Name: Opening the Stack
Start: 2026-06-05T13:40:00+0100
End: 2026-06-05T14:20:00+0100

SOOCon26 on the Road Schedule - Edinburgh, 5 June

Friday June 5, 2026 13:40 - 14:20 BST

Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre

13.40 - 14.20 Panel
Anastasia Stasenko, CEO & Co-Founder, Pleias
Chris Yiu, Director of Public Policy, Meta
Fintan Ryan, Director for Market Insights, GitHub

Speakers

Anastasia Stasenko

CEO & Co-Founder, Pleias

Anastasia Stasenko is the co-founder and CEO of Pleias, a Franco-German startup developing full open-source small reasoning models trained exclusively on permissively licensed data. A senior associate lecturer in data analysis and digital strategy at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University... Read More →

Chris Yiu

Director of Public Policy, Meta

Chris Yiu is Director of Public Policy at Meta, where he oversees the company’s policy operations in Northern Europe.
He also serves on the boards of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) and the Edinburgh International Festival.
He previously led the global Technology and Public Policy... Read More →

Fintan Ryan

Director for Market Insights, GitHub

Fintan Ryan is the Director for Market Insights at GitHub. He researches the technology landscape with a focus on macro trends, including open source, developer adoption, AI, DevOps, software supply chain security, and cloud.
Fintan has deep expertise in open source strategy, havi... Read More →

Friday June 5, 2026 13:40 - 14:20 BST
Royal Bank of Scotland Conference Centre

SOOCon26 On The Road Edinburgh: Opening the AI Stack

State of Open Con 2026 on the Road

Anastasia Stasenko

Chris Yiu

Fintan Ryan

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State of Open Con 2026 on the Road

Anastasia Stasenko

Chris Yiu

Fintan Ryan

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