Open Source Summit North America 2025: Full Schedule

June 23 - 25, 2025
Denver, Colorado
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3:05pm MDT

Ask the Expert Session Tim Bird, Sony Electronics, on Kernel Boot-time, Automated Testing, or the Overall Status of Embedded Linux

Monday June 23, 2025 3:05pm - 3:35pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Tim about kernel boot-time, automated testing, or the overall status of embedded Linux.

No sign-up necessary - just stop by the round tables in the Blue Bird Foyer - Space behind the escalators.

Speakers

Tim Bird

Principal Software Engineer, Sony Electronics

Tim Bird is a Principal Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony use Linux and other open source software in their products. Tim is the organizer of the Linux Boot-Time Special Interest Group and is involved with various Linux Foundation projects (including being... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:05pm - 3:35pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Experts

3:05pm MDT

Ask the Expert Session with Hema Veeradhi, Red Hat, on LLMs and Agents

Monday June 23, 2025 3:05pm - 3:35pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Hena about LLMs and Agents.

No sign-up necessary - just stop by the round tables in the Blue Bird Foyer - Space behind the escalators.

Speakers

Hema Veeradhi

Principal Data Scientist, Red Hat

Hema Veeradhi is a Principal Data Scientist working in the Emerging Technologies team part of the office of the CTO at Red Hat. Her work primarily focuses on implementing innovative open AI and machine learning solutions to help solve business and engineering problems. Hema is a staunch... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:05pm - 3:35pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Experts

3:05pm MDT

Ask the Expert Session with Jim Beyers, CVS Health, on Providing a Developer Experience

Monday June 23, 2025 3:05pm - 3:35pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Jim about about providing a developer experience to elevate and accelerate a large and diverse enterprise.

No sign-up necessary - just stop by the round tables in the Blue Bird Foyer - Space behind the escalators.

Speakers

Jim Beyers

Vice President of Developer Experience, CVS Health

Jim is passionate practitioner with respect to Developer Productivity through abstraction and Product Engineering. His career has provided him with unique insights that has reinforced his commitment to self-service, toil reduction and friction elimination, and practices value through... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:05pm - 3:35pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Experts

3:05pm MDT

Speaker Office Hours

Monday June 23, 2025 3:05pm - 3:35pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speakers

Walt Miner

Senior Director, AGL Community and Project Manager, The Linux Foundation

Walt Miner is the Senior Director of Community at The Linux Foundation and has served as Community Manager for Automotive Grade Linux since 2014. Walt has spoken at numerous conferences throughout the worlds and brings over 30 years of embedded software development and management... Read More →

David Brown

Senior Engineer, Linaro

David Brown is part of Linaro, and has worked on the Linux kernel, with a focus on security for a number of years. Recently, he has been focusing on security as it relates to IoT and embedded devices, including focusing on secure booting, and secure network communications. He is currently... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 3:05pm - 3:35pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours

10:30am MDT

Speaker Office Hours

Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours is an opportunity for attendees to connect with subject matter experts to ask questions and seek guidance. The set-up is informal, with speakers sitting at reserved tables in an “open-office” setting. Participating speakers will be available during breaks allowing attendees to ‘drop by’ to talk to them during those times.

Tuesday 10:30 – 11:00 AM
Divya Mohan - Topic Discussion: Growing Communities around Open Source projects
Euan Harris - Topic Discussion: Containerization, build system integration, developer experience, and the open source Swift ecosystem
Georg Link - Topic Discussion: Metrics and measures about open source project health
Marcel Ziswiler - Topic Discussion: Embedded Linux from A to Z
Syed Usman Ahmad - Topic Discussion: Using the Low code No code approach to built dashboards
Tatsushi Inagaki - Topic Discussion: Why Confidential Containers is important for CI/CD security

Speakers

Divya Mohan

Principal Technology Advocate, SUSE

Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, where she contributes to and advocates for its open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for the Kubernetes & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure with HSBC & IGate Global... Read More →

Euan Harris

Software Engineer, Apple

Euan builds cloud services and infrastructure using Swift at Apple. He enjoys working with containers, virtual machines, networks and interesting programming languages.Previously, Euan helped maintain Docker Swarm's overlay networking and HTTP ingress, and contributed to XenServer's... Read More →

