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Tuesday, February 7
 

8:30am GMT

Registration
Tuesday February 7, 2023 8:30am - 10:00am GMT
Reception, Ground Floor

9:00am GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade VR Experience
BBC R&D Seeking New Gods (Interactive Audio/Vidual Experience)

Tables:
Amazee.io Table 10
Avanade Table 9
Baserow Table 12
Codethink Table 23
Coding Black Females Table 18
Confidential Computing Consortium Table 22
Control Plane Table 5
Digital Poverty Alliance Table 7
Digital Security by Design Table 21
Foundation for Public Code Table 15
Github Table 13
JoiningTheDots Table 8
KDE Table 17
Linux Foundation Europe Table 1
Mautic Table 2
Mia Platform Table 16
Open Compute Project Table 24
Next Chapter Retreats Table 19
Rust Foundation Table 6
Sonatype Table 3
Woodlands.co.uk Table 4
Yocto Table 20
Snyk Table 11
Tuesday February 7, 2023 9:00am - 10:00am GMT
Pickwick, 1st Floor
  Delegate Experience

9:00am GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Book Give Away & Signing Booth
Open Source Job Board (Sponsored by: Open Source Job Hub)
State of Open Photo Exhibition
Sticker Table

Tables:
Bristows Table 47
IEEE Table 45
Isovalent Table 42
Open Data Institute Table 43
OpenUK Table 44
UKRI table 48
Wikimedia UK Table 46
Tuesday February 7, 2023 9:00am - 10:00am GMT
Britten, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Delegate Experience

9:00am GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade 3D Printing Demonstration
Boeing VR Procedural Trainer
Delegate Gifts & Hat Shop
DevTank Sustainability Monitoring
Photographs & Headshots by Tiana Lea
Open Charge Alliance EV Charging Hack
Quiet Corridor

Tables:
BCS Table 39
DoK Community Table 36
Eclipse Foundation Table 35
FINOS Table 34
Free BSD Foundation Table 31
Icebreaker One Table 37
Jetstack Table 25
LF Energy Table 33
Matrix Foundation Table 38
NixOS Table 26
OpenInfra Foundation Table 27
Open Source Initiative Table 29
Red Hat Table 28
Scottish Tech Army Table 40
The Turing Way Table 30
Women @ CL Table 32
Tuesday February 7, 2023 9:00am - 10:00am GMT
Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor
  Delegate Experience

10:00am GMT

Plenaries: Welcome - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Speakers
avatar for Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology – open source software, open hardware and open data - with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology and she is the Executive Producer of State of Open Con https://stateofopencon.com... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 10:00am - 10:15am GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Plenaries & Keynotes

10:15am GMT

Plenaries: Labour's Industrial Strategy for Innovation - Chi Onwurah, Shadow Minister for Science, Research & Technology, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne
Speakers
avatar for Chi Onwurah

Chi Onwurah

Shadow Minister Science, Research & Technology, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Chi Onwurah is a British Member of Parliament representing Newcastle upon Tyne Central and is also Shadow Minister Science, Research & Innovation.Former Shadow Ministerial positions:April 2020-December 2021 Digital, Science & TechnologyOctober 2016 – April 2020 Industrial Strategy... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 10:15am - 10:30am GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Plenaries & Keynotes

10:30am GMT

Plenaries: Our use of Open Source Today - Damani Corbin, Software Strategy, The Boeing Company
Damani Corbin, Strategy and Eco System Growth, Boeing
Speakers
avatar for Damani Corbin

Damani Corbin

Software Strategy, The Boeing Company
Damani Corbin joined The Boeing Company in January, 2022 to assist in the implementation of an enterprise wide DevSecOps initiative, assisting teams adopt cloud native technologies. Since joining, Boeing has launched an Open Source Program Office that Damani transitioned into to lead... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 10:30am - 10:45am GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Plenaries & Keynotes

10:30am GMT

Sustain OSS: Financial sustainability, from business models to fundraising to financial operations to salaries
Sustain OSS Sub Conference.

Only accessible via lift B
Tuesday February 7, 2023 10:30am - 12:00pm GMT
Olivier, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Sustain OSS

10:45am GMT

Plenaries: Fireside Chat & Audience Q&A: How did we get here, where are we going? - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK & Eric Brewer, VP Infrastructure & Google Fellow, Google
Speakers
avatar for Eric Brewer

Eric Brewer

VP Infrastructure & Google Fellow, Google
Eric Allen Brewer is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and vice-president of infrastructure at Google. His research interests include operating systems and distributed computing. He is known for formulating the CAP theorem about distributed... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology – open source software, open hardware and open data - with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology and she is the Executive Producer of State of Open Con https://stateofopencon.com... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 10:45am - 11:15am GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Plenaries & Keynotes

11:15am GMT

Plenaries: The Future of Open Source Software - A Joined up International Response - Camille Stewart Gloster, Deputy National Cyber Director, The White House & Mike Bracken, Partner, Public Digital & Salem Avan, Director of Strategy, United Nations
Speakers
avatar for Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology – open source software, open hardware and open data - with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology and she is the Executive Producer of State of Open Con https://stateofopencon.com... Read More →
avatar for Camille Stewart Gloster

Camille Stewart Gloster

Deputy National Cyber Director, The White House
Camille Stewart Gloster, Esq. is the Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology & Ecosystem Security for The White House. In her role, Camille leads technology, supply chain, data security, and cyber workforce and education efforts for the Office of the National Cyber Director... Read More →
avatar for Salem Avan

Salem Avan

Director - Policy, Strategy and Governance Division, United Nations
Salem Avan is currently the Director of Policy Strategy and Governance Division for ICT at the United Nations, whose goal is to enable the UN Secretariat to deliver effectively on its mandate through the secure, responsible and innovative use of data, information and technology. Salem... Read More →
avatar for Mike Bracken

Mike Bracken

Founding Partner, Public Digital
Mike Bracken CBE is a global digital leader who has led wholesale transformations of large institutions in the private and public sector. He helps organisations use digital to change their way of working and solve systemic market, societal and macroeconomic challenges. Mike is best... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 11:15am - 12:00pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Plenaries & Keynotes

12:00pm GMT

Book Give Away and Signing
Andrew Martin will be giving away copies of his book:

"Hacking Kubernetes: Threat-Driven Analysis Defense" published by O'Reilly.

There are a limited number of copies available, first come first served!

Want to run your Kubernetes workloads safely and securely? This practical book provides a threat-based guide to Kubernetes security. Each chapter examines a particular component's architecture and potential default settings and then reviews existing high-profile attacks and historical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Authors Andrew Martin and Michael Hausenblas share best-practice configuration to help you harden clusters from possible angles of attack.

This book begins with a vanilla Kubernetes installation with built-in defaults. You'll examine an abstract threat model of a distributed system running arbitrary workloads, and then progress to a detailed assessment of each component of a secure Kubernetes system.

Speakers
avatar for Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane
Andrew has 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... Read More →


Tuesday February 7, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm GMT
Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor
  Book Signings, Book Signing

12:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience over Lunch
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade VR Experience
BBC R&D Seeking New Gods (Interactive Audio/Vidual Experience)

Tables:
Amazee.io Table 10
Avanade Table 9
Baserow Table 12
Codethink Table 23
Coding Black Females Table 18
Confidential Computing Consortium Table 22
Control Plane Table 5
Digital Poverty Alliance Table 7
Digital Security by Design Table 21
Foundation for Public Code Table 15
Github Table 13
JoiningTheDots Table 8
KDE Table 17
Linux Foundation Europe Table 1
Mautic Table 2
Mia Platform Table 16
Open Compute Project Table 24
Next Chapter Retreats Table 19
Rust Foundation Table 6
Sonatype Table 3
Woodlands.co.uk Table 4
Yocto Table 20
Snyk Table 11
Tuesday February 7, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm GMT
Pickwick, 1st Floor
  Delegate Experience

12:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience over Lunch
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Book Give Away & Signing Booth
Open Source Job Board (Sponsored by: Open Source Job Hub)
State of Open Photo Exhibition
Sticker Table

Tables:
Bristows Table 47
IEEE Table 45
Isovalent Table 42
Open Data Institute Table 43
OpenUK Table 44
UKRI table 48
Wikimedia UK Table 46
Tuesday February 7, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm GMT
Britten, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Delegate Experience

12:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience over Lunch
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade 3D Printing Demonstration
Boeing VR Procedural Trainer
Delegate Gifts & Hat Shop
DevTank Sustainability Monitoring
Photographs & Headshots by Tiana Lea
Open Charge Alliance EV Charging Hack
Quiet Corridor

Tables:
BCS Table 39
DoK Community Table 36
Eclipse Foundation Table 35
FINOS Table 34
Free BSD Foundation Table 31
Icebreaker One Table 37
Jetstack Table 25
LF Energy Table 33
Matrix Foundation Table 38
NixOS Table 26
OpenInfra Foundation Table 27
Open Source Initiative Table 29
Red Hat Table 28
Scottish Tech Army Table 40
The Turing Way Table 30
Women @ CL Table 32
Tuesday February 7, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm GMT
Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor
  Delegate Experience

12:00pm GMT

Tiana Lea Free Headshots and Photography
Our resident photographer, Tiana Lea, will be on hand for you to get free headshots and photographs done.
Tuesday February 7, 2023 12:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor
  Amenities

1:00pm GMT

State of Open - from Geopolitics to GDP - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Speakers
avatar for Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology – open source software, open hardware and open data - with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology and she is the Executive Producer of State of Open Con https://stateofopencon.com... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:00pm - 1:25pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Keynote

1:00pm GMT

Scaling up Future Technologies in a global open hardware ecosystem - Lesya Dymyd, Future Technologies Symposium Chair, Open Compute Project
The keynote will include the overview of the OCP Future Technologies Initiative and Symposium that aims to build collaborative projects between academic, industry and startup communities with the purpose to identify, co-develop and scale up the potential breakthrough technologies and build the future of the data center market. We will share the cases of future technologies that were successfully adopted by the industry
Speakers
avatar for Lesya Dymyd

Lesya Dymyd

Future Technologies Symposium (FTS) Chair, Open Compute Project
Lesya Dymyd, PhD is OCP Future Technologies Symposium (FTS) chair and consultant at the Open Compute Project Foundation, where is in charge of innovation-related programs, projects and partnerships. She specializes in strategy, technology and innovation management and has extensive... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:00pm - 1:25pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

1:00pm GMT

Panel: Power & Diplomacy: When Open Data and Realpolitik Collide - Emma Thwaites, ODI & Gavin Freeguard, ODI & Fransizka Putz, Wikimedia Foundation
The utopian promise of the Internet was to democratise knowledge and promote free and open culture. However, efforts by some actors have contributed to the emergence of closed spaces of data sharing and access, which has perpetuated many of the same power structures and concentrations that exist in the offline world.

In this session, the panel will consider how compatible the ideals of open data are within a world that is increasingly characterised by conflict, competition and growing scepticism towards further globalisation.

The panel will discuss the prospects for open data initiatives that are vulnerable to this challenging geopolitical context. Topics to be discussed include the resilience of data sharing to political interests and the weaponisation of data and its infrastructure.
Speakers
avatar for Gavin Freeguard

Gavin Freeguard

Interim head of public policy, Open Data Institute
Gavin Freeguard is a freelance consultant working on research, policy and advocacy around data, digital government and data visualization. As well as special adviser and interim head of policy at the ODI, he is an associate at the Institute for Government (where he was previously... Read More →
avatar for Emma Thwaites

Emma Thwaites

Director of Corporate Affairs, The Open Data Institute
Director of Corporate Affairs for foundational UK data organisation, the ODI. Working with an award-winning team on a stand-out brand. Helping lead the business to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem.Exec Chair for Allegory - an agency I founded 10 years ago to provide strategic... Read More →
avatar for Franziska Putz

Franziska Putz

Movement Advocacy Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
I'm Ziski (she/her), an Austrian-American with an unpronounceable nickname and fascination with how digital technologies are changing the way we understand and address social inequality...and whose voices are heard in those discussions.I've been a community organizer, top-performing... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:00pm - 1:30pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Panel

1:00pm GMT

eBPF Superpowers - Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
Speakers
avatar for Liz Rice

Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She is the author of Container Security, and Learning eBPF, both published by O'Reilly, and she sits on the CNCF Governing Board... Read More →

SOOCon Cloud Native eBPF Superpowers pdf
Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:00pm - 1:40pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Keynote

1:00pm GMT

Security Keynote - Anjana Rajan, Assistant National Cyber Director, Technology Security Directorate, The White House
Speakers
avatar for Anjana Rajan

Anjana Rajan

Assistant National Cyber Director for Technology Security, Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House
Anjana Rajan is the Assistant National Cyber Director for Technology Security at The White House. Arenowned cryptographer, technology executive, and entrepreneur, Rajan has spent her career working atthe nexus of national security and human rights. Prior to joining the White House... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:00pm - 1:40pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Keynote

1:00pm GMT

Product Development Panel & Founder Roundtables
Product Development Panel followed by 45 minute table discussions with each table hosted by a founder.

A room like no other…

Bringing together several founders, each hosting a table of 9 delegates during each of 5 panels across 2 days. Topics covered include product design, revenue generation in open source, community and collaboration, scaling an Open Source business.

Bringing together 20 Open Source Founders – Full list TBC shortly.

This room will be set out with 20 tables of 10 – 9 delegates and 1 founder. Delegates will be able to join a founder’s table for one session. This will include a 45 minute panel and a 45 minute discussion at table with the founder.
Delegates may join all 5 sessions but in each session must be at a table with a different founder.

Space in this room and availability of a founder’s table is limited and will be preallocated in our booking system.Panel sessions will explore key topics in entrepreneurship and open source followed by table discussions led by founders. Unique and unprecedented access to founders.
Speakers
avatar for Avi Press

Avi Press

CEO, Scarf
Avi Press is a developer tool author, functional programming language enthusiast, and founder/CEO of Scarf. Avi loves thinking about and discussing how people can solve problems by more effectively sharing data, and how that applies to building a sustainable open-source ecosystem... Read More →
avatar for Leanne Kemp

Leanne Kemp

CEO, Everledger
Leanne is Founder and CEO of Everledger. In her role as CEO, she inspires and steers the team of Everlegends to increase transparency and trust with technology, in close collaboration with our industry partners.She is a prominent figure in the technology sector. Leanne co-chairs the... Read More →
avatar for Matthew Barker

Matthew Barker

President / EIR, Jetstack / OpenUK
Ron is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Flox & NixOS Foundation Board Member, Bringing Nix to the World.Ron’s journey began in the elite technical units of the IDF (8200), first as a software engineer and later leading the development of large-scale field operated products. A repeat founder... Read More →
avatar for Bram Wiepjes

Bram Wiepjes

CEO, Baserow
Bram Wiepjes is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Baserow. He started his professional software development career when he was 15 years old. Over de years he worked for various startups, agencies and international organizations in teams and as solo full stack developer... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:00pm - 2:30pm GMT
Whittle, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Entrepreneurship, Panel

1:00pm GMT

Sustain OSS Conference: Project leadership, decision-making, and succession planning
Sustain is a community exploring, documenting and working to answer a single question: how do we maintain open source software? Join us for a series of peer-led updates, conversations and collaborative workshops on the key issues surrounding open source sustainability today: community development and governance, fundraising and managing money, corporate support and participation, legislative and legal development, personal leadership… and burnout. Sustain provides spaces and creates events with and for those who are concerned with the with the fragile state and future of highly-used, impactful open source projects. If that sounds like you we’d love to shape our event with you:

Register your interest in taking part
Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:00pm - 3:00pm GMT
Olivier, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Sustain OSS

1:00pm GMT

Unconference
More details to be announced soon.
Speakers
avatar for Hannah Foxwell

Hannah Foxwell

Director for Platform Service, VMWare Tanzu
Hannah Foxwell is Director for Platform Services at VMware Tanzu, 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... Read More →
avatar for Paula Kennedy

Paula Kennedy

Chief Operating Officer, Syntasso
Paula is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo. Working in the IT industry for... Read More →
avatar for Terence Eden

Terence Eden

Board Member, OpenUK
He is an open source coder, open data publisher, and freelance cyber-security consultant. He was formerly the UK Government’s representative to the W3C. He speaks around the world on open standards, open source software, and open data.

Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:00pm - 3:00pm GMT
Gielgud, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Unconference

1:30pm GMT

Building a deGoogled and privacy-friendly and open source mobile ecosystem: the story behind /e/OS - Gaël Duval, Founder, Murena SAS
In this session, I tell the story of /e/OS since the end of 2017, when I started a Kickstarter campaign to test the idea and raise some funds for the project, to now, with dozen thousands for the OS and the cloud and several millions revenues.

How to build a community, how to attract developers, how to communicate, how to start first sales, how to gain first academic recognition, all this with a 100% remote organization.
Speakers
avatar for Gaël Duval

Gaël Duval

CEO, MURENA SAS
Gaël Duval is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He created the first desktop-based Linux distribution in 1998, Mandrake Linux (based on KDE), and more recently launched /e/OS, a fully deGoogled and pro-privacy mobile operating system for the masses.

