State of Open Con 2025

State of Open Con 2025

11:15am GMT

Workshop: TBC Elizabeth Boardroom

12:15pm GMT

Workshop: Making good software decisions - considerations in selecting open source software for your organisation, Peter Farkas, FerretDB Elizabeth Boardroom

1:15pm GMT

Workshop: TBC Elizabeth Boardroom

2:15pm GMT

Workshop: Implementing OpenChain ISO 5230:2020 - a practical framework for FOSS licence compliance for businesses of all sizes; Andrew Katz, Ocro Limited, CEO Elizabeth Boardroom

3:15pm GMT

Workshop: An introduction to Valkey, the future of in-memory database technology, Martin Visser, Valkey Tech Lead, Percona Elizabeth Boardroom

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

6:00pm GMT

Workshop: Candle Making Elizabeth Boardroom

11:15am GMT

Workshop: The Role and Ethical Considerations of Synthetic Data for Enhancement of LLMs; Robbie Jerrom, Principle Technologist AI, RedHat Elizabeth Boardroom

12:15pm GMT

Workshop: TBC Elizabeth Boardroom

1:15pm GMT

Workshop: Prompt Engineering in Action: Can We Get AI to Code What We Want? Simon Maple, Head of DevRel, Tessl Elizabeth Boardroom

2:15pm GMT

Workshop: Cooking with Granite - hands-on experience using a family of open, performant, and trusted AI models; Martin Hickey, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Elizabeth Boardroom

4:15pm GMT

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