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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)

2:00pm CDT

Pre-registration & Badge Pick-Up
 
Monday, May 18
 

7:30am CDT

Welcome Coffee

7:30am CDT

Zen Zone

7:30am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up

7:30am CDT

Coat & Bag Check

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, CEO, The Linux Foundation

9:45am CDT

Keynote: UCP: The Evolution of an Open Standard for Agentic Commerce - Anurag Sinha, Senior Staff Software Engineer & Manager, Google

10:00am CDT

Keynote: The First Decade of Open Quantum - Sean Dague, Chief Services Architect, IBM Quantum

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

10:35am CDT

Coffee Break

10:35am CDT

Solutions Showcase

10:45am CDT

Sponsor Activity - AWS: Building Trust in AI Through Open Innovation, Security, and Real-World Solutions

10:45am CDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet Kubernetes Co‑Founder Brendan Burns in an exclusive book signing appearance at Open Source Summit!

11:00am CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: The House Party Problem of Software Supply Chain Security

11:00am CDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet Kubernetes Co‑Founder Brendan Burns in an exclusive book signing appearance at Open Source Summit!

11:20am CDT

Keynote: The Revolution Hiding in Plain Sight: CI/CD Platform Is About to Change Forever - Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Inc.

11:20am CDT

QoD-Centric NaaS Strategy: Policy-Orchestrated Multi-Access Service - Daniel Kibler, EIS Visual & Niem Dang, NHD Consulting LLC

11:20am CDT

Building Trust in the AI Era: Agent-to-Agent Communication With DIDs and VCs - Alexander Shcherbakov, DSR Corporation

11:20am CDT

From Closed To Collaborative: Lessons From Qualcomm’s Open Development Experience - Rashmi Chitrakar, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

11:20am CDT

From Plaintext To Protected: Syslog Over TLS 1.3 in BusyBox for Embedded Routers - Tarun Kundu, Ericsson Software Technology, USA

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

11:20am CDT

MOT: A Tool To Fight Open-washing in AI - Arnaud Le Hors, IBM

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

11:20am CDT

Kubernetes 2026: The New Operating System for AI & Apps - Mukesh Aurangabadkar, Spectrum & Udit Misra, Salesforce

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

11:20am CDT

Proactive Governance To Build Sustainable OSS Projects - Dawn Foster, Independent

11:20am CDT

Sponsored Session: Building Community in the Age of AI - Brian Proffitt, Red Hat

11:20am CDT

The Exploit of Trust: Securing the Open Source Supply Chain - Kadi McKean, ReversingLabs

11:20am CDT

Zephyr at 10 Years: Survey Feedback - Kate Stewart & Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation

11:50am CDT

Jenkins - Year in Review and Future Roadmap - Mark Waite, Independent

12:00pm CDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)

12:00pm CDT

Women & Non-Binary Lunch

12:15pm CDT

CDF Town Hall - Moderated by Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc.

12:30pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Debunking the Myths of Decentralized Identity

1:00pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: A Full-Circle, Linux-Inspired Journey

1:00pm CDT

Sponsor Activity - Meet CNCF’s Jonathan Bryce: Exploring the Cloud Native AI Landscape

1:30pm CDT

Lightning Talk: From Embedded Artifacts To Durable Entities: Fixing State in Spinnaker - Ben Powell, Apple

1:30pm CDT

Lightning Talk: SSDF Is Not a Checklist: Turning Tasks Into CI/CD Automation - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc.

1:30pm CDT

OpenBao: Horizontally Scaling Secrets Management - Alexander Scheel, ControlPlane

1:30pm CDT

Debug Everything: Building a Debuginfod Backbone for Embedded Linux at Scale - Colin Pinnell McAllister & Joshua Pevehouse, Garmin

1:30pm CDT

Do You Need GCC To Build Embedded Linux ? - Khem Raj, Comcast

1:30pm CDT

When Your Budget Laptop Needs a Custom Kernel: A Linux Troubleshooting Adventure - Andrei Pokhilko, Komodor

1:30pm CDT

Crawl, Walk, Run With Your MCP Servers - Lin Sun, solo.io

1:30pm CDT

Next Steps in Multi-agent Systems - Deborah Dahl, Conversational Technologies

1:30pm CDT

Sponsored Session: When Your AI Agent Has Keys to Production: Governance Patterns for Autonomous Development - Nicky Pike, Coder