Gael Duval Murena presentation (6) pdf
Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:30pm - 1:55pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

1:30pm GMT

State of Open Curation of Open Source - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK & Eric Brewer, VP Infrastructure, Google & Sarah Novotny, Director of Open Source Strategy, Microsoft
Speakers
avatar for Eric Brewer

Eric Brewer

VP Infrastructure & Google Fellow, Google
Eric Allen Brewer is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and vice-president of infrastructure at Google. His research interests include operating systems and distributed computing. He is known for formulating the CAP theorem about distributed... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Novotny

Sarah Novotny

Director of Open Source Strategy, Microsoft
I'm a geek. My technological focuses have been in recent years Open Source; Cloud and Utility Computing; Infrastructure automation; and Data (big and small; relational and non-relational).My calling, though, lies in sharing my excitement about technology and coalescing a group around... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology – open source software, open hardware and open data - with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology and she is the Executive Producer of State of Open Con https://stateofopencon.com... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:30pm - 2:25pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Panel

1:35pm GMT

General Best Practices in Open Data - Silona Bonewald, Executive Director, IEEE SA Open & Sarah Womer, Senior Analyst, Plessas Experts Network Inc. & Lisa Allen, Director of Data and Services, Open Data Institute
Currently we have many standards that are addressing various types of specific issues in regards to Open Data but there doesn’t seem to be a generalized best practices guide. We would like to review many of the standards that exist or are being created and discuss what some of those generalized practices might be and define common vocabulary.
Speakers
avatar for Silona Bonewald

Silona Bonewald

Attendee, LeadingBit Solutions
Silona Bonewald is the Executive Director for IEEE SA OPEN, a comprehensive platform offering the open source community cost-effective options for developing and validating their projects. Previously she was vice president of community architecture at Hyperledger, a global open source... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Womer

Sarah Womer

Senior OSINT Analyst, Plessas Experts Network Inc., IEEE SA Open Volunteer, Cyber Salukis
Sarah Womer is an Open Source Intelligence practitioner with over 20 years of experience as an OSINT tutor and teacher, production manager, researcher, editor, and analyst. She also is an advocate for Open Source and is a volunteer with IEEE SA Open. Currently, she is a Senior analyst... Read More →
avatar for Lisa Allen

Lisa Allen

Director of Data and Technology Services, Open Data Institute
Lisa is a data professional and has led many data teams in the public sector in the UK. She has experience across data disciplines including open data, data protection, data transformation, developing data strategies and frameworks to implement data governance. At the ODI, Lisa heads... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:35pm - 2:00pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Panel

1:45pm GMT

Building a great internal platform starts with the API - Abby Bangser, Principal Engineer, Syntasso
Platform engineering has grown in popularity as a way to enable application teams to focus on their customers while consuming non-differentiating tech from an internal team. Successful platform teams operate as a product team. They collect requirements; identify offerings that provide innovative and easy to use solutions to their customers’ problems; and package their offerings in a discoverable and easy to use interface. A platform team is successful when they focus on the differentiating tasks (identifying internal challenges/innovative solutions) while leveraging community solutions for commodities like API design and delivery. Join Abby as she introduces Kratix: a new OSS solution built after years of working on in-house solutions with the goal of enabling great APIs in the open.
Speakers
avatar for Abby Bangser

Abby Bangser

Principal Engineer, Syntasso
Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across... Read More →

Building a great internal platform starts with the API pdf
Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:45pm - 2:25pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

1:45pm GMT

DCMS’ approach to software security and resilience policy - Naomi Gilbert, Head of Cyber Resilience Policy, Department of Culture Media & Sport
DCMS’ Cyber Resilience Team is publishing a call for views on enterprise software resilience and security in early 2023. This marks a major milestone in our work to better understand the security risks related to the development, distribution and use of software. In this talk, we aim to share our approach to software resilience policy, including how we view risks related to open source software. This will include our framework outlining the key risks throughout the software lifecycle, from development through to end use and everything in between. We also aim to elaborate on issues relating to open source software, including resourcing constraints in the open source community, and the need for more secure integration of third-party code by proprietary developers and vendors.
Speakers
avatar for Naomi Gilbert

Naomi Gilbert

Head of Cyber Resilience Policy, DCMS
Naomi Gilbert is Head of Incentives in the Cyber Resilience Policy Team. Her team uses market incentives to ensure that all organisations are effectively managing their cyber risk. In previous roles, Naomi has worked across central and line government agencies as well as in not-for-profits... Read More →

2023 01 23 State of Open Con slides pptx
Tuesday February 7, 2023 1:45pm - 2:25pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

2:00pm GMT

Open Source Control in HVAC To Achieve Net Zero - Richard Hanson-Graville, Head of Research & Development, Heatweb
All the recent studies into the efficiency of existing heat networks has shown them to be grossly inefficient, with up to 80% heat losses, however it has taken funded studies to highlight data that should already readily available. Studies into renewables schemes has also shown significant numbers to be incorrectly installed and poorly performing.
Even the UKs BRIAM awarded renewables installation has been shown to simple not work.

If we are to achieve net-zero, then renewables systems we install actually need to work as intended, especially when receiving funding.
The problem persists due to a lack of transparency, with schemes such as Ofgem's MMSP having little uptake.
BMS systems that control heat networks run on closed systems with layers of licencing, and offer no insights as to the operational efficiency of systems.

Our project aims to solve this situation by putting in place a licence free open-source means of controlling and monitoring HVAC systems of any type. We are making use of existing open source projects such as Node-RED, Influx and Grafana, and combining these with the best equipment control strategies to deliver functioning software code and hardware that allows anyone to implement the best levels of control and monitoring.
We will present on field trials where the systems are already in place, saving carbon, and describe how this can be replicated.
Speakers
avatar for Richard Hanson-Graville

Richard Hanson-Graville

Head of Research & Development, Thermal Integration Ltd. / Heatweb
30 years in product development in the fields of thermal storage, plate heat exchangers, renewables, and control systems. Contributing author to:IOP Building Engineering Services Design GuideCP1 Codes of Practice for Heat NetworksCIBSE Guide BCIBSE Heat Network GuidancePlumbing M... Read More →

Open UK Heatweb pdf
Tuesday February 7, 2023 2:00pm - 2:25pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

2:05pm GMT

Smart Meter Energy Data Repository - Christopher Jackson, CEO and Co-Founder, Advanced Infrastructure
Where are the greatest opportunities for smart meter data in the transition to net zero.
Speakers
avatar for Christopher Jackson

Christopher Jackson

CEO and Co-Founder, Advanced Infrastructure
Former Head of the UK Decentralised Energy Market function of E.ON, Commercial Director of a system integration company, and former Strategy Director of a leading battery, solar and electric vehicle integration company. Formerly project director for one of the largest Innovate-UK... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 2:05pm - 2:30pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Presentation

2:30pm GMT

Could the Public Sector Solve the OSS Sustainability Challenges? - Colin Eberhardt, CTO, Scott Logic
The rapid rise in the consumption or usage of open source hasn't been met with an equal rise in contribution - to put it simply, there are far more takers than givers, and the challenges created by this imbalance are starting to emerge.



Most industries turn to open source for innovation and collaboration, however, the public sector instead looks for transparency and productivity. Public sector organisations have well-intentioned open source software policies, but they fail to embrace the broad potential value of open source.



In this talk we’ll take a data-driven approach to highlight the needs of public sector organisations and explore potential opportunities. Finally, we’ll look at how this sector might be the key to solving OSS’ sustainability challenges for the long term.
Speakers
avatar for Colin Eberhardt

Colin Eberhardt

CTO, Scott Logic
I’m the CTO at Scott Logic, a UK-based software consultancy where we create complex application for our financial services clients. I’m an avid technology enthusiast, spending my evenings contributing to open source projects, writing blog posts and learning as much as I can... Read More →

State of Open Con Could the Public Sector solve the OSS sustainability challenges pdf
Tuesday February 7, 2023 2:30pm - 3:00pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

2:30pm GMT

A Chip on my Shoulder - Rob Taylor, CEO, Chipflow
Rob Taylor has a long career in Open Souce and Embedded systems. He will take the audience on a journey setting out the history of this rapidly growing ecosystem of open source semiconductor design and the commercial applications.


Speakers
avatar for Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor

CEO, ChipFlow Ltd
Rob is driven by his passion for empowering individuals to unleash their creativity, believing this will enable new products and business models that we can't yet imagine. With over 20 years of commercialising Open Source Software, and two previous successful exits (rev £10m), he... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 2:30pm - 3:00pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

2:30pm GMT

The Why and How of Platform Engineering with Open Source - David Charboneau, CTO, Mimoto
Why and how startups, and other small teams, can apply the principles and open source tools for platform engineering. A bottom up approach will be discussed, starting from standardized developer environments using open source tools like Vagrant and pytest. A direct line will be drawn from starting at developer environments to implementing CI/CD on up to scaling and monitoring a product that includes a web application, internal data science and machine learning infrastructure, and a variety of operating systems and devices hosting an agent.
Speakers
avatar for David Charboneau

David Charboneau

CTO, Mimoto
David Charboneau is the CTO of Mimoto, a cybersecurity company that detects and responds to active system-level breaches in real time. David joined Mimoto from OpenTeams, a marketplace for open source-focused software service companies, where as CTO and co-founder he led all aspects... Read More →

SOOCon23 Platform Engineering pptx
Tuesday February 7, 2023 2:30pm - 3:00pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

2:30pm GMT

The Myriad Paths to Improving Open Source Security - Rory McCune, Senior Security Advocate, Datadog
If you're looking to contribute to open source security, it can sometimes be tricky to think of where and how you can contribute, especially if you're not a developer. In this talk we'll examine some of the ways where you can help improve open source security regardless of your technical background, talk about their pros and cons and also talk about how your ideas for security can have a global impact.
Speakers
avatar for Rory McCune

Rory McCune

Senior Security Advocate, Datadog
Rory is a senior advocate for Datadog who has extensive experience with Cyber security and Cloud native computing. In addition to his work as a security reviewer and architect on containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker he has presented at Kubecon EU and NA, as well... Read More →

Myriad Paths SOO 23 pdf
Tuesday February 7, 2023 2:30pm - 3:00pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

2:35pm GMT

How do we measure success for Open Data in academia? - Lauren Cadwallader, Open Research Manager, PLOS
This talk looks at a new initiative for measuring the uptake and characteristics of open science practices, including open data and code sharing within academic research. Open science has been touted as the future of research and can provide many benefits but without a way to measure these practices at scale it is hard to quantify adoption rates and identify areas for improvement. New data, released in December 2022, is discussed here as well as it's potential to inform the academic community and effect change.
Speakers
avatar for Lauren Cadwallader

Lauren Cadwallader

Open Research Manager, PLOS
Dr Lauren Cadwallader is the Open Research Manager at the Public Library of Science (PLOS), a non-profit academic publisher. She works at the forefront of PLOS' mission - to advance Open Science adoption to increasing accessibility, trust and collaboration around research that can... Read More →

Cadwallader Open Data in Academia pptx
Tuesday February 7, 2023 2:35pm - 3:00pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Presentation

3:00pm GMT

Book Give Away and Signing
Bartłomiej Płotka will be giving away signed copies of his book:

"Efficient Go" published by O'Reilly.

There are a limited number of copies available, first come first served!

With technological advancements, fast markets, and higher complexity of systems, software engineers tend to skip the uncomfortable topic of software efficiency. However, tactical, observability-driven performance optimizations are vital for every product to save money and ensure business success.

With this book, any engineer can learn how to approach software efficiency effectively, professionally, and without stress. Author Bartłomiej Płotka provides the tools and knowledge required to make your systems faster and less resource-hungry. Efficient Go guides you in achieving better day-to-day efficiency using Go. In addition, most content is language-agnostic, allowing you to bring small but effective habits to your programming or product management cycles.

Speakers
avatar for Bartłomiej Płotka

Bartłomiej Płotka

Mr, Google
Bartek Płotka is a Senior Software Engineer at Google. SWE by heart, with an SRE background, currently working on Cloud Observability. Previously Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. Author of "Efficient Go" book with O'Reilly. As the co-founder of the CNCF Thanos project and... Read More →


Tuesday February 7, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor
  Book Signings, Book Signing

3:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade 3D Printing Demonstration
Boeing VR Procedural Trainer
Delegate Gifts & Hat Shop
DevTank Sustainability Monitoring
Photographs & Headshots by Tiana Lea
Open Charge Alliance EV Charging Hack
Quiet Corridor

Tables:
BCS Table 39
DoK Community Table 36
Eclipse Foundation Table 35
FINOS Table 34
Free BSD Foundation Table 31
Icebreaker One Table 37
Jetstack Table 25
LF Energy Table 33
Matrix Foundation Table 38
NixOS Table 26
OpenInfra Foundation Table 27
Open Source Initiative Table 29
Red Hat Table 28
Scottish Tech Army Table 40
The Turing Way Table 30
Women @ CL Table 32
Tuesday February 7, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor
  Delegate Experience

3:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Book Give Away & Signing Booth
Open Source Job Board (Sponsored by: Open Source Job Hub)
State of Open Photo Exhibition
Sticker Table

Tables:
Bristows Table 47
IEEE Table 45
Isovalent Table 42
Open Data Institute Table 43
OpenUK Table 44
UKRI table 48
Wikimedia UK Table 46
Tuesday February 7, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Britten, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Delegate Experience

3:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade VR Experience
BBC R&D Seeking New Gods (Interactive Audio/Vidual Experience)

Tables:
Amazee.io Table 10
Avanade Table 9
Baserow Table 12
Codethink Table 23
Coding Black Females Table 18
Confidential Computing Consortium Table 22
Control Plane Table 5
Digital Poverty Alliance Table 7
Digital Security by Design Table 21
Foundation for Public Code Table 15
Github Table 13
JoiningTheDots Table 8
KDE Table 17
Linux Foundation Europe Table 1
Mautic Table 2
Mia Platform Table 16
Open Compute Project Table 24
Next Chapter Retreats Table 19
Rust Foundation Table 6
Sonatype Table 3
Woodlands.co.uk Table 4
Yocto Table 20
Snyk Table 11
Tuesday February 7, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Pickwick, 1st Floor
  Delegate Experience

4:00pm GMT

Circularity and Whole Systems Thinking - Deborah Andrews, Professor, London South Bank University
The origins of the Linear Economy – the ‘take-make-use-dispose’ model of consumption – date from the Industrial Revolution and the global economy has developed around this model. Various social, economic and environmental factors mean that it is no longer sustainable today.

A new model – the Circular Economy – is now possible and applicable to a range of product and technology areas, including data centre hardware. The role of product and systems designers in the circular economy is crucial, as circular approaches must be considered early in design and deployment lifecycles to provide the best leverage for both sustainability and economy.

Professor Andrews will discuss the necessity for whole systems thinking, and the integration of technological and human factors to accelerate development of a Circular Economy; she will also discuss the importance of design and engineering, and reactive and proactive approaches to the challenges of sustainability and circularity now and in the future.
Speakers
avatar for Deborah Andrews

Deborah Andrews

Professor of Design for Sustainability and Circularity, London South Bank University
Deborah has 20+ years’ experience in sustainable design and manufacture and the Circular Economy. She is engaged in related research, enterprise and teaching activities and has published 60+ academic papers about these subjects and education for sustainability. She is also proud... Read More →

D Andrews OpenCon Slides pdf
Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:00pm - 4:15pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

4:00pm GMT

The Villains Guide to How to Lose Your Community - Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy, Scarf
Building a strong open source community is critical to growing a successful project or business. There are many guides, suggestions, and experts in starting, growing, and building your community… but there are none for how to destroy it! Whether intentionally, inadvertently, or through subterfuge, there are proven ways to not only stunt community growth but cause large communities to abandon a project or technology in droves! During this talk I will show you how projects, companies, and communities can be slowly dismantled, slowly bringing your user base to zero.  

