Open Source Summit + AI_dev Japan 2024

Governments around the world are working on legislation to regulate cybersecurity, AI, and product liability for software. The success of free and open source projects and companies has been driven by our technology. Our teams working on legislation and public policy are much smaller, but we also have results that we can be very proud of. This presentation looks at the importance of policy work and what we do that leads to success in this domain. We will look at the international relevance of some current regulations being produced in Europe - notably the EU's Cyber Resilience Act, the AI Act, and the Product Liability Directive. From these, we will look at how these areas could be best regulated in other parts of the world. We will examine the technical information that policy makers need, so that they can make informed decisions. And we will also look at the meta goal of improving our policy work in the long term. We will do this by looking at the methods and organisation that allowed our ecosystem to be effective while working with the legislators to improve these texts.