About Amanda Brock
As CEO of OpenUK, Amanda’s built one of the most recognised and impactful organisations in open source and is Executive Producer of State of Open Con building it to 800 attendees and 200 speakers.
A lawyer of 25 years’ experience, 5 as GC of Canonical, she’s been instrumental in shaping open source’s legal frameworks, as she was in shaping internet law during the early 2000’s.
Speaking: A sought-after international keynote speaker at global tech and related events like COP29 her focus is digital, AI and open source.
Writing: Regularly contributing opinion and features to the tech press she also edited the seminal Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (2nd edition) https://amandabrock.com/books
Current Advisory: Public Boards UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure; KDE. Commercial Boards: Mimoto; Scarf; FerretDB and Space Aye. Fellow, Open Forum Academy; Distinguished Fellow, Rust Foundation; European Representative, OIN; Ambassador, Open Charge Alliance; Board Member Mojaloop Foundation; and Expert Network, Digital Innovation Board of ITU.
Past Advisory includes: Chair, UN Technology and Innovation Labs Open Source and IP Advisory Group; OASIS Open Projects Initiative; British Computer Society Inaugural Influence Board; UK Government Energy Sector Digitalisation Task Force; elected Board Member Open Source Initiative; UKRI SuperCompute and Commercial Advisory Boards at Beamery and Everseen.
Recognition: Raconteur 50 CEOs (2025); Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential Women (2023-2025); Computing IT Leaders 100 (2023 – 2025); Lifetime Achievement WIPL (2022); Women Who Will (2023); INvolve Heroes (2022, 2023); Novi Awards (2024).
Judging: IDG Foundry CIO 100 2023, 2024); and Senior Judge, First Enable Role Model List by Dow (2024) having been a Judge in the We are Tech Women Rising Star Awards in (2021, 2022).
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Amanda has been CEO of OpenUK, the UK organisation for the business of open source software, hardware and open data – since 30 November 2019. She’s led the build of one of tech’s most forward looking and diverse organisations.
Amanda sits on a number of Boards on both a pro bono and paid basis. She also provides advisory and consulting and mentoring support on a consultancy basis.