Open Source Summit North America 2025

Join the TODO Group and CURIOSS community for an interactive session where attendees can share use cases on how their organizations are investing in academic research. Explore practices for transferring knowledge from academia and the research community.

We welcome open source managers, OSPO leaders, and other stakeholders from organizations and universities engaged in research or interested to learn more.

Today it’s nearly impossible to build software without open source. Some projects are massively popular, and quite often used in multiple products within the same organization. But are we all collaborating on these projects in ways that are aligned across the company? Here your OSPO can help your organization work towards the same goals.
Which open source projects are built into your product portfolio? Who in your organization is contributing to these projects? How do you know your contributions are not impeding each other?
Broader involvement should occur in a coordinated and thoughtful manner across the key projects. Having a united front within open source communities will help your organization drive consistent and effective contributions.
The talk will cover:
● How can your OSPO help coordinate contributions across the organization?
● How can you identify your company’s strategic open source projects?
● How can we ensure these projects will continue to be viable and sustainable?
The audience will learn how an OSPO can enable more efficient and effective contributions to open source projects in ways that are aligned with both their business and community goals.

Package managers are essential to modern software development, simplifying dependency management but often hiding transitive changes. This has led to large, shifting dependency trees with little oversight.

Despite evolving independently, most package managers follow a similar model: fetching software and metadata. However, the format, quantity, and quality of this metadata vary significantly.

With heterogeneous language stacks on the rise, OSPOs struggle to manage these differences, making compliance an ongoing challenge.

This talk explores different package managers, the compliance data they provide, and highlights good practices from each. Finally, it proposes how the OSPO community can break silos between ecosystems, encouraging convergence on non-language-specific metadata and practices. This, in turn, will streamline compliance work and strengthen the open source ecosystem as a whole.

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.

This Ask Anything session connects attendees to the TODO Group Steering Committee. The TODO Group is an open community of practitioners who aim to create, share knowledge and collaborate on best practices on open source management in organizations to run successful Open Source Program Offices.

Members of the steering committee will assist the audience through the best practices, guides, and tools made by and for open source managers to help them in their day-to-day responsibilities, as well as share their first-hand experiences and lessons learned in building and operating OSPOs. Additionally, attendees will learn ways to connect with the TODO Group – the largest OSPO community dedicated to building best practices in open source management. The session will also provide information on accessing OSPO mentorship in their local regions.