Officially frightened! Adrian Mouat of Chainguard brings deep knowledge of the Mythos Effect into the room as he keynotes Edinburgh’s State of Open Con on the Road.

Missed out? Video will be shared early next week.

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Deep debate on the pros and cons of AI on the software development side in open source with Chris Plank, NatWest; Justin Cormack, ex-Docker, Inc; Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network; Mike McQuaid, Homebrew; and Paula Kennedy, Syntasso.

And special thanks to Chris Plank and NatWest for hosting us.

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Hearing from Meta’s Chris Yiu on his reflections on openness and their desire to continue to make models open, at State of Open Con 2026 on the road, Edinburgh, 5 June.

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A hero of open source and AI, Nick Jones, VP of Engineering at Nscale, keynotes today’s SOOCon26 in his home town of Edinburgh.

Building the AI Stack with open source, he takes us into the world of hyperscalers, infrastructure and sovereignty.

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"Talking supercomputers, we have been working on this for a long time here in Edinburgh", Professor Adrian Jackson, EPCC at State of Open Con 2026 on the road, Edinburgh 5 June.

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AI is pushing workers away from college and toward trade schools and entrepreneurship

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/ai-college-trade-school-shift/

Opening the AI Stack in Edinburgh. Only 2 days left to the not-to-be-missed day taking us from sovereignty and Compute through Models and Agents to the Mythos Effect. Learn from and engage with some of open source’s most highly regarded speakers on 5 June at the State of Open Con 2026 On The Road.

Still time left to get tickets at https://stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-soocon26/

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The Next Generation of Robotics embodies agentic AI. See the AI Agents for mediating interactions with Humans and Smart Robotic Environments. demo and meet the robots with the National Robotarium Human-Robot Interaction Group, Heriot-Watt University. Join us on 5 June at RBS Conference Centre, Edinburgh. https://stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-soocon26/

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