9:00am • Welcome & Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
9:45am • Keynote: Rebuilding Trust: A FAIR Path Forward for WordPress and Open Source - Karim Marucchi, CEO, Crowd Favorite & Joost de Valk, Founding Partner, Emilia Capital and Founder, Yoast
10:00am • Keynote: The Economic Value of Open Source - Frank Nagle, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School & Chief Economist, The Linux Foundation
10:20am • Keynote: The Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol - Mike Smith, Staff Software Engineer, Google
10:30am • Keynote: Living on the Edge: From Chicken Sandwiches to the Danger Zone - Brian Chambers, Chief Architect, Chick-fil-A & Michael Henry, Chief of Information Technology, Secretariat of the Air Force, Studies and Analysis
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 • 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 • CD Demands Continuous Testing: Why We Built a Testing Platform Layer on ECS Using Spinnaker - Jaime G. O'Byrne, JPMorgan Chase and Co
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 • Ask Anything: CD Foundation Edition - Dadisi Sanyika, CDF Governing Board Chair, Apple & Mark Waite, Jenkins Maintainer, CloudBees
5:30pm • BoF: Technical Deep Dive on Challenges getting to the Enterprise Edge - Brian Chambers, Chick-fil-A & Michael Henry, Secretariat of the Air Force, Studies and Analysis
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; Hilary Carter, 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; Alyssa Wright, Bloomberg
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 • D(ocs)&D(evelopment): Finding the Perfect Party for Your Documentation Campaign - Heds Simons & Kim Nylander, Grafana Labs
1:30pm • Lower the Barrier of Entry: Empowering Non-writer Contributions To Docs - Manny Silva, Skyflow
2:25pm • Radical Transparency: Lessons From Open-Sourcing Nearly All Company Documentation - Victor Lyuboslavsky, Fleet Device Management
3:35pm • Documenting the Design of the Linux Kernel - Chuck Wolber, The Boeing Company; Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundaiton; Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat
4:30pm • Docs That Scale: Strategies for Sustainable Documentation in Open Source Projects - Zainab Daodu, WriteTech Hub
5:30pm • Panel Discussion: Why the Time Has Come To Disrupt Mobile Application Development - Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation; Saurabh Goyal & Diego Zuluaga, Open Mobile Hub; Richard Sikang Bian, Ant Group; Hyo Chan Jang, Cross-Platform Korea & Daniel Goldschei
11:20am • EdgeLake-FL: An Automated Federated Learning Platform for the Edge - Ori Shadmon & Moshe Shadmon, AnyLog
1:30pm • Tutorial: From Planning To Production-Ready RAG With OPEA - Andreas Kollegger, Neo4j; Ezequiel Lanza, Rakshith Krishnappa & Katherine Druckman, Intel
3:35pm • The MODERN Modern Data Stack: Building an Open Distributed Data Warehouse Beyond Data Lakes - David Aronchick, Expanso
4:30pm • Universal AI: Execute Your Models Where Your Data (And Users) Are - David Aronchick, Expanso
5:30pm • Guarding the LLM Galaxy: Security, Privacy, and Guardrails in the AI Era - Jigyasa Grover, BORDO AI & Rishabh Misra, Attentive Mobile Inc
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 • Keynote: Welcome Back - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
9:05am • Keynote: Open Source as Endurance Infrastructure for Environmental Justice - Shannon Dosemagen, Founder and Senior Fellow, Open Environmental Data Project
9:25am • Keynote: An Open-Source Stack for AI Compute: Kubernetes + Ray + PyTorch + vLLM - Robert Nishihara, Co-Founder, Anyscale & Co-creator, Ray
9:45am • Keynote: Ten Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority - Josh Aas, Executive Director, ISRG
9:55am • Keynote: Security, Critical Infrastructure, and Community: How the Three Shall Meet - Phil Robb, Head of Ericsson Software Technologies
10:05am • Keynote: OpenSearch 3.0 and Lucene 10, Paving the Way for AI and Vector Innovation - Andrew Ross, Principal Engineer, AWS
10:15am • Keynote: Announcements & Raffle Drawing - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
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 • A Secure Tekton Task by Using Confidential Containers - Tatsushi Inagaki, IBM
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 & OpenSSF Focus Group
2:10pm • Your Deployments Are Lying. AI Knows - Seema Saharan, Autodesk & Aditya Soni, Forrester Research
2:30pm • Telemetry Showdown: Fluent Bit vs. OpenTelemetry Collector - A Comprehensive Benchmark Analysis - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
3:05pm • Transforming Software Development and Engineering Velocity at EBay With AI/ML in CI/CD - Aravind Kannan, eBay
3:25pm • Lightning Talk: One Year In: The State of the DataOps Initiative - Lisa Cao, Datastrato
3:35pm • Lightning Talk: Shift Left With AI: Smarter Code Reviews for DevOps Acceleration - Vaibhav Tupe, Equinix & Shrinath Thube, IBM
4:20pm • Practitioners' Panel - Bob Walker, Octopus Deploy; Brett Smith, SAS; Kate Scarcella, Cybersecurity Architect; Ben Powell, Apple, Melissa McKay, DevSecOps & MLOps Author/Speaker
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 • The Open Ecosystem for the Agentic Age - Kumaran Siva, Corporate Vice President, Server Business Unit & Joohi Mittal, AI Strategy Lead, Client Graphics Business Unit, AMD
9:25am • Keynote: All Your Base Are Belong to Us - Christopher “Crob” Robinson, Chief Security Architect, OpenSSF and Eddie Knight, OSPO Lead, Sonatype & FINOS TOC Chair
9:45am • Keynote: How Open Protocols Unleash AI’s Next Wave of Creativity and Impact - Jessica Forrester, Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect for AI Catalyst Engineering, Red Hat
9:50am • Keynote: Your Core Infrastructure Should Be Vendor Neutral and Open Source - Madelyn Olson, Software Engineer, Amazon
10:00am • Keynote: eBPF: Unlocking Innovation in the Linux Kernel - 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; Hasan Yasar, Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University; D
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 • Not Just Ticking a Box ☑️ Establishing Trust in Artifacts with Provenance 🔐🔗 - Andrew McNamara & Ralph Bean, Red Hat
2:10pm • Managing Resources To Lower Costs - Mark Waite, CloudBees & Melissa McKay, DevSecOps & MLOps Author/Speaker
2:30pm • Builds You (and Others) Can Trust: Meet the AMPEL Policy Engine - Adolfo García Veytia, Carabiner Systems, Inc
3:05pm • cdCon Closing Session - Jeremy Meiss, cdCon Program Chair
4:20pm • CDF Networking Space
11:00am • Panel Discussion: From First PR To Lifelong Impact: Helping People Thrive in Open Source - Dawn Foster & Ruth Ikegah, CHAOSS; Shuah Khan, The Linux Foundation; Matt Denny, DenLyn Group
11:55am • From Classroom To Cloud: Bridging Academia and the Open Source Ecosystem - Andy Anderson, IBM Research & Professor Corey Leong, Valencia College
2:10pm • Contributor Catalyst: New Contributor Perspectives From an HBCU Mentorship Program - Emily Lovell, UC Santa Cruz OSPO & Silas Morgan, Norfolk State University
3:05pm • Newcomer… but Not New - Emily Shaffer, Google
4:20pm • Becoming a Stronger Ally: Handling Difficult Situations and Building Inclusive Communities - Sat Agrawal, Li He & Spencer Desmond, Discover Financial Services
