State of Open Con 2025

State of Open Con 2025

Dan Cook

Red Badger

Director of Public Sector

9:30am GMT

Welcome: Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK 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

2:20pm GMT

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

2:50pm GMT

AI Infrastructure and Data Centres: Amanda Brock, Dan Scarborough Doddington Forum 1 The future of platform engineering : Paula Kennedy, Nicki Watt, Leena Mooneeram, Shweta Vohra Hardwick Hub

4:50pm GMT

CHERI & Future Security: How Government and Industry funding is creating a more resilient future: Nuala Kilmartin and Bethany Foster Doddington Forum 1 The State of Open Source in Numbers: Metrics, Trends, and Predictions : Avi Press, Brian Douglas, Dawn Foster, Jennifer Barth Hardwick Hub

6:00pm GMT

Conference Drinks and Booth Crawl

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

11:35am GMT

Connecting the UK with Open Source: the journey of BT Group and Canonical: Tara Stella, BT, Head of Open Source Doddington Forum 2