Speaking Upcoming Speaking Events 7 October, World Summit AI, Amsterdam 14 October, GOSIM AI Vision Forum, Shenzhen 9 November, FTT Fintech Festival, London 18 November, Singapore FinTech Festival, Singapore Past Speaking 22Sep Civo Navigate London: Sovereignty and AI Edition, “Opening the AI Bubble”, Panel, London 22 September 2026 17Sep AI, Communities & Coops (CoTech Autumn Gathering 2026), London 17 September 2026 07Sep KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Shanghai 7 September 2026 08Jul “Whose AI Is It Anyway? Data, Sovereignty, and the Geopolitics of Intelligence”, Panel, London 8 July 2026 30Jun Redefining the Enterprise to Drive Measurable Business Value with AI, London 30 June 2026 11Jun Infosys The Showcase Q1 27, Keynote, “Open Source in the age of AI”, London 11 June 2026 11Jun Fourth Workshop on Multimodal AI, London 11 June 2026 05Jun State of Open Con 2026 On The Road, Edinburgh 5 June 2026 27May Data Fest 2026, “open source and open infrastructure in the age of AI”, Edinburgh 27 May 2026 14May ForwardTech London 2026, Keynote, London 14 May 2026 30Apr Kube Crash spring 2026, “AI + Open Source: The New Software Supply Chain” 30 April 2026 11Mar OpenUK & OpenHQ Rwanda Meetup, Fireside Chat, Rwanda 11 March 2026 02Mar MWC GSMA, Roundtable, “AI Leaders Roundtable: Open Telco AI”, Barcelona 2 March 2026 21Feb KCD Delhi, Keynote Panel, “AI on Kubernetes: A Community Roundtable on What’s Working, What’s Not”, New Delhi 21 February 2026 20Feb India AI Global Summit, “Inclusion, Innovation, and the Future of AI”, Panel, New Delhi 20 February 2026 19Feb India–AI Impact Summit 2026, New Delhi 19 February 2026 18Feb Digital Futures Lab and NASSCOM – Innovating Together: Harnessing Open Source AI for Inclusive Economic Development 18 February 2026 18Feb OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: Building Resilience and breaking dependency in enterprise and public sector AI – how can open source support this?, New Delhi 18 February 2026 17Feb Factly and Meta – AI Commons for the Global South: Data, Models & Compute for Half of Humanity, New Delhi 17 February 2026 17Feb OECD – Democratising trust: Open source tooling for safe, secure and trustworthy AI, New Delhi 17 February 2026 17Feb OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: MCP, Open Standards and Data Workshop 17 February 2026 11Feb Container Days London, Keynote, “Open Source powering the digital economy”, London 11 February 2026 25Jan “The Future of Open Source and AI in Africa”, Open Source Kigali YouTube Live 25 January 2026 15Jan AI & Advanced Communications Conference, Panel, “Telecoms AI Hot Topics”, London 15 January 2026 11Dec UK-Japan telecoms R&D workshop, Tokyo 11 December 2025 06Dec China Open Source Conference (COSCon)’25, Keynote, “Open Source in the age of AI”, Beijing 6 December 2025 19Nov OpenUK/OpenHQ’s The Road to The AI Impact Summit – AI Openness Report Launch, Panel, Bengaluru Tech Summit, Bangalore 19 November 2025 18Nov Civo Navigate India 2025, Bangalore 18 November 2025 12Nov The UK National AI Policy, Infrastructure and Skills Summit, Keynote, London 12 November 2025 06Nov FT Future of AI conference, Panel, “AI’s open source moment — opportunity, disruption and risk”, London 6 November 2025 29Oct Digital Resilience Forum, talk, “Digital Sovereignty and Other Fables”, Madrid 29 October 2025 24Oct Engineering & Developer conference as part Birmingham Tech Week 2025, Keynote Speech, Birmingham 24 October 2025 23Oct CERN Open Source Community Event 2025, Keynote, “The Open Source Journey”, Geneva 23 