State of Open Con 2025: Full Schedule

/e/OS is a smartphone operating system forked from AOSP/LineageOS, created in 2018. It offers default features that allow its users to escape the constant collection of their personal data: complete deGoogling, removal of application trackers, IP address masking, etc. It also offers complementary cloud services to the OS (drive, email, calendar, office document management, etc.), all of which are entirely based on free software. Compatible with over 200 smartphone models, it gives new life to models sometimes as old as 10 years - all thanks to open source!

Speakers

Gaël Duval

CEO, Murena

Gaël Duval is a software engineer and entrepreneur. In 1998, he created the first Linux distribution aimed at the general public. More recently, he created /e/OS, a fully deGoogled mobile operating system that respects personal data, now available in Murena smartphones and cloud... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:15am - 11:30am GMT
Doddington Forum 2

Mobile & Communications, Keynote

11:15am GMT

Standardising ownership data to drive down costs and fight economic crime : Stephen Abbott Pugh, Open Ownership, Head of Technology

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:15am - 11:30am GMT

Grand Hall 1

Understanding beneficial ownership is a huge challenge faced by banks, know your customer and due diligence companies. Connecting data on the ownership and control of corporate vehicles from as many jurisdictions as possible is crucial to ensuring that ownership data can be used effectively in complex cases. Spreading usage of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard - an open standard for exchanging data on how people own, control or benefit from companies and trusts - would help achieve this and improve the fight against economic crime and fraud.

Speakers

Stephen Abbott Pugh

Head of Technology, Open Ownership

Stephen Abbott Pugh is Open Ownership’s Head of Technology. His team provides technical assistance to governments with implementing technology reforms to advance beneficial ownership transparency. He is the product owner of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, along with a range... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:15am - 11:30am GMT
Grand Hall 1

Open Data, Keynote

11:15am GMT

Open Source Security Across the AI Continuum: Andrew Martin, ControlPlane, CEO

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:15am - 11:30am GMT

Doddington Forum 1

Speakers

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane

Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:15am - 11:30am GMT
Doddington Forum 1

Software & Security

11:15am GMT

Securing Your Software Supply Chain One Open Source Project at a Time : Lori Lorusso, Percona, Head of Community

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:15am - 11:30am GMT

Hardwick Hub

Delivering software fast is one piece of the deployment puzzle, but delivering it securely is the glue that keeps your puzzle from falling apart. Software supply chain attacks are on the rise with security exploits directly targeting open source projects, central repositories, and software package managers. With 90% of enterprise companies using open source software in their builds no one is immune to these attacks and now more than ever the community is working hard to create safeguards and tooling to prevent potential attacks. The question then becomes who should you look to for best in class security protocols?

Thankfully the open source community is banding together and foundations like OpenSSF, CNCF and OWASP and companies are working to solve security problems. To help ensure a secure SDLC, these developer focused communities are investing time, energy, money and innovation in projects that provide security solutions. This talk will give a brief overview of some major attacks in the last decade, it will underscore the importance of securing your software supply chain at the source and will highlight a some open source projects that are on the market that are helping to close the security gaps.

Speakers

Lori Lorusso

Head of Community, Percona

Lori has a passion and enthusiasm for working with the developer and open source community. She is a CNCF Ambassador, former CNCF Marketing Committee Chair, former Chair of the CDF Outreach Marketing Committee, program chair of cdCon 2023, and is active in the OpenSSF devrel committee... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:15am - 11:30am GMT
Hardwick Hub

Software & Security, Keynote

11:35am GMT

Building AI platforms together, for everyone : Tolis Christomanos, Cheryl Hung, and Michel Murabito

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT

Grand Hall 2

AI platform builders have a choice whether to use closed source or open source as the foundation. Closed source platforms provide many aspects of AI platforms, giving you more time to market to build products.

But open source models have really started to catch up, which gives you the ability to build a in-house platform that can be customised and tailored to your needs, with more choice and control.

To build that platform, you need an open source community and a number of components that are yet to be invented. While this emerging landscape already has some powerful capabilities, there's an opportunity for the community to innovate and create new components that can be used to power that PaaS.

As a long time Kubernetes community member, I've been amazed by what the open source community has created. Not only the technology with Kubernetes and the ecosystem of other projects, but also the culture of open source. We have taken what was a potentially limited game to a positive sum game, and now we have the opportunity to do that again in AI.

This panel discussion features engineers and architects from AWS and Mia-Platform building AI applications for gaming and developer experience. They will share their experiences, the latest trends, and where the community can build together to truly make AI for everyone.

