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This workshop will consider how in an AI driven future openess may support a more sustainable future.
A practical session it will aim to provide a tangible, actionable outcome.
Meet Your Speaker
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OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock’s 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”, (2022).
Recognition: Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech (2023, 2024); Computing IT Leaders 100 (2023, 2024); Lifetime Achievement Award WIPL (2022); Women Who Will Changemaker (2023); INvolve Heroes (2022, 2023); and Novi Awards (2024) and Ambassador, Open Charge Alliance.
Advisory Appointments: UK Cabinet Office Open Standards Board; UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure; UKRI Exascale; KDE; commercial boards – Mimoto, Scarf, FerretDB and Space Aye; and is Fellow Open Forum Academy; Distinguished Fellow Rust Foundation; and European Representative, OIN.
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Session Overview
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This workshop will consider how in an AI driven future openess may support a more sustainable future.
A practical session it will aim to provide a tangible, actionable outcome.
Meet Your Panel / Speakers
Amanda Brock
OpenUK
OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock’s 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”, (2022).
Recognition: Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech (2023, 2024); Computing IT Leaders 100 (2023, 2024); Lifetime Achievement Award WIPL (2022); Women Who Will Changemaker (2023); INvolve Heroes (2022, 2023); and Novi Awards (2024) and Ambassador, Open Charge Alliance.
Advisory Appointments: UK Cabinet Office Open Standards Board; UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure; UKRI Exascale; KDE; commercial boards – Mimoto, Scarf, FerretDB and Space Aye; and is Fellow Open Forum Academy; Distinguished Fellow Rust Foundation; and European Representative, OIN.
Bilel Jamoussi
International Telecoms Union
Bilel is Deputy to the Director Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), International Telecoms Union
"I have been working at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the lead UN agency for digital technologies, for over 13 years, currently as the Deputy-Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB). I am responsible for coordinating and promoting telecommunications standards across different sectors, such as healthcare, transportation, utilities, and banking, with the aim of advancing universal connectivity and digital transformation.
With a PhD in Computer Engineering and 28 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, I have a strong background in research, design, development, testing, network engineering, and sales of data products and services. I have also contributed to the development of several international standards, holding 22 patents and serving as the editor of the MPLS protocol standard (CR-LDP RFC3212). Moreover, I manage the customer relationship with ITU members, partners, and stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met and their feedback and input are incorporated into the standards development process. My mission is to enable the sustainable and inclusive use of digital technologies for social and economic development."
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