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May 18-20, 2026
Minneapolis, MN
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Sunday, May 17
 

12:00pm CDT

Kid's Day (Pre-registration Required)
Sunday May 17, 2026 12:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Minneapolis Convention Center
The Linux Foundation is pleased to present our annual Kid’s Day at Open Source Summit North America 2026 + Embedded Linux Conference!This event is targeted toward absolute beginners who have a creative imagination. The kids will start by pitching an idea for an app/game. Then with the help of our staff and industry mentors, we’ll help them create projects of their own design to code something...
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Sunday May 17, 2026 12:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Minneapolis Convention Center 1301 Second Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55403
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

2:00pm CDT

Pre-registration & Badge Pick-Up
Sunday May 17, 2026 2:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

Sunday May 17, 2026 2:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks
 
Monday, May 18
 

7:30am CDT

Welcome Coffee
Monday May 18, 2026 7:30am - 9:00am CDT
Ballroom Foyer (Level One)

Monday May 18, 2026 7:30am - 9:00am CDT
Ballroom Foyer (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

7:30am CDT

Zen Zone
Monday May 18, 2026 7:30am - 6:00pm CDT
204B (Level Two)
All attendees may feel free to use the Zen Zone as needed. This is a quiet space for sensory relaxation, meditation, and worship. It is not to be used for conversations or as a workspace.
Monday May 18, 2026 7:30am - 6:00pm CDT
204B (Level Two)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

7:30am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Monday May 18, 2026 7:30am - 6:05pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

Monday May 18, 2026 7:30am - 6:05pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

7:30am CDT

Coat & Bag Check
Monday May 18, 2026 7:30am - 6:15pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

Monday May 18, 2026 7:30am - 6:15pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, CEO, The Linux Foundation
Monday May 18, 2026 9:00am - 9:40am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)

Speakers
avatar for Jim Zemlin

Jim Zemlin

CEO, The Linux Foundation
Jim Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing, and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through... Read More →
avatar for Oliver George

Oliver George

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, GoDaddy
Oliver George is Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at GoDaddy, where he leads global partnership and growth initiatives focused on the future of digital identity, commerce, and internet infrastructure. With more than 20 years of experience across technology, ecommerce, and... Read More →
Jim Zemlin Keynote pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 9:00am - 9:40am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

9:45am CDT

Keynote: UCP: The Evolution of an Open Standard for Agentic Commerce - Anurag Sinha, Senior Staff Software Engineer & Manager, Google
Monday May 18, 2026 9:45am - 9:55am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
The commerce landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift from a "click-to-buy" web to an "intent-to-execute" agentic ecosystem. At the center of this transformation is the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard designed to eliminate fragmentation between AI surfaces and merchant platforms.This session provides a deep dive into UCP's foundational architecture, exploring its core...
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avatar for Anurag Sinha

Anurag Sinha

Senior Staff Software Engineer & Manager, Google
Anurag Sinha is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and Manager at Google, where he leads engineering for Commerce AI Native Integrations. He is currently focused on building and scaling the Universal Commerce Protocol (ucp.dev), an initiative aimed at transforming how commerce operates... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 9:45am - 9:55am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

10:00am CDT

Keynote: The First Decade of Open Quantum - Sean Dague, Chief Services Architect, IBM Quantum
Monday May 18, 2026 10:00am - 10:15am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)

Speakers
avatar for Sean Dague

Sean Dague

Chief Services Architect, IBM Quantum
Sean Dague is the Chief Services Architect at IBM Quantum, where he focuses on making quantum computing securely and reliably accessible through the cloud. He has helped shape the architecture and operational model that allows users—from enterprise teams to learners—to access... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 10:00am - 10:15am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

10:20am CDT

Keynote: From Open Source to Agentic Systems: Building the AI Native Era - Brendan Burns, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Azure Cloud Native and Management Platform & Co-Founder, Kubernetes Open Source Project
Monday May 18, 2026 10:20am - 10:30am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)

Speakers
avatar for Brendan Burns

Brendan Burns

Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Azure Cloud Native and Management Platform & Co-Founder, Kubernetes Open Source Project, Microsoft

Monday May 18, 2026 10:20am - 10:30am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

10:35am CDT

Coffee Break
Monday May 18, 2026 10:35am - 11:20am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Kick off the day in the Solutions Showcase with fresh coffee, meaningful networking, and an up-close look at the newest technologies and solutions driving the industry forward.
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 10:35am - 11:20am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:35am CDT

Solutions Showcase
Monday May 18, 2026 10:35am - 6:05pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
The Solutions Showcase is your hub to network, explore sponsor exhibits, and learn how these organizations are shaping the future of the ecosystem.**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a...
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OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 10:35am - 6:05pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:45am CDT

Sponsor Activity - AWS: Building Trust in AI Through Open Innovation, Security, and Real-World Solutions
Monday May 18, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Discover how AWS champions responsible AI through open source contributions and security investments. Learn about our work with open weight models, collaborative problem-solving, and the infrastructure making open source AI trustworthy. Connect with AWS experts, explore real-world applications, and visit the booth for fun swag and giveaways throughout the conference!Sponsor: AWSLocation: Booth P2...
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OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:45am CDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet Kubernetes Co‑Founder Brendan Burns in an exclusive book signing appearance at Open Source Summit!
Monday May 18, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Be first in line for one of only twenty-five signed copies of Designing Distributed Systems. Join an exclusive meet and greet with Kubernetes co-founder and Microsoft Engineering CVP, Brendan Burns; shake hands, chat architecture stories, and celebrate open source patterns powering reliable scalable cloud systems together.Sponsor: MicrosoftLocation: Booth D1 in Solutions Showcase**In order to...
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OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

11:00am CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: The House Party Problem of Software Supply Chain Security
Monday May 18, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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Speakers
avatar for Kadi McKean

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 →
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

11:00am CDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet Kubernetes Co‑Founder Brendan Burns in an exclusive book signing appearance at Open Source Summit!
Monday May 18, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Be first in line for one of only twenty-five signed copies of Designing Distributed Systems. Join an exclusive meet and greet with Kubernetes co-founder and Microsoft Engineering CVP, Brendan Burns; shake hands, chat architecture stories, and celebrate open source patterns powering reliable scalable cloud systems together.Sponsor: MicrosoftLocation: Booth D1 in Solutions Showcase**In order to...
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OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

11:20am CDT

Keynote: The Revolution Hiding in Plain Sight: CI/CD Platform Is About to Change Forever - Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Inc.
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT
200C (Level Two)
Anyone who has worked on a CI/CD platform knows the feeling: the tools are powerful, but too much energy goes into making everything talk to everything else. Teams sense there should be a better way, but the ecosystem keeps pulling them back toward custom integrations.This is an industry inefficiency. When hundreds of organizations each build integrations for the same tools, enormous effort is...
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avatar for Dadisi Sanyika

Dadisi Sanyika

CEO, Sol Duara, Inc.
I am the Governing Board Chair for the Continuous Delivery Foundation (Linux sub-foundation) and the CEO of Sol Duara, Inc. Previously, at Apple, I led a team of engineers dedicated to improving the Continuous Deployment experience for teams and the community. Our contributions are... Read More →
cdrus expressions pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 11:45am CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

11:20am CDT

QoD-Centric NaaS Strategy: Policy-Orchestrated Multi-Access Service - Daniel Kibler, EIS Visual & Niem Dang, NHD Consulting LLC
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
Delivering predictable, high‑quality network services in dense, multi‑access edge environments remains a central challenge for operators pursuing a Network‑as‑a‑Service (NaaS) strategy, where programmable APIs expose network capabilities as on‑demand services. Quality‑on‑Demand (QoD) APIs act as the intent interface in this model, enabling applications to request session‑level...
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Speakers
avatar for Daniel Kibler

Daniel Kibler

Senior Systems Engineer and Founder, EIS Visual
Principal-level engineer and founder of EIS Visual, Daniel designs and operates large-scale distributed platforms across communications, 5G, edge networks, and high-performance compute. He bridges architecture, execution, and operations to deliver measurable business impact. A former... Read More →
avatar for Niem Dang

Niem Dang

Founder & Principal Consultant, NHD Consulting LLC
Industry-recognized technology and thought leader with 20+ years of ground-breaking patents and accomplishments in the cable industry. Passion for delivering challenging projects through mastery of planning, strategy, technology enablement, and innovation.
QoD Centric NaaS Strategy LF OSS NA Niem Dang and Daniel Kibler Final pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:20am CDT

Building Trust in the AI Era: Agent-to-Agent Communication With DIDs and VCs - Alexander Shcherbakov, DSR Corporation
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
As AI moves from isolated chatbots to autonomous agent ecosystems, the "identity problem" becomes a critical security bottleneck. How does an agent verify the legitimacy of a requestor before executing a sensitive task? Traditional API keys are insufficient for dynamic, decentralized agent interactions. This session explores a cutting-edge extension to the Linux Foundation A2A protocol that...
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avatar for Alexander Shcherbakov

Alexander Shcherbakov

Head of Decentralized Trust Department, DSR Corporation
Ph.D. in Mathematics. Master of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.
More than 10 years of experience in Blockchain, DLT, Decentralized Identity and SSI.
Significant contribution to open source. Maintainer and contributor of popular open-source projects.
Extensive experience sp... Read More →
A2A OID4VP OSS 2026 v1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  Digital Trust

11:20am CDT

From Closed To Collaborative: Lessons From Qualcomm’s Open Development Experience - Rashmi Chitrakar, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
For more than 15 years, Qualcomm’s been actively involved in a range of Open Source ecosystems. Until recently, some parts of our development were handled behind closed doors, with contributions coming later and upstream enablement sometimes being limited. We tried various projects and partnerships to push things upstream sooner, but it wasn’t until lately that we truly made a complete shift. ...
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avatar for Rashmi Chitrakar

Rashmi Chitrakar

Sr Director, Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc
Rashmi Chitrakar is Sr Director of Engineering for Qualcomm's Open Source Program Office. She leads an Engineering team that develops tools for Qualcomm's Open Source Compliance and Contributions efforts. On a day-to-day basis, Rashmi juggles fostering an Engineering community that... Read More →
Closed Collaborative LinuxFoundation OSSNA2026 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:20am CDT

From Plaintext To Protected: Syslog Over TLS 1.3 in BusyBox for Embedded Routers - Tarun Kundu, Ericsson Software Technology, USA
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
BusyBox is a go-to userspace stack for embedded routers, but BusyBox syslogd remote logging is often deployed without transport security—sending logs in plaintext across networks. In enterprise deployments, there exists a security and compliance gap when encrypted log transport, such as RFC 5425-style secure syslog, is expected. This talk shares a production-driven approach: after evaluating...
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avatar for Tarun Kundu

Tarun Kundu

Embedded Systems Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology, USA
Tarun Kundu is an Embedded Systems Engineer at Ericsson Software Technology with 21+ years of experience delivering embedded networking and cloud software. An avid learner and AI enthusiast, previously worked at Cisco, AWS, and Altran.
OSSNA Syslog over TLS in BusyBox pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:20am CDT

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
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
Additional Authors/Contributors: Jim Huang, Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung UniversityVirtIO is the standard interface for device virtualization, enabling guest systems to access host resources and powering platforms such as QEMU and ACRN, which provide virtualized block, network, input, and graphics devices. This talk takes an implementation-focused approach to virtio-gpu. We...
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avatar for Yung-Tse Cheng

Yung-Tse Cheng

Undergraduate student, National Taiwan Normal University
Yung-Tse Cheng is an undergraduate student at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taiwan, focusing on system software and embedded systems.

He has recently contributed to the open-source RISC-V emulator semu, primarily working on a 2D-focused virtio-gpu stack and virtio-inpu... Read More →
avatar for Sheng-Wen Cheng

Sheng-Wen Cheng

Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
Sheng-Wen (Colin) Cheng is currently a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin with a background in system software, robotics, and embedded systems.

He holds a master’s degree in Robotics and has conducted research on quadrotor flight control systems using nonlin... Read More →
Demystifying VirtIO GPU Building a Graphics Virtualization Bridge From Scratch pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux

11:20am CDT

MOT: A Tool To Fight Open-washing in AI - Arnaud Le Hors, IBM
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
Many models referred to as "open source" are distributed under restrictive licenses and fail to include the necessary information to actually qualify as open source. Just because a model is on HuggingFace does not mean it is open source. Several attempts have been made to provide a definition of what "open source AI" ought to be but we now have a tool that can help: the Model Openness Tool (MOT)....
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Speakers
avatar for Arnaud Le Hors

Arnaud Le Hors

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Arnaud Le Hors is Senior Technical Staff Member of Open Technologies at IBM. He has been working on standards and open source for over 30 years. Arnaud was editor of several key web specifications including HTML and DOM and was a pioneer of open source with the release of libXpm in... Read More →
MOT OSS Summit Minneapolis 2026 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:20am CDT

The Technical Talent Market in 2026: How Decision-makers Are (really) Hiring and Training for AI - Anna Hermansen & Clyde Seepersad, The Linux Foundation
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
In its fourth year, the State of Tech Talent report is now a landmark in the Linux Foundation’s research program. The report provides key insights for employers and practitioners to gain a realistic understanding of the talent landscape as it flexes to meet technical priorities for the current and upcoming years. The 2026 study, which will go live at Open Source Summit North America, examines...
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Speakers
avatar for Clyde Seepersad

Clyde Seepersad

General Manager & SVP, Linux Foundation Education
LF exec in leading the education team
avatar for Anna Hermansen

Anna Hermansen

Ecosystem Manager, Research, Linux Foundation Research
Anna is a Senior Researcher & Ecosystem Manager for LF Research where she leads research projects and supports end-to-end management of the Foundation's research. Her interests lie at the intersection of open source AI, health informatics, and data sharing. Prior to the Linux Foundation... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:20am CDT

Kubernetes 2026: The New Operating System for AI & Apps - Mukesh Aurangabadkar, Spectrum & Udit Misra, Salesforce
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
In 2026, Kubernetes is the engine behind every modern app and AI model you use. This beginner-friendly session breaks down "K8s" into simple concepts, showing you how it automatically runs, scales, and repairs your software so you don’t have to. We’ll explore the 2026 essentials—from how it manages AI workloads to its role in saving companies millions in cloud costs. Whether you're a...
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Speakers
avatar for Mukesh Aurangabadkar

Mukesh Aurangabadkar

Principal Engineer, Spectrum
Mukesh Aurangabadkar is a Principal Engineer specializing in infrastructure automation, platform modernization, and large-scale systems deployment. He has led initiatives that have transformed vendor-dependent, manual operational processes into scalable, automation-driven frameworks... Read More →
avatar for Udit Misra

Udit Misra

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
Udit Misra is an IEEE Senior Member and software engineer specializing in infrastructure, platform engineering, and cloud-native systems, with almost 6 years of experience at major technology organizations. His work focuses on Kubernetes, eBPF-based network observability, and AI agents... Read More →
k8s oss 2026 final 2 pptx
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:20am CDT

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
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
Open Source Program Offices are maturing. What started as license compliance and governance functions have evolved into strategic enablers of security, AI adoption, developer productivity, and ecosystem engagement. At the same time, budgets are tighter and expectations are higher. In this moderated panel, OSPO leaders from Ford, GEICO, Comcast, Cisco and GitHub will discuss how modern OSPOs are...
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Speakers
avatar for Ashley Wolf

Ashley Wolf

Director, Open Source, GitHub
Ashley Wolf is the Director of Open Source Programs at GitHub. She runs initiatives and programs to empower developers to be successful with open source. She is also passionate about helping companies participate in the open source community. Prior to joining GitHub, Ashley led the... Read More →
avatar for Karolyn Maynard

Karolyn Maynard

Leader of the Comcast Open Source Program Office and The Comcast Dojo, Comcast
I build systems, I build people. I build trust. I build momentum,

I lead two teams at Comcast focused on engineering enablement and transformation: the Comcast Open Source Program Office, which empowers safe and scalable open source participation, and the Comcast Dojo (NPS: 76), which accelerates developer practices through immersive, outcome-driv... Read More →
avatar for Natali Vlatko

Natali Vlatko

Director of Open Source Software Engineering, Cisco
Natali Vlatko (she/her) is a Director of Open Source Software Engineering at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, and governance. She is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes and a member of the TODO Group Steering Committee. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time... Read More →
avatar for Paulette Avolio

Paulette Avolio

Open Source Program Office Manager, Ford
I help connect people, policies and products to elevate open source community, compliance and contributions.
avatar for Rashida Toliver

Rashida Toliver

Co-Founder & Security Strategist, Violane LLC
Rashida Toliver is a Security Engineer II at GEICO and Co-Founder of Violane Tech LLC. She builds data-driven vulnerability management systems, leads open-source contribution governance, and mentors emerging engineers. Through Violane Tech, she delivers data management, visualization... Read More →
OSS NA26 Slide pptx
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:20am CDT

Proactive Governance To Build Sustainable OSS Projects - Dawn Foster, Independent
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
We all want our open source projects to be sustainable, healthy, and successful. Good governance has a much larger impact on sustainability, health, and project success than many people realize. Being proactive about governance before something escalates into a crisis can help avoid misunderstandings and make your projects more sustainable and successful. A lightweight governance model created...
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Speakers
avatar for Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster

Open Source Strategy Consultant, Self-Employed
Dr. Dawn Foster is an OSS strategy consultant. She is also on the board of CHAOSS and OpenUK, and was previously a co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy Technical Advisory Group. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community, strategy... Read More →
Open Source Governance OSSNA 2026 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:20am CDT

Sponsored Session: Building Community in the Age of AI - Brian Proffitt, Red Hat
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
The pervasive presence  of generative AI presents a paradigm shift for open source development and community building. Tools like Copilot, Claude Code, and other large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally changing how code is created, documentation is generated, and, to some extent, how contributions are onboarded and managed. In this presentation, Red Hat’s Brian Proffitt will explore...
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Speakers
avatar for Brian Proffitt

Brian Proffitt

Senior Manager, Community Outreach, Red Hat
Brian Proffitt is Senior Manager, Community Outreach within Red Hat's Open Source Program Office, focusing on enablement, community metrics, and foundation and trade organization relationships--as well as the management of OSPO's budget. Brian's experience with community management... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

11:20am CDT

The Exploit of Trust: Securing the Open Source Supply Chain - Kadi McKean, ReversingLabs
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
In 2025, the open source supply chain faced a record-breaking escalation in targeted attacks. This talk breaks down the latest research on how attackers exploit the "trust gap" in maintainer workflows, package repositories, and automated publishing pipelines. Moving beyond the headlines, this session examines the abuse of repository-native features and the rise of dependency compromises....
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Speakers
avatar for Kadi McKean

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 →
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:20am CDT

Zephyr at 10 Years: Survey Feedback - Kate Stewart & Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
Ten years ago, Zephyr set out to solve a problem that many embedded teams quietly struggled with: how to build dependable real-time systems without being locked into a single vendor, toolchain, or proprietary stack. Before beginning the project, open source developers were surveyed to identify the key problems they wanted to see a new open source RTOS to solve, such as security and safety...
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Speakers
avatar for Hilary Carter

Hilary Carter

SVP Research, The Linux Foundation
Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →
avatar for Kate Stewart

Kate Stewart

VP Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation
Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, and supports other embedded projects. With... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  Zephyr

11:50am CDT

Jenkins - Year in Review and Future Roadmap - Mark Waite, Independent
Monday May 18, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm CDT
200C (Level Two)

Speakers
avatar for Mark Waite

Mark Waite

Independent Consultant, Self-employed

Monday May 18, 2026 11:50am - 12:00pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

12:00pm CDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)
Monday May 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

12:00pm CDT

Women & Non-Binary Lunch
Monday May 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Seasons (Level Two)
We’d like to invite all attendees who identify as women or non-binary to join each other for a complimentary networking lunch at the event. We will begin with a brief introduction and then attendees will be free to enjoy lunch and mingle with one another. All attendees must identify as a woman or non-binary and must be registered for the conference to attend.*We will do our best to accommodate...
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Monday May 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Seasons (Level Two)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

12:15pm CDT

CDF Town Hall - Moderated by Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc.
Monday May 18, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
Grab your lunch and join the Continuous Delivery Foundation community for an open Town Hall discussion focused on the future of software delivery, AI-enabled automation, DevSecOps, and software supply chain security. This interactive session brings together maintainers, end users, platform engineers, security leaders, and open-source contributors to discuss emerging challenges and opportunities...
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Speakers
avatar for Tracy Ragan

Tracy Ragan

CEO, DeployHub
Tracy is a recognized expert in software supply chain security and DevSecOps, specializing in managing complex, decoupled architectures. She is the CEO of DeployHub, a scalable post-deployment vulnerability detection platform that empowers software to 'self-heal' by automatically... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon
  • about <br>

12:30pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Debunking the Myths of Decentralized Identity
Monday May 18, 2026 12:30pm - 12:40pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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Speakers
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Alexander Shcherbakov

Head of Decentralized Trust Department, DSR Corporation
Ph.D. in Mathematics. Master of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.
More than 10 years of experience in Blockchain, DLT, Decentralized Identity and SSI.
Significant contribution to open source. Maintainer and contributor of popular open-source projects.
Extensive experience sp... Read More →
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Debunking Myths of Decentralized Identity pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 12:30pm - 12:40pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

1:00pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: A Full-Circle, Linux-Inspired Journey
Monday May 18, 2026 1:00pm - 1:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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Speakers
avatar for Felipe Hernandez

Felipe Hernandez

Senior Software Engineer & Adjunct Professor

OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:00pm - 1:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

1:00pm CDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet CNCF’s Jonathan Bryce: Exploring the Cloud Native AI Landscape
Monday May 18, 2026 1:00pm - 1:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Join Executive Director Jonathan Bryce at the CNCF booth to discuss the Cloud Native AI Landscape, discover key trends, and learn what’s next. Ask questions, gain insights, and connect directly with CNCF leadership on how AI is shaping the cloud native ecosystem.Sponsor: Cloud Native Computing FoundationLocation: Booth G/S11 in Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business...
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OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:00pm - 1:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

1:30pm CDT

Lightning Talk: From Embedded Artifacts To Durable Entities: Fixing State in Spinnaker - Ben Powell, Apple
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 1:40pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
Spinnaker historically embedded artifact data directly into pipeline execution context. As workflows grew more complex, this approach led to oversized context payloads, fragile retries, and tight coupling between pipeline logic and storage representation. The Entity Store rethinks this model. By replacing embedded state with URI-based references and delegating persistence to pluggable handlers,...
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Ben Powell

Software Engineer, Apple
Ben is a software engineer at Apple for the Spinnaker team with previous experience at AWS for the AWS SDK and ECS team. He has contributed to various different tools, services, and proposals through the years, governs the Cloud SIG for Spinnaker, and is an active participant for... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 1:40pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

1:30pm CDT

Lightning Talk: SSDF Is Not a Checklist: Turning Tasks Into CI/CD Automation - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc.
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 1:40pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
In this lightning talk, we’ll introduce the new open-source security tools guide from the Continuous Delivery Foundation and show how it delivers practical, workflow-driven guidance for integrating OpenSSF security tooling into real CI/CD pipelines—helping DevOps and platform engineering teams map pipeline activities directly to the Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) tasks. ...
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Speakers
avatar for Tracy Ragan

Tracy Ragan

CEO, DeployHub
Tracy is a recognized expert in software supply chain security and DevSecOps, specializing in managing complex, decoupled architectures. She is the CEO of DeployHub, a scalable post-deployment vulnerability detection platform that empowers software to 'self-heal' by automatically... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 1:40pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  Digital Trust

1:30pm CDT

OpenBao: Horizontally Scaling Secrets Management - Alexander Scheel, ControlPlane
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
OpenBao is an OpenSSF project and a fork of HashiCorp Vault. It is an open-source secrets manager with support for static and dynamic secrets including identities and certificates. The OpenBao community recently landed support for horizontal scalability, formerly a Vault Enterprise exclusive feature, in partnership between multiple organizations in the community. This session will outline the...
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avatar for Alex Scheel

Alex Scheel

Head of OpenBao Development, ControlPlane
Alex Scheel is the Head of OpenBao Development at ControlPlane and a member of the OpenBao Technical Steering Committee. He has built a career on open source contributions, previously working at GitLab with OpenBao, at Keyfactor on Bouncy Castle, at HashiCorp on Vault, and at Canonical... Read More →
AScheel OSSNA2026 Horizontally Scaling OpenBao pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

1:30pm CDT

Debug Everything: Building a Debuginfod Backbone for Embedded Linux at Scale - Colin Pinnell McAllister & Joshua Pevehouse, Garmin
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
Embedded Linux debugging has always required difficult trade-offs. Flash storage constraints on target devices force teams to strip debug symbols from most binaries, leaving developers unable to debug critical applications without finding symbols elsewhere. This presentation examines our transition from limited, on-target debug symbols to comprehensive debuggability across all binaries and build...
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Joshua Pevehouse