Come join me and learn about the secret community destroying weapons of super villains the world over! You too can become a certified evil community destroying supervillain! Certificate available at the end of our session!
Speakers
avatar for Matt Yonkovit

Matt Yonkovit

Head of Open Source Strategy, Scarf
Matt has been kicking around the open source ecosystem for over 20 years working at companies like MySQL AB, Percona, MatterMost, StreamNative, and now at Scarf. Matt is passionate about open source and has been the host of several open source related podcast and shows including the... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:00pm - 4:25pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

4:00pm GMT

A vision for a web of net-zero data - Gavin Starks, CEO, Icebreaker One
Imagine a world where accurate, trustworthy data flows easily around the world, helping decision-makers take bigger, bolder and more accurate steps towards net zero.Come along to this season to hear about the role of national data strategies and trust frameworks in creating a web of net-zero data.You’ll leave with an understanding of how net-zero data can help derisk financial instruments, accelerate new technologies to market, and enable monitoring against science-based targets.
Speakers
avatar for Gavin Starks

Gavin Starks

CEO & Founder, Icebreaker One
Gavin helps solve complex, multidisciplinary, collective-action challenges. He has co-created over a dozen organisations:building multidisciplinary teams fit for a digital age to explore the impact of data on business, society and culture. He founded and runs IcebreakerOne.org, making... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:00pm - 4:25pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Presentation

4:00pm GMT

Modelling Threats Out In The Open (Source) - Dan Conn, Developer Advocate, Sonatype
Secure development is hard. Throughout the entire development of an open source project, security needs to be top of mind due to a potential myriad threats. Security matrices backed by a comprehensive threat model may be required, so that the threats of a system can be evaluated. Card games using STRIDE are great when your project has a large core team, but what if you only have a couple of people? What if your threats are better served by DREAD, PASTA or LINDDUN? What even are these acronyms?! Arrgggh! This talk will explore how to make threat modelling easier for developers through an open source tool, Threagile. Equipping yourself with a better understanding of these models will enable you to pinpoint threats before review.
Speakers
avatar for Dan Conn

Dan Conn

Developer Advocate, Sonatype
Dan Conn likes to sit in the point between cyber security and development and over the past 10 years has worked as a developer in small startups, large corporates and many in between, catering for clients both public and private sector from SME size to enterprise. He has also had... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:00pm - 4:30pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

4:00pm GMT

Help! I need a PaaS experience on k8s, yesterday! - Debbie Wood, Senior Infrastructure Product Manager,
Come and learn about a platform engineering team, who successfully built a platform as a service experience for app Devs, on kubernetes by weaving together open source technologies, and hard won wisdom. This, at a tech unicorn startup in record time.



Composed of standards, conventions, some vendor software and mostly familiar open source tooling used in clever ways - we went from idea to production within 6 months, and enabled repeatability - a means to quickly create and maintain new production environments.



We found the balance between developer autonomy and creating helpful guardrails. We also supported all application development teams in R&D to significantly adjust their software development lifecycle successfully, at speed, while still shipping customer value.
Speakers
avatar for Debbie Wood

Debbie Wood

Senior Product Manager, Private
Debbie is a Product manager specialising in the cloud platforms / infrastructure domain. With 16 years experience as a senior software engineer, she was drawn to product management after her Master's degree, and found her niche in Platform engineering. She has supported teams building... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:00pm - 4:40pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

4:00pm GMT

Setting up - Legal, Financial and Other Considerations - licensing, trade marks, company structures Panel & Founder Roundtables
Community and Contribution Panel followed by a 45 minute table discussion with each table hosted by a founder.

A room like no other…

Bringing together several founders, each hosting a table of 9 delegates during each of 5 panels across 2 days. Topics covered include product design, revenue generation in open source, community and collaboration, scaling an Open Source business.

Bringing together 20 Open Source Founders – Full list TBC shortly.

This room will be set out with 20 tables of 10 – 9 delegates and 1 founder. Delegates will be able to join a founder’s table for one session. This will include a 45 minute panel and a 45 minute discussion at table with the founder.
Delegates may join all 5 sessions but in each session must be at a table with a different founder.

Space in this room and availability of a founder’s table is limited and will be preallocated in our booking system.Panel sessions will explore key topics in entrepreneurship and open source followed by table discussions led by founders. Unique and unprecedented access to founders.
Speakers
avatar for Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology – open source software, open hardware and open data - with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology and she is the Executive Producer of State of Open Con https://stateofopencon.com... Read More →
avatar for Matthew Barker

Matthew Barker

President / EIR, Jetstack / OpenUK
Ron is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Flox & NixOS Foundation Board Member, Bringing Nix to the World.Ron’s journey began in the elite technical units of the IDF (8200), first as a software engineer and later leading the development of large-scale field operated products. A repeat founder... Read More →
avatar for Michael Cheng

Michael Cheng

Aalyria Technologies, Chief Legal Officer
Michael is a former Engineer, M&A Attorney, Linux Foundation Board Director and Product Manager at Facebook. Michael is currently Chief Legal Officer at Aalyria Technologies (a spin-out from Google).Michael previously led the open source team at Meta (fka Facebook), where he defined the vision, strategy and execution for open source products, programs and partnerships at Meta. Michael also led the product, intellectual property and commercial functions as part of Facebook’s M&A team - responsible for all M&A deals between 2018-2021.Re... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Whittle, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Entrepreneurship, Panel

4:00pm GMT

Sustain OSS Conference: Personal sustainability, including self-care, avoiding burn out and professional development
Sustain is a community exploring, documenting and working to answer a single question: how do we maintain open source software? Join us for a series of peer-led updates, conversations and collaborative workshops on the key issues surrounding open source sustainability today: community development and governance, fundraising and managing money, corporate support and participation, legislative and legal development, personal leadership… and burnout. Sustain provides spaces and creates events with and for those who are concerned with the with the fragile state and future of highly-used, impactful open source projects. If that sounds like you we’d love to shape our event with you:  

Register your interest in taking part
Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Olivier, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Sustain OSS

4:00pm GMT

Unconference
More details to be announced soon.

Speakers
avatar for Hannah Foxwell

Hannah Foxwell

Director for Platform Service, VMWare Tanzu
Hannah Foxwell is Director for Platform Services at VMware Tanzu, 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... Read More →
avatar for Paula Kennedy

Paula Kennedy

Chief Operating Officer, Syntasso
Paula is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo. Working in the IT industry for... Read More →
avatar for Terence Eden

Terence Eden

Board Member, OpenUK
He is an open source coder, open data publisher, and freelance cyber-security consultant. He was formerly the UK Government’s representative to the W3C. He speaks around the world on open standards, open source software, and open data.

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Gielgud, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Unconference

4:20pm GMT

A Circular Economy Requires an Ecosystem - Astrid Wynne Rogers, Head of Sustainability, Interact & Techbuyer
Circular Economy is the great hope for decoupling economic development from environmental harm. The most powerful circular approach in the context of ICT products is product life extension, because of where we are with recycling technologies and with the ability to use recovered materials in ICT production.

The current OEM distribution model is not able to handle this effectively and the market needs to be open to service providers (refurbishment, maintenance, repair) so that equipment can be cascaded and re-used between users and so that component level upgrades are possible at a local and individual level. This also enables new systems to be built from existing and re-used components.

An open exchange of knowledge on hardware refurbishment and the related software support is essential to this - including open exchange of energy efficiency metrics, measurement, and validation technology. A level playing field for comparison of performance across generations, makes and models is essential for good decision making. For example, OCP data center hardware needs to be compared to OEM equipment, which means expanding measurement concepts and efforts such as SPEC to OCP servers.

Such comparisons will enable an effective balance of scope 3, scope 2 and material efficiency constraints. They require cooperation, collaboration and a different approach to business. Importantly, such a cooperative approach can be profitable - providing economic benefits in terms of job creation and business growth. Governments are alert to this (e.g. with circular economy action plans, sustainability reporting) but will need help from marketplace participants - suppliers, consumers, and service providers.

The Circular Economy is an opportunity for the ICT community to step up and do something powerful based on the unique ethics and proven leverage of open collaboration.
Speakers
avatar for Astrid Wynne

Astrid Wynne

Head of Sustainability, Techbuyer
Astrid is head of sustainability at Techbuyer, which specialises in circular economy and Interact, which specialises in energy, carbon and cost reductions on server estates. She is a Chartered Environmentalist and full member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment... Read More →

Astrid Wynne SOOCon23 Slides pdf
Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:20pm - 4:35pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

4:30pm GMT

The Ethics of Open Source - PJ Hagerty, Founder, DevRelate.io
Every part of Open Source is meant to be for the community, but often the question comes up about how best to use and support it. Do we give money to Open Source projects and languages? Do we Open Source our non-business critical code? Do we take it all because it's free? Let's look at the right, and less right ways of interacting with Open Source projects.
Speakers
avatar for PJ Hagerty

PJ Hagerty

Developer Advocate, Spotify
PJ is the founder of DevRelate.io and a board member of Open Sourcing Mental Illness (OSMIhelp.org). He is an organizer of DevOps Days Buffalo, CodeDaze, and ElixirDaze. PJ is a developer, writer, speaker, musician, and Community Advocate. He is known to travel the world speaking... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:30pm - 4:55pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

4:35pm GMT

What does it mean to make open data accessible? - Kevin Lewis, Developer Relations Lead, Directus
Making data available is a key part of being transparent, whether that’s in your organization, to your stakeholders, civic technologists, or a non-technical citizen.



Publishing data is a great first step, but we can do better to serve each of these groups and enable them to fully and critically assess information available.



In this talk, we will discuss the needs of each group and what you can do to build your practice of trust and transparency in a meaningful way. We’ll also discuss how to make data accessible to those with disabilities, ensuring everyone has equal access to information.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis

Developer Relations Lead, Directus
Kevin runs Developer Relations at Directus and is Director of You Got This - a learning hub to help developers improve their core skills. He is an avid boardgamer, tired dad, and shameless Disney adult. He is based in Berlin with his partner and two kids.

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:35pm - 4:55pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Presentation

4:35pm GMT

Do you know the health of your OSS dependencies? Introducing OSSF Scorecard API - Naveen Srinivasan, OSS Supply Chain Analyst, Endor Labs
Most software is built with hundreds if not thousands of dependencies and transitive dependencies. Knowing the health of these dependencies in your software is a daunting task. How do you know which dependencies are maintained?Wouldn't it be nice to get a score of the dependencies' health? Enter OSSF Scorecard. Scorecards is an automated tool that assesses several important heuristics ("checks") associated with software security and assigns each check a score of 0-10. This talk will introduce Scorecard, a tool that scans many risky patterns in the development life cycle. The scorecard project runs a weekly scan of 1M critical projects, and we will provide some findings about the results. Developers can use these public results to assess the risk associated with dependencies they use.
Speakers
avatar for Naveen Srinivasan

Naveen Srinivasan

OSS Supply chain, Endor Labs
Naveen contributes to fun OSS projects like https://github.com/ossf and other supply chain security projects. http://github.com/naveensrinivasan.He was awarded the Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award in 2021 and 2022 for his contributions to Open Source Software (OSS). He maintains... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:35pm - 5:05pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

4:40pm GMT

Collaboration Across Silos - Hardware is Everywhere - Erik Riedel, Founder & CEO, Flax Computing
The IT industry has spent the past several decades making the argument that openness in software is important and that community-driven, collaboratively-developed projects are a superior engineering model. The unquestioned success of large-scale open source software efforts - including Linux, Kubernetes, Java, and tens of thousands of other projects - shows the power that comes with worldwide collaboration in all aspects of software design & development. The argument for open source software has been made and proven true in practice.

While your software is likely open and created collaboratively, what about the hardware you are running that software on? Open hardware has also found success - including in the maker space with ecosystems such as Raspberry Pi, and in the data center with efforts such as the Open Compute Project (OCP). This worldwide collaboration - just past its 10th birthday - has seen hyperscale computing customers, vendors, & service providers work together on hardware through published specifications, open designs, collaborative projects, and pushing- the- envelope demonstrations. When these projects are pursued collaboratively and in open communities, the speed and depth of innovation are enhanced. These collaboratively designed systems are already some of the largest, most energy efficient, and operationally efficient systems in the world today.

By bringing a sustainability lens & a circular economy approach, these efficiency gains can reach backwards and forwards into the supply chain to create both economic wins & aggressive carbon footprint reductions. Recent efforts have shown that by extending the usage of hardware systems and components we can reduce as much as 75% of the lifetime carbon emissions that would take place by mining new minerals, building new factories, activating production lines, and moving materials all around the world. These efforts have shown that we can achieve aggressive decarbonization goals, without compromising quality, reliability or performance.
Speakers
avatar for Erik Riedel

Erik Riedel

Chief Engineering Officer, Flax Computing / Sesame
Erik Riedel, PhD is a regular speaker on both technical, leadership, and cultural topics. He has worked for over twenty years as an engineer and engineering leader. He is currently founder and Chief Engineering Officer at Flax Computing - working to measure and reduce the worldwide... Read More →

Erik Riedel OpenCon23 Slides pdf
Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:40pm - 4:55pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

4:45pm GMT

Zero Trust: Beyond the Buzzwords - Matt Turner, Software Engineer, Tetrate
"Zero Trust" is a term that's everywhere these days. But what does it really mean? What's it really trying to achieve? And how can we implement something that actually increases our security?

In this session, Matt will cover zero-trust networking, succinctly defining it with five criteria. He'll talk about how this can be implemented in modern and traditional environments alike, and how the latest NIST standards can guide us in building high-trust systems.

He will also explore the compute side of things, from the use of containerisation and eBPF for strong isolation, to trusted execution environments tied to TPMs. He will focus on practical supply chain issues - using SBOMs to know what's in software images, building custom minimal images, and keeping ca-certs up to date.
Speakers
avatar for Matt Turner

Matt Turner

Software Engineer, Tetrate
Matt is a software engineer at Tetrate, working on Istio-related products, and loves sharing the latest tech and trends with everyone. He's been doing Dev, sometimes with added Ops, for over a decade. His idea of "full-stack" is Linux, Kubernetes, and now Istio too. He's given many... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 4:45pm - 5:25pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

5:00pm GMT

OSPOs Key Leveller for Open Source Sustainability - Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Todo Group Senior OSPO Program Manager, The Linux Foundation
Enabling continuity in executive support, funding, software development practices, and OSS project prioritization. Within organizations, Open Source Program Office’s role can include setting code use, distribution, selection, auditing, and other policies, as well as training developers, ensuring legal compliance, or promoting and building community engagement. OSPOs bring many benefits to both, the open source ecosystem and organizations in equal parts, yet sometimes, the path to follow is unclear. During this session, Ana will share a set of actionable tips based on the TODO community learnings that any organization can implement to start building their Minimal Viable OSPOs, as well as ways to overcome the ongoing challenges ( culture, tooling, process, and continuity).
Speakers
avatar for Ana Jimenez

Ana Jimenez

OSPO Program Manager, TODO group, Linux Foundation
Ana is the OSPO Program Manager at the TODO Group, a LF project and an open community of practitioners who aim to create and share knowledge and collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run successful and effective Open Source Program Offices. Formerly she worked at Bitergia... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 5:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

5:00pm GMT

Transforming lives with open data - a case study: making physical activity accessible to everyone - Allison Savich, Sports England & Andrew Newman, ODI & Jade Cation, London Sport & Nick Evans, imin
Encouraging people from all backgrounds, and of all abilities, to engage in sport and physical activity is fundamentally good for society. But in the post-pandemic world getting people moving has become increasingly challenging. OpenActive is a UK community initiative led by Sport England and the ODI that seeks to unlock sport and physical activity data, making it easier for everyone to find and book activities. In this session representatives from sports bodies, leisure operators and other OpenActive stakeholders will discuss the OpenActive initiative and how it is making sport more accessible and transforming lives by unlocking data.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Newman

Andrew Newman

Principal Data Specialist, The ODI
Andrew Newman is a Principal Data Specialist at the ODI.Andrew is an experienced data specialist with over 20 years experience of leading and managing data teams and initiatives at the UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).Andrew has a broad range of data... Read More →
avatar for Jade Cation

Jade Cation

Director Impact and Innovation, London Sport
Jade Cation is the Director of Impact and Innovation at London Sport, a charity focussed on helping Londoners lead longer, healthier and more fulfilled lives through sport and physical activity. Having joined London Sport earlier in 2022, Jade is responsible for the delivery of the... Read More →
avatar for Nick Evans

Nick Evans

Director, imin
Nick is a co-founder and director of imin (pronounced "i'm in"), an organisation that enables a range of businesses, from startups to brands, to create innovative new ways to get people active, by providing bookable physical activity data (e.g. squash courts, running groups and yoga... Read More →
avatar for Allison Savich

Allison Savich

Strategic Lead - Innovation & Digital Experience, Sport England
Having developed a strong foundation of 10 years finance experience in large-scale media and government environments, and 3 years applying my business acumen in the creation and application of behavioural insight, Allison is now the lead for the Innovation & Digital team within Sport... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 5:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Panel

5:00pm GMT

How Can I Help? How Can I Contribute? To a Sustainable Data Centre Economy - Astrid Wynne Rogers, Techbuyer & Deborah Andrews, LSBU & Erik Riedel, Flax Computing
The Circular Economy for Data Centre hardware is a powerful and practical approach to meeting the ever more demanding needs of modern computing while bending the curve of resource consumption all along the supply chain - from the design whiteboard to the factory production line to the data centre floor. Resource usage in materials, energy, and design collaboration can be optimized and reduced, with huge potential reductions in carbon usage and resource impacts of all types.

The power of an open design and development approach all along the ecosystem has been proven over the past twenty-five years in software and at least the past ten years in hardware.

