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Chi Onwurah MP & Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee on Science, Innovation and Technology Bio Chi Onwurah is the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010. Current: Representation: Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West [4 July 2024-Present] Party Affiliation: Labour […]

Anastasia Stasenko Co-founder & CEO, Pleias Bio Anastasia Stasenko is the co-founder of the French startup Pleias, which developed the first LLMs trained exclusively on permissively licensed data. She has also coordinated the collection of CommonCorpus, the largest open dataset for training LLM. Among her recent projects is the development of Albert, the first sovereign AI

Lord Clement-Jones CBE Spokesperson, House of Lords Bio ​ Lord Clement-Jones CBE was awarded CBE for political services in 1988 and life peer in 1998.  He is the Liberal Democrat House of Lords spokesperson for Science, Innovation and Technology and a current member of the Industry and Regulators Committee.  He is former Chair of the

Alex Newson Senior Lawyer, Networks and Research at BT Bio Alex is a senior lawyer at BT. He supports BT’s Networks & Research area, working on complex contracts, disputes, and a range of other subject matters. Previously, he was the senior lawyer for litigation & IP at another FTSE 100 business, and has also worked

Emma Thwaites Director of Corporate Affairs, Open Data Institute Bio Emma’s portfolio at the ODI encompasses public policy, events and engagement, Data as Culture, communications and marketing, product and innovation, ODI Membership and the ODI Summit. Emma’s team comprises individuals with multi-disciplinary expertise to deliver behaviour and culture change consultancy – specialising in the global

Terence Eden Principal Privacy Architect, Our Future Health UK Bio Terence Eden is a technology expert with a focus on open standards. He is an open source coder, open data publisher, and freelance cyber-security consultant. He was formerly the UK Government’s representative to the W3C. He speaks around the world on open standards, open source

Matt Barker Entrepreneur in Residence Bio Matt Barker is President and Co-founder of Jetstack. He’s spent his career in open source software vendors and was an early employee at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, and then NoSQL Database company MongoDB, seeing the company grow from a few millions of dollars in revenue to a

Divya Mohan Open source maintainer & advocate Bio Divya is a Senior Technical Evangelist at SUSE, where she contributes to Rancher’s cloud native open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for the Kubernetes & LitmusChaos projects & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure with HSBC & IGate Global Solutions

Peter Zaitsev Founder at Percona, FerretDB, Coroot Bio Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot, FerretDB and other tech companies. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has applied his technical knowledge and entrepreneurial drive to contribute as a board member and advisor to several

Dan Lorenc Co-Founder and CEO, Chainguard Bio Dan Lorenc is co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, a company revolutionizing how organizations build securely with open source software, shaping modern development practices for companies like Wiz, Canva, GitLab, and Snowflake.His foundational contributions to software supply chain security predate watershed moments like SolarWinds and Log4j. Before founding Chainguard,