space Exploration

7 May 2021 : 16:30 - 17:30

30 April 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

23 April 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Software Heritage

19 March 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Understanding others, Understanding You – The Enneagram

18 March 2021 : 16:30 - 19:30

Standards Essential Patents and the IoT

5 March 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

The story of the COVID Tracker Ireland App and how open source collaborations can help change the world

26 February 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Commercial and Business Models, making them work for open source

12 February 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Hardware at CERN

5 February 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Opening up Radio Access Networks with Commodity Hardware

29 January 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Cloud Native and Platform Issues

22 January 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Founding an Open Source Business

15 January 2021 : 12:00 - 13:00

Reinventing the Eclipse Foundation

11 December 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

The Open Source Initiative

4 December 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Containers – Everything You Need to Know

27 November 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

20 November 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Brexit, GeoPolitical Shift and the Future of Open

13 November 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Hardware and the Circular Economy

6 November 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Why the GPL is Great for Business

30 October 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

20 October 2020 : 17:30 - 20:00

IBM’s Journey to Open Source

2 October 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

OpenChain – A New Standard in Open Source

25 September 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Knowledge is Not Neutral

31 July 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Innovation in the Private and Public Sector

24 July 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

17 July 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Being a Good Corporate Citizen in Open Source

10 July 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Source Community Matters

3 July 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Source: Where Are We Now

26 June 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

KDE is All About the Apps

19 June 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

The History of Open

12 June 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Patent Risk in an Open Source Centric World

5 June 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

M&A and Open Chain

29 May 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Intro to Open Chain Compliance

22 May 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open and Trademarks

15 May 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Wardley Maps & Open Source History

1 May 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Source Procurement

24 April 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Open Healthcare

21 April 2020 : 11:00 - 12:00

The OSI and OSD

17 April 2020 : 12:00 - 13:00

Hat Labs and Hacking

14 April 2020 : 11:00 - 12:00

A Covid19 response discussion

7 April 2020 : 11:00 - 12:00

Licensing Deep Dive

3 April 2020 : 12:00 - 23:59

Introduction to Open Source – Part 2

27 March 2020 : 11:00 - 12:00

Introduction to Open Source – Part 1

20 March 2020 : 11:00 - 12:00

OpenUK Healthcare Evening featuring Karen Sandler

6 February 2020 : 18:00 - 21:30
DRIVE, Level 1
40 Bernard Street