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State of Open Con 2023

8:30am GMT

Registration Reception, Ground Floor

9:00am GMT

Delegate Experience Pickwick, 1st Floor Delegate Experience Britten, 3rd Floor Delegate Experience Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor

10:00am GMT

Plenaries: Welcome - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK Fleming, 3rd Floor

10:15am GMT

Plenaries: Labour's Industrial Strategy for Innovation - Chi Onwurah, Shadow Minister for Science, Research & Technology, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Fleming, 3rd Floor

10:30am GMT

Plenaries: Our use of Open Source Today - Damani Corbin, Software Strategy, The Boeing Company Fleming, 3rd Floor Sustain OSS: Financial sustainability, from business models to fundraising to financial operations to salaries Olivier, 2nd Floor

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 Fleming, 3rd Floor

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... Fleming, 3rd Floor

12:00pm GMT

Book Give Away and Signing Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor Delegate Experience over Lunch Pickwick, 1st Floor Delegate Experience over Lunch Britten, 3rd Floor Delegate Experience over Lunch Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor Tiana Lea Free Headshots and Photography Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor

1:00pm GMT

State of Open - from Geopolitics to GDP - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK Westminster, 4th Floor Scaling up Future Technologies in a global open hardware ecosystem - Lesya Dymyd, Future Technologies Symposium Chair, Open Compute Project Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Panel: Power & Diplomacy: When Open Data and Realpolitik Collide - Emma Thwaites, ODI & Gavin Freeguard, ODI & Fransizka Putz, Wikimedia Foundation St James, 4th Floor eBPF Superpowers - Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent Fleming, 3rd Floor Security Keynote - Anjana Rajan, Assistant National Cyber Director, Technology Security Directorate, The White House Churchill, Ground Floor Product Development Panel & Founder Roundtables Whittle, 3rd Floor Sustain OSS Conference: Project leadership, decision-making, and succession planning Olivier, 2nd Floor Unconference Gielgud, 2nd Floor

1:30pm GMT

Building a deGoogled and privacy-friendly and open source mobile ecosystem: the story behind /e/OS - Gaël Duval, Founder, Murena SAS Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor State of Open Curation of Open Source - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK & Eric Brewer, VP Infrastructure, Google & Sarah Novotny, Director of Open Source Strategy, Microsoft Westminster, 4th Floor

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 Institu... St James, 4th Floor

1:45pm GMT

Building a great internal platform starts with the API - Abby Bangser, Principal Engineer, Syntasso Fleming, 3rd Floor DCMS’ approach to software security and resilience policy - Naomi Gilbert, Head of Cyber Resilience Policy, Department of Culture Media & Sport Churchill, Ground Floor

2:00pm GMT

Open Source Control in HVAC To Achieve Net Zero - Richard Hanson-Graville, Head of Research & Development, Heatweb Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor

2:05pm GMT

Smart Meter Energy Data Repository - Christopher Jackson, CEO and Co-Founder, Advanced Infrastructure St James, 4th Floor

2:30pm GMT

Could the Public Sector Solve the OSS Sustainability Challenges? - Colin Eberhardt, CTO, Scott Logic Westminster, 4th Floor A Chip on my Shoulder - Rob Taylor, CEO, Chipflow Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor The Why and How of Platform Engineering with Open Source - David Charboneau, CTO, Mimoto Fleming, 3rd Floor The Myriad Paths to Improving Open Source Security - Rory McCune, Senior Security Advocate, Datadog Churchill, Ground Floor

2:35pm GMT

How do we measure success for Open Data in academia? - Lauren Cadwallader, Open Research Manager, PLOS St James, 4th Floor

3:00pm GMT

Book Give Away and Signing Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor Delegate Experience Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor Delegate Experience Britten, 3rd Floor Delegate Experience Pickwick, 1st Floor

4:00pm GMT

Circularity and Whole Systems Thinking - Deborah Andrews, Professor, London South Bank University Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor The Villains Guide to How to Lose Your Community - Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy, Scarf Westminster, 4th Floor A vision for a web of net-zero data - Gavin Starks, CEO, Icebreaker One St James, 4th Floor Modelling Threats Out In The Open (Source) - Dan Conn, Developer Advocate, Sonatype Churchill, Ground Floor Help! I need a PaaS experience on k8s, yesterday! - Debbie Wood, Senior Infrastructure Product Manager, Fleming, 3rd Floor Setting up - Legal, Financial and Other Considerations - licensing, trade marks, company structures Panel & Founder Roundtables Whittle, 3rd Floor Sustain OSS Conference: Personal sustainability, including self-care, avoiding burn out and professional development Olivier, 2nd Floor Unconference Gielgud, 2nd Floor

4:20pm GMT

A Circular Economy Requires an Ecosystem - Astrid Wynne Rogers, Head of Sustainability, Interact & Techbuyer Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor

