Open Source Summit North America 2025: Full Schedule

June 23 - 25, 2025
Denver, Colorado
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11:20am MDT

Building Trust in ML: Mapping the Model Lifecycle for ML Integrity and Transparency - Marcela Melara, Intel Labs

Monday June 23, 2025 11:20am - 12:00pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2F

Open machine learning (ML) models and datasets are rapidly becoming central to building AI applications. While this trend accelerates innovation and democratizes AI, it exposes applications to security risks like data poisoning and supply chain attacks. Threats like malicious backdoors hidden in pre-trained ML models hosted on major hubs like Hugging Face emphasize the wide reach compromises can have. So, how do we build trust in the ML lifecycle?
This talk presents Atlas, a framework that combines open specifications for data and software supply chain provenance like Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) and Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) with the integrity features of transparency logs and trusted hardware to run attestable ML pipelines. First, we motivate the need to safeguard all layers of the ML lifecycle. We describe and demonstrate how Atlas’s three core mechanisms enable verification: (1) cryptographic artifact authentication, (2) hardware-based attestation of ML systems, and (3) provenance tracking across ML pipelines. Our Atlas demo integrates several open-source tools to build an end-to-end ML lifecycle transparency system.

Speakers

Marcela Melara

Research Scientist, Intel Labs

Marcela Melara is a research scientist in the Security and Privacy Research group at Intel Labs. 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 and... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 11:20am - 12:00pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2F

Cloud + Containers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

11:20am MDT

The Power of Consolidation: A Unified Stack for Business Intelligence, Security, and Observability - Josh Lee, Altinity, Inc. & Mya Jaye, C8 Labs

Monday June 23, 2025 11:20am - 12:00pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2G

Imagine you’re responding to a production incident, and you’re trying to answer simple questions about it. How many systems do you need to consult when assessing the impact of events at your company? Do you manage different technology stacks for observability, security, and business intelligence?

What if we told you, you could create a unified stack capable of serving all stakeholders simultaneously? In this talk, Mya and Josh explore how open source technologies like ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana enable complex business use cases using modern tooling and practices.

Regardless of your function, you will leave with a deeper understanding of how consolidating these concerns into a unified stack reduces technical complexity and provides a common language for everyone to use - from engineers building new features and product managers evaluating their success, to operators keeping the lights on and C suite’s birds-eye view of the company.

Whether you’re working with a data lake, or more of a data pond, we offer practical architectures and solutions to streamline your operations and bring your stakeholders together, all while using fewer resources.

Speakers

Mya Jaye

Founder, C8 Labs

A brilliant, talented, self-taught, ambivert who loves attending and speaking at conferences. I love tinkering with small board computers like raspberry pis.☕ If you see me around, don't hesitate to come say hi!🏒 Hockey player since I was 7💻 Programming since I was 14... Read More →

Josh Lee

Open Source Developer Advocate, Altinity, Inc.

Whether it’s operators or observability, agile or accessibility, my expertise shines because I’m passionate about all of it. I’ve been building software for more than a decade and I love sharing experiences via public speaking. I’m currently a Developer Advocate for Altinity... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 11:20am - 12:00pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2G

Cloud + Containers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

11:20am MDT

Leveraging the OPEA Platform and GraphRAG Architectures To Drive Cloud-Native AI Adoption - Stephen Chin, Neo4j & Rachel Roumeliotis, Intel

Monday June 23, 2025 11:20am - 12:00pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2C

In the era of cloud-native technologies, businesses are increasingly looking to integrate advanced AI capabilities into their workflows. This session explores how the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) offers a transformative, open-source framework designed to accelerate the adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) across industries. Attendees will learn about the key benefits of adopting an open-source GenAI platform, including flexibility, community-driven improvements, and cost efficiency, as well as the advantages of deploying AI models in a cloud-native environment. We will also dive deep into the emerging GraphRAG (Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture, demonstrating how it enhances the accuracy and explainability of AI-driven responses. Join us for this session to explore how the open-source OPEA platform and GraphRAG architectures are poised to redefine enterprise AI and to drive smarter, more reliable cloud-native AI applications.

Speakers

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, member of the Open AI Alliance, and author of several titles with O'Reilly, Apress, and McGraw Hill. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including AI DevSummit, Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, Shift, JavaOne, Joker... Read More →

Rachel Roumeliotis

Director, Open Source Strategy, Intel

Rachel Roumeliotis, Director, Open Source Strategy, Intel is led by the belief that open source is key to growth and innovation, Rachel is focused on partnering with fellow Intel colleagues to incorporate these tenets into its larger business strategy. She is also working with other... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 11:20am - 12:00pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2C

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

1:30pm MDT

Mainframes Aren’t Dead, They’re Just Running Kubernetes Now - Josephine Pfeiffer, Red Hat

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2F

Mainframes have been declared dead more times than JavaScript frameworks have been invented—but here they are, still running the backbone of global finance, government, and enterprise computing. And now? They’re running Kubernetes too.

This talk dives into the why and how of running Kubernetes on mainframes, from containerization on z/OS to networking, workload orchestration, and real-world use cases. We’ll break down the challenges, the benefits, and whether this is a clever hack or a genuinely viable approach for modern infrastructure. If you think mainframes are relics, think again—because they’re running microservices now.