The expert panelists will answer audience questions on how they can contribute with their organisational effort and their personal engagement. We will address available incentives, potential barriers, and provide clear motivations and how-tos that can be actionable as soon as tomorrow morning with worldwide impact in weeks or months. Please join us to learn how you and your organisation can contribute and benefit economically and sustainably.
Speakers
avatar for Erik Riedel

Erik Riedel

Chief Engineering Officer, Flax Computing / Sesame
Erik Riedel, PhD is a regular speaker on both technical, leadership, and cultural topics. He has worked for over twenty years as an engineer and engineering leader. He is currently founder and Chief Engineering Officer at Flax Computing - working to measure and reduce the worldwide... Read More →
avatar for Astrid Wynne

Astrid Wynne

Head of Sustainability, Techbuyer
Astrid is head of sustainability at Techbuyer, which specialises in circular economy and Interact, which specialises in energy, carbon and cost reductions on server estates. She is a Chartered Environmentalist and full member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment... Read More →
avatar for Deborah Andrews

Deborah Andrews

Professor of Design for Sustainability and Circularity, London South Bank University
Deborah has 20+ years’ experience in sustainable design and manufacture and the Circular Economy. She is engaged in related research, enterprise and teaching activities and has published 60+ academic papers about these subjects and education for sustainability. She is also proud... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 5:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Panel

5:10pm GMT

The Iceberg: Your Attack Surface Just Got Bigger (How to mitigate risks in your OSS projects) - Sonya Moisset, Senior Security Advocate, Synk
Software supply chain attacks are not a new security concern, but recent high-profile attacks such as SolarWinds, CodeCov, and Kaseya have brought the topic to the forefront of cybersecurity awareness across the globe. Supply chain attacks have not only increased in volume and frequency, but have also become more sophisticated. This trend, together with the potentially wide impact of a singular successful supply chain attack, requires maintainers to take dedicated steps to ensure the security and integrity of their projects. You will learn how to secure your CI/CD pipeline by setting up guardrails at each stage and harden your OSS projects.
Speakers
avatar for Sonya Moisset

Sonya Moisset

Senior Security Advocate, Snyk
👋 Bonjour!I’m a Senior Security Advocate and a lifelong traveler who lived in the Middle-East, North Africa and Asia.💖 Passionate about Open-source, DevSecOps and Cloud Computing 🌟 GitHub Star ☁️ OpenUK Ambassador & Security Advisory Board member... Read More →

Tuesday February 7, 2023 5:10pm - 5:30pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

5:30pm GMT

Circus Albus Performance
Tuesday February 7, 2023 5:30pm - 6:00pm GMT
Britten Stage, 3rd Floor
  Delegate Experience

5:30pm GMT

Book Give Away and Signing
Liz Rice will be giving away signed copies of her book:

"What is eBPF?" published by O'Reilly

There are a limited number of copies available, first come first served!

In just the past few years, the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) has gone from relative obscurity to one of the hottest technology areas in modern infrastructure computing. With this report, Liz Rice dives into eBPF and explains how this framework enables networking, security, and observability tooling for modern compute environments. SREs, ops engineers, and engineering team leads will learn what eBPF is and why it's so powerful.

Rice, chief open source officer at Isovalent, shows you how to load and run custom eBPF programs within the kernel of your operating system, modifying the way the kernel behaves. You'll learn what's required to build eBPF-enabled tools, and why eBPF has become so prevalent in such a short period of time.

Speakers
avatar for Liz Rice

Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She is the author of Container Security, and Learning eBPF, both published by O'Reilly, and she sits on the CNCF Governing Board... Read More →


Tuesday February 7, 2023 5:30pm - 6:30pm GMT
Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor
  Book Signings, Book Signing

5:30pm GMT

All Hands Party & Delegate Experience
Outside:
Festival Tents
Facepainting
Enjoy the Open Fire!

Ground Floor:
Piper

First Floor:
Developer Experience

Third Floor:
5:30 - 8:30 - State of Open Photo Exhibition
5:30 - 8:30 - Sponsor Double Tables
5:30 - 6:00 - Liz Rice Book Signing
6:00 - 7:00 - DJ Brian Behlendorf (Direct from Burning Man!)
7:00 - 7:30 - Circus Alba Light Show
7:30 - 8:30 - DJ D’lectronique

Floor 4:
Developer Experience
Adam Heppenstall Magician
Tuesday February 7, 2023 5:30pm - 8:30pm GMT
TBA
  Delegate Experience
 
Wednesday, February 8
 

8:00am GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade VR Experience
BBC R&D Seeking New Gods (Interactive Audio/Vidual Experience)

Tables:
Amazee.io Table 10
Avanade Table 9
Baserow Table 12
Codethink Table 23
Coding Black Females Table 18
Confidential Computing Consortium Table 22
Control Plane Table 5
Digital Poverty Alliance Table 7
Digital Security by Design Table 21
Foundation for Public Code Table 15
Github Table 13
JoiningTheDots Table 8
KDE Table 17
Linux Foundation Europe Table 1
Mautic Table 2
Mia Platform Table 16
Open Compute Project Table 24
Next Chapter Retreats Table 19
Rust Foundation Table 6
Sonatype Table 3
Woodlands.co.uk Table 4
Yocto Table 20
Snyk Table 11
Wednesday February 8, 2023 8:00am - 9:00am GMT
Pickwick, 1st Floor
  Delegate Experience

8:00am GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Book Give Away & Signing Booth
Open Source Job Board (Sponsored by: Open Source Job Hub)
State of Open Photo Exhibition
Sticker Table

Tables:
Bristows Table 47
IEEE Table 45
Isovalent Table 42
Open Data Institute Table 43
OpenUK Table 44
UKRI table 48
Wikimedia UK Table 46
Wednesday February 8, 2023 8:00am - 9:00am GMT
Britten, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Delegate Experience

8:00am GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade 3D Printing Demonstration
Boeing VR Procedural Trainer
Delegate Gifts & Hat Shop
DevTank Sustainability Monitoring
Photographs & Headshots by Tiana Lea
Open Charge Alliance EV Charging Hack
Quiet Corridor

Tables:
BCS Table 39
DoK Community Table 36
Eclipse Foundation Table 35
FINOS Table 34
Free BSD Foundation Table 31
Icebreaker One Table 37
Jetstack Table 25
LF Energy Table 33
Matrix Foundation Table 38
NixOS Table 26
OpenInfra Foundation Table 27
Open Source Initiative Table 29
Red Hat Table 28
Scottish Tech Army Table 40
The Turing Way Table 30
Women @ CL Table 32
Wednesday February 8, 2023 8:00am - 9:00am GMT
Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor
  Delegate Experience

9:00am GMT

Welcome Back - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Speakers
avatar for Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology – open source software, open hardware and open data - with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology and she is the Executive Producer of State of Open Con https://stateofopencon.com... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 9:00am - 9:15am GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Plenaries & Keynotes

9:15am GMT

Keynote: Online Safety and How to Protect Our Open Movement - Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
The future of free and open societies is directly connected to the future of open technologies. Free knowledge platforms like Wikipedia, built by volunteers from all over the world, would not be possible without software and data that everyone can share, and copyright laws that allow good ideas and information to spread. I look forward to OpenUK as a chance to talk about how the UK government can protect and support our open movement.
Speakers
avatar for Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

Founder, Wikipedia
Internet and technology entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, is founder of the online non-profit encyclopaedia Wikipedia and co-founder of the privately owned Wikia, Inc. including its entertainment media brand, Fandom powered by Wikia. Wales serves on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 9:15am - 9:45am GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Plenaries & Keynotes

10:00am GMT

Why am I here? - Thomas Meadows, Solutions Engineer, Jetstack
Speakers
avatar for Thomas Meadows

Thomas Meadows

Solutions Engineer, Jetstack
Tom is an engineer who works for Jetstack as a Kubernetes and Cloud Native consultant. After becoming intrigued by the space, he decided to dive into the world of supply-chain security (mostly software, but also some strange food analogies). By being enabled by initiatives like the... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:00am - 10:15am GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Keynote

10:00am GMT

Leading in Open Source, A Strategic Approach - Dawn Foster, Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware
Collaboration in open source projects is important for companies, and it requires leadership that takes a strategic approach to sustaining contributions over time. An open source strategy that aligns with your company’s overall goals allows you to sustain your contributions over the long term while building trust and influence in the projects that are strategic for your organization.

This strategy should include aligning the needs of the company with important open source projects. If the needs of the company and the community are not aligned, this can create unhealthy dynamics that damage your company’s reputation and brand in addition to decreasing job satisfaction for employees. This talk will focus on ways to create this alignment and help all of us be successful together.
Speakers
avatar for Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster

Director of Data Science, CHAOSS
Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community... Read More →

Leading in OSS SOOC 2023 pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:00am - 10:30am GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Keynote

10:00am GMT

Trust me - trust my (open) data: The role of standards in data and data processes - Angela Baker, ODI & Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe, CDEI & Kevin Keith, UK Open Government Network & Sue Daley, TechUK
An essential part of persuading people about the benefits of open data is giving them assurance that the data is reliable, of high quality and maintained properly. And that the people responsible for it (and the processes they use) are trustworthy.

Trust in data and data processes (across the whole data spectrum) also has the potential to unlock great value for the economy, society, and the environment, by improving public services and increasing efficiency and effectiveness in business. So what needs to happen next in the data ecosystem to ensure that open data (and data across the spectrum) can be trusted?

Join our panel discussion to understand more about data assurance, and how building trust in data and data practices can support people, organisations, and the wider economy.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Keith

Kevin Keith

Chair, UK Open Government Network, United Kingdom
Kevin chairs the UK Open Government Network (UK OGN). For over a decade, the UK OGN has connected reformers from outside of government to those inside, to co-create policy comments for the UK National Action Plan for Open Government. This advances transparent, participatory, incl... Read More →
avatar for Angela Baker

Angela Baker

Data Assurance Programme Lead, The Open Data Institute
Angela Baker is Data Assurance Programme Lead at the Open Data Institute. The programme is focussed on improving data sharing by helping organisations assess, build and demonstrate both trust in and the trustworthiness of data and data practicesPrior to this she was Data Access and... Read More →
avatar for Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe

Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe

Head of AI Assurance, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe is Head of AI Assurance at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), a DCMS directorate that works on enabling responsible innovation in AI and data driven technologies. Emily leads the CDEI’s efforts to support the growth of an ethical, trustworthy... Read More →
avatar for Sue Daley

Sue Daley

Director of Tech and Innovation, techUK
Sue leads techUK's Technology and Innovation work.This includes work programmes on cloud, data protection, data analytics, AI, digital ethics, Digital Identity and Internet of Things as well as emerging and transformative technologies and innovation policy. She has been recognised... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:00am - 10:30am GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Panel

10:00am GMT

Regulation by Telemetry: How to Fix OS Security by 2030 - Sal Kimmich, Director of Open Source, AI and DevSecOps, Escher Cloud
Open Source has radically expanded in the last decade to become the de facto source of functional code for critical infrastructure across the globe. Looking towards the next decade, we must have a plan for how we intend to regulate, protect and sustain the supply chain of open source software that we depend on as nations, as corporations, and as citizens.In this talk we will detangle the interaction of coding language, development ecosystems, and security surface area - and what we will need to do to ensure that open source is secure by 2030. You’ll leave this talk with an understanding of the current security landscape, the gaps we must address, and what open source can look like if we take security seriously at a global scale.
Speakers
avatar for Sal Kimmich

Sal Kimmich

Director of Open Source, AI/ML DevSecOps, Escher Cloud
Sal is passionate about helping engineers, ethical hackers and digital enthusiasts understand the complexity of modern software development. With over a decade of experience as building cloud-native machine learning pipelines in the healthcare and tech for good sectors, their work... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:00am - 10:30am GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

10:00am GMT

Why open matters: the cost of transparency in 2023 - Sen Hastings, Software Developer, Phobos DPL
Computer hardware, especially embedded computing hardware is becoming ever more prevalent in a our daily lives with the advent of IOT and AI/edge devices.

From smart fridges to cars and industrial automation, security, reliability and supply chain concerns raise serous questions about our ability to maintain the critical hardware in our lives.

Security - is the device vulnerable to attack? Can we verify if a device has been modified or tampered with?

Repairability - can the device be repaired? How difficult or time consuming is the repair?

Cost - is it economical to maintain the device? Are there exclusivity agreements with OEMs preventing end users from buying parts directly?

Transparency - What is the device truly capable of? Is the device being artificially limited for the sake of market segmentation?

This talk aims to highlight current industry practices by exploring various products and their manufacturers approach in regards to these ideals.
Speakers
avatar for Sen Hastings

Sen Hastings

Software Developer, Phobos DPL
Sen is a "jack-of-all-trades" software developer and longtime linux hobbyist with a focus on embedded linux systems, they are also an active contributor to the buildroot mailing list.In everything from front/backend web development to init systems, they strive for simplicity and legibility... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:00am - 10:35am GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

10:00am GMT

Community Building and Hiring Panel & Founder Roundtables
Revenue Generation in Open Source Panel followed by a 45 minute table discussion with each table hosted by a founder.

A room like no other…

Bringing together several founders, each hosting a table of 9 delegates during each of 5 panels across 2 days. Topics covered include product design, revenue generation in open source, community and collaboration, scaling an Open Source business.

Bringing together 20 Open Source Founders – Full list TBC shortly.

This room will be set out with 20 tables of 10 – 9 delegates and 1 founder. Delegates will be able to join a founder’s table for one session. This will include a 45 minute panel and a 45 minute discussion at table with the founder.
Delegates may join all 5 sessions but in each session must be at a table with a different founder.

Space in this room and availability of a founder’s table is limited and will be preallocated in our booking system.Panel sessions will explore key topics in entrepreneurship and open source followed by table discussions led by founders. Unique and unprecedented access to founders.
Speakers
avatar for Amandine Le Pape

Amandine Le Pape

Co-founder & Guardian, The Matrix.org Foundation
Amandine is a co-founder and Guardian of the Matrix.org Foundation. The Foundation is the custodian for the Matrix open standard, a unique initiative aiming to democratise secure online communication and solve the problem of fragmentation in current Chat, VoIP, VR and IoT technologies... Read More →
avatar for Matthew Barker

Matthew Barker

President / EIR, Jetstack / OpenUK
Ron is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Flox & NixOS Foundation Board Member, Bringing Nix to the World.Ron’s journey began in the elite technical units of the IDF (8200), first as a software engineer and later leading the development of large-scale field operated products. A repeat founder... Read More →
avatar for Ron Efroni

Ron Efroni

CEO & Co-Founder, flox
Ron is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Flox & NixOS Foundation Board Member, Bringing Nix to the World. Prior, led Developer Products at Facebook and worked on dev tooling.Would love to talk aboutNix/NixOSPackaging & Package ManagersStartupsOpen Source & OS CommunitiesDeveloper ToolsDevOp... Read More →
avatar for Frank Karlitschek

Frank Karlitschek

CEO & Founder, Nextcloud
Frank Karlitschek studied computer science at the University of Tübingen. He founded several startups in Germany and the US. He is a long time open source developer and former board member of the KDE e.V. In 2016 he founded Nextcloud to create a fully open source and decentralised... Read More →
avatar for Franz Karlsberger

Franz Karlsberger

CEO, amazee.io
Franz Karlsberger is CEO at amazee.io. He has been working in Information Technology, Business Consulting and Strategic Partnerships for 15+ years, establishing a reputation for scaling teams in competitive markets. Prior to amazee.io he was serving at Dynatrace and Accenture. Outside... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:00am - 11:30am GMT
Whittle, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Entrepreneurship, Panel

10:00am GMT

Unconference
More details to be announced soon.
Speakers
avatar for Hannah Foxwell

Hannah Foxwell

Director for Platform Service, VMWare Tanzu
Hannah Foxwell is Director for Platform Services at VMware Tanzu, 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... Read More →
avatar for Paula Kennedy

Paula Kennedy

Chief Operating Officer, Syntasso
Paula is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo. Working in the IT industry for... Read More →
avatar for Terence Eden

Terence Eden

Board Member, OpenUK
He is an open source coder, open data publisher, and freelance cyber-security consultant. He was formerly the UK Government’s representative to the W3C. He speaks around the world on open standards, open source software, and open data.

Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:00am - 12:00pm GMT
Gielgud, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Unconference

10:20am GMT

Internal Developer Platforms - Of the people, By the people, For the people - Nicki Watt, CEO & CTO, OpenCredo
What does it take to build a robust internal developer platform (IDP) for your multiple engineering teams to use, and build it well? One which can accommodate multiple teams, of varying skills, doing similar (as well as very different) things? Kubernetes has become the de facto backbone for many platforms - but is this enough? We explore these questions, looking at key technical considerations as well as organisational, soft skills and other factors which form a key part of the platform engineering discipline. Drawing on experience of working across a variety of clients with different setups, we look at what it takes to build platforms which are fit to serve the varied communities which will ultimately use them.
Speakers
avatar for Nicki Watt

Nicki Watt

Chief Technical Officer, CEO & Company Director, OpenCredo
Nicki Watt currently serves as OpenCredo’s CTO and CEO, a pragmatic hands on software consultancy with specialisms in platform and data engineering as well as cloud native solution development. Her career has seen her wear many hats from Engineer, Systems & Technical Architects... Read More →

SooCon2023 IDPs ForByAndOfThePeople pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:20am - 10:50am GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

10:30am GMT

Sustain OSS Conference: Environmental sustainability, data standards around emissions to do supply chain tracking
Sustain is a community exploring, documenting and working to answer a single question: how do we maintain open source software? Join us for a series of peer-led updates, conversations and collaborative workshops on the key issues surrounding open source sustainability today: community development and governance, fundraising and managing money, corporate support and participation, legislative and legal development, personal leadership… and burnout. Sustain provides spaces and creates events with and for those who are concerned with the with the fragile state and future of highly-used, impactful open source projects. If that sounds like you we’d love to shape our event with you:  

Register your interest in taking part
Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:30am - 12:00pm GMT
Olivier, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Sustain OSS

10:35am GMT

Synthetic Data for AI, and AI for Synthetic Data in Open Source - Fergus Kidd, Emerging Technology Engineer, Avanade & Armando Vieira, Data Scientist, Vamstar
A session covering the advances in generative AI, how open source is driving the sector forward, but also what use cases and applications we can apply synthetic data to using open source tools. There is no more open data than data that isn't real!
Speakers
avatar for Armando Vieira

Armando Vieira

Data Scientist, Vamstar
Entrepreneur, scientist and machine learning enthusiast.Recently engaged in applying deep learning networks for hard problems on classification and regression. Author of the book "Business Applications of Deep Learning", Apress, 2018. More info on my website: armando.lidinwise.com.Author... Read More →
avatar for Fergus Kidd

Fergus Kidd

Emerging Technology Engineering Lead, Avanade
Fergus is Avanade’s Emerging Technology R&D Engineering lead. He works on developing assets and demonstrations around new and future technologies, focussing on innovative use cases to show the power of new technologies in the enterprise. Fergus has an academic background in physics... Read More →

SOOC Synthetic Data pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:35am - 11:05am GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Presentation

10:35am GMT

The Role of Foundations in securing Open Source - Rebecca Rumbul, CEO, Rust Foundation
Achieving a secure space across the Open Source ecosystem is a huge task, and there are frequently gaps that emerge between volunteer interest and market investment that frustrate attempts to improve security overall. This talk will focus on how Open Source Foundations are key to identifying and plugging these gaps, and how relatively low investment at this level can have big beneficial impacts on security across ecosystems as a whole.  
Speakers
avatar for Rebecca Rumbul

Rebecca Rumbul

Chief Executive Officer, Rust Foundation
Rebecca is the Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation, a global non-profit stewarding the Rust language, supporting maintainers, and ensuring that Rust is safe, secure, and sustainable for the future. She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:35am - 11:05am GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Keynote

10:35am GMT

Panel: The Road to Sustainability With Open Technology for EV Charging - Chris Lloyd-Jones, Avanade & Leanne Kemp, Everledger & Lonneke Driessen, Open Charge Alliance
Launching OpenUK's second Blueprint for Sustainability and Open Technology, following its Data Centre Blueprint Patchwork Kilt, this session will look at the content of the EV Charging Blueprint and challenges faced in creating a blueprint and using Open Technology in the EV Charging Arena. The Blueprint process has involved engagement with enterprise, individual experts and across the UK and Devolved Governments.
There will be a particular focus on Standards and the Open Charge Alliance's Open Standard "OCPP" (Open Charge Point Protocol) standard across the discussion.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Lloyd-Jones

Chris Lloyd-Jones

Head of Open Technologies / Blueprint Lead, Avanade / OpenUK
I lead the Open Technologies & Open Innovation group at Avanade, housing our open-source projects office (OSPO), developer relations team, and Avanade ventures (startup enablement, academia, and foundations.)I'm passionate about technology, believing in the importance of remaining... Read More →
avatar for Leanne Kemp

Leanne Kemp

CEO, Everledger
Leanne is Founder and CEO of Everledger. In her role as CEO, she inspires and steers the team of Everlegends to increase transparency and trust with technology, in close collaboration with our industry partners.She is a prominent figure in the technology sector. Leanne co-chairs the... Read More →
avatar for Lonneke Driessen

Lonneke Driessen

director, Open Charge Alliance

Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:35am - 11:15am GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Panel

10:40am GMT

Open Hardware – The Next Open Revolution? - Andrew Katz, Joint Managing Partner, Moorcrofts LLP
Open Hardware has long lagged behind free and open source software in terms of development, adoption, community engagement and financial impact. The last few years have seen a sea change with projects such as RISC-V catapult open source silicon into the mainstream, with the parallel increase in interest in open hardware for commodity microcontrollers, COVID-driven medical and clinical items such as ventilators, respirators and PPE, the development of open source hardware for open science, and even the deployment of open hardware within datacentres. Why has this happened, what does open hardware have in common with open source software, and how does it differ? Andrew Katz bring us up to speed with the state of open hardware, how it can offer huge benefits in terms of speed of development, community dynamics, and sustainability and how challenges such as manufacture, distribution and deployment are being addressed. Current issues include managing risk and liability for developers, how open hardware business models can be developed which address issues in regulated sectors such as medical devices and automotive, and how the development cycle can be harnessed to provide maximum benefit for community participants.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Katz

Andrew Katz

Managing Partner and CEO, Moorcrofts LLP and Orcro LLP
Andrew Katz is a lawyer who has advised on free and open source software, open hardware and other opens for over 25 years. Formerly a software developer, he qualified as a barrister, requalified as a solicitor and is now partner and head of technology law at Moorcrofts LLP, a boutique... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:40am - 11:20am GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

10:55am GMT

Green Software Principles and embedding Carbon Awareness in your applications - Szymon Duchniewicz, Open Technology Engineer, Avanade & Dan Benitah, Group Manager, Avanade
What is Green Software? How can it be applied in practice? What principles should you follow? These are some of the questions the Green Software Foundation helps answer, by building a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for Green software. This session aims to explain the Principles of Green Software: https://principles.green/, which sit at the core of Green Software Engineering. It will give you and introduction to the Green Software Foundation and its most recent developments, with a deeper dive into one of the principles known as Demand Shaping or Carbon Awareness and the tool aimed at developing carbon aware applications - the Carbon Aware SDK.
Speakers
avatar for Szymon Duchniewicz

Szymon Duchniewicz

Open Technology Engineer, Avanade
Szymon is the co-chair for the Carbon Aware SDK, an Open Source passionate and contributor, part-time Open Technology Engineer at Avanade and final year Computer Science MEng student at UCL. Szymon is also the winner of Sustainability Award, 3rd edition of OpenUK Awards. He dabbles... Read More →
avatar for Dan Benitah

Dan Benitah

Group Manager, Avanade
Dan Benitah is Group Manager at Avanade UK with a full stack software engineering background, now specialising in IoT and Green Software.Dan is a Principle Contributor to the Carbon Aware SDK.In his free time, he develops environmentally friendly solutions for his smart home.He also... Read More →

SoOC23 green software principles and embedding carbon awareness pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 10:55am - 11:25am GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

11:10am GMT

Learnings from Navigating Scotland’s Open Data Landscape - Karen Jewell, Data Scientist, Open Data Scotland
opendata.scot is a volunteer collaborative currently listing 1500+ datasets which is the largest known collection of open data in Scotland. This session shares some of the things we learnt from doing that.
Speakers
avatar for Karen Jewell

Karen Jewell

Maintainer, Open Data Scotland
By weekday, Karen is a Senior Analyst in a data consultancy specialising in commercial decision tools and solutions; by evenings and weekends, Karen is a maintainer of the Open Data Scotland project and trustee of the charity CodeTheCity. New to the Open Source scene but with over... Read More →

Learnings from Navigating Scotland’s Open Data Landscape pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 11:10am - 11:35am GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Presentation

11:10am GMT

What's the big deal with Confidential Computing? - Mike Bursell, CEO, Profian
In this session, we will introduce attendees to Confidential Computing and how it encrypts "data in use" within a secure hardware environment called a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) by restricting access to the applications running on a host to the CPU only. Attendees will also learn how our team combines the power of open source Enarx technology with our third-party attestation service to achieve encrypted workloads using a vendor, language, and hardware-neutral platform.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Bursell

Mike Bursell

CEO, Profian
Mike Bursell is the CEO of Profian and cofounder of Enarx, an open source security deployment framework. He is on the governing board of the Confidential Computing Consortium and the Bytecode Alliance and was previously Chief Security Architect at Red Hat. Mike is the author of "Trust... Read More →

SOOCon23 Mike Bursell pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 11:10am - 11:40am GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

11:20am GMT

Open Source in Environmental Sustainability - Tobias Augspurger, Founder, protontypes & Eirini Malliaraki, Head of Founder Community, Deep Space Ventures
The transition to a more sustainable future requires not only technological innovation, but also new opportunities for society to participate in the development and adoption of technologies. Open source software accelerates the transition to a sustainable economy by supporting traceable decision-making, building capacity for localisation and customisation of climate technologies, and most importantly, helping to prevent greenwashing. Yet, despite the transformative impact of open source culture and its use within an estimated 97% of digital products, its potential for developing environmentally sustainable technologies is not well understood.

Our study provides the first analysis of the open source software ecosystem in sustainability and climate technology.
Speakers
avatar for Tobias Augspurger

Tobias Augspurger

Aerospace Engineer, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Founder of OpenSustain.tech, an open platform for free and open climate technology. He works as a software developer and aerospace engineer in climate science at the Juelich Research Center. Previously, he was able to pioneer the application of open source in the German automotive... Read More →
avatar for Eirini Malliaraki

Eirini Malliaraki

Head of community, Deep Science Ventures
Eirini is a design engineer and is currently Head of Community at Deep Science Ventures. Since 2014, she has developed new projects, products and programmes across academia, industrial research labs, national research centres and startups. Before DSV, she was the founder of the VC-backed... Read More →

Open Source in Environmental Sustainability State of Open pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 11:20am - 12:00pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

11:25am GMT

Journey to Net Zero using OpenSmartMonitor - Tim Telford, CTO and Co-founder, Devtank Ltd & Bruno Gallotta, Researcher, University of Derby
At Devtank we are focused on sustainability and helping to build a circular economy. We are already installing energy management systems into businesses and local authorities, with our product Open Smart Monitor (ENV01). A single wireless LoRaWAN based sensor can measure multiple parameters including:

• Temperature

• Humidity

• Air Quality

• Light level

• Sound Levels

• Water Consumption

• Gas Consumption

• Electricity Consumption

• Carbon Emissions

In this talk we will present the journey to realise an open hardware, software and data solution. This includes the recent work we have done with Dr Brunno Gallotta and the University of Derby Decarbonise team to deploy into local businesses with a live demo of several smart factories.
Speakers
avatar for Tim Telford

Tim Telford

CTO, Devtank Ltd
Tim is a Hardware engineer with a diverse skill set and highly motivated self starter. Co-founder of Devtank Ltd a fast growing open source test and measurement company developing innovative and disruptive products in the market place. He is passionate about design detail and experienced... Read More →
avatar for Bruno Gallotta

Bruno Gallotta

Researcher, University of Derby
Dr Bruno Gallotta is a researcher and business consultant with a strong background in sustainable operations, sustainable supply chains, and business consulting. Bruno holds a Ph.D. in Sustainable Business Operations from the University of Derby and has published papers related to... Read More →

Journey2NetZero SoOCon23 v1 pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 11:25am - 12:00pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

11:30am GMT

How Effective Platform Engineering enables Sustainability - Luc Burnip, Senior Consultant, EY
Why do we need to focus on Sustainability?
Why are we placing the spotlight specifically on end-to-end software delivery?
Why and how can we create a Sustainable Delivery pipeline, considering key aspects of platform delivery, including design, development, optimisation and operations.

We view sustainability as an agent for incremental change, emphasising realistic objectives, potential challenges and cultural and organisational opportunities, such as alignment with cost optimisation. 

The objective of this presentation is to share learning in this area with a wide technology community, to act as an agent of change. We will highlight lessons learned, challenges faces and aim to promote further discussion. Typically sustainable technology focuses on hardware and data centre improvements, we aim to provide a wider perspective, looking at the entire application lifecycle.
Speakers
avatar for Luc Burnip

Luc Burnip

Senior Consultant, EY
Luc Burnip is a Senior Consultant within EY's Digital Labs team, within technology consulting focusing on Architecture, innovation, technology delivery and sustainable technology.Previously Luc has worked as an Associate Architect for DXC Technology, specialising in modern applications... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 11:30am - 12:00pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

11:40am GMT

The Importance of Open Source and Open Source Intelligence Tools and Methodologies for Humanity - Sarah Womer, Senior Analyst, Plessas Experts Network Inc.
A framework and definitions will be provided for what open source intelligence is and how it relates to open source. 
Once this foundation is provided, I will present a few case examples of how the two concepts overlap for the betterment of humanity and some of the ethical and privacy issues that can also be identified from utilizing the two concepts together. I will also briefly address some of the benefits of Open Source AI to the OSINT community and vice versa. The conclusion will look at how the OS and OSINT communities could reach out to each other to coordinate projects for the betterment of humanity.
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Womer

Sarah Womer

Senior OSINT Analyst, Plessas Experts Network Inc., IEEE SA Open Volunteer, Cyber Salukis
Sarah Womer is an Open Source Intelligence practitioner with over 20 years of experience as an OSINT tutor and teacher, production manager, researcher, editor, and analyst. She also is an advocate for Open Source and is a volunteer with IEEE SA Open. Currently, she is a Senior analyst... Read More →

WomerSOOCon23 Blue pptx
Wednesday February 8, 2023 11:40am - 12:05pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Presentation

11:45am GMT

openCRE.org - A Cloud of knowledge - Spyros Gasteratos, Security Engineer
In security it is important to understand the whole chain: from weakness to requirement, to code examples to tests. However, so far there hasn’t been a solid way to interconnect Standards, Documentation and Tooling. Standards writers often work in isolation, Tooling authors rightly focus on quality results instead of comprehensive information about those results. The open source initiative openCRE.org helps you connect Standards with several other sources of information: It links topics across multiple standards, including the OWASP: Top 10, ASVS, Pro-active controls, Testing guide, Cheat sheets,CSA CCMv3, CWE, NIST 53 and 63b, in order to achieve end to end visibility of application security, from requirements to implementation and testing.
Speakers
avatar for Spyros Gasteratos

Spyros Gasteratos

security engineer, owasp
Spyros is an OWASP volunteer and professionally is currently helping Fintechs with AppSec. He maintains several Open Source projects including Dracon, opencre.org and others. Also, he usually doesn’t speak about himself in the third person... Read More →

openCRE.org a cloud of knowledge odp
Wednesday February 8, 2023 11:45am - 12:05pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

12:00pm GMT

Book Give Away and Signing
Amanda Brock will be joined by co-authors Andrew Katz & McCoy Smith to give away signed copies of their book:

"Open Source Law, Policy and Practice" published by Oxford University Press.

Open Source Software has seen mass adoption in the last decade and potentially forms the majority of software today. It is realised through legal instruments, private law agreements, licences, governance, and community norms—all of which lead to the sharing of intellectual property and to economic and commercial disruption in technology.