Speakers

Tolis Christomanos

Senior Solutions Architect, AWS for Games

Tolis Christomanos is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. With over two decades in the industry, he has extensive experience in developing and architecting a wide range of games and gaming platforms. He collaborates closely with major game studios, providing expert guidance on developing... Read More →

Cheryl Hung

Senior Director and Head of Ecosystem, Arm

Cheryl Hung (oicheryl.com) is a Senior Director and Head of Ecosystem at Arm. She is also a startup advisor and thought leader in open source and ecosystem strategy.She founded the Cloud Native London meetup and grew it to over 9000 members. She was VP Ecosystem at the Cloud Native... Read More →

Michel Murabito

CNCF Ambassador & Developer Advocate, Mia-Platform

I'm Michel Murabito, Mich to my friends! Born in 1986 in Turin with Sicilian roots, I now live in Milan. My journey in software began at 12, coding for fun. At 18, I started my first job as a software developer and have continuously sought new challenges to grow and learn.Today, I'm... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT
Grand Hall 2

AI Openness, Panel

11:35am GMT

Connecting the UK with Open Source: the journey of BT Group and Canonical: Tara Stella, BT, Head of Open Source

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT

Doddington Forum 2

Speakers

Serdar Vural

Tara Stella

Head of Open Source, BT

IT infrastructure architect with 25+ years of experience in networking, security and Linux/Unix, mainly in the Telco and Finance industries.World-recognized expert in Cloud Architecture and Open Source with several awards and publications. Expert in building private cloud infrastructures... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT
Doddington Forum 2

Mobile & Communications, Panel

11:35am GMT

Panel TBC

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT

Grand Hall 1

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT
Grand Hall 1

Open Data, Panel

11:35am GMT

Rust and Memory Safety : Rebecca Rumbul, Ethan Brierly, Tim Abell, David Haig, Ernest Kissiedu

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT

Hardwick Hub

Speakers

Tim Abell

Rustacean, Rust Workshop

Ernest Kissiedu

The Rust Foundation

David Haig

Founder, Tundra Sense Limited

Ethan Brierley

Rust Software Engineer, TrueLayer

Rebecca Rumbul

ED and CEO, Rust Foundation

Rebecca is the Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation. She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant and researcher with governments, parliaments and development agencies all over the world, advocating for openness and transparency, and developing... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT
Hardwick Hub

Software & Security, Panel

11:35am GMT

Securing AI Workloads: Building Zero-Trust Architecture for LLM Applications : Rohit Ghumare, Joinal Ahmed, Vinuja Khatode, Shivay Lamba

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT

Doddington Forum 1

As businesses increasingly rely on LLM applications for their important functions, it becomes important to implement strong security measures to protect sensitive information and guarantee smooth operations. This session shows how to build a zero-trust security architecture for AI workloads using cloud native patterns. We'll explore how to implement AI Gateways that have strong authentication and authorization and include audit logging. Keep compliance and governance requirements while you secure model artifacts and implement runtime security and protect against prompt injection attacks.

Speakers

Shivay Lamba

Developer Relations Engineer, Couchbase

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also worked... Read More →

Joinal Ahmed

Head of AI, NTG

Joinal is an experienced Data Science professional with a interest on building solutions with quick prototypes, community engagements and influencing technology adoption. Brings strong technical understanding, experienced in managing cross functional teams of data scientists, data... Read More →

Rohit Ghumare

DevRel As Service, Founder

As a Google Developer Expert specializing in Google Cloud, I am a passionate DevOps Advocate and a dedicated Community Evangelist. I lead and nurture multiple communities across diverse platforms, fostering DevOps and Developer Relations awareness. My commitment to the open-source... Read More →

Vinuja Khatode

DevOps Engineer, TuneAI

Vinuja is an MSc student in computer science at the University of Leicester and a DevOps engineer at TuneAI. She has prior experience as a System Engineer at TCS and has been involved in MLOps and Cloud Native projects at LinuxWorld Informatics. Vinuja enjoys creating content around... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 11:35am - 12:15pm GMT
Doddington Forum 1

Software & Security, Panel

1:15pm GMT

Tackling digital poverty through open connectivity : Elizabeth Anderson, Digital Poverty Alliance, CEO

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:40pm GMT

Doddington Forum 2

How open technology can tackle digital poverty through providing open connections

Speakers

Elizabeth Anderson

CEO, Digital Poverty Alliance

Elizabeth Anderson is CEO of the Digital Poverty Alliance, which aims to end digital poverty in the UK once and for all.  Leading the DPA programmatic and operational team, she focusses across advocacy, community building and delivery work, talking to schools, industry partners... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:40pm GMT
Doddington Forum 2