Speakers

Josephine Pfeiffer

Senior Cloud Native Consultant, Red Hat

Josephine is a consultant specializing in developer productivity and infrastructure. She has worked for enterprises, SMEs, and startups in roles spanning platform engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and technology management.She is an active open-source contributor... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2F

Cloud + Containers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

1:30pm MDT

Panel Discussion: Open Source: What's Next - Tony Wasserman, Software Methods and Tools; Stormy Peters, Independent; Rao Lakkakula, Microsoft; Nithya Ruff, Amazon; Chris Aniszczyk, The Linux Foundation

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3C

This proposed session is a panel discussion covering recent developments and likely future directions for open source software, particularly as it applies to companies that are developing and/or using open source software in their products. The invited panelists all have extensive experience that cover the most significant issues facing open source today, including licensing, security, AI, and OSPOs.

Speakers

Tony Wasserman

Principal, Software Methods and Tools

Tony Wasserman has divided his career between academia and industry. He is currently Principal of Software Methods and Tools, and an Advisor in the UC Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator. He was Professor of Sfw Mgmt at CMU-Silicon Valley from 2005-23. Earlier, he was CEO of Interactive... Read More →

Stormy Peters

Open Source Advocate, Self employed

Stormy Peters is VP of Communities at GitHub. She leads the teams responsible for enabling the online creators and open source communities on GitHub, including GitHub’s community product efforts, developer relations, education, and other strategic programs. Throughout her career... Read More →

Rao Lakkakula

Partner Director, Open Source Ecosystem, Microsoft

Rao Lakkakula is the Director of Open Source Ecosystem at Microsoft. Rao has held various roles in open source, security, engineering, risk management, and business intelligence. His previous experience includes leadership positions in security at JPMorgan Chase, Climate Corp, Amazon... Read More →

Nithya Ruff

Director, Amazon OSPO, Amazon

Nithya is the Head of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office. Amazon’s customers value open source innovation and the cloud’s role in helping them adopt and run important open source services. She drives open source culture and coordination inside of Amazon and engagement with... Read More →

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO, Linux Foundation

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source technologist with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer experience and running the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he's a Partner... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3C

Open Source Leadership

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

1:30pm MDT

Zephyr for Open Source Health Devices - Ashwin Whitchurch, Protocentral Electronics

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2B

This talk would highlight the importance of open source health devices and how we used Zephyr across several hardware platforms to develop these devices. We will draw on experiences from our projects including HealthyPi 5, HealthyPi 6 and the wearable HealthyPi Move, all open source hardware and software. More specifically how Zephyr enabled the use of practically a single codebase across three different microcontroller platforms in different form factors.

l will also talk about the challenges faced during the process of making the system wearable and low power and the solutions that worked for us.

Speakers

Ashwin Whitchurch

CEO, Protocentral Electronics

Ashwin is a part of a company called Protocentral Electronics, which is focused on developing open-source hardware for healthcare applications. He is a software and hardware engineer by education and profession, with Masters degrees in both subjects.

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2B

Zephyr

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

1:30pm MDT

Tutorial: From Planning To Production-Ready RAG With OPEA - Andreas Kollegger, Neo4j; Ezequiel Lanza & Katherine Druckman, Intel

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3E

Enterprises struggle to integrate fragmented generative AI (GenAI) technologies. Due to its rapid evolution and diverse implementations, even top LLMs hallucinate when answering Kubernetes-related questions.

The Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a Linux Foundation project, accelerates GenAI adoption with an orchestration framework that composes microservices via customizable blueprints to deploy or create GenAI applications.

In this hands-on tutorial, developers will deploy advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications using Kubernetes. They’ll explore how OPEA orchestrates AI workloads via a microservices architecture and build a production-ready RAG chatbot. Attendees will go beyond deployment, enhancing vector search with knowledge graphs, customizing OPEA components, and scaling AI solutions efficiently on Kubernetes—all while integrating AI agents for more intelligent automation.

Speakers

Ezequiel Lanza

Open Source AI 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.

Katherine Druckman

Open Source Evangelist, Intel Corporation

Katherine Druckman is an Open Source Evangelist at Intel, where she enjoys sharing her passion for a variety of open source topics. She currently combines her enthusiasm for software security and emerging AI technology as the OPEA Security Working Group Lead and Co-Chair of the OpenSSF... Read More →

Andreas Kollegger

GenAI Lead for Developer Relations, Neo4j

Andreas is a technological humanist. Starting at NASA, Andreas designed systems from scratch to support science missions. Then in Zambia, he built medical informatics systems to apply technology for social good. Now with Neo4j, he is democratizing graph databases to validate and extend... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3E

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

1:30pm MDT

Tutorial: Guarding the Gates: Understanding and Mitigating OWASP's Top 10 LLM Security Risks - Neetu Jain & Kimberly Nowell-Berry, JPMorgan Chase

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3A

As organizations rapidly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) in production environments, understanding their unique security vulnerabilities becomes crucial. This session provides a deep dive into OWASP's Top 10 LLM risks, examining real-world examples and practical mitigation strategies.