Written by world leading Open Source and legal experts, this new edition of Open Source Law, Policy and Practice is fully updated with a global focus on technology and market changes over the last decade. The work delivers an in-depth examination of the community, legal, and commercial structures relating to the usage and exploitation of Open Source. This enables readers to understand the legal environment within which Open Source operates and what is required for its appropriate governance and curation in enterprise and the public sector. This is achieved by focusing on three main areas: intellectual property rights; the governance of Open Source; and the business and economic impacts.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Katz

Andrew Katz

Managing Partner and CEO, Moorcrofts LLP and Orcro LLP
Andrew Katz is a lawyer who has advised on free and open source software, open hardware and other opens for over 25 years. Formerly a software developer, he qualified as a barrister, requalified as a solicitor and is now partner and head of technology law at Moorcrofts LLP, a boutique... Read More →
avatar for McCoy Smith

McCoy Smith

Founding Attorney, Lex Pan Law LLC
P. McCoy Smith is the Founding Attorney at Lex Pan Law, an intellectual property law firm, and Opsequio, an open source compliance consultancy. He is licensed to practice law in Oregon, California & New York, and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He was on the editorial board of... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology – open source software, open hardware and open data - with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology and she is the Executive Producer of State of Open Con https://stateofopencon.com... Read More →


Wednesday February 8, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm GMT
Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor
  Book Signings, Book Signing

12:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience over Lunch
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade 3D Printing Demonstration
Boeing VR Procedural Trainer
Delegate Gifts & Hat Shop
DevTank Sustainability Monitoring
Photographs & Headshots by Tiana Lea
Open Charge Alliance EV Charging Hack
Quiet Corridor

Tables:
BCS Table 39
DoK Community Table 36
Eclipse Foundation Table 35
FINOS Table 34
Free BSD Foundation Table 31
Icebreaker One Table 37
Jetstack Table 25
LF Energy Table 33
Matrix Foundation Table 38
NixOS Table 26
OpenInfra Foundation Table 27
Open Source Initiative Table 29
Red Hat Table 28
Scottish Tech Army Table 40
The Turing Way Table 30
Women @ CL Table 32
Wednesday February 8, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm GMT
Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor
  Delegate Experience

12:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience over Lunch
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade VR Experience
BBC R&D Seeking New Gods (Interactive Audio/Vidual Experience)

Tables:
Amazee.io Table 10
Avanade Table 9
Baserow Table 12
Codethink Table 23
Coding Black Females Table 18
Confidential Computing Consortium Table 22
Control Plane Table 5
Digital Poverty Alliance Table 7
Digital Security by Design Table 21
Foundation for Public Code Table 15
Github Table 13
JoiningTheDots Table 8
KDE Table 17
Linux Foundation Europe Table 1
Mautic Table 2
Mia Platform Table 16
Open Compute Project Table 24
Next Chapter Retreats Table 19
Rust Foundation Table 6
Sonatype Table 3
Woodlands.co.uk Table 4
Yocto Table 20
Wednesday February 8, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm GMT
Pickwick, 1st Floor
  Delegate Experience

12:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience over Lunch
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Book Give Away & Signing Booth
Open Source Job Board (Sponsored by: Open Source Job Hub)
State of Open Photo Exhibition
Sticker Table

Tables:
Bristows Table 47
IEEE Table 45
Isovalent Table 42
Open Data Institute Table 43
OpenUK Table 44
UKRI table 48
Wikimedia UK Table 46
Wednesday February 8, 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm GMT
Britten, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Delegate Experience

12:00pm GMT

Tiana Lea Free Headshots and Photography
Our resident photographer, Tiana Lea, will be on hand for you to get free headshots and photographs done.
Wednesday February 8, 2023 12:00pm - 5:00pm GMT
Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor
  Amenities

1:00pm GMT

How Patents Remain a Threat - Keith Bergelt, CEO, Open Innovation Work & McCoy Smith, Founding Attourney, Lex Pan Law & Michael Cheng, Chief Legal Officer, Aaliyra Technologies
The session will give a brief overview of the historical threat of patents to Open, how that threat has been addressed in the past, and where gaps still remain. The session will then give case studies where specific examples of threats to Open have been fought. Suggestions for how to continue to fight and win against these threats will be given.
Speakers
avatar for Keith Bergelt

Keith Bergelt

CEO, Open Invention Network
Keith Bergelt is the CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, created to support freedom of action in Linux as a key element of open source software. Funded by Google, IBM, NEC, Philips, Sony, SUSE, and Toyota, OIN has nearly 4,000... Read More →
avatar for McCoy Smith

McCoy Smith

Founding Attorney, Lex Pan Law LLC
P. McCoy Smith is the Founding Attorney at Lex Pan Law, an intellectual property law firm, and Opsequio, an open source compliance consultancy. He is licensed to practice law in Oregon, California & New York, and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He was on the editorial board of... Read More →
avatar for Michael Cheng

Michael Cheng

Aalyria Technologies, Chief Legal Officer
Michael is a former Engineer, M&A Attorney, Linux Foundation Board Director and Product Manager at Facebook. Michael is currently Chief Legal Officer at Aalyria Technologies (a spin-out from Google).Michael previously led the open source team at Meta (fka Facebook), where he defined the vision, strategy and execution for open source products, programs and partnerships at Meta. Michael also led the product, intellectual property and commercial functions as part of Facebook’s M&A team - responsible for all M&A deals between 2018-2021.Re... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:00pm - 1:30pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

1:00pm GMT

Interview with Jimmy Wales - Emma Thwaites, Director of Communication, ODI & Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
Speakers
avatar for Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

Founder, Wikipedia
Internet and technology entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, is founder of the online non-profit encyclopaedia Wikipedia and co-founder of the privately owned Wikia, Inc. including its entertainment media brand, Fandom powered by Wikia. Wales serves on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia... Read More →
avatar for Emma Thwaites

Emma Thwaites

Director of Corporate Affairs, The Open Data Institute
Director of Corporate Affairs for foundational UK data organisation, the ODI. Working with an award-winning team on a stand-out brand. Helping lead the business to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem.Exec Chair for Allegory - an agency I founded 10 years ago to provide strategic... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:00pm - 1:30pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Keynote

1:00pm GMT

Sustainable Data Centres: Practical examples of how open source technologies helps on the journey to sustainability - Jon Laban, European Director, Open Compute Project Foundation
In my story I shall compare and contrast proprietary vendor solutions with prosumer driven open source cloud native data centres and telecommunication infrastructures.


I will provide examples of 90% dematerialisation of data centre ICT hardware and explain how this relates to slashing whole life carbon emissions.


I shall make the case that Circular Economy of ICT hardware is only achievable through open source hardware and software by unlocking proprietary vendor control and built in obsolescence.


Touching briefly on Data Centre CHC (Combined Heat Compute) I will demonstrate how a wider open source systems view which deeply integrates previously closed siloed utilities reduces financial costs and environmental impact.


Lastly taking a wider view of Sustainability ( Environmental, Social & Economic) I will produce  research evidence that shows gender diversity is a factor in decarbonisation performance of organisations.


I shall strive to inform, educate and entertain, and implant at least one new and useful idea in every one's mind.
Speakers
avatar for Jon Laban

Jon Laban

OCP Foundation
connecting dots in the open source collaborative commons to optimise data centre decarbonisation

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:00pm - 1:30pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

1:00pm GMT

Clear Your Own Path to Open Source Maintainer - Martin Hickey, Senior Software Engineer, IBM
How many times have you heard the phrases "chop wood and carry water," "look for the good first issues," "triage the issues queue," or "introduce yourself to the community"? Open Source projects throw around these phrases as if they are the panacea for getting from contributor to maintainer. They can only help if you know what they mean! Demystifying the path to leadership in Open Source is imperative to the industry because we can’t grow if we aren’t welcoming the next generation of contributors to our projects with clear and inclusive language.

People need guidance and support when climbing from the valley of becoming a new contributor to the zenith of maintainer. In this presentation I cover tips and trick on how to conquer that journey.
Speakers
avatar for Martin Hickey

Martin Hickey

Senior Technical Staff Member, Open Technologies, IBM
Martin Hickey is a Senior Technical Staff Member and an Open Source strategic leader at IBM. He has been contributing to various Open Source projects, most notably, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTelemetry, OpenStack, and the Elastic community. Martin is a core maintainer of the Helm project... Read More →

SOOCon23 OpenSourceMaintainer pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:00pm - 1:40pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

1:00pm GMT

International Security Policy Panel - Anjana Rajan, The White House & Brian Behlendorf, Linux Foundation & Sal Kimmich, Escher Cloud & Sarah Novotny, Microsoft
Speakers
avatar for Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf

Senior Advisor, The Linux Foundation
Brian Behlendorf is the General Manager for the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), an initiative of the Linux Foundation, focused on securing the open source ecosystem. Brian has founded and led open source software communities and initiatives for more than 30 years, first... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Novotny

Sarah Novotny

Director of Open Source Strategy, Microsoft
I'm a geek. My technological focuses have been in recent years Open Source; Cloud and Utility Computing; Infrastructure automation; and Data (big and small; relational and non-relational).My calling, though, lies in sharing my excitement about technology and coalescing a group around... Read More →
avatar for Sal Kimmich

Sal Kimmich

Director of Open Source, AI/ML DevSecOps, Escher Cloud
Sal is passionate about helping engineers, ethical hackers and digital enthusiasts understand the complexity of modern software development. With over a decade of experience as building cloud-native machine learning pipelines in the healthcare and tech for good sectors, their work... Read More →
avatar for Anjana Rajan

Anjana Rajan

Assistant National Cyber Director for Technology Security, Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House
Anjana Rajan is the Assistant National Cyber Director for Technology Security at The White House. Arenowned cryptographer, technology executive, and entrepreneur, Rajan has spent her career working atthe nexus of national security and human rights. Prior to joining the White House... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:00pm - 1:40pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Panel

1:00pm GMT

Revenue Generation Panel & Founder Roundtables
Revenue Generation in Open Source Panel followed by 45 minute table discussions with each table hosted by a founder.

A room like no other…

Bringing together several founders, each hosting a table of 9 delegates during each of 5 panels across 2 days. Topics covered include product design, revenue generation in open source, community and collaboration, scaling an Open Source business.

Bringing together 20 Open Source Founders – Full list TBC shortly.

This room will be set out with 20 tables of 10 – 9 delegates and 1 founder. Delegates will be able to join a founder’s table for one session. This will include a 45 minute panel and a 45 minute discussion at table with the founder.
Delegates may join all 5 sessions but in each session must be at a table with a different founder.

Space in this room and availability of a founder’s table is limited and will be preallocated in our booking system.Panel sessions will explore key topics in entrepreneurship and open source followed by table discussions led by founders. Unique and unprecedented access to founders.
Speakers
avatar for Guy Podjarny

Guy Podjarny

Founder, Snyk
Guy is the Founder of Snyk, the host of The Secure Developer, and an O’Reilly author. He was previously CTO at Akamai and led AppScan, pioneering AppSec. Snyk was founded on Guy’s belief that the future of security depends on developer adoption... Read More →
avatar for Amandine Le Pape

Amandine Le Pape

Co-founder & Guardian, The Matrix.org Foundation
Amandine is a co-founder and Guardian of the Matrix.org Foundation. The Foundation is the custodian for the Matrix open standard, a unique initiative aiming to democratise secure online communication and solve the problem of fragmentation in current Chat, VoIP, VR and IoT technologies... Read More →
avatar for Peter Zaitsev

Peter Zaitsev

Founder, Percona
Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has used his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person store into one of the most respected open source... Read More →
avatar for Matthew Barker

Matthew Barker

President / EIR, Jetstack / OpenUK
Ron is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Flox & NixOS Foundation Board Member, Bringing Nix to the World.Ron’s journey began in the elite technical units of the IDF (8200), first as a software engineer and later leading the development of large-scale field operated products. A repeat founder... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:00pm - 2:30pm GMT
Whittle, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Entrepreneurship, Panel

1:00pm GMT

DCMS Software Security Policy Workshop
In this workshop attendees can learn about, and feed into DCMS' approach to software security and resilience policy. In this session participants will discuss the biggest risks relating to software development, distribution and use, and explore potential policy interventions to address these risks. This will include an opportunity to suggest your own policy options as well as provide feedback on some of DCMS' ideas. This workshop will focus primarily on identifying interventions to a) improve software development security practices and b) support the open source community in addressing risks related to the development and use of open source software.  
Speakers
avatar for Naomi Gilbert

Naomi Gilbert

Head of Cyber Resilience Policy, DCMS
Naomi Gilbert is Head of Incentives in the Cyber Resilience Policy Team. Her team uses market incentives to ensure that all organisations are effectively managing their cyber risk. In previous roles, Naomi has worked across central and line government agencies as well as in not-for-profits... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:00pm - 2:30pm GMT
Wesley, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Workshops

1:00pm GMT

Sustain OSS Conference: OSPO winter is coming
Sustain is a community exploring, documenting and working to answer a single question: how do we maintain open source software? Join us for a series of peer-led updates, conversations and collaborative workshops on the key issues surrounding open source sustainability today: community development and governance, fundraising and managing money, corporate support and participation, legislative and legal development, personal leadership… and burnout. Sustain provides spaces and creates events with and for those who are concerned with the with the fragile state and future of highly-used, impactful open source projects. If that sounds like you we’d love to shape our event with you:  

Register your interest in taking part
Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:00pm - 3:00pm GMT
Olivier, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Sustain OSS

1:00pm GMT

Unconference
More details to be announced soon.
Speakers
avatar for Hannah Foxwell

Hannah Foxwell

Director for Platform Service, VMWare Tanzu
Hannah Foxwell is Director for Platform Services at VMware Tanzu, 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... Read More →
avatar for Paula Kennedy

Paula Kennedy

Chief Operating Officer, Syntasso
Paula is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo. Working in the IT industry for... Read More →
avatar for Terence Eden

Terence Eden

Board Member, OpenUK
He is an open source coder, open data publisher, and freelance cyber-security consultant. He was formerly the UK Government’s representative to the W3C. He speaks around the world on open standards, open source software, and open data.

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:00pm - 3:00pm GMT
Gielgud, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Unconference

1:35pm GMT

The DMA: Opening up the walled gardens through regulation - Vittorio Bertola, Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a new regulation of the European Union, approved in 2022, which aims to constrain the market share and power of dominant Internet gatekeepers in products like browsers, instant messaging apps, social media, cloud services and more, imposing requirements such as mandatory interoperability and prohibitions on practices like self-preferencing and bundling of apps and services. It is an innovative regulatory experiment that could work as a model for other countries, including the UK; and will anyway impact any non-EU company operating on EU markets.



The talk will summarize the causes, context and provisions of the DMA, focusing on the sections that could be more significant for the open source industry and for the supporters of open standards and interfaces.
Speakers
avatar for Vittorio Bertola

Vittorio Bertola

Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange, Inc. (Organization)
Vittorio Bertola is an engineer, policy expert and activist, currently running the innovation and policy activities at Open-Xchange, a global leader in free software email and DNS platforms, maker of Dovecot and PowerDNS. In the past he founded startups, campaigns, Usenet newsgroups... Read More →

The Digital Markets Act SOOCon23 pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:35pm - 2:00pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

1:35pm GMT

Open data for life: the importance of data stewardship in the cultural sector - Anne Torreggiani, The Audience Agency & China Williams, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew & Jane Crowe, ODI & Sarah Brown, Collections Trust UK
Open data has expanded into all walks of life, from improving transport ecosystems to tackling the climate crisis around the world. In the cultural sector, open access to data published by and about the sector provides researchers, policymakers and the public with new data sets and insights from some of the most important institutions of our time.

This data has huge potential, and opening it up and combining it with open data about the institutions themselves can help to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing society, and to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.

This session will explore the importance of data stewardship in the cultural sector, and discuss what’s coming next for the sector.
Speakers
avatar for Jane Crowe

Jane Crowe

Data Institutions Programme Lead, Open Data Institute
Jane Crowe is Data Institutions Programme Lead at the Open Data Institute. The programme helps organisations, people and communities build new data institutions, and supports existing organisations to steward data on behalf of others more effectively.In her previous role at the Data... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Brown

Sarah Brown

Deputy Director, Collections Trust
With over 15 years’ experience in the museum sector, Sarah leads Collections Trust’s programme of support for museums funded by Arts Council England (ACE); including outreach and training, collections management guidance and resources, and communications. In 2022 she led the sector... Read More →
avatar for Anne Torreggiani

Anne Torreggiani

CEO, The Audience Agency
Anne is CEO of The Audience Agency, the UK charity for cultural participation and engagement. TAA is a specialist research organisation working with and for arts, museums and heritage organisations which campaigns for a more inclusive, people-centred approach informed and inspired... Read More →
avatar for China Williams

China Williams

Senior Research Officer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
My role focuses on ensuring that Kew staff comply with the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources, as well as the national laws of our partner countries. This involves supporting Kew staff preparing for overseas collecting trips, developing... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:35pm - 2:05pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Panel

1:35pm GMT

OpenUK's Patchwork Kilt Data Centre and EV Charging blueprints - Chris Lloyd Jones, Head of Open Technologies & Lonneke Driessen, Director Standardization, Open Charge Alliance
Speakers
avatar for Chris Lloyd-Jones

Chris Lloyd-Jones

Head of Open Technologies / Blueprint Lead, Avanade / OpenUK
I lead the Open Technologies & Open Innovation group at Avanade, housing our open-source projects office (OSPO), developer relations team, and Avanade ventures (startup enablement, academia, and foundations.)I'm passionate about technology, believing in the importance of remaining... Read More →
avatar for Lonneke Driessen

Lonneke Driessen

director, Open Charge Alliance

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:35pm - 2:15pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Panel

1:45pm GMT

Open Source Supply Chain Security For Enterprises - Rao Lakkakula, Product Security Director, JPMorgan Chase
This session focuses on securing software supply chain from a large enterprise perspective where there are multiple type of supply chains are in play that includes open-source, vendor, SaaS along with internally developed software supply chain. With Focus on Open Source Supply Chain, this talk goes over strategies to scale security of supply chain for enterprises. We also cover importance of SBOM and how to operationalize SBOMs in large enterprises.
Speakers
avatar for Rao Lakkakula

Rao Lakkakula

Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase
Rao Lakkakula is Head of Product Security at JPMorgan Chase with focus on developer security. Rao has 20+ years of expertise in security and software development with roles spanning from strategy, engineering, risk management, and business intelligence. His prior experience includes... Read More →

EnterpriseSupplyChainSecurity pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:45pm - 2:15pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

1:45pm GMT

Building Sustainable Open Source: Seven Key Lessons After 5 Years of Leading The Thanos Project - Bartłomiej Płotka, Principal Software Engineer, Google
In late 2017, Bartek Płotka and Fabian Reinartz started a new open-source project, called "Thanos", initially sponsored by a London startup. Born from a business need to scale Prometheus metrics cheaply in the cloud, Thanos has grown to be the most popular metric database in the CNCF landscape, with thousands of organizations using it. It has a vibrant community, team, and ongoing innovations despite no single company behind it and 5 years of history. In this talk, you will hear the untold story from Thanos co-founder and maintainer Bartłomiej Płotka, who will explain key factors that contributed to the success of Thanos (fun stories included!). The audience will learn what works when building sustainable open-source software and what to look for when evaluating investments in the open.
Speakers
avatar for Bartłomiej Płotka

Bartłomiej Płotka

Mr, Google
Bartek Płotka is a Senior Software Engineer at Google. SWE by heart, with an SRE background, currently working on Cloud Observability. Previously Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. Author of "Efficient Go" book with O'Reilly. As the co-founder of the CNCF Thanos project and... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 1:45pm - 2:25pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

2:05pm GMT

Open Source Standards - Iain Mitchell, Honorary KC, OpenUK
Speakers
avatar for Iain Mitchell KC

Iain Mitchell KC

Member, Tanfield Chambers
Iain graduated from Edinburgh University in 1973 and was called to the Scottish Bar in 1976, taking silk in 1992. He was called to the English Bar in 2012. He is recommended in the Legal 500 and Chambers Directory for IT Law, IP Law, and commercial dispute resolution.As well as being... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 2:05pm - 2:30pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy

2:10pm GMT

Gaia-X - A European Union for Data Economy - Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO, Gaia-X AISBL Association for Data and Cloud
Gaia-X is a non-for-profit organization grouping hundreds of companies across the globe to define a new generation of digital services, based on transparency, controllability and interoperability, to enable the economy of data. Users and providers of technology, together representing the voice of the market, decided to define a common set of rules each service should be verified against, and a technology framework to verify them. The project started defining its specifications in 2021, developed the SW framework in 2022, and is now ready to trigger the creation of the initial Gaia-X marketplaces in Europe. Through Gaia-X, Europe is giving a concrete translation in the market of the meaning of Digital Sovereignty
Speakers
avatar for FRANCESCO BONFIGLIO

FRANCESCO BONFIGLIO

CEO, GAIA- X aisbl
Francesco Bonfiglio joined GAIA-X in March 2021 as the new CEO.With more than 30 years’ experience in the business of consulting and information technology, Francesco brings into Gaia-X his knowledge of the cloud and data market needs, and his vision on how the Association should... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 2:10pm - 2:30pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Presentation

2:20pm GMT

Next Generation of Cloud Education - Tools & Techniques for achieving Cloud Sustainability - Aerin Booth, Cloud Sustainably & Anne Currie, WorkingProgramme & John Booth, National Data Centre Academy & Simon Wardley, DxC
A panel discussing the next generation of education that we need to deal with an ever changing world. Hosted by Aerin Booth, Cloud Sustainability expert and host of Public Cloud for Public Good Podcast.