1:30pm CDT

Being a Maintainer in the Age of LLM Mania - Kevin Hannon, Red Hat

1:30pm CDT

EOL, Relicensing, Forks: A Cautionary Tale of CVEs - Bridget Kromhout & Lachlan Evenson, Microsoft

1:30pm CDT

Strategic Approach To Demonstrating the Value of OSS Efforts - Dawn Foster, Independent

1:30pm CDT

One Signature To Rule Them All: Portable Supply Chain Verification With Zarf - Brandt Keller, Defense Unicorns

1:30pm CDT

Turning the Ignition on Safety: Zephyr RTOS in Automotive Compliance - Saravanan Sekar, Linumiz

1:45pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Ortelius V12: Post-Deployment Security Defense for DevSecOps - Steve Taylor, DeployHub

1:45pm CDT

OpenSSH + FIDO Workshop - Dennis Hills & Alan Alvarez, Yubico

2:00pm CDT

Lightning Talk: CDEvents: Ending the "Glue Code" Tax on Engineering Velocity - Mihir Vora & Prem Dhayalan, Capital One

2:15pm CDT

Lightning Talk: CI/CD Cybersecurity Guide - Open Source Tools to Improve DevOps Security - Kate Scarcella, Independent

2:25pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Alcoholless: Lightweight Security Sandbox for Homebrew, AI Agents, Etc. - Akihiro Suda, NTT

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

2:25pm CDT

Building Virtual Drivers With RPMsg: Key Design Principles, Challenges & Trade-offs - Beleswar Prasad Padhi, Texas Instruments

2:25pm CDT

Lessons Learned in Embedded Linux Streaming - Tokunbo Quaye, Intelligent Product Solutions

2:25pm CDT

Booting Up: A Fresh Look at the Modern Init - Antra Purohit & Hemant Bharadwaj, Microsoft

2:25pm CDT

Automating MCP Server Testing: Engineering Reliability for Agentic Systems - Neethu Elizabeth Simon, Arm

2:25pm CDT

From Image To Itinerary: Multimodal Agentic Travel Planning With MCP, A2A, and BeeAI - Ezequiel Lanza, Intel

2:25pm CDT

Sponsored Session: Open Source Search and Observability in the Agentic Era - Bobby Mohammed, AWS

2:25pm CDT

The $300 Enterprise Lab: Democratizing Infrastructure Skills With Raspberry Pis & AI Agents - Derek Bowdle, RTX & Cameron Khorsandi, SAP

2:25pm CDT

Merge, Maintain, or Move On? Deciding the Fate of an Open Source Project - Robin Ginn, OpenJS Foundation

2:25pm CDT

Scaling Your OSPO With Agents and Automation: Lessons From GitHub's Open Source Program - Ashley Wolf, GitHub

2:25pm CDT

From Pre‑Silicon To Production: Firmware Development on Zephyr - Dev Bhaveshbhai Joshi, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

2:30pm CDT

Keynote: AI in CI/CD Without the Hype: Practical Patterns for Platform Engineers - Jennifer Mulford, Okta

2:55pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Artifacts That Explain Themselves: Build Metadata in Practice - Socheat Sou & Prajakta Kashalkar-Joshi, IBM

3:05pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Dirk Hohndel, DH Consulting, on managing maintainer burnout in the age of LLMs

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

3:05pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation, on Safety Certification of Open Source

3:05pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Sean Dague, IBM Quantum, on Quantum Computing

3:05pm CDT

Coffee Break

3:15pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: AI May Be the Lead Singer, But You Still Need the Band

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

3:35pm CDT

Engineering Quality in a Fast-Moving Open Source Project: WPE WebKit - Mario Sanchez-Prada, Igalia

3:35pm CDT

Status of Linux Boot-time Work - Tim Bird, Sony Electronics

3:35pm CDT

KernelScript: Unifying EBPF, Userspace, and Kernel Extensions in One Language - Cong Wang, Multikernel Technologies

3:35pm CDT

Who You Gonna Call? Taming OpenClaw's Rogue AI Agents With OpenTelemetry and Tetragon - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace

3:35pm CDT

Kubernetes Cluster Creation Landscape - The Easy and the Hard Ways - Wendy Ha, SEEK

3:35pm CDT

Sponsored Session: Open-sourced Blockchain Solutions: Cardano’s Infrastructure-First Approach - Marco Russo, Cardano Foundation

3:35pm CDT

Taming MCP Server Sprawl: Securing and Scaling the Model Context Protocol in Production - Jeffrey Borek & Olivia Buzek, IBM

3:35pm CDT

StageX: Rebuilding Trust Through Multi-Signed, Full-Source Bootstrapped, and Reproducible Builds - Danny Grove, Manifest Cyber & Lance Vick, Distrust

3:35pm CDT

DroneCode Community Update - Ramon Roche, DroneCode Foundation & Lorenz Meier, Creator of PX4 & Auterion

3:35pm CDT

Beyond Static Devicetrees: Implementing Runtime Hardware Dynamism in Zephyr - Wai-Hong Tam & Jason Yuan, Google

3:35pm CDT

BoF: DRA for AI Workloads: Where Does the Spec Need To Go Next? - Yahav Biran, Amazon

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)

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

4:30pm CDT

Why Is It Always DNS?: Rethinking & Engineering Node-Level DNS Resolution in Kubernetes - Shaheen Sayyed & Ankur Singh, Red Hat

4:30pm CDT

The Architecture of Accountability: Transparency in Software - Hayden Blauzvern, Google

4:30pm CDT

Bootph: A Swiss Army Knife for Boot-Time Optimization - Gokul Praveen & Beleswar Prasad Padhi, Texas Instruments

4:30pm CDT

Complying With Regulatory SBOM Requirements Using the Yocto Project - Joshua Watt, Garmin

4:30pm CDT

What Developers Should Know About Hardware Architecture - Dave Neary, Ampere Computing

4:30pm CDT

Scaling LLM Inference With Tiered Caching: Extending LMCache With Amazon SageMaker HyperPod - Yihua Cheng, Tensormesh, Inc. & Ziwen Ning

4:30pm CDT

Quantum Computing for AI Engineers: Foundations, Limits, and Future Possibilities - Alireza Rahmani, Red Hat

4:30pm CDT

Lazy Rivers and Open Source Security: Learn About the OpenSSF With Angelah and Stacey - Angelah Liu & Stacey Potter, Linux Foundation

4:30pm CDT

Image Composer Tool: Declarative Multi-Distro Linux Image Builds From Packages - Mats Agerstam & Alpesh Rodage, Intel Corporation

4:30pm CDT

Leveraging GPU-accelerated Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry in PX4 Using ROS2 - Andrew Brahim, Ascend Engineering

4:30pm CDT

Fuzzing Zephyr Apps - Struggles of Dynamic Analysis on Embedded Applications - Jayashree Srinivasan, Analog Devices

4:35pm CDT

The Probabilistic Pipeline: From Green To Safe - Mihir Vora, Capital One

5:00pm CDT

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

5:15pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Developer Experience is More Than Just Productivity Metrics - Jeremy Meiss, WWT

5:25pm CDT

Monolithic To Cloud Native: Lessons From Migrating Heroku To EKS at Scale - Mateen Anjum, Phono Technologies Inc

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

5:25pm CDT

Leveraging U-Boot Binman With Hardware Security Modules (HSM) for Secure Boot - Riya Aysola & Judith Mendez, Texas Instruments

5:25pm CDT

Verification Toward Applying SLSA in Automotive IVI Software Development - Yuta Kiyoumi & Takashi Ninjouji, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

5:25pm CDT

Beyond Vector Search: Building Knowledge Graphs for Autonomous Infrastructure - Torsten Boettjer, Rescile

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

5:25pm CDT

Verified Debian Packaging at Scale - Frederick Lawler, Cloudflare

5:25pm CDT

QGC: What You Don't Know - Andrew Wilkins, Ascend Engineering

5:25pm CDT

BoF: Space Grade Linux: From Incubation to Foundation - Ramón Roche & Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation

5:25pm CDT

From FreeRTOS To Zephyr: A Practical Migration Guide for Embedded Developers - Jacob Beningo, Beningo Embedded Group