Mobile & Communications, Talk

1:15pm GMT

Panel

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:55pm GMT

Grand Hall 2

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:55pm GMT
Grand Hall 2

AI Openness

1:15pm GMT

Data Identity : David Aronchick, Jack Gilmore

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:55pm GMT

Grand Hall 1

Speakers

David Aronchick

CEO, Expanso

I am CEO and co-founder of Expanso, the company behind the distributed compute platform Bacalhau. This means I spend most of my time helping humans to convince machines to be smarter. I am only moderately successful at this. Previously, I led Kubernetes on behalf of Google, launched... Read More →

Jack Gilmore

Software Developer, NHS Education for Scotland

Jack Gilmore is a full stack software developer with experience of working in the public sector and academia in Scotland. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science and Spanish from the University of Stirling in 2019. As an advocate of free and open-source software, many... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:55pm GMT
Grand Hall 1

Open Data, Panel

1:15pm GMT

From Paper to Practice: Implementing NIST Cloud Security Guidance : Matt Turner , Andrew Martin and Ayse Vlok

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:55pm GMT

Hardwick Hub

In recent years, NIST has published several Special Publications focused on cloud application and network security. These documents provide comprehensive guidance and standards for security best practices. They address cloud security controls, Zero-Trust Architectures, and microservice security, while also examining the security implications of various cloud network topologies.

In this talk, Matt will summarize the key recommendations from these publications and outline practical steps for implementation. He'll also demonstrate how to maintain ongoing compliance with these controls using OSCAL and Lula.

Speakers

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane

Ayse Vlok

Matt Turner

Software Engineer, Tetrate

Matt is a software engineer at Tetrate, where he loves sharing what he's learning with the whole community. He helps people understand Istio, Envoy, and other open source projects, as well as Tetrate's solutions for enterprise service mesh management. He's been doing Dev, sometimes... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:55pm GMT
Hardwick Hub

Software & Security, Panel

1:15pm GMT

Maintaining Open Source Software: Christopher Hoult, Sam Clements, Lorna Mitchell and Derick Rethans

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:55pm GMT

Doddington Forum 1

Speakers

Lorna Mitchell

Developer Experience, Redocly

Lorna is based in Yorkshire, UK; she is a technology leader and developer experience expert who is passionate about APIs and developer tools. She is also a published author and regular blogger, sharing her insights on a variety of tech-related topics. Lorna serves on the OpenUK board... Read More →

Sam Clements

Akamai, Software Engineer

Derick Rethans

The PHP Foundation

Christopher Hoult

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:15pm - 1:55pm GMT
Doddington Forum 1

Software & Security, Panel

1:45pm GMT

EU Data Act: Paul Graham, Field Fisher, Partner

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:45pm - 2:00pm GMT

Doddington Forum 2

Speakers

Paul Graham

Partner, Field Fisher

Paul is a Partner in the Fieldfisher Technology and Privacy Group and Head of the Communications Sector Group. He is listed as a Leading Individual for TMT work by Legal500 and Chambers. He has a Professional Certificate in DigitalTransformation from MIT.Paul has over 25 years' experience... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 1:45pm - 2:00pm GMT
Doddington Forum 2

Mobile & Communications, Talk

2:00pm GMT

The challenges of open source in the mobile sector : Nick Allot, Nquiring Minds, CEO

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:15pm GMT

Doddington Forum 2

Speakers

Nick Allot

CEO, Nquiring Minds

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:15pm GMT
Doddington Forum 2

Mobile & Communications, Talk

2:00pm GMT

Bringing open collaboration into new fields through cryptographic algorithms: Phyto Michael, SCANOSS, Sales Director

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:15pm GMT

Grand Hall 1

Organizations globally face shared challenges in managing cryptographic algorithms, which are often undetected, declared in an ad hoc way, and frequently misunderstood in terms of their impact. Departments addressing these issues rarely collaborate, relying on isolated, document-centric processes.

This talk highlights open initiatives enabling crypto algorithm declarations in SBOMs, fostering continuous compliance at scale. It explores implications for security, export control, and quantum safety, showcasing open collaboration as the path forward.

Speakers

Phyto Michael

Sales Director, SCANOSS

Phyto Michael, Sales Director at SCANOSS, is passionate about driving industryprogress through groundbreaking innovations. With over 15 years of experience in Open Source Governance and Compliance, he has helped businesses of all sizes seamlessly integrate Open Source Software (OSS... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:15pm GMT
Grand Hall 1

Open Data

2:00pm GMT

Productionising data pipelines with OpenSource : Tatiana Al-Chueyr Martins, Astronomer, Staff Software Engineer

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:15pm GMT

Doddington Forum 1

Over the past eight years, dbt-core has transformed SQL Analysts' workflows, enabling systematic development, modularization, reuse, testing, documentation, and version control.