4:30pm GMT

The Ethics of Open Source - PJ Hagerty, Founder, DevRelate.io Westminster, 4th Floor

4:35pm GMT

What does it mean to make open data accessible? - Kevin Lewis, Developer Relations Lead, Directus St James, 4th Floor Do you know the health of your OSS dependencies? Introducing OSSF Scorecard API - Naveen Srinivasan, OSS Supply Chain Analyst, Endor Labs Churchill, Ground Floor

4:40pm GMT

Collaboration Across Silos - Hardware is Everywhere - Erik Riedel, Founder & CEO, Flax Computing Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor

4:45pm GMT

Zero Trust: Beyond the Buzzwords - Matt Turner, Software Engineer, Tetrate Fleming, 3rd Floor

5:00pm GMT

OSPOs Key Leveller for Open Source Sustainability - Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Todo Group Senior OSPO Program Manager, The Linux Foundation Westminster, 4th Floor 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 St James, 4th Floor 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 Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor

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 Churchill, Ground Floor

5:30pm GMT

Circus Albus Performance Britten Stage, 3rd Floor Book Give Away and Signing Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor All Hands Party & Delegate Experience TBA

8:00am GMT

Delegate Experience Pickwick, 1st Floor Delegate Experience Britten, 3rd Floor Delegate Experience Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor

9:00am GMT

Welcome Back - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK Fleming, 3rd Floor

9:15am GMT

Keynote: Online Safety and How to Protect Our Open Movement - Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia Fleming, 3rd Floor

10:00am GMT

Why am I here? - Thomas Meadows, Solutions Engineer, Jetstack Fleming, 3rd Floor Leading in Open Source, A Strategic Approach - Dawn Foster, Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware Westminster, 4th Floor 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 St James, 4th Floor Regulation by Telemetry: How to Fix OS Security by 2030 - Sal Kimmich, Director of Open Source, AI and DevSecOps, Escher Cloud Churchill, Ground Floor Why open matters: the cost of transparency in 2023 - Sen Hastings, Software Developer, Phobos DPL Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Community Building and Hiring Panel & Founder Roundtables Whittle, 3rd Floor Unconference Gielgud, 2nd Floor

10:20am GMT

Internal Developer Platforms - Of the people, By the people, For the people - Nicki Watt, CEO & CTO, OpenCredo Fleming, 3rd Floor

10:30am GMT

Sustain OSS Conference: Environmental sustainability, data standards around emissions to do supply chain tracking Olivier, 2nd Floor

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 St James, 4th Floor The Role of Foundations in securing Open Source - Rebecca Rumbul, CEO, Rust Foundation Churchill, Ground Floor Panel: The Road to Sustainability With Open Technology for EV Charging - Chris Lloyd-Jones, Avanade & Leanne Kemp, Everledger & Lonneke Driessen, Open Charge Alliance Westminster, 4th Floor

10:40am GMT

Open Hardware – The Next Open Revolution? - Andrew Katz, Joint Managing Partner, Moorcrofts LLP Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor

10:55am GMT

Green Software Principles and embedding Carbon Awareness in your applications - Szymon Duchniewicz, Open Technology Engineer, Avanade & Dan Benitah, Group Manager, Avanade Fleming, 3rd Floor

11:10am GMT

Learnings from Navigating Scotland’s Open Data Landscape - Karen Jewell, Data Scientist, Open Data Scotland St James, 4th Floor What's the big deal with Confidential Computing? - Mike Bursell, CEO, Profian Churchill, Ground Floor

11:20am GMT

Open Source in Environmental Sustainability - Tobias Augspurger, Founder, protontypes & Eirini Malliaraki, Head of Founder Community, Deep Space Ventures Westminster, 4th Floor

11:25am GMT

Journey to Net Zero using OpenSmartMonitor - Tim Telford, CTO and Co-founder, Devtank Ltd & Bruno Gallotta, Researcher, University of Derby Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor

11:30am GMT

How Effective Platform Engineering enables Sustainability - Luc Burnip, Senior Consultant, EY Fleming, 3rd Floor

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. St James, 4th Floor

11:45am GMT

openCRE.org - A Cloud of knowledge - Spyros Gasteratos, Security Engineer Churchill, Ground Floor

12:00pm GMT

Book Give Away and Signing Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor Delegate Experience over Lunch Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor Delegate Experience over Lunch Pickwick, 1st Floor Delegate Experience over Lunch Britten, 3rd Floor Tiana Lea Free Headshots and Photography Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor

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 Westminster, 4th Floor Interview with Jimmy Wales - Emma Thwaites, Director of Communication, ODI & Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia St James, 4th Floor Sustainable Data Centres: Practical examples of how open source technologies helps on the journey to sustainability - Jon Laban, European Director, Open Compute Project Foundation Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Clear Your Own Path to Open Source Maintainer - Martin Hickey, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Fleming, 3rd Floor International Security Policy Panel - Anjana Rajan, The White House & Brian Behlendorf, Linux Foundation & Sal Kimmich, Escher Cloud & Sarah Novotny, Microsoft Churchill, Ground Floor Revenue Generation Panel & Founder Roundtables Whittle, 3rd Floor DCMS Software Security Policy Workshop Wesley, 4th Floor Sustain OSS Conference: OSPO winter is coming Olivier, 2nd Floor Unconference Gielgud, 2nd Floor

1:35pm GMT

The DMA: Opening up the walled gardens through regulation - Vittorio Bertola, Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange Westminster, 4th Floor 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... St James, 4th Floor OpenUK's Patchwork Kilt Data Centre and EV Charging blueprints - Chris Lloyd Jones, Head of Open Technologies & Lonneke Driessen, Director Standardization, Open Charge Alliance Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor

1:45pm GMT

Open Source Supply Chain Security For Enterprises - Rao Lakkakula, Product Security Director, JPMorgan Chase Churchill, Ground Floor Building Sustainable Open Source: Seven Key Lessons After 5 Years of Leading The Thanos Project - Bartłomiej Płotka, Principal Software Engineer, Google Fleming, 3rd Floor

2:05pm GMT

Open Source Standards - Iain Mitchell, Honorary KC, OpenUK Westminster, 4th Floor

2:10pm GMT

Gaia-X - A European Union for Data Economy - Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO, Gaia-X AISBL Association for Data and Cloud St James, 4th Floor

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... Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Kubernetes Observability with eBPF - Alessandro Vozza, DevRel, & Rohit Ghumare, Developer Advocate, Solo.io Churchill, Ground Floor

2:30pm GMT

Cloud of Serfdom vs Cloud of Freedom: why open source will win in the Cloud age - Peter Zaitsev, Founder, Percona Fleming, 3rd Floor

2:35pm GMT

Scotland’s Open Data: Tech, tables and tools - Jack Gilmore, Techical Lead, Open Data Scotland St James, 4th Floor Investing in Research Infrastructure Roles for Cultural Change - Malvika Sharan, Senior Researcher - Open Research, The Alan Turing Institute Westminster, 4th Floor

2:50pm GMT

Level Up Your Data Lake - to ML and Beyond - Oz Katz, CTO & Co-Founder, Treeverse St James, 4th Floor

3:00pm GMT

Book Give Away and Signing Book Signing Booth Britten, 3rd Floor Delegate Experience Pickwick, 1st Floor Delegate Experience Britten, 3rd Floor Delegate Experience Moore, Rutherford, Abbey, 4th Floor

3:15pm GMT

GitHub Raffle Draw - Floor 1 (GitHub Table) Pickwick, 1st Floor

3:30pm GMT

Words of Appreciation Britten Stage, 3rd Floor

4:00pm GMT

Proving your worth as an Open Source Program office - Chris Howard, Lead Open Source Program Manager, EPAM Systems Westminster, 4th Floor Manage open source, security and SBOMs for your software projects or organization - Thomas Steenbergen, Head of Open Source Program Office, EPAM Systems Churchill, Ground Floor 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... St James, 4th Floor Implementing Open Source Productivity Tools - Raul Pineda, CTO, Leadingbit Solutions Fleming, 3rd Floor Automated Testing with Open Source Hardware - Ben Dooks, Software Engineer, Codethink & Mudit Sharma, Software Engineer, Codethink Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor Funding and Scaling Panel & Founders Roundtables Whittle, 3rd Floor Sustain OSS Conference: Usability and sustainability Olivier, 2nd Floor Unconference Gielgud, 2nd Floor

4:30pm GMT

State of Open Source Africa - Samson Goddy, Co-Founder, Open Source Community Africa Westminster, 4th Floor Diversity in Open Source & Cybersecurity, We All Play a Role - Kelly Thibault, Executive Director, Secure Diversity Churchill, Ground Floor

4:35pm GMT

Flower - An Opensource Federated Learning Framework - Xinchi Qiu, Postgraduate Student, University of Cambridge St James, 4th Floor Building OSS Developer Experiences for the Cloud - Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, OSS Software Engineer, Diagrid Fleming, 3rd Floor

4:45pm GMT

Accelerating packet capture using FPGA - Jakub Duchniewicz, Software Engineer & Technical Leader, Tietoevry Burton & Redgrave, 2nd Floor

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 Westminster, 4th Floor 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... St James, 4th Floor Hacking Kubernetes: Live Demo Marathon - Andrew Martin, CEO, Controlplane Churchill, Ground Floor

5:10pm GMT

Bacalhau: Transforming Data through Open Compute - David Aronchick, Head of Compute over Data, Protocol Labs Fleming, 3rd Floor

5:30pm GMT

Conference Closes - See you next year! TBA