Speaking

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 ?

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

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

‘Data Sovereignty: what approach should the UK take?’ in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, with The Rt Hon John Whittingdale OBE MP, Minister of State for Media and Data – Department for Digital, Culture, Media and SportMarc Waters, Managing Director UKIMEA – Hewlett Packard EnterpriseSimon Hansford, CEO – UKCloudProfessor Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity, Department

This talk will start by exploring some of the profound changes that we have seen over the last decade or so and, in particular, how the smart phone and cloud computing have altered our perceptions of and interactions with software. Following which there be an introduction to trustable software and how we need to manage