About
Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK, the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology: open source software, open hardware, open data, open innovation, open standards and open access AI – with the purpose of UK Leadership and Global Collaboration in Open Technology. She is also the Executive Producer of State of Open Con 25 taking place 4 – 5 February 2025 in London and has produced the ‘23 and ‘24 events.
Appointed member of the Cabinet Office’s Open Standards Board; and both UKRI’s UK Exascale Science and Industry Advisory Board and Digital Research Infrastructure Advisory Board, she is a commercial Advisory Board Member of California companies Mimoto (Cyber Security) and Scarf (open source data), and the Scottish Geospatial Data company Space Aye. She is also an Advisory Board Member of KDE, and a European Representative of the Open Invention Network.
A lawyer of 25 years’ experience, Amanda previously chaired the Open Source and IP Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs; sat on the OASIS Open Projects, Initiative; was a Member of the British Computer Society Inaugural Influence Board; and of the UK Government Energy Sector Digitalisation Task Force Advisory Board; as well as being an elected Board Member of the Open Source Initiative. Formerly General Counsel of Canonical a role she held for 5 years from 2008 she set up and ran their legal function and has been part of the open source contributing community since.
Amanda is a judge in the IDG Foundry CIO 100 in ‘23/’24, having been a Judge in the We are Tech Women Rising Star Awards in ’20 and ‘22.
Listed as one of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech by Computer Weekly in ’23 and ’24 and in Computing’s IT Leaders 100 in ‘23 and ‘24, and the INvolve HERoes list of 100 global women executives driving change by example in ‘22/’23. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Women, Influence & Power in Law UK ‘22.
A regular contributor to the tech press, she is the editor of Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (2nd edition) published by Oxford University Press in October ‘22, with open access thanks to the Vietsch Foundation https://amandabrock.com/books
Amanda is a sought-after international keynote speaker.
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