Senior Software Engineer, Garmin


avatar for Colin McAllister

Colin McAllister

Senior Software Engineer, Garmin
Colin McAllister is a software engineer at Garmin, where he focuses on advancing the security, core infrastructure, and development tooling that power Garmin Marine’s diverse range of Embedded Linux products. His passion for embedded Linux began in 2017 while working on a telematics... Read More →
EC NA26 Debuginfod 2 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:30pm CDT

Do You Need GCC To Build Embedded Linux ? - Khem Raj, Comcast
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
GCC is default toolchain for Linux based systems, ever since the Linux Distributions were being put together from early days of Linux. However, there have been important developements in compiler technologies and LLVM project has come along. The LLVM infrastructure has been used to build various different compilers for different languages, Clang is the C/C++ static compiler and rust also uses...
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Khem Raj

Fellow, Comcast
Khem Raj is a yocto project maintainer and long time OpenSource contributor to many projects e.g. LLVM, Glibc, Musl, OpenEmbedded etc., he has been helping several open source initiatives in industry. He is guiding the company's adoption of open source software, and becoming an active... Read More →
OSS NA26 Khem Clang pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

1:30pm CDT

When Your Budget Laptop Needs a Custom Kernel: A Linux Troubleshooting Adventure - Andrei Pokhilko, Komodor
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
This talk chronicles my journey of troubleshooting a Linux kernel issue on a budget Intel GeminiLake-based Chinese mini-laptop. What began as a simple hardware purchase escalated into a two-month deep dive into the i915 GPU driver when the display mysteriously went blank during initialization. I'll walk through the systematic troubleshooting approach: isolating the issue to the i915 driver,...
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Speakers
avatar for Andrei Pokhilko

Andrei Pokhilko

CTO Office Dev, Komodor
Andrei is an Innovation Researcher in the CTO Office at Komodor with 20+ years of engineering experience spanning, open source leadership at CA Technologies, performance testing at Yandex, and founding Loadosophia.org. He's the creator of multiple successful open source projects including... Read More →
Linux Kernel Talk v2 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:30pm CDT

Crawl, Walk, Run With Your MCP Servers - Lin Sun, solo.io
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
You have built your first MCP server and tested it with the MCP inspector, but it only uses stdio or streamable HTTP without HTTPS. Do you rewrite your server to add authentication and authorization, or is there a smarter way? What if you have multiple MCP servers? Can you unify them under a single virtual server without touching any of the originals? How do you deploy all of this to Kubernetes...
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avatar for Lin Sun

Lin Sun

Head of Open Source, Solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, contributing full-time to the open-source community. She serves on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), is a CNCF Ambassador, and is a maintainer for Istio, kgateway, and kagent. An international speaker at tech conferences, Lin... Read More →
Slides Crawl Walk Run With Your MCP Servers pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:30pm CDT

Next Steps in Multi-agent Systems - Deborah Dahl, Conversational Technologies
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
Special-purpose agentic systems can access proprietary enterprise information or private user information, such as financial, health, or employment data, that isn’t available to large public LLMs. But, by their nature, specialized agents are limited to specialized knowledge. However, more complex applications can be composed of several collaborating agents, each with a specific expertise. Manual...
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Deborah Dahl

Principal, Conversational Technologies
Deborah Dahl works on innovative, practical and scalable conversational systems that push the boundary between theory and applications. She is the Principal of Conversational Technologies, which assists its clients in creating state of the art solutions using speech and natural language... Read More →
ossna26OFP pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:30pm CDT

Sponsored Session: When Your AI Agent Has Keys to Production: Governance Patterns for Autonomous Development - Nicky Pike, Coder
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
Your AI agents can read your code, call external APIs, and hold credentials to production. Your security controls assume they're either a human or a deterministic app. They're neither.I'll walk through the patterns enterprise teams are actually using to deploy coding agents without getting burned: workspace isolation, network egress controls, model gateways, and credentials that die when the...
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Nicky Pike

Field CTO, Coder
Nicky Pike is the Americas Field CTO at Coder after spending 20+ years making developers' lives easier at some of tech's biggest names. From launching Xbox Live to rebuilding how CVS Health develops software, he's helped shape developer productivity and team experiences at Microsoft... Read More →
oss summit ai keys production upload pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:30pm CDT

Being a Maintainer in the Age of LLM Mania - Kevin Hannon, Red Hat
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
AI is all around us. In this talk, I will discuss ways maintainers can also leverage AI to combat AI slop, improve maintainer experience and avoid burnout. I will mention my experience on using AI to aide in development of Kubernetes features, maintaining testing environments and providing a good experience for users of AI assistants. AI, for better or worse, is here to stay and maintainers...
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avatar for Kevin Hannon

Kevin Hannon

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Kevin Hannon is focused on improving AI/ML experience on Kubernetes. He started his career as a computational scientist and has always been interested in large scale batch jobs. He is motivated to improve Kubernetes in this area to benefit various use cases that are underserved by... Read More →
Maintainer in age of LLM pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:30pm CDT

EOL, Relicensing, Forks: A Cautionary Tale of CVEs - Bridget Kromhout & Lachlan Evenson, Microsoft
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
Project X goes EOL at the end of this sentence; good luck with the CVEs. Project Y has a new license meaning you can’t use it anymore; what do you mean, your team built something important on it? Project Z works great but you built a new feature in your fork, and now you can’t take the upstream patches. Half of your open source environments may have a dependency on some now-defunct project,...
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avatar for Bridget Kromhout

Bridget Kromhout

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Azure, focusing on the open source cloud native ecosystem.
avatar for Lachlan Evenson

Lachlan Evenson

Principal Product Manager - Azure Cloud Native Ecosystem, Microsoft
Lachlan is a Principal Product Manager on the Azure Cloud Native Ecosystem team. Lachlan has served in many different roles in the cloud native community including cloud native ambassador, Kubernetes steering committee and release lead, and has deep operational knowledge of many cloud... Read More →
A Cautionary Tale of CVEs pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

1:30pm CDT

Strategic Approach To Demonstrating the Value of OSS Efforts - Dawn Foster, Independent
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
We’ve probably all had company leadership question the value of our OSS efforts. It can be difficult to frame the value in ways that resonate with leadership and clearly articulate the organizational benefits gained through continued OSS contributions. Taking a strategic approach that connects the OSS work with the broader goals and objectives of the organization can demonstrate the value of...
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Dawn Foster

Open Source Strategy Consultant, Self-Employed
Dr. Dawn Foster is an OSS strategy consultant. She is also on the board of CHAOSS and OpenUK, and was previously a co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy Technical Advisory Group. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community, strategy... Read More →
Demonstrating Value OSSNA 2026 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

1:30pm CDT

One Signature To Rule Them All: Portable Supply Chain Verification With Zarf - Brandt Keller, Defense Unicorns
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
Signed software creates assurances around the integrity and authenticity of how it was produced and by whom. But signing alone is not inherently valuable. The ability to verify the signature in a meaningful way elevates the process to complete the trust cycle. Blend this idea with many disparate signing mechanisms, add the many layers of exchange as software changes hands and where the software...
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avatar for Brandt Keller

Brandt Keller

Staff Software Engineer, Defense Unicorns
Brandt is a Staff Software Engineer with a passion for Open Source. He serves as a Maintainer and Technical Lead for the CNCF Security & Compliance Technical Advisory Group, a Cloud Native Ambassador, and a project maintainer within the OpenSSF. He has lead and contributed to multiple... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

1:30pm CDT

Turning the Ignition on Safety: Zephyr RTOS in Automotive Compliance - Saravanan Sekar, Linumiz
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
Embedded Automotive RTOS (Real-Time Operating Systems) must meet stringent requirements for safety, reliability, and security, primarily governed by the ISO 26262 standard, which details ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) requirements. This talk covers the Zephyr RTOS complies with key functional needs, including minimal latency, high determinism, efficient memory management, and robust...
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Saravanan Sekar

Software Engineer, Linumiz
Saravanan graduated in Electrical Engineering and working as Software Engineer at Linumiz. Over the past 13 years his focus is primarily on Embedded Linux, RTOS in DVB, IoT and Automotive domain. His work involves to provide Mainline Linux Kernel and related projects to run on customer... Read More →
Zephyr RTOS in Automotive Compliance pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  Zephyr
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:45pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Ortelius V12: Post-Deployment Security Defense for DevSecOps - Steve Taylor, DeployHub
Monday May 18, 2026 1:45pm - 1:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
Most DevSecOps pipelines stop protecting software once it is deployed, leaving organizations blind to newly disclosed vulnerabilities impacting live systems. Ortelius addresses this gap with post-deployment security powered by a digital twin of deployed software. By mapping SBOMs to running packages, versions, environments, and endpoints, Ortelius continuously correlates live systems with...
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Steve Taylor

CTO, DeployHub
Steve Taylor is a technology leader and innovator with deep expertise in service-based architecture, DevSecOps, open-source security, and secure software delivery. As CTO of DeployHub, he leads product strategy focused on build and release automation, vulnerability management, and... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 1:45pm - 1:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

1:45pm CDT

OpenSSH + FIDO Workshop - Dennis Hills & Alan Alvarez, Yubico
Monday May 18, 2026 1:45pm - 3:05pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
OpenSSH has built-in support for FIDO security keys since version 8.2 (released in 2020). This means you can protect your SSH private keys using security keys, similar to how this can be done with OpenPGP smart cards and cryptographic tokens that support PKCS#11. Although such devices all allow you to protect your private keys using cryptographic hardware, the benefits on using FIDO include: -...
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Dennis Hills

Sr. Solutions Architect, Yubico
Dennis Hills is a Sr. Solutions Architect for Yubico and a University of Washington graduate in Computing Software & Systems.

He has two decades of web service experience ranging from client support and networking to software open source development across various platforms and la... Read More →
avatar for Alan Alvarez

Alan Alvarez

Developer Advocate, Yubico
Alan Alvarez is a Developer Advocate at Yubico, specializing in WebAuthn, passkeys, and phishing-resistant authentication. Previously, he worked as a software engineer across multiple industries, building and maintaining cloud-based services and DevOps workflows. Alan’s work sits... Read More →
OpenSSH + FIDO workshop 2026 Final pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:45pm - 3:05pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  Digital Trust
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:00pm CDT

Lightning Talk: CDEvents: Ending the "Glue Code" Tax on Engineering Velocity - Mihir Vora & Prem Dhayalan, Capital One
Monday May 18, 2026 2:00pm - 2:10pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
We’ve achieved industry-wide standards for containers (docker) and orchestration (kubernetes), yet our delivery pipelines remain stuck in the "scripting era." In most organizations, the connection between a security scanner, a CI runner, and a deployment engine isn't a standard interface—it’s mostly a fragile web of custom Python scripts and yaml/jenkinsfile hacks. This is the Glue Code...
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avatar for Mihir Vora

Mihir Vora

Senior Distinguished Engineer, Capital One
Mihir is a Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Capital One with a passion for empowering teams and driving innovation. Mihir successfully led multiple projects that drive digital transformation and enhance customer experience over the years. Mihir has successfully balanced technical contributions... Read More →
avatar for Prem Dhayalan

Prem Dhayalan

Senior Distinguished Engineer, Capital One
Thought leader, evangelist in the areas of DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Developer Experience, Cloud Computing, Open Source Adoption, Digital Transformation. A hands-on developer
Monday May 18, 2026 2:00pm - 2:10pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

2:15pm CDT

Lightning Talk: CI/CD Cybersecurity Guide - Open Source Tools to Improve DevOps Security - Kate Scarcella, Independent
Monday May 18, 2026 2:15pm - 2:25pm CDT
200C (Level Two)

Speakers
avatar for Kate Scarcella

Kate Scarcella

Cybersecurity Architect, Independent
Kate Scarcella is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with over two decades of experience driving innovation and building cyber resilience. At IBM, she served on the Security Board of Advisors, where she guided Fortune 50 enterprises on strengthening their cybersecurity postures.

Kat... Read More →
Who let the AI Dogs Out? pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 2:15pm - 2:25pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:25pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Alcoholless: Lightweight Security Sandbox for Homebrew, AI Agents, Etc. - Akihiro Suda, NTT
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 2:35pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
This presentation introduces "Alcoholless" Homebrew, which protects macOS hosts from potential malicious Homebrew packages by running Homebrew with a separate user account. A command running with this tool is only allowed to read and write its current directory. While Alcoholless puts focus on Homebrew, it is also applicable to other package managers such as `pip install`, `npm install`, and `go...
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avatar for Akihiro Suda

Akihiro Suda

Distinguished Software Engineer, NTT
Akihiro Suda is a software engineer at NTT Corporation. He has been a maintainer of Moby (dockerd), BuildKit, containerd, runc, etc. He is also a founder of nerdctl and Lima (CNCF project).
20260518 [OSSNA] Alcoholless Lightweight security sandbox for Homebrew, AI agents, etc. pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 2:35pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:25pm CDT

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
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
If a production incident hits on your first day, can you debug it? Or if you are a senior engineer, do you find it impossible to download your years of debugging intuition into a new hire’s head? Kubernetes troubleshooting often depends on undocumented decision paths: where to look first, which signals to trust, and how to turn a sea of logs into a testable hypothesis. In this talk, we...
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avatar for Bohyun Choi

Bohyun Choi

NVIDIA SW Engineer, UCLIX
Bohyun Choi builds Kubernetes platforms for GPU/AI workloads and NVIDIA orchestration. She architects and operates scalable GPU clusters on Kubernetes and focuses on production reliability and incident response.

She holds four CNCF Kubernetes certifications and is developing kube-rca, an open-source, guardrailed LLM-assisted tool that produces evidence-backed incident triage and RCA drafts from live cluster signals... Read More →
avatar for Woobin Hwang

Woobin Hwang

DevOps Engineer, NEOWIZ Partners
​DevOps for Web3 (Blockchain Validator Node Operator | DeFi Infra Operator)

​"Engineering mission-critical validator node in zero-trust environments. Designing and operating 24/7 high-availability infrastructure for global DeFi protocols within the Web3 ecosystem."
avatar for TaeJi Kim

TaeJi Kim

DevSecOps Engineer, Bungaejangter Inc.
DevSecOps Engineer at Bungaejangter Inc. and team lead of KUBE-RCA, an open-source Kubernetes incident assistant that pairs ReAct-based LLM agents with real-time cluster evidence for automated root cause analysis. Leads the project's architecture and guardrailed execution design to... Read More →
OSS NA26 KubeRCA pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

2:25pm CDT

Building Virtual Drivers With RPMsg: Key Design Principles, Challenges & Trade-offs - Beleswar Prasad Padhi, Texas Instruments
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
Modern heterogeneous SoCs often integrate multiple remote processors (rprocs) that control peripherals for safety purposes, alongside a general-purpose processor running a HLOS like Linux. In automotive systems, these peripherals still need to be shared with Linux for complex use cases like Ethernet traffic sharing, coordinating multiple display pipelines. The Remote Processor Messaging (RPMsg)...
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avatar for Beleswar Prasad Padhi

Beleswar Prasad Padhi

Senior Software Engineer at Texas Instruments, Texas Instruments
Beleswar is a Senior Software Engineer at Texas Instruments, actively working on Upstream Linux Kernel and U-Boot. His work mainly focuses on Remoteproc, RPMsg, Mailbox, Virtio subsystems, as well as boot-time optimizations. He was listed among the top contributors for Linux 6.18... Read More →
OSS NA VIRTUAL DRIVERS WITH RPMSG pptx
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:25pm CDT

Lessons Learned in Embedded Linux Streaming - Tokunbo Quaye, Intelligent Product Solutions
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
In this session, I’ll share practical lessons learned while architecting, building, and supporting a production media system running on custom hardware using open source systems : Yocto for a customized OS; GStreamer for media pipelines; PulseAudio for audio routing; BlueZ for Bluetooth integration; This session is relevant because while projects like Yocto, GStreamer, PulseAudio, and BlueZ...
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avatar for Tokunbo Quaye

Tokunbo Quaye

Principal Software Engineer, Intelligent Product Solutions
I am a seasoned Software Architect and Engineer with over 20 years of experience in all phases of software development and team technical leadership. My passion lies in designing and delivering high performance, robust, maintainable and scalable software applications that drive business... Read More →
EmbeddedLinuxMediaTalk pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:25pm CDT

Booting Up: A Fresh Look at the Modern Init - Antra Purohit & Hemant Bharadwaj, Microsoft
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
For many, systemd is the mysterious engine under the hood of nearly every modern Linux distribution. We use it daily—restarting services and checking logs—but how much do we actually know about how it manages our systems? If your relationship with systemctl begins and ends with copy-pasting commands from Stack Overflow, it’s time to look deeper. This session is a practical,...
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avatar for Antra Purohit

Antra Purohit

Software Engineer, Microsoft
Antra Purohit is a software engineer working on Linux‑based cloud and embedded platforms. She works on Yocto‑based systems and cloud infrastructure, translating open‑source technologies into reliable, production‑ready solutions.
avatar for Hemant Bharadwaj

Hemant Bharadwaj

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft, Microsoft
Hemant Bharadwaj is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer working on large-scale Linux infrastructure. He focuses on observability, incident response, debugging, and automation across distributed systems. His work centers on turning operational pain points into repeatable, open, and... Read More →
oss na 2026 antra systemd pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:25pm CDT

Automating MCP Server Testing: Engineering Reliability for Agentic Systems - Neethu Elizabeth Simon, Arm
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
AI agents don’t fail like traditional software. They don’t just throw exceptions, they drift. They misinterpret tools, invoke the wrong functions or behave differently across environments. When deploying Arm’s Open Source custom MCP server to power AI assistants for architecture development, migration, and optimization, we faced a critical question: how do we test a system built for...
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Neethu Elizabeth Simon

Staff Solution Architect, Arm Ltd
Neethu Elizabeth Simon, Staff Solution Architect, Arm (previously at Intel Corporation), with vast industrial experience(10+ ys) in building AI/ML/IoT-based solutions across retail, industrial & healthcare domains for external customers and open-source developer communities. She is... Read More →
NES OSS NA26 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data

2:25pm CDT

From Image To Itinerary: Multimodal Agentic Travel Planning With MCP, A2A, and BeeAI - Ezequiel Lanza, Intel
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
Planning a trip is a deceptively complex problem for AI, especially when the journey starts from visual context rather than text. In this session, we present a multimodal-first, local-first agentic architecture where a user uploads an image (e.g. “where is this place?”), and the system builds a travel plan from that visual input using Model Context Protocol (MCP), A2A (Agent-to-Agent), and...
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Ezequiel Lanza

Ai Software Evangelist, Intel
Passionate about helping people discover the exciting world of artificial intelligence, Ezequiel is a frequent AI conference presenter and the creator of use cases, tutorials, and guides that help developers adopt open source AI tools.
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data

2:25pm CDT

Sponsored Session: Open Source Search and Observability in the Agentic Era - Bobby Mohammed, AWS
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
For many users, open source tools have provided a dependable-yet-innovative foundation for a wide array of search and observability applications. To get the most out AI agents, these tools must evolve, with new approaches to development and deployment and new ways for users to interact. With the right foundation, agentic search and observability can accelerate innovation, supercharge applications,...
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Bobby Mohammed

Principal Product Manager, Amazon Web Services
Bobby Mohammed is a Principal Product Manager at AWS, leading product initiatives in Search, GenAI, and Agentic AI. He has previously worked across the full machine-learning lifecycle, including data, analytics, and ML features on the Amazon SageMaker platform, as well as deep-learning... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data

2:25pm CDT

The $300 Enterprise Lab: Democratizing Infrastructure Skills With Raspberry Pis & AI Agents - Derek Bowdle, RTX & Cameron Khorsandi, SAP
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
Learning to architect robust cloud infrastructure often comes with high barriers: expensive monthly cloud bills and a lack of access to senior mentorship. How can we train the next generation of SREs and Platform Engineers without financial gatekeeping? This session explores a novel pedagogical approach: combining the physicality of a Raspberry Pi "Micro-Data Center" with the instructional power...
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Cameron Khorsandi

Business Development Expert, SAP
Cameron Khorsandi is a Business Development expert at the Office of the CTO at SAP. He specializes in working with Fortune 500 executives to bridge the gap between advanced AI and Machine Learning technologies and real-world business applications. A technologist at heart, Cameron... Read More →
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Derek Bowdle

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, RTX
: Derek Bowdle is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at RTX and a former math educator. He combines deep technical expertise in Kubernetes and AI with a passion for accessible learning. At RTX, he architects digital threads and predictive models; off the clock, he pushes the limits... Read More →
300 enterprise lab.pptx pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:25pm CDT

Merge, Maintain, or Move On? Deciding the Fate of an Open Source Project - Robin Ginn, OpenJS Foundation
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
When does maintaining a project become more harmful than helpful? As the leader of the OpenJS Foundation, home to Node.js and more, I will give a candid talk to unpack the hardest question in open source: how do you know when it’s time to let go? Drawing from real-world examples from leading one of the web’s most widely used open source foundations and its JavaScript projects like Lodash,...
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Robin Bender Ginn

Executive Director, OpenJS Foundation
Robin Bender Ginn is the Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, OpenJS is the neutral home to grow and sustain the JavaScript and web ecosystem with 35 projects including Appium, Electron, Jest, jQuery, Node.js and webpack. Previously, Robin led... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

2:25pm CDT

Scaling Your OSPO With Agents and Automation: Lessons From GitHub's Open Source Program - Ashley Wolf, GitHub
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
As open source adoption grows, the role of the OSPO expands with it. At GitHub, we saw an opportunity to scale our capabilities by automating the repetitive work—like checklists, scans, reports, and audits—that every program office handles. In this session, I’ll outline how we evaluated AI agents to handle the heavy lifting of data gathering and analysis. We’ll look at practical use cases...
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Ashley Wolf

Director, Open Source, GitHub
Ashley Wolf is the Director of Open Source Programs at GitHub. She runs initiatives and programs to empower developers to be successful with open source. She is also passionate about helping companies participate in the open source community. Prior to joining GitHub, Ashley led the... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

2:25pm CDT

From Pre‑Silicon To Production: Firmware Development on Zephyr - Dev Bhaveshbhai Joshi, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
When our production power‑management IC (PMIC) firmware moved to Zephyr, it opened the door for us to streamline our development and validation workflow. Our production firmware used a proprietary RTOS, which required maintaining a separate codebase for pre-silicon validation. By standardizing on Zephyr, an RTOS supported across hundreds of MCUs, we were able to use single application codebase...
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Dev Joshi

Embedded Software Engineer, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
With a Master of Science in EE from the University of California, Riverside, I contribute to Qualcomm as an Embedded Software Engineer specializing in PMIC software and USB Type-C/PD development. My work focuses on crafting robust Battery Management software for mobile and compute... Read More →
from presilicon to production ossna 2026 presentation pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 2:25pm - 3:05pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  Zephyr
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:30pm CDT

Keynote: AI in CI/CD Without the Hype: Practical Patterns for Platform Engineers - Jennifer Mulford, Okta
Monday May 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
AI is being discussed as the next evolution of CI/CD, but much of that conversation skips over the realities faced by platform and infrastructure teams responsible for reliability, security, and trust. In practice, introducing AI into pipelines requires restraint, clear boundaries, and a strong understanding of where AI use helps and where it creates risk. This talk focuses on practical,...
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Jennifer Mulford

Senior Platform Security Engineer, Okta
Jennifer Mulford is a Senior Platform Security Engineer with 8+ years in DevOps and security, holding certifications including CISSP, CKA, Security+, CEH, and AWS certifications. She focuses on practical, real-world security engineering and automation.
cdCon Keynote AI in CI CD pptx
Monday May 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:55pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Artifacts That Explain Themselves: Build Metadata in Practice - Socheat Sou & Prajakta Kashalkar-Joshi, IBM
Monday May 18, 2026 2:55pm - 3:05pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
It's common practice to include the Git commit hash in a container image label to serve as a reference, but are you using container labels (and artifact metadata) to their full potential? By embedding metadata into your artifacts you expand your GitOps capabilities. Implement a simple build-cache-like mechanism when building your artifacts, generate robust changelogs across your multi-repo...
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Socheat Sou

Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Socheat Sou is an experienced software engineer with nearly 25 years across test, development, and DevOps, with the last 18 at IBM. He has led the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines and release processes at scale across global teams. He's often the person brought in when... Read More →
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Prajakta Kashalkar-Joshi

Senior technical Staff Member, IBM
Prajakta is a DevSecOps Architect at IBM with 20+ years of experience. A DevOps practitioner since 2010, she leads secure CI/CD pipeline development and mentors aspiring DevSecOps professionals. Passionate about advancing women in tech, she supports various inclusion initiatives... Read More →
Artifacts Metadata OSS NA26 pptx
Monday May 18, 2026 2:55pm - 3:05pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Dirk Hohndel, DH Consulting, on managing maintainer burnout in the age of LLMs
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Dirk Hohndel about managing maintainer burnout in the age of LLMs.

