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) 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: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting 101 A-J (Level One)

9:40am CDT

Keynote: How Maintainers Can Build Their Way Through the AI Flood - Madelyn Olson, Valkey Project Maintainer and Principal Engineer, AWS & Jacob Murphy, Valkey Project Maintainer and Software Engineer, Google 101 A-J (Level One)

9:55am CDT

Keynote: Zephyr: By Developers, For Developers - Kate Stewart, VP Dependable Embedded Systems,The Linux Foundation 101 A-J (Level One)

10:05am CDT

Keynote: Free to Use, Not Free to Run: Reinventing Package Registries - Robin Bender Ginn, Executive Director, OpenJS Foundation 101 A-J (Level One)

10:30am CDT

Sponsor Activity - Distributed LLM inference with llm-d Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One) Sponsor Activity - Smarter LLM Inference: Faster Tokens, Lower Latency, Better GPU Utilization (+ Raffle) Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One) Coffee Break Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One) Solutions Showcase Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

11:00am CDT

Running Open Source Cloud Infrastructure for Public Health at Scale: Lessons From Ghana - Derek Asamoah-Amoyaw, AngloGold Ashanti Malaria Control (AGAMal) 200F (Level Two) How AGL SoDeV Accelerates the Future of Mobility Through Open-Source Collaboration - Yuichi Kusakabe, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 208A+B (Level Two) Defending the Branch: PAC, BTI & GCS on Linux - Bill Roberts, Arm Ltd 205C+D (Level Two) KV-Cache Centric Inference: Building an Open Source LLM Serving Platform Around State - Martin Hickey, IBM Research 211A+B (Level Two) When Similar Is Good Enough: Rethinking Caching for AI - Madelyn Olson, Valkey & Jacob Murphy, Google Cloud 200A (Level Two) Panel Discussion: Code, Capital, and COSS: Winning Strategies for Startups - Hilary Carter & Sam Boysel, The Linux Foundation & Cara Delia, Red Hat 200H (Level Two) BEAR-ing Fruit: How OpenSSF’s Working Group Is Diversifying Open Source Security - Yesenia Yser, Microsoft & Marcela Melara, Intel Corporation 200J (Level Two) Building an Interoperable and Responsible AI Ecosystem Through Standards and Open Source - Charles Eckel, CIsco Systems 200E (Level Two) Building an OSPO From the Ground Up: Enterprise Policy To Contribution and Compliance - Kevin Fruchey & Jeff Skarb, Lenovo 200I (Level Two) Keep It Clean: Practical Strategies for Reducing Build-System and Host Tech Debt - Joe Schneider, Dojo Five 200G (Level Two) Software Supply Chain Management With the Yocto Project - Joshua Watt, Garmin 200C (Level Two) Building Autonomy on PX4: A Hands-On Workshop for Embedded and Robotics Developers - Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation & Nuno Marques, Drone Solutions 200D (Level Two)

11:20am CDT

Lightning Talk: Offline Open Knowledge: Running a Wikipedia Powered Game on Embedded Linux - Azmath Syeda, Independent 208C+D (Level Two)

11:55am CDT

Lightning Talk: Untangling Secure Key Provisioning in U-Boot: Scalable EFuse Programming in Production - Harsha Vardhan Veerappan Murugesan & Kavitha Malarvizhi, Texas Instruments 208C+D (Level Two) From Apps To Infrastructure: A Cloud Native First Approach - Julien Semaan, Kubex & Corey McGalliard, Akamai 200F (Level Two) It Works on My Bench (And Nowhere Else): DevOps for Embedded Systems - Colleen Lake, GitLab 208A+B (Level Two) Open Source Starts Here: Lessons Learned From Building Linux Clubs for Students - Stu Keroff, Lake Middle School 205C+D (Level Two) Zero Trust AI Agents: Securing MCP in Private Kubernetes Networks - Mithil Patel, Equinix 200A (Level Two) Serverless for Open-Source Maintainers: Automating the Boring, Scaling the Impact - Hemant Bharadwaj & Antra Purohit, Microsoft 200H (Level Two) Driving Strategic Value Through Open Source: OSPOs and R&D Organizations in the Era of the CRA - Georg Kunz & David Östman, Ericsson Software Technology 200I (Level Two) Retconning Accessibility Standards With ARIA-AT - Chris Cuellar, Bocoup 200E (Level Two) OCI Images: Not Just for Containers Anymore - Austin Abro, Defense Unicorns 200G (Level Two) The Final Phase of Xen Safety: Solving Coverage and Residual Gaps - Stefano Stabellini, AMD 200C (Level Two)