Simultaneously, Apache Airflow emerged as the leading open-source orchestration tool. It allows data engineers to author, schedule, and monitor workflows using Python, scaling dynamic job scheduling and workflow-as-code.

By November 2024, both tools surpassed 50 million PyPI downloads.

This presentation demonstrates an end-to-end example of developing SQL transformations and productionizing them with these powerful open-source tools.

Speakers

Tatiana Al-Chueyr Martins

Staff Software Engineer, Astronomer

Tatiana is a Staff Software Engineer at Astronomer and builds open-source tools to improve Apache Airflow developers' experience.In 2002, she started to study Computer Engineering at Unicamp, Brazil. Her first job was to build a 3D visualization software that helped surgeons plan... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:15pm GMT
Doddington Forum 1

Software & Security, Talk

2:00pm GMT

See it, Hack It, Sort It: How can OSS protect our AI enablers : Marcus Tenorio, ControlPlane, Security Engineering Manager

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:15pm GMT

Hardwick Hub

Your models are running, your clusters are purring, and everything seems ready to sail smoothly across the vast seas of AI. Everything’s good, right? Attacks targeting GPUs, especially those aimed at poisoning AI models during training and inference, represent a growing frontier—much discussed but rarely explored.
In this hands-on talk, we’ll dive deep into how GPUs can be attacked and, more importantly, how to defend against these threats. You’ll discover best practices and learn how open-source tools you already know—like Falco, Cilium, and others—can protect your precious models. Get ready for an adventure into the open field of GPU security in AI. See it, Hack It, Sort It.

Speakers

Marcus Tenorio

Security Engineering Manager, ControlPlane

People call me mart!Mart currently serves as an engineering manager on the security team at ControlPlane, where he enjoys managing various consultants who teach him every day how to break things and become a better manager and engineer.Mart began his journey in cybersecurity trying... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:15pm GMT
Hardwick Hub

Software & Security, Talk

2:20pm GMT

Production-Ready LLMs on Kubernetes: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Performance : Luke Marsden, MLOps Consulting, Founder and Priya Samuel, TechnoCat, Full stack engineer

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT

Grand Hall 2

Many orgs are evaluating running open source LLMs on their own infrastructure, and Kubernetes is a natural platform choice. However, running open source LLMs in production on Kubernetes is, honestly, a bit of an undocumented mess.

This technical presentation shares the experience of both speakers in deploying production-grade LLM infrastructure on Kubernetes. Through practical demonstrations, we'll explore the complete deployment lifecycle, from GPU setup to optimization techniques like Flash Attention, quantization tradeoffs and GPU sharing.

You'll learn:

* Architectural patterns for efficient LLM deployment using Ollama and vLLM
* Solutions for model weight management and context length optimization
* Techniques for GPU sharing and improving resource utilization
* Production approaches to fine-tuning with Axolotl and serving multiple models with LoRAX

You'll leave with a complete blueprint for building reliable, scalable LLM infrastructure on Kubernetes.

Speakers

Luke Marsden

Founder, MLOps Consulting

Technical leader and startup founder who participated in the early development of Docker and Kubernetes. Former SIG lead for SIG-cluster-lifecycle.

Priya Samuel

Full stack engineer, Software Architect, Elsevier

Priya Samuel is a seasoned technology leader with a passion for transforming complex challenges into actionable solutions. With extensive expertise in DevOps, and cloud-native technologies, and Identity and Access Management (IAM). Priya has helped organizations scale their data and... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT
Grand Hall 2

AI Openness, Talk

2:20pm GMT

Breaking Free from Vendor Dependency: How Vodafone’s ‘Network as Platform’ Team Build Telco APIs In-House Using Cloud-Native Technologies: Sachin Kumar

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT

Doddington Forum 2

This session explores Vodafone’s NaaP (Network as Platform) journey in developing and managing telco APIs entirely in-house, leveraging cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, PagerDuty, Github, Splunk/Instana and service meshes. By transitioning away from vendor reliance, NaaP achieved operational independence, reduced costs, and significantly accelerated our time-to-market. This novel approach challenges the telecom industry's traditional dependency on third-party vendors and offers a blueprint for other operators to adopt similar practices.

Speakers

Sachin Kumar

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT
Doddington Forum 2

Mobile & Communications, Talk

2:20pm GMT

The Bang! - When bad things happen to your data : Michael Cade, Veeam Software, Global Field CTO

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT

Grand Hall 1

Imagine the inevitable has already happened—you’ve had a security breach—and you’re now dealing with the aftermath. Organisations must act fast to ensure business returns to operations quickly while also figuring out how to prevent similar incidents in the future. By adopting new use cases, engineering teams are simultaneously accelerating the deployment of sensitive data across multi-cloud architectures and tapping into new risk factors.

