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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6:45am CDT

7:30am CDT

Welcome Coffee Ballroom Foyer (Level One) Zen Zone 204B (Level Two) Coat & Bag Check Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

8:00am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome Back 101 A-J (Level One)

9:05am CDT

Keynote Panel: From Repo to Rocketship: How Open Source Foundations Supercharge AI Ecosystems - Stephen Chin, Neo4j; Lin Sun, Solo.io; Jakub Kuderski, AMD; Deepyaman Datta, Open Source Maintainer 101 A-J (Level One)

9:35am CDT

Keynote: Belle Guttman, Senior Software Engineering Manager, AWS 101 A-J (Level One)

9:45am CDT

Keynote: Where AI Meets the Physical World: The Robot MCP Ecosystem as an Open Bridge Between AI and Robotics - Rohit John Varghese, Director of Systems Engineering and Product, Contoro Robotics 101 A-J (Level One)

10:05am CDT

Keynote to be Announced 101 A-J (Level One)

10:30am CDT

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

10:45am CDT

Sponsor Activity - DA Spotlight Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

11:00am CDT

Lightning Talk: AI Can Contribute. It Can't Lead - Lahari Chowtoori, AWS 200J (Level Two) Panel Discussion: Building an Enterprise Platform for Production-Ready AI Agents - Jothsna Praveena Pendyala, Infosys Ltd; Brett Smith, SAS; Steve Taylor, DeployHub; Sundeep Bobba, Southwest Airlines 200C (Level Two) From Guidance To Guardrails: Cost & Carbon Policy-as-Code With OPA in CI - Machiko Shinozuka & Kouki Hama, NTT, Inc 200F (Level Two) Sponsored Session: Cloud Native AI: From Conformance to Production - Jake Pineda, CNCF 200I (Level Two) From PLC–SCADA To Digital Twins: Architecting Real-Time Industrial Systems for Scale and Resilience - Avadh Nagaralawala, Independent Consultant 208C+D (Level Two) State of Embedded Linux - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation 208A+B (Level Two) Optimizing Power Consumption in Embedded Linux: Techniques and Tradeoffs - Kendall Willis, Texas Instruments 205C+D (Level Two) Connecting the Dots With Context Graphs - Stephen Chin, Neo4j 211A+B (Level Two) What Running FreeBSD on a Modern Laptop Taught Me - Deb Goodkin, The FreeBSD Foundation 200H (Level Two) Driving Kubernetes’ Global Adoption and Contributions With Documentation - Rey Lejano, Red Hat 200E (Level Two) Small Government, Big Problems: Utilizing OSS To Support Our Citizens - Bob Henderson, Cass County Government 200A (Level Two) Trusted Publishing: Eliminating Credentials From Your Release Workflow - Mike Fiedler, Python Software 200G (Level Two) Sim‑to‑Flight: Why Starting With Simulation Is the Fastest Path To Successful Flight Testing - Anthony Comer, Oklahoma State University & Eric Hillsberg, MathWorks 200D (Level Two)

11:35am CDT

Lightning Talk: It's Friday! - Alon Nisser, Zencity 200C (Level Two)

11:50am CDT

Platform Engineering: Herding the Electric Sheep - Brett Smith, SAS 200C (Level Two)

