Name: 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
Start: 2026-05-19T12:45:00-0500
End: 2026-05-19T13:45:00-0500

May 18-20, 2026
Minneapolis, MN
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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

Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm CDT

200C (Level Two)

Somewhere along the way, the security ecosystem started asking you to add more steps, update more plugins, and generate more outputs without asking what that actually costs you.

We asked for feedback during a lunch time session at cdCon last year. The feedback was blunt, honest and exactly why we are back for this open-floor discussion hosted by the OpenSSF Developer Relations (DevRel) community. No slides, no demos, no pitches. This is a no-shame venting session with purpose; bring your lunch, your coffee, and your honest feedback. We want to hear from the people implementing and operating these tools. Share where security tools are missing the mark and what's standing between "this is a good idea" and "this is actually working for us."

This session leads directly into sessions with OpenSSF project maintainers, so the people who can act on your feedback will already be in the room.

Speakers

Katherine Druckman

Head of Community and Partnership Engagement, JetBrains

Katherine Druckman is a senior technologist, speaker, and longtime advocate for open ecosystems. She specializes in developer experience, combining software ecosystem strategy, content creation, and community building, grounded in a foundation of hands-on software engineering experience... Read More →

Tabatha D.

OSS Security Engineer, G-Research Open Source

Tabatha DiDomenico is part of the Open Source team at G-Research focusing on supply chain security, secure open source practices, and community and developer relations.

Tabatha is president of Security BSides Orlando, co-host of the GR-OSS Out podcast and holds an MS in Cybersecurity from the University of South Florida. She has spoken at conferences including Black Hat Tools Arsenal, SOSS Fusion, ShmooCon, and Grace Hopper Celebration... Read More →

Kadi McKean

OSS Community Manager, ReversingLabs

Kadi is passionate about the DevOps / DevSecOps community since her days of working with COBOL development and Mainframe solutions. At ReversingLabs she collaborates with developers and security researchers to help entities prioritize their open source risk, reduce technical debt... Read More →

Stacey Potter

Community Manager, OpenSSF

Stacey brings extensive experience in open source community building, marketing, and event coordination. With a background spanning projects like Minder, Flux and Flagger, OpenFeature, and Keptn, she has played a key role in fostering engagement and driving adoption across cloud-native... Read More →

Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm CDT
200C (Level Two)

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Katherine Druckman

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Kadi McKean

Stacey Potter

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