This in-person event is also being streamed.

Celebrating our 4th year of “State of Open” Reports with the launch of “The UK in 2024: The Open Manifesto Report,” OpenUK continues the evolving narrative of open source software and open data in the UK, bringing to life the reality of open source through our communities’ stories couple with hard data. Our launch event convenes the conversation as part of London Data Week and we are grateful to the incredible speakers of a world-leading calibre including:

Keynotes from economist and journalist Will Hutton author of “This Time No Mistakes”, and Google DeepMind Professor of ML Professor Neil Lawrence, author of “The Atomic Human”, who will also be participating in a book signing and give away. Speakers include Andreas Liesenfeld, Dawn Foster, Professor Elena Simperl, Justin Cormack, Lee Fulmer, Liz Rice, Dr Margaret Hartnett, Matt Barker, Dr Rebecca Taylor, Richard Granville-Hanson and Sonia Cooper.

The pathway to digital success for the UK includes open source and OpenUK has 3 asks of our new government as it convenes the UK’s open source communities. You can add your individual and organisation’s voice by signing The Open Manifesto.

This new Report shared in the launch event, explores the Manifesto’s 3 asks:

• Skills development – stem migration, fill the skills gap and bring jobs to the rural economy by enhancing the UK’s open source contributing community;
• Enable the public sector to do open source – build the next generation of public sector open source engagement, using the UK’s late mover advantage to leapfrog the Open Source Program Office; and
• AI openness.

“It’s not just about the future of open source but how open source can be a part of our future” Lord Wei

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