October 2025 02Oct WSO2 Oxygenate UK, Keynote, London 2 October 2025 29Sep Labour Party Conference 2025, “Business returns in the age of ai”, panel chair, liverpool 29 September 2025 28Sep Labour Party Conference 2025, “Sovereignty Vs Resilience in our digital First infrastructure”, Panel Chair, Liverpool 28 September 2025 23Sep The Benefiting from the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan Summit 2025 23 September 2025 18Sep Rallying for Resillience: Open Source Security Strategies for Today’s Global Landscape, Panel Discussion, Online 18 September 2025 09Sep RSECon25, Keynote speech, “The Rise of Open Source in Research”, Warwick 9 September 2025 08Sep Access to research software: Opportunities and challenges, Panel “Establishing Relevant Public–Private Partnerships”, Paris/Online 8 September 2025 25Aug Open Source Summit Europe 2025, Panel, “Prepare for the CRA: Open Source Governance in the Age of Cyber Resilience”, Amsterdam 25 August 2025 06Aug KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025, Discussion, India 6 August 2025 24Jul MCPconference, Keynote, London 24 July 2025 15Jul CHEDDAR & Friends Symposium of Advanced Connectivity Industry Day, Keynote, “AI Openness in 2025 – Building trust”, London 15 July 2025 08Jul AI For Good Global Summit 2025, Geneva 8 July 2025 18May Open Source Founders Summit 2025, Workshop Host: “The good, the bad and the ugly: Commercial sponsor models in open source”, Paris 18 May 2025 15May Iod AI, Panel moderator, How much ‘regulation’ is enough without stifling innovation, London 15 May 2025 01Apr Kubecon Europe 2025, Birds of a Feather, London 1 April 2025 17Mar AI UK 2025, Panel moderator, “AI Openness – what does this mean and why do we care”, London 17 March 2025 13Mar FOSSASIA Summit 2025, Bangkok 13 March 2025 10Feb Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, Talk, Paris 10 February 2025 04Feb State of Open Con 25, Multiple Talks, London 4 February 2025 22Jan Paris Open Source AI Summit 2025, Keynote Speech, Paris 22 January 2025 26Nov NextGenAI, Panel, “Where next with AI?”, London 26 November 2024 16Nov Green Digital Action Roundtable, COP29, Baku 16 November 2024 15Nov Extreme Hangout at COP29, Keynote, “My Nephew’s Wisdom and Lessons from his Auntie”, Baku 15 November 2024 25Oct AI for the rest of us, Panel, “AI Transparency, Law and Policy”, London 25 October 2024 15Oct OpenUK London Meetup, Panel, “Can Open Source be a Business?”, London 15 October 2024 10Oct Percona.connect, Fireside Chat, “Why Leading Enterprises Rely on Open Source Solutions”, London 10 October 2024 22Sep 22 Sept 2024, SME4Labour and OpenUK Fringe, Panel, “Opening AI”, Liverpool 22 September 2024 22Sep 22 September 2024, SERA and OpenUK Fringe, Panel, “The Intelligent Environment: Building Sustainable Data Centres”, Liverpool 22 September 2024 07Sep Percona University Istanbul 2024, Talk, “Global Perspectives on AI Openness: Law & Policy”, Istanbul 7 September 2024 25Jul IEEE 6G Summit Leeds 2024, Talk: “Opening up 6G”, Leeds 25 July 2024 24Jun 24 June, Bridging the hardware and software gap to optimize HPC, Panel, Online 24 June 2024 31May “IP Essentials for Early Career Researchers”, Panel on IP exploitation route, London 31 May 2024 30May AI for Good Global Summit, Workshop, Enabling openness in the AI ecosystem: An interactive workshop, Geneva 30 May 2024 28May OPEN SOURCE FOUNDERS SUMMIT 2024, Workshop, Why Did Hashicorp Change Its License?, Paris 28 May 2024 22May Stockholm Tech Show 2024, Headline Speaker, “Innovating the future with open source software”, Stockholm 