Fireside Chat: “State of the EU: AI Openness”

This session is a conversation of the moment in AI with OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock and Long term open source contributor and repeat Founder JB Kempf bringing the audience up to date on current thinking across AI and openness (up to date as at the day of the session) and will cover:

Value of open source and openness in AI
– definitions and other approaches to the meaning of open source, open weights, open models
– data
– The Deep Seek effect, geo- politics  and open source

The Technology Update
– models – from large to tiny – opening them up all the way to OpenAI
– agentic – security, identity, APIs
– what technology next?

Global Policy and Regulation
– standards, de facto standards like MCP and impact on technical direction
– international policies and regulations
-Sovereign AI – what is it and how is it evolving – from the Nvidia Mistral Industrial Cloud to India’s Savram
– Indian AI Impact Summit 2026 – how is it building on the Paris Action Summit in 2025 and has Paris seen Action?