In this talk, we will use the “Data Security Bang” analogy and learnings from resilience engineering to answer questions such as: How could we do more left of bang (prevention) to help with the speed of right of bang (remediation)? The audience will be guided through a set of example scenarios in a 90s-style game, using Kanister, OPA, and Prometheus, in which they can make decisions on data security to guide the way towards a more robust infrastructure.

Speakers

Michael Cade

Global Field CTO, Veeam Software

A seasoned technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Ops space. He is currently serving as the Global Field CTO for a leading cloud-native and open-source data protection company.Exploring the world of Cloud,Cloud-Native, DevOps and Open-Source Software software and raising... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT
Grand Hall 1

Open Data, Talk

2:20pm GMT

Containers Rule Everything Around Me : Rory McCune, Senior Security Advocate, Datadog

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT

Doddington Forum 1

Over the last 10 years Docker and Kubernetes have gone from niche projects to being a ubiquitous part of the technology landscape, operating in a vast number of companies and environments. But why were they so successful?

This talk will examine the sources of success that these technologies had, look at what seems like it should have been important but wasn't, and provide ideas for how future open source projects can set themselves up for success.

Speakers

Rory McCune

Senior Security Researcher and Advocate, Datadog

Rory is a senior security researcher & advocate for Datadog who has extensive experience with Cyber security and Cloud native computing. In addition to his work as a security reviewer and architect on containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker he has presented at Kubecon... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT
Doddington Forum 1

Software & Security, Talk

2:20pm GMT

Secure Isolation and Trust Boundaries: A Crash Course for Engineers : Sal Kimmich, Confidential Computing, Open Source security

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT

Hardwick Hub

As our reliance on cloud-native infrastructure grows, so does the complexity of protecting sensitive data in multi-tenant and untrusted environments. This talk explores the core principles of secure isolation and trust boundaries to provide a practical understanding of how these concepts safeguard data during processing, enabling compliance, reducing risk, and building user trust. With a focus on real-world applications and accessible insights, this session demystifies the evolving security landscape and empowers engineers, policymakers, and technologists to collaboratively shape a more secure digital future.

Speakers

Sal Kimmich

Open Source Security, Confidential Computing

Sal is a developer advocate for open source and passionate about helping engineers, ethical hackers and digital enthusiasts understand the complexity of modern software development. With over a decade of experience as building cloud-native machine learning pipelines in the healthcare... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 2:20pm - 2:45pm GMT
Hardwick Hub

Software & Security, Talk

3:30pm GMT

Building Inclusive AI Solutions for Marginalized Communities : Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, JournoTECH, Founder

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT

Grand Hall 2

This session explores the importance of building inclusive AI tools tailored for underserved groups, particularly in the Global South. Drawing from JournoTECH's work, we’ll showcase practical steps for bridging the gap despite limited resources and discuss how inclusive design can empower marginalized communities while driving equitable access to technology.

Speakers

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi

Founder, JournoTECH

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi is a technologist, app developer, web designer, and investigative journalist with nearly a decade of experience. She founded JournoTECH and The Colonist Report, pioneering inclusive journalism and tech training for professionals. Through JournoTECH, she empowers... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT
Grand Hall 2

AI Openness, Talk

3:30pm GMT

Connecting the Dots: The Role of Open Standards in Next-Gen Telecommunications : Tim Armstrong, Startup Founder, Plaintextnerds

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT

Doddington Forum 2

This talk explores the transformative power of open standards in the fibre optic networking sector. By examining tools like the Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) and OpenSOD, it highlights how openness fosters transparency, improves collaboration, and reduces costs, while paving the way for resilient, future-ready telecommunications infrastructure.

Speakers

Tim Armstrong

Startup Founder, Snyk Ambassador, and Consultant Software Engineer, Plaintextnerds

A Lead Engineer turned Startup Founder.Tim uses his 15 years of experience as an engineer to help others discover and embrace new technology and solve problems through clear guides, tutorials, and sessions. He does his best to provide free mentorship to people who show a genuine passion... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT
Doddington Forum 2

Mobile & Communications, Talk

Subject Mobile and Communications

3:30pm GMT

Harnessing AI With Data, Innovation, and Regulation : Phil Winder, Winder.AI, CEO

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT

Grand Hall 1

As artificial intelligence transforms industries, its success hinges on the quality of data and navigating evolving regulations. This talk delves into practical strategies for leveraging data effectively, addressing key challenges such as data transparency in the public sector and data sovereignty in the private sector.
We’ll explore trending AI use cases, showcasing real-world applications, and examine how impending regulations could shape AI’s future. Attendees will gain insights into balancing innovation with compliance, ensuring ethical and effective AI deployment.