11:55am CDT

Unified Database Provisioning and Management on Kubernetes - Kyle Avants, Percona 200F (Level Two) Easy Bring-up Your RISC-V SBC Using Yocto Project - RISC-V Architecture Layer - Khem Raj, Comcast 208A+B (Level Two) From Physics To EBPF: Quantifying Flash Wear in Embedded Systems - Blake Hildebrand, Nordic Semiconductor 208C+D (Level Two) SPDX and SBOM Work for the Linux Kernel - Tim Bird, Sony Electronics 205C+D (Level Two) From Tools To Platforms: MCP Patterns for Building Open Agent Ecosystems - Guangya Liu, JPMC 211A+B (Level Two) Harnessing Git's Superpowers for Code Navigation and Debugging - Matheus Bernardino, Qualcomm 200H (Level Two) Beyond SBOMs: Making License Data Actionable With ClearlyDefined - Jamie Magee, Microsoft 200A (Level Two) How Apache Superset Reinvented (and Re-engineered) Its World of Documentation - Evan Rusackas, Preset, Inc 200E (Level Two) The Non-Transferrable Playbook: Advocacy Models for Open Source - Danica Fine, Snowflake 200J (Level Two) Package Testing Across Distributions and Architectures at Scale: A Molecule and QEMU Approach - Yash Panchal, Percona 200G (Level Two) Sponsored Session: Driftless: An Open Source Agentic Reconciliation Framework Proven At Scale - Manfred Moser, Chainguard 200I (Level Two) Multi-robot Air-Ground Collaboration With PX4 and Opportunistic Communications - Fernando Cladera, University of Pennsylvania - Devester 200D (Level Two)

12:20pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Where Deployment Authority Lives: A Cloud Native Design Pitfall in GitOps - Kim Schaefer, Game Plan Tech 200C (Level Two)

12:35pm CDT

Better Together Lunch Seasons (Level Two) Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees) Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

12:45pm CDT

Bring Your Lunch, We'll Bring Our Notebooks: Securing Software Workflows - Tabatha DiDomenico, G-Research Open Source; Kadi McKean, ReversingLabs; Stacey Potter, OpenSSF & Katherine Druckman, JetBrains 200C (Level Two)

2:10pm CDT

Security Things: How OpenSSF’s Technical Initiatives Keep You Safe From the Upside Down! - Stacey Potter, OpenSSF & Katherine Druckman, JetBrains 200C (Level Two) Off-Grid Cloud Native: Building Trustworthy Sponsor-to-School Delivery With Kubernetes - Vuyo Mhlotshane, Loakit 200F (Level Two) From Malloc To Box: A Practical Guide To Rustification - Christina Quast, Independent 208C+D (Level Two) Practical Insights Into Interactive Debugging of Linux MMC Block Device Drivers - Akhilesh Patil, Amazon 208A+B (Level Two) Automating Linux Kernel Crash Analysis With LLMs - Chris Arges, Cloudflare 205C+D (Level Two) Beyond Static RAG: Building Self-Correcting Agentic Pipelines With Open Source Databases - Ben Grieser, MariaDB 211A+B (Level Two) Uncouth Users, Dopey Developers and Crazy Cryptographers OR Why It's Never the Architect's Fault - Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing Consortium & Christopher Robinson, OpenSSF 200H (Level Two) Architecting for Onboarding: Building a "Docs-as-Code" Pipeline for Open Source Sustainability - Sai Sravan Cherukuri, Independent Contributor 200E (Level Two) Building Sustainable Open Source: The Harper Story - Ethan Arrowood, Harper 200A (Level Two) Open Source Is Not the Same Anymore - Faeka Ansari, Akuity Inc. & Nasi Chaudhari, Yugabyte 200J (Level Two) Package Managers Metadata and Cross Ecosystem Projects in the Era of SBOMs - Damián Vicino, Datadog 200G (Level Two) Unified Autonomy Stack - Nikhil Khedekar & Kostas Alexis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 200D (Level Two)

2:45pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Offensive and Defensive Strategies for Addressing Open-Source Vulnerabilities - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc. 200C (Level Two)

3:00pm CDT

GitOps Gone Wild: Hardening Delivery Pipelines for the AI Era - Julien Semaan, Kubex & Corey McGalliard, Akamai 200C (Level Two)