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 →

Marcel Ziswiler

Senior Software Engineer, Codethink

In 2024 Marcel Ziswiler joined Codethink. Before, he spearheaded Toradex' Embedded Linux adoption. His intro of an upstream first policy led to being a top 10 U-Boot as well as Linux kernel Arm SoC contributor. He has broad experience in designing real-time and mobile applications... Read More →

Syed Usman Ahmad

Staff Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany and works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.He has over 15 years of experience in IT and Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over EU, US and Japan.He... Read More →

Tatsushi Inagaki

Staff Research Scientist, IBM

Tatsushi is working on research to enhance the security of IBM Z. He contributed to various open source projects. He is recently contributing to Confidential Containers, which is a sandbox project of Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours

3:45pm MDT

Ask the Expert Session Mary Grygleski, Callibrity, on Data Streaming, Agentic Workflow for Generative AI Apps

Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Mary about data streaming, agentic workflow for generative AI apps.

No sign-up necessary - just stop by the round tables in the Blue Bird Foyer - Space behind the escalators.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Experts

3:45pm MDT

Ask the Expert Session Sarah Evans, Dell Technologies, on Extending Software Supply Chain Security to AI Applications

Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Sarah about extending software supply chain security to AI applications (data + model + code).

No sign-up necessary - just stop by the round tables in the Blue Bird Foyer - Space behind the escalators.

Speakers

Sarah Evans

Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies

Sarah is a security innovation researcher, leveraging diverse experiences as an IT and security practitioner to improve security by design in emerging technologies. Prior to Dell, Sarah has had roles at in the finance, defense, manufacturing and education industries. Sarah also contributes... Read More →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Experts

3:45pm MDT

Ask the Expert Session with Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net, on Kernel Documentation, Kernel History, and LWN

Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Jon about kernel documentation, kernel history, and LWN.

No sign-up necessary - just stop by the round tables in the Blue Bird Foyer - Space behind the escalators.

Speakers

Jonathan Corbet

Executive editor, LWN.net

Jonathan Corbet is the kernel documentation maintainer, co-founder of

Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Experts

3:45pm MDT

Speaker Office Hours

Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speakers

Dotan Horovits

Senior Developer Advocate, AWS OpenSearch

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Developer Advocate, DevOps Specialist, Open Source Evangelist)

Masae Shida

Staff Technical Program Manager, VMware (Broadcom)

Masae is a Staff Open Source Program Manager leading the company’s open source business and community strategy alignment. Previously she led numerous programs including large-scale DX/IT transformations as part of M&A at Cisco, security/compliance process implementation and consumer... Read More →

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 →

Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours

10:20am MDT

Speaker Office Hours

Wednesday June 25, 2025 10:20am - 11:00am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours is an opportunity for attendees to connect with subject matter experts to ask questions and seek guidance. The set-up is informal, with speakers sitting at reserved tables in an “open-office” setting. Participating speakers will be available during breaks allowing attendees to ‘drop by’ to talk to them during those times.

Wednesday 10:20 – 11:00 AM
Andrew McNamara - Topic Discussion: Supply chain security, build platforms, policy evaluation for provenance
Daniel Moch - Topic Discussion: Using open source tools to build systems that enhance software supply chain security
Frank Vasquez - Topic Discussion: Yocto, eBPF, OTA updates, containerized updates, systemd, TPM 2.0, secure boot, full disk encryption, Python, gRPC, microservices, infrastructure as code
Lin Sun - Topic Discussion: Cloud Native, service mesh, growing women in open source
Peter Kourzanov - Topic Discussion: Decentralization, peer-to-peer training and inference, distributed chain of thought
Roman Zhukov - Topic Discussion: Open-Source x Security

Speakers

Andrew McNamara

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Andrew McNamara is passionate about usable CI/CD, security, and DevSecOps, drawing from his experience of building and shipping containerized software at IBM and Red Hat. As a SLSA maintainer, Andrew is helping people identify how to approach and understand supply chain security... Read More →