Speakers

Kimberly Nowell-Berry

JPMorgan Chase

Neetu Jain

Executive Director, JPMC

Neetu Jain is the Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase in the Emerging Technology Security division, where she leads initiatives in AI security. With 20 years of experience in the tech industry, Neetu has driven innovation and security across various domains and products, including... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3A

Open Source 101

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm MDT

Securing the Software Supply Chain: Integrating OpenSSF Scorecard, Jenkins, and the Ortelius Project - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 2:45pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3B

As the number of software vulnerabilities grows, the need for robust, automated security practices in DevOps pipelines is more critical than ever. OpenSSF Scorecard, an initiative by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), provides a framework for evaluating the security posture of open-source projects. Ortelius, an open-source platform and dashboard, builds on this foundation by offering continuous vulnerability tracking and management, integrating with tools like OpenSSF Scorecard and OSV.dev.

Adding to this ecosystem, Jenkins plays a pivotal role as a CI/CD powerhouse, making it an ideal candidate for advancing continuous vulnerability management. In this talk, we’ll explore how integrating Ortelius and OpenSSF Scorecard into Jenkins pipelines empowers teams to automate vulnerability scanning, track security metrics, and respond to threats more efficiently. Attendees will learn how to leverage these tools together to create a secure and automated development lifecycle.

Speakers

Tracy Ragan

CEO, DeployHub, Inc.

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 continuous vulnerability management platform that empowers software to 'self-heal' by automatically applying... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 2:45pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3B

cdCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm MDT

EdgeLake: Extending the Cloud To the Edge – an LF Edge Project - Moshe Shadmon, AnyLog

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2G

As data volumes grow and real-time processing becomes essential, traditional cloud architectures face limitations in cost, latency, and security. The traditional approach moves all edge data to where the queries are executed—in the cloud—leading to inefficiencies and high costs. EdgeLake (https://lfedge.org/projects/edgelake/), an LF Edge project, takes the opposite approach by bringing queries to the source data at the edge, enabling decentralized data management and local AI/ML processing.

In this talk, we’ll explore how EdgeLake eliminates cloud dependencies, optimizes data infrastructure, and reduces operational costs while ensuring real-time decision-making at the edge. We’ll discuss key use cases (and show a live demo) across industrial automation, smart cities, energy, and telecom, demonstrating how organizations can leverage EdgeLake to unlock the full potential of edge computing.

Join us to learn how EdgeLake is reshaping the future of distributed data architectures and making edge intelligence more accessible.

Speakers

Moshe Shadmon

CEO, AnyLog

Moshe Shadmon, CEO at Anylog. AnyLog’s Virtual Edge Data Network is a Plug & Play software, deployed at the edge, allowing real-time insight without centralizing the data. AnyLog enables deployment of applications and AI at the distributed edge. Prior to AnyLog, Moshe was the CEO... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2G

Cloud + Containers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm MDT

Through the Looking Glass: Leveraging Overton Window Concepts To Redefine Infrastructure as Code - Ben Somogyi, Lockheed Martin

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2F

The Overton window, a concept originating in politics, refers to the range of policies that are considered acceptable to a broad and diverse audience. In this session, we will share our experiences and recommendations on how to successfully adapt to shifting "Overton Windows", as they pertain to mainstreaming our platform to support a wide range of customer requirements while minimizing non-recurring engineering expenses. At Lockheed Martin, we have developed a modular open system that incorporates Secure Supply Chain and Cloud Native standards, enabling us to rapidly deliver capabilities to customers in highly regulated and diverse environments, while navigating the complexities of evolving requirements and priorities.

Speakers

Ben Somogyi

Senior Staff DevSecOps Engineer, Lockheed Martin

Versatile, hands-on technical leader and software developer who is building cloud native solutions for Lockheed Martin and its customers.

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2F

Cloud + Containers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm MDT

The State of SBoMs in Embedded - Joshua Watt, Garmin

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A

Software Bill of Materials (SBoMs) are being increasingly called for in all Software ecosystems, to the point of being mandatory for regulatory compliance. The Embedded space is no different in this regard, so being aware of the available options for complying with SBoM is becoming critical for Embedded development.

In this talk, Joshua will outline prominent options for dealing with SBoM requirements across Open Source Embedded-focused projects, and what to look for in SBoMs for embedded projects to maximize their usefulness.

Speakers

Joshua Watt

Software Engineer, Garmin

Joshua has been working as a software engineer for Garmin since 2008, primarily focused on building products using the Yocto Project. He is also involved with the SPDX community and a member of the OpenEmbedded Technical Steering Committee.

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm MDT

Beaconforge.org, Open Agentic AI for Hallucination Mitigation - Diego Gosmar, Voiceinteroperability.ai, LF AI and Data

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2C

This talk will describe the emerging standard and the Beaconforge.org framework, which is being developed by the Voiceinteroperability.ai Project of the LFAI and Data Foundation, to enable conversational assistants to interact with each other. Beaconforge.org is based on a standardized set of novel agentic inter-assistant messages that utilize NLP (Natural Language Processing) Universal APIs.

We will also explore how Agentic AI frameworks like Beaconforge.org can help mitigate hallucination effects in generative AI agents. This will be demonstrated through an empirical experiment involving hundreds of diverse prompts, a chain of multiple agents, and four novel KPIs used to evaluate hallucination score mitigation.