Speakers

Phil Winder

CEO, Winder.AI

Dr. Phil Winder is a multidisciplinary engineer and data scientist. As the CEO of Winder.AI, an AI consultancy, he provides AI, ML, Data Science, and MLOps development and consulting services to businesses of all sizes. Previous clients include the likes of Google, Microsoft, Shell... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT
Grand Hall 1

Open Data, Talk

3:30pm GMT

Coming AI Threats and Fixes : Kris Bondi, Mimoto, CEO and Co-founder

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT

Hardwick Hub

Along with the benefits of AI are newly developed threats it enables. This talk spotlights new threats AI will create in 2025 as well as ways AI can be used to catch malicious activities.

Speakers

Kris Bondi

CEO and Co-founder, Mimoto

Kris Bondi is Mimoto CEO & Co-founder of Mimoto, an AI-powered cybersecurity company.In past lives, Kris has served as a crisis communications consultant to government entities, global not-for-profits, and some of the largest (and smallest) companies in the world.Kris is a long-time... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT
Hardwick Hub

Software & Security, Talk

3:30pm GMT

Networks are under AI pressure: Can Cilium and eBPF provide relief? Nico Vibert, Isovalent, Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT

Doddington Forum 1

Kubernetes is the go-to platform for modern AI, but distributed machine learning imposes demanding requirements on networking, security, and observability. This talk explores how Cilium, powered by eBPF, addresses these challenges by delivering high-performance cloud networking, robust security, and deep observability, easing the strain on Kubernetes in AI-driven environments.

Speakers

Nico Vibert

Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer, Isovalent

Nico Vibert is a Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent – the company behind the open-source cloud native solution Cilium.Nico has worked in many different roles – operations and support, design and architecture, technical pre-sales – at companies such as HashiCorp... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm GMT
Doddington Forum 1

Software & Security, Talk

3:50pm GMT

The meaning of Openness and AI : Luis Villa, Amanda Brock, Sam Johnson

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT

Grand Hall 2

Speakers

Sam Johnston

CEO, Acumino

Sam Johnston is a seasoned technologist, entrepreneur, and open-source advocate with over 25 years of experience across Silicon Valley, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. As a Board Member of the Kwaai Open Source AI Lab and Lead Developer of the Personal Artificial Intelligence Operating... Read More →

Luis Villa

General Counsel, Tidelift

Programmer-turned-attorney focused on open technologies and communities.

Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK

OpenUK CEO and Executive Producer State of Open Con, Amanda’s 25 years’ legal experience includes being instrumental in shaping open source’s legal frameworks and internet law in 2000’s. Sought-after international keynote speaker, tech press contributor and editor “Open... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT
Grand Hall 2

AI Openness, Panel

3:50pm GMT

Standards, Open Source, RAND and Telco : Keith Bergelt, Sachiko Muto, Tim Armstrong and Daniel Appelquist

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT

Doddington Forum 2

Speakers

Tim Armstrong

Startup Founder, Snyk Ambassador, and Consultant Software Engineer, Plaintextnerds

Sachiko Muto

Chair, Openforum Europe

Sachiko Muto is the Chair of OpenForum Europe and a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government relations and then as CEO. Sachiko has degrees in Political Science... Read More →

Keith Bergelt

CEO, Open Invention Network

Keith Bergelt is the CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN) & is responsible for enabling, influencing, & defending the integrity of Linux and adjacent open source software as it relates to threats from patent aggressors.He was CEO of 2 Hedge Funds; a senior advisor to TPG; head of business... Read More →

Daniel Appelquist

Open Source & Open Standards Strategist, Samsung Open Source Group

Dan Appelquist is an Open Source Strategist at Samsung Open Source Group. He is a web & mobile industry veteran and long-time participant and leader in open source and open standards. He is co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group and is a co-founder of Open Web Docs. He is... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT
Doddington Forum 2

Mobile & Communications, Panel

3:50pm GMT

Data Sovereignty in Observability: Joshua Lee, Robert Hodges, Hazel Weakly, Edith Puclla

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT

Grand Hall 1

Description: As OpenTelemetry rapidly becomes the standard for open-source observability instrumentation, the question of data sovereignty takes center stage. In this panel, Josh Lee moderates a lively discussion with Hazel Weakly, Robert Hodges, and Edith Puclla - leaders in the fields of observability, databases, and open source. Together, they will explore the implications of data sovereignty in observability, balancing control and compliance with innovation. Topics will include the role of open source tools, the challenges of ensuring data portability, and the future of observabilityarchitectures in a sovereignty-conscious world.

