OpenUK logo
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

Amanda Brock
CEO, OpenUK

Plenary Host

Aarushi Kansal
AI Engineer, AutoGPT

Plenary Speaker

Amandine Le Pape -21071

Amandine Le Pape
Co-Founder & COO, Element/Matrix

Plenary Speaker

Anastasia Stasenko

Anastasia Stasenko
Co-founder & CEO, Pleias

Plenary Speaker

Anandhi Bumstead
Director of Engineering, OpenSearch, AWS

Plenary Speaker

Avi Press photo

Avi Press
Founder and CEO, Scarf

Plenary Speaker

Chi Onwurah
MP & Chair of the SITC

Plenary Speaker

Dan Lorenc
Co-Founder and CEO, Chainguard

Plenary Speaker

Dr Laura Gilbert
Head of AI for Government, the Ellison Institute of Technology

Plenary Speaker

Emily Middleton
Director General, Digital Centre Design, DSIT

Plenary Speaker

Guy Pordjany
Founder & CEO, Tessl

Plenary Speaker

Lord Nat Wei
House of Lords

Plenary Speaker

Luis Villa
VP, Sonar

Plenary Speaker

Lord Clement-Jones CBE
Spokesperson, House of Lords

Plenary Speaker

LUCIE
Open Source generative AI

Plenary Speaker

Michel-Marie MAUDET
Co-Founder and Managing Director, LINAGORA

Plenary Speaker

Paula Hunter
Executive Director, Mojaloop Foundation

Plenary Speaker

Peter Zaitsev
Founder, Percona

Plenary Speaker

Tomas Lamanauskas
Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union: The Green Digital Action Declaration

Plenary Speaker

Tracks

Andrew Martin
CEO and Co-Founder Control Plane and OpenUK CISO

CFP Co-Chair, Track Co-Host

Nick Jones photo
Nick Jones
Head of Engineering at Nscale

CFP Co-Chair

Divya Mohan
Open source maintainer & advocate

Track Co-Host

Rebecca Rumbul
Executive Director & CEO Rust Foundation

Track Co-Host

david Aronchick
David Aronchick
CEO, Expanso

CFP Chair

 

Emma Thwaites
Director of Corporate Affairs, Open Data Institute

Track Co-Host

Sonia Cooper
AGC, Microsoft; VP, IP Federation

Track Co-Host

Terence Eden
Principal Privacy Architect, Our Future Health UK

Track Co-Host

Dawn Foster
Director of Open Source, CHAOSS Project

Track Co-Host

Emily Omier
Consultant, Emily Omier Consulting

CFP Chair and Track Co-Host

Amanda Brock
Amanda Brock
CEO, OpenUK

CFP Chair

Matt Barker
Matt Barker
Entrepreneur in Residence, OpenUK

Track Co-Host

Alex Williams
Founder and Publisher, The New Stack

Track Co-Host

Alex Newson
Senior Lawyer, Networks and Research at BT

Track Co-Host

Dan Jenkins
Founder, CommCon/ Everycast Labs/ Nimble Ape

CFP Co-Chair

nick allott
Nick Allot
CEO, Nquiring Minds

Track Co-Host

Ann Schlemmer
CEO, Percona

CFP Co-Chair and Track Host

Lee Fulmer
Data Sorcerer in Financial Services

CFP Co-Chair and Track Host 

Allison Randall
Open Source /  Hardware Strategist 

CFP Chair and Track Host

Awesome Sponsors

Fantastic Sponsors

Brilliant Sponsors

Media Partners

Conference team / Organisers

Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

Executive Producer

Abby Crimlis

Project Manager

Daisy Andrews

Support Manager

Eunice Hung

Conference Director

Kim Fletcher

Volunteer Manager

Mark Kember

Communications Director

Martina Po

Communications Manager

Peter Maraczi

AV Manager

Sam Hepburn

Volunteer Manager

Stefania Chaplin

Speaker Liaison

Zin Lwin

Design Lead