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

6:00pm CDT

cdCon Reception & Networking

6:30pm CDT

Attendee Reception

8:00pm CDT

Drone Show (Presented by Uvify)
 
Tuesday, May 19
 

6:45am CDT

5K Fun Run

7:30am CDT

Welcome Coffee

7:30am CDT

Zen Zone

7:30am CDT

Coat & Bag Check

8:00am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome Back

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

9:35am CDT

Keynote: Strands - From Framework to Harness - Belle Guttman, Senior Software Engineering Manager, AWS

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

10:15am CDT

Coffee Break

10:15am CDT

Solutions Showcase

10:45am CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Why AI is Driving a Full-Stack Skills Gap (and How to Close It)

10:45am CDT

Sponsor Activity - DA Spotlight

11:00am CDT

Lightning Talk: AI Can Contribute. It Can't Lead - Lahari Chowtoori, AWS

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

11:00am CDT

From Guidance To Guardrails: Cost & Carbon Policy-as-Code With OPA in CI - Machiko Shinozuka & Kouki Hama, NTT, Inc

11:00am CDT

Sponsored Session: Cloud Native AI: From Conformance to Production - Jake Pineda, CNCF

11:00am CDT

State of Embedded Linux - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation

11:00am CDT

Optimizing Power Consumption in Embedded Linux: Techniques and Tradeoffs - Kendall Willis, Texas Instruments

11:00am CDT

Connecting the Dots With Context Graphs - Stephen Chin, Neo4j

11:00am CDT

What Running FreeBSD on a Modern Laptop Taught Me - Deb Goodkin, The FreeBSD Foundation

11:00am CDT

Driving Kubernetes’ Global Adoption and Contributions With Documentation - Rey Lejano, Red Hat

11:00am CDT

Small Government, Big Problems: Utilizing OSS To Support Our Citizens - Bob Henderson, Cass County Government

11:00am CDT

Trusted Publishing: Eliminating Credentials From Your Release Workflow - Mike Fiedler, Python Software

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

11:35am CDT

Lightning Talk: It's Friday! - Alon Nisser, Zencity

11:50am CDT

Platform Engineering: Herding the Electric Sheep - Brett Smith, SAS

11:55am CDT

Unified Database Provisioning and Management on Kubernetes - Kyle Avants, Percona

11:55am CDT

Easy Bring-up Your RISC-V SBC Using Yocto Project - RISC-V Architecture Layer - Khem Raj, Comcast

11:55am CDT

From Physics To EBPF: Quantifying Flash Wear in Embedded Systems - Blake Hildebrand, Nordic Semiconductor

11:55am CDT

SPDX and SBOM Work for the Linux Kernel - Tim Bird, Sony Electronics

11:55am CDT

From Tools To Platforms: MCP Patterns for Building Open Agent Ecosystems - Guangya Liu, JPMC

11:55am CDT

Harnessing Git's Superpowers for Code Navigation and Debugging - Matheus Bernardino, Qualcomm

11:55am CDT

Beyond SBOMs: Making License Data Actionable With ClearlyDefined - Jamie Magee, Microsoft

11:55am CDT

How Apache Superset Reinvented (and Re-engineered) Its World of Documentation - Evan Rusackas, Preset, Inc

11:55am CDT

The Non-Transferrable Playbook: Advocacy Models for Open Source - Danica Fine, Snowflake

11:55am CDT

Package Testing Across Distributions and Architectures at Scale: A Molecule and QEMU Approach - Yash Panchal, Percona

11:55am CDT

Sponsored Session: Driftless: An Open Source Agentic Reconciliation Framework Proven At Scale - Manfred Moser, Chainguard

11:55am CDT

Multi-robot Air-Ground Collaboration With PX4 and Opportunistic Communications - Fernando Cladera, University of Pennsylvania

12:20pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Where Deployment Authority Lives: A Cloud Native Design Pitfall in GitOps - Kim Schaefer, Game Plan Tech

12:35pm CDT

Better Together Lunch

12:35pm CDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)

12:45pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Behind the Exam Curtain: The Secret Life of a Subject Matter Expert

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

1:15pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Don’t Cross Wires - Cross-Skill: Aligning Teams Around Smart Learning Paths

2:10pm CDT

Security Things: How OpenSSF’s Technical Initiatives Keep You Safe From the Upside Down! - Stacey Potter, OpenSSF & Katherine Druckman, JetBrains