3:05pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Reliability at the Edge: Fail-Safe Multi Cluster Orchestration With Kubestellar - Munachimso (Muna) Nwaiwu, Cornell University 200F (Level Two) Microseconds Matter : Benchmarking Thread Synchronization - Gautham Ponnu, The MathWorks 208A+B (Level Two) Secure Boot for Embedded Linux: Explained in Simple Words - Roy Jamil, Ac6 208C+D (Level Two) Fork, Explore, Commit: Linux Primitives for AI Agents Exploration - Cong Wang, Multikernel Technologies & Yusheng Zheng, eunomia-bpf 205C+D (Level Two) Identity Management for AI Agents - Abdel Fane, OpenA2A 211A+B (Level Two) The Code Is the Contract: How Linux's Architecture Sheds Light on GPL Compliance - Sabir Ibrahim, Dev Legal 200H (Level Two) Hidden in Plain Sight: Discovering the Academic Open Source Landscape - Juanita Gomez, University of California, Santa Cruz 200A (Level Two) It's Not Rocket Science, It's a Flywheel: Engineering OS Communities With DevEx - Jeremy Meiss, WWT 200J (Level Two) Tiny Repos, Big Impact: Level Up Through Open-Source Teaching - Katie Kodes, Independent 200E (Level Two) What Are You Willing To Digest? Multi Arch Container Image Security and Best Practice - Evans Yeboah Jr., VideoAmp 200G (Level Two) Talking To Drones: Natural Language Control of PX4 Using a Phone, MCP, and ChatGPT Realtime API - Godfrey Nolan, RIIS LLC 200D (Level Two)

3:25pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Built Clean. Receipts Attached - Adolfo García Veytia, Carabiner Systems & Alex Zenla, Edera 200C (Level Two) Lightning Talk: Taking a U-Turn for Caches: Moving Back From Remote To Local - Aditya Mohan, Amazon 200F (Level Two)

3:35pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Where Does Your Policy Actually Live? - Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Inc. 200C (Level Two) Lightning Talk: Confidential Virtual Machines in KubeVirt With Hardware-Backed Trusted Environments - Basavaraju G & Rishika Kedia, IBM 200F (Level Two)

3:45pm CDT

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

3:50pm CDT

Sponsor Activity - Run AI Coding Agents on Your Infrastructure Live Demo and Giveaways Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

4:20pm CDT

eBPF and Open Source Code Ensure the Security of Your Clusters CI/CD Pipeline. - Hudson Coutinho, Linker Bank 200C (Level Two) Hardening QEMU With Self-Correcting Fuzzing Pipelines - Navid Emamdoost, Google 200F (Level Two) Optimize Linux Kernel To Fit Microcontrollers With 1 MB RAM - Jim Huang & Chisheng Chen, National Cheng Kung University 208C+D (Level Two) Why Demand Is Growing for Linux as a Real Time OS in Embedded IEC 61508/ISO 26262-compliant Systems - Dylan Dawson, Elektrobit 208A+B (Level Two) The Hidden Cost of Sleep: How Scheduler Wakeup Latency Impacts High-Throughput AI Inference - Shubhang Kaushik, Ampere Computing 205C+D (Level Two) Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications - Tejas Chopra, Netflix, Inc. 211A+B (Level Two) A Fun Overview of the Argo Ecosystem - Aaron Teague, UVNV 200H (Level Two) Being an OSS Maintainer in the Land of LLMs - Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana Labs 200J (Level Two) BOF: Funding Open Source Sustainably - Georg Link, CHAOSS & Terence McCutcheon, Intersect MBO 200E (Level Two) NixOS for Deterministic Distributed-System Benchmarking - B. Cameron Gain, ReveCom 200G (Level Two) Enhancing PX4's EKF2 Replay Module for Deterministic Integration Testing - Brian Fairservice & Kerry Snyder, KEF Robotics 200D (Level Two)

4:45pm CDT

Awards and Closing Ceremony - Mark Waite, Independent 200C (Level Two)

5:00pm CDT

LFX Mentorship Showcase Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One) Tux Trek Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

5:30pm CDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet CNCF’s Jonathan Bryce: Exploring the Cloud Native AI Landscape Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)