Daniel Moch

Staff Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin

For over 20 years, Daniel has worked as a software engineer in the Defense and Aerospace industry. His experience ranges from embedded device drivers to large logistics and information systems. In recent years, he has focused on helping legacy programs adopt modern DevOps practices... Read More →

Frank Vasquez

Technical Author and Independent Consultant, Packt

Frank Vasquez is a software engineer and published author with over a decade of experience designing and building embedded Linux systems. During that time, he has shipped numerous products including a rackmount DSP audio server, a diver-held sonar camcorder, a consumer IoT hotspot... Read More →

Lin Sun

Head of Open Source & CNCF TOC, Solo.io

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical... Read More →

Peter Kourzanov

Principal member of technical staff, IMEC

Having started my professional career into CS (at TUDelft DBMS) I moved towards RT & streaming systems for CE (architecture & infra group at Philips Research). Dataflow compiler & middleware project got me further into the DSPs and models for radio & radar transceivers - the focus... Read More →

Roman Zhukov

Principal Security Community Architect, Red Hat

Practicing cybersecurity expert, engineer and manager (17+ years). Currently - Principal Security & Community Architect at Red Hat. Formerly - Head of Product Security & Privacy for Data Center & AI SW at Intel. Roman has broad experience from security architecture & threat modelling... Read More →

Wednesday June 25, 2025 10:20am - 11:00am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours

3:45pm MDT

Ask the Expert Session with Daniel Borkmann, Isovalent at Cisco, on eBPF & Cilium

Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Daniel about eBPF & Cilium.

No sign-up necessary - just stop by the round tables in the Blue Bird Foyer - Space behind the escalators.

Speakers

Daniel Borkmann

Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

Daniel Borkmann co-created eBPF and is a kernel developer at Isovalent working on eBPF, the Linux kernel and Cilium. He is a long-term Linux kernel core contributor in the eBPF and networking subsystem for over a decade and co-maintains eBPF and XDP. In his spare time, he loves to... Read More →

Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Experts

3:45pm MDT

Ask the Expert Session with Lin Sun, Solo.io, about Cloud Native, Service Mesh, Gateway or AI Agents

Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Expert Session: Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions!

Ask Sun about about cloud native, service mesh, gateway or AI agents.

No sign-up necessary - just stop by the round tables in the Blue Bird Foyer - Space behind the escalators.

Speakers

Lin Sun

Head of Open Source & CNCF TOC, Solo.io

Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Ask the Experts

3:45pm MDT

Speaker Office Hours

Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours is an opportunity for attendees to connect with subject matter experts to ask questions and seek guidance. The set-up is informal, with speakers sitting at reserved tables in an “open-office” setting. Participating speakers will be available during breaks allowing attendees to ‘drop by’ to talk to them during those times.

Wednesday 3:45 – 4:20 PM

Jeff Shapiro & Gary O'Neall - Topic Discussion: Generating and using SBOMs and Open Source License Best Practices
Kevin Zhao - Topic Discussion: Arm Confidential Computing Architecture(CCA) software enablement status and plan
Ildiko Vancsa - Topic Discussion: Career advice, following up on the topic of this panel proposal
Sriram Panyam - Topic Discussion: Large Scale System Design, Software Engineering Interviews, Distributed Systems, Career Development, Engineering Leadership

Speakers

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 →

Jeff Shapiro

Director of License Scanning, The Linux Foundation

Jeff Shapiro is the Director of License Scanning for The Linux Foundation. He has 30 years of experience in the software industry, including 10 years in software auditing, open source scanning, and training developers in OSS license compliance.

Kevin Zhao

Senior Tech Lead, Linaro

Kevin Zhao is currently the tech lead at Linaro Data Center Group. He has been working on Arm server ecosystem for more than 8 years, including the open source IAAS solutions, distribute storage and confidential computing. Now, he is actively working on Arm Confidential Computing... Read More →

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 →

Sriram Panyam

Chief Architect and Founding Engineer, Independent

As an engineering leader who's conducted 100s of technical interviews, I've seen exceptional talent fail due to the mysterious nature of system design interviews. I've built large-scale distributed systems and mentored engineers through the bewildering interview process at top tech... Read More →

Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

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