2:10pm CDT

Off-Grid Cloud Native: Building Trustworthy Sponsor-to-School Delivery With Kubernetes - Vuyo Mhlotshane, Loakit

2:10pm CDT

From Malloc To Box: A Practical Guide To Rustification - Christina Quast, Independent

2:10pm CDT

Practical Insights Into Interactive Debugging of Linux MMC Block Device Drivers - Akhilesh Patil, Amazon

2:10pm CDT

Automating Linux Kernel Crash Analysis With LLMs - Chris Arges, Cloudflare

2:10pm CDT

Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications - Tejas Chopra, Netflix, Inc.

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

2:10pm CDT

Architecting for Onboarding: Building a "Docs-as-Code" Pipeline for Open Source Sustainability - Sai Sravan Cherukuri, Independent Contributor

2:10pm CDT

Building Sustainable Open Source: The Harper Story - Ethan Arrowood, Harper

2:10pm CDT

Open Source Is Not the Same Anymore - Faeka Ansari, Akuity Inc. & Nasi Chaudhari, Yugabyte

2:10pm CDT

Package Managers Metadata and Cross Ecosystem Projects in the Era of SBOMs - Damián Vicino, Datadog

2:10pm CDT

Unified Autonomy Stack - Nikhil Khedekar & Kostas Alexis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

2:45pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Offensive and Defensive Strategies for Addressing Open-Source Vulnerabilities - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc.

3:00pm CDT

GitOps Gone Wild: Hardening Delivery Pipelines for the AI Era - Julien Semaan, Kubex & Corey McGalliard, Akamai

3:05pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Reliability at the Edge: Fail-Safe Multi Cluster Orchestration With Kubestellar - Munachimso (Muna) Nwaiwu, Cornell University

3:05pm CDT

Microseconds Matter: Benchmarking Thread Synchronization - Gautham Ponnu, The MathWorks

3:05pm CDT

Secure Boot for Embedded Linux: Explained in Simple Words - Roy Jamil, Ac6

3:05pm CDT

Fork, Explore, Commit: Linux Primitives for AI Agents Exploration - Cong Wang, Multikernel Technologies & Yusheng Zheng, eunomia-bpf

3:05pm CDT

Identity Management for AI Agents - Abdel Fane, OpenA2A

3:05pm CDT

The Code Is the Contract: How Linux's Architecture Sheds Light on GPL Compliance - Sabir Ibrahim, Dev Legal

3:05pm CDT

Hidden in Plain Sight: Discovering the Academic Open Source Landscape - Juanita Gomez, University of California, Santa Cruz

3:05pm CDT

It's Not Rocket Science, It's a Flywheel: Engineering OS Communities With DevEx - Jeremy Meiss, WWT

3:05pm CDT

Tiny Repos, Big Impact: Level Up Through Open-Source Teaching - Katie Kodes, Independent

3:05pm CDT

What Are You Willing To Digest? Multi Arch Container Image Security and Best Practice - Evans Yeboah Jr., VideoAmp

3:05pm CDT

Talking To Drones: Natural Language Control of PX4 Using a Phone, MCP, and ChatGPT Realtime API - Godfrey Nolan, RIIS LLC

3:25pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Built Clean. Receipts Attached - Adolfo García Veytia, Carabiner Systems & Alex Zenla, Edera

3:25pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Taking a U-Turn for Caches: Moving Back From Remote To Local - Aditya Mohan, Amazon

3:35pm CDT

Lightning Talk: Where Does Your Policy Actually Live? - Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Inc.

3:45pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Jeff Shapiro, Linux Foundation on Open Source Licenses & SBOMs

3:45pm CDT

Ask the Expert Session - Tim Bird, Sony Electronics, on Embedded Linux, Upstreaming tips, SPDX, and Linux Boot-time

3:45pm CDT

Coffee Break

3:50pm CDT

Sponsor Activity - Run AI Coding Agents on Your Infrastructure Live Demo and Giveaways

4:00pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Ten Minutes, Ten Open Source Insights from LF Research

4:20pm CDT

eBPF and Open Source Code Ensure the Security of Your Clusters CI/CD Pipeline. - Hudson Coutinho, Linker Bank

