July 6, 2016
08:00
Registration and Networking Breakfast
09:15
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Simon Phipps , Director , Open Source Initiative
09:20
Open Government – Building a Community of Passionate Experts
Daniel Appelquist , Technical Standards Lead , Government Digital Service
How adherence to Open Source and Open Standards not only enables but also directs digital innovation
Recognising the capacity for compatibility offered by Open Source libraries and frameworks, Open web and Open Data
Celebrating the value of open communities of practice in maximising development and bug fixing
09:40
Citizen Driven Development with Drupal and London.gov.uk
David Munn , Head of Information Technology , Greater London Authority
Combining Open Source, Cloud, DevOps and Agile to build a high quality, user-focused website
Committing to agile enabled development to deliver a resilient website to serve City Hall and Londoners alike
10:15
Refreshments, Networking and Exhibition
11:00
Code4Health: NHS Open Source Self-sustaining Development
Peter Coates , Integrated Digital Care Record Programme Manager , NHS England
Realising Open Source development as an efficient, high-quality, low-cost route to deliver safe and compassionate care
Initiating, discovering and contributing to an array of software projects via the establishment of the Code4Health development platform
Helping to upskill the health specific developer community through the learning and sharing of innovative techniques and new open technologies
11:20
Open Source at the Cornerstone of the UK’s Tax Administration
Tim Britten , Project Manager, HMRC Tax Platform , HM Revenue and Customs
How the Open Source ethos at HMRC enables continuous delivery and continuous improvement
Building a flexible cloud infrastructure that scales with Puppet, Git and vCloud
Developing Open Source skills in-house such as the Go Programming Language and contributing to the wider Open Source community
Embracing bleeding-edge, microservice based architectures to speed up the build, testing and deployment of web applications
11:40
Enabling Participation and Technical Excellence through Open Standards
Marina Latini , Chairwoman , The Document Foundation
Introducing the Document Foundation and LibreOffice for the Public Sector
Mapping the possibilities of Open Documents – 2016 and beyond
Migrating your tech ecosystem to LibreOffice and the Open Document Format (ODF)
Giving an overview of business opportunities and LibreOffice certification of competence
Please see suggested topics listed at 12:15
15:15
Refreshments, Networking and Exhibition
15:45
Open Source in the Public Sector – More than Just Code
Dr Maha Shaikh , Assistant Professor of Information Systems , Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Focusing on the sauce and not just the source
Making sense of building an open source ecosystem in the public sector
Policy level recommendations to enable the public sector to innovate with ‘open’
16:05
An Open Model for Success – The Trafford Innovation and Intelligence Lab
Jamie Whyte , Head of the Innovation and Intelligence Lab , Trafford Council
Employing Open Source GIS technology to create maps-for-good in Trafford
Releasing Open Source projects on Github and promoting the open ethos with public facing Trello boards
Going beyond Open Source with a fully open ethos for data, knowledge, networks and hardware
Open source technology as essential for Open Data projects to improve quality of life in Trafford
16:25
Open Genomics – Racing to Decode with Open Standards and Open Source
Fiona Cunningham , Variation Annotation Coordinator, Genome Analysis , European Bioinformatics Institute
Depending on open data standards and open source software to drive biological research
Evaluating the power of standards to improve communication globally – The Global Alliance for Genomics & Health
Considering the possibilities of opening up essential data with modern technologies and practices
17:00
Close of Conference and Drinks Reception
Open Source, Open Standards 2016 features a selected range of one-hour seminars that will allow delegates to explore key topics in more detail.
Seminars run in both the morning and afternoon and will encourage interactive discussion, giving you the chance to contribute and share solutions around a number of focused topics led by leaders in the field.
If you believe that you have something to contribute to the day, and want to find out more about engaging the delegation, call Sharon Azam on 0161 211 3057 or email [email protected]
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