The Linux Foundation Member Summit 2025: Full Schedule

March 18-20, 2025
Napa, California
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11:30am PDT

Unconference Session: From the Top: Mastering the DevOps Machine Learning Pipeline for Unrivaled Innovation - Ben Savage, Veritas Automata

Tuesday March 18, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT

Silverado West

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Ben Savage

Founder, CEO, Veritas Automata

Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Veritas Automata since July 2020, Ben has been at the forefront of driving cutting-edge solutions in automation technology, steering the company through rapid growth and technological evolution.With a humble approach to leadership and a relentless... Read More →

Tuesday March 18, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Silverado West

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

11:30am PDT

Unconference Session: Managing Open Source Risk and Investment - Emma Irwin, Microsoft

Tuesday March 18, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT

Silverado West

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Emma Irwin

Principal TPM, Microsoft

Emma Irwin has been working in open source for nearly 20 years. She is currently a Principal TPM on Microsoft's OSPO - living and working in Sooke BC.

Tuesday March 18, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Silverado West

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

11:30am PDT

Unconference Session: What's Next for the Open Source Supply Chain? - Georg Link, Bitergia

Tuesday March 18, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT

Silverado East

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Georg Link

Open Source Strategist, Bitergia

Georg Link is an Open Source Strategist. Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active... Read More →

Tuesday March 18, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Silverado East

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

2:00pm PDT

Unconference Session: AI and Security - Jeffrey Borek, IBM Corporation

Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Silverado West

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Jeffrey Borek

WW Sr. Program Director, IBM Corporation

Working across IBM Research to build a scalable and consistent AI software supply chain security framework, while continuing to lead the consumption compliance Open Source Program Office (OSPO), including policy, execution and guidance. Working with IBM Government & Regulatory Affairs... Read More →

Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Silverado West

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

2:00pm PDT

Unconference Session: Fostering an Open Source Culture Inside of an Organization - Andrew Lee Rubinger, Block

Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Silverado West

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Andrew Lee Rubinger

Head of Open Source, Block

Open Source at Block.

Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Silverado West

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

2:00pm PDT

Unconference Session: Hard Forks in Open Source - Dawn Foster, CHAOSS

Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Silverado East

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Dawn Foster

Director of Data Science, CHAOSS

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community... Read More →

Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Silverado East

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

2:00pm PDT

Unconference Session: Open Source Licensing Best Practices - Jeff Shapiro, The Linux Foundation

Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Silverado East

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Jeff Shapiro

Director of License Scanning, The Linux Foundation

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

Tuesday March 18, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Silverado East

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

3:10pm PDT

Unconference Session: Cost-Effective Monitoring in Kubernetes - Roman Khavronenko, VictoriaMetrics

Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:10pm - 4:10pm PDT

Silverado West

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Roman Khavronenko

Co-Founder, VictoriaMetrics

Roman is a software engineer with experience in distributed systems, databases, monitoring, and high-performance microservices. Roman's passion is open source and he's proud to have contributions to Prometheus, Grafana, and ClickHouse. Currently, Roman is working on the open source... Read More →

Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:10pm - 4:10pm PDT
Silverado West

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

3:10pm PDT

Unconference Session: Generative AI in Action: Fast Deployment in Production with End-to-End Data Security - Lin Sun, Solo.io

Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:10pm - 4:10pm PDT

Silverado East

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Lin Sun

CNCF TOC member and Head of Open-Source, 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 →

Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:10pm - 4:10pm PDT
Silverado East

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

3:10pm PDT

Unconference Session: Measuring (and Improving) Open Source Adoption and Engagement - Jono Bacon, Community Leadership Core

Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:10pm - 4:10pm PDT

Silverado East

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Jono Bacon

Founder and CEO, Community Leadership Core

Jono Bacon is a leading community and collaboration speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and... Read More →

Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:10pm - 4:10pm PDT
Silverado East

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

3:10pm PDT

Unconference Session: The Evolution of Diversity in Open Source - Nithya Ruff, Amazon

Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:10pm - 4:10pm PDT

Silverado West

These informal sessions offer a collaborative space for open discussions—no slides, no recordings, just meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals.

Speakers

Nithya Ruff

Director, Amazon OSPO, Amazon

Nithya is the Head of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office. Amazon’s customers value open source innovation and the cloud’s role in helping them adopt and run important open source services. She drives open source culture and coordination inside of Amazon and engagement with... Read More →

Tuesday March 18, 2025 3:10pm - 4:10pm PDT
Silverado West

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

4:50pm PDT

Unconference Session Read-Out & Wrap-Up - Jono Bacon, Community Leadership Core

Tuesday March 18, 2025 4:50pm - 5:50pm PDT

Silverado East/West

Speakers

Jono Bacon

Founder and CEO, Community Leadership Core

Tuesday March 18, 2025 4:50pm - 5:50pm PDT
Silverado East/West

Unconference Sessions

Audience Experience Level Any

9:00am PDT

Building New Open Source Standards - A Playbook for 2025 - Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project