4:20pm CDT

Hardening QEMU With Self-Correcting Fuzzing Pipelines - Navid Emamdoost, Google

4:20pm CDT

Optimize Linux Kernel To Fit Microcontrollers With 1 MB RAM - Jim Huang & Chisheng Chen, National Cheng Kung University

4:20pm CDT

The Hidden Cost of Sleep: How Scheduler Wakeup Latency Impacts High-Throughput AI Inference - Shubhang Kaushik, Ampere Computing

4:20pm CDT

A Fun Overview of the Argo Ecosystem - Aaron Teague, UVNV

4:20pm CDT

BOF: Funding Open Source Sustainably - Georg Link, CHAOSS & Terence McCutcheon, Intersect MBO

4:20pm CDT

NixOS for Deterministic Distributed-System Benchmarking - B. Cameron Gain, ReveCom

4:20pm CDT

Enhancing PX4's EKF2 Replay Module for Deterministic Integration Testing - Brian Fairservice & Kerry Snyder, KEF Robotics

4:45pm CDT

Awards and Closing Ceremony - Mark Waite, Independent

5:00pm CDT

LFX Mentorship Showcase

5:00pm CDT

Tux Trek
 
Wednesday, May 20
 

7:30am CDT

Welcome Coffee

7:30am CDT

Zen Zone

7:30am CDT

Coat & Bag Check

8:00am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up

9:00am CDT

Keynote: Welcome Back

9:05am CDT

Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting

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

9:55am CDT

Keynote: Zephyr: By Developers, For Developers - Kate Stewart, VP Dependable Embedded Systems,The Linux Foundation

10:05am CDT

Keynote: Free to Use, Not Free to Run: Reinventing Package Registries - Robin Bender Ginn, Executive Director, OpenJS Foundation

10:30am CDT

Sponsor Activity - Smarter LLM Inference: Faster Tokens, Lower Latency, Better GPU Utilization (+ Raffle)

10:30am CDT

Coffee Break

10:30am CDT

Solutions Showcase

10:45am CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: OpenSearch Observability Essentials

11:00am CDT

Beyond Containers. Why MicroVMs Are Essential for Multi-Tenant Workloads - Alex Zenla, Edera

11:00am CDT

Running Open Source Cloud Infrastructure for Public Health at Scale: Lessons From Ghana - Derek Asamoah-Amoyaw, AngloGold Ashanti Malaria Control (AGAMal)

11:00am CDT

How AGL SoDeV Accelerates the Future of Mobility Through Open-Source Collaboration - Yuichi Kusakabe, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

11:00am CDT

OpenEmbedded / Yocto BoF - Colin McAllister, Garmin & Chuck Wolber, The Boeing Company

11:00am CDT

Defending the Branch: PAC, BTI & GCS on Linux - Bill Roberts, Arm Ltd

11:00am CDT

KV-Cache Centric Inference: Building an Open Source LLM Serving Platform Around State - Martin Hickey, IBM Research

11:00am CDT

When Similar Is Good Enough: Rethinking Caching for AI - Madelyn Olson, Valkey & Jacob Murphy, Google Cloud

11:00am CDT

Panel Discussion: Code, Capital, and COSS: Winning Strategies for Startups - Hilary Carter & Sam Boysel, The Linux Foundation & Cara Delia, Red Hat

11:00am CDT

BEAR-ing Fruit: How OpenSSF’s Working Group Is Diversifying Open Source Security - Marcela Melara, Intel Corporation

11:00am CDT

Building an OSPO From the Ground Up: Enterprise Policy To Contribution and Compliance - Kevin Fruchey & Jeff Skarb, Lenovo

11:00am CDT

Keep It Clean: Practical Strategies for Reducing Build-System and Host Tech Debt - Joe Schneider, Dojo Five

11:00am CDT

Software Supply Chain Management With the Yocto Project - Joshua Watt, Garmin

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

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

11:55am CDT

From Apps To Infrastructure: A Cloud Native First Approach - Julien Semaan, Kubex & Corey McGalliard, Akamai

11:55am CDT

It Works on My Bench (And Nowhere Else): DevOps for Embedded Systems - Colleen Lake, GitLab

11:55am CDT

Open Source Starts Here: Lessons Learned From Building Linux Clubs for Students - Stu Keroff, Lake Middle School

