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11:15am • Keynote : Allison Randal, Capabilities Limited. Open Source/Hardware Strategist
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11:35am • Open hardware: it's not FOSS, it's not open data; it's not open AI: licensing, economics & community : Andrew Katz, Orcro Limited, CEO
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12:20pm • Lessons from 10 Years of Certifying Open Hardware : Michael Weinberg, NYU Law, Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
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1:35pm • Supercharging Chip Development: Open-Source AI Plug-Ins for GenAI Co-Pilots : Deepa Palaniappan, AsFigo Technologies, DAV Engineer and Ajeetha Kumari Venkatesan, AsFigo, Director of Verification
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2:20pm • Automotive grade chips with Open Source : Robert Taylor, ChipFlow, CTO
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2:50pm • OpenUK'S Sustainable Data Centre for COP30 : Amanda Brock, Mark Bjornsgaard and John Laban
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4:30pm • Introduction to the CHERI Alliance
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4:50pm • CHERI Panel : Agata Samojlowicz, Nuala Kilmartin, UKRI, Deputy Director Digital Security by Design and Simon Hart
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5:35pm • Build your own SoC from scratch: Marno van der Maas, lowRISC, Principal Hardware Engineer
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11:15am • Open Source in the Financial Industry - a developer's perspective : Elspeth Minty, Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets
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11:35am • Building Trust in open source in financial institutions : Elspeth Minty, Richard Sikang Bian and Manik Surtani
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12:20pm • From Fintech to Fintech Open Source - My Unique Open Finance Journey : Richard Sikang Bian, Ant Group, Head of Open Source; Technical Strategic Initiatives
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1:35pm • 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
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2:20pm • Compliance Framework - An Open Source OSCAL Compliance Automation Framework : Ian Miell, Container Solutions, Partner
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2:50pm • The challenges of addressing modern Financial Crime – How Open Source might help : Shelley Anderson, Sarah Sinclair, Joseph Goksu and Rob Reeve
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4:30pm • Enabling Adoption of Open Source Software Without Fear of Patent Litigation: Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network, CEO
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4:50pm • Cloud Native, Cost Conscious, No Comprimise: Leveraging Open Source Databases in Financial Industry : Lori Lorusso, Ann Schlemmer and Alex Chircop
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5:35pm • The Mojaloop Story : Paula Hunter, Mojaloop Foundation, Executive Director
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11:15am • Offshore Energy Digital Strategy Group – Opening up data to drive an integrated energy sector : Nic Granger, North Sea Transition Authority, Director of Corporate
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11:35am • The Benefits of Open Data Across Industries and Sectors : Nic Granger, Ian Betts, and Lee Fulmer
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12:20pm • Saving the world by feeding the AI Dragon with unbiased open data : Kaj Arnö, MariaDB Foundation, CEO
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1:35pm • Opening Up Government: Kevin Keith, UK Open Government Network, Chair
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2:20pm • carbon.txt : Hannah Smith, Green Web Foundation, Director of Operations
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2:50pm • Reshaping the Web with the Solid Project : Jesse Wright, Louise Burke, Professor Pierre-Antoine Champin and Laurens Debackere
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4:30pm • What's a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack? Robert Hodges, Altinity, CEO
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4:50pm • Space: The Data Frontier : Ed Parsons, Denise Mckenzie and Professor Emma Edman
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5:35pm • 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
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9:30am • Plenary
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11:15am • How open source companies win : Emily Omier, Founder, Emily Omier Consulting
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11:35am • Business shifts from open source licensing: The Impact : Emily Omier, Peter Zaitsev, Luis Villa
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12:20pm • When Your Open Source Turns To The Dark Side : Dotan Horovits, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Developer Advocate, DevOps Specialist, Open Source Evangelist
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1:35pm • Forked Communities: Project Re-licensing and Community Impact : Dawn Foster, Stephen Walli, James Governor
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2:20pm • How sustainable is open source software today? Sophia Vargas, Program Manager, Researcher, Google
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2:50pm • ‘Stewardship’ as a Model for Open-Source Software Governance: Critical Reflections : Jennifer Tridgell, University of Cambridge, PhD Candidate
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4:30pm • Evolving Corporate Reciprocity : Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source, Sentry
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4:50pm • Old meets new: The maintainer challenge in a new open source world of corporations and regulation : David Burns, Kat Cosgrove, Cortney Nickerson
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5:35pm • The End Of The Beginning: Open After Regulation and AI : Luis Villa, Tidelift, General Counsel
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11:15am • I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users : Jamie Tanna, Chief Blogger, jvt.me
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11:35am • Are You Not Entertained? Open Source Isn’t the Coliseum : Kat Cosgrove,Independent, Open Source Advocate and Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft, Principal Software Engineer
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12:20pm • Who owns your customer data: Open source, digital sovereignty and your marketing stack
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1:35pm • Open Source Security: The Good, The Bad, The Vulnerable : Divya Mohan, Nelson Batsford, Mike Bursell and Aeva Black
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2:20pm • Using European Open Source to build a Sovereign Multi-Cloud : Francisco Picolini, OpenNebula Systems, Open Source Community Manager