Wednesday March 19, 2025 9:00am - 9:30am PDT

Vintner's Court

The OpenChain Project has built two open source process management standards (ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974) and deployed them across the open source supply chain. While OpenChain was the first Linux Foundation project in 14 years to produce an ISO standard, it is far from the last. During the 2023~2024 period, we saw growing engagement around Joint Development Foundation and committee discussions around standards or specifications in other LF projects. This talk will consolidate OpenChain's lessons learned in creating, submitting and deploying open source standards. It will help projects at any stage in the development lifecycle of specifications, including those only just considering this option for long-term impact. It will also help people with a specific interest in a more trusted supply chain to get more involved in OpenChain, building on our existing work or participating in new potential standards. Our optics will be on the legal, risk and compliance side due to the nature of the OpenChain Project's mission for a more trusted supply chain, but the core material will be equally applicable to technical, code or other projects working on this topic.

Speakers

Shane Coughlan

General Manager, OpenChain Project

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include spearheading the licensing team that elevated OIN into the largest patent non-aggression community in history and establishing the first global network for open... Read More →

Wednesday March 19, 2025 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Vintner's Court

Legal / Compliance / Policy

Audience Experience Level Any

10:00am PDT

Accelerating Open Source Engagement: Insights from the State of Developer Adoption 2025 - Sean Lauer, Instruqt

Wednesday March 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am PDT

Silverado West

Open source software is at the heart of innovation, but its complexity often slows developer adoption, limiting impact. Developers need more than great technology—they need intuitive, hands-on experiences that empower them to truly engage.

Sean Lauer, VP of Marketing & Product, will share insights from The State of Developer Adoption 2025, a research report commissioned by Instruqt and conducted by Developer Marketing Alliance, exploring trends in developer enablement. Learn how leaders plan to turn complexity into opportunity—empowering developers, aligning goals, and fostering ecosystems that drive open source innovation.

Key takeaways for attendees:
• Strategic insights into overcoming adoption challenges and engaging developers with open source tools
• How to align open source project goals with organizational enablement strategies for long-term impact
• Emerging trends in developer engagement and the future of open source adoption

Speakers

Sean Lauer

Vice President, Marketing & Product, Instruqt

Sean Lauer, an award-winning marketer with over 16 years of experience, is the VP of Marketing & Product at Instruqt, a company redefining how software companies engage developers and drive adoption. Instruqt’s success reflects a deep understanding of modern computing and a passion... Read More →

Wednesday March 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am PDT
Silverado West

Building and Managing Healthy Open Source Projects

Audience Experience Level Any

10:45am PDT

Developing a Foundation Strategy in an Uncertain World - Rebecca Rumbul, Rust Foundation

Wednesday March 19, 2025 10:45am - 11:15am PDT

Silverado West

This session will examine the importance of developing a strategy for maintenance, growth and development for OSS projects and foundations, and discuss the challenges in doing so. It will consider how to plan strategy development, how to ensure it is inclusive of the community and relevant stakeholders, how to ensure that key organisational and external aspects are considered, and how to track progress meaningfully towards success.

Speakers

Rebecca Rumbul

CEO & Executive Director, Rust Foundation

Rebecca is the Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation. She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant and researcher with governments, parliaments and development agencies all over the world, advocating for openness and transparency, and developing... Read More →

Wednesday March 19, 2025 10:45am - 11:15am PDT
Silverado West

Building and Managing Healthy Open Source Projects

Audience Experience Level Any

12:00pm PDT

The OSPO Has a New Sibling - AIO - Andrew Wafaa, Arm Ltd.

Wednesday March 19, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT

Silverado West

AI is everywhere now whether we like it or not. People want to use it in the workplace, but there are concerns about using this technology. Arm has established an AI Office (AIO) to give employees guidance on how they can use AI in their working lives as the world’s understandings evolve over license and copyright questions. As we stand on the brink of this transformative change, we must ask ourselves: are we ready to embrace the future and unlock the full potential of AI in our professional lives?

Speakers

Andrew Wafaa

Sr Director & Fellow, Arm Ltd.

Andrew leads Arm's Open Source Office as well as upstream interactions. He also sits on a number of industry and software bodies/projects including Yocto Project, FreeBSD Foundation, Xen, UXL Foundation, LF Edge & PyTorch Foundation

Wednesday March 19, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
Silverado West

OS Program Office (OSPO) / TODO Group

Audience Experience Level Any

2:45pm PDT

Take Control Over Your Project's CVE Entries Before Someone Else Does - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Foundation

Wednesday March 19, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT

Silverado West

Unless your project explicitly becomes a Certification Numbering Authority (CNA), it is possible for almost anyone else to create a random CVE entry against your project. With the upcoming responsibility that projects have due to laws like the CRA in Europe, it is getting more and more important for all open source projects to handle the tracking of security bugs and identifiers themselves, instead of assuming others will do it for them.

cve.org now allows all open source projects to be their own CNA, so there is no excuse not to take ownership of this for your project. Groups like curl, the Linux Kernel, Kubernetes, and Python have all done this already, and OpenSSF has produced information explaining how you too can do it.