More information about the project can be found in the following papers:
Diego Gosmar et al., 2025. Hallucination Mitigation using Agentic AI Natural Language-Based Frameworks, https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13946

Diego Gosmar et al., 2024. Conversational AI Multi-Agent Interoperability, Universal Open APIs for Agentic Natural Language Multimodal Communications, https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19438

Speakers

Diego Gosmar

Principal AI Advisor, Voiceinteroperability.ai, LF AI and Data

Diego Gosmar serves as Chief AI Officer specializing in Artificial Intelligence, with particular focus on Generative Conversational AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), AI Agent interoperability, Sustainable and Ethical Conversational AI.Diego is member of the Open Voice Interoperability... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2C

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm MDT

Panel Discussion: Driving Automotive Transformation With Open Source - Philipp Ahmann, Etas GmbH (BOSCH); Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundaiton; Masato Endo, Toyota Motor Corporation; Wolfgang Gehring, Mercedes Benz Tech Innovation

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3C

Open source software has long been utilized in automotive systems, yet the industry is experiencing a renewed focus on its strategic utilization also sparked by the so called Software Defined Vehicle. The establishment of OSPOs across numerous OEMs and Tier suppliers further signals this shift.

This panel digs into the motivations and implications of this trend. The panelist will explore the historical context of OSS in automotive, contrasting it with the current OSPO-driven approach. Key discussion points include the rationale for OSPO creation, the specific challenges they tackle – particularly in light of global sanctions, increasing connectivity demands, and the imperative for cyber resilience – and the anticipated impact on the automotive software landscape with regulated safety-critical Software Defined Vehicle systems.

Speakers

Philipp Ahmann

Sr. OSS Commumity Manager, Etas GmbH (BOSCH)

Philipp Ahmann is a Senior OSS Community Manager at ETAS (a Bosch subsidiary), specializing in safety-critical automotive open source software. With 15+ years' experience in Linux automotive platforms, he has held roles from software engineer to project & line manager. He currently... Read More →

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, as well as supporting other embedded projects... Read More →

Masato Endo

Project General Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation

Masato Endo is a Project General Manager of Value Chain Innovation Project in TOYOTA. He focuses also on promoting Open Source Innovation and he set up TOYOTA OSPO in 2024. Furthermore, he plays the following roles in Open Source Communities. -The Linux Foundation Japan Evangelist... Read More →

Wolfgang Gehring

OSPO Lead / FOSS Ambassador, Mercedes Benz Tech Innovation

Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an Ambassador for Open and Inner Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to help enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3C

Open Source Leadership

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm MDT

Load Testing Is Complicated: A Case Study of NJ Unemployment Insurance - Rob Bayliss, Mighty Acorn Digital

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3F

In this session we will perform a case study of load testing for a US State’s Unemployment Insurance Modernization initiative. We will talk about the unique requirements and constraints of the project, such as the looming specter of the COVID-19 Unemployment boom. We’ll also review how the testing was done and why we ultimately decided on using browser-based tools such as Artillery with Playwright to build a testing system that could deliver and measure massive amounts of realistic traffic in a way that is quick (30 minutes) and easy to run. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of how one might approach load testing for a system like this, and why using browser based testing might or might not be a good idea.

Speakers

Rob Bayliss

Director, Mighty Acorn Digital

Rob Bayliss is passionate about automation, and has been building fast, reliable systems for state governments since 2017. He is passionate about performance, and once led an initiative to reduce the response times of Mass.gov by 50%, preventing downtime during the pandemic. In 2023... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3F

OpenGovCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:25pm MDT

FUOTA Using LORAWAN and Zephyr : DFU in the 'Real' World - Sidd Gupta, Demar Inc. (DBA Zylum)

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2B

The FUOTA (Firmware Update Over-The-Air) specification(s) from LoRa Alliance make up the framework that underpins the critical task of firmware updates of end points (typically battery operated sensors and actuators) that communicate using the LoRaWAN protocol.

The fundamental limitation of the FUOTA specification, as it exists today, is that it does not expect Firmware Artifacts to exceed a few hundred KB in size. With the increasing adoption of the Zephyr RTOS, along with more sophisticated capabilities being added to the end device, artifact sizes have quickly grown to 500 kB (and beyond). This limitation quickly starts to have a real impact, especially as the cost of doing so called 'drive by' updates (using BLE or other higher throughput transports) can get prohibitive.

We present a novel solution to this problem, leveraging the existing and well supported Device Firmware Update (DFU) specification.

In our solution, the LORAWAN protocol becomes another type of SMP transport (along with the already supported Shell, Bluetooth and UDP). We have extended the open source smpclient library from intercreate, as well as the open source LBM stack from Semtech to achieve this.

Speakers

Sidd Gupta

Principal, Demar Inc. (DBA Zylum)

I'm a proud software engineering craftsman, with around 30 years of experience, mostly coding, with a few detours into management and startup entrepreneurship. I run Zylum with my collaborator Guinnes Singh - we're your Zero to One (and beyond) guys. I am currently interested in the... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 2:25pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2B

Zephyr

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:45pm MDT

Lock the Chef in the Kitchen: Enabling Accurate SBOMs Via Hermetic Builds - Adam Cmiel, Red Hat

Monday June 23, 2025 2:45pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3B

Imagine your source repository is a kitchen, and the CI task that builds your software is a chef cooking soup. Most attempts to obtain the list of ingredients for the soup will fall into one of two categories.

"Source SBOM" tools gather the list of ingredients by scanning the entire kitchen. There are some recipes and ingredients in the kitchen, but are all of them relevant? Are they correct and complete? What if the chef looks up the recipe online and then orders the missing ingredients?

