State of Open Con 2025

State of Open Con 2025

Alan Torrance

J.P. Morgan Payments

https://developer.payments.jpmorgan.com/

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9:30am GMT

Welcome: Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK Grand Hall 2

9:35am GMT

Keynote: Open Source Data Update, Avi Press, Founder and CEO, Scarf Grand Hall 2

9:40am GMT

Open Source: The Future Challenge: Peter Zaitsev, Dan Lorenc, Amandine Le Pape, Luis Villa Grand Hall 2

10:15am GMT

Meet The Forkers: Dawn Foster, CHAOSS, Anandhi Bumstead, AWS Grand Hall 2

10:30am GMT

Keynote: Opening up Government: Lord Wei, House Of Lords Grand Hall 2

10:35am GMT

Keynote: Working in the open: The future of digital government, Emily Middleton, Director General, Digital Design, Department Science, Inovation and Technology Grand Hall 2

10:40am GMT

Keynote: Open Source in the Global South: Paula Hunter, Executive Director, Mojaloop Foundation Grand Hall 2

10:45am GMT

Keynote: The Green Digital Declaration, Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary General, International Telecomms Union Grand Hall 2

10:55am GMT

Wrap: Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK Grand Hall 2

11:15am GMT

Open Source in the Financial Industry - a developer's perspective : Elspeth Minty, Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets Doddington Forum 2

11:35am GMT

Are You Not Entertained? Open Source Isn’t the Coliseum : Kat Cosgrove,Independent, Open Source Advocate and Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft, Principal Software Engineer Hardwick Hub

12:20pm GMT

From Fintech to Fintech Open Source - My Unique Open Finance Journey : Richard Sikang Bian, Ant Group, Head of Open Source; Technical Strategic Initiatives Doddington Forum 2

12:35pm GMT

1:35pm GMT

GitProxy: Get code out of your org quicker, easier & securely : Katrina Warr, Citi, Open Source Culture Lead and Jamie Slome, Citi, Operations Lead, Open Source Program Office Doddington Forum 2

2:20pm GMT

How sustainable is open source software today? Sophia Vargas, Program Manager, Researcher, Google Grand Hall 2

3:15pm GMT

Workshop: Getting Started with AISI's Inspect LLM Evaluation Platform: A Hands-on Introduction to LLM Evaluations Elizabeth Boardroom

3:30pm GMT

4:15pm GMT

Workshop: The OpenChain Capability Model - a tool to assess your open source compliance capabilities, and develop a roadmap for compliance, Stephen Pollard, Ocro Elizabeth Boardroom

9:30am GMT

Welcome: Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK Grand Hall 1

9:40am GMT

Greetings From Paris: Feedback from Paris Open Source AI Summit/ Pre AI Action Summit, Lucie Open Source LLM and Michel-Marie Maudet Grand Hall 1

9:50am GMT

The AI technologists: Aarushi Kansal, Engineer AutoGPT, Anastasia Stasenko, Co-Founder, Pleias ,Guy Podjarny, Founder ,Tessl ,Sylvian Viguier, Graphcore.ai Grand Hall 1

10:25am GMT

The AI Policy Makers: Lord Clement-Jones, House of Lords, Dr Laura Gilbert, Head of AI for Government, Ellison Institute Oxford, Chi Onwurah, MP Grand Hall 1

10:55am GMT

Wrap: Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK Grand Hall 1

11:15am GMT

What is AI Native Development - and how can we prepare for the journey: Guy Podjarny Grand Hall 2

12:15pm GMT

12:25pm GMT

Demo: Leveraging AI tools in the enterprise with open source software, Martin Hickey, IBM Grand Hall 2

12:55pm GMT

Demo: How we are modernising the civil service by harnessing the opportunity of AI Grand Hall 2

1:15pm GMT

The Chinese AI Ecosystem: Richard Sikang Bian, Matt Barker, Nadia Jiang Grand Hall 2

2:00pm GMT

First LLMs Trained on Fully Open Data: A New Path for Efficient and Ethical AI : Anastasia Stasenko Grand Hall 2

2:45pm GMT

2:50pm GMT

DeepSeek AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) Grand Hall 2

3:50pm GMT

The meaning of Openness and AI : Luis Villa, Amanda Brock, Sam Johnson, Alex Williams Grand Hall 2

4:15pm GMT

Workshop: Building reliable GenAI applications" (RAG, API calling, testing/evals) workshop; Luke Marsden, CEO, HelixML Elizabeth Boardroom

4:35pm GMT

Open Source 2.0: Evolving Global Governance in an AI-Driven World : Sam Johnston, Technologist, Entrepreneur, and Open Source advocate Grand Hall 2