Open Source Summit North America 2025

For the past three years, LF Education has partnered with LF Research to produce a yearly State of Tech Talent report surveying hiring and training managers to capture trends in the IT talent market. The 2025 study, which will go live at Open Source Summit North America, explores AI’s impact on organizational operations and developers; the fastest-growing areas of job responsibility; and compliance shifts from policies like the Cyber Resilience Act. In this session, the LF Research team will host a discussion of this year’s study findings, with panelists from LF Education and OpenSSF sharing their expertise on hiring and training to address cybersecurity concerns, regulatory compliance, AI, and more. In discussing the findings of the study, this session will describe how the community is grappling with resourcing amidst the new and shifting priorities in this landscape, from AI to Cybersecurity to platform engineering. The session will deliver insight on how the open source community can take the findings of the study to fortify its organizations and people for the market in 2025 and beyond and maintain relevance among economic, regulatory, and technological changes.