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SOOCon26 on the Road Schedule - Edinburgh, 5 June
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What’s a Sovereign AI Stack, do we need one and how open should it be?
Friday June 5, 2026 10:45 - 11:45 BST
Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre
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

11.05 - 11.45 Panel: Sovereignty and Open Source
Camilla de Coverly Veale, Global Lead, Policy & Communications, Mozilla
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, Founder & CEO, Kyber; President, VideoLAN
Mark Boost, CEO & Co-Founder, Civo and Locai Labs
Sachiko Muto, Chair OpenForum Europe, and Board Member, Drupal
Speakers
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Amanda Brock

CEO, OpenUK and OpenHQ
OpenUK CEO and Executive Producer State of Open Con, Amanda’s 25 years’ legal experience includes being instrumental in shaping open source’s legal frameworks and internet law in 2000’s. Sought-after international keynote speaker, tech press contributor and editor “Open... Read More →
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Camilla de Coverly Veale

Global Lead, Policy & Communications, Mozilla
Camilla is Global Lead, Policy & Communications at Mozilla, where they work across Mozilla’s portfolio including its products, Mozilla.ai, Mozilla Ventures and its public-interest initiatives to advance open source AI.Their work focuses on strengthening Mozilla’s global policy presence and shaping debates on the future of technology... Read More →
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf

President, VideoLAN
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is the creator of the VideoLAN non-profit and a key figure behind VLC media player. Heavily involved in the past 20 years in the open source ecosystems, he is the maintainer of dozens of open source projects, has founded multiple startups in the multimedia and... Read More →
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Mark Boost

CEO & Co-Founder, Civo and Locai
Mark Boost is a British tech entrepreneur, CEO and co‑founder of Civo, a Sovereign Cloud and AI platform built to challenge the traditional cloud model and put control back in the hands of users. Passionate about open source, he champions fairness, transparency, and openness in... Read More →
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Sachiko Muto

Chair, OpenForum Europe
Sachiko Muto is the Chair of OpenForum Europe, a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, and a Board member of the Drupal Association. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government relations and then... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 10:45 - 11:45 BST
Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre
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