"Analyzed SBOM" tools try to derive the list of ingredients from the finished soup. This is hard to do well, impossible when the ingredients dissolve completely. And the tool has no chance of knowing where the ingredients came from.

How about we do this: Select the right recipe(s) for the soup. Buy all the ingredients ourselves. Leave them in the kitchen and lock the chef in there until the meal is done. We now have a complete list of ingredients (or a failed soup), and we know where we got them.

Meet Hermeto, a tool that enables your CI pipeline to lock the chef in the kitchen!

Speakers

Adam Cmiel

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

I'm a software engineer at Red Hat. I work on Konflux, an open-source CI/CD system focused on supply chain security (that we also use internally at Red Hat to build and release products). I focus on enabling builds to be as secure as possible.

Monday June 23, 2025 2:45pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3B

cdCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:35pm MDT

Reducing the Risk of Source Tampering With SLSA - Tom Hennen, Google

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 3:55pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3B

In 2023 Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) was released. It provided a framework for protecting software from tampering within the CI/CD workflow from source to publication. Now it’s nearing completion of the SLSA Source Track which brings a similar level of assurance to the management of source code.

The Source Track addresses the threat of tampering with source code within the repository and allows malicious changes to source to be attributed to the actors that introduced those changes. In addition, it provides a framework for recording additional results about source revisions such as if a code review was performed or if the source was analyzed by SAST tools.

We’ll cover how this track can prevent attacks like the 2021 attack against PHP where malicious commits were added to the PHP repository and how it can be used to ensure additional controls (like code review) are implemented to protect against attacks like the recent one against xz. Finally we'll discuss how the source track can be implemented in existing source control systems by examining a proof-of-concept that enables Source Level 3 without specialized support from the source control platform.

Speakers

Tom Hennen

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

Tom is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google where he’s a UTL on the Software Supply Chain Integrity program. He’s responsible for securing the internal software supply chain, while limiting toil. His focus is ensuring interoperability, extensibility, and adoption of Google’s... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 3:55pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3B

cdCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:35pm MDT

A Brief History of Kubernetes Fleet Controllers & Essential Features - Mickael Alliel, Komodor

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2G

Managing a few Kubernetes clusters may be feasible, but scaling up to hundreds or thousands introduces unique challenges. At a 100:1 cluster to engineer ratio, standardization, observability, security, and access control become pressing issues. This is when DevOps must shift from "infrastructure engineers" to "platform engineering," where infrastructure needs are fully automated and self-service.

As K8s adoption grows in large organizations, demand for "massive multi-cluster fleet management" support has intensified. This talk examines essential features for Kubernetes fleet controllers, offering a fast-paced review of five open-source tools: Clusternet, Karmada, Crossplane, ClusterAPI, and Rancher. Each tool's unique strengths in provisioning, management, and application support will be covered, showing how each addresses multi-cluster management challenges.

This approach will provide a replicable framework to evaluate & choose the right tools based on specific organizational needs.

Speakers

Mickael Alliel

Backend Tech Lead, Komodor

Mickael is a self-taught developer turned DevOps, passionate about automation, innovation, and creative problem-solving. Mickael enjoys challenging himself and experimenting with new technologies and methodologies. Currently, he is working on developing the next-gen K8s troubleshooting... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2G

Cloud + Containers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:35pm MDT

Extending Power Over Ethernet to the LTC4266 - Kyle Swenson, Ericsson Software Techology

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A

Leveraging the recently added Power over Ethernet (PoE) Power Supply Equipment (PSE) support, this talk will go over the current status and the experience implementing support for the LTC4266, the last major PSE chipset on the market. We'll go over the basics of Power over Ethernet, the existing upstream support and in-kernel framework, the user-space interface for controlling PSE, and then dive into the LTC4266 driver specifics.

Speakers

Kyle Swenson

Prinicpal Engineer, Ericsson Software Techology

Kyle maintains the open-source components in the embedded Linux distributions that run on Ericsson's Enterprise Wireless Solution routers, primarily working with the Linux kernel.

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:35pm MDT

The MODERN Modern Data Stack: Building an Open Distributed Data Warehouse Beyond Data Lakes - David Aronchick, Expanso

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3E

Organizations face a critical challenge: data is growing exponentially across distributed locations, but traditional centralized processing approaches are becoming unsustainable. With the majority of enterprise data going unused, companies struggle with massive transfer costs, compliance issues, and network reliability problems when moving data to centralized infrastructure.

This talk introduces a paradigm shift: bringing compute to where data lives. Using the open-source Bacalhau project, we'll demonstrate how to:

- Deploy distributed processing jobs across clouds, edge devices, and on-premises infrastructure
- Reduce data movement costs while maintaining centralized control
- Ensure compliance by processing sensitive data in place
- Enable real-time analytics at the edge

Through real-world examples, including an energy company managing 15,000 microgrids and cities processing camera feeds, attendees will learn practical patterns for modernizing their data infrastructure. We'll explore architectural patterns, security considerations, and best practices for implementing compute-over-data architectures.

