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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
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SUMMARY:Delegate arrival and coffees and Delegate Experience (DX)
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CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T090000Z
DTEND:20260605T091000Z
SUMMARY:Introduction
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CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T091000Z
DTEND:20260605T094500Z
SUMMARY:Our National AI Infrastructure - Super computer\, Chips and Data Centres
DESCRIPTION:10.10 - 10.20 Keynote: Professor Adrian Jackson\, Director of Research\, EPCC\n\n10.20 - 10.30 Keynote: Nick Jones\, VP of Cloud Native Platform Engineering\, Nscale\n\n10.30 - 10.45 TBC
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T094500Z
DTEND:20260605T104500Z
SUMMARY:What’s a Sovereign AI Stack\, do we need one and how open should it be?
DESCRIPTION:10.45 - 11.05 Fireside Chat: Amanda Brock with Mark Boost\, CEO & Co-Founder\, Civo and Locai and Jean-Baptiste Kempf\, Founder & CEO\, Kyber\; President\, VideoLAN\n\n11.05 - 11.45 Panel: Sovereignty and Open Source\nCamilla de Coverly Veale\, Global Lead\, Policy & Communications\, Mozilla\nJean-Baptiste Kempf\, Founder & CEO\, Kyber\; President\, VideoLAN\nMark Boost\, CEO & Co-Founder\, Civo and Locai Labs\nSachiko Muto\, Chair OpenForum Europe\, and Board Member\, Drupal
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T104500Z
DTEND:20260605T110000Z
SUMMARY:Demo: Next Generation Robotics: AI Agents for mediating interactions with Humans and Smart Robotic Environments
DESCRIPTION:Demo: Next Generation Robotics: AI Agents for mediating interactions with Humans and Smart Robotic Environments: Godfrey Inyama\, PhD Student\, The National Robotarium Human-Robot Interaction Group\, Heriot-Watt University
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T110000Z
DTEND:20260605T120000Z
SUMMARY:Lunch - Booths open and DX
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://stateofopencon2026.sched.com/event/4aedb97e3dd75e10c671355c3acf86e9
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T120000Z
DTEND:20260605T124000Z
SUMMARY:The impact of AI on open source software development
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://stateofopencon2026.sched.com/event/73440d7002464aefa6f5384611e812ce
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T124000Z
DTEND:20260605T132000Z
SUMMARY:Opening the Stack
DESCRIPTION:13.40 - 14.20 Panel\nAnastasia Stasenko\, CEO & Co-Founder\, Pleias&nbsp\;\nChris Yiu\, Director of Public Policy\, Meta\nFintan Ryan\, Director for Market Insights\, GitHub
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T132000Z
DTEND:20260605T140000Z
SUMMARY:Keeping Up with AI: The Challenge for Security and Identity Teams
DESCRIPTION:14.20 - 14.30 Keynote Agentic Technology and Identity\, Matt Barker\, CEO & Co-Founder\, BoltMCP\n\n14.30 - 15.10 Panel\nMatt Barker\, CEO & Co-Founder\, BoltMCP\, Moderator\nChaamini Mangaleswaran\, Solutions Engineer\, WSO2\nMatt Jarvis\, Director of Applied AI\, Snyk\nSal Kimmich\, CEO\, GadflyAI
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://stateofopencon2026.sched.com/event/be904072b40925b2decb71fed4e80019
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T141000Z
DTEND:20260605T150000Z
SUMMARY:Afternoon Tea - booths open (close down at 16.00)
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T150000Z
DTEND:20260605T160000Z
SUMMARY:The Mythos Effect
DESCRIPTION:16.00 - 16.10 Keynote Adrian Mouat\, DevRel Engineer\, Chainguard\n\n16.10 - 16.20 Keynote Andrew Martin\, CEO\, ControlPlane\n\n16.20 - 17.00 Fireside Chat with Adrian Mouat\, DevRel Engineer\, Chainguard and Andrew Martin\, CEO\, ControlPlane led by &nbsp\;Liz Rice\, Chief Open Source Officer\, Isovalent
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T160000Z
DTEND:20260605T164500Z
SUMMARY:Accessing Data in an AI World
DESCRIPTION:Dave Buckley\, Policy\, Open Mined Foundation\nIain Mitchell KC\, Chairman\, Scottish Society for Computers & Law\nLee Fulmer\, Senior Adviser\, McKinsey\nMallory Durran\, Group Director\, Applied Research & Innovation\, Nesta\nTom Wilkinson\, Chief Data Officer\, The Scottish Government\n\n\n
CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260605T164500Z
DTEND:20260605T170000Z
SUMMARY:Wrap up
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CATEGORIES:SOOCON26 ON THE ROAD EDINBURGH: OPENING THE AI STACK
LOCATION:Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre\, 175 Glasgow Rd\, Edinburgh EH12 9SB\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://stateofopencon2026.sched.com/event/71c0187ab74265cf7f7d3c2fea80a317
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20260708T080000Z
DTEND:20260708T170000Z
SUMMARY:Save the date - SOOCon6 On the Road\, Cambridge: Opening Space… the final frontier
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:SOOCON6 ON THE ROAD CAMBRIDGE
LOCATION:Pembroke College Library\, Cambridge CB2 1QG\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
UID:d28b7b03af12846297e475e63ff0bcf2
URL:http://stateofopencon2026.sched.com/event/d28b7b03af12846297e475e63ff0bcf2
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DTSTAMP:20260525T134341Z
DTSTART:20261006T080000Z
DTEND:20261006T170000Z
SUMMARY:Save the date - SOOCon6 On the Road Belfast
DESCRIPTION:Save the date
CATEGORIES:SOOCON6 ON THE ROAD BELFAST
LOCATION:Belfast\, Belfast\, UK
SEQUENCE:0
UID:0ae37221c80e83f6950071c6a8408312
URL:http://stateofopencon2026.sched.com/event/0ae37221c80e83f6950071c6a8408312
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