Speakers

Edith Puclla

Technology Evangelist, Percona

Robert Hodges

CEO, Altinity

Robert Hodges serves as CEO at Altinity, a leading software and services provider for ClickHouse. Robert has more than 30 years of experience with database systems and applications including pre-relational databases such as M204, online SQL transaction processing, Hadoop, and analytics... Read More →

Hazel Weakly

Joshua Lee

Developer Advocate, Altinity

Joshua is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience, specializing in a broad range of topics including operations, observability, agile methodologies, and accessibility. His passion for technology is matched by his enthusiasm for sharing knowledge through public... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT
Grand Hall 1

Open Data, Panel

3:50pm GMT

Building Secure Open Source Panel : Shilpi Bhattacharjee, Sonya Moisset, Didar Gelici

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT

Hardwick Hub

Speakers

Shilpi Bhattacharjee

Co-Founder, Kaizenteq Ltd

Shilpi is an international speaker, panelist. A Cloud Security and AI Security thought leader and advisor with over 13 years of expertise in business risk management leadership. She is the Co-Founder at Kaizenteq, an advisory and training company well known for their Globally Top... Read More →

Sonya Moisset

Senior Security Advocate, Snyk

Sonya is a Senior Security Advocate and a lifelong traveler who lived in the Middle-East, North Africa and Asia. Always looking for new challenges – she made a career change from International Business Consultant in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore to Full Stack Software Engineer... Read More →

Didar Gelici

She was recognised as the DevSecOps Trailblazer at the Unsung Heroes awards 2020 and named one of the IT Security Guru's Most Inspiring Women in Cyber.Didar has held various roles in the Governance, Risk and Audit aspects of information security for 15+ years, in recent years she... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT
Hardwick Hub

Software & Security, Panel

3:50pm GMT

Taming the Chaos: What's Next in Engineering : Ron Efroni, Justin Cormack, Alex Mackenzie and Roxana Diaconescu

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT

Doddington Forum 1

Join us for "Taming the Chaos: What's Next in Engineering?" where top tech leaders discuss strategies to streamline development and anticipate future shifts in the realms of open source and AI. This panel, featuring luminaries like Justin Cormack (CTO of Docker), Michael Stahnke (VP Engineering at Flox and former VP Engineering at Circle CI & Puppet), Alex Mackenzie (AI & Infra investor at Tapestry) and Ron Efroni (Founder of Flox & Board Member at the NixOS Foundation), will explore effective ways to manage the growing complexity in tech stacks and highlight how AI, open source, and security trends are shaping the future of engineering.

Speakers

Roxana Diaconescu

Alex Mackenzie

Justin Cormack

CTO, Docker

Justin is the CTO at Docker, and a member of the CNCF TOC. He has spent a lot of time working on security in the container ecosystem. He is a maintainer on the Notary project for container security.

Ron Efroni Rotman

CEO and Co-founder, Flox

Ron is the CEO and co-founder at Flox and a NixOS Foundation board member bringing Nix to the world.Ron’s journey began in first as a software engineer and later leading the development of large-scale field-operated products. A repeat founder, Ron dove into the world of developer... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 3:50pm - 4:30pm GMT
Doddington Forum 1

Software & Security, Panel

4:35pm GMT

Open Source 2.0: Evolving Global Governance in an AI-Driven World : Sam Johnston, Technologist, Entrepreneur, and Open Source advocate

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT

Grand Hall 2

Software is eating the world, and AI is eating software, transforming the way we build and use technology. Open Source has been at the heart of this transformation, ensuring openness and enabling innovation for the past 25 years. However, modern systems increasingly depend on non-code components such as datasets, models, and APIs—creating challenges to completeness that the Open Source must now address.

This session will outline Open Source 2.0: a vision for evolving to global governance and refining—not redefining—the Open Source Definition to ensure that modern systems remain open. We'll discuss how achieving clear community consensus, similar to a constitutional amendment, could ensure that any updates to the definition don't change its meaning for existing systems and avoid the fragmentation of new and conflicting definitions.

By addressing these challenges, Open Source can fully preserve the four essential freedoms of Free Software and thrive in a world shaped by services (cloud) and data (AI).

Speakers

Sam Johnston

CEO, Acumino

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT
Grand Hall 2

AI Openness, Talk

4:35pm GMT

Security, Privacy & Authenticity on the Web : Daniel Appelquist, Open Source & Open Standards Strategist, Samsung Open Source Group

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT

Doddington Forum 2

In an era of growing concerns over misinformation, surveillance, and data breaches, building a more secure, private, and authentic web has never been more critical.

