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Open Source in the Financial Industry - a developer's perspective : Elspeth Minty, Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets Doddington Forum 2
How open source companies win : Emily Omier, Founder, Emily Omier Consulting Grand Hall 2
Offshore Energy Digital Strategy Group – Opening up data to drive an integrated energy sector : Nic Granger, North Sea Transition Authority, Director of Corporate Grand Hall 1
Keynote : Allison Randal, Capabilities Limited. Open Source/Hardware Strategist Doddington Forum 1
I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users : Jamie Tanna, Chief Blogger, jvt.me Hardwick Hub
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Building Trust in open source in financial institutions : Elspeth Minty, Richard Sikang Bian and Manik Surtani Doddington Forum 2
Business shifts from open source licensing: The Impact : Emily Omier, Peter Zaitsev, Luis Villa Grand Hall 2
The Benefits of Open Data Across Industries and Sectors : Nic Granger, Ian Betts, and Lee Fulmer Grand Hall 1
Democratizing AI: Optimizing Matrix Multiplications on Intel, Apple, AMD, NVIDIA & AWS Chips in 2025, Ash Vardanian Doddington Forum 1
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
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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
When Your Open Source Turns To The Dark Side : Dotan Horovits, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Developer Advocate, DevOps Specialist, Open Source Evangelist Grand Hall 2
Saving the world by feeding the AI Dragon with unbiased open data : Kaj Arnö, MariaDB Foundation, CEO Grand Hall 1
Lessons from 10 Years of Certifying Open Hardware : Michael Weinberg, NYU Law, Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Doddington Forum 1
Who owns your customer data: Open source, digital sovereignty and your marketing stack: Ruth Cheeseley, Mautic, Project Lead Hardwick Hub
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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
Forked Communities: Project Re-licensing and Community Impact : Dawn Foster, Stephen Walli, James Governor Grand Hall 2
Opening Up Government: Kevin Keith, Gavin Hayman, Lord Wei, Catherine Day, Lindsay Macguire Grand Hall 1
Supercharging Chip Development: Open-Source AI Plug-Ins for GenAI Co-Pilots : Ajeetha Kumari Venkatesan, AsFigo, Director of Verification Doddington Forum 1
Open Source Security: The Good, The Bad, The Vulnerable : Divya Mohan, Nelson Batsford, Mike Bursell and Aeva Black Hardwick Hub
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Compliance Framework - An Open Source OSCAL Compliance Automation Framework : Ian Miell, Container Solutions, Partner Doddington Forum 2
How sustainable is open source software today? Sophia Vargas, Program Manager, Researcher, Google Grand Hall 2
carbon.txt : Hannah Smith, Green Web Foundation, Director of Operations Grand Hall 1
Automotive grade chips with Open Source : Robert Taylor, ChipFlow, CTO Doddington Forum 1
Using European Open Source to build a Sovereign Multi-Cloud : Francisco Picolini, OpenNebula Systems, Open Source Community Manager Hardwick Hub
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‘Stewardship’ as a Model for Open-Source Software Governance: Critical Reflections : Jennifer Tridgell, University of Cambridge, PhD Candidate Grand Hall 2
The challenges of addressing modern Financial Crime – How Open Source might help : Shelley Anderson, Sarah Sinclair, Joseph Goksu and Rob Reeve Doddington Forum 2
Reshaping the Web with the Solid Project : Jesse Wright, Louise Burke, Professor Pierre-Antoine Champin and Laurens Debackere Grand Hall 1
AI Infrastructure and Data Centres: Amanda Brock, Dan Scarborough, Sam Johnston Doddington Forum 1
The future of platform engineering : Paula Kennedy, Nicki Watt, Leena Mooneeram, Shweta Vohra Hardwick Hub
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Enabling Adoption of Open Source Software Without Fear of Patent Litigation: Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network, CEO Doddington Forum 2
Evolving Corporate Reciprocity : Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source, Sentry Grand Hall 2
What's a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack? Robert Hodges, Altinity, CEO Grand Hall 1
Introduction to the CHERI Alliance, Marno van der Maas, lowRISC, Principal Hardware Engineer Doddington Forum 1
As easy as PII - and that's GDPR, not GBBO : Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing Consortium, Executive Director Hardwick Hub
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Cloud Native, Cost Conscious, No Comprimise: Leveraging Open Source Databases in Financial Industry : Lori Lorusso, Monica Sasso, Alex Chircop, Dimitri Vanoverbeke Doddington Forum 2
Old meets new: The maintainer challenge in a new open source world of corporations and regulation : David Burns, Kat Cosgrove, Cortney Nickerson Grand Hall 2
Data Identity: David Aronchick , Jack Gilmore, Maartje Eyskens, Q Misell Grand Hall 1
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
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The Mojaloop Story : Paula Hunter, Mojaloop Foundation, Executive Director Doddington Forum 2
The End Of The Beginning: Open After Regulation and AI : Luis Villa, Tidelift, General Counsel Grand Hall 2
Stream: unlocking water data – the things we got wrong : Andrew Myers, Northumbrian Water, Project Lead for Stream & Lead Architect and Melissa Tallack, NWG Living Water, Stream Co-Lead Grand Hall 1
Build your own SoC from scratch: Marno van der Maas, lowRISC, Principal Hardware Engineer Doddington Forum 1
