11:20am • Leveraging the OPEA Platform and GraphRAG Architectures To Drive Cloud-Native AI Adoption - Stephen Chin, Neo4j & Ezequiel Lanza, Intel
1:30pm • The Generative AI Commons: Unlocking Potential Through Collaboration and Transparency - Arnaud Le Hors, IBM
2:25pm • Beaconforge.org, Open Agentic AI for Hallucination Mitigation - Diego Gosmar, Voiceinteroperability.ai, LF AI and Data
3:35pm • What’s New in Valkey - Madelyn Olson, Amazon & Ping Xie, Google
4:30pm • Generative AI Model Data Pre-Training on Kubernetes: A Use Case Study - Anish Asthana, Red Hat & Mohammad Nassar, IBM
11:20am • The Power of Consolidation: A Unified Stack for Business Intelligence, Security, and Observability - Josh Lee, Altinity, Inc. & Mya Jaye, C8 Labs
1:30pm • Gopher Meets Crab: A Rust Journey in Cloud Native - Phil Estes, AWS
2:25pm • EdgeLake: Extending the Cloud To the Edge – an LF Edge Project - Moshe Shadmon, AnyLog
3:35pm • A Brief History of Kubernetes Fleet Controllers & Essential Features - Mickael Alliel, Komodor
4:30pm • Harnessing Observability for 5G Performance: eBPF and OpenTelemetry Innovations - Fatih E. Nar & Jamie Parker, Red Hat
5:30pm • BoF: Travel Retail Disruption using Open Source - Stu Waldron, Open Travel Alliance
11:20am • State of the CD Foundation - Dadisi Sanyika, CDF Governing Board Chair, Apple
1:30pm • Implementing Zero Trust Security in Jenkins Pipelines With Open Source Tools - Steve Taylor, DeployHub, Inc
1:50pm • A Secure Tekton Task by Using Confidential Containers - Tatsushi Inagaki, IBM
2:25pm • Securing the Software Supply Chain: Integrating OpenSSF Scorecard, Jenkins, and the Ortelius Project - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, Inc
2:45pm • Lock the Chef in the Kitchen: Enabling Accurate SBOMs Via Hermetic Builds - Adam Cmiel, Red Hat
3:35pm • Reducing the Risk of Source Tampering With SLSA - Tom Hennen, Google
3:55pm • Securing OIDC Federation in CI/CD Workflows - Billy Lynch, Chainguard
4:30pm • How We Progressively Deliver Changes To Kubernetes Using Canary Deployments and Feature Flags - Bob Walker, Octopus Deploy
4:50pm • Session to be Announced
11:20am • Who Will Maintain the Future? Tackling the Graying of Open Source Software - Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, GitHub
1:30pm • 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
2:25pm • 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
3:35pm • Panel Discussion: The Impact of Funding for Sustainable Open Source Projects - Georg Link, Bitergia; Andrew Nesbitt, Ecosyste.ms; Dawn Foster, CHAOSS
4:30pm • What Do Legislations Have To Do With Tackling Maintainer Burnout? - Ildiko Vancsa, Open Infrastructure Foundation
5:30pm • Lightning Talk: Lessons Learned From 10 Years of Automotive Grade Linux - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation
5:45pm • Lightning Talk: LF Energy SEAPATH : Building an Open Source Ecosystem for the Energy Industry - Christophe Villemer, Savoir-faire Linux
6:00pm • Lightning Talk: From Fork To Foundation: The OpenSearch Journey To the Linux Foundation - Dotan Horovits, AWS
11:20am • BoF: Collaboration with Universities and Enterprises OSPO - Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University; Stephanie Liegg, UC Santa Cruz; Nithya Ruff, Amazon; Natali Vlatko, Cisco
1:30pm • Alignment of Community Contributions and Business Goals - How Can Your OSPO Help? - Masae Shida, VMware (Broadcom)
2:25pm • The Role of Package Managers as Partners in License and Attribution Compliance - Damián Vicino, Datadog Inc.