In this talk, I'll explore the current state of web security, privacy, and authenticity, focusing on key efforts shaping the future of the open web. You'll hear about the latest work in W3C, including advancements in privacy principles, ethical web guidelines, web developer security guidelines, all aimed at creating a more secure, trustworthy, and user-centric web. You'll also learn about how emerging standards like Content Credentials (C2PA) may revolutionize the way we verify the authenticity of digital content, helping to combat misinformation and ensure transparency in the information we consume online.

Speakers

Daniel Appelquist

Open Source & Open Standards Strategist, Samsung Open Source Group

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT
Doddington Forum 2

Mobile & Communications, Talk

Subject Mobile and Communications

4:35pm GMT

Perseus: unlocking access to finance to help businesses decarbonise : Gavin Starks, Icebreaker One, CEO and Founder

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT

Grand Hall 1

Perseus makes it easier for UK SMEs to access green financing by automating their sustainability reporting.

Learn how Perseus will unlock access to finance from banks and lenders to UK SMEs to reduce their emissions faster and quantify the impact of such finance. Its objective is to reduce emissions faster.

Perseus is amongst the most advanced cross-sector smart data schemes in the UK, bringing together strategic target sectors of energy and finance, convening an outstanding constellation of stakeholders to co-design and implement the solution.

Come along to this session to find out more about this innovative approach to sharing data, changing behaviour, and achieving Net Zero.

Speakers

Gavin Starks

CEO and Founder, Icebreaker One

Gavin has created over a dozen companies, employing 100’s of people, and delivering $100M’s in measurable impact. He co-chaired the development of the Open Banking Standard and was founding CEO of the Open Data Institute. He has mentored, chaired, or been a non-exec of over 40... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT
Grand Hall 1

Open Data, Talk

4:35pm GMT

TBC : Stephen Augustus

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT

Doddington Forum 1

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Operator is a great tool that helps make your life a little easier by managing OTel for you in your Kubernetes cluster, by:
Managing the deployment of the OpenTelemetry Collector
Managing the configuration of a fleet of OpenTelemetry Collectors via OpAMP integration
Injecting and configuring auto-instrumentation into your pods

But what happens when THINGS. DON’T. WORK??

In this talk, Adriana and Reese will cover:
* An overview of the OTel Operator
* Common installation issues
* Common auto-instrumentation issues
* Common OTel Collector deployment issues
* …and how to tackle them all

Attendees will walk away from this session with a better understanding of how they can leverage the Operator, and be empowered to use it with confidence.

Speakers

Stephen Augustus

Technical Architect, CTO Office, Bloomberg L.P

Stephen is the Head of Open Source at Cisco, working within the Strategy, Incubation, & Applications (SIA) organization. Across the wider LF (Linux Foundation) ecosystem, Stephen has the pleasure of serving as a member of the OpenSSF Governing Board, the OpenAPI Initiative Business... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT
Doddington Forum 1

Software & Security, Talk

4:35pm GMT

Unifying Security Tools with OCSF and 60 lines of code : Spyros Gasteratos, OWASP, Security Engineer & Architect and Andrea Medda, Smithy-Security, Founding Engineer

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT

Hardwick Hub

In today’s world, security without tool and information harmonization is impossible.

Sadly and understandably, most security projects excel at doing one thing very well, however this is insufficient for most projects and organizations who need a combination of tooling in order to efficiently implement a cybersecurity strategy.

This is why we built and open-sourced Smithy.

Smithy is a framework/SDK and an optional execution engine that allows practitioners to orchestrate any security tool and translate its information to the popular security results standard OCSF. Translating outputs to OCSF format is not an easy process as the standard can be loose in some parts.

In this talk we will walk the audience through our context, why we built Smithy, how the SDK works and our design decisions. We’ll also talk about how we leveraged protobuf to extend the OCSF format and accelerate our development thanks to its strong types, code generation capabilities and built in versioning.

Further we will show participants what are the supported components, how to create a sample component and of course pitfalls, tips and tricks.

At the end of the talk, participants will be able to orchestrate any security tool that provides an api or some sort of way to gather its results into any cybersecurity programme, for free.

Speakers

Spyros Gasteratos

Security Engineer & Architect, OWASP

Spyros has over 15 years of experience in the security world. Since the beginning of his career he has been an avid supporter and contributor of open source software and an OWASP volunteer. Currently he is interested in the harmonization of security tools and information and is currently... Read More →

Andrea Medda

Founding Engineer, Smithy-Security

Founding Engineer at Smithy-Security & ex Senior Systems engineer at Cloudflare in Devtools.I started my career working in very small italian companies, mainly for free.I discovered Go and fell in love with it and I took the very difficult decision to leave my land and relocate to... Read More →

Wednesday February 5, 2025 4:35pm - 5:00pm GMT
Hardwick Hub

Software & Security, Talk