Speaking Upcoming Speaking Events 29 April, OCA webinar, Open source and open standards – the highway to governance The Benefitting from the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan Summit 2025: 7th May 2025 1-4 April, Birds of a Feather, Kubecon Europe 2025, London 29 April, OCA webinar, Open source and open standards – the highway to governance, Digital 18 May, Open Source Founders Summit 2025, Panel Moderator, Paris 15 May, Iod AI, Panel moderator, How much ‘regulation’ is enough without stifling innovation 8-11 July, AI For Good Global Summit 2025, Geneva Past Speaking 24Mar The Benefitting from the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan Summit 2025: 7th May 2025 24 March 2025 09Feb 10-11 February, Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, Talk, Paris 9 February 2025 09Feb 13-15 March, FOSSASIA Summit 2025, Bangkok 9 February 2025 08Feb 17-18 March 2025, AI UK 2025, Panel moderator, “AI Openness – what does this mean and why do we care”, London 8 February 2025 04Feb State of Open Con 25, Multiple Talks, London 4 February 2025 22Jan Paris Open Source AI Summit 2025, Keynote Speech, Paris 22 January 2025 26Nov NextGenAI, Panel, “Where next with AI?”, London 26 November 2024 16Nov Green Digital Action Roundtable, COP29, Baku 16 November 2024 15Nov Extreme Hangout at COP29, Keynote, “My Nephew’s Wisdom and Lessons from his Auntie”, Baku 15 November 2024 25Oct AI for the rest of us, Panel, “AI Transparency, Law and Policy”, London 25 October 2024 15Oct OpenUK London Meetup, Panel, “Can Open Source be a Business?”, London 15 October 2024 10Oct Percona.connect, Fireside Chat, “Why Leading Enterprises Rely on Open Source Solutions”, London 10 October 2024 22Sep 22 Sept 2024, SME4Labour and OpenUK Fringe, Panel, “Opening AI”, Liverpool 22 September 2024 22Sep 22 September 2024, SERA and OpenUK Fringe, Panel, “The Intelligent Environment: Building Sustainable Data Centres”, Liverpool 22 September 2024 07Sep Percona University Istanbul 2024, Talk, “Global Perspectives on AI Openness: Law & Policy”, Istanbul 7 September 2024 25Jul IEEE 6G Summit Leeds 2024, Talk: “Opening up 6G”, Leeds 25 July 2024 24Jun 24 June, Bridging the hardware and software gap to optimize HPC, Panel, Online 24 June 2024 31May “IP Essentials for Early Career Researchers”, Panel on IP exploitation route, London 31 May 2024 30May AI for Good Global Summit, Workshop, Enabling openness in the AI ecosystem: An interactive workshop, Geneva 30 May 2024 28May OPEN SOURCE FOUNDERS SUMMIT 2024, Workshop, Why Did Hashicorp Change Its License?, Paris 28 May 2024 22May Stockholm Tech Show 2024, Headline Speaker, “Innovating the future with open source software”, Stockholm 22 May 2024 14May LinaroConnect Madrid 2024, Keynote, “Open Source Under Threat”, Madrid 14 May 2024 08May TRANSFORM Bern 2024, Keynote, “Opening the public sector to the future”, Bern 8 May 2024 28Mar THE 2nd OSPO SUMMIT, Keynote, “The Future of Open Source – What lies ahead?”, Shenzhen, China 28 March 2024 14Mar The DEVOPS Conference – Global, Talk, “Will Opening AI destroy Open Source Software?”, London 14 March 2024 06Mar The Turing Way Practitioners Hub Showcase Event, Panel, “Demystifying the benefit of AI and Open Source for SMEs”, London 6 March 2024 12Dec AI.dev | Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, Panel, San Jose 12 December 2023 07Dec Tech.Rocks Summit, Keynote, “What does AI Openness mean for us all?”, Paris 7 December 2023 05Dec GeoCom 2023, Panel, The Future Governance, Legal and Ethical Challenges for Geospatial Data in a World of Generative AI, London 5 December 2023 27Nov Saudi Data and AI Authority’s Saudi Data Forum, 27 November, JW Marriott Riyadh 