No sign-up necessary!  More information coming soon!
Speakers
avatar for Dirk Hohndel

Dirk Hohndel

Founder, DH Consulting
Dirk is the Founder of DH Consulting. Prior to that, Dirk was VMware’s Chief Open Source Officer, where he lead the company’s Open Source Program Office, directing the efforts and strategy around use of and contribution to open-source projects and driving common values and processes... Read More →
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Ask the Experts

3:05pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Kate Scarcella, Independent, on CI/CD security, secure software delivery, AI behavior in real systems, and software supply chain security
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Kate about CI/CD security, secure software delivery, AI behavior in real systems, and software supply chain security.

No sign-up necessary!  More information coming soon!
Speakers
avatar for Kate Scarcella

Kate Scarcella

Cybersecurity Architect, Independent
Kate Scarcella is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with over two decades of experience driving innovation and building cyber resilience. At IBM, she served on the Security Board of Advisors, where she guided Fortune 50 enterprises on strengthening their cybersecurity postures.

Kat... Read More →
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Ask the Experts

3:05pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation, on Safety Certification of Open Source
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Kate Stewart about Safety Certification of Open Source.

No sign-up necessary!  More information coming soon!
Speakers
avatar for Kate Stewart

Kate Stewart

VP Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation
Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, and supports other embedded projects. With... Read More →
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Ask the Experts

3:05pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Sean Dague, IBM Quantum, on Quantum Computing
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Sean about Quantum Computing.

No sign-up necessary!  More information coming soon!
Speakers
avatar for Sean Dague

Sean Dague

Chief Services Architect, IBM Quantum
Sean Dague is the Chief Services Architect at IBM Quantum, where he focuses on making quantum computing securely and reliably accessible through the cloud. He has helped shape the architecture and operational model that allows users—from enterprise teams to learners—to access... Read More →
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Ask the Experts

3:05pm CDT

Coffee Break
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:05pm - 3:35pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

3:15pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: AI May Be the Lead Singer, But You Still Need the Band
Monday May 18, 2026 3:15pm - 3:25pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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avatar for Clyde Seepersad

Clyde Seepersad

General Manager & SVP, Linux Foundation Education
LF exec in leading the education team
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:15pm - 3:25pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

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
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 3:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
AI and autonomous agents are now coming into CI/CD pipelines more and more. Earlier they only followed instructions. Now they help in testing, deciding releases, approving deployments, and sometimes fixing problems on their own. This is a big change. Because of this, we need to think again about speed, security, and who is responsible when something goes wrong. This session talks about few...
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Sundeep Bobba

Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, Southwest Airlines
Sundeep Bobba is a Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer at Southwest Airlines with 15+ years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native CI/CD and automation platforms. He leads enterprise DevOps modernization supporting millions of customers and billions in digital revenue. He is... Read More →
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Naga Sujitha Vummaneni

Sr. Security Engineer, Ripple
Naga Sujitha Vummaneni is a Senior Security Engineer at Ripple with 10+ years of experience in cloud security automation and infrastructure engineering across Google, Nike, eBay, and other tech leaders. AWS Certified Security and CISM credential holder, she specializes in blockchain... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 3:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

3:35pm CDT

Engineering Quality in a Fast-Moving Open Source Project: WPE WebKit - Mario Sanchez-Prada, Igalia
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
Building an embedded product on top of a large Open Source codebase like WPE WebKit is only the first step. The real challenge is keeping its quality stable as thousands of lines evolve and hundreds of changes land every week across multiple platforms. In such an environment, errors and regressions are inevitable. What matters is detecting them quickly, understanding their impact, and reacting...
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avatar for Mario Sanchez-Prada

Mario Sanchez-Prada

Software Engineer and WebKit Team coordinator at Igalia, Igalia
Software engineer and partner at Igalia with 18+ years of experience working on the development of Linux-based Operating Systems, the GNOME platform, Web engines (i.e. WebKit, Blink) and Web browsers (Epiphany, Chromium).

Past experience includes work on the Maemo project, Litl... Read More →
20260518 EngineeringQualityInWPEWebKit pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:35pm CDT

Status of Linux Boot-time Work - Tim Bird, Sony Electronics
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
In this talk, Tim will describe the status of work to reduce boot-time for Linux systems. This include work by the Boot-Time Special Interest Group (SIG), as well as others in the Linux ecosystem. We will cover patches that have gone upstream to the Linux kernel and to systemd in the past year, their potential boot-time savings, and how to use them in your own projects. Patches in progress will...
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Tim Bird

Principal Software Engineer, Sony Electronics
Tim Bird is a Principal Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony use Linux and other open source software in their products. Tim is the organizer of the Linux Boot-Time Special Interest Group, a contributor to the Linux kernel, and is involved with numerous Linux... Read More →
Boot Time Status Bird ELC 2026 v2 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

3:35pm CDT

KernelScript: Unifying EBPF, Userspace, and Kernel Extensions in One Language - Cong Wang, Multikernel Technologies
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
eBPF has made Linux highly extensible, but production eBPF systems remain fragmented and complex. Developers must write raw C for eBPF, separate userspace loaders, manage BTF compatibility, handle tail calls, dynptr APIs, and sometimes build kernel modules for kfunc support, all across different build systems. KernelScript is a domain-specific open-source programming language that unifies eBPF,...
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avatar for Cong Wang

Cong Wang

Founder and CEO, Multikernel Technologies
Cong Wang is a professional Linux kernel developer mainly focuses on Linux networking and eBPF, he is also a Linux kernel maintainer for the networking traffic control subsystem. He has contributed over 1000 patches to the Linux kernel project.
kernelscript oss pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux

3:35pm CDT

Who You Gonna Call? Taming OpenClaw's Rogue AI Agents With OpenTelemetry and Tetragon - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
There's something strange in your infrastructure. Who you gonna call? OpenClaw , the open source AI agent formerly known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot exploded past 150,000 GitHub stars in weeks. It connects LLMs to your messaging platforms, terminal, and file system, giving AI full autonomous control. But like a Ghostbusters ghost, it wreaks havoc: $20 in tokens burned overnight to check the time, a...
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Henrik Rexed

Cloud Native advocate & CNCF Ambassador, Dynatrace
Henrik is a Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace and a CNCF Ambassador . Prior to Dynatrace, Henrik has worked more than 15 years, as Performance Engineer. Henrik Rexed Is Also one of the Organizer of the conferences named WOPR, KCD Austria and the owner of the Youtube Channel Isit... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data

3:35pm CDT

Kubernetes Cluster Creation Landscape - The Easy and the Hard Ways - Wendy Ha, SEEK
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
As a Kubernetes user, have you ever wondered how clusters from different vendors and distributions remain consistent? Whether running in the cloud or on-premises, workloads behave the same way without modification, and applications can move between platforms without being rewritten. This consistency is made possible by the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program run by CNCF, which ensures...
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Wendy Ha

Software Engineer, CNCF Ambassador, Independent
Wendy is a CNCF Ambassador and a proud advocator for Women in the Cloud Native community. She is also an open source contributor and has contributed to various aspects of Kubernetes, including SIG Release (serving on the Release Team since v1.31), SIG Cluster Lifecycle and SIG Etcd... Read More →
Kubernetes Cluster Creation Landscape WendyHa pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:35pm CDT

Sponsored Session: Open-sourced Blockchain Solutions: Cardano’s Infrastructure-First Approach - Marco Russo, Cardano Foundation
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
Open source has become key to blockchain development, especially for public, permissionless blockchains such as Cardano. This session will share insights into the Cardano Foundation’s "Infrastructure-First" strategy. We will discuss how to sustain a diverse suite of open-source solutions designed for institutional and community use. Key case studies include:A financial reporting and accounting...
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Marco Russo

Backend Development Lead, Cardano Foundation
Marco Russo is a Backend Development Lead at the Cardano Foundation, where he oversees the development of high-assurance, open-source infrastructure. Russo focuses on bridging the gap between traditional enterprise needs and decentralized protocols. His work centers on building secure... Read More →
osselcna2026 marco v3 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:35pm CDT

Taming MCP Server Sprawl: Securing and Scaling the Model Context Protocol in Production - Jeffrey Borek & Olivia Buzek, IBM
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
As AI agents transition from pilots to production systems, enterprises are rapidly adopting the open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect models with tools, data, and services. But this flexibility introduces a new challenge: MCP server sprawl. Proliferating endpoints, inconsistent trust models, weak identity controls, and unclear governance can quickly create operational and security...
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Jeffrey Borek

WW Program Director, Open Technologies, IBM
Working across IBM Research to build a scalable and consistent AI software supply chain security framework, while continuing to lead the consumption compliance Open Source Program Office (OSPO), including policy, execution and guidance. Working with IBM Government & Regulatory Affairs... Read More →
avatar for Olivia Buzek

Olivia Buzek

Senior Staff Developer Advocate for AI, IBM
Olivia is a computational linguist turned AI engineer. Her career has focused on data, machine learning, and AI. She subscribes to neither AI hype nor AI doomerism, believing that human creativity and AI can coexist, and that builders of AI applications have a responsibility to their... Read More →
OSSNAIBMSession 18May2026vFinal pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

3:35pm CDT

StageX: Rebuilding Trust Through Multi-Signed, Full-Source Bootstrapped, and Reproducible Builds - Danny Grove, Manifest Cyber & Lance Vick, Distrust
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
Most Linux distributions trust individual maintainers with complete package control, creating critical supply chain vulnerabilities. StageX rebuilds this trust model from scratch with a radically different approach: no single person or computer can compromise the system. StageX requires fully bit-for-bit reproducible builds verified and signed by multiple independent parties before release. Built...
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LV

Lance Vick

Security Engineer, Distrust

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Danny Grove

Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Manifest Cyber
Software and Infrastructure Engineer with 16 years of experience across the web stack. Co-Founder of Hashbang, a decentralized hackerspace. Owner at DR Grove Software LLC and Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Manifest Cyber. Cyborg. Specializes in containerization, building other peoples... Read More →
oss na 2026 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers

3:35pm CDT

DroneCode Community Update - Ramon Roche, DroneCode Foundation & Lorenz Meier, Creator of PX4 & Auterion
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200B (Level Two)

Speakers
avatar for Lorenz Meier

Lorenz Meier

Creator of PX4 & Founder and CEO, Auterion
Dr. Lorenz Meier is Founder and CEO of Auterion and the founder of a number of important open source projects for the drone industry that include PX4, MAVLink, QGroundControl and is the creator of the Pixhawk autopilot. He is a veteran of the drone industry since 2008 with more than... Read More →
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Ramon Roche

General Manager, The Linux Foundation
Ramón Roche is General Manager of the Dronecode Foundation, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation supporting drone and robotics development. He leads a global ecosystem behind technologies like PX4 and Pixhawk, and has over a decade of experience in open source. Ramón... Read More →
Dronecode Community Update OSS NA 2026 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:35pm CDT

Beyond Static Devicetrees: Implementing Runtime Hardware Dynamism in Zephyr - Wai-Hong Tam & Jason Yuan, Google
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
Zephyr’s build-time configuration excels at efficiency, but challenges mass production. When a single product design needs to support dozens of hardware variations, e.g. swapping out sensors or chargers due to supply chain constraints, the standard build flow often leads to managing a unique binary for every combination. This creates a validation nightmare. This talk presents an architectural...
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avatar for Jason Yuan

Jason Yuan

Software Engineer, Google
Jason has been working on the ChromeOS firmware team at Google for 4 years. He focuses on building interesting new Chromebook functionalities on top of Zephyr, as well as the automated testing of Chromebook firmware.

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Wai-Hong Tam

Staff Software Engineer, Google
Wai-Hong is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with over 20 years of embedded expertise. His career spans from RTOS and BootROM work at MediaTek to leading firmware architecture for ChromeOS. At Google, he has contributed to verified boot, U-Boot for the first ARM Chromebook, the... Read More →
Beyond Static Devicetrees Implementing Runtime Hardware Dynamism in Zephyr (05170908) pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  Zephyr

3:35pm CDT

BoF: DRA for AI Workloads: Where Does the Spec Need To Go Next? - Yahav Biran, Amazon
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:20pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation is now being adopted by hardware vendors implementing drivers for accelerators and high-speed networking. But as real-world AI workloads hit the spec—disaggregated inference across multiple nodes, topology-aware co-location of compute and network devices, per-workload hardware configuration—gaps are emerging. This Birds of a Feather session invites...
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Yahav Biran

Principal Architect, Amazon
Yahav Biran is a Principal Architect at AWS, focusing on large-scale AI workloads. He contributes to open-source projects and publishes in AWS blogs and academic journals, including the AWS compute and AI blogs and the Journal of Systems Engineering. He frequently delivers technical... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 4:20pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

3:35pm CDT

FLOSS Mentorship Unconference: A Community Event to Share, Shape, & Scale Mentoring Efforts in Open Source (Open to All Attendees; No Pre-registration Required)
Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 6:05pm CDT
200J (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) Click here to see an updated unconference agenda on the day of the event, then feel free to come and go any time.An unconference afternoon for anyone engaged in open source mentorship -- or who would like to be. We’ll build the agenda...
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Tyler Menezes

CEO, CodeDay
Tyler Menezes is the Executive Director at CodeDay, where he works to provide welcoming and diverse opportunities for under-served students to explore a future in tech and beyond.

He briefly attended the University of Washington before dropping out to start a Y Combinator and VC-backed social video startup in 2011. This, combined with stints working at Microsoft Research and several Seattle startups, led to his work finding data-driven solutions to increas... Read More →
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Lola Egherman

VP Product & Operations, CodeDay
I love getting students excited about technology. I'm always happy to talk about CS Education, Open Source Mentoring programs, and any innovative or fun ideas to keep students engaged
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Emily Lovell

OSPO Associate Director / Assistant Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Dr. Emily Lovell is the Associate Director of the UC Santa Cruz OSPO, which anchors the multi-campus University of California OSPO Network. She also holds a faculty appointment in the Computer Science and Engineering department, supporting new contributors through research, teaching... Read More →
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Silas Morgan

Graduate Student and Contributor Catalyst Mentor, Norfolk State University
I love working with individuals to help push them towards their goals while expanding networks.

Monday May 18, 2026 3:35pm - 6:05pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

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
Monday May 18, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
200C (Level Two)

Moderators
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Tracy Ragan

CEO, DeployHub
Tracy is a recognized expert in software supply chain security and DevSecOps, specializing in managing complex, decoupled architectures. She is the CEO of DeployHub, a scalable post-deployment vulnerability detection platform that empowers software to 'self-heal' by automatically... Read More →
Speakers
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Jennifer Mulford

Senior Platform Security Engineer, Okta
Jennifer Mulford is a Senior Platform Security Engineer with 8+ years in DevOps and security, holding certifications including CISSP, CKA, Security+, CEH, and AWS certifications. She focuses on practical, real-world security engineering and automation.
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Mihir Vora

Senior Distinguished Engineer, Capital One
Mihir is a Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Capital One with a passion for empowering teams and driving innovation. Mihir successfully led multiple projects that drive digital transformation and enhance customer experience over the years. Mihir has successfully balanced technical contributions... Read More →
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Ryo Sugahara

Evangelist, NTT DATA GROUP Corporation
I joined NTT Data in 2005. Currently, I'm dedicated to driving modernization through the integration of CI/CD and infrastructure automation, transforming traditional projects.
Monday May 18, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

4:30pm CDT

Why Is It Always DNS?: Rethinking & Engineering Node-Level DNS Resolution in Kubernetes - Shaheen Sayyed & Ankur Singh, Red Hat
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
Is it DNS or is it network? & why is answer always DNS? In K8s, most clusters quietly rely on /etc/resolv.conf on every node for all non-service name resolution. At scale, this dependency becomes a liability, reducing caching & observability while causing fragile forwarding, higher latency, upstream resolver overload, and host-level divergence in multi-cloud environments This talk will explain...
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Shaheen Sayyed

Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat
Coding Enthusiast with a keen interest in Building Scalable Cloud Applications
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Ankur Singh

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat
A diverse Software Engineer with experience as DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer.
dns on kubernetes pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm CDT

The Architecture of Accountability: Transparency in Software - Hayden Blauzvern, Google
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
In the context of secure systems, "transparency" is often a loaded term. We will propose a precise definition: the guarantee of discoverability and auditability. Transparency is the difference between a system that merely claims to be secure and a system that provides proof of its security claims. This session offers a high-level primer on the principles of cryptographic transparency. We will...
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Hayden Blauzvern

Technical Lead Manager, Google
Hayden Blauzvern is a technical lead manager on Google’s Open Source Security Team, focused on making open-source software more secure through code signing and applied transparency. Hayden is a maintainer and the community chair on the Sigstore project.
OSS NA 2026 The Architecture of Accountability Transparency in Software pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  Digital Trust
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm CDT

Bootph: A Swiss Army Knife for Boot-Time Optimization - Gokul Praveen & Beleswar Prasad Padhi, Texas Instruments
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
With more stringent regulations for automotive usecases, every millisecond of boot time is critical. Safety features like rear-view camera and surround view must start working quickly to meet regulations. A typical solution is to have custom boot loaders as they are often faster than U-Boot and the memory footprint of U-Boot has been increasing as device trees grow larger. However, U-Boot provides...
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Beleswar Prasad Padhi

Senior Software Engineer at Texas Instruments, Texas Instruments
Beleswar is a Senior Software Engineer at Texas Instruments, actively working on Upstream Linux Kernel and U-Boot. His work mainly focuses on Remoteproc, RPMsg, Mailbox, Virtio subsystems, as well as boot-time optimizations. He was listed among the top contributors for Linux 6.18... Read More →
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Gokul Praveen

Embedded Software Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments, India
I am a Software Applications Engineer with 2 years of experience at Texas Instruments(TI). My work mainly focuses on boot time optimizations, board bring ups with Linux, U-Boot, and handling platform-specific drivers, including those for eMMC, SD, UART, USB, and Timer peripherals... Read More →
OSS NA BOOTPH pptx
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm CDT

Complying With Regulatory SBOM Requirements Using the Yocto Project - Joshua Watt, Garmin
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
With regulatory deadlines regarding Software Bill of Materials (SBoMs) in place, and more on the horizon (such as the CRA), it is important to ensure that you can comply with the requirements that are stipulated. Fortunately, Yocto has a robust and comprehensive SBoM generation integrated into it, which can aid in ensuring compliance. In this talk, Joshua will provide information and tips about...
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Joshua Watt

Staff Software Engineer, Garmin
Joshua is a Staff Software Engineer for Garmin with 18 years experience producing consumer electronics. He has worked on the Yocto SPDX SBoM implementation, and is a member of the Yocto Project TSC as well as the OpenEmbedded TSC.
OSS NA Complying with CRA SBoM Requirements using the Yocto Project pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

4:30pm CDT

What Developers Should Know About Hardware Architecture - Dave Neary, Ampere Computing
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
The classic Java mantra, "write once, run anywhere," suggested that developers should be able to rely on the JVM to handle the intricacies of different hardware environments. For all modern high level languages, we expect compilers and language runtimes to “abstract away” the hardware for application developers. However, the hardware can still impact application performance. Developers and...
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Dave Neary

Director of Developer Relations, Ampere Computing
Dave Neary has been active in free and open source communities for more than 20 years. In that time, he has worked on projects relating to infrastructure management, cloud computing, and the telecommunications industry. He currently leads the Developer Relations team at Ampere Computing... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux

4:30pm CDT

Scaling LLM Inference With Tiered Caching: Extending LMCache With Amazon SageMaker HyperPod - Yihua Cheng, Tensormesh, Inc. & Ziwen Ning
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
LMCache supports tiered KV caching with CPU memory offloading, extending inference beyond GPU memory limits. But what happens when local CPU memory isn't enough? This session introduces the next tier: offloading KV cache to Amazon SageMaker HyperPod managed storage, expanding cache capacity for large-scale LLM inference. We'll cover the technical design of the SageMaker HyperPod connector...
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Yihua Cheng

CTO, Tensormesh, Inc.
Yihua Cheng is co-founder and CTO of Tensormesh. He has a deep background in large language models, high-performance computing, and open-source development.
Yihua created LMCache and the vLLM production stack, open-source projects that have collectively earned over 9,000 GitHub... Read More →
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Ziwen Ning

Open Source Contributor
Ziwen Ning is an open-source contributor to LMCache. He was previously a Senior Software Development Engineer at AWS, working on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with a focus on building scalable ML infrastructure. Before that at Annapurna Labs, he enhanced the AI/ML experience through the... Read More →
OSS NA26 LMCache pptx
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data

4:30pm CDT

Quantum Computing for AI Engineers: Foundations, Limits, and Future Possibilities - Alireza Rahmani, Red Hat
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
Quantum computing is often described as the next frontier of computation, but for most engineers, it remains abstract and disconnected from practical systems such as AI and distributed infrastructure. This session introduces the fundamentals of quantum computing in clear, accessible terms. We will explain core concepts such as qubits, superposition, and entanglement without heavy mathematics, and...
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Alireza Rahmani

Senior Cloud Architect, Red Hat
Alireza Rahmani is a Red Hat Cloud Architect, academic professor, and Doctoral Engineer candidate at Penn State University specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native systems. A Golden Kubestronaut within the CNCF ecosystem, he bridges research and real-world deployment, focusing on security... Read More →
Quantum Computing for AI Engineers pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm CDT

Lazy Rivers and Open Source Security: Learn About the OpenSSF With Angelah and Stacey - Angelah Liu & Stacey Potter, Linux Foundation
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
Some people claim that open source and cybersecurity are two things that don't mix. Come join this informative session to learn how the truth is very much the opposite! Established in 2020, the OpenSSF is the security subject matter experts for the Linux Foundation. While some might claim that security is a Dark Art, hop onto our lazy river as we show you about all the amazing initiatives our...
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Angelah Liu

Associate Manager, Marketing and Communications, Linux Foundation
Angelah serves as the Associate Communications & Marketing Manager at the Linux Foundation, where she supports open source projects' cross-functional marketing initiatives for high-impact open source ecosystems. She drives the marketing efforts for multiple key LF projects, including... Read More →
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Stacey Potter

Community Manager, OpenSSF

OSS NA 2026 OpenSSF Lazy Rivers pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm CDT

Image Composer Tool: Declarative Multi-Distro Linux Image Builds From Packages - Mats Agerstam & Alpesh Rodage, Intel Corporation
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
Building custom Linux images for edge deployments requires distribution-specific toolchains, manual dependency resolution, and bespoke scripting; resulting in fragile, hard-to-reproduce pipelines. Image Composer Tool (ICT) is an open-source tool that composes bootable Linux images from pre-built packages using declarative YAML templates. It supports Azure Linux, Ubuntu, Wind River eLxr, and Edge...
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Mats Agerstam

Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
Mats Agerstam is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, leading architecture for the Open Edge Platform, Edge Microvisor Toolkit, and OS Image Composer to simplify AI and edge‑native workload deployment. With deep experience in edge computing, device lifecycle management, and platform... Read More →
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Alpesh Rodage

Cloud Software Architect, Intel Corporation
Alpesh Rodage is a Cloud Software Architect at Intel with 20+ years in platform engineering and distributed systems. He architects and leads development of the OS Image Composer, an open-source tool for declarative, multi-distribution Linux image builds. Previously, he designed multi-cluster... Read More →
ICT Open Source Summit NW 2026 Final version pptx
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers

4:30pm CDT

Leveraging GPU-accelerated Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry in PX4 Using ROS2 - Andrew Brahim, Ascend Engineering
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
This quick tutorial walks through the camera calibration/configuration, uxrce dds service, Isaac ROS setup, and PX4 parameters required to fuse stereo VIO in EKF2. The platform is a quadcopter with an Ark Jetson computer.
Speakers
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Andrew Brahim

Principle Engineer at Ascend Engineering, Ascend Engineering
With a background in Electrical Engineering, I became involved in the UAS industry as a hobby at first. There are always interesting and challenging problems to solve in this space, which inspires me to learn a little bit more about the technology in this space every day.
px4 nvidia vio pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit

4:30pm CDT

Fuzzing Zephyr Apps - Struggles of Dynamic Analysis on Embedded Applications - Jayashree Srinivasan, Analog Devices
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
Fuzzing, a type of dynamic analysis, is a testing method to find security flaws in software during execution. It involves providing randomized inputs to the application and observing for crashes. Embedded applications present unique fuzzing challenges. Unlike general-purpose software, they run continuously in real-time without terminating, making it hard to use traditional fuzzing approaches....
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Jayashree Srinivasan

