Presents

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

Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Parliament Square, London

February 7-8, 2023

That's a Wrap for This Year!

Tracks

Sustainability and DEI will span all of SOOC23’s content

Plenaries & Keynotes

Amanda Brock

CEO
OpenUK

Camille Stewart Gloster

Deputy National Cyber Director, Technology & Ecosystem Security
The White House

Chi Onwurah

Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Shadow Minister Science, Research & Technology

Damani Corbin

Strategy & EcoSystem Growth
Boeing

Eric Brewer

VP Infrastructure & Google Fellow
Google

Mike Bracken

Founding Partner
Public Digital

Jimmy Wales

Founder
Wikipedia

Salem Avan

Director of Policy Strategy & Governance Division for ICT
United Nations

Sustain OSS @ SOOCon23

Pia Mancini

Pia Mancini

Host
Co-Founder and CEO of Open Collective

Ben Nickolls

Host
Executive Director at Open Source Collective

Richard Littauer

Host
Host of Sustain OSS Podcast

Platform Engineering Content

Liz Rice

Host
Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent

Nick Jones

CFP Co-Chair
Head of Cloud Native and Platform Engineering, EscherCloudAI

Open Hardware Content

Lesya Dymyd

Lesya Dymyd

Host
OCP Future Technologies Symposium Chair

Erik Riedel

Dr. Erik Reidel

CFP Chair
Chief Engineering Officer for Flax Computing

Security Content

Sal Kimmich

Host
Director of Open Source, AI and DevSecOps, Escher Cloud and OpenUK Security Advisory

Andrew Martin photo

Andrew Martin

CFP Chair
CEO and Co-Founder Control Plane and OpenUK CISO

Entrepreneurship Content

Professor Eleanor Shaw OBE

Host
Associate Principal, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde

Matt Barker

Host
President and Co-founder of Jetstack

Open Data Content

Emma Thwaites photo

Emma Thwaites

Host
Director of Communication & Marketing, Open Data Institute (ODI)

Sonia Cooper photo

Sonia Cooper

CFP Chair
Assistant General Counsel, Open Innovation Team at Microsoft and Vice President IP Federation

Government, Law & Policy Content

Judy Parnall

Host
Head of Standards & Industry in the BBC Research & Development

Chris Eastham

CFP Co-Chair
Chief Legal Officer, OpenUK

Dan Aldridge

CFP Co-Chair
Senior Policy Manager at BCS

Unconference Content

Hannah Foxwell

Co-Organiser
Director for Platform Service, VMware Tanzu

Paula Kennedy

Co-Organiser
Co-founder & COO, Syntasso

Terence Eden

Co-Organiser
Technical Specialist Architect, Cabinet Office

Delegate Experience (DX)

Boeing VR Procedural Trainer

3D Printing Demonstration

Book Giveaway & Author Signings

Seeking New Gods – Interactive Group Audio/Visual Experience

Sustainability Monitoring Across the Conference

EV Charging Hack

State of Open Photo Exhibition & Individual Headshots Available to you by Photographer Tiana Lea

Festival Tents on the Lawn

Live Podcasters & YouTubers

VR Headset Experience

All Hands Party

Featured Speakers

Anjana Rajan

Assistant National Cyber Director for Technology Security

The White House

David Aronchick

Head of Compute over Data

Protocol Labs

Peter Zaitsev

Founder

Percona

Rebecca Rumbul

CEO & Executive Director

Rust Foundation

Sarah Novotny

Director of Open Source Strategy

Microsoft

Amenities

Accessible Venue

Creche

DEI and Sustainability Guidelines for Track Hosts and All Speakers

Delegate Gift

Prayer Room

Enforced Code of Respect

Doggie Day Care

Neurodiversity Room

Post Event On Demand Access

Work Space

Open Source Job Board
Sponsored By: Open Source Job Hub

Tree Planted for Every Delegate
Sponsored By: Woodlands.co.uk

Quiet Corridor

Sticker Table

Free Live Stream

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