27 November 2023 16Nov Future of AI Summit 2023, Panel, “In Conversation: The AI Divide – Will data inequality destroy healthy competition?”, London 16 November 2023 07Nov 7 Nov 2023, ODI Summit 2023, Panel Chair, “Navigating Ownership Rights: The Challenges of Gen AI”, Online 7 November 2023 02Nov 2 Nov 2023, AI Fringe, Fireside Chat, “Striking the balance: Open Source in AI”, London 2 November 2023 31Oct 31 Oct 2023, Women In Tech Festival, Talk, “Changing the face of the UK Tech”, London 31 October 2023 19Oct 19 Oct 2023, XChange MSP, Keynote, “The impact of Opening up our technology – from AI to Cyber Security : Is openness the answer to AI?”, London 19 October 2023 12Oct 12 Oct 23, We need to talk about open source, London 12 October 2023 04Oct 4-5 Oct 2023, Computing IT Leaders Summit, Keynote, “AI, Open Source Software and Cybersecurity: Is open source software the answer to AI?”, Essex 4 October 2023 29Sep 29 Sep 2023, NYU Stern School of Business – Benefits and Challenges of Open Source, Panel, “Human Capital and Open Source”, New York 29 September 2023 19Sep 19-21 Sep 2023, Open Source Summit Europe 2023, Talk, “ADHD – The Power of Diagnosis”, Bilbao 19 September 2023 18Sep 18 Sep 2023, SODA Data Vision 23, Panel Discussion : Let us talk about Data Governance and Regulations with Andrew Martin, Bilbao 18 September 2023 12Sep Borderless Cyber, Talk, “Open Source AI”, London 12 September 2023 07Sep Percona University London: Open Source Databases Meetup, Talk, “What is open source, why does this matter and how do we monetise it?”, University of London 7 September 2023 30Aug Korean Copyright Commission, Keynote,”Licensing Conference”, Seoul, South Korea 30 August 2023 12Jul Cloud Anonymous, Talk, London 12 July 2023 19Jun CommCon, Keynote, “Will Open Source Fail?”, Blackburn 19 June 2023 15Jun DevOpsDays Brum, Keynote, “Will Open Source Fail?”, Birmingham 15 June 2023 12Jun International Telecoms Conference – In partnership with DSIT, Panel, London 12 June 2023 05Jun SCDI Forum 2023, Keynote, “A green future through Open Technology”, Edinburgh 5 June 2023 10May OpenSSF Day, Security Diversity Panel, Creative, Inclusive and Sustainable Cybersecurity: Getting it done with DEI, Vancouver 10 May 2023 05May INTRO, Panel, “INTRO to the Future of Software”, Paolo Alto 5 May 2023 04May DevGuild, Keynote, Open Source Go-To-Market & Enterprise Readiness, San Francisco 4 May 2023 19Apr OCP Regional Summit 2023, Keynote, Will Open Source Fail?, Prague 19 April 2023 16Apr Cloud Native Rejekts, Talk, “Will Open Source Fail?”, Amsterdam 16 April 2023 23Mar The Customer & Employee Experience Forum UK, Closing Keynote, “Global Collaboration in Open Technology”, London 23 March 2023 15Mar WSIS Forum 2023, Ministerial Panel, Knowledge Societies, Capacity Building and e-learning / ICT Applications and Services, Geneva 15 March 2023 14Mar BCS Policy Jam, Can Green IT save the planet?, Panel 14 March 2023 27Feb MWC Eclipse Foundation, Panel, “Open Services Cloud”, Barcelona 27 February 2023 08Feb State of Open Con 23, Panel & Founder Roundtables, Setting up – Legal, Financial and Other Considerations – licensing, trade marks, company structures, London 8 February 2023 07Feb State of Open Con 23, Panel, State of Open Curation of Open Source, London 7 February 2023 07Feb State of Open Con 23, Talk, State of Open: from Geopolitics to GDP, London 7 February 2023 07Feb State of Open Con 23, Plenaries, The Future of Open Source Software – A Joined up International Response, London 7 February 2023 07Feb State of Open Con 23, Plenaries, Fireside Chat & Audience Q&A: How did we get here, where are we going?, London 7 February 2023 07Feb State of Open Con 2023, Plenary: Welcome, SOOCon23 Plenaries, London 7 February 2023 22Nov Umbraco Together, Keynote, “State of Open Source”, London 22 November 2022 22Nov Kubernetes Community Days, Keynote, “State of Open – Will Open Source Fail?”, London 22 November 2022 21Nov Women of Silicon Roundabout, Keynote, London 21 November 2022 15Nov EcoEx On stage UK, Keynote, “State of Open Source”, London 15 November 2022 08Nov ODI Summit, Panel Moderator, “Open Data What Now?”, Digital 8 November 2022 01Nov Low Code Con 2022, Keynote, “State of Open Source”, Digital 1 November 2022 01Nov All Things Open, Panel, “Open Source Law Policy and Practice Book launch Panel”, Raleigh, North Carolina 1 November 2022 19Oct TechNES FPGA Event, Keynote, “State of Open Source”, Solihull 19 October 2022 17Oct OpenUK Thought Leadership Day London, Keynote, “Thought Leadership Day Welcome Address”, London 17 October 2022 12Oct SUSTx, Panel, “Integrating Digital Services and Tech to Accelerate Sustainability Goals in a More Connected World”, London 12 October 2022 03Oct Kubehuddle, Keynote talk and panel, Edinburgh 3 October 2022 22Sep FT Cyber Resilience Summit, Panel, “Cyber Resilience in Developing Economies: Fostering safe digital transformation”, Lausanne 22 September 2022 14Sep Uptime by Aiven Amsterdam, Keynote, “State of Open- What we all need to know about the world and open source”, Amsterdam 14 September 2022 13Sep Open Source Summit Europe, Interview, “Amanda Brock interviews Ross Mauri, General Manager, IBM Systems”, Dublin 13 September 2022 13Sep Open Source Summit Europe, Talk, “Elevating the Role of Open Technology in Sustainability – Building the Metrics of Success”, Dublin 13 September 2022 29Jul SCALE, Talk, “State of Open Source”, Los Angeles 29 July 2022 29Jun Digital Security by Design, Digital Catapult, Keynote, “Is the future for secure computing systems open source?, London 29 June 2022 29Jun Secure Computing Systems’ Event presented by Digital Security by Design and Digital Catapult, Talk, “The inevitability of open source & our critical national infrastructure”, London 29 June 2022 17Jun Open Lisbon, Keynote, “State of Open Source”, Digital 17 June 2022 18May ComputerWeekly.com reports on Amanda Brock’s Keynote at Percona Live on what open source really means today 18 May 2022 17May Percona Live, Keynote, “How is open source shaping up to survive and thrive in the Roaring 20’s?”, Austin 17 May 2022 09Mar Technology Patent Network, Keynote, “Is it time to recharacterise open source as a public good in an era where forms the backbone of our infrastructure?”, Digital 9 March 2022 06Feb FOSSDEM, Talk, “All the World’s a Stage and FOSS is playing many parts”, Digital 6 February 2022 09Oct Banking on Open: Ensuring the Continued Growth of OSS in FinTech – Amanda Brock 9 October 2021 25Aug Commercial Models and Open Source: How Revenue Generation & Open Source Fit Together 25 August 2021 21Jul [DSC Europe 2020] The GeoPolitical Impact on Technology and the need for Open Tech – Amanda Brock 21 July 2021 26May Data Sovereignty: what approach should the UK take? 26 May 2021 04Feb Everybody wants to rule the world, Amanda Brock (Wuthering Bytes 2019) 4 February 2021 IT Pro Live: It’s open under the cloud 1 September 2020 14May Open for Good (OSS 2020) 14 May 2020 02Jan Inspired Conference 2020 | Day 4: Future of Skills | Amanda Brock 2 January 2020 13Dec Open Source Audits – Amanda Brock – OSSF 2018 13 December 2018 15Nov Elaad-Talks, Global EV Charging Test 15 November 2018 08Nov OWF14 – Intervention d’Amanda Brock, European Representative, Open Invention Network 8 November 2014 30Oct Paris Open Source Summit 30 October 2014
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