3:35pm • Open Source as a Business Imperative: Leveraging PEST Analysis for Strategic Alignment - Kazumi Sato & Masayuki Kuwata, Sony Group Corporation
4:30pm • TODO Steering Committee - Management & OSPO Ask Anything - Brittany Istenes, FINOS Ambassador, ToDo Group Steering Committee; Natali Vlatko, Cisco; Georg Kunz, Ericsson; Ashley Wolf, GitHub; Stephen Augustus, Bloomberg L.P.; Annania Melaku, F5
9:00am • Welcome Back
9:10am • Keynote to be Announced
9:30am • Keynote: Shannon Dosemagen, Founder and Senior Fellow, Open Environmental Data Project
9:45am • Keynote: Ten Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority - Josh Aas, Executive Director, ISRG
9:50am • Keynote: Security, Critical Infrastructure, and Community: How the Three Shall Meet - Phil Robb, Head of Ericsson Software Technologies
9:55am • Keynote: OpenSearch 3.0 and Lucene 10, Paving the Way for AI and Vector Innovation - Andrew Ross, Principal Engineer, AWS
10:05am • Keynote: Manik Surtani, Head of Open Source, Block
11:00am • Panel Discussion: The Technical Talent Market in 2025: Fortifying for AI, Cybersecurity, and Regulatory Compliance - Anna Hermansen, Clyde Seepersad & Adrienn Lawson, The Linux Foundation & Christopher Robinson, OpenSSF
11:55am • Wait, So Now You're Telling Me We Need FGA? - Carla Urrea Stabile, Auth0
2:10pm • Valkey in Telecom: Leveraging Open Source for Unique Needs and Greater Community Benefits - David Östman & Viktor Söderqvist, Ericsson Software Technology
3:05pm • Solving the Phantom Dependency Problem for Python Packages - Seth Larson, Python Software Foundation
4:20pm • Your Silent Software Saboteur: Open Source Malware - Brian Fox, Sonatype
11:00am • Unleashing the Power of Mutation Testing: Supercharging Software Quality and Resilience - Emma Taylor, SciTec
11:20am • CD Demands Continuous Testing: Why We Built a Testing Platform Layer on ECS Using Spinnaker - Jaime G. O'Byrne, JPMorgan Chase and Co
11:55am • Who Are You Building For: Pipelines Have a Purpose - Andrew McNamara & Julen Landa Alustiza, Red Hat
12:15pm • Standardizing CI/CD Observability: Insights From the OpenTelemetry CI/CD SIG - Dotan Horovits, AWS
12:35pm • Cybersecurity with CDF & OpenSFF Focus Group
2:10pm • Your Deployments Are Lying. AI Knows - Seema Saharan, Autodesk & Aditya Soni, Forrester Research
2:30pm • Intelligent CI/CD Pipelines: Leveraging AI/ML for Predictive Failure Detection - Aishwarya Sharma, Amdocs; Anindita Tripathy, VMWare; Shubham Parasher, Dream11
3:05pm • Transforming Software Development and Engineering Velocity at EBay With AI/ML in CI/CD - Aravind Kannan, eBay Inc. & Sanmeet Shikh, eBAy
3:35pm • Lightning Talk: Shift Left With AI: Smarter Code Reviews for DevOps Acceleration - Vaibhav Tupe & Shrinath Thube, Equinix
4:20pm • Session to be Announced
11:00am • Recipe for Discovery: Building the UC Open Source Repository Browser From Scratch - Juanita Gomez, University of California, Santa Cruz
11:55am • Stories From the Trenches: Effective Collaboration Between OSPOs and R&D Organizations - Georg Kunz & David Östman, Ericsson
2:10pm • Panel Discussion: It Takes a Village - The Case for a Versatile Open Source Workforce - Ildiko Vancsa, Open Infrastructure Foundation; Charles Eckel, Cisco Systems; Ray Paik, PingCAP; Ria Farrell Schalnat, HPE
3:05pm • Navigating FINTECH’s Regulatory Waters With InnerSource - Brittany Istenes, FINOS Ambassador, ToDo Group Steering Committee & Russell Rutledge, InnerSource Commons
4:20pm • The O[S]PO Organization for the Age of AI - Paul Holland, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
9:00am • Welcome Back
9:05am • Keynote: Ion Stoica, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Director of Sky Computing Lab; and a co-founder of Anyscale, Databricks, and Conviva Networks