22 May 2024 14May LinaroConnect Madrid 2024, Keynote, “Open Source Under Threat”, Madrid 14 May 2024 08May TRANSFORM Bern 2024, Keynote, “Opening the public sector to the future”, Bern 8 May 2024 28Mar THE 2nd OSPO SUMMIT, Keynote, “The Future of Open Source – What lies ahead?”, Shenzhen, China 28 March 2024 14Mar The DEVOPS Conference – Global, Talk, “Will Opening AI destroy Open Source Software?”, London 14 March 2024 06Mar The Turing Way Practitioners Hub Showcase Event, Panel, “Demystifying the benefit of AI and Open Source for SMEs”, London 6 March 2024 12Dec AI.dev | Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, Panel, San Jose 12 December 2023 07Dec Tech.Rocks Summit, Keynote, “What does AI Openness mean for us all?”, Paris 7 December 2023 05Dec GeoCom 2023, Panel, The Future Governance, Legal and Ethical Challenges for Geospatial Data in a World of Generative AI, London 5 December 2023 27Nov Saudi Data and AI Authority’s Saudi Data Forum, 27 November, JW Marriott Riyadh 27 November 2023 16Nov Future of AI Summit 2023, Panel, “In Conversation: The AI Divide – Will data inequality destroy healthy competition?”, London 16 November 2023 07Nov 7 Nov 2023, ODI Summit 2023, Panel Chair, “Navigating Ownership Rights: The Challenges of Gen AI”, Online 7 November 2023 02Nov 2 Nov 2023, AI Fringe, Fireside Chat, “Striking the balance: Open Source in AI”, London 2 November 2023 31Oct 31 Oct 2023, Women In Tech Festival, Talk, “Changing the face of the UK Tech”, London 31 October 2023 19Oct 19 Oct 2023, XChange MSP, Keynote, “The impact of Opening up our technology – from AI to Cyber Security : Is openness the answer to AI?”, London 19 October 2023 12Oct 12 Oct 23, We need to talk about open source, London 12 October 2023 04Oct 4-5 Oct 2023, Computing IT Leaders Summit, Keynote, “AI, Open Source Software and Cybersecurity: Is open source software the answer to AI?”, Essex 4 October 2023 29Sep 29 Sep 2023, NYU Stern School of Business – Benefits and Challenges of Open Source, Panel, “Human Capital and Open Source”, New York 29 September 2023 19Sep 19-21 Sep 2023, Open Source Summit Europe 2023, Talk, “ADHD – The Power of Diagnosis”, Bilbao 19 September 2023 18Sep 18 Sep 2023, SODA Data Vision 23, Panel Discussion : Let us talk about Data Governance and Regulations with Andrew Martin, Bilbao 18 September 2023 12Sep Borderless Cyber, Talk, “Open Source AI”, London 12 September 2023 07Sep Percona University London: Open Source Databases Meetup, Talk, “What is open source, why does this matter and how do we monetise it?”, University of London 7 September 2023 30Aug Korean Copyright Commission, Keynote,”Licensing Conference”, Seoul, South Korea 30 August 2023 12Jul Cloud Anonymous, Talk, London 12 July 2023 19Jun CommCon, Keynote, “Will Open Source Fail?”, Blackburn 19 June 2023 15Jun DevOpsDays Brum, Keynote, “Will Open Source Fail?”, Birmingham 15 June 2023 12Jun International Telecoms Conference – In partnership with DSIT, Panel, London 12 June 2023 05Jun SCDI Forum 2023, Keynote, “A green future through Open Technology”, Edinburgh 5 June 2023 10May OpenSSF Day, Security Diversity Panel, Creative, Inclusive and Sustainable Cybersecurity: Getting it done with DEI, Vancouver 10 May 2023 05May INTRO, Panel, “INTRO to the Future of Software”, Paolo Alto 5 May 2023 04May DevGuild, Keynote, Open Source Go-To-Market & Enterprise Readiness, San Francisco 4 May 2023 19Apr OCP Regional Summit 2023, Keynote, Will Open Source Fail?, Prague 19 April 2023 16Apr Cloud Native Rejekts, Talk, “Will Open Source Fail?”, Amsterdam 16 April 2023