11:55am CDT

Zero Trust AI Agents: Securing MCP in Private Kubernetes Networks - Mithil Patel, Equinix

11:55am CDT

Serverless for Open-Source Maintainers: Automating the Boring, Scaling the Impact - Hemant Bharadwaj & Antra Purohit, Microsoft

11:55am CDT

Day 2 Neurodiversity: Moving Beyond Fundamentals With Merge Forward - Ryan Etten, RHCA, Red Hat & Diana Todea, VictoriaMetrics

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

11:55am CDT

Retconning Accessibility Standards With ARIA-AT - Chris Cuellar, Bocoup

11:55am CDT

OCI Images: Not Just for Containers Anymore - Austin Abro, Defense Unicorns

11:55am CDT

The Final Phase of Xen Safety: Solving Coverage and Residual Gaps - Stefano Stabellini, AMD

12:35pm CDT

Puppy Pawlooza

12:35pm CDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)

1:00pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: Building with Blocks: How RISC-V Extensions and Profiles Make Magic

1:30pm CDT

LF Education Learning Lounge: We Didn't Replace Our Team With AI Agents. We Made Them Unstoppable

2:10pm CDT

Building a Shared, Persistent Virtual Filesystem for WebAssembly - Ayako Hayasaka, LY Corporation

2:10pm CDT

Hello World, Meet the Spanimals: Getting Started With Observability - Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana Labs

2:10pm CDT

Construct a Lean and Fast RISC-V System Emulator Capable of Running Linux - Jim Huang, National Cheng Kung University

2:10pm CDT

Using Embedded Linux for Autonomous Robot Control - Chloe Zhu, The Admissions Authority

2:10pm CDT

Breaking the TCP Barrier: Accelerated I/O for S3 with RDMA - Vidushi Mishra, IBM/Redhat

2:10pm CDT

Introduction To the Linux Boot Process - Angelina Vu & Karissa Sanchez, Microsoft

2:10pm CDT

Beyond First PRs: Converting Students Into Long-Term Open Source Contributors - Lola Egherman, CodeDay

2:10pm CDT

Running an Open Source Vulnerability Rewards Program - Hayden Blauzvern, Google

2:10pm CDT

What's the Deal With Human Rights and Technical Standards? - Daniel Appelquist, Samsung

2:10pm CDT

Is Maven Safe for Production? - Adam Kaplan, Red Hat & Manfred Moser, Chainguard

2:10pm CDT

From Pull Request To Patient Safety: How Tidepool Built an Open-Source Quality Management System - Tapani Otala, Tidepool

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

3:05pm CDT

Cache Me If You Can: Decentralize Your Distributed Caches With Hollow - Viswanathan Ranganathan, Independent

3:05pm CDT

The Service Mesh: Solving Microservice Chaos (And When You Actually Need One) - Mofesola Babalola, Extreme Networks & Hannah Olukoye, DKB Code Factory

3:05pm CDT

Building the Simplest Possible Linux System - Rob Landley, Hobbyist

3:05pm CDT

When 10,000 Screens Go Dark: Engineering Resilient Linux Drivers for Manufacturing Reality - Ram Mohan Rao Chukka, JFrog & Subhajit Ghosh, Tweaklogic

3:05pm CDT

How GitHub Secures Open Source - Bas Alberts, GitHub

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

3:05pm CDT

Standardizing Deterministic Interoperability and Resource-Intelligent Design in Medical Robotics - Lilinoe Harbottle, San Jose State University

3:45pm CDT

Coffee Break

4:20pm CDT

ELC Closing Game

4:20pm CDT

Modernizing Software Verification - Craig Christianson, United States Air Force
 
Thursday, May 21
 

7:30am CDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up

7:30am CDT

Coat & Bag Check

9:00am CDT

LF AI & Data Mini Summit [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]

9:00am CDT

RISC-V Insights [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]

9:00am CDT

Linux Security Summit | Day 1 [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]

9:00am CDT

OpenSSF Community Day [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]

9:00am CDT

Observability Summit | Day 1 [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
 
Friday, May 22
 

9:00am CDT

Linux Security Summit | Day 2 [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]

9:00am CDT

Observability Summit | Day 2 [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
 
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