Speaking

Secure Computing Systems’ Event presented by Digital Security by Design and Digital Catapult, Talk, “The inevitability of open source & our critical national infrastructure”, London

Amanda Brock, CEO of Open UK was a featured guest speaker at the recent ‘Is open source the future for secure computing systems’ event presented by Digital Security by Design and Digital Catapult in London on 29 June 2022.

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Percona Live, Keynote, “How is open source shaping up to survive and thrive in the Roaring 20’s?”, Austin

In a time of turbulence can our immature open source model survive attack? – Why does it matter that open source is not a business model? – Why is #opensource open to use for any purpose by anyone? – How do our Governments adopt secure open source ?

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FOSSDEM, Talk, “All the World’s a Stage and FOSS is playing many parts”, Digital

The FOSS Communities have been debating how to manage security, sustainability and funding of FOSS for years but today a global and political lens is being shone on them. Commercial debates over licensing and revenue models around FOSS based businesses peak in 2021 with the Elastic transition away from FOSS to an SSPL licence and

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Commercial Models and Open Source: How Revenue Generation & Open Source Fit Together

An overview of the commercialisation of open source and a review of the potential revenue models and their interface with open source, from the first study into this in 2008 to the recent shift by Elastic away from open source to the SSPL licence. Amanda is the editor of Open Source, Law, Policy and Practise

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[DSC Europe 2020] The GeoPolitical Impact on Technology and the need for Open Tech – Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock, CEO at Open UK, will deliver a keynote with a unique perspective, as the UK moves to Brexit. She will look not only at the impact of these Governmental and State activities on Technology, but the impact of the overall GeoPolitical landscape, data and digital sovereignty, a cloud for Europe and Asia’s bifurcation

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