Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America...

Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026

May 18-20, 2026
Minneapolis, MN
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7:30am CDT

Welcome Coffee Ballroom Foyer (Level One) Zen Zone 204B (Level Two) Registration & Badge Pick-Up Ballroom Lobby (Level One) Coat & Bag Check Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, CEO, The Linux Foundation 101 A-J (Level One)

9:45am CDT

Keynote: UCP: The Evolution of an Open Standard for Agentic Commerce - Anurag Sinha, Senior Staff Software Engineer & Manager, Google 101 A-J (Level One)

10:00am CDT

Keynote: The First Decade of Open Quantum - Sean Dague, Chief Services Architect, IBM Quantum 101 A-J (Level One)

10:20am CDT

Keynote: From Open Source to Agentic Systems: Building the AI Native Era - Brendan Burns, CVP, Azure OSS Cloud Native, Microsoft 101 A-J (Level One)

10:35am CDT

Coffee Break Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One) Solutions Showcase Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

10:45am CDT

Sponsor Activity - AWS: Building Trust in AI Through Open Innovation, Security, and Real-World Solutions Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One) Sponsor Activity - Meet Kubernetes Co‑Founder Brendan Burns in an exclusive book signing appearance at Open Source Summit! Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

11:00am CDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet Kubernetes Co‑Founder Brendan Burns in an exclusive book signing appearance at Open Source Summit! Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

11:20am CDT

Keynote: The Revolution Hiding in Plain Sight: CI/CD Platform Is About to Change Forever - Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Inc. 200C (Level Two) QoD-Centric NaaS Strategy: Policy-Orchestrated Multi-Access Service - Daniel Kibler, EIS Visual & Niem Dang, NHD Consulting LLC 200F (Level Two) Building Trust in the AI Era: Agent-to-Agent Communication With DIDs and VCs - Alexander Shcherbakov, DSR Corporation 200E (Level Two) From Closed To Collaborative: Lessons From Qualcomm’s Open Development Experience - Rashmi Chitrakar, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. 208C+D (Level Two) From Plaintext To Protected: Syslog Over TLS 1.3 in BusyBox for Embedded Routers - Tarun Kundu, Ericsson Software Technology, USA 208A+B (Level Two) MOT: A Tool To Fight Open-washing in AI - Arnaud Le Hors, IBM 211A+B (Level Two) The Technical Talent Market in 2026: How Decision-makers Are (really) Hiring and Training for AI - Anna Hermansen & Clyde Seepersad, The Linux Foundation 200B (Level Two) Kubernetes 2026: The New Operating System for AI & Apps - Mukesh Aurangabadkar, Spectrum & Udit Misra, Salesforce 200H (Level Two) Panel Discussion: OSPOs at Scale: Doing More With Less in 2026 - Ashley Wolf, GitHub; Karolyn Maynard, Comcast; Natali Vlatko, Cisco; Paulette Avolio, Ford; Rashida Toliver, Violane LLC 200A (Level Two) Proactive Governance To Build Sustainable OSS Projects - Dawn Foster, Independent 200J (Level Two) Sponsored Session: Building Community in the Age of AI - Brian Proffitt, Red Hat 200I (Level Two) The Exploit of Trust: Securing the Open Source Supply Chain - Kadi McKean, ReversingLabs 200G (Level Two) Zephyr at 10 Years: Survey Feedback - Kate Stewart & Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation 200D (Level Two)

11:50am CDT

Jenkins - Year in Review and Future Roadmap - Mark Waite, Independent 200C (Level Two)

12:00pm CDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees) Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One) Women & Non-Binary Lunch Seasons (Level Two)

12:15pm CDT

CDF Town Hall - Moderated by Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc. 200C (Level Two)