Senior Engineer, Research Science Engineering, Analog Devices
I am an Embedded Security enthusiast, currently working as a Senior Engineer in the Product Security team at Analog Devices. My work involves building security solutions for our products with Trusted Execution Environments and open source SW including Trusted Firmware-M, Zephyr and... Read More →
Fuzzing Zephyr Apps pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 4:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  Zephyr
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:35pm CDT

The Probabilistic Pipeline: From Green To Safe - Mihir Vora, Capital One
Monday May 18, 2026 4:35pm - 4:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
CI/CD has trained us to trust one signal: green means go. But modern systems don't fail in binary. A one-line UI tweak can trigger a 45-minute test marathon, while a risky change can go green and still take production down. The issue isn't "bad pipelines" - it's that pass/fail is no longer a reliable proxy for safe. In this talk I introduce the Probabilistic Pipeline: shipping as risk management,...
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Mihir Vora

Senior Distinguished Engineer, Capital One
Mihir is a Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Capital One with a passion for empowering teams and driving innovation. Mihir successfully led multiple projects that drive digital transformation and enhance customer experience over the years. Mihir has successfully balanced technical contributions... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 4:35pm - 4:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

5:00pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Why Don't AI Technologies and CI/CD Pipelines Get Along? - Ryo Sugahara, NTT DATA GROUP Corporation
Monday May 18, 2026 5:00pm - 5:10pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
AI technologies are fundamentally transforming the landscape of IT system development. While they are increasingly applied across a wide range of development tasks, their potential remains largely untapped within CI/CD pipelines. I have personally experimented with applying AI technologies to CI/CD pipelines in an effort to build more effective and intelligent workflows. However, these attempts...
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Speakers
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Ryo Sugahara

Evangelist, NTT DATA GROUP Corporation
I joined NTT Data in 2005. Currently, I'm dedicated to driving modernization through the integration of CI/CD and infrastructure automation, transforming traditional projects.
[cdCon2026] Why don't AI technologies and CICD pipelines get along pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:00pm - 5:10pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

5:15pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Developer Experience is More Than Just Productivity Metrics - Jeremy Meiss, WWT
Monday May 18, 2026 5:15pm - 5:25pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
With everything changing in tech at a frenetic pace, the emphasis on developer productivity has overshadowed the true essence of developer experience (DevEx). While frameworks like SPACE, getDX, and DORA metrics provide valuable insights, they often miss the mark on capturing developers' real, day-to-day experiences using tools and services, instead focusing strictly on the bottom line for the...
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Jeremy Meiss

Technical Solution Architect, AI Native, WWT
Jeremy is an international speaker and is a Technical Solution Architect, AI Native, at WWT, previously leading Developer Advocacy at OneStream Software, CircleCI, Solace, and Auth0. Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com, and organizer... Read More →
DevEx more than DevProd metrics cdCon2026 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:15pm - 5:25pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon
  • Slides Attached Yes

5:25pm CDT

Monolithic To Cloud Native: Lessons From Migrating Heroku To EKS at Scale - Mateen Anjum, Phono Technologies Inc
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
When our platform served a SaaS company growing from 9M$ to $100M ARR, we faced a decision every scaling team encounters: stay on Heroku or migrate to Kubernetes. We chose migration. This talk shares the real lessons from moving 47 microservices to EKS while maintaining 99.9% uptime. I will cover the migration patterns that worked, the ones that failed spectacularly, and the operational changes...
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Mateen Anjum

Staff DevOps Engineer, Phono Technologies Inc
Mateen Ali Anjum is a Staff DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building infrastructure platforms. He has scaled systems, led platform migrations, and currently works in Canada. His work focuses on the intersection of reliability engineering and emerging AI tooling for infrastructure... Read More →
Anjum Monolithic to Cloud Native pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

5:25pm CDT

Panel Discussion: Securing the AI Supply Chain: Critical Infrastructure for Model Integrity and Trust - Christopher Robinson, OpenSSF; Andrew Chin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mihai Maruseac, OpenAI; Marcela Melara, Intel
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
As AI systems become deeply embedded in critical infrastructure and enterprise operations, ensuring the security, integrity, and provenance of machine learning models has become a fundamental challenge for the open source ecosystem. This session will provide an overview of the OpenSSF AI/ML Security Working Group's focus on practical solutions that bring software supply chain security best...
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Andrew Chin

Ph.D. Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew is part of Team Atlanta, the winning team in the AIxCC finals competition at DEF CON 33.

He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Taesoo Kim at the Systems Software & Security Lab. Building on the work from AIxCC, Andrew is leading a Team Atlanta effort — in partnership with the OpenSSF — to strengthen the security... Read More →
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Christopher "CRob" Robinson

Chief Architect - OpenSSF, OpenSSF
Christopher Robinson (aka CRob) is the Chief Security Architect for the Open Source Security Foundation. With over 25 years of Enterprise-class engineering, architectural, operational and leadership experience, CRob has worked at several Fortune 500 companies with experience in the... Read More →
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Mihai Maruseac

Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
Building AGI with Privacy and Security as Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI.

Previously was a member of the Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST), working on Supply Chain Security for ML (released model-signing). Co-lead on a Secure AI Framework (SAIF) workstream from Google on AI supply chain. Chairing OpenSSF AI/ML working group and involved in CoSAI’s... Read More →
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Marcela Melara

Research Scientist, Intel Corporation
Marcela Melara is a research scientist at Intel making distributed and cloud systems more trustworthy. Her current work focuses on developing solutions for high-integrity software and AI supply chains. She leads a number of internal, academic and open-source projects on supply chain... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  Digital Trust

5:25pm CDT

Leveraging U-Boot Binman With Hardware Security Modules (HSM) for Secure Boot - Riya Aysola & Judith Mendez, Texas Instruments
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
Secure boot is becoming essential for more embedded Linux systems, yet secure firmware signing at scale remains challenging. Traditional approaches often rely on manual, locally managed scripts and cryptographic keys, leading to increased security risks from development to production environments. This presentation demonstrates a practical approach to secure boot image creation using U-Boot's...
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Riya Aysola

Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments
Riya Aysola is a Systems Engineer in Texas Instruments' Embedded Processing group, focused on embedded security and cybersecurity. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Houston.
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Judith Mendez

Embedded Linux Developer, Texas Instruments
Judith Mendez is an embedded Linux developer at Texas Instruments with nearly 4 years of experience on Sitara K3 SoCs and legacy AM335/AM437 platforms. She handles driver development and maintenance for IPs like MMC, PWM, M_CAN, and watchdog, helping deliver quality Linux SDKs and... Read More →
Leveraging Binman with HSM for SecureBoot pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

5:25pm CDT

Verification Toward Applying SLSA in Automotive IVI Software Development - Yuta Kiyoumi & Takashi Ninjouji, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
In automotive software development—such as IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) software—many layers of the supply chain are involved, including automotive OEMs and Tier‑1 suppliers. Automotive OEMs, in particular, are required to manage a complex and multi‑layered software supply chain under strict safety and regulatory constraints. To evaluate supply chain security efforts within software...
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Yuta KIYOUMI

Security Architect for IVI software development, HONDA MOTOR CO.,LTD.
Yuta Kiyoumi is the Security Architect for IVI software development at Honda Motor Co., Ltd. He also serves as a member of the Honda OSPO promoting secure OSS adoption, and participates as a member of the OpenSSF.
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Takashi Ninjouji

Chief Engineer, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Takashi Ninjouji is a Chief Engineer at Honda Motor Co., Ltd., with a focus on Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV). He is a manager of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO). His interests also include AI-assisted engineering automation.
Applying SLSA by Kiyoumi Ninjouji OSS NA26 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

5:25pm CDT

Beyond Vector Search: Building Knowledge Graphs for Autonomous Infrastructure - Torsten Boettjer, Rescile
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
Modern platform engineering has a 'context' problem. As infrastructure scales across Kubernetes, hybrid clouds, and internal developer platforms (IDPs) like Backstage, traditional RAG systems struggle to answer multi-hop queries like 'Which services depend on this failing database?' or 'What is the blast radius of this IAM change?' In this session, we explore how GraphRAG—a combination of...
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Torsten Boettjer

Co-Founder, Rescile
Co-Founder at Rescile, 20 years experience in platform engineering, former CCIO at Avaloq, CTO at Cisco, Head of Innovation at Swisscom, Product Management at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Rescile Beyond Vector Search pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data

5:25pm CDT

From Compliance To Code: The Cyber Resilience Act, SBOMs, DevTeams and YOU! - Marcus Ross, Hamburg Port Authority AöR & Peter Dickten, dcs-fuerth Germany
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is reshaping how manufacturers and developers must secure their products—but what does it mean for your Developer platforms, DevOps pipelines, and DevTeams? In this session, we’ll share a real-world implementation for SBOMs (Technical Guideline TR-03183 from the Federal Office of Information Security). We demonstrate how to technically address CRA mandates...
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Peter Dickten

Peter Dickten, dcs-fuerth Germany

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Marcus Ross

CCoE Lead / Kubestronaut, Hamburg Port Authority
The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has been operating future-oriented port management from a single source since 2005 and is active wherever efficiency, safety, and cost-effectiveness are required in the Port of Hamburg. Marcus works as a DevOps Plattform Engineer in a team responsible... Read More →
oss 2026 cra slides pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

5:25pm CDT

Verified Debian Packaging at Scale - Frederick Lawler, Cloudflare
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
Cloudflare’s global network relies on Debian Linux machines across 330+ cities. To enhance production security we wanted to ensure that our servers can only run authorized software. For this we leverage Linux Kernel's IMA-Measurement to validate binary signatures before execution. Our system encompasses first-party software, Docker containers, and open-source Debian packages. This talk...
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Speakers
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Frederick Lawler

Systems Engineer, Cloudflare
Fred is a backend web developer turned kernel developer. He previously focused on the PCIe subsystem since 2018 as a hobbyist. Now he works for Cloudflare on the Linux team with a focus on securing systems and production reliability.
2026 OSS NA Slides pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Slides Attached Yes

5:25pm CDT

QGC: What You Don't Know - Andrew Wilkins, Ascend Engineering
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
This talk dives in to what you don't know about QGC. Hidden features, how to make changes, why things are the way they are.

We will go over: Text overlay on videos, Advanced Vs. Standard Mode, new joystick integrations, new bluetooth connections support, AND MORE!!!

Learn the intricacies of QGC as you never have before while also discovering brand new features!
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Wilkins

Andrew Wilkins

CEO - Ascend Engineering, Ascend Engineering
Andrew Wilkins is the CEO of Ascend Engineering. He does extensive contracting work with various PX4/QGC-related projects and has a strong sense of what these projects need from Dronecode. Ascend Engineering currently employs two PX4/QGC maintainers, giving Andrew direct insight into... Read More →
QGC What you don't know pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200B (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit

5:25pm CDT

BoF: Space Grade Linux: From Incubation to Foundation - Ramón Roche & Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
SGL is graduating from ELISA incubation and launching as its own foundation. This BoF is a working discussion on three things: the structure of the new Technical Advisory Council, the near-term roadmap emerging from our mailing list, and where attendees want to plug in. New faces and long-time contributors equally welcome. Bring questions, bring priorities, bring pushback.
Speakers
avatar for Kate Stewart

Kate Stewart

VP Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation
Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, and supports other embedded projects. With... Read More →
avatar for Ramon Roche

Ramon Roche

General Manager, The Linux Foundation
Ramón Roche is General Manager of the Dronecode Foundation, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation supporting drone and robotics development. He leads a global ecosystem behind technologies like PX4 and Pixhawk, and has over a decade of experience in open source. Ramón... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Safety-critical Software

5:25pm CDT

From FreeRTOS To Zephyr: A Practical Migration Guide for Embedded Developers - Jacob Beningo, Beningo Embedded Group
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
FreeRTOS has long been the go-to RTOS for embedded developers. But as projects grow in complexity, demanding better modularity, richer middleware, and long-term maintainability, teams are turning to Zephyr. The migration, however, can feel daunting. Different APIs, build systems, configuration models, and abstractions create a steep learning curve. This session delivers a practical, step-by-step...
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Speakers
avatar for Jacob Beningo

Jacob Beningo

CEO, Beningo Embedded Group
Jacob Beningo helps embedded teams modernize software architecture, streamline development, and adopt best practices for high-quality, real-time systems. As founder of Beningo Embedded Group, he provides expert training and guided learning to improve code quality, accelerate development... Read More →
Monday May 18, 2026 5:25pm - 6:05pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  Zephyr
  • Audience Experience Level Any

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
Monday May 18, 2026 5:30pm - 5:40pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
The transition of Machine Learning (ML) models from experimental notebooks to reliable production environments often reveals a significant disconnect between Data Scientists and Infrastructure/Operations teams. While traditional DevOps has mastered code delivery, the unique "state" of ML—comprising both code and massive datasets—requires a specialized evolution: MLOps. This session provides a...
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Speakers
avatar for Sachin Garg

Sachin Garg

CTO, NavankurIT
Dr. Sachin Garg built India's early FOSS infrastructure: MNNIT's first internet server (1995) over 9.6 kbps VSAT, core BLUG member (1996-2002), IT.com '99 Linux Pavilion participant, and architect of Wipro's landmark FOSS.in 2006 sponsorship. At C-DAC, championed Linux for PARAM supercomputers... Read More →
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Sameeksha Garg

Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Sameeksha Garg is a Computer Science student at Carnegie Mellon University (graduating May 2026), specializing in Machine Learning. With hands-on experience in open-source security at Visa, building ML monitoring systems using Grafana and Prometheus, and developing AI-driven pipelines... Read More →
Garg Garg Jat SimpleYetScalableMLOps cdCon2026 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 5:30pm - 5:40pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

6:00pm CDT

cdCon Reception & Networking
Monday May 18, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Seasons (Level Two)
Come and join the Continuous Delivery Foundation for a 1 hour reception with chips and drinks. Get your drink tickets from Tracy Ragan in the cdCon room 200C!
Monday May 18, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Seasons (Level Two)
  cdCon

6:30pm CDT

Attendee Reception
Monday May 18, 2026 6:30pm - 9:30pm CDT
Mill City Museum
Join us at Mill City Museum for an evening of connection, conversation, and Minneapolis character. Enjoy locally inspired food and drinks throughout the space as you explore the museum’s historic ruins and interactive exhibits overlooking the Mississippi River.Designed for meaningful networking in a relaxed setting, the Attendee Reception offers space to mingle, reconnect with peers, and spark...
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Monday May 18, 2026 6:30pm - 9:30pm CDT
Mill City Museum 704 S 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55401
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

8:00pm CDT

Drone Show (Presented by Uvify)
Monday May 18, 2026 8:00pm - 8:15pm CDT
Mill City Museum
Presented By Uvify


Don’t miss the Attendee Reception’s grand finale! Keep your eyes on the Minneapolis skyline at 8:00 PM sharp. We’re celebrating 35 years of Linux with a high-tech drone performance that bridges the gap between the 1991 revolution and the future of open source. Trust us – you’ll want to party like it’s 1991.


Monday May 18, 2026 8:00pm - 8:15pm CDT
Mill City Museum 704 S 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55401
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks
 
Tuesday, May 19
 

6:45am CDT

5K Fun Run
Tuesday May 19, 2026 6:45am - 8:00am CDT
Time: Meet at 6:45am; Activity from 7:00 – 8:00 amLocation: Meet at the Plaza outside of the Minneapolis Convention CenterLace up your sneakers - it’s time for the Fun Run! Whether you’re walking, jogging, or chasing a personal best, we’ve got a pace group to match your stride. This all-levels activity is a great way to start your day, so don’t forget to bring your running gear. Join us...
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Tuesday May 19, 2026 6:45am - 8:00am CDT
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

7:30am CDT

Welcome Coffee
Tuesday May 19, 2026 7:30am - 9:00am CDT
Ballroom Foyer (Level One)

Tuesday May 19, 2026 7:30am - 9:00am CDT
Ballroom Foyer (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

7:30am CDT

Zen Zone
Tuesday May 19, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT
204B (Level Two)
All attendees may feel free to use the Zen Zone as needed. This is a quiet space for sensory relaxation, meditation, and worship. It is not to be used for conversations or as a workspace.
Tuesday May 19, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT
204B (Level Two)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

7:30am CDT

Coat & Bag Check
Tuesday May 19, 2026 7:30am - 6:45pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

Tuesday May 19, 2026 7:30am - 6:45pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

8:00am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Tuesday May 19, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

Tuesday May 19, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome Back
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)

Speakers
avatar for Jim Zemlin

Jim Zemlin

CEO, The Linux Foundation
Jim Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing, and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

9:05am CDT

Keynote Panel: From Repo to Rocketship: How Open Source Foundations Supercharge AI Ecosystems - Deepyaman Datta, Open Source Maintainer; Jakub Kuderski, AMD; Libby Clark, AWS; Lin Sun, Solo.io; Stephen Chin, Neo4j
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:05am - 9:35am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
AI infrastructure is moving faster than any single company can sustainably steward: data formats, vector search, orchestration, inference, evaluation, and agent interoperability all need to evolve in the open to win broad adoption. This panel explores why neutral open source foundations matter for the next decade of AI, and how foundation-backed governance turns promising projects into durable...
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Moderators
avatar for Stephen Chin

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j
Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j and author of numerous titles including the upcoming GraphRAG: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly. He has given keynotes and main stage talks at numerous conferences around the world including AI Engineer Summit, AI DevSummit, Devoxx... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Libby Clark

Libby Clark

Principal Open Source and AI Engagement Strategist, AWS
Libby Clark is a Principal Open Source and AI Engagement Strategist at Amazon Web Services inside the developer experience org. She was previously a senior community marketing manager for open source at AWS, and VP of strategy at The New Stack where she helped grow the company toward... Read More →
avatar for Lin Sun

Lin Sun

Head of Open Source, Solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, contributing full-time to the open-source community. She serves on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), is a CNCF Ambassador, and is a maintainer for Istio, kgateway, and kagent. An international speaker at tech conferences, Lin... Read More →
avatar for Jakub Kuderski

Jakub Kuderski

Principal AI Compiler Developer | IREE Project, AMD
Jakub is an open source maintainer and contributor to compiler projects including IREE, MLIR, and LLVM. He also contributes to open standards such as SPIR-V and Vulkan at the Khronos Group.

He currently works on GPU code generation at AMD, targeting both data center accelerators and desktop GPUs, and previously worked on mobile GPU compilers at Google Research, contributing to IREE and MLIR across both roles... Read More →
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Deepyaman Datta

Open Source Maintainer
Deepyaman is a data practitioner turned software engineer focused on building open-source data tooling. He was a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Voltron Data on the Ibis team, and later worked on data orchestration and ecosystem integration at Dagster Labs. Prior to that, he was... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:05am - 9:35am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

9:35am CDT

Keynote: Strands - From Framework to Harness - Belle Guttman, Senior Software Engineering Manager, AWS
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:35am - 9:40am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)

Speakers
avatar for Belle Guttman

Belle Guttman

Senior Software Engineering Manager, AWS
Belle Guttman leads the Agentic AI Engineering teams at AWS responsible for the Strands Agents SDK, AgentCore Developer Experience, and agentic chat in Q Developer products. With a background in software engineering, she has spent her career solving complex technical problems with... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:35am - 9:40am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

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
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:00am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)

Speakers
avatar for Rohit John Varghese

Rohit John Varghese

Director of Systems Engineering and Product, Contoro Robotics

Rohit John Varghese is the director of systems engineering and product at Contoro Robotics, a company developing AI-driven logistics robots for shipping container unloading. He has been part of the founding team of two successful startups that together have raised over $25 million... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:00am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

10:15am CDT

Coffee Break
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:15am - 11:00am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Start your day in the Solutions Showcase with coffee, great conversations, and hands-on access to the latest innovations shaping the industry. 
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:15am - 11:00am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:15am CDT

Solutions Showcase
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:15am - 6:30pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
The Solutions Showcase is your hub to network, explore sponsor exhibits, and learn how these organizations are shaping the future of the ecosystem.**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a...
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OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:15am - 6:30pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:45am CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Why AI is Driving a Full-Stack Skills Gap (and How to Close It)
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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Speakers
avatar for Anna Hermansen

Anna Hermansen

Ecosystem Manager, Research, Linux Foundation Research
Anna is a Senior Researcher & Ecosystem Manager for LF Research where she leads research projects and supports end-to-end management of the Foundation's research. Her interests lie at the intersection of open source AI, health informatics, and data sharing. Prior to the Linux Foundation... Read More →
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:45am CDT

Sponsor Activity - DA Spotlight
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Meet Intersect's Developer Advocates! DA's support developers building on Cardano and Intersect's Open Source Committee. As they were unable to attend the event with us, they will share via satellite event coordination their continued contributions.Discover how AWS champions responsible AI through open source contributions and security investments. Learn about our work with open weight models,...
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OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

11:00am CDT

Lightning Talk: AI Can Contribute. It Can't Lead - Lahari Chowtoori, AWS
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am CDT
200J (Level Two)
AI is doing real work in open source. Answering questions, reviewing PRs, writing patches. Some communities ban it, others label it. Most will accept it because policing AI is exhausting and the tooling is useful. Here's what bothers me. Everyone argues about allowing AI contributions. Nobody talks about what we lose when humans stop doing the work. AI can write code. But it can't show up to...
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Speakers
avatar for Lahari Chowtoori

Lahari Chowtoori

Open Source TPM, AI/ML, AWS
Lahari Chowtoori is an AI enthusiast and Technical Program Manager at AWS, focusing on open source, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. With a background in Data Science and Machine Learning, she is passionate about democratizing AI knowledge and fostering community collaboration.She... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:10am CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:00am CDT

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
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am CDT
200C (Level Two)

Speakers
avatar for Sundeep Bobba

Sundeep Bobba

Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, Southwest Airlines
Sundeep Bobba is a Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer at Southwest Airlines with 15+ years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native CI/CD and automation platforms. He leads enterprise DevOps modernization supporting millions of customers and billions in digital revenue. He is... Read More →
avatar for Brett Smith

Brett Smith

Distinguished Software Developer, SAS
Distinguished Software Architect/Engineer/Developer with 25+ years of experience.
Specialties: Event Driven Automation, Continuous Integration/Delivery/Testing/Deployment, Supply Chain Security, AI Security
Expertise: Linux, packaging, and tool design.