As climate change and sustainability continues to rise to the top of the agenda developers and technology leaders are unprepared for what it takes to be truly sustainable.

This session will cover:

Technology Ethics - What does it truly mean to be sustainable? Highlighting the oversized impact that tech workers can have on the world and why it is more important than ever to strive to be ethical in our work.

Wardley Mapping - How can we use tools and techniques to really understand our landscape and the environment we're working in. There is more to our applications and services than just our lines of code, and that includes the impact we have on society and the supply chain of cloud computing!

Real World Impact of Data Centres - Real facts and figures that highlight the importance of being efficient when developing applications and services. The reality of what hyperscale data centres really look like. How scope 1, 2, 3 emissions relate to data centres.

Will Open Source Save the World? - Will open source be the route to reducing carbon emission in climate change? Find out how you can get involved with more communities and open source projects in order to take action to reduce carbon emissions in IT & Cloud Computing.


Speakers
avatar for Anne Currie

Anne Currie

WorkingPrograme, CEO
25+ years in tech as an engineer, senior manager, startup founder, green tech campaigner. Leadership team @ Green Software Foundation.Published 7 scifi novels in the Panopticon series: Utopia Five, Conundra, Denizen 43. Dystopia X, Mars Insurgent, Heliotrope, Death Ray.Co-organised... Read More →
avatar for Aerin Booth

Aerin Booth

Founder, Cloud Sustainably
Cloud Sustainability Advocate and neurodiverse founder in tech on a mission to help developers understand the real impact that cloud computing has on the world and reduce their carbon emissions in the cloud.Did you know that internet and cloud computing contribute over 4% of annual... Read More →
avatar for Simon Wardley

Simon Wardley

Researcher, DxC
Explorer of uncharted spaces. Twice voted in the UKTech50, Judge in Nesta's Open Banking and Netflix's Open Source competitions, Co-Chair of OSCON Europe, Cloud Camp and Map Camp. Regular speaker on the global tech circuit.
avatar for John Booth

John Booth

Technical Director, National Data Centre Academy
John Booth was nominated for the "Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability and Efficiency Award" 2021 organised by Data Centre Solutions Magazine, in October and was runner up to Schneider Electric.Chair of Data Centre Alliance Efficiency Group.Chair of the BSI TCT7/3 Telecommunications... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 2:20pm - 3:00pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Panel

2:20pm GMT

Kubernetes Observability with eBPF - Alessandro Vozza, DevRel, & Rohit Ghumare, Developer Advocate, Solo.io
eBPF is a revolutionary technology with origins in the Linux kernel that can run sandboxed programs in an operating system kernel. It is used to safely and efficiently extend the capabilities of the kernel without requiring to change kernel source code or load kernel modules. BumbleBee (https://github.com/solo-io/bumblebee) is a new Open Source project which helps to build, run and distribute eBPF programs using OCI images. It allows you to focus on writing eBPF code, while taking care of the user space components - automatically exposing your data as metrics or logs. In this workshop, we're introducing eBPF and the different ways to create eBPF programs. Then, attendees are creating their first eBPF program using BCC and libbpf to have a better understanding of the main concepts. Finally, they are going through several labs to build and deploy an eBPF program with BumbleBee. They also deploy Prometheus and a web application on Kubernetes to display all the communications happening in the Kubernetes cluster.
Speakers
avatar for Alessandro Vozza

Alessandro Vozza

Platform Advocate, Solo.io
Community leader and CNCF ambassador, Alessandro has spent the last few years building cloud native infrastructures for Microsoft customers, animating the Dutch community, and training others to pass the CKx exams. He has passion for all things cloud native, he's been around open... Read More →
avatar for Rohit Ghumare

Rohit Ghumare

Developer Advocate, solo.io
DevOps Advocate, Community evangelist running multiple communities on various platforms to create awareness for DevOps and DevRel. Contributing to open-source by presenting talks, writing docs/blogs, and code contributions. Currently working on service mesh tech stack.

Wednesday February 8, 2023 2:20pm - 3:00pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

2:30pm GMT

Cloud of Serfdom vs Cloud of Freedom: why open source will win in the Cloud age - Peter Zaitsev, Founder, Percona
Cloud and Open Source have a very intricate relationship! In this talk we will look at the history of how the impact of Cloud on Open Source changed through the years, examine the current state as well as make a case for a particular way to use Cloud and Open Source Together. If you cherish the values of Open Source - you will do well by using Cloud as Commodity Infrastructure Provider and run Open Source Software on top of it. Consider Kubernetes in particular as your API of choice with its ubiquitous availability among all major public cloud providers and private cloud software vendors. We will show what while this ecosystem may not be as mature as proprietary solution from cloud vendors it is moving rapidly and becoming a great fit for more and more situations.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Zaitsev

Peter Zaitsev

Founder, Percona
Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has used his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person store into one of the most respected open source... Read More →

SOOCON32 Cloud of Serfdom Cloud of Freedom pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 2:30pm - 3:00pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

2:35pm GMT

Scotland’s Open Data: Tech, tables and tools - Jack Gilmore, Techical Lead, Open Data Scotland
Open Data Scotland is an open-source, collaborative, and volunteer run project which helps people locate and understand Open Data in Scotland better.
Speakers
avatar for Jack Gilmore

Jack Gilmore

Technical lead, Open Data Scotland
Software Developer in the public sector | Open UK Young Person Award winner 2022 | Technical lead of Open Data ScotlandJack Gilmore is a full stack software developer with experience of working in the public sector and academia. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science... Read More →

Scotland’s Open Data Tech, tables and tools pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 2:35pm - 2:45pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Flash Talk

2:35pm GMT

Investing in Research Infrastructure Roles for Cultural Change - Malvika Sharan, Senior Researcher - Open Research, The Alan Turing Institute
In a fast-paced data-driven world; where we grapple with urgent crises such as the pandemic and climate change as well as constantly witness the importance of open source practices to speed up the process of creating data-informed solutions; it is crucial to radically change the way we conduct data science and research. It is important to shed light on best practices for open source as well as research infrastructure roles to integrate those practices in all data science and AI projects. Learning from a decade-long movement on research software engineering (RSE) roles and the ever-growing trend of Big Team Science, we need to invest in more experts who bring crucial skills to supercharge data science and AI projects while operationalising open source and collaborative ways of working. By learning about and contextualising research infrastructure roles, data science best practices and associated policies, community members will leave the session with a new understanding and practical ways they can reimagine data science roles and successfully implement open source in their individual projects as well as at the organisation level.
Speakers
avatar for Malvika Sharan

Malvika Sharan

Senior Researcher, The Alan Turing Institute
I am a senior researcher for the Tools, Practices and Systems research programme at The Alan Turing Institute, London. With a focus on Open Research, I lead a team of community managers and co-lead The Turing Way project that aims to make data science reproducible, collaborative... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 2:35pm - 3:00pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

2:50pm GMT

Level Up Your Data Lake - to ML and Beyond - Oz Katz, CTO & Co-Founder, Treeverse
A data lake is primarily two things: an object store and the objects being stored. Even with the most basic setup, data lakes are capable of supporting BI, Machine Learning, and operational analytics use cases. This flexibility speaks to the strength of object stores, particularly their flexibility in integrating with a diverse set of data processing engines.

As data lakes exploded in adoption, a number of improvements were made to the first architectures.

Even newer improvements have been the emergence of data source control tools that bring new levels of manageability across an entire lake! In this talk, we'll cover how to incorporate these open technologies into your data lake, and how they simplify workflows critical to ML experimentation, deployment of datasets, and more!

Speakers
avatar for Oz Katz

Oz Katz

Co-Founder, CTO, lakeFS
Oz Katz is the CTO and Co-founder of Treeverse, the company behind lakeFS, an open source platform that delivers resilience and manageability to object-storage based data lakes. Oz engineered and maintained petabyte-scale data infrastructure at analytics giant SmilarWeb, which he... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 2:50pm - 3:00pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Flash Talk

3:00pm GMT

Book Give Away and Signing
Luca Palmeri will be giving away copies of his book:

"Zero To Production In Rust: An opinionated introduction to backend development"

There are a limited number of copies available, first come first served!

Zero To Production is the ideal starting point for your journey as a Rust backend developer.
You will learn by doing: you will build a fully functional email newsletter API, starting from scratch.
You'll learn how to:
  • Navigate and leverage Rust's crates ecosystem
  • Structure your application to make it modular and extensible
  • Write tests, from single units to full-blown integration tests
  • Enforce your domain invariants using Rust's type system
  • Authenticate and authorize users of your API
  • Implement a robust error handling strategy
  • Observe the state of your application using structured logs
  • Set up an extensive continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline for your Rust projects
The book is composed of 11 chapters, for a grand total of 500 pages. All supporting code (including tests!) is available on GitHub.


Wednesday February 8, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor
  Book Signings

3:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade VR Experience
BBC R&D Seeking New Gods (Interactive Audio/Vidual Experience)

Tables:
Amazee.io Table 10
Avanade Table 9
Baserow Table 12
Codethink Table 23
Coding Black Females Table 18
Confidential Computing Consortium Table 22
Control Plane Table 5
Digital Poverty Alliance Table 7
Digital Security by Design Table 21
Foundation for Public Code Table 15
Github Table 13
JoiningTheDots Table 8
KDE Table 17
Linux Foundation Europe Table 1
Mautic Table 2
Mia Platform Table 16
Open Compute Project Table 24
Next Chapter Retreats Table 19
Rust Foundation Table 6
Sonatype Table 3
Woodlands.co.uk Table 4
Yocto Table 20
Snyk Table 11
Wednesday February 8, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Pickwick, 1st Floor
  Delegate Experience

3:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Book Give Away & Signing Booth
Open Source Job Board (Sponsored by: Open Source Job Hub)
State of Open Photo Exhibition
Sticker Table

Tables:
Bristows Table 47
IEEE Table 45
Isovalent Table 42
Open Data Institute Table 43
OpenUK Table 44
UKRI table 48
Wikimedia UK Table 46
Wednesday February 8, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Britten, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Delegate Experience

3:00pm GMT

Delegate Experience
All day throughout the conference you can take part in and view the following:

Interactive Experiences:
Avanade 3D Printing Demonstration
Boeing VR Procedural Trainer
Delegate Gifts & Hat Shop
DevTank Sustainability Monitoring
Photographs & Headshots by Tiana Lea
Open Charge Alliance EV Charging Hack
Quiet Corridor

Tables:
BCS Table 39
DoK Community Table 36
Eclipse Foundation Table 35
FINOS Table 34
Free BSD Foundation Table 31
Icebreaker One Table 37
Jetstack Table 25
LF Energy Table 33
Matrix Foundation Table 38
NixOS Table 26
OpenInfra Foundation Table 27
Open Source Initiative Table 29
Red Hat Table 28
Scottish Tech Army Table 40
The Turing Way Table 30
Women @ CL Table 32
Wednesday February 8, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor
  Delegate Experience

3:15pm GMT

GitHub Raffle Draw - Floor 1 (GitHub Table)
Wednesday February 8, 2023 3:15pm - 3:30pm GMT
Pickwick, 1st Floor

3:30pm GMT

Words of Appreciation
Wednesday February 8, 2023 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT
Britten Stage, 3rd Floor
  Delegate Experience

4:00pm GMT

Proving your worth as an Open Source Program office - Chris Howard, Lead Open Source Program Manager, EPAM Systems
As open source continues to permeate businesses, becoming an ever more critical activity when realising organizational goals and objectives, this talk will provide insight into how Open Source Program Offices can be pivotal in demonstrating and qualifying the value of open to today's modern enterprises.



Attaching value, more often than not financially above others, to the efforts of open source program offices, contributors and the open source methodology is a challenging. Through exploring this topic the session will present an approach to embedding open source visibility at all levels of an organisation.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Howard

Chris Howard

Lead Open Source Program Manager, EPAM
Chris has 10+ years’ experience consulting for varied organisations in delivering their digital transformation programmes. At EPAM he is Lead Open Source Program Manager supporting employees and clients with their consumption, contribution and maturity in Open Source.He is engaged... Read More →

Proving your Worth as an Open Source Program Office pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00pm - 4:25pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

4:00pm GMT

Manage open source, security and SBOMs for your software projects or organization - Thomas Steenbergen, Head of Open Source Program Office, EPAM Systems
By the end of this session you should be able to replicate an ORT-based security/license compliance process within your organization including automating your FOSS policy using Policy as Code and save process/review time by using an InnerSource-based review process and re-using FOSS clearance artifacts from the community.
Speakers
avatar for Thomas Steenbergen

Thomas Steenbergen

Head of Open Source Program Office, EPAM Systems
Thomas Steenbergen works on open source governance within organizations and open source security. He is a steering committee member and one of the co-founders/organizers of the European Chapter of the TODO group and co-founder of the OpenChain Automation Work Group - industry working... Read More →

ORT Manage open source security and SBOMs for your software projects or organization pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00pm - 4:25pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

4:00pm GMT

Open data for climate action: How collaboration between the public and private sectors can tackle the climate crisis - Josh D'Addario, ODI & Matt Webb, UK Power Networks & Mellissa Tallack, Northumbrian Water & Sneha Ramamurphy, Rolls Royce & Sonia Cooper
In this session we will explore the role of public-private sector collaboration in open data for addressing the challenges posed by climate change. We will discuss how by working together, governments and the private sector can leverage the power of open data to support climate action
Speakers
avatar for Josh D'Addario

Josh D'Addario

Principal Consultant, Open Data Institute
Josh is the Principal Consultant at the ODI, responsible for leading consulting and advisory delivery at the ODI and building and growing strategic partnerships with commercial partners, government agencies and the third sector, through designing and delivering impactful, mission-aligned... Read More →
avatar for Senha Ramamurphy

Senha Ramamurphy

Product Designer, Rolls Royce
Hi, I’m Sneha (friendship in Sanskrit). I work as a Product Owner at R² Factory (R squared Factory) on AI/ML products for the B2C market. R² Factory is a spinout of Rolls-Royce's advanced data analytics arm. I specialize in Product Design and am a professionally certified Human-Centered... Read More →
avatar for Matt Webb

Matt Webb

Head of Enterprise Data Management, UK Power Networks
Matt Webb is the Head of Enterprise Data Management at UK Power Networks, the electricitydistribution system operator for London and the south-east of England. Matt holds and MSc inInformation Systems Management and leads the company’s data and information managementstrategy, with... Read More →
avatar for Sonia Cooper

Sonia Cooper

AGC, Microsoft
Sonia Cooper is an assistant general counsel in Microsoft’s intellectual property group and leads IP policy globally for the open innovation team, working with Microsoft Research in Cambridge. She has represented Microsoft on the Council of the IP Federation since 2017 and chairs... Read More →
avatar for Melissa Tallack

Melissa Tallack

Open Data Lead, Northumbrian Water
Melissa is an experienced data and digital leader with almost 3 decades of experience in the water industry. Prior to setting up her own company last year to enable her to work with many companies, Melissa spent nearly 28 years at Anglian Water Services. There she experienced a variety... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00pm - 4:30pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Panel

4:00pm GMT

Implementing Open Source Productivity Tools - Raul Pineda, CTO, Leadingbit Solutions
Using an open source productivity suite hosted on a cloud-based infrastructure creates a resilient and digitally autonomous environment for your project/team. By sharing the lessons learned and the challenges faced in designing and implementing such a software suite, we will offer practical advice to organizations considering similar efforts: including the pros and cons of different tools, architecture choices, and business strategies. Discussion topics will also encompass addressing privacy and security issues in deployment automation, using IaC (infrastructure as Code), and simplifying operations through external cloud hosting practices on AWS.
Speakers
avatar for Raul Pineda

Raul Pineda

attendee, Leadingbit Solutions
Raul is a passionate technologist who brings more than 24 years of hands-on experience in information systems, information technologies, and operations. He has served as a senior leader of Cloud Architecture and Operations in the US Federal Department of Defense and Government Public... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00pm - 4:30pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

4:00pm GMT

Automated Testing with Open Source Hardware - Ben Dooks, Software Engineer, Codethink & Mudit Sharma, Software Engineer, Codethink
At Codethink we’re focused on automation and we’re focused on open source.

