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Presents

The UK's Open Technology Conference
Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Data,
Open Standards, & AI Openness

4 and 5 February, 2025
Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq.,
St Paul's London EC4M 7DQ

Plenary Speakers

Amanda Brock, Host

CEO, OpenUK

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Aarushi Kansal, Speaker

Director of Engineering at OpenSearch, AWS

Anandhi Bumstead

Anandhi Bumstead, Speaker​

Director of Engineering, OpenSearch, AWS

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Avi Press, Speaker

Founder and CEO at Scarf

Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk, Speaker

Chief Technology Officer, CNCF

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Dan Lorenc, Speaker

Co-Founder and CEO, Chainguard

Dr Laura Gilbert, Speaker​

Head of AI for Government, the Ellison Institute of Technology, and Expert Advisor in AI to the Digital Centre of Government (formerly director of data science and AI at no10), DSIT

Emily Middleton, Speaker​

Director General, Digital Centre Design, DSIT

Guy Pordjany, Speaker​

Founder & CEO, Tessl

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Lord Nat Wei, Speaker​

Lord, House of Lords

Luis Villa, Speaker​

Tidelift General Counsel; Creative Commons Board of Directors

Paula Hunter, Speaker

Executive Director, Mojaloop Foundation

Peter Zaitsev, Speaker

Founder at Percona, FerretDB, Coroot

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Tracks

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Nick Jones

CFP Co-Chair
Head of Engineering at Nscale

Andrew Martin

CFP Co-Chair, Track Co-Host
CEO and Co-Founder Control Plane and
OpenUK CISO

Allison Randall

CFP Chair
Open Source / 
Hardware Strategist 

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David Aronchick

CFP Chair
CEO, Expanso

Sonia Cooper

Track Co-Host
AGC, Microsoft; VP, IP Federation

Abby Crimlis

CFP Co-Chair
Project Manager, OpenUK

Dan Jenkins

CFP Co-Chair Founder, CommCon/ Everycast Labs/ Nimble Ape

Ann Schlemmer

CFP Co-Chair
CEO, Percona

Lee Fulmer

CFP Co-Chair
Data Sorcerer in Financial Services

Amanda Brock

CFP Chair
CEO, OpenUK

Dawn Foster

Track Co-Host

Amanda Brock

CFP Chair
CEO, OpenUK

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Matt Barker

Host

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Conference team / Organisers

Amanda Brock

Executive Producer

Abby Crimlis

Project Manager

Cleo McGee

Speaker Liaison

Daisy Andrews

Support Manager

Eunice Hung

Conference Director

Kim Fletcher

Volunteer Manager

Marina Kiourtzidou

Speaker Liaison

Mark Kember

Communications Director

Martina Po

Communications Manager

Peter Maraczi

AV Manager

Sam Hepburn

Volunteer Manager

Seb MacLean

Junior Designer

Stefania Chaplin

Table Liaison

Zin Lwin

Design Lead