Currently Engineering an... Read More →
avatar for Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor

CTO, DeployHub
Steve Taylor is a technology leader and innovator with deep expertise in service-based architecture, DevSecOps, open-source security, and secure software delivery. As CTO of DeployHub, he leads product strategy focused on build and release automation, vulnerability management, and... Read More →
avatar for Jothsna Praveena Pendyala

Jothsna Praveena Pendyala

Senior Data Scientist, Infosys Ltd
Jothsna Pendyala is a Senior Data Scientist and AI Engineer focused on enterprise AI platforms, agentic AI systems, and production-ready AI applications. Her work centers on building secure, scalable, and reliable AI solutions for enterprise environments, with expertise in AI platform... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

11:00am CDT

From Guidance To Guardrails: Cost & Carbon Policy-as-Code With OPA in CI - Machiko Shinozuka & Kouki Hama, NTT, Inc
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200F (Level Two)
Several guidelines such as FinOps Framework and Green Software Patterns provide principles for cloud optimization, but they include both abstract ideas and practical details with multiple concerns like cost and sustainability. This makes human reviews inconsistent. In this talk, we show how such guidance can be evaluated consistently in CI using Open Policy Agent (OPA). We present a two-layer...
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Speakers
avatar for Machiko Shinozuka

Machiko Shinozuka

Research Engineer, NTT, Inc
Machiko Shinozuka is a researcher in Computer and Data Science Laboratories in NTT, Inc. She is engaged in the research and development of green software engineering. Her interest is calculating and reducing CO2 emissions in software, FinOps and cloud cost optimization. With a background... Read More →
avatar for Kouki Hama

Kouki Hama

Senior Research Engineer, NTT, Inc
Kouki Hama is a Senior Research Engineer in software engineering at NTT, Inc., Computer & Data Science Laboratories. His research focuses on improving the efficiency, reliability, and governance of CI/CD, with a focus on GreenOps, FinOps, reliability engineering, and software supply... Read More →
OSSNA cost carbon PaC r pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

Sponsored Session: Cloud Native AI: From Conformance to Production - Jake Pineda, CNCF
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200I (Level Two)
Implementing a cloud-native AI stack often leads to operational and security issues. This session will provide attendees with an analysis of production-ready Cloud Native AI stacks, integrating community insights and the latest Cloud Native AI Conformance guidelines. We will showcase practical implementation methods through reference architectures and key projects, and define key metrics for...
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Speakers
avatar for Jake Pineda

Jake Pineda

Open Source Growth Strategist, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
OSS NA 2026 CNAI (1) pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200I (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

State of Embedded Linux - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
This talk offers a comprehensive look at what's changed in the embedded Linux world over the past year. Walt will walk through the latest kernel developments most relevant to embedded developers, survey key userspace projects shaping modern embedded designs, and cover the broader community, industry, and legal landscape — from the status of major processor architectures to initiatives at the...
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Speakers
avatar for Walt Miner

Walt Miner

AGL Community Manager, The Linux Foundation

State of Embedded Linux ELC NA Miner pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

Optimizing Power Consumption in Embedded Linux: Techniques and Tradeoffs - Kendall Willis, Texas Instruments
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
Modern embedded systems look to minimize power consumption without compromising the performance of the system. To address this challenge, Linux provides comprehensive frameworks for dynamic power management that adapt system performance in response to workload demands. This talk explores the pieces that form the foundation of Linux power optimization and demonstrates how to leverage these tools in...
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Speakers
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Kendall Willis

Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
Kendall Willis is an Embedded Software Engineer working at Texas Instruments. She primarily focuses on power management in ARM SoCs by enabling various low power modes in the Linux kernel.
EOSS power optimizations final pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux

11:00am CDT

Connecting the Dots With Context Graphs - Stephen Chin, Neo4j
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
AI systems need more than intelligence; they need context that persists. Without it, even strong models can misinterpret information, lose decision rationale, or repeat the same mistakes. Context Graphs have emerged as a practical pattern for agentic AI: a living graph that captures not only what was retrieved or known, but how context led to actions through tool calls, constraints, policies, and...
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Speakers
avatar for Stephen Chin

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j
Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j and author of numerous titles including the upcoming GraphRAG: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly. He has given keynotes and main stage talks at numerous conferences around the world including AI Engineer Summit, AI DevSummit, Devoxx... Read More →
Connecting the Dots with Context Graphs (OSS NA) pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data

11:00am CDT

What Running FreeBSD on a Modern Laptop Taught Me - Deb Goodkin, The FreeBSD Foundation
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200H (Level Two)
"FreeBSD is only for servers.” “FreeBSD is for hardcore engineers.” We have all heard the myths. In this talk, Deb shares what happened when she decided to run FreeBSD on a modern laptop. Learn more about her journey to getting this rock-solid operating system on her laptop, and how it is far more accessible than its reputation suggests.
Speakers
avatar for Deb Goodkin

Deb Goodkin

Deb Goodkin, The FreeBSD Foundation
Deb is the Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, joining as the first employee in 2005. Before venturing into the world of open source and operating systems, she spent two decades working as an embedded firmware engineer, technical marketer, and technical sales engineer in... Read More →
2026 What Running FreeBSD on a Modern Laptop Taught Me.pptx pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

Driving Kubernetes’ Global Adoption and Contributions With Documentation - Rey Lejano, Red Hat
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200E (Level Two)
Kubernetes documentation is facing a veering wind in users. Since the start of 2026, there have been twice as many global users as there were in 2025. With 15 localizations of the Kubernetes docs and 11.59 million active users in 2025, and 3 yearly releases, maintaining Kubernetes documentation and growing contributors can be daunting. This session explores how the Kubernetes project developed a...
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Speakers
avatar for Rey Lejano

Rey Lejano

Solutions Architect, CNCF Ambassador, Red Hat
Rey Lejano is a Solutions Architect at Red Hat and is the co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Docs. He contributes to Kubernetes SIG Security, Release, & Contributor Experience. He is a member of seven Kubernetes Release Teams including serving as the 1.23 Release Lead and 1.25 Emeritus Adviser... Read More →
driving k8s global adoption with docs pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200E (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Technical Documentation
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

Small Government, Big Problems: Utilizing OSS To Support Our Citizens - Bob Henderson, Cass County Government
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200A (Level Two)
Small and local governments face an outsized challenge: rising expectations from citizens paired with shrinking budgets, limited staff, and a complex technology landscape. Finding modern, secure, and sustainable solutions often feels impossible when proprietary systems are expensive, rigid, and dependent on vendors that may not fully understand public sector realities. Staffing constraints make it...
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Speakers
avatar for Bob Henderson

Bob Henderson

Director of Information Technology, Cass County Government
20+ years in Public Sector IT, from individual contributor to leadership. Advocate of the right tool for the right job, at the right time.
OSSNA BJH Slides pptx
OSSNA BJH Slides pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

Trusted Publishing: Eliminating Credentials From Your Release Workflow - Mike Fiedler, Python Software
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200G (Level Two)
In February 2024, about 10% of PyPI uploads used Trusted Publishers. By October 2025, that number exceeded 25%, a massive shift toward eliminating long-lived credentials. For maintainers still using stored API tokens, this talk demonstrates why and how to modernize. Trusted Publishing uses OpenID Connect (OIDC) to generate short-lived, automatically-scoped tokens from CI/CD environments. No...
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Speakers
avatar for Mike Fiedler

Mike Fiedler

PyPI Safety & Security Engineer, Python Software Foundation
Mike’s been in the engineering game for 30+ years, leading teams at Datadog, MongoDB, LeafLink, Warby Parker, and Capital One. He’s a big believer in learning from every peer and helping others navigate tech’s complexities. An AWS Hero and Awesome Community Chef, Mike loves... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers

11:00am CDT

Sim‑to‑Flight: Why Starting With Simulation Is the Fastest Path To Successful Flight Testing - Anthony Comer, Oklahoma State University & Eric Hillsberg, MathWorks
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200D (Level Two)
Many flight‑control and autonomy programs still begin with hardware prototyping, only to discover late in development that controller tuning, transition behavior, and system coupling are difficult to resolve without a reliable model. This session presents a practical simulation‑to‑flight workflow based on recent university flight‑test research, demonstrating why starting with simulation is...
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Eric Hillsberg

Product Marketing Manger - Aerospace, MathWorks
Eric Hillsberg is a Product Marketing Manager for Aerospace Products at MathWorks. He recently graduated from University of Michigan with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and a minor in Computer Science.  During school, he interned with NASA Ames Research Center to investigate how... Read More →
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Anthony Comer

Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
Dr. Anthony Comer is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University and Director of the Simulation to Flight Applied Research Lab. His research focuses on configuration-independent flight control architectures for VTOL aircraft and he developed the patent-pending Trajectory Control... Read More →
OSU + MathWorks PX4 Developer Summit 2026 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200D (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:35am CDT

Lightning Talk: It's Friday! - Alon Nisser, Zencity
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:35am - 11:45am CDT
200C (Level Two)
It's Friday afternoon, and you've got plans for this evening. You've just finished the feature. you push to main and click deploy. OR DO YOU?

Let's talk about Friday deployments and what they can teach us.
Speakers
avatar for Alon Nisser

Alon Nisser

Principal engineer, Zencity
Software developer. currently in Zencity.io. Writing software as a hobby and as a profession. Strong opinions on things. Open source aficionado. Trying to make a difference.
Sometimes software makes we wonder if I'd be better off being a farmer
It's Friday Open source North America 2026 (1) pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:35am - 11:45am CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

11:50am CDT

Platform Engineering: Herding the Electric Sheep - Brett Smith, SAS
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
A talk about platform engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, sprawl, chaos, compliance, and security. Why engineer an Internal Developer Platform when I have DevOps? DevOps works fine when you are a 20 person start-up but it often doesn't scale to Enterprise level development efforts. When you have 3000 developers with different needs and you are responsible for EO compliance and security a modular...
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Brett Smith

Distinguished Software Developer, SAS
Distinguished Software Architect/Engineer/Developer with 25+ years of experience.
Specialties: Event Driven Automation, Continuous Integration/Delivery/Testing/Deployment, Supply Chain Security, AI Security
Expertise: Linux, packaging, and tool design.

Currently Engineering an... Read More →
OpenSourceSummit2026 PlatformEngineering pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

11:55am CDT

Unified Database Provisioning and Management on Kubernetes - Kyle Avants, Percona
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
Running production-grade databases on Kubernetes is becoming increasingly common, but managing their lifecycle remains fragmented and complex for SRE and DevOps teams. Critical operations—scaling, RBAC, monitoring, backup, and restore—currently require navigating distinct, database-specific APIs and tools. This complexity prevents teams from fully realizing the operational efficiency and...
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Kyle Avants

Senior Solutions Engineer, Percona
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

11:55am CDT

Easy Bring-up Your RISC-V SBC Using Yocto Project - RISC-V Architecture Layer - Khem Raj, Comcast
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
There are several different RISC-V based single board computers out in market and coming in future. Yocto project, is a leading embedded linux framework, and RISCV is first tier architecture supported in project, core supports RISCV64 QEMU and runs all tests. This talk will discuss using meta-riscv layers to add the support for new RISCV SBCs. meta-riscv has best practices and pre-existing support...
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Khem Raj

Fellow, Comcast
Khem Raj is a yocto project maintainer and long time OpenSource contributor to many projects e.g. LLVM, Glibc, Musl, OpenEmbedded etc., he has been helping several open source initiatives in industry. He is guiding the company's adoption of open source software, and becoming an active... Read More →
OSS NA26 Khem RISC V pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:55am CDT

From Physics To EBPF: Quantifying Flash Wear in Embedded Systems - Blake Hildebrand, Nordic Semiconductor
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
Flash memory is the literal foundation of an embedded system, yet it is a finite resource. Every log entry, database commit, and firmware update inches the device closer to its end of life. For developers managing fleets of devices, the question is not just if the flash will fail, but when and which process is the culprit. This session dives deep into the lifecycle of a write, from a high level...
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Blake Hildebrand

Software Engineer, Nordic Semiconductor
Blake has been using Linux since installing Ubuntu Breezy on his dad’s old office PC. Since then, he’s worked on everything from smartwatches to large-scale web services. As an Software Engineer at Memfault, he focuses on improving device reliability and performance. Previously... Read More →
embedded flash wear pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:55am CDT

SPDX and SBOM Work for the Linux Kernel - Tim Bird, Sony Electronics
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
Due to increased interest in fine-grained analysis of kernel composition and security (due to the CRA and other recent cybersecurity legislation), there have been a number of recent projects to 1) generate SBOMS for the linux kernel, and 2) finish adding the remaining SPDX-License-Identifier lines to the kernel source tree. In this talk, Tim will describe the current status of both of these...
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Tim Bird

Principal Software Engineer, Sony Electronics
Tim Bird is a Principal Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony use Linux and other open source software in their products. Tim is the organizer of the Linux Boot-Time Special Interest Group, a contributor to the Linux kernel, and is involved with numerous Linux... Read More →
Kernel SPDX SBOM Bird OSSNA26 v2 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux

11:55am CDT

From Tools To Platforms: MCP Patterns for Building Open Agent Ecosystems - Guangya Liu, JPMC
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a foundational interface for agent–tool interaction, but most implementations today stop at simple, single-server tool exposure. This session explores practical MCP design patterns that move beyond “one server, one agent” toward scalable, interoperable, and ecosystem-friendly architectures. Based on real-world experimentation and open-source...
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Guangya Liu

Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase
Guangya Liu is an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, focusing on AI observability, GPU optimization, and AI inference systems. He is also a seasoned open-source contributor and llm-d SIG observability lead, currently focused on projects such as llm-d, Kueue, and LlamaStack (OG... Read More →
From Tools to Platforms pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:55am CDT

Harnessing Git's Superpowers for Code Navigation and Debugging - Matheus Bernardino, Qualcomm
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
Beyond version control, git is an incredibly powerful code exploration and debugging toolkit hiding in plain sight. In this talk, we'll look under the hood at how git stores, references, and tracks data, and then leverage those internals in practical, real-world workflows to navigate and debug code. We'll walk through hands‑on examples using tools such as reflog, blame, log -S/-G, pathspecs,...
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Matheus Bernardino

Senior Software Engineer, Qualcomm
Matheus is a FLOSS developer, currently working with QEMU at Qualcomm. Prior to that, he has also contributed to the Linux kernel, and more extensively at Git, where he contributed to parallel checkout, git grep performance, sparse-checkout and other features. He is mostly interested... Read More →
OSSNA 2026 harnessing git's superpowers 1 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:55am CDT

Beyond SBOMs: Making License Data Actionable With ClearlyDefined - Jamie Magee, Microsoft
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
SBOMs tell you what's in your software. They don't tell you what you're allowed to do with it. License and attribution data is often missing or ambiguous -- a LICENSE file says MIT, but source files have Apache-2.0 headers. SBOM or not, you still don't know what to put in your notice file. ClearlyDefined, an Open Source Initiative project, fills in that missing data. It runs automated license...
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Jamie Magee

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Jamie Magee is a principal software engineer on Microsoft's supply chain security team. He focuses on dependency management and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).
slides pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:55am CDT

How Apache Superset Reinvented (and Re-engineered) Its World of Documentation - Evan Rusackas, Preset, Inc
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
Learn how Apache Superset, the top open-source project in Business Intelligence, re-tooled their entire world of user/admin/developer documentation. Our new Extensions architecture gave us the chance to re-imagine how we WANT our docs to work. This isn't AI-generated docs... it's using AI to re-engineer how our docs build themselves. Learn how we managed to: • Federate scattered...
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Evan Rusackas

Head of Community, Preset, Inc
Evan is a community lead and software engineer with Preset, Inc. and works closely with the Apache Superset community. Evan's interests lie in UI design, data visualization, and frontend engineering. He spends the bulk of his time growing and engaging with the Superset community... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Technical Documentation

11:55am CDT

The Non-Transferrable Playbook: Advocacy Models for Open Source - Danica Fine, Snowflake
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
Traditional developer relations relies on metrics that favor product adoption, but successful open source developer relations demands a more nuanced approach. Your organizational role in and goals around open source projects dictate your strategy.We'll first dissect where and how open source developer advocacy diverges from proprietary developer relations strategies. We’ll then dive into four...
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Danica Fine

Sr. Manager, Open Source Developer Relations, Snowflake
Danica began her career as a software engineer in financial services and pivoted to developer relations, where she focussed primarily on open source technologies under the Apache Software Foundation umbrella such as Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. She now leads the open source advocacy... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

11:55am CDT

Package Testing Across Distributions and Architectures at Scale: A Molecule and QEMU Approach - Yash Panchal, Percona
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
This session will demonstrate a scalable approach to testing Linux packages across multiple distributions and architectures using Molecule and QEMU/KVM. Attendees will learn how to build automated testing pipelines that validate linux packages on diverse platforms including x86_64, ARM64, RHEL, Ubuntu, and Debian. We'll cover practical implementation of Molecule test scenarios, integration with...
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Yash Panchal

SDET III, Percona
Yash Panchal is an SDET III at Percona, where he specializes in automating and testing database and toolkit packages across supported linux distributions and architectures.

A seasoned open-source speaker, Yash presented a session on package testing with Molecule and Jenkins at... Read More →
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Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers

11:55am CDT

Sponsored Session: Driftless: An Open Source Agentic Reconciliation Framework Proven At Scale - Manfred Moser, Chainguard
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
Our new software factory framework adopts the reconciliation pattern and includes numerous bots that use traditional and agentic AI eval approaches. And since we are open sourcing the framework, reliable use of your own agentic reconciliation automation at massive scale could be your future too.At Chainguard we build and maintain over 2000 unique containers, hundreds of thousands of package...
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Manfred Moser

Sr Principal Dev Rel Engineer, Chainguard
Manfred Moser is a Sr Principal DevRel Engineer at Chainguard, bringing a profound focus on software supply chain security to the open source world. A dedicated community leader and published author, his technical expertise spans decades as a software engineer and advocate. He has... Read More →
202605 open source summit na driftlessaf pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers

11:55am CDT

Multi-robot Air-Ground Collaboration With PX4 and Opportunistic Communications - Fernando Cladera, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
A team of aerial and ground robots operating in a coordinated way is the key to large-scale operations in kilometer-scale environments. Nonetheless, significant challenges, such as orchestration, intermittent communications, and command-and-control of the team, need to be solved. This talk will explore an application where a team of ground robots performs a search mission, with an UAV acting as an...
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avatar for Fernando Cladera

Fernando Cladera

PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit

12:20pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Where Deployment Authority Lives: A Cloud Native Design Pitfall in GitOps - Kim Schaefer, Game Plan Tech
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:20pm - 12:30pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
Many cloud-native GitOps systems quietly treat a Git merge as both a change proposal and a deployment authorization. While this works in low-risk environments, it collapses two very different responsibilities into a single decision. As systems grow more complex, that shortcut creates ambiguity around authorization, accountability, and audit trails that many environments simply cannot tolerate. In...
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Kim Schaefer

Senior DevOps Engineer, Game Plan Tech
Kim Schaefer is a Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer specializing in Kubernetes, GitOps, and secure platform engineering. Kim designs and operates production Kubernetes platforms on Google Cloud, including approval-gated GitOps systems that balance automation with explicit deployment... Read More →
Where Deployment Authority Lives Google Slides pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:20pm - 12:30pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

12:35pm CDT

Better Together Lunch
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:35pm - 2:10pm CDT
Seasons (Level Two)

Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:35pm - 2:10pm CDT
Seasons (Level Two)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

12:35pm CDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:35pm - 2:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:35pm - 2:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

12:45pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Behind the Exam Curtain: The Secret Life of a Subject Matter Expert
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:45pm - 12:55pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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avatar for AmyJune Hineline, CPACC

AmyJune Hineline, CPACC

Certification Community Architect, Linux Foundation Education
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:45pm - 12:55pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

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
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)...
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Stacey Potter

Community Manager, OpenSSF

OSS NA cdCon 2026 OpenSSF Lunch Feedback Session Slides pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:15pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Don’t Cross Wires - Cross-Skill: Aligning Teams Around Smart Learning Paths
Tuesday May 19, 2026 1:15pm - 1:25pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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avatar for Mary Campbell

Mary Campbell

Senior Manager, Education Solutions, Linux Foundation Education
avatar for Randi Armour

Randi Armour

Account Executive, Educational Solutions, Linux Foundation Education
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 1:15pm - 1:25pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:10pm CDT

Security Things: How OpenSSF’s Technical Initiatives Keep You Safe From the Upside Down! - Stacey Potter, OpenSSF & Katherine Druckman, JetBrains
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
As a sister foundation to the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) under the auspices of The Linux Foundation, the Open Source Security Foundation’s (OpenSSF) mission is to make it easier to sustainably secure the development, maintenance, release, and consumption of open source software (OSS). This includes fostering collaboration within and beyond the OpenSSF, establishing best practices, and...
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avatar for Stacey Potter

Stacey Potter

Community Manager, OpenSSF

avatar for Katherine Druckman

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 →
OSS NA cdCon 2026 OpenSSF Security Things Project Presentations Slides pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:10pm CDT

Off-Grid Cloud Native: Building Trustworthy Sponsor-to-School Delivery With Kubernetes - Vuyo Mhlotshane, Loakit
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
In many rural communities, the hardest part of funding education is not raising money. It is knowing with confidence that resources reached the right school and were used as intended. In this session, I share a real-world, open-source reference architecture for a pay-on-proof delivery pipeline where sponsor funds are released only after delivery can be verified. The system is designed for...
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avatar for Constance (Vuyo) Mhlotshane

Constance (Vuyo) Mhlotshane

Cloud Native Engineer, Loakit
Vuyo Mhlotshane is a Cloud Native Engineer and open source practitioner focused on building resilient, trustworthy systems. She works hands-on with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and cloud security, and is the founder of Loakit — an initiative exploring how open source technology... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

2:10pm CDT

From Malloc To Box: A Practical Guide To Rustification - Christina Quast, Independent
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
Moving from the manual memory management of C to the strict ownership model of Rust is more than a syntax swap; it is a fundamental shift in engineering philosophy. This talk provides a pragmatic roadmap for developers navigating this transition. We move beyond the academic "why" of memory safety to dive  deep into the "how" of refactoring legacy systems. The session explores the...
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Christina Quast

Embedded Systems Engineer, $NONE
After finishing her master's degree in Electrical Engineering at TU Berlin, Christina is currently working as an Embedded Systems Engineer at for various companies. In her spare time, she submits patches to the Linux Kernel or learns new programming languages.
OSS NA26 From malloc to Box pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

2:10pm CDT

Practical Insights Into Interactive Debugging of Linux MMC Block Device Drivers - Akhilesh Patil, Amazon
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
Transitioning from bare-metal firmware development to Linux kernel development presents unique challenges, particularly in debugging methodologies. Traditional approaches such as halting execution via JTAG alone may not straightforwardly work for embedded Linux. In this presentation we talk about challenges I faced and techniques I came across to debug Linux MMC block device drivers interactively...
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AKHILESH PATIL

Embedded Software Developer, Amazon
Akhilesh is an embedded software engineer at Amazon working with the devices Linux kernel team. He is working on various BSP packages including linux drivers, runtime firmware and bootloaders. He has a background of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and is passionate about embedded... Read More →
ELC mmc akhilesh NA pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:10pm CDT

Automating Linux Kernel Crash Analysis With LLMs - Chris Arges, Cloudflare
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
This talk explores using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate Linux kernel crashdump analysis at scale. At Cloudflare, we operate Linux across hundreds of thousands of servers. At this scale, kernel crashes are inevitable. Typical crash analysis requires deep kernel expertise and significant time investment, slowing down time to resolution. I'll share our journey building an LLM-powered agent...
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avatar for Chris Arges

Chris Arges

Senior Systems Software Engineer, Cloudflare
Currently a Senior Systems Software Engineer at Cloudflare. I like to build things. I have a master's degree in Computer Engineering and 18 years of experience in software development and leadership both writing code and leading teams.