As part of our efforts to automate testing on embedded Linux projects (in our case, large automotive projects), we wanted to be able to programmatically switch between different USB ports. For example, to switch from an empty port to a port with a new system image, or to mimic plugging in a USB device such as a smart phone.

We couldn’t find a suitable, cost effective or open-source solution, so we decided to develop one ourselves.

In this talk we will introduce the USB Switch: a feature rich, bi-directional USB-C switch. We’ll go into detail on the features and the typical use cases.
Speakers
avatar for Ben Dooks

Ben Dooks

Engineer, Codethink Ltd
Ben is a senior engineer at Codethink, a leading opensource software consultancy, specialising in low level Linux kernel and related tooling with a long history of contributing to open projects and enabling customers to use open code.Contributions to Linux kernel include early Samsung... Read More →
avatar for Mudit Sharma

Mudit Sharma

Software Engineer, Codethink
Mudit Sharma is a software engineer at Codethink with experience in embedded software and electroincs. He has a passion for creating innovative, easy to use turnkey solutions that help with automating processes. Currently, his key areas of interest include dev-ops, rust and embedded... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00pm - 4:40pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

4:00pm GMT

Funding and Scaling Panel & Founders Roundtables
Licensing, Legal and Good Practices Panel followed by 45 minute table discussion with each table hosted by a founder.

A room like no other…

Bringing together several founders, each hosting a table of 9 delegates during each of 5 panels across 2 days. Topics covered include product design, revenue generation in open source, community and collaboration, scaling an Open Source business.

Bringing together 20 Open Source Founders – Full list TBC shortly.

This room will be set out with 20 tables of 10 – 9 delegates and 1 founder. Delegates will be able to join a founder’s table for one session. This will include a 45 minute panel and a 45 minute discussion at table with the founder.
Delegates may join all 5 sessions but in each session must be at a table with a different founder.

Space in this room and availability of a founder’s table is limited and will be preallocated in our booking system.Panel sessions will explore key topics in entrepreneurship and open source followed by table discussions led by founders. Unique and unprecedented access to founders.
Speakers
avatar for Heikki Nousiainen

Heikki Nousiainen

Field CTO & Co-Founder, Aiven
Heikki Nousiainen is Field Chief Technology Officer and one of the founders of Aiven, a next-generation managed cloud services company offering the best open source data technologies to empower businesses around the world and make developers’ lives better. Having raised a total... Read More →
avatar for Peter Zaitsev

Peter Zaitsev

Founder, Percona
Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has used his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person store into one of the most respected open source... Read More →
avatar for Matthew Barker

Matthew Barker

President / EIR, Jetstack / OpenUK
Ron is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Flox & NixOS Foundation Board Member, Bringing Nix to the World.Ron’s journey began in the elite technical units of the IDF (8200), first as a software engineer and later leading the development of large-scale field operated products. A repeat founder... Read More →
avatar for Sivesh Sukumar

Sivesh Sukumar

Balderton, Analyst
Sivesh joined Balderton’s investment team in 2022. He started his career at JP Morgan in the fintech team looking at strategic investments, acquisitions and partnerships across the investment bank. He also spent time in the Securitised Product Group working on structured finance... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Whittle, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Entrepreneurship, Panel

4:00pm GMT

Sustain OSS Conference: Usability and sustainability
Sustain is a community exploring, documenting and working to answer a single question: how do we maintain open source software? Join us for a series of peer-led updates, conversations and collaborative workshops on the key issues surrounding open source sustainability today: community development and governance, fundraising and managing money, corporate support and participation, legislative and legal development, personal leadership… and burnout. Sustain provides spaces and creates events with and for those who are concerned with the with the fragile state and future of highly-used, impactful open source projects. If that sounds like you we’d love to shape our event with you:  

Register your interest in taking part
Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Olivier, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Sustain OSS

4:00pm GMT

Unconference
More details to be announced soon.
Speakers
avatar for Hannah Foxwell

Hannah Foxwell

Director for Platform Service, VMWare Tanzu
Hannah Foxwell is Director for Platform Services at VMware Tanzu, 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... Read More →
avatar for Paula Kennedy

Paula Kennedy

Chief Operating Officer, Syntasso
Paula is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo. Working in the IT industry for... Read More →
avatar for Terence Eden

Terence Eden

Board Member, OpenUK
He is an open source coder, open data publisher, and freelance cyber-security consultant. He was formerly the UK Government’s representative to the W3C. He speaks around the world on open standards, open source software, and open data.

Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Gielgud, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Unconference

4:30pm GMT

State of Open Source Africa - Samson Goddy, Co-Founder, Open Source Community Africa
With the rapid growth coming from the continent of Africa around OSS, this talk aims to give the audience more insight into some of the ways the ecosystem is thriving, what type of discussion people are having, ways to support and collaborate, and what the advocates are doing.
Speakers
avatar for Samson Goddy

Samson Goddy

Co-founder, Open Source Community Africa
Samson Goddy is an open source advocate; he works at Chainguard to secure the software supply chain by doing open source/Devrel.Samson is also the co-founder of Open Source Community Africa, a project that allows him to demonstrate his love for open source while constructing significant... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:30pm - 4:55pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Presentation

4:30pm GMT

Diversity in Open Source & Cybersecurity, We All Play a Role - Kelly Thibault, Executive Director, Secure Diversity
Diversity is a common topic in the workplace, especially in tech and security. How do we create diverse organizations at all levels? There isn't one quick answer, but we all play a part. The numbers don't lie. At most, there are 24% (a high estimate) of women in cybersecurity roles, with the majority being in entry and mid-level positions. For open source, numbers are harder to track, but some groups have tried. It's easy to share numbers and discuss the lack of diversity problem, but what can you actually do? Join this presentation to learn more about how to be an ally for diversity in open source and cybersecurity. We'll talk through actionable items, share data, and dialogue about what works and how you can influence change in your organization, regardless of your job title.
Speakers
avatar for Kelly Thibault

Kelly Thibault

Executive Director, Secure Diversity
Kelly Thibault (she/her) is currently the Executive Director at Secure Diversity (SD), which focuses on increasing diversity in cybersecurity. Her leadership of SD includes the Day of Shecurity conferences. Before SD, she was the Learning & Development partner for Engineering, Product... Read More →

Diversity in Cybersecurity & Open Source SOOCon23 pptx
Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:30pm - 4:55pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

4:35pm GMT

Flower - An Opensource Federated Learning Framework - Xinchi Qiu, Postgraduate Student, University of Cambridge
Flower is a Friendly Federated Learning Framework. It provides a unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. It federates any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language. The talk will give a brief introduction for the framework and its applications throughout the banks, hospitals and blockchain companies.
Speakers
avatar for Xinchi Qiu

Xinchi Qiu

PhD student, University of Cambridge
I am a Ph.D. student working under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas Lane at Cambridge Machine Learning Systems Lab. I was a member of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford from 2019 to 2020. I have a background in Mathematics and Statistics and am passionate about privacy... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:35pm - 4:55pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Flash Talk

4:35pm GMT

Building OSS Developer Experiences for the Cloud - Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, OSS Software Engineer, Diagrid
By relying on the cloud (and cloud providers) companies can save a lot of time and money, but building developer experiences that can work across cloud providers has proven to be difficult. This presentation focuses on leveraging the CNCF ecosystem and Kubernetes to build developer experience (and internal development platforms) to enable your teams to be more productive while relying on open-source tools. This presentation includes a live demo and the use of several CNCF projects.
Speakers
avatar for Mauricio Salatino

Mauricio Salatino

OSS Software Engineer, Diagrid
Mauricio works as Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project, and he is also Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative. He is writing a book... Read More →

Building Developer Experiences for the Cloud SOOCon23 (1) pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:35pm - 5:05pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

4:45pm GMT

Accelerating packet capture using FPGA - Jakub Duchniewicz, Software Engineer & Technical Leader, Tietoevry
The talk covers accelerating networking packets utilizing a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in an embedded Linux System. Presented is a solution based on a custom Linux distribution assembled using the Buildroot tool, specially configured and patched Linux kernel, uboot bootloader, and the programmable logic for packet acceleration.

The project is evaluated on a De0-Nano System on Chip development board through modifications to burst lengths, packet sizes, and programmable logic clock frequency.
Metrics include packet capturing time, time per packet, and consumed power.
Finally, the results are contrasted with baseline embedded Linux packet processing by inspection of a packet’s path through the kernel.

The presentation should give a notion about relative complexity of packet capturing using an FPGA in the Linux system. More in-depth understanding of Linux networking path can be taken away from it as well.
A call to action to promote and popularize such acceleration is made at the end of the presentation. 
Speakers
avatar for Jakub Duchniewicz

Jakub Duchniewicz

Team Leader and Senior Embedded Software / Embedded Engineer, Tietoevry / jduchniewicz
Jakub is a graduate of MSc in Embedded Systems with a minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Jakub is currently working as an engineer and a team leader at Tietoevry where he hones his low-level skills developing L1 features for 5G NR. His experience ranges from embedded and systems... Read More →

SOOC23 FPGA accelerated packet capture pdf
Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:45pm - 5:25pm GMT
Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Hardware, Presentation

5:00pm GMT

What do we mean by Open Governance - Silona Bonewald, Executive Director, IEEE SA Open & Florent Zara, Open Source Services Team Lead, Eclipse Foundation & Stephen Walli, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
Too often, Open Source Projects can be less than Open if their governance is nonexistent or less than Open.  This can be detrimental to creating a sustainable ecosystem.    Let us take the fundamental principles of Openness and Transparency further and help create and evaluate other methods.
Speakers
avatar for Stephen Walli

Stephen Walli

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Inc
I am a principal program manager in the Azure Office of the CTO and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University. I have worked with open source software in the product space for 30+ years. I have been a technical executive, a founder and consultant, a writer and author, a systems... Read More →
avatar for Silona Bonewald

Silona Bonewald

Attendee, LeadingBit Solutions
Silona Bonewald is the Executive Director for IEEE SA OPEN, a comprehensive platform offering the open source community cost-effective options for developing and validating their projects. Previously she was vice president of community architecture at Hyperledger, a global open source... Read More →
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Florent Zara

Open Source Services Team Lead, Eclipse Foundation
Florent has been involved (both personally and professionally) in the FLOSS community since 1999. Professionally, Florent has worked for nearly 20 years in a consulting company as a Open Source advisor for large companies, helping them with software quality, Open Source governance... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 5:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Government Law and Policy, Panel

5:00pm GMT

Harnessing the power of open source to achieve industry wide data standardisation for capital markets - Chris Rayner, ISLA & Ffion Acland, Goldman Sachs & Gabriele Columbro, FINOS, Linux Foundation & Georgina Jarratt, ICMA & Ruddy Vincent, ISDA
Data is the life blood of many industries but it plays a vital role in the financial services and particularly in the capital markets world. As the industry drastically accelerates the pace of open collaboration, we will discuss how the industry is embracing open data collaboration to drive true industry wide standardisation.

Not only we'll hear it from Goldman Sachs, maintainer of the Legend open source data modeling platform, but we'll hear why established global industry bodies like ICMA, ISDA and ISLA have decided to open source their Common Domain Model, the global standard representing financial products and their lifecycle, into FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation, the Linux Foundation project building open collaboration bridges across Wall Street, the City of London and the global financial industry.
Speakers
avatar for Gabriele Columbro

Gabriele Columbro

General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe
Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures... Read More →
avatar for Ffion Acland

Ffion Acland

Executive Director - Data Engineer, Goldman Sachs
Ffion is co-head of the Global Markets Data Models & Governance Team at Goldman Sachs tasked with defining, building and governing the internal data models for derivatives products. Since joining the Data Models and Governance team four years ago, she has contributed to many internal... Read More →
avatar for Ruddy Vincent

Ruddy Vincent

Senior Advisor for Data and Digital Soutions, International Swaps and Derivatives Association
Dr. Ruddy Vincent is Senior Advisor for Data and Digital Solutions at ISDA. As a digital transformation agent, he leads the execution of global industry projects leveraging the Common Domain Model, a free and open-access global digital data model that standardises how financial transactions... Read More →
avatar for Georgina Jarratt

Georgina Jarratt

MD Head of FinTech and Digitalition, ICMA
Georgina is the Managing Director, Head of FinTech and Digitalisation for ICMA, leading the development and implementation of the Association’s FinTech and Digitisation strategy, cross-cutting all fixed income market segments where ICMA has a presence. Encompassing all elements... Read More →
avatar for Chris Rayner

Chris Rayner

Senior Associate – Market Infrastructure & Technology, International Securities Lending Association (ISLA)
Chris joined ISLA in February 2022 as a Senior Associate – Market Infrastructure & Technology within the Regulation, Digital & Market Practice group. In this role he is responsible for supporting the Association’s important work on development of securities lending products within... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 5:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Open Data, Panel

5:00pm GMT

Hacking Kubernetes: Live Demo Marathon - Andrew Martin, CEO, Controlplane
In a live evocation of the recent O’Reilly title Hacking Kubernetes (Martin, Hausenblas, 2021), this ultimate guide to threat-driven Kubernetes defence threat models and details how to attack and defend your precious clusters from nefarious adversaries.

This broad and detailed appraisal of end-to-end cluster security teaches you how to attack and defend against a range of historical and current CVEs, misconfigurations, and advanced threats:

- See the historical relevance of CVEs and demonstrations of attacks against your containers, pods, supply chain, network, storage, policy, and wider organisation
- Understand when to use next-generation runtimes like gVisor, firecracker, and Kata Containers
- Delve into workload identity and advanced runtime hardening
- Consider the trust boundaries in soft- and hard-multitenant systems to appraise and limit the effects of compromise
- Learn to navigate the choppy waters of advanced Kubernetes security
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane
Andrew has 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... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 5:00pm - 5:30pm GMT
Churchill, Ground Floor
  Security, Presentation

5:10pm GMT

Bacalhau: Transforming Data through Open Compute - David Aronchick, Head of Compute over Data, Protocol Labs
Processing data has always been a centralized affair. As the amount of data grows, it necessitates larger numbers of machines, faster storage, and wider network interconnects in order to get insights from what was collected. Unfortunately, the number of devices and places providing signal has grown much faster than the ability to move this data around. IDC says by 2025, we will have 125 zettabytes of information meaning no matter how fast the compute and storage gets, bandwidth constraints will limit the ability to process results. This means this valuable data is siloed and, often, valuable signal is lost.

Enter a decentralized compute network. By pushing jobs to IoT, edge, fog, and decentralized datacenters, where the data is collected, we can transform and improve the way data pipelines are executed. Adopting a new compute platform that augments, not replaces, existing workflows will provide significant speed improvements, cost savings, and security benefits.

Project Bacalhau is a new open source project designed to make building, orchestrating, and executing decentralized workloads over data easy. Starting just last year, Bacalhau has already made tremendous progress with thousands of jobs being executed every day. With luck, and our energetic community, we hope that we can change the way that not only data is processed, but collaboration and sharing of the results is possible.
Speakers
avatar for David Aronchick

David Aronchick

Head of Compute over Data, Protocol Labs
David leads Compute over Data at Protocol Labs, helping, deploying and organizing the community building the next generation of the Internet.Previously, he led Open Source Machine Learning Strategy at Azure, product management for Kubernetes on behalf of Google, launched Google Kubernetes... Read More →

Wednesday February 8, 2023 5:10pm - 5:35pm GMT
Fleming, 3rd Floor Queen Elizabeth II Centre
  Platform Engineering, Presentation

5:30pm GMT

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Wednesday February 8, 2023 5:30pm - 5:30pm GMT
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