State of Open Con 2025

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.