My mission is to make the world better where I can. Through my work I want to make the Internet more secure and reliable for everyone. In my free time I enjoy coaching and inspiring a future generation to grow, innovate and create a better world... Read More →
automating linux kernel analysis pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux

2:10pm CDT

Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications - Tejas Chopra, Netflix, Inc.
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
LLM tokens are expensive. With context windows expanding to 200K+ tokens, a single API call can cost several dollars & in production systems handling thousands of requests, these costs compound quickly. Most optimization efforts focus on model selection or prompt engineering, but the context itself often contains massive redundancy. Headroom is an open-source Python library...
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avatar for Tejas Chopra

Tejas Chopra

Sr. Engineer, Netflix, Inc.
Tejas Chopra is a senior ML and AI infrastructure Engineer at Netflix, where he builds large-scale systems for production AI and data platforms. He is the creator of Headroom, an open-source context optimization engine for LLMs, and a frequent speaker at global conferences on ML systems... Read More →
Headroom — Open Source Summit NA 2026 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:10pm CDT

Uncouth Users, Dopey Developers and Crazy Cryptographers OR Why It's Never the Architect's Fault - Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing Consortium & Christopher Robinson, OpenSSF
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
In this session, two jaded cybersecurity architects will present a taxonomy of personae who passively or actively get in the way of good security, explain why it's all definitely your fault and express frustration that the Golden Age of Cybersecurity[tm] is always eluding their grasp. With examples and humour/humor (if they can agree on a spelling), your hosts will encourage you to do better next...
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avatar for Mike Bursell

Mike Bursell

Executive Director, Confidential Computing Consortium
Mike Bursell is the Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium. He is one of the co-founders of the Enarx project (https://enarx.dev), and was CEO and co-founder of Profian, a start-up based on Enarx. He currently holds advisory board roles with various start-ups... Read More →
avatar for Christopher

Christopher "CRob" Robinson

Chief Architect - OpenSSF, OpenSSF
Christopher Robinson (aka CRob) is the Chief Security Architect for the Open Source Security Foundation. With over 25 years of Enterprise-class engineering, architectural, operational and leadership experience, CRob has worked at several Fortune 500 companies with experience in the... Read More →
Uncouth Users OSS NA26 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:10pm CDT

Architecting for Onboarding: Building a "Docs-as-Code" Pipeline for Open Source Sustainability - Sai Sravan Cherukuri, Independent Contributor
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
In open source, a project's survival depends on its contributor funnel. If developers can't build, test, or grasp your project in the first ten minutes, they'll leave. Documentation is the primary interface for that experience, but is often the most neglected part of the repository. This session goes past the basic README to show how maintainers can set up a clear Documentation Development Life...
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Sai Sravan Cherukuri

Open-Source Enthusiast and DevSecOps Architect, Independent Contributor
Engineering for Accessibility: The Human Element of Infrastructure
Sai Sravan is an architect of systems and a champion for the people who build them. As a dedicated open-source advocate, Sai bridges the gap between high-level technical development and community accessibility, ope... Read More →
Invisible Mentor Presentation Final pptx
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Technical Documentation

2:10pm CDT

Building Sustainable Open Source: The Harper Story - Ethan Arrowood, Harper
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
Open sourcing a core product is easy to celebrate, but hard to initiate and sustain. This is a practical story about economic viability and how Harper open sourced our core product while protecting business health, funding continued engineering, and creating the conditions for durable community growth. Geared towards founders, CTOs, investors, and developer relations and engineering managers, I...
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Ethan Arrowood

Head of Open Source Engineering, Harper
Ethan Arrowood is the Head of Open Source Engineering at Harper, where he leads the company's transition to an open-source-first platform balancing community trust, business sustainability, and engineering velocity. He is a Node.js core contributor, and an active member of the... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Any

2:10pm CDT

Open Source Is Not the Same Anymore - Faeka Ansari, Akuity Inc. & Nasi Chaudhari, Yugabyte
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
Open source used to mean something simple: the code is open, the community builds it, and everyone benefits. That world is gone. Today, billion-dollar companies release model weights and call it "open source" Projects launch with permissive licenses but lock their APIs behind paywalls. Foundations host projects where one vendor controls 95% of the commits. And a new generation of developers is...
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Nasi Chaudhari

Founder CloudChamp Soln. Senior Development Manager, Yugabyte
Nasiullha Chaudhari is a Docker Captain, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Developer Engagement Manager at YugabyteDB, with over 4+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud, and cloud-native technologies.He actively contributes to the open source and AI ecosystem through content, community engagement... Read More →
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Faeka Ansari

Senior Software Engineer | CNCF Ambassador, Slice Financial Bank
Faeka is Senior Software Engineer at fintech startup, an International technical speaker and helping maintain open-source K8s-native projects. She is a Kubernetes Release team member and was an Linux Fn. mentee under Istio. She leads several community initiatives across CNCF, Google... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

2:10pm CDT

Package Managers Metadata and Cross Ecosystem Projects in the Era of SBOMs - Damián Vicino, Datadog
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
Package managers do more than resolve dependencies—they shape how software and its metadata are distributed across the ecosystem. While they simplify development, they also introduce large, fast-moving transitive dependency trees that are rarely inspected in depth. Despite evolving independently, most package managers share a common model: distributing artifacts alongside metadata. Yet metadata...
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Damián Vicino

Senior Open Source Specialist, Datadog
Damian Vicino is a Senior Open Source Specialist at Datadog’s OSPO and an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. He began contributing to open source in the early 2000s, leading a local BSD user group and collaborating with a team on five BSDday Argentina events. He... Read More →
OSSNA26 PACKAGE MANAGERS METADATA AND CROSS ECOSYSTEM PROJECTS IN THE ERA OF SBOMS pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:10pm CDT

Unified Autonomy Stack - Nikhil Khedekar & Kostas Alexis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
This session introduces the open-source Unified Autonomy Stack (https://github.com/ntnu-arl/unified_autonomy_stack), a containerized, system-level solution enabling robust autonomy across diverse aerial and ground robot morphologies. The architecture centers on three modules -multi-modal perception, multi-stage planning, and multi-layered safety mechanisms- that together deliver end-to-end mission...
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Nikhil Khedekar

Postdoctoral Researcher, Autonomous Robots Lab, Norwegian University of Science Technology (NTNU)
Nikhil Khedekar is a postdoctoral researcher in the Autonomous Robots Lab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) leading the team’s perception research. Previously, he also led the development of LiDAR based estimation in ScoutDI AS and participated in the... Read More →
avatar for Kostas Alexis

Kostas Alexis

Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Prof. Dr. Kostas Alexis is Professor of Robotics at NTNU, head of the Autonomous Robot Lab, and Director of the Norwegian Centre for Embodied AI. His research advances resilient robotic autonomy (intelligence & morphology) for high-risk, uncertain environments, spanning control, sensor... Read More →
Unified Autonomy Stack pdf export pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:45pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Offensive and Defensive Strategies for Addressing Open-Source Vulnerabilities - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc.
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:45pm - 2:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
Open-source software is foundational to modern application development, but it has also become one of the fastest-moving and hardest attack surfaces to defend. For years, organizations have relied on “shift-left” security to catch vulnerabilities early in the lifecycle. While necessary, this approach alone is no longer sufficient. New vulnerabilities are disclosed daily, often long after...
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Tracy Ragan

CEO, DeployHub
Tracy is a recognized expert in software supply chain security and DevSecOps, specializing in managing complex, decoupled architectures. She is the CEO of DeployHub, a scalable post-deployment vulnerability detection platform that empowers software to 'self-heal' by automatically... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:45pm - 2:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

3:00pm CDT

GitOps Gone Wild: Hardening Delivery Pipelines for the AI Era - Julien Semaan, Kubex & Corey McGalliard, Akamai
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
GitOps promises safety and automation, but it will faithfully ship your mistakes at scale. With AI-assisted coding and emerging autonomous agents in the loop, those mistakes now move faster than humans can fully reason about their impact. This talk dissects real-world GitOps failures where tiny configuration changes triggered outages, overly trusted pipelines amplified risk, and AI-generated...
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Corey McGalliard

Engineering Manager, Akamai Cloud
My team and I power and protect life online by building an internal, opinionated Kubernetes platform that meets Akamai's change-safety, security, and compliance expectations while delivering an excellent developer experience. I'm interested in distributed computing and platform engineering... Read More →
avatar for Julien Semaan

Julien Semaan

Head of k8s Engineering @Kubex | CNCF TAG DevEx Tech Lead, Kubex
Julien is the Head of Kubernetes Engineering at Kubex and a Tech Lead with the CNCF TAG for Developer Experience. With deep roots in open source and cloud-native systems, he has been working with Kubernetes since 2017 and has led multiple product transitions to cloud-native archi... Read More →
GitOps Gone Wild Hardening Delivery Pipelines for the AI era pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Reliability at the Edge: Fail-Safe Multi Cluster Orchestration With Kubestellar - Munachimso (Muna) Nwaiwu, Cornell University
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:15pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
Managing a single Kubernetes cluster is a solved problem. However, extending Kubernetes to the edge introduces a fundamental systems crisis. In remote environments, network partitions are guaranteed. When orchestrators demand real-time synchronization, routine network drops lead to configuration drift and control-plane breakdown. This session analyzes how KubeStellar (a CNCF Sandbox project)...
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Muna Nwaiwu

Researcher, Cornell University
Munachimso Victor Nwaiwu is a PhD student at Cornell University researching distributed systems and edge orchestration, building upon a highly accomplished career as a Network Automation Engineer. Before his academic research, he made significant contributions to next-generation network... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:15pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

3:05pm CDT

Microseconds Matter: Benchmarking Thread Synchronization - Gautham Ponnu, The MathWorks
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
This talk aims to analyze the performance of most common Linux synchronization primitives under PREEMPT_RT, comparing their behavior across a range of workloads. We’ll explore how each primitive scales with thread count, handles contention, and impacts determinism. Expect graphs, latency histograms, and a few surprises. If you’re building real-time systems or tuning performance, this session...
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Gautham Ponnu

Principal Software Engineer & Manager of Engineering, The MathWorks
Gautham Ponnu is a Principal Software Engineer for Real-Time Systems at MathWorks, where he leads development of real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing tools. With over a decade of experience in embedded and real-time systems, Gautham specializes in real-time synchronization... Read More →
Microseconds Matter: Gautham Ponnu pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

3:05pm CDT

Secure Boot for Embedded Linux: Explained in Simple Words - Roy Jamil, Ac6
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
Secure Boot is often described using cryptography-heavy terminology, vendor-specific flows, and complex diagrams that make it intimidating for embedded developers. This talk explains Secure Boot for embedded Linux systems from first principles, using simple language and clear mental models. We start by answering why Secure Boot exists, then walk step by step through the boot process. Concepts...
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Roy Jamil

Embedded Systems Trainer, Ac6
Roy Jamil, with a PhD in the field of Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and real-time embedded systems, has over six years of experience as a Training Engineer at Ac6. He trains hundreds of engineers annually. His experience includes programming, Linux, drivers, Yocto, and various... Read More →
Secure Boot for Embedded Linux Explained in Simple Words Roy Jamil AC6 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm CDT

Fork, Explore, Commit: Linux Primitives for AI Agents Exploration - Cong Wang, Multikernel Technologies & Yusheng Zheng, eunomia-bpf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
AI agents don’t execute a single path, they explore many. They try different code changes, commands, or configurations in parallel, then keep the one that works. Today, running this safely on Linux requires fragile combinations of temp directories, git tricks, containers, or VM snapshots. This talk introduces branch contexts, a new Linux execution model built for AI agents. A branch context...
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avatar for Cong Wang

Cong Wang

Founder and CEO, Multikernel Technologies
Cong Wang is a professional Linux kernel developer mainly focuses on Linux networking and eBPF, he is also a Linux kernel maintainer for the networking traffic control subsystem. He has contributed over 1000 patches to the Linux kernel project.
avatar for Yusheng Zheng

Yusheng Zheng

OSS developer, eunomia-bpf
Yusheng Zheng is an OSS maintainer and researcher focused on systems understanding and extensions. As a co-founder of the eunomia-bpf community and a PhD student, Yusheng integrates eBPF and AI to enhance the Linux kernel and userspace applications. Yusheng frequently presents these... Read More →
branchcontext slides pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux

3:05pm CDT

Identity Management for AI Agents - Abdel Fane, OpenA2A
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
Every enterprise has identity management for humans—SSO, MFA, RBAC, audit logs. But AI agents? They run with API keys, no verified identity, no behavioral tracking, no audit trail. This talk bridges the gap between traditional IAM and the emerging world of autonomous AI agents: What we learned from human IAM: - Why identity must be cryptographic, not just credentials - How least-privilege...
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avatar for Abdel Fane

Abdel Fane

CEO & Founder, OpenA2A
Abdel is a cybersecurity architect with 17+ years of experience securing enterprise environments across healthcare, finance, and government sectors. He has led security initiatives at Grail, Booz Allen Hamilton, Protiviti, and Allstate, specializing in cloud security & DevSecOps.
... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data

3:05pm CDT

The Code Is the Contract: How Linux's Architecture Sheds Light on GPL Compliance - Sabir Ibrahim, Dev Legal
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
This session demystifies the GPL by exploring the "architecture of intent"—the deliberate design choices made by kernel maintainers that define the legal boundaries between open source code licensed under the GPL and closed source code that may interface with the Linux kernel while maintaining its own licensing. As a lawyer with a deep interest in open source software and expertise in OSS...
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Sabir Ibrahim

Managing Attorney, Dev Legal
Sabir is an attorney and OSS enthusiast. He has advised clients ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies on issues relating to OSS. He is a former associate at the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, a former corporate counsel at Amazon, and a former senior counsel at Roku.

Sabir has his own law practice, Dev Legal, and is co-founder of Chinstrap Community. Chinstrap Community is a free resource center for entrepreneurs, investors, and others interested in OSS entrepreneurship... Read More →
LF Talk The Code Itself is the Contract... Or is it pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101

3:05pm CDT

Hidden in Plain Sight: Discovering the Academic Open Source Landscape - Juanita Gomez, University of California, Santa Cruz
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
Academic Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are emerging across universities to support open source, but how can they identify contributors and know what support is needed? The University of California launched its OSPO network in 2024, connecting six campuses (UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego) to promote open source research, sustainability, and best...
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Juanita Gomez

PhD Student, University of California, Santa Cruz
Juanita Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, where her research focuses on improving the security of scientific open source software in collaboration with the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at UCSC. She is a passionate programmer, mathematician, and... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Any

3:05pm CDT

It's Not Rocket Science, It's a Flywheel: Engineering OS Communities With DevEx - Jeremy Meiss, WWT
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
It's no secret that building and sustaining thriving open source communities requires moving beyond sporadic contributions and fostering an ecosystem of engaged members. That process is not simple, and requires a lot of time and effort, which is not often something a maintainer has, which more often than not leads to maintainer burnout or project stagnation. In this talk, Jeremy will connect the...
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Jeremy Meiss

Technical Solution Architect, AI Native, WWT
Jeremy is an international speaker and is a Technical Solution Architect, AI Native, at WWT, previously leading Developer Advocacy at OneStream Software, CircleCI, Solace, and Auth0. Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com, and organizer... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

3:05pm CDT

Tiny Repos, Big Impact: Level Up Through Open-Source Teaching - Katie Kodes, Independent
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
When you approach your public code repositories with teaching as the primary goal -- designing them specifically to help others learn -- you transform simple code sharing or tech blogging into open-source teaching.Discover how documenting your technical learning journey through small, focused open-source projects can accelerate your learning, establish your expertise, and create value for both the...
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Katie Kodes

DevOps Architect
Katie is a DevOps architect who brings clarity to complex technical challenges across the entire stack. With experience ranging from infrastructure to front-end development, she helps teams build reliable, observable systems that deliver real business value. A passionate educator... Read More →
Katie Kodes Open Source Summit 2026 Slides pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Technical Documentation
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm CDT

What Are You Willing To Digest? Multi Arch Container Image Security and Best Practice - Evans Yeboah Jr., VideoAmp
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
Deploying apps in containers is easier than ever, but securing the image these containers come from is a dynamic security problem that on its surface has no single best answer. So when it comes to what risk you may face and what risk you are willing to accept, one of the questions that may come up is if snowflake-y multi architecture risks are something you are willing to digest? With multi arch...
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avatar for Evans Yeboah Jr.

Evans Yeboah Jr.

Senior Security Engineer, VideoAmp
Cyber security and AI security enthusiasts who likes to build stuff but also make sure it's secure. Engineer by day and baker by night, honing both crafts by failing forward every day.
Open Source Summit 2026 What Are You Willing to Digest pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm CDT

Talking To Drones: Natural Language Control of PX4 Using a Phone, MCP, and ChatGPT Realtime API - Godfrey Nolan, RIIS LLC
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
PX4-based drones are powerful, but interacting with them typically requires specialized ground control software and trained operators. This talk presents a new interaction model: controlling and querying a PX4 drone using natural language from a standard mobile phone. The system combines a Model Context Protocol (MCP)–style interface (inspired by ROS 2 MCP implementations) to expose PX4...
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Godfrey Nolan

President, RIIS LLC
Godfrey Nolan is founder and president of RIIS LLC a mobile development firm in the Detroit Metro area. He is also author of Agile Swift (Apress), Agile Android (Apress), Bulletproof Android (Pearson), Android Best Practices (Apress), Decompiling Java (Apress) and Decompiling Android... Read More →
Fly Drone with a Phone Call pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit

3:25pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Built Clean. Receipts Attached - Adolfo García Veytia, Carabiner Systems & Alex Zenla, Edera
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:25pm - 3:35pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
Security frameworks such as SLSA require software builds to run in isolated environments to guarantee they are “free of unintended external influence”. In practice, this means full control of the runtime environment and every dependency entering a build, ensuring no malware slips into released software But how can you verify isolation after the fact? How do you know a container image or binary...
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Alex Zenla

CTO, Edera
Alex is a Founder & CTO at Edera, building technology for securing containers using hypervisors in Rust. She has contributed to many open source projects including Chromium, Chromium OS, Dart, and Ubuntu, some as early as 11 years old. Alex started in the corporate world at the age... Read More →
avatar for Adolfo Garcia Veytia

Adolfo Garcia Veytia

Founding Engineer, Carabiner Systems
Adolfo García Veytia (@puerco) is one of the Kubernetes SIG Release Technical Leads and actively works on the Release Engineering team. He specializes in improving the software that drives the automation behind the Kubernetes release process. He is also the creator of the OpenVEX... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:25pm - 3:35pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

3:25pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Taking a U-Turn for Caches: Moving Back From Remote To Local - Aditya Mohan, Amazon
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:25pm - 3:35pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
With the growth of CPU compute and larger memory heaps, many cloud-native workloads that traditionally relied on remote caches like Redis and Memcached can now benefit from in-process caching using open source libraries. In this session, we focus on Java-based cloud-native services and show how local caches, such as Caffeine, can colocate cache with application logic, reducing network overhead,...
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Aditya Mohan

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Amazon
Aditya Mohan is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon Advertising with 11+ years of experience and tech lead for agentic advertiser campaigns. He specializes in large-scale ML and semantic search, using LLMs and LangGraph to optimize campaigns and ensure observability, accountability... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:25pm - 3:35pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

3:35pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Where Does Your Policy Actually Live? - Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Inc.
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:35pm - 3:45pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
Your organization has a policy requiring all artifacts to pass security scanning before deployment. Simple enough. But you use three CI systems, so Team A implements it in Jenkins with a Groovy shared library, Team B uses a GitHub Actions reusable workflow, and Team C builds it into GitLab CI includes. Same intent. Three implementations. Three syntaxes. Three maintenance burdens. Now an auditor...
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avatar for Dadisi Sanyika

Dadisi Sanyika

CEO, Sol Duara, Inc.
I am the Governing Board Chair for the Continuous Delivery Foundation (Linux sub-foundation) and the CEO of Sol Duara, Inc. Previously, at Apple, I led a team of engineers dedicated to improving the Continuous Deployment experience for teams and the community. Our contributions are... Read More →
where does your policy live pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:35pm - 3:45pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

3:45pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Jeff Shapiro, Linux Foundation on Open Source Licenses & SBOMs
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:45pm - 4:20pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Jeff about Open Source Licensing & SBOMs. 

No sign-up necessary! 
Speakers
avatar for Jeff Shapiro

Jeff Shapiro

Director of License Scanning, The Linux Foundation
Jeff Shapiro is the Director of License Scanning for The Linux Foundation. He has 30+ years of experience in the software industry, including over 10 years in software auditing, open source scanning, and training developers in OSS license compliance. He also has extensive experience... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:45pm - 4:20pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Ask the Experts

3:45pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Tim Bird, Sony Electronics, on Embedded Linux, Upstreaming tips, SPDX, and Linux Boot-time
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:45pm - 4:20pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Tim about Embedded Linux, Upstreaming tips, SPDX, and Linux Boot-time.

No sign-up necessary!  More information coming soon!
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avatar for Tim Bird

Tim Bird

Principal Software Engineer, Sony Electronics
Tim Bird is a Principal Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony use Linux and other open source software in their products. Tim is the organizer of the Linux Boot-Time Special Interest Group, a contributor to the Linux kernel, and is involved with numerous Linux... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:45pm - 4:20pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Ask the Experts

3:45pm CDT

Coffee Break
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:45pm - 4:20pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

OSSNA26 Maps ExpoHall 1 pdf
OSSNA26 Maps VenueMap 1 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:45pm - 4:20pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

3:50pm CDT

Sponsor Activity - Run AI Coding Agents on Your Infrastructure Live Demo and Giveaways
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:50pm - 4:05pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
See how Coder Agents runs AI coding agents inside your infrastructure with no data leaving your perimeter. Watch agents build test and modify code in isolated environments. Learn how to scale AI with governance observability and model flexibility. Stop by for demos swag and technical discussions.Sponsor: CoderLocation: Booth G/S2 in Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and...
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Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:50pm - 4:05pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

4:00pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Ten Minutes, Ten Open Source Insights from LF Research
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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avatar for Hilary Carter

Hilary Carter

SVP Research, The Linux Foundation
Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

4:20pm CDT

eBPF and Open Source Code Ensure the Security of Your Clusters CI/CD Pipeline. - Hudson Coutinho, Linker Bank
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 4:40pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
In this talk, I'll show how what happens DURING the build and deployment can be fatal. Using eBPF, we created an Open Source app that monitors the kernel in real time to detect access to secrets, suspicious commands, and data exfiltration at the exact moment they occur. In my consulting work, I've seen real-world scenarios where compromised runners handed over database secrets and cloud keys...
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Hudson Coutinho

Hudson Coutinho, Devs On The Road
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, postgraduate degree in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
12 years of experience accelerating the delivery, scalability, and resilience of software for national and international companies, leading high-performance multidisciplina... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 4:40pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon
  • Audience Experience Level Any

4:20pm CDT

Hardening QEMU With Self-Correcting Fuzzing Pipelines - Navid Emamdoost, Google
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
This session explores a dual-phase strategy for hardening the QEMU Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) through advanced fuzzing and AI-driven automation. We begin by detailing a manual hardening effort that expanded QEMU’s testing surface from 18 to 60 active targets, increasing device line coverage by more than 30%. While effective, manual target creation is a resource-intensive process that...
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Navid Emamdoost

Software Engineer, Google
Navid Emamdoost is a Software Engineer at Google focused on infrastructure security. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota, where his research uncovered over 200 Linux kernel bugs and 40 CVEs. His career includes maintaining OSS-Fuzz for open source projects and hardening... Read More →
OSS NA 2026 pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

4:20pm CDT

Optimize Linux Kernel To Fit Microcontrollers With 1 MB RAM - Jim Huang & Chisheng Chen, National Cheng Kung University
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
Running the Linux kernel on microcontrollers with severely constrained RAM has long been viewed as impractical. Conventional embedded Linux builds still assume tens of megabytes of memory, excluding a wide class of resource-limited hardware such as Arm Cortex-M and certain Cortex-R devices. This talk presents recent work on adapting and optimizing the Linux kernel to operate within a 1 MB RAM...
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Jim Huang

Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University
Drawing from his contributions to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Jim specializes in real-time performance tuning and optimization of Linux-based automations. Additionally, he is a co-founder of the LXDE project, a lightweight desktop environment widely utilized in embedded... Read More →
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Chisheng Chen

Student, National Cheng Kung University
Chisheng Chen, a.k.a rota1001, is an embedded system developer transitioned from a CTF player. These days, he wrote firmwares on some microcontrollers and did some DOOM and Linux ports. He is currently pursuing the B.S. degree in Computer Science in National Cheng Kung University... Read More →
linux on 1MB mcu pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

4:20pm CDT

The Hidden Cost of Sleep: How Scheduler Wakeup Latency Impacts High-Throughput AI Inference - Shubhang Kaushik, Ampere Computing
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
As a Linux Kernel Developer at Ampere Computing, I focus on optimizing the scheduler for high-density ARM64 systems. My work culminates in a patch merged for the Linux 7.0 release that refines avg_idle tracking a critical metric the scheduler uses to decide how long to search for an idle CPU before giving up. In my session "The Hidden Cost of Sleep", I will break down the try_to_wake_up() path to...
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avatar for Shubhang Kaushik

Shubhang Kaushik

Software Engineer, Ampere Computing
Linux Kernel Developer
LF OSSNA Linux Scheduler Presentation pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:20pm CDT

A Fun Overview of the Argo Ecosystem - Aaron Teague, UVNV
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
Many hear the word "Argo" and immediately think "GitOps" with the ability to sync what's in a git repo with what's in a live Kubernetes environment. However, "Argo CD" is just one of several tools within the Argo ecosystem.These other tools include:- Rollouts - Move web traffic from an old to a new version of adeployment- Workflows - Perform work in multiple steps, or as a DAG- Events - Perform a...
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Aaron Teague

Site Reliability Engineer
Aaron Teague is a Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for Kubernetes and the ecosystem that often comes along with it. He enjoys taking otherwise complex topics and breaking them down into easier to understand pieces that are not just informative, but memorable.
argo ecosystem overview pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:20pm CDT

BOF: Funding Open Source Sustainably - Georg Link, CHAOSS & Terence McCutcheon, Intersect MBO
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
This birds of a feather (BOF) session is for two audiences to get together. OSS funders & members of OSS projects who are seeking funding. The goal of the BOF is to share experiences from both perspectives. To be clear, this is not a match-making session or a funding giveaway, but an exchange of experiences. The BOF facilitators will seed the discussion with insights from interviews of both...
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Georg Link

Open Source Strategist, CHAOSS
Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional by using community metrics and analytics. Georg cofounded the CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several projects and has often presents on open... Read More →
avatar for Terence McCutcheon

Terence McCutcheon

Open Source Program Manager, Intersect MBO
Tex is an up and coming Open Source Program Manager leading various efforts such as community-maintainer pilots, a Developer Advocate program, and increased transparency across multiple channels with a large Community. He excels at finding unconventional solutions to common problems... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership
  • Audience Experience Level Any

4:20pm CDT

NixOS for Deterministic Distributed-System Benchmarking - B. Cameron Gain, ReveCom
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
Reproducibility remains one of the largest challenges in benchmarking distributed systems, especially when hardware, kernel-level parameters and dependency versions vary between tests. This talk presents a NixOS-based approach for constructing deterministic, portable benchmark environments for large-scale data infrastructure. We show how Nix’s declarative system configuration, content-addressed...
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B. Cameron Gain

Analyst, ReveCom
B. Cameron Gain is co-founder and publisher of ReveCom Media.
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers

4:20pm CDT

Enhancing PX4's EKF2 Replay Module for Deterministic Integration Testing - Brian Fairservice & Kerry Snyder, KEF Robotics
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
PX4's EKF2 replay module allows developers to tune estimator performance by re-running the EKF on prerecorded logs. This is useful for EKF2 development or for testing the impact of different parameters on performance. KEF robotics has patched the replay module so that replay progress can be controlled by an external program, enabling deterministic *integration* testing. We are using this patched...
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Brian Fairservice

Software Engineer, KEF Robotics
Brian Fairservice is currently a Software Engineer at KEF Robotics
avatar for Kerry Snyder

Kerry Snyder

Co-founder, CTO, KEF Robotics
Co-founder and CTO of KEF Robotics
PX4 Replay Presentation pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:45pm CDT

Awards and Closing Ceremony - Mark Waite, Independent
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:45pm - 4:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)

Speakers
avatar for Mark Waite

Mark Waite

Independent Consultant, Self-employed

Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:45pm - 4:55pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  cdCon

5:00pm CDT

LFX Mentorship Showcase
Tuesday May 19, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
The LFX Mentorship Showcase is an opportunity for graduating mentees of the LFX Mentorship program to showcase the work they completed during their session term. This year, the showcase will be held as a dynamic poster session and demo event taking place during the Tux Trek. This interactive experience offers a unique opportunity to meet newly graduated mentees, explore their open source...
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Tuesday May 19, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

5:00pm CDT

Tux Trek
Tuesday May 19, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
When Day 2 wraps, join us at Tux Trek to unwind with drinks and appetizers alongside fellow attendees. Visit the Solutions Showcase to connect with sponsors, explore new technologies, and keep the conversations going in a lively, collaborative atmosphere.**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored...
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Tuesday May 19, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks
 
Wednesday, May 20
 

7:30am CDT

Welcome Coffee
Wednesday May 20, 2026 7:30am - 9:00am CDT
Ballroom Foyer (Level One)

Wednesday May 20, 2026 7:30am - 9:00am CDT
Ballroom Foyer (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

7:30am CDT

Zen Zone
Wednesday May 20, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT
204B (Level Two)
All attendees may feel free to use the Zen Zone as needed. This is a quiet space for sensory relaxation, meditation, and worship. It is not to be used for conversations or as a workspace.
Wednesday May 20, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT
204B (Level Two)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

7:30am CDT

Coat & Bag Check
Wednesday May 20, 2026 7:30am - 5:15pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

Wednesday May 20, 2026 7:30am - 5:15pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

8:00am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Wednesday May 20, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

Wednesday May 20, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome Back
Wednesday May 20, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)

Speakers
avatar for Jim Zemlin

Jim Zemlin

CEO, The Linux Foundation
Jim Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing, and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

9:05am CDT

Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting
Wednesday May 20, 2026 9:05am - 9:35am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)

Speakers
avatar for Dirk Hohndel

Dirk Hohndel

Founder, DH Consulting
Dirk is the Founder of DH Consulting. Prior to that, Dirk was VMware’s Chief Open Source Officer, where he lead the company’s Open Source Program Office, directing the efforts and strategy around use of and contribution to open-source projects and driving common values and processes... Read More →
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Linus Torvalds

Creator, Linux & Git
Linus was born on December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, Finland. He enrolled at the University of Helsinki in 1988, graduating with a master’s degree in computer science. His M.Sc. thesis was titled “Linux: A Portable Operating System” and was the genesis for what would become the... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 9:05am - 9:35am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

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
Wednesday May 20, 2026 9:40am - 9:55am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
As the cost of generating code continues to decline, open source projects face a transformative shift in the nature of maintainership. The sheer volume of AI contributions – often characterized as "slop" – can easily overwhelm human reviewers. This keynote addresses the current state of development workflows by moving past AI hype toward a pragmatic, optimistic path for project sustainability....
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Madelyn Olson

Principal Engineer AWS, Maintainer of the Open-Source Valkey Project, AWS
Madelyn Olson is a co-creator and maintainer of Valkey, a high-performance key-value datastore, and Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She focuses on building secure and highly reliable features, with a passion in working with open-source communities.
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Jacob Murphy

Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud, Google Cloud
Jacob is a member of the Valkey Technical Steering Committee and an engineer on Google Cloud's Memorystore team.
Wednesday May 20, 2026 9:40am - 9:55am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

9:55am CDT

Keynote: Zephyr: By Developers, For Developers - Kate Stewart, VP Dependable Embedded Systems,The Linux Foundation
Wednesday May 20, 2026 9:55am - 10:05am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
As adoption of the Zephyr RTOS continues to accelerate across industries, the project’s success is increasingly rooted in its commitment to adoption of open source best practices, open collaboration and a security-first mindset.Equally important is how the project listens (and responds) to its developer community. Through annual surveys, collaborative meetings and ongoing research, the Zephyr...
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Kate Stewart

VP Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation
Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, and supports other embedded projects. With... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 9:55am - 10:05am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

10:05am CDT

Keynote: Free to Use, Not Free to Run: Reinventing Package Registries - Robin Bender Ginn, Executive Director, OpenJS Foundation
Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:05am - 10:20am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
The package registries that distribute software across every major open source language ecosystem, from Python and Rust to JavaScript, Java, PHP, and beyond, will collectively serve over 10 trillion downloads in 2026, all of them free. But the infrastructure behind those downloads has never been free, and the small number of donors and volunteers quietly absorbing those costs can no longer keep...
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Robin Bender Ginn

Executive Director, OpenJS Foundation
Robin Bender Ginn is the Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, OpenJS is the neutral home to grow and sustain the JavaScript and web ecosystem with 35 projects including Appium, Electron, Jest, jQuery, Node.js and webpack. Previously, Robin led... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:05am - 10:20am CDT
101 A-J (Level One)
  Keynote Sessions

10:30am CDT

Sponsor Activity - Smarter LLM Inference: Faster Tokens, Lower Latency, Better GPU Utilization (+ Raffle)
Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:30am - 10:40am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Live demo of llm-d highlighting benchmark-driven gains over naive load balancing with vLLM. Compare side-by-side results showing lower tail latency, faster time-to-first-token, and more consistent throughput under load—demonstrating how intelligent scheduling delivers smoother streaming and better GPU utilization for production-scale LLM inference.Sponsor: Red HatLocation: Booth G/S5 in...
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Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:30am - 10:40am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:30am CDT

Coffee Break
Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:30am CDT

Solutions Showcase
Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:30am - 2:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
The Solutions Showcase is your hub to network, explore sponsor exhibits, and learn how these organizations are shaping the future of the ecosystem.**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a...
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Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:30am - 2:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:45am CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: OpenSearch Observability Essentials
Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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Speakers
avatar for Kevin Fallis

Kevin Fallis

Principal Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Kevin Fallis is seasoned leader, architect, and developer with experience across many industry verticals and disciplines such as agriculture, ad tech, financial services, networking, security, telecommunications and of course search technologies. His passion helps others leverage... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 10:45am - 10:55am CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

11:00am CDT

Beyond Containers. Why MicroVMs Are Essential for Multi-Tenant Workloads - Alex Zenla, Edera
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200E (Level Two)
Containers are the de facto deployment model for our applications today, but is your Container Runtime appropriate for multi-tenant workloads? If you don't know which Container Runtime you're using today, then it's likely that you're using a shared kernel, so your multi-tenant workloads aren't as isolated as you might think they are. In this talk, we'll demonstrate how MicroVMs can provide a...
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avatar for Alex Zenla

Alex Zenla

CTO, Edera
Alex is a Founder & CTO at Edera, building technology for securing containers using hypervisors in Rust. She has contributed to many open source projects including Chromium, Chromium OS, Dart, and Ubuntu, some as early as 11 years old. Alex started in the corporate world at the age... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200E (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

11:00am CDT

Running Open Source Cloud Infrastructure for Public Health at Scale: Lessons From Ghana - Derek Asamoah-Amoyaw, AngloGold Ashanti Malaria Control (AGAMal)
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200F (Level Two)
Public health systems increasingly rely on open source cloud infrastructure to deliver critical services, yet many are built and operated under tight budget, connectivity, and skills constraints. This talk shares real-world lessons from designing, deploying, and operating Linux-based, open source cloud infrastructure supporting malaria control and public health programs in Ghana. It covers...
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avatar for Derek Asamoah-Amoyaw

Derek Asamoah-Amoyaw

Senior IT Infrastructure Officer, AngloGold Ashanti Malaria Control (AGAMal)
Derek Asamoah-Amoyaw is a Senior IT Infrastructure Officer with experience designing and operating cloud and open source systems for public health and nonprofit organizations in Ghana. His work focuses on building resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure in resource-constrained... Read More →
AGAMal OSS NA 2026 final pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

11:00am CDT

How AGL SoDeV Accelerates the Future of Mobility Through Open-Source Collaboration - Yuichi Kusakabe, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is advancing Software Defined Vehicle (SoDeV) as a foundation for open, scalable, and collaborative automotive innovation. As vehicles become increasingly software-centric, accelerating collaboration between AGL SoDeV initiatives and the broader open-source automotive community is critical to shaping the future of mobility. This session highlights how AGL SoDeV acts as...
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avatar for Yuichi Kusakabe

Yuichi Kusakabe

Chief Architect, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Yuichi Kusakabe is the Chief Architect at Honda Motor Co., Ltd. , AGL(Automotive Grade Linux) member and COVESA(Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance) member since 2011 with over twenty years of Automotive and Open Source Software Experience.
Prior to joining Honda Motor he worked... Read More →
HowAGLSoDeVAcceleratesTheFutureOfMobilityThroughOpen SourceCollaboration pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:00am CDT

OpenEmbedded / Yocto BoF - Colin McAllister, Garmin & Chuck Wolber, The Boeing Company
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
The OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project is a powerful open-source collaboration that provides a framework for creating custom embedded Linux distributions. It has become a key tool for developers building highly tailored, minimal, and efficient Linux systems across a wide range of devices, from IoT to automotive, robotics, and beyond.Join us for this Birds of a Feather (BoF) session where OE/Yocto users,...
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Chuck Wolber

Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company
Chuck Wolber is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow primarily focused on Platform and Operating System engineering for airborne avionics. He has developed multiple DO-178C Level D certified Linux operating systems currently in service on Boeing production aircraft. Chuck has been... Read More →
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Colin McAllister

Senior Software Engineer, Garmin
Colin McAllister is a software engineer at Garmin, where he focuses on advancing the security, core infrastructure, and development tooling that power Garmin Marine’s diverse range of Embedded Linux products. His passion for embedded Linux began in 2017 while working on a telematics... Read More →
ELC NA26 OEYP BoF pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

Defending the Branch: PAC, BTI & GCS on Linux - Bill Roberts, Arm Ltd
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
As computing systems evolve, memory-safety exploits such as return-oriented programming (ROP) and jump-oriented programming (JOP) remain a serious threat. These attacks manipulate control flow within valid address space, reusing existing code “gadgets” to achieve the attackers desired results. Arm AArch64 provides architectural defenses against these attacks through Pointer Authentication...
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avatar for Bill Roberts

Bill Roberts

Principal Software Engineer, ARM Ltd
Bill is a software engineer with an eclectic background in various mobile development platforms, operating systems and security technologies. He is the author of "Exploring SE for Android" and is a maintainer of the tpm2-software stack. Bill is currently working on Fedora Linux.
pac bti gcs public may 2026 pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

KV-Cache Centric Inference: Building an Open Source LLM Serving Platform Around State - Martin Hickey, IBM Research
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
We optimize LLM inference around compute—faster kernels, better batching, smarter parallelism. But in production, the real bottleneck is state. The KV‑cache holds precomputed attention data that turns a multi‑second prefill into a sub‑second cache hit. Lose it to eviction, isolate it on one node, or route away from it, and you pay the full compute cost again for work you already did. ...
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Martin Hickey

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Research
Martin Hickey is a STSM at IBM Research, focused on Open Source, Cloud Native Computing, and AI. Martin has notable contributions to open source projects like vLLM, LMCache, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTelemetry and OpenStack. Martin is a core maintainer for LMCache and an emeritus core... Read More →
OSS NA26 KV Cache pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

When Similar Is Good Enough: Rethinking Caching for AI - Madelyn Olson, Valkey & Jacob Murphy, Google Cloud
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200I (Level Two)
Caching has traditionally relied on exact matches: the same input produces the same cached output. AI systems challenge this assumption by introducing semantic similarity — requests that are different on the surface but equivalent in meaning. This talk explores how caching is evolving to support AI workloads, from classical key-value strategies to semantic caching using vector search. We'll walk...
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Madelyn Olson

Principal Engineer AWS, Maintainer of the Open-Source Valkey Project, AWS
Madelyn Olson is a co-creator and maintainer of Valkey, a high-performance key-value datastore, and Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She focuses on building secure and highly reliable features, with a passion in working with open-source communities.
avatar for Jacob Murphy

Jacob Murphy

Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud, Google Cloud
Jacob is a member of the Valkey Technical Steering Committee and an engineer on Google Cloud's Memorystore team.
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200I (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data

11:00am CDT

Panel Discussion: Code, Capital, and COSS: Winning Strategies for Startups - Hilary Carter & Sam Boysel, The Linux Foundation & Cara Delia, Red Hat
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200H (Level Two)
Startups need to monetize fast with high quality code, and open source is a proven path to that objective. Integrators of open source solutions and COSS companies have an incredibly important and urgent role to play to bridge the gap between open source R&D and commercialization, especially in the context of trade uncertainty, digital independence and sovereignty movements, and economic headwinds....
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Cara Delia

Manager, AI Community Infrastructure, Red Hat

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Hilary Carter

SVP Research, The Linux Foundation
Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →
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Sam Boysel

Data Scientist, The Linux Foundation
Sam Boysel is a Data Scientist at the Linux Foundation. He has extensive empirical research experience in topics across the open source ecosystem. His work leverages microeconomic theory to explore incentives, behaviors, and place value on open source dynamics. Before joining the... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101

11:00am CDT

BEAR-ing Fruit: How OpenSSF’s Working Group Is Diversifying Open Source Security - Marcela Melara, Intel Corporation
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200J (Level Two)
The OpenSSF BEAR (Belonging, Empowerment, Allyship, and Representation) Working Group is on a mission to make cybersecurity a place where everyone belongs! We knock down barriers and crank up the volume for underrepresented voices. We've learned that true representation is about building fun, lasting paths for participation. In this session, we'll take you on a journey through the evolution of...
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avatar for Marcela Melara

Marcela Melara

Research Scientist, Intel Corporation
Marcela Melara is a research scientist at Intel making distributed and cloud systems more trustworthy. Her current work focuses on developing solutions for high-integrity software and AI supply chains. She leads a number of internal, academic and open-source projects on supply chain... Read More →
OSSNA OpenSSF BEAR WG 2026 Presentation pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:00am CDT

Building an OSPO From the Ground Up: Enterprise Policy To Contribution and Compliance - Kevin Fruchey & Jeff Skarb, Lenovo
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200A (Level Two)
Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are becoming essential for organizations of all sizes, yet many struggle with where to start and how to scale effectively. In this session, we will share a practical framework for building an OSPO based on real enterprise experience. The talk begins with establishing an enterprise open source policy that aligns engineering, legal, and security stakeholders...
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avatar for Kevin Fruchey

Kevin Fruchey

Open Source Program Office, Lead, General Motors
Kevin Fruchey has spent 12 years at General Motors, where he leads the company’s Open Source Program Office and focuses on building practical, scalable open source governance. He comes from a family that has owned and operated a movie theater for over 35 years, sparking a lifelong... Read More →
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Jeff Skarb

Open Source Program Office, Lead, General Motors
Jeff is an OSPO Lead at General Motors with a background in hardware engineering and open-source governance. He brings a practical, systems-focused approach to building scalable compliance programs and bridging technical, legal, and organizational priorities across varying engineering... Read More →
OSPO Presentation Final pptx
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:00am CDT

Keep It Clean: Practical Strategies for Reducing Build-System and Host Tech Debt - Joe Schneider, Dojo Five
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200G (Level Two)
Long-running embedded projects inevitably accumulate build-system and host-platform debt. Team turnover, drifting documentation, and “crunch mode” shortcuts compound over time until onboarding a new engineer takes weeks and even experienced developers struggle to make safe changes. These problems are especially acute in Linux-based and cross-platform environments, where host variability and...
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Joe Schneider

CEO, Dojo Five

Keep it Clean OSS NA26 pptx
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers

11:00am CDT

Software Supply Chain Management With the Yocto Project - Joshua Watt, Garmin
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200C (Level Two)
Managing software supply chains is an important part of safety critical software. In this talk, Joshua will describe the technologies, methods and lessons learned that the embedded software space uses to manage software supply chains using the Yocto project.
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Joshua Watt

Staff Software Engineer, Garmin
Joshua is a Staff Software Engineer for Garmin with 18 years experience producing consumer electronics. He has worked on the Yocto SPDX SBoM implementation, and is a member of the Yocto Project TSC as well as the OpenEmbedded TSC.
Software Supply Chain Management with the Yocto Project pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
200C (Level Two)
  Safety-critical Software

11:00am CDT

Building Autonomy on PX4: A Hands-On Workshop for Embedded and Robotics Developers - Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation & Nuno Marques, Drone Solutions
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:35pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
By the end of this workshop, every attendee will land a simulated drone precisely on an ArUco marker using computer vision, with PX4 running the drone and ROS 2 handling the control logic. PX4 powers over a million drones worldwide, and in this session you'll run the exact same production firmware on your laptop. Precision landing on a visual marker is a real-world capability used in package...
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Nuno Marques

Founder and Lead Software Engineer, Drone Solutions
Nuno Marques has more than 5 years of software engineering and system integration experience as a contractor and consultant, recording the participation in over 30 projects and product development for more than 25 companies and organisations in the drone industry over these years... Read More →
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Ramon Roche

General Manager, The Linux Foundation
Ramón Roche is General Manager of the Dronecode Foundation, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation supporting drone and robotics development. He leads a global ecosystem behind technologies like PX4 and Pixhawk, and has over a decade of experience in open source. Ramón... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:35pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit

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
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:10pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
Note: Open to presenting as Lightning Talk Secure provisioning is a foundational step in productizing embedded Linux systems, especially when enabling secure boot and establishing silicon identity through eFuses or one-time programmable (OTP) memory. Yet many teams still rely on manual fuse programming flows that are error-prone and difficult to scale particularly when dealing with complex,...
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Harsha Vardhan Veerappan Murugesan

Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments India
Harsha Vardhan is a security-focused embedded software engineer at Texas Instruments, working on secure boot enablement and secure key provisioning for production platforms. He is an upstream contributor to U-Boot and authored the buffer-based eFuse programming enhancement in U-boot... Read More →
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Kavitha Malarvizhi

Software Engineering Manager and Security Architect, Texas Instruments
With over 17 years of experience in embedded systems and firmware development, Kavitha specialize in designing and securing boot ROMs and firmware for microcontrollers and processors. Currently, she serves as a Software Engineering Manager for Security firmware at Texas Instruments... Read More →
Untangling Secure Key Provisioning in U Boot OSS NA pptx
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:10pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:55am CDT

From Apps To Infrastructure: A Cloud Native First Approach - Julien Semaan, Kubex & Corey McGalliard, Akamai
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
Traditional infrastructure GitOps workflows, commonly built on tools like Terraform or OpenTofu, often struggle with state management, limited reconciliation, and delayed drift detection. Because these systems operate outside the Kubernetes control plane, infrastructure changes follow different lifecycle and failure semantics than applications, making it difficult to reason about system-wide...
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Corey McGalliard

Engineering Manager, Akamai Cloud
My team and I power and protect life online by building an internal, opinionated Kubernetes platform that meets Akamai's change-safety, security, and compliance expectations while delivering an excellent developer experience. I'm interested in distributed computing and platform engineering... Read More →
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Julien Semaan

Head of k8s Engineering @Kubex | CNCF TAG DevEx Tech Lead, Kubex
Julien is the Head of Kubernetes Engineering at Kubex and a Tech Lead with the CNCF TAG for Developer Experience. With deep roots in open source and cloud-native systems, he has been working with Kubernetes since 2017 and has led multiple product transitions to cloud-native archi... Read More →
From Apps to Infrastructure pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:55am CDT

It Works on My Bench (And Nowhere Else): DevOps for Embedded Systems - Colleen Lake, GitLab
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
Embedded software complexity has doubled every four years for decades. The way most teams build and deploy it is still stuck in the 2010s. Version control exists, but it's still not unusual for code to be shipped from a sharpie-labeled SD card or prod code to live on one machine. Deployment still means walking over to a test bench and hoping nobody else is using it. "It works on my machine" is...
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Colleen Lake

Developer Advocate, GitLab
Colleen Lake is a Developer Advocate at Gitlab and her team's resident hardware geek. She’s worked with NASA and was featured on Gimlet Media’s Startup podcast. When she’s not playing with robots or coding you can usually find her lost in the woods or on the internet (@colleencode... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:55am CDT

Open Source Starts Here: Lessons Learned From Building Linux Clubs for Students - Stu Keroff, Lake Middle School
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
Where are the Open Source techs of tomorrow right now? They're in class! In this session, Stu Keroff shares real-world lessons from launching and leading school-based Linux clubs that introduce students to open source through hands-on exploration, community building, and authentic technical problem-solving. Drawing on firsthand experience, this talk covers: 1. How to start a Linux club from...
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Stu Keroff

Teacher, Lake Middle School
Stu Keroff is a teacher and FOSS advocate who founded the world’s first school Linux club, the Community School of Excellence Asian Penguins, and later the Aspen Academy Penguin Corps and Lake Middle School Penguin Corps, helping students learn Linux, refurbish hardware, and give... Read More →
Open Source Starts Here OSSNA 2026 Stu Keroff pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:55am CDT

Zero Trust AI Agents: Securing MCP in Private Kubernetes Networks - Mithil Patel, Equinix
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
The transition from passive RAG to autonomous agentic workflows forces a dangerous trade-off: to be useful, agents need access; to be safe, they need restrictions. Giving a non-deterministic LLM distinct permissions to your Kubernetes cluster is a security nightmare, yet agentic tool execution demands real-world access to be effective. This session introduces a battle-tested architecture for Zero...
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Mithil Patel

Principal Engineer, SRE, Equinix
Principal Engineer at Equinix driving DevOps/SRE strategy for Interconnection organization managing global infrastructure serving Fortune 500 companies. 11+ years building resilient distributed systems and Kubernetes platforms at scale. Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures... Read More →
Zero Trust AI OSS NA26 Mithil pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:55am CDT

Serverless for Open-Source Maintainers: Automating the Boring, Scaling the Impact - Hemant Bharadwaj & Antra Purohit, Microsoft
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
Open source projects often struggle not with code, but with scale: issue triage, pull request validation, release automation, and community operations all consume maintainer time. Serverless, when built on open standards, offers a powerful way to automate these workflows without adding operational overhead. This talk explores how open source maintainers can use event‑driven, serverless patterns...
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Hemant Bharadwaj

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft, Microsoft
Hemant Bharadwaj is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer working on large-scale Linux infrastructure. He focuses on observability, incident response, debugging, and automation across distributed systems. His work centers on turning operational pain points into repeatable, open, and... Read More →
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Antra Purohit

Software Engineer, Microsoft
Antra Purohit is a software engineer working on Linux‑based cloud and embedded platforms. She works on Yocto‑based systems and cloud infrastructure, translating open‑source technologies into reliable, production‑ready solutions.
Serverless OSS NA26 Hemant Template pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:55am CDT

Day 2 Neurodiversity: Moving Beyond Fundamentals With Merge Forward - Ryan Etten, RHCA, Red Hat & Diana Todea, VictoriaMetrics
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
Open source has made progress in recognizing neurodiversity, but most conversations remain at the level of awareness and good intentions. What happens on Day 2, after we agree that inclusion matters? We will examine what is still missing in the open source neurodiversity conversation, critique the narrative of neurotalent, and evaluate whether framing neurodivergent contributors as inherently...
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Ryan Etten

Senior Architect & Team Lead, Red Hat
Ryan Etten builds cloud-native systems and rebuilds the communities that run them. A Senior Architect and Team Lead at Red Hat, Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect, global speaker, and certification exam developer, he leads secure cloud-native digital transformations across the... Read More →
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Diana Todea

Developer Experience Engineer, VictoriaMetrics
Diana is a Developer Experience Engineer at VictoriaMetrics. She has worked as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Observability. She is an active member of the OpenTelemetry CNCF open source project, co-organizer of Cloud Native Days Romania, co-lead of neurodiversity working... Read More →
OSSummitNA26 Day2ND REtten DTodea pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