1:30pm CDT

Lightning Talk: From Embedded Artifacts To Durable Entities: Fixing State in Spinnaker - Ben Powell, Apple 200C (Level Two) Lightning Talk: SSDF Is Not a Checklist: Turning Tasks Into CI/CD Automation - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc. 200E (Level Two) OpenBao: Horizontally Scaling Secrets Management - Alexander Scheel, ControlPlane 200F (Level Two) Debug Everything: Building a Debuginfod Backbone for Embedded Linux at Scale - Colin Pinnell McAllister & Joshua Pevehouse, Garmin 208C+D (Level Two) Do You Need GCC To Build Embedded Linux ? - Khem Raj, Comcast 208A+B (Level Two) When Your Budget Laptop Needs a Custom Kernel: A Linux Troubleshooting Adventure - Andrei Pokhilko, Komodor 205C+D (Level Two) Crawl, Walk, Run With Your MCP Servers - Lin Sun, solo.io 211A+B (Level Two) Next Steps in Multi-agent Systems - Deborah Dahl, Conversational Technologies 200B (Level Two) Being a Maintainer in the Age of LLM Mania - Kevin Hannon, Red Hat 200H (Level Two) EOL, Relicensing, Forks: A Cautionary Tale of CVEs - Bridget Kromhout & Lachlan Evenson, Microsoft 200J (Level Two) Strategic Approach To Demonstrating the Value of OSS Efforts - Dawn Foster, Independent 200A (Level Two) One Signature To Rule Them All: Portable Supply Chain Verification With Zarf - Brandt Keller, Defense Unicorns 200G (Level Two) Turning the Ignition on Safety: Zephyr RTOS in Automotive Compliance - Saravanan Sekar, Linumiz 200D (Level Two)

1:45pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Ortelius V12: Post-Deployment Security Defense for DevSecOps - Steve Taylor, DeployHub 200C (Level Two) OpenSSH + FIDO Workshop - Dennis Hills & Alan Alvarez, Yubico 200E (Level Two)

2:00pm CDT

Lightning Talk: CDEvents: Ending the "Glue Code" Tax on Engineering Velocity - Mihir Vora & Prem Dhayalan, Capital One 200C (Level Two)

2:15pm CDT

Lightning Talk: CI/CD Cybersecurity Guide - Open Source Tools to Improve DevOps Security - Kate Scarcella, Independent 200C (Level Two)

2:25pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Alcoholless: Lightweight Security Sandbox for Homebrew, AI Agents, Etc. - Akihiro Suda, NTT 200G (Level Two) Troubleshooting Like a Senior on Day 1: ReAct Agents With Real-Time Cluster Evidence - Bohyun Choi, UCLIX; Woobin Hwang, NEOWIZ Partners; TaeJi Kim, Bungaejangter Inc 200F (Level Two) Building Virtual Drivers With RPMsg: Key Design Principles, Challenges & Trade-offs - Beleswar Prasad Padhi, Texas Instruments 208A+B (Level Two) Lessons Learned in Embedded Linux Streaming - Tokunbo Quaye, Intelligent Product Solutions 208C+D (Level Two) Booting Up: A Fresh Look at the Modern Init - Antra Purohit & Hemant Bharadwaj, Microsoft 205C+D (Level Two) Automating MCP Server Testing: Engineering Reliability for Agentic Systems - Neethu Elizabeth Simon, Arm 200B (Level Two) From Image To Itinerary: Multimodal Agentic Travel Planning With MCP, A2A, and BeeAI - Ezequiel Lanza, Intel 211A+B (Level Two) Sponsored Session: Open Source Search and Observability in the Agentic Era - Bobby Mohammed, AWS 200I (Level Two) The $300 Enterprise Lab: Democratizing Infrastructure Skills With Raspberry Pis & AI Agents - Derek Bowdle, RTX & Cameron Khorsandi, SAP 200H (Level Two) Merge, Maintain, or Move On? Deciding the Fate of an Open Source Project - Robin Ginn, OpenJS Foundation 200J (Level Two) Scaling Your OSPO With Agents and Automation: Lessons From GitHub's Open Source Program - Ashley Wolf, GitHub 200A (Level Two) From Pre‑Silicon To Production: Firmware Development on Zephyr - Dev Bhaveshbhai Joshi, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. 200D (Level Two)