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2:50pm • The future of platform engineering : Paula Kennedy, Nicki Watt, Leena Mooneeram, Shweta Vohra
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4:30pm • As easy as PII - and that's GDPR, not GBBO : Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing Consortium, Executive Director
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4:50pm • The State of Open Source in Numbers: Metrics, Trends, and Predictions : Avi Press, Brian Douglas, Dawn Foster, Jennifer Barth
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5:35pm • TBC
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11:15am • Open Source Security Across the AI Continuum: Andrew Martin, ControlPlane, CEO
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11:35am • Securing AI Workloads: Building Zero-Trust Architecture for LLM Applications : Rohit Ghumare, Joinal Ahmed, Vinuja Khatode, Shivay Lamba
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1:15pm • Maintaining Open Source Software: Christopher Hoult, Sam Clements, Lorna Mitchell and Derick Rethans
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2:00pm • Productionising data pipelines with OpenSource : Tatiana Al-Chueyr Martins, Astronomer, Staff Software Engineer
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2:20pm • Containers Rule Everything Around Me : Rory McCune, Senior Security Advocate, Datadog
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3:30pm • Networks are under AI pressure: Can Cilium and eBPF provide relief? Nico Vibert, Isovalent, Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer
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3:50pm • Taming the Chaos: What's Next in Engineering : Ron Efroni, Justin Cormack, Alex Mackenzie and Roxana Diaconescu
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4:35pm • TBC : Stephen Augustus
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11:15am • Making smartphones more sustainable and private thanks to Open Source : Gaël Duval, Murena, CEO
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11:35am • Connecting the UK with Open Source: the journey of BT Group and Canonical: Tara Stella, BT, Head of Open Source
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1:15pm • Tackling digital poverty through open connectivity : Elizabeth Anderson, Digital Poverty Alliance, CEO
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1:45pm • EU Data Act: Paul Graham, Field Fisher, Partner
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2:00pm • The challenges of open source in the mobile sector : Nick Allot, Nquiring Minds, CEO
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2:20pm • Breaking Free from Vendor Dependency: How Vodafone’s ‘Network as Platform’ Team Build Telco APIs In-House Using Cloud-Native Technologies: Sachin Kumar
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3:30pm • Connecting the Dots: The Role of Open Standards in Next-Gen Telecommunications : Tim Armstrong, Startup Founder, Plaintextnerds
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3:50pm • Standards, Open Source, RAND and Telco : Keith Bergelt, Sachiko Muto, Tim Armstrong and Daniel Appelquist
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4:35pm • Security, Privacy & Authenticity on the Web : Daniel Appelquist, Open Source & Open Standards Strategist, Samsung Open Source Group
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11:15am • Standardising ownership data to drive down costs and fight economic crime : Stephen Abbott Pugh, Open Ownership, Head of Technology
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11:35am • Panel TBC
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1:15pm • Data Identity : David Aronchick, Jack Gilmore
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2:00pm • Bringing open collaboration into new fields through cryptographic algorithms: Phyto Michael, SCANOSS, Sales Director
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2:20pm • The Bang! - When bad things happen to your data : Michael Cade, Veeam Software, Global Field CTO
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3:30pm • Harnessing AI With Data, Innovation, and Regulation : Phil Winder, Winder.AI, CEO
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3:50pm • Data Sovereignty in Observability: Joshua Lee, Robert Hodges, Hazel Weakly, Edith Puclla
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4:35pm • Perseus: unlocking access to finance to help businesses decarbonise : Gavin Starks, Icebreaker One, CEO and Founder
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9:30am • Plenary
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11:15am • AI Keynote: Guy Podjarny
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11:35am • Building AI platforms together, for everyone : Tolis Christomanos, Cheryl Hung, and Michel Murabito
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1:15pm • Panel
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2:20pm • Production-Ready LLMs on Kubernetes: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Performance : Luke Marsden, MLOps Consulting, Founder and Priya Samuel, TechnoCat, Full stack engineer
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3:30pm • Building Inclusive AI Solutions for Marginalized Communities : Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, JournoTECH, Founder
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3:50pm • The meaning of Openness and AI : Luis Villa, Amanda Brock, Sam Johnson
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4:35pm • Open Source 2.0: Evolving Global Governance in an AI-Driven World : Sam Johnston, Technologist, Entrepreneur, and Open Source advocate
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11:15am • Securing Your Software Supply Chain One Open Source Project at a Time : Lori Lorusso, Percona, Head of Community
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11:35am • Rust and Memory Safety : Rebecca Rumbul, Ethan Brierly, Tim Abell, David Haig, Ernest Kissiedu
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1:15pm • From Paper to Practice: Implementing NIST Cloud Security Guidance : Matt Turner , Andrew Martin and Ayse Vlok
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2:00pm • See it, Hack It, Sort It: How can OSS protect our AI enablers : Marcus Tenorio, ControlPlane, Security Engineering Manager
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2:20pm • Secure Isolation and Trust Boundaries: A Crash Course for Engineers : Sal Kimmich, Confidential Computing, Open Source security
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3:30pm • Coming AI Threats and Fixes : Kris Bondi, Mimoto, CEO and Co-founder
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3:50pm • Building Secure Open Source Panel : Shilpi Bhattacharjee, Sonya Moisset, Didar Gelici
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4:35pm • Unifying Security Tools with OCSF and 60 lines of code : Spyros Gasteratos, OWASP, Security Engineer & Architect and Andrea Medda, Smithy-Security, Founding Engineer