Speakers

David Aronchick

CEO, Expanso

David Aronchick is CEO of Expanso, the distributed computing company built on Bacalhau ([https://bacalhau.org](https://bacalhau.org/)). Previously, he led Compute over Data at Protocol Labs, Open Source Machine Learning Strategy at Azure, was a product management for Kubernetes... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3E

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:35pm MDT

What’s New in Valkey - Madelyn Olson, Amazon & Ping Xie, Google

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2C

Valkey is the leading open-source database for building high performance applications that are compatible with the Redis API. It natively integrates with many popular frameworks and is commonly used for a wide range of applications such as caching, session storage, streaming, and more. In this talk, hear from members of the Valkey technical steering committee discuss some of the exciting new functionality that has been released including the new bloom filter data type, vector similarity search, and a new hash table implementation that reduces memory overhead and improves performance. We'll talk about how these functionalities enable next generation use cases and what's coming in upcoming releases.

Speakers

Madelyn Olson

Software Engineer, Amazon

I work primarily on the open source Redis project and evangelize the importance of open source software development.

Ping Xie

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

Ping Xie is a maintainer of Valkey and a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, working on GCP Memorystore. As an active contributor to Valkey, Ping focuses on core development, community engagement, and ensuring Valkey remains a reliable and adaptable solution for a wide range... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2C

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:35pm MDT

Panel Discussion: The Impact of Funding for Sustainable Open Source Projects - Georg Link, Bitergia; Andrew Nesbitt, Ecosyste.ms; Dawn Foster, CHAOSS

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3C

Open source software has become ubiquitous and can be found in almost every codebase, but sustaining those open source projects and communities over the long-term can be a challenge. Much of the critical infrastructure that we all rely on is made up of open source projects that lack the resources to be properly maintained over the long term. Companies, public institutions, and philanthropic organizations are beginning to fill this gap, but measuring the impact of this funding is an ongoing challenge. Funders need to be able to understand the impacts to justify future rounds of funding as well as to optimize funding approaches whilst mitigating ineffective or even harmful approaches.

In this panel, we’ll talk about what we’ve learned from public funding programs in Europe and corporate FOSS funds along with measuring the impact of those funding initiatives. We’ll discuss the challenges that funders have to understand how their funding can have positive or negative impacts on open source projects with different characteristics. The audience will gain an appreciation for funding initiatives for open source projects and how to understand and maximize the impact of those initiatives.

Speakers

Andrew Nesbitt

Georg Link

Open Source Strategist and Director of Sales, Bitergia

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 presented on open... Read More →

Dawn Foster

Director of Data Science, CHAOSS

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3C

Open Source Leadership

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:35pm MDT

Open Source as a Business Imperative: Leveraging PEST Analysis for Strategic Alignment - Kazumi Sato & Masayuki Kuwata, Sony Group Corporation

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3G

Open source has become a critical component of modern business strategy, yet its importance has often been overlooked in traditional strategic discussions. This presentation demonstrates how PEST analysis can be used to clarify its strategic value.

We validated Sony's history with open source initiatives in electronics, gaming, and film production, this analysis shows how these efforts aligned with favorable external factors. This provides insights into how open source drives innovation and talent acquisition.

Looking forward, this presentation explores how companies can strategically align their open source initiatives with current political, economic, social, and technological trends. This includes understanding the impact of emerging regulations, generative AI, and the evolution of distributed collaboration.

Participants gain valuable insights into the strategic importance of open source and learn how to effectively advocate for open source initiatives within their organizations. This presentation offers practical tips for engaging both management and engineers in open source activities, ensuring that open source becomes a key driver of business success.

Speakers

Kazumi SATO

Chief Software Engineer, Chief Open Source Strategist, Distinguished Engineer, Sony Group Corporation

Kazumi SATO is a Distinguished Engineer in Sony. He has been working on Linux-based system software for various Sony products. He also has been working on OSS compliance and relationship with communities in Sony Group. Since 2002, when Sony started to use Linux, he has been leading... Read More →

Masayuki Kuwata

Senior Manager, Sony Group Corporation

Masayuki Kuwata is the OSPO leader of Sony Group Corporation since April 2022. Previously worked on developing embedded software for camcorders and cameras. Currently leading the open source strategy across business units. Organizer of Japan OSPO Local Meetup in Japanese, supported... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:35pm - 4:15pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3G

OSPOCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:55pm MDT

Securing OIDC Federation in CI/CD Workflows - Billy Lynch, Chainguard

Monday June 23, 2025 3:55pm - 4:15pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3B

OIDC and workload identity are fantastic ways to improve the security of CI/CD workflows. They offer a mechanism to get rid of traditional long lived keys and access tokens, with many APIs offering ways to use these tokens across environments.

However, the security of identity federation is only as strong as the policies that back them. If used incorrectly, it can be exploited to gain access to sensitive resources and potentially compromise your supply chain to use your own CI/CD platform against you.

In this talk we'll do a deep dive on OIDC and identity federation. We'll look at some of the common risks that come while using it, and strategies to help secure your environment and define strong security policies.

Speakers

Billy Lynch

Staff Software Engineer, Chainguard

Billy is a staff software engineer at Chainguard, working on developer tools and securing software supply chains for everyone! He is a contributor and maintainer to the Sigstore, Tekton, and gittuf projects, and is the creator of gitsign. Prior to working at Chainguard, Billy worked... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:55pm - 4:15pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3B

cdCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MDT

How We Progressively Deliver Changes To Kubernetes Using Canary Deployments and Feature Flags - Bob Walker, Octopus Deploy

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 4:50pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3B

This is the case study of how we changed how we ship software.