2:30pm CDT

Keynote: AI in CI/CD Without the Hype: Practical Patterns for Platform Engineers - Jennifer Mulford, Okta 200C (Level Two)

2:55pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Artifacts That Explain Themselves: Build Metadata in Practice - Socheat Sou & Prajakta Kashalkar-Joshi, IBM 200G (Level Two)

3:05pm CDT

Ask the Expert Sessions TBA Coffee Break Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

3:35pm CDT

Lightning Talk: When Pipelines Decide: Governing Speed, Trust, and Accountability in AI-Driven CI/CD - Sundeep Bobba, Southwest Airlines & Naga Sujitha Vummaneni, Ripple 200C (Level Two) Bots Are Your Best Maintainers: Scaling Governance With Automated Security Tools - Chandra Inguva & Manoj Kumar, Microsoft 200E (Level Two) Engineering Quality in a Fast-Moving Open Source Project: WPE WebKit - Mario Sanchez-Prada, Igalia 208C+D (Level Two) Status of Linux Boot-time Work - Tim Bird, Sony Electronics 208A+B (Level Two) KernelScript: Unifying EBPF, Userspace, and Kernel Extensions in One Language - Cong Wang, Multikernel Technologies 205C+D (Level Two) Who You Gonna Call? Taming OpenClaw's Rogue AI Agents With OpenTelemetry and Tetragon - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace 211A+B (Level Two) Quantum Computing for Software Engineers, Not Physicists - Ram Iyengar, Linux Foundation 200H (Level Two) Sponsored Session: Open-sourced Blockchain Solutions: Cardano’s Infrastructure-First Approach - Marco Russo, Cardano Foundation 200I (Level Two) Taming MCP Server Sprawl: Securing and Scaling the Model Context Protocol in Production - Jeffrey Borek & Olivia Buzek, IBM 200A (Level Two) StageX: Rebuilding Trust Through Multi-Signed, Full-Source Bootstrapped, and Reproducible Builds - Danny Grove, Manifest Cyber & Lance Vick, Distrust 200G (Level Two) DroneCode Community Update - Ramon Roche, DroneCode Foundation & Lorenz Meier, Creator of PX4 & Auterion 200B (Level Two) Beyond Static Devicetrees: Implementing Runtime Hardware Dynamism in Zephyr - Wai-Hong Tam, Google 200D (Level Two) BoF: DRA for AI Workloads: Where Does the Spec Need To Go Next? - Yahav Biran, Amazon 200F (Level Two) FLOSS Mentorship Unconference: A Community Event to Share, Shape, & Scale Mentoring Efforts in Open Source (Open to All Attendees; No Pre-registration Required) 200J (Level Two)

4:00pm CDT

Panel Discussion: Protecting the Software Supply Chain with AI - Jennifer Mulford, Okta; Ryo Sugahara, NTT; Mihir Vora, Capital One; Tracy Ragan, DeployHub 200C (Level Two)