11:55am CDT

Driving Strategic Value Through Open Source: OSPOs and R&D Organizations in the Era of the CRA - Georg Kunz & David Östman, Ericsson Software Technology
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, aligning open source initiatives with product-focused R&D remains critical to achieving strategic business goals. We will share how Ericsson’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and R&D organizations collaborate on concrete challenges such as tightening cyber security requirements. In this talk, David will present how we have ramped up a team to...
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Georg Kunz

Director Open Source Software, Ericsson
Georg is a director in Ericsson's Open Source Program Office. He is a passionate advocate for open source software and a long term contributor to a wide range of open source projects and communities. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Council (TAC) and the Governing Board... Read More →
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David Östman

General Manager EST Sweden, Ericsson Software Technology
David is the General Manager of Ericsson Software Technology (EST) Sweden, leading a dedicated team of engineers developing open source software on projects like Linux, Yocto, and Valkey. With over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, David began his career at... Read More →
OSS NA26 Driving Strategic Value Open Source pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

11:55am CDT

Retconning Accessibility Standards With ARIA-AT - Chris Cuellar, Bocoup
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
Many accessibility applications and automated tests rely solely on an abstract representation of the user interface (the so-called "accessibility tree") as their source of truth. By ignoring the process that screen readers take to translate this abstraction into spoken text, developers often build false confidence in accessibility implementations and miss critical user experience issues. This...
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Chris Cuellar

Engineer & Worker-Owner, Bocoup
Chris is a worker-owner at Bocoup and has nearly 15 years of experience building and creating on the web platform. Chris is also an artist, educator and community organizer and is based in unceded territory of the Tongva people and their neighbors (Los Angeles, California). In the... Read More →
Chris Cuellar | Bocoup | Retconning A11y Standards | OSS 2026 pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications

11:55am CDT

OCI Images: Not Just for Containers Anymore - Austin Abro, Defense Unicorns
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
Docker popularized the container; OCI standardized the artifact. That shift, from a specific format to a global specification, is what allowed us to expand beyond just 'running apps.' Now, whether it's Cosign for security, OpenTofu for infrastructure, or Zarf for air-gapped distribution, the ecosystem is leveraging a common foundation to solve complex supply chain problems. Additionally,...
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Austin Abro

Software Engineer, Defense Unicorns
Austin Abro is a full-time maintainer of Zarf at Defense Unicorns, a tool built to enable declarative creation & distribution of software into air-gapped/constrained environments. Previously, he worked at Fiat Chrysler as a full stack Java developer before being promoted to technical... Read More →
OCI Images not just for containers anymore pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers

11:55am CDT

The Final Phase of Xen Safety: Solving Coverage and Residual Gaps - Stefano Stabellini, AMD
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
AMD, in collaboration with the Xen community, continues to advance efforts to make the Xen hypervisor safety-certifiable to ISO 26262 ASIL D and IEC 61508 SIL 3. The project has progressed from Safety Concept Approval toward the final certification phase. This presentation will share practical lessons learned, including how we structure requirements and architecture specification documents to...
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Stefano Stabellini

Fellow, AMD
Stefano Stabellini is a Fellow at AMD, where he leads system software architecture and the virtualization team. Previously, he developed a virtualization-based security solution for containers and authored several security articles. Stefano has been involved in Xen development since... Read More →
Xen Critical Summit 2026 v4 pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  Safety-critical Software

12:35pm CDT

Puppy Pawlooza
Wednesday May 20, 2026 12:35pm - 2:05pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
Puppy Pawlooza returns for an afternoon of pure puppy joy! Come mingle with the most adorable pups around and enjoy wagging tails, playful energy, and plenty of heart-melting moments. Whether you're there for the cuddles or the laughs, it’s the perfect midday pick-me-up. Don’t miss this feel-good, fur-filled fest! 
Wednesday May 20, 2026 12:35pm - 2:05pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

12:35pm CDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)
Wednesday May 20, 2026 12:35pm - 2:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)

Wednesday May 20, 2026 12:35pm - 2:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

1:00pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Building with Blocks: How RISC-V Extensions and Profiles Make Magic
Wednesday May 20, 2026 1:00pm - 1:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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Tom Gall

VP of Technology, RISC-V
Wednesday May 20, 2026 1:00pm - 1:10pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

1:30pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: We Didn't Replace Our Team With AI Agents. We Made Them Unstoppable
Wednesday May 20, 2026 1:30pm - 1:40pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
10-Minute Tip TalkLocation: LF Education Learning Lounge at the Solutions Showcase**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party...
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Jake Pineda

Open Source Growth Strategist, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
AAIF Tip Talk OSSNA26 Final (2) pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 1:30pm - 1:40pm CDT
Solutions Showcase, Ballroom A+B (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

2:10pm CDT

Building a Shared, Persistent Virtual Filesystem for WebAssembly - Ayako Hayasaka, LY Corporation
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
Server-side WebAssembly applications need filesystem access, but current options are limited. Host filesystem access breaks portability and sandboxing. wasi-vfs is read-only and targets Preview 1. wasi-virt supports Preview 2 but remains read-only and single-application only. We present a virtual filesystem built on WASI Preview 2 and the Component Model that supports read/write, multi-app...
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Ayako Hayasaka

Software Engineer, LY Corporation
Primarily responsible for providing company-wide technical support in the area of web backend development.
ossna wasm virtual filesystem pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

2:10pm CDT

Hello World, Meet the Spanimals: Getting Started With Observability - Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana Labs
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
What do a raccoon, a goat, and a goose have in common? They all take part in a tracing adventure where we’ll use OpenTelemetry and the Grafana observability stack to easily showcase a cloud-native observability scenario. In this session, you’ll learn what distributed tracing is, why it’s incredibly helpful for understanding how requests flow through multi-service systems, and how it can...
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Tiffany Jernigan

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs
Tiffany is senior developer advocate at Grafana Labs and a CNCF Ambassador. She also formerly worked as a software developer and developer advocate at VMware, Amazon, Docker, and Intel. Prior to that, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering. In her... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

2:10pm CDT

Construct a Lean and Fast RISC-V System Emulator Capable of Running Linux - Jim Huang, National Cheng Kung University
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
While mature solutions such as QEMU provide broad architectural coverage, they are optimized for generality rather than minimal footprint, rapid bring-up, or architectural experimentation. To examine system-level design trade-offs, gain fine-grained control over memory and execution behavior, and enable lightweight Linux-based sandboxing and verification, we built a RISC-V system emulator from...
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Jim Huang

Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University
Drawing from his contributions to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Jim specializes in real-time performance tuning and optimization of Linux-based automations. Additionally, he is a co-founder of the LXDE project, a lightweight desktop environment widely utilized in embedded... Read More →
riscv system emulation pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

2:10pm CDT

Using Embedded Linux for Autonomous Robot Control - Chloe Zhu, The Admissions Authority
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
The NAO robotics platform has been around for some time, originally developed by Aldebaran and SoftBank, and now by Maxtronics. Its OpenNAO operating system is based on the Gentoo embedded Linux OS, and uses the NAOqi API for autonomous robot control. We also used the OpenCV computer vision library as part of our open source software stack to program our NAO humanoid robot. In this talk, I will...
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Chloe Zhu

Chief Technology Officer, The Admissions Authority
Hi everyone! My name is Chloé (Fangjun) Zhu. Currently, I am working on developing AI algorithms for unmanned aerial vehicle/drones, and for educational consultancy. I am also working on automation for industrial process control.

Prior to these, I worked as an Electrical Engineer... Read More →
EL conf pptx
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:10pm CDT

Breaking the TCP Barrier: Accelerated I/O for S3 with RDMA - Vidushi Mishra, IBM/Redhat
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
S3 APIs power modern Linux infrastructure, yet most object storage traffic still relies on TCP/IP. Under high concurrency and large transfers, TCP becomes CPU-intensive and limits throughput. RDMA promises Accelerated I/O through kernel bypass and zero-copy data movement—but applying RDMA to S3 workloads is not the same as NFS or block storage.This session explores how RDMA can accelerate...
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Vidushi Mishra

Senior Storage Engineer in Storage Ceph, IBM/Redhat
Storage Engineer (12 yrs) in distributed storage—Ceph & S3-compatible object systems. I build and break at scale: performance + scalability + correctness across multi-tenant/multisite deployments (resharding, replication, lifecycle, archive tiers, IAM/ACLs, notifications). Benchmarks... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
205C+D (Level Two)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Any

2:10pm CDT

Introduction To the Linux Boot Process - Angelina Vu & Karissa Sanchez, Microsoft
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
From the moment you press the power button to the instant the login prompt appears, a complex sequence of events happens behind the scenes to get your Linux system up and running. This talk aims to demystify the Linux boot process through a deep dive into each stage. Starting from the role of system firmware, we compare legacy BIOS with modern UEFI and see why there has been a shift to UEFI. From...
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Angelina Vu

Software engineer, Microsoft
Angelina is a software engineer working on Microsoft’s Linux Emerging Technologies team.
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Karissa Sanchez

Software Engineer, Microsoft
Karissa is a software engineer at Microsoft working on Linux Emerging Technologies. She recently graduated from MIT with a master’s degree in computer science. Her interests include Linux systems security and natural language processing.
OSS Boot Talk (1) pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:10pm CDT

Beyond First PRs: Converting Students Into Long-Term Open Source Contributors - Lola Egherman, CodeDay
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
Open source projects everywhere are asking the same question: where will the next generation of reliable contributors or maintainers come from? The answer is already here, students, but most projects lack a repeatable, maintainer-friendly system to convert student interest into sustained, high-quality contributions. This session presents a field-tested, scalable framework for turning students...
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Lola Egherman

VP Product & Operations, CodeDay
I love getting students excited about technology. I'm always happy to talk about CS Education, Open Source Mentoring programs, and any innovative or fun ideas to keep students engaged
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200J (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

2:10pm CDT

Running an Open Source Vulnerability Rewards Program - Hayden Blauzvern, Google
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
Stewardship of open source software extends beyond code contribution; it also requires a proactive commitment to security. In this session, a lead for Google's Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) shares insights from managing a program that secures a vast and rapidly evolving portfolio of open source projects. We will explore the complexities inherent in operating a VRP...
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Hayden Blauzvern

Technical Lead Manager, Google
Hayden Blauzvern is a technical lead manager on Google’s Open Source Security Team, focused on making open-source software more secure through code signing and applied transparency. Hayden is a maintainer and the community chair on the Sigstore project.
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Any

2:10pm CDT

What's the Deal With Human Rights and Technical Standards? - Daniel Appelquist, Samsung
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report late last year : "Making technical standards work for humanity: New pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for digital technologies." Amongst other things, this report referenced the W3C Ethical Web Principles, Privacy Principles, and Code of Conduct as key examples of structural...
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Dan Appelquist

Open Source Strategist, Samsung

Human Rights and Standards OSS NA 2026 pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200E (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications

2:10pm CDT

Is Maven Safe for Production? - Adam Kaplan, Red Hat & Manfred Moser, Chainguard
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
Apache Maven’s central role in the Java ecosystem is undeniable, however its flexible plugin framework creates significant hurdles for adopting modern secure software practices. Securing the Java software supply chain to meet CRA and other regulatory requirements can feel like a daunting, if not impossible task. This session will dive deep into the technical complexities of producing secured...
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Adam Kaplan

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Adam Kaplan (he/him/his) is a software engineer at Red Hat, a maintainer of the Shipwright and Tekton projects, and former CD Foundation Governing Board member. He currently leads efforts to simplify hybrid cloud application development and secure Red Hat's software supply chain... Read More →
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Manfred Moser

Sr Principal Dev Rel Engineer, Chainguard
Manfred Moser is a Sr Principal DevRel Engineer at Chainguard, bringing a profound focus on software supply chain security to the open source world. A dedicated community leader and published author, his technical expertise spans decades as a software engineer and advocate. He has... Read More →
Is Maven Safe for Production final pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200G (Level Two)
  Packages + Images + Containers

2:10pm CDT

From Pull Request To Patient Safety: How Tidepool Built an Open-Source Quality Management System - Tapani Otala, Tidepool
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
When software can directly affect whether someone lives or dies, "move fast and break things" isn't an option. But does that mean safety-critical software can't be open source? Tidepool's experience building Tidepool Loop - an FDA-cleared, open-source automated insulin delivery (AID) system for people with Type 1 diabetes - proves it can. This talk explores how Tidepool developed an open-source...
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Tapani Otala

VP, Engineering & Information Security Officer, Tidepool
Tapani has delivered innovative consumer electronics and cloud services over a 30+ year career. Before joining Tidepool in 2018, he was Sr. Director of Engineering at Samsung Research America, building cloud services for SmartTV and mobile apps. Prior to Samsung, he grew and led global... Read More →
From Pull Request to Patient Safety Otala pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  Safety-critical Software
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:10pm CDT

Building Autonomy on PX4: A Hands-On Workshop for Embedded and Robotics Developers (Continued) - Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation & Nuno Marques, Drone Solutions
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 5:00pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
By the end of this workshop, every attendee will land a simulated drone precisely on an ArUco marker using computer vision, with PX4 running the drone and ROS 2 handling the control logic. PX4 powers over a million drones worldwide, and in this session you'll run the exact same production firmware on your laptop. Precision landing on a visual marker is a real-world capability used in package...
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Nuno Marques

Founder and Lead Software Engineer, Drone Solutions
Nuno Marques has more than 5 years of software engineering and system integration experience as a contractor and consultant, recording the participation in over 30 projects and product development for more than 25 companies and organisations in the drone industry over these years... Read More →
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Ramon Roche

General Manager, The Linux Foundation
Ramón Roche is General Manager of the Dronecode Foundation, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation supporting drone and robotics development. He leads a global ecosystem behind technologies like PX4 and Pixhawk, and has over a decade of experience in open source. Ramón... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 2:10pm - 5:00pm CDT
200D (Level Two)
  PX4 Dev Summit

3:05pm CDT

Cache Me If You Can: Decentralize Your Distributed Caches With Hollow - Viswanathan Ranganathan, Independent
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
Distributed caches are often used for scenarios that don't actually require them. For massive datasets (100's of GB's or more), distributed caches make sense—the data simply won't fit in a single node's memory. However, distributed caches tend to be overkill when working with smaller data sets (100s of MBs to 10s of GBs) that do fit in memory. Additionally, using traditional In-Memory caching...
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Viswanathan (Vish) Ranganathan

Independent Software Practitioner
Viswanathan Ranganathan is a Senior Engineer at Netflix, where he's part of the Delivery Engineering team that powers every service deployment across the platform. His current focus is on building deployment safety and confidence features for Netflix's infrastructure. Previously... Read More →
slides export pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200I (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

3:05pm CDT

The Service Mesh: Solving Microservice Chaos (And When You Actually Need One) - Mofesola Babalola, Extreme Networks & Hannah Olukoye, DKB Code Factory
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
Microservices promised speed and independence, but for many SREs and developers, they delivered network complexity. Suddenly, we're all part-time network engineers. We have to code retry logic, timeouts, and circuit breakers into every service. We struggle to get uniform "golden signal" metrics. And how do we enforce that all 50 of our polyglot services are communicating securely over mTLS? This...
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Mofesola Babalola

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Tempo.io
Mofesola Babalola is a Site Reliability Engineering leader, managing large-scale observability and service mesh systems powering millions users. With deep experience in Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, and AWS, he specializes in building resilient platforms and automating infrastructure... Read More →
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Hannah Olukoye

Engineering Manager, DKB Code Factory
Hannah is an Engineering Manager who translates complex software engineering concepts into people-centric strategies. Leveraging her background as a software engineer and Google Developer Expert for Android, she now focuses on building platforms that reduce developer cognitive load... Read More →
The Service Mesh Solving Microservice Chaos OSSNA pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm CDT

Building the Simplest Possible Linux System - Rob Landley, Hobbyist
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
Once you've done enough of them, putting together a simple Linux system is easy. The hard part is working out what "simple" means in each new context. We'll start by building and booting an example minimal Linux system to a shell prompt, first under QEMU and again on real hardware. Then we'll explain the theory: build environment (dependency management, reproducibility), native vs cross compiling...
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Rob Landley

Hobbyist, Hobbyist
I've been working on Linux since 1998. I maintain toybox and mkroot. I used to maintain busybox, and was linux-kernel Documentation maintainer for a few months forever ago. I converted initramfs to use tmpfs after repeatedly failing to convince somebody else to do it, and wrote the... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
208C+D (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

3:05pm CDT

When 10,000 Screens Go Dark: Engineering Resilient Linux Drivers for Manufacturing Reality - Ram Mohan Rao Chukka, JFrog & Subhajit Ghosh, Tweaklogic
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
Ten thousand LCD panels passed Incoming Quality Control. Firmware injection began. Production stopped. During the development of our next-generation Automated Fare Collection (AFC) machines, we qualified multiple LCD vendors, designed a custom MIPI DSI touchscreen panel, developed display and peripheral drivers, and prepared for mass production. Everything worked—until firmware flashing began....
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Ram Mohan Rao Chukka

Senior Software Engineer, JFrog
Ram is a Senior Software Engineer at JFrog R&D . Previously worked for startup companies like CallidusCloud (SAP Company), Konylabs. Loves Automation, Linux, openSource
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Subhajit Ghosh

Founder, Tweaklogic
Embedded Linux professional and electronics hobbyist with experience in Linux driver development, kernel programming, system software and Edge AI.
Linux kernel contributor in device driver space.
Enjoy working with hardware and technology space.
May 20 2026 When 10000 Screens Go Dark Subhajit Ghosh OSS pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

3:05pm CDT

How GitHub Secures Open Source - Bas Alberts, GitHub
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
Uncover valuable insights into how GitHub secures the open-source software we all depend on, with real-world examples from the GitHub Security Lab, which uncovered 1,000+ vulnerabilities and was credited with 700+ CVEs over four years. Securing open-source software is critical because it underpins much of today’s digital infrastructure, and vulnerabilities in widely used components can create...
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BA
GitHub Securing OSS slides pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm CDT

From Active To Archive: Shepherding Repositories Through Their Sunset - Natalia Luzuriaga, Dinne Kopelevich, Remy DeCausemaker & Sachin Panayil, CMS.gov; Dawn Foster, Independent
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
In the world of Open Source there are plenty of talks, resources, and guides about where to begin, and how to grow your project. But what happens at the end? How do you know when It Is Time? And how do you say goodbye with compassion and dignity? In this talk, members of the CHAOSS.community and the Open Source Program Office at the Digital Service at CMS.gov will be sharing their latest...
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Remy DeCausemaker

Open Source Lead, Digital Service at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS.gov
Remy DeCausemaker is the Open Source Lead for the Digital Service at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS.) Remy helps developers, designers, and other contributors work with dedicated civil servants to create open accessible healthcare technology projects, programs... Read More →
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Dawn Foster

Open Source Strategy Consultant, Self-Employed
Dr. Dawn Foster is an OSS strategy consultant. She is also on the board of CHAOSS and OpenUK, and was previously a co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy Technical Advisory Group. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community, strategy... Read More →
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Natalia Luzuriaga

Software Engineer, Digital Service at CMS.gov
Natalia is a software engineer supporting the Digital Service at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS.gov) where she is involved in launching and growing the first Open Source Program Office in the federal government. Currently, her work is focused on building tools... Read More →
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Dinne Kopelevich

Software Engineer, Digital Services at CMS.gov
Dinne is a United States Digital Corps Fellow detailed with the Open Source Program Office at the Digital Service at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She is local to Denver, loves to travel, and has visited 6 of 7 continents.
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Sachin Panayil

Software Engineer @ Digital Service at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Sachin is a United States Digital Corps Fellow detailed with the Open Source Program Office at the Digital Service at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services working as a Software Engineer. Coming from New York City, he loves Hip Hop and recently started his Muy Thai journ... Read More →
ossna2026 pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200A (Level Two)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:05pm CDT

Standardizing Deterministic Interoperability and Resource-Intelligent Design in Medical Robotics - Lilinoe Harbottle, San Jose State University
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
In medical robotics, innovation can be bottlenecked by vertically integrated architectures that contribute to medical “deserts” due to high costs and limited interoperability. This session explores architectural frameworks for standardizing deterministic interoperability, shifting the safety burden from non-transparent hardware to auditable software logic. By establishing these standards, this...
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Lilinoe Harbottle

Systems & Data Engineer, Independent / BME Researcher
Lilinoe Harbottle is a Systems & Data Engineer specializing in high-reliability software for medical robotics. She focuses on standardizing deterministic interoperability and vendor-neutral frameworks to ensure sub-millisecond reliability in safety-critical environments. A Sequoyah... Read More →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  Safety-critical Software

3:45pm CDT

Coffee Break
Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:45pm - 4:20pm CDT
200s Foyer (Level Two)

Wednesday May 20, 2026 3:45pm - 4:20pm CDT
200s Foyer (Level Two)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

4:20pm CDT

ELC Closing Game
Wednesday May 20, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)

Wednesday May 20, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

4:20pm CDT

Modernizing Software Verification - Craig Christianson, United States Air Force
Wednesday May 20, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
In this session, I will discuss the importance of verifying safety-critical software by giving real-world examples of peoples' lives who were saved or put at risk by software. I will share the compliance challenges faced by software engineers working on safety-critical software. I will give a brief overview of software assurance requirements for safety-critical systems and show how formal methods...
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Craig Christianson

Electrical Engineer, United States Air Force
Craig Christianson is an Electrical Engineer currently serving in the 309th Software Engineering Group in the United States Air Force. Craig is a member of SkiCAMP, a small R&D team at Hill Air Force Base working to improve software development practices in the Air Force. Craig specializes... Read More →
Modernizing Software Development pdf
Wednesday May 20, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
  Safety-critical Software
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes
 
Thursday, May 21
 

7:30am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Thursday May 21, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

Thursday May 21, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

7:30am CDT

Coat & Bag Check
Thursday May 21, 2026 7:30am - 5:30pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)

Thursday May 21, 2026 7:30am - 5:30pm CDT
Ballroom Lobby (Level One)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

9:00am CDT

LF AI & Data Mini Summit [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 12:30pm CDT
101H
Join the LF AI & Data community at a co-located event during Open Source Summit North America for a half-day of technical talks and community discussions focused on open source AI and data innovation. This event brings together developers, maintainers, and industry leaders to share project updates, real-world use cases, and the latest advancements across the LF AI & Data ecosystem. Attendees will...
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Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 12:30pm CDT
101H
  Mini Summit

9:00am CDT

RISC-V Insights [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 12:30pm CDT
101I
This RISC-V Mini Summit, brings together developers, open source community, and ecosystem leaders for focused sessions on RISC-V toolchains, software partnerships, and training & certification programs. Attendees can expect interactive discussions, networking, and insight into the latest RISC-V developments shaping the open standard computing landscape.Program: Intro (Upcoming events, RISC...
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Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 12:30pm CDT
101I
  Mini Summit

9:00am CDT

Linux Security Summit | Day 1 [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm CDT
101AB
Linux Security Summit (LSS) is a technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users with the primary aim of fostering community efforts to analyze and solve Linux security challenges.LSS is where key Linux security community members and maintainers gather to present their work and discuss research with peers, joined by those who wish to keep up with the latest...
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Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm CDT
101AB
  Co-located Event

9:00am CDT

OpenSSF Community Day [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm CDT
101E
OpenSSF Community Days bring together a vibrant community from across the Security and Open Source ecosystems to share ideas and progress on capabilities that make it easier to sustainably secure the development, maintenance, and consumption of the software on which we all depend. These events, held regionally and co-located Open Source Summits, offer an opportunity to engage with the brightest...
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Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm CDT
101E
  Co-located Event

9:00am CDT

Observability Summit | Day 1 [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 6:00pm CDT
Ballroom A and Ballroom B
Observability Summit brings together developers, operators, and business leaders who are shaping the future of open source observability. From deep-dives to hands-on workshops, every moment is curated by the community, for the community! This event will be focused on real challenges, practical solutions, and innovations driving the next era of visibility and control. This is a must-attend event to...
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Thursday May 21, 2026 9:00am - 6:00pm CDT
Ballroom A and Ballroom B
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Friday, May 22
 

9:00am CDT

Linux Security Summit | Day 2 [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm CDT
101AB
Linux Security Summit (LSS) is a technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users with the primary aim of fostering community efforts to analyze and solve Linux security challenges.LSS is where key Linux security community members and maintainers gather to present their work and discuss research with peers, joined by those who wish to keep up with the latest...
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Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm CDT
101AB
  Co-located Event

9:00am CDT

Observability Summit | Day 2 [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm CDT
Ballroom A and Ballroom B
Observability Summit brings together developers, operators, and business leaders who are shaping the future of open source observability. From deep-dives to hands-on workshops, every moment is curated by the community, for the community! This event will be focused on real challenges, practical solutions, and innovations driving the next era of visibility and control. This is a must-attend event to...
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Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm CDT
Ballroom A and Ballroom B
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