Discussing the IBM acquisition of Hashicorp and its impact on Cloud and open source with Cliff Saran at Computer Weekly

Discussing the IBM acquisition of Hashicorp and its impact on Cloud and open source with Cliff Saran at Computer Weekly IBM sees a big opportunity to migrate customers away from VMware onto OpenShift, with its $6.4bn acquisition of HashiCorp part of the plan. Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK said the acquisition of HashiCorp “enables IBM to strengthen

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The state of open source in Europe – Inside the key themes from this year’s main open-source developers’ event

TNW reported on 2024’s main open source developers’ events and its key themes, featuring SOOCon and quoted Amanda Brock. The article highlighted SOOCON AI consultation sessions with the UK’s science and innovation department and Home Office.

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The DEVOPS Conference – Global, Talk, “Will Opening AI destroy Open Source Software?”, London

Amanda will draw on OpenUK’s recent research and report on AI (to be published early 2024) and the discussions at State of Open Con 24 in early February, to bring the most current thinking to the audience in a cohesive way as she considers the risk of Open in AI and the risk AI poses

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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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