12:35pm CDT

Puppy Pawlooza Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One) Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees) Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

2:10pm CDT

Building a Shared, Persistent Virtual Filesystem for WebAssembly - Ayako Hayasaka, LY Corporation 200A (Level Two) Hello World, Meet the Spanimals: Getting Started With Observability - Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana Labs 200F (Level Two) Construct a Lean and Fast RISC-V System Emulator Capable of Running Linux - Jim Huang, National Cheng Kung University 208C+D (Level Two) Using Embedded Linux for Autonomous Robot Control - Chloe Zhu, The Admissions Authority 208A+B (Level Two) Breaking the TCP Barrier: Accelerated I/O for S3 with RDMA - Vidushi Mishra, IBM/Redhat 205C+D (Level Two) Introduction To the Linux Boot Process - Angelina Vu & Karissa Sanchez, Microsoft 200H (Level Two) Beyond First PRs: Converting Students Into Long-Term Open Source Contributors - Mohd Toukir Khan, CodeDay 200J (Level Two) Running an Open Source Vulnerability Rewards Program - Hayden Blauzvern, Google 200I (Level Two) What's the Deal With Human Rights and Technical Standards? - Daniel Appelquist, Samsung 200E (Level Two) Is Maven Safe for Production? - Adam Kaplan, Red Hat & Manfred Moser, Chainguard 200G (Level Two) From Pull Request To Patient Safety: How Tidepool Built an Open-Source Quality Management System - Tapani Otala, Tidepool 200C (Level Two) Building Autonomy on PX4: A Hands-On Workshop for Embedded and Robotics Developers (Continued) - Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation & Nuno Marques, Drone Solutions 200D (Level Two)

3:05pm CDT

Cache Me If You Can: Decentralize Your Distributed Caches With Hollow - Viswanathan Ranganathan, Independent 200A (Level Two) The Service Mesh: Solving Microservice Chaos (And When You Actually Need One) - Mofesola Babalola, Extreme Networks & Hannah Olukoye, DKB Code Factory 200F (Level Two) Building the Simplest Possible Linux System - Rob Landley, Hobbyist 208C+D (Level Two) When 10,000 Screens Go Dark: Engineering Resilient Linux Drivers for Manufacturing Reality - Ram Mohan Rao Chukka, JFrog & Subhajit Ghosh, Tweaklogic 208A+B (Level Two) Linux Live Patching: Architecture, Maturity, and Operational Reality - Ratnangi Nirek, Microsoft 205C+D (Level Two) Automating FOSS License Compliance Analysis: A Multi-LLM Workflow Approach Using N8n & FOSSology - Raghavendra Kamatagi, MBRDI 200I (Level Two) The Inclusion Disconnect: Scaling Open Source Strategies for the Large Enterprise - Masae Shida, VMware (Broadcom) 200J (Level Two) Standardizing Deterministic Interoperability and Resource-Intelligent Design in Medical Robotics - Lilinoe Harbottle, San Jose State University 200C (Level Two)

3:45pm CDT

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

4:20pm CDT

Beyond Containers. Why MicroVMs Are Essential for Multi-Tenant Workloads - Alex Zenla, Edera 200F (Level Two) ELC Closing Game 208A+B (Level Two) Syscall Tracing at Cloudflare Scale - Chris Arges, Cloudflare 205C+D (Level Two) Day 2 Neurodiversity: Moving Beyond Fundamentals With Merge Forward - Ryan Etten, RHCA, Red Hat & Diana Todea, VictoriaMetrics 200J (Level Two) From Active To Archive: Shepherding Repositories Through Their Sunset - Natalia Luzuriaga, Dinne Kopelevich, Remy DeCausemaker & Sachin Panayil, CMS.gov; Dawn Foster, Independent 200I (Level Two) Modernizing Software Verification - Craig Christianson, United States Air Force 200C (Level Two)