9:25am • Keynote: Christopher “Crob” Robinson, Chief Security Architect, OpenSSF and Eddie Knight, OSPO Lead, Sonotype & FINOS TOC Chair
9:40am • Keynote: Jessica Forrester, Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect for AI Catalyst Engineering, Red Hat
9:55am • Keynote: Daniel Borkmann, Distinguished Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco and co-creator of eBPF and Cilium
11:00am • Turning Policies, Standards, and Governance Into Enablers for Open-Source Innovation - Mark Paulsen, TD Bank
11:20am • Unlocking Telco APIs: How Open Source Is Driving Standardization & Interoperability - Markus Kummerle, Deutsche Telekom
11:55am • Developing a Community-Driven Standard for Open Source Software Quality - Philipp Ahmann, Etas GmbH (BOSCH) & Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat
2:10pm • We Need a Standard for Open Source Package Requirements - Elitsa Bankova & Eve Martin-Jones, Google
3:05pm • Panel Discussion: Strengthening Software Supply Chains: Harmonizing SLSA Provenance and SPDX SBOM for Better Adoption - Mihai Maruseac, Google; Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation with Additional Panelist to be Announced
4:20pm • SBOMs in the Real World: Practical Guidance for Managing Three Common SBOM Scenarios - Cortez Frazier Jr., FOSSA
4:40pm • Expanding the OpenChain Standards Portfolio - More Sister Standards? - Shane Coughlan, The Linux Foundation
11:00am • From CDEvents To Actions: Designing the Workflow Conductor - Dadisi Sanyika & Ben Powell, Apple
11:20am • Event Provenance Registry: Continuous Delivery Events for the Electric Sheep - Brett Smith, SAS Institute, Inc.
11:55am • Navigating Compliance: What Developers Can Learn From Driving - Kadi McKean & Charlie Jones, ReversingLabs
12:15pm • Lightning Talk: Data, Dude, Where's My Maturity? Unleashing Auto-Measurement for Platforms and Services - Muktesh Mishra, Adobe
12:25pm • Lightning Talk: It's Friday! - Alon Nisser, Zencity
2:10pm • Managing Resources To Lower Costs - Mark Waite, CloudBees & Melissa McKay, JFrog
2:30pm • "The Missing Role: Why Platform Teams Need Design Leadership” - Luis Queral, The New York Times
3:05pm • Session to be Announced
4:20pm • cdCon Closing & Award Ceremony
11:00am • The Accidental Maintainer: Sideways Stories Into Open Source Leadership - Divya Mohan, SUSE & Natali Vlatko, Cisco
11:55am • Funding Security in Open Source: Insights From FreeBSD’s Audit Journey - Deb Goodkin, FreeBSD Foundation & Michael Winser, Alpha-Omega
2:10pm • The Work No One Notices—Until It’s Missing: Scaling Open Source Community Teams - Elizabeth Barron, CHAOSS
3:05pm • Panel Discussion: Build a Great Business on Open Source Without Selling Your Soul - Robert Hodges, Altinity; Ann Schlemmer, Percona; Tatiana Krupenya, DBeaver
4:20pm • Panel Discussion: Removing the Walls Around the Garden: Why the Time Has Come To Disrupt Mobile Application Development - Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation; Saurabh Goyal, Open Mobile Hub; Richard Sikang Bian, Ant Group
11:00am • Guarding the LLM Galaxy: Security, Privacy, and Guardrails in the AI Era - Jigyasa Grover, BORDO AI & Rishabh Misra, Attentive Mobile Inc
11:55am • Fast Inference, Furious Scaling: Leveraging VLLM With KServe - Rafael Vasquez, IBM
2:10pm • Building Your (Local) LLM Second Brain - Olivia Buzek, IBM
3:05pm • AI Pipelines With OPEA: Best Practices for Cloud Native ML Operations - Ezequiel Lanza, Intel & Melissa McKay, JFrog
4:20pm • Scalable and Efficient LLM Serving With the VLLM Production Stack - Junchen Jiang, University of Chicago & Yue Zhu, IBM Research
