Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock

OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock has 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”, 2nd edition (2022). 

Recognition: Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech (2023, 2024) listed as #20 in 2024; Computing IT Leaders 100 (2023,2024,2025); Lifetime Achievement Award WIPL (2022); Women Who Will Changemaker (2023); INvolve Heroes (2022, 2023); Novi Awards (2024); and Ambassador, Open Charge Alliance.

Advisory Board Appointments: UK Cabinet Office Open Standards Board; UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure; UKRI Exascale; KDE; commercial boards – Mimoto, Scarf, FerretDB and Space Aye; and Fellow, Open Forum Academy; Distinguished Fellow, Rust Foundation; and European Representative, OIN and Board Member Mojaloop Foundation.

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