Software Compartmentalization Everywhere - What Will it Take?: Hugo Lefeuvre, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of British Columbia Hardwick Hub
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What is AI Native Development - and how can we prepare for the journey: Guy Podjarny Grand Hall 2
Making smartphones more sustainable and private thanks to Open Source : Gaël Duval, Murena, CEO Doddington Forum 2
Standardising ownership data to drive down costs and fight economic crime : Stephen Abbott Pugh, Open Ownership, Head of Technology Grand Hall 1
Open Source Security Across the AI Continuum: Andrew Martin, ControlPlane, CEO Doddington Forum 1
Securing Your Software Supply Chain One Open Source Project at a Time : Lori Lorusso, Percona, Head of Community Hardwick Hub
Workshop: Making LLM fine-tuning accessible with InstructLab; Robbie Jerrom, Principle Technologist AI, RedHat Elizabeth Boardroom
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Building AI platforms together, for everyone : Tolis Christomanos, Cheryl Hung, and Michel Murabito Grand Hall 2
Connecting the UK with Open Source: the journey of BT Group and Canonical: Tara Stella, BT, Head of Open Source Doddington Forum 2
AI Copyright Consultation: Sonia Cooper, Antonio Weiss, Kir Nuthi , Kevin Zandermann , Will Scrimshaw, Ben White Grand Hall 1
Rust and Memory Safety : Rebecca Rumbul, Ethan Brierly, Tim Abell, David Haig, Ernest Kissiedu Hardwick Hub
Securing AI Workloads: Building Zero-Trust Architecture for LLM Applications : Rohit Ghumare, Joinal Ahmed, Vinuja Khatode, Shivay Lamba Doddington Forum 1
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Tackling digital poverty through open connectivity : Elizabeth Anderson, Digital Poverty Alliance, CEO Doddington Forum 2
The Chinese AI Ecosystem: Richard Sikang Bian, Matt Barker, Nadia Jiang Grand Hall 2
Space: The Data Frontier : Ed Parsons, Denise Mckenzie and Dean Summers Grand Hall 1
From Paper to Practice: Implementing NIST Cloud Security Guidance : Matt Turner , Andrew Martin Hardwick Hub
Maintaining Open Source Software: Christopher Hoult, Sam Clements, Lorna Mitchell and Derick Rethans Doddington Forum 1
Workshop: Prompt Engineering in Action: Can We Get AI to Code What We Want? Simon Maple, Head of DevRel, Tessl Elizabeth Boardroom
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The Road to the AI Action Summit, Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK Grand Hall 2
The challenges of open source in the mobile sector : Nick Allot, Nquiring Minds, CEO Doddington Forum 2
Bringing open collaboration into new fields through cryptographic algorithms: Phyto Michael, SCANOSS, Sales Director Grand Hall 1
Productionising data pipelines with OpenSource : Tatiana Al-Chueyr Martins, Astronomer, Staff Software Engineer Doddington Forum 1
See it, Hack It, Sort It: How can OSS protect our AI enablers : Marcus Tenorio, ControlPlane, Security Engineering Manager Hardwick Hub
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Production-Ready LLMs on Kubernetes: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Performance : Luke Marsden, MLOps Consulting, Founder and Priya Samuel, TechnoCat, Full stack engineer Grand Hall 2
Breaking Free from Vendor Dependency: How Vodafone’s ‘Network as Platform’ Team Build Telco APIs In-House Using Cloud-Native Technologies: Sachin Kumar Doddington Forum 2
The Bang! - When bad things happen to your data : Michael Cade, Veeam Software, Global Field CTO Grand Hall 1
Containers Rule Everything Around Me : Rory McCune, Senior Security Advocate, Datadog Doddington Forum 1
Secure Isolation and Trust Boundaries: A Crash Course for Engineers : Sal Kimmich, Confidential Computing, Open Source security Hardwick Hub
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Building Inclusive AI Solutions for Marginalized Communities : Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, JournoTECH, Founder Grand Hall 2
Connecting the Dots: The Role of Open Standards in Next-Gen Telecommunications : Tim Armstrong, Startup Founder, Plaintextnerds Doddington Forum 2
Harnessing AI With Data, Innovation, and Regulation : Phil Winder, Winder.AI, CEO Grand Hall 1
Coming AI Threats and Fixes : Kris Bondi, Mimoto, CEO and Co-founder Hardwick Hub
Linux Kernel 6: Path to 10x Faster Databases and Networking, Ash Vardanian Doddington Forum 1
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The meaning of Openness and AI : Luis Villa, Amanda Brock, Sam Johnson, Alex Williams Grand Hall 2
Standards, Open Source, RAND and Telco : Keith Bergelt, Sachiko Muto, Tim Armstrong and Daniel Appelquist Doddington Forum 2
Data Sovereignty in Observability: Joshua Lee, Robert Hodges, Hazel Weakly, Edith Puclla Grand Hall 1
Building Secure Open Source Panel : Shilpi Bhattacharjee, Sonya Moisset, Didar Gelici Hardwick Hub
Taming the Chaos: What's Next in Engineering : Ron Efroni, Justin Cormack, Alex Mackenzie and Roxana Diaconescu Doddington Forum 1
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Open Source 2.0: Evolving Global Governance in an AI-Driven World : Sam Johnston, Technologist, Entrepreneur, and Open Source advocate Grand Hall 2
Security, Privacy & Authenticity on the Web : Daniel Appelquist, Open Source & Open Standards Strategist, Samsung Open Source Group Doddington Forum 2
Perseus: unlocking access to finance to help businesses decarbonise : Gavin Starks, Icebreaker One, CEO and Founder Grand Hall 1
Towards OpenSSF Scorecard at Scale : Stephen Augustus, Technical Architect, Bloomberg L.P Doddington Forum 1
Unifying Security Tools with OCSF and 60 lines of code : Spyros Gasteratos, OWASP, Security Engineer & Architect and Andrea Medda, Smithy-Security, Founding Engineer Hardwick Hub