Amanda Brock, OpenUK CEO
OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock has built one of open source’s most recognised and impactful organisations.
Executive Producer of State of Open Con (2023- 2025), Amanda’s a globally sought-after keynote speaker.
A lawyer with 25 years’ experience, 5 as GC of Canonical, she’s been instrumental in shaping open source’s legal frameworks, as she was internet law during the early 2000’s.
Regularly contributing to tech press, she edited “Open Source: Law, Policy and Practice”, 2nd edition (2022).
Session
The UK is Europe's leader in open source software, by number of developers and contributions followed by Germany and France. It was the first country in the world to have an open source software first policy in its public sector. Whilst it is globally third in AI, it slipped behind France in "open source AI".
But how does this impact its economy?
What does that mean culturally?
What about hardware, data and AI?
This talk will discuss the global, European and UK landscapes in openness in software and AI and delve deep into the data whilst taking a holistic approach to policy and strategy.