With thousands of customers, each in their own Kubernetes container, deploying updates was tough. Off-hours schedules meant it took over 24 hours to push a new version. If something broke, we had to scramble. Canary deployments let us update small groups of customers at a time. We built a tool to stop rollouts fast when issues appeared, limiting the damage.

In the past, new features went to everyone at once. Rolling back wasn't an option. If something failed it'd leave customers stuck in the mess. Now, using OpenFeature, we hide new functionality behind feature flags. We release features to small groups, gather feedback, and test internally for weeks. If things go wrong, we flip the flag off and move on.

This two-pronged approach lets us avoid risky big-bang releases. We went from deploying every 10 days to every 4, with fewer than 1% high-severity defects. Most of these are resolved before customers notice them.

Speakers

Bob Walker

Field CTO, Octopus Deploy

Bob Walker is a Field CTO Octopus Deploy. Bob started as a developer in the early days of .NET when web forms were the hottest new thing, and manual deployments were the norm. After one too many five-hour 2 AM Saturday deployments, he searched for any automation to stop that pain... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 4:50pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3B

cdCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MDT

Harnessing Observability for 5G Performance: eBPF and OpenTelemetry Innovations - Fatih E. Nar & Jamie Parker, Red Hat

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2G

This session explores the integration of eBPF and OpenTelemetry (OTel) for achieving unparalleled observability and performance in 5G networks. By leveraging the K8s Operator framework, we demonstrate the Kubernetes-native deployment of advanced observability tools, including the bpfman stack for managing eBPF programs and the OpenTelemetry Operator for scalable telemetry pipelines. Participants will gain actionable insights into optimizing 5G Cloud Native Network Functions (CNFs) through precise observability, robust performance metrics, and real-time diagnostics, while ensuring security and multi-tenancy.

Speakers

Fatih E. Nar

Distinguished Architect, Red Hat

Fatih E. NAR brings extensive experience and influence to Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes ecosystems. His contributions drive progressive development and foster a robust TME community. With a background at Google, Verizon Wireless, Canonical Ubuntu, and Ericsson, Fatih's diverse... Read More →

Jamie Parker

Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Jamie Parker is a Product Manager at Red Hat who specializes in Observability, particularly in the Logging and OpenStack areas. At Red Hat, Jamie works with organizations and customers to learn about their needs within the ever changing Observability landscape, and based on their... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2G

Cloud + Containers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MDT

A Deep Dive Into eBPF Program Loader - Cong Wang, Independent

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2E

As eBPF continues to revolutionize Linux observability and networking, the complexity of its program loading mechanism has evolved significantly.

This technical deep dive unravels the sophisticated machinery behind eBPF program loading, exploring the intricate interplay between userspace loader and Linux kernel verifier. We'll dissect the eBPF program relocation mechanisms, examine the role of BTF (BPF Type Format) in enabling strong typing and verification capabilities, and analyze the complex choreography of bpf() syscalls that bridge userspace and kernel operations. Finally, we will also discuss the security implications and program signing challenges in the loading pipeline.

Speakers

Cong Wang

Linux Kernel Engineer, Self Employed

Cong Wang is a professional Linux kernel developer mainly focuses on networking and eBPF, he is also a Linux kernel maintainer for the networking traffic control subsystem. He has contributed over 1000 patches to Linux kernel.

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2E

Linux

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MDT

Generative AI Model Data Pre-Training on Kubernetes: A Use Case Study - Anish Asthana, Red Hat & Mohammad Nassar, IBM

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2C

Large Language Models (LLM) require preprocessing vast amounts of data, a process that can span days due to its complexity and scale, often involving PetaBytes of data. This talk demonstrates how Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP) simplify LLM data processing with flexibility, repeatability, and scalability. These pipelines are being used daily at IBM Research to build indemnified LLMs tailored for enterprise applications.

Different data preparation toolkits are built on Kubernetes, Rust, Slurm, or Spark. How would you choose one for your own LLM experiments or enterprise use cases and why should you consider Kubernetes and KFP?

This talk describes how open source Data Prep Toolkit leverages KFP and KubeRay for scalable pipeline orchestration, e.g. deduplication, content classification, and tokenization.

We share challenges, lessons, and insights from our experience with KFP, highlighting its applicability for diverse LLM tasks, such as data preprocessing, RAG retrieval, and model fine-tuning.

Speakers

Mohammad Nassar

Research Engineer, IBM

Mohammad Nassar, a Cloud Research Engineer at IBM Haifa, specializes in AI-driven data engineering, automation, and hybrid cloud technologies. With an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Technion, his research focused on coding theory and data systems. His work spans AI-powered data preparation... Read More →

Anish Asthana

Engineering Manager, Red Hat

Anish is an engineering manager at Red Hat in the OpenShift AI organization. He is working on making machine learning easier for the wider community by building a platform out with cloud capabilities at the core. Most recently, his interests have been focused on the Distributed Workloads... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2C

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MDT

What Do Legislations Have To Do With Tackling Maintainer Burnout? - Ildiko Vancsa, Open Infrastructure Foundation

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3C

Anyone who’s participated in an open source project before likely saw or experienced the challenge of having more requests coming in than people to attend to them, leading to frustrated, tired and burned out people. The latest regulatory efforts around the globe (the forming Securing OSS Act, CRA, and more), as different governments have come to the realization that their digital infrastructure undeniably depends on OSS, will put an increased pressure on the open source ecosystem. But, it doesn’t have to be like this! So, where do we go from here?

