Podcast

My Favourite Failure: Losing £500k on an event that should’ve been the start of my new career – Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock, the CEO of Open UK, took a decade too long to jump from her legal career to what she really craved – the frenzy of entrepreneurship. She stayed in law too long because she’d experienced a sobering failure years ago – running an event which lost half a million pounds. What happened? Hosted

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From the Legal Profession to Open Technology: Amanda Brock with Digitalisation World

Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK – the not-for-profit organisation representing the UK’s Open Technology sector – started her career in the legal sector and when she did move across to the IT industry discovered a more enlightened approach to diversity, equality and inclusion, but one that still had a way to go! In this interview,

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Open Source Is The Future Of Innovation : OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock

With 3 million GitHub accounts, the UK is the leader in open source in Europe. A unique organization, OpenUK, is working to create a cohesive business community and advocating for UK leadership and international collaboration in open technology. In this interview recorded at the Open Source Summit in Vancouver, OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock explains what

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Bridging The Gaps Between Policy, Community, and Commerce in Open Source with Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock, CEO of Open UK, joins me to chat about the State of Open Con and bringing varying roles and viewpoints into the conversation around the future of open source. In this episode, Amanda and I discuss OpenUK’s new conference, the State of Open Con, how they hope to bridge the gap between the

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