4:30pm CDT

Why Is It Always DNS?: Rethinking & Engineering Node-Level DNS Resolution in Kubernetes - Shaheen Sayyed & Ankur Singh, Red Hat 200F (Level Two) The Architecture of Accountability: Transparency in Software - Hayden Blauzvern, Google 200E (Level Two) Bootph: A Swiss Army Knife for Boot-Time Optimization - Gokul Praveen & Beleswar Prasad Padhi, Texas Instruments 208A+B (Level Two) Complying With Regulatory SBoM Requirements Using the Yocto Project - Joshua Watt, Garmin 208C+D (Level Two) What Developers Should Know About Hardware Architecture - Dave Neary, Ampere Computing 205C+D (Level Two) Scaling LLM Inference With Tiered Caching: Extending LMCache With Amazon SageMaker HyperPod - Yihua Cheng, Tensormesh, Inc. & Ziwen Ning 211A+B (Level Two) Sponsored Session: When Your AI Agent Has Keys to Production: Governance Patterns for Autonomous Development - Nicky Pike, Coder 200I (Level Two) Quantum Computing for AI Engineers: Foundations, Limits, and Future Possibilities - Alireza Rahmani, Red Hat 200H (Level Two) Lazy Rivers and Open Source Security: Learn About the OpenSSF With Angelah and Stacey - Angelah Liu & Stacey Potter, Linux Foundation 200A (Level Two) Image Composer Tool: Declarative Multi-Distro Linux Image Builds From Packages - Mats Agerstam & Alpesh Rodage, Intel Corporation 200G (Level Two) Leveraging GPU-accelerated Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry in PX4 Using ROS2 - Andrew Brahim, Ascend Engineering 200B (Level Two) Fuzzing Zephyr Apps - Struggles of Dynamic Analysis on Embedded Applications - Jayashree Srinivasan, Analog Devices 200D (Level Two)

4:35pm CDT

The Probabilistic Pipeline: From Green To Safe - Mihir Vora, Capital One 200C (Level Two)

5:00pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Why Don't AI Technologies and CI/CD Pipelines Get Along? - Ryo Sugahara, NTT DATA GROUP Corporation 200C (Level Two)

5:15pm CDT

Lightning Talk: The Era of Agentic Continuous Delivery - Vibhav Bobade, Red Hat 200C (Level Two)

5:25pm CDT

Monolithic To Cloud Native: Lessons From Migrating Heroku To EKS at Scale - Mateen Anjum, Phono Technologies Inc 200F (Level Two) Panel Discussion: Securing the AI Supply Chain: Critical Infrastructure for Model Integrity and Trust - Christopher Robinson, OpenSSF; Jay White, Microsoft; Mihai Maruseac, OpenAI; Marcela Melara, Intel 200E (Level Two) Leveraging U-Boot Binman With Hardware Security Modules (HSM) for Secure Boot - Riya Aysola & Judith Mendez, Texas Instruments 208A+B (Level Two) Verification Toward Applying SLSA in Automotive IVI Software Development - Yuta Kiyoumi & Takashi Ninjouji, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 208C+D (Level Two) Demystifying VirtIO-GPU: Building a Graphics Virtualization Bridge From Scratch - Yung-Tse Cheng, National Taiwan Normal University & Sheng-Wen (Colin) Cheng, The University of Texas at Austin 205C+D (Level Two) Beyond Vector Search: Building Knowledge Graphs for Autonomous Infrastructure - Torsten Boettjer, Rescile 211A+B (Level Two) Kubernetes Cluster Creation Landscape - The Easy and the Hard Ways - Wendy Ha, SEEK 200H (Level Two) From Compliance To Code: The Cyber Resilience Act, SBOMs, DevTeams and YOU! - Marcus Ross, Hamburg Port Authority AöR & Peter Dickten, dcs-fuerth Germany 200A (Level Two) Verified Debian Packaging at Scale - Frederick Lawler, Cloudflare 200G (Level Two) QGC: What You Don't Know - Andrew Wilkins, Ascend Engineering 200B (Level Two) BoF: Space Grade Linux: From Incubation to Foundation - Ramón Roche & Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation 200I (Level Two) From FreeRTOS To Zephyr: A Practical Migration Guide for Embedded Developers - Jacob Beningo, Beningo Embedded Group 200D (Level Two)

5:30pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Simple Yet Scalable MLOps: Bridging the Gap Between Data Science and CI/CD - Sachin Garg, NavankurIT; Sameeksha Garg, Carnegie Mellon University 200C (Level Two)

5:45pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Taming MCP Challenges at Scale: Move Fast and Build Right - Muktesh Mishra, Adobe 200C (Level Two)

6:30pm CDT

Attendee Reception Mill City Museum

9:00pm CDT

Drone Show (Presented by Uvify) Mill City Museum