In this presentation, Ildiko will focus on two big areas: maintainer burnout and shortage and governments’ approach to open source around the globe, including legislations and regulations. With an overview of the current state of affairs, she will transition into highlighting the roles and responsibilities of the different players in the landscape, including open source foundations, communities, companies and governments, and next steps to take.

Speakers

Ildiko Vancsa

Director of Community, Open Infrastructure Foundation

As Director of Community at the OpenInfra Foundation, Ildikó is the Community Manager for the StarlingX and the Kata Containers projects, and a co-leader of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group. Ildikó has been contributing to projects like OpenStack, Anuket and State of the Edge... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3C

Open Source Leadership

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MDT

Enhancing SBOM Generation: Filling the Gaps To Make Actionable SBOMs - Ian Dunbar-Hall, Lockheed Martin & Gary O'Neall, Source Auditor Inc.

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3F

Most developers generating SBOMs use a tool like Syft or Trivy and yell “SHIP IT!” While this might generate an NTIA Minimum Field adherent SBOM, it often lacks information that truly makes it actionable for downstream users.

This talk covers the work of a CISA SBOM Community Tiger Team who created SBOM Generation Reference Implementations for multiple languages and scenarios. We will discuss the distinct phases of SBOM generation and highlighting how each step contributes to a more robust and actionable SBOM. By expanding the SBOM authoring process, organizations can better integrate multiple data sources, enhance metadata accuracy, and customize their workflows to align with evolving security frameworks. This approach enables tool interchangeability while maintaining data integrity and transparency.

Additionally, we will explore implementations, including the integration of SBOM generation into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and GitLab, supporting multiple programming languages, and ensuring interoperability with both CycloneDX and SPDX formats. We will also discuss ecosystem challenges such as supplier identification, license consistency, and benchmarking completeness.

Speakers

Ian Dunbar-Hall

Open Source Program Office, Lockheed Martin

Ian is a holds the position of Chief Engineer for Lockheed Martin Software Factory and specializes in DevSecOps and full stack engineering. Additionally he is a maintainer on SBOMit and an OpenSSF Governing Board General Member Representative.

Gary O'Neall

Founder and Principal Consultant, Source Auditor Inc.

Gary is a contributor to the Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX™) - an open standard for communicating software bill of material information, including components, licenses, copyrights, and security references. Gary has contributed several open source tools.Gary O’Neall is... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3F

OpenGovCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm MDT

Docs That Scale: Strategies for Sustainable Documentation in Open Source Projects. - Zainab Daodu, WriteTech Hub

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3D

When documentation becomes outdated, projects lose contributors, support burdens increase, and adoption slows. Yet, many open-source projects struggle with maintaining accurate docs as the codebase evolves.

This session presents five proven strategies to turn documentation from a pain point into a sustainable asset:

Integrate Docs into Development: Treat docs like code, updating them alongside new features through PR workflows and docs-driven development.

Establish Governance: Assign documentation ownership with roles like a rotating "Docs Steward" and regular audits to maintain quality.

Master Versioning: Align docs with software releases, automating updates for deprecated features or breaking changes

Leverage Automation: Use tools to validate content, detect outdated material, and auto-generate sections like API docs

Build a Documentation Culture: Create a contributor-friendly environment with templates, recognition, and clear entry points for first-time contributors

Instead of theory, you'll get adaptable frameworks and real-world examples that work across any tech stack. Leave with actionable workflows that make documentation maintenance less painful and more impactful.

Speakers

Zainab Daodu

Senior Technical Writer, WriteTech Hub

Zainab Daodu is a Senior Technical Writer with a background in software engineering and DevOps, specializing in turning complex tech into clear, impactful documentation. She has worked with Google, Cisco, Tealium, Jenkins, and Wikimedia Foundation, enhancing developer experiences... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 4:30pm - 5:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3D

Technical Documentation

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

6:00pm MDT

Lightning Talk: From Fork To Foundation: The OpenSearch Journey To the Linux Foundation - Dotan Horovits, AWS

Monday June 23, 2025 6:00pm - 6:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3C

Building and managing a successful open source project is no small feat, especially when it begins as a fork born out of the need to preserve openness. OpenSearch started as a response to the relicensing of Elasticsearch and Kibana, and over the years, it has grown into a vibrant, community-driven ecosystem. This year’s milestone of joining The Linux Foundation highlights the project’s commitment to open governance, collaboration, and long-term sustainability.

In this session, we’ll share the lessons learned from OpenSearch’s journey, exploring the strategies behind building a healthy, scalable, and inclusive open source community. From establishing clear governance models to fostering innovation with features like vector search and AI-powered capabilities, we’ll provide actionable insights for maintaining momentum and trust in open source projects.

Whether you’re starting a new open source initiative or managing an existing one, this talk offers a practical guide to navigating challenges, ensuring community alignment, and achieving long-term impact—just as OpenSearch has done.

Speakers

Dotan Horovits

Sr. Developer Advocate for OpenSearch, AWS

Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as a CNCF Ambassador, and host of the popular OpenObservability Talks podcast. With over 20 years in the tech industry he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud and cloud-native solutions, DevOps practices and more... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 6:00pm - 6:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3C

Open Source Leadership

Audience Experience Level Intermediate