This talk will go into why you want to become a CNA, the steps involved, and tips learned from the Linux kernel CVE team in handling their 8 CVEs issued a day, alone with other information about other country's numbering authorities which will be coming online in the next few years.

Speakers

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fellow, Linux Foundation

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Fellow at the Linux Foundation. He is currently responsible for the stable Linux kernel releases, and a member of the Linux kernel CVE team. He is also a maintainer of the USB, TTY, and driver core subsystems in the kernel as well as other portions of the codebase... Read More →

Wednesday March 19, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
Silverado West

Building and Managing Healthy Open Source Projects

Audience Experience Level Any

2:45pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Consumption Complacency: Bridging the Gap Between Discovery and Remediation - Brian Fox, Sonatype; Christopher Robinson, OpenSSF; Madison Oliver, GitHub

Wednesday March 19, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT

Silverado East

Despite the availability of fixes for well-known vulnerabilities, open source software remains a significant target for attackers. In fact, three years after the infamous Log4j vulnerability, 13% of its downloads are still vulnerable. Even more concerning, 95% of vulnerable components downloaded today have a fixed version available.

In this session, Brian Fox (Sonatype), Christopher Robinson (OpenSSF), and Madison Oliver (GitHub) will explore these stark realities of open source vulnerabilities. The speakers will discuss why these vulnerabilities persist and how outdated or vulnerable components can slip through the cracks. Drawing from years of industry expertise, they will outline real-world remediation strategies and actionable best practices for mitigating open source risks.

Attendees will learn how to accelerate the adoption of secure components, integrate automated tools, and foster collaboration in the open source community to protect their software supply chain. Whether you’re a developer, security professional, or business leader, this session will equip you with the insights needed to secure your open source dependencies and strengthen your organization's resilience.

Speakers

Christopher "CRob" Robinson

Security Lorax, OpenSSF

Christopher Robinson (aka CRob) is the Chief Security Architect for the Open Source Security Foundation. With over 25 years of Enterprise-class engineering, architectural, operational and leadership experience, CRob has worked at several Fortune 500 companies with experience in the... Read More →

Brian Fox

Co-founder and CTO, Sonatype

Co-founder and CTO, Brian Fox is an OpenSSF Governing Board member, a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former Chair of the Apache Maven project. As a direct contributor to the Maven ecosystem, including the maven-dependency-plugin and maven-enforcer-plugin, he has over... Read More →

Madison Oliver

Senior Security Manager, Advisory Database Curation, GitHub

Madison Oliver, vulnerability transparency advocate and senior security manager at GitHub, leads the advisory database team. Passionate about vulnerability reporting, response and disclosure, she co-chairs the relevant OpenSSF working group and serves on the CVE Program Board. Previously... Read More →

Wednesday March 19, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
Silverado East

Security & Trust & Ethics in Open Source

Audience Experience Level Any

4:30pm PDT

Mission Possible: 24 Hours To Security Compliance - Philippe Ombredanne, AboutCode

Wednesday March 19, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT

Vintner's Court

CRA is coming. And this European regulation will impact software development worldwide. And your operations will be impacted.

You will have 24 hours to discover and disclose any relevant, critical vulnerabilities and notify security agencies.

Join Philippe Ombredanne to review which people, what processes, and technologies you will need to deploy by September 2026 to avoid large fines. We will share the latest development of the regulation implementation and how to work out minimalist and practical plans for compliance.

Speakers

Philippe Ombredanne

Lead maintainer, AboutCode

Philippe Ombredanne is a FOSS hacker passionate about enabling easier and safer reuse of open source code. He is the lead maintainer of the AboutCode stack of open source tools for Software Composition Analysis and license and security compliance, including the industry-leading ScanCode... Read More →

Wednesday March 19, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Vintner's Court

Legal / Compliance / Policy

Audience Experience Level Any

10:00am PDT

Understanding and Managing SBOMs in Modern Automotive Vehicles: A Journey - Yuichi Kusakabe & Takashi Ninjouji, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Thursday March 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am PDT

Vintner's Court

The SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) for a single automotive vehicle is in high demand. Modern vehicles are advanced information systems that constantly evolve, with frequently changing software configurations. This trend is even more pronounced in Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). Open source supports this evolution. Understanding the software components that make up a vehicle is crucial for asset and risk management, making it a valuable endeavor in the software supply chain. The introduction of process management standards like ISO 5230 and ISO 18974, and the adoption of standard data formats through SPDX Lite (ISO 5962 (SPDX 2.2.1) and the annex of SPDX 2.3), are expected to yield significant results. Meanwhile, there is growing interest in more effective SBOM content and how to share and handle this information. In this session, we will share insights and challenges gained through the development of IVI.

Speakers

Yuichi Kusakabe

Chief Architect / OSPO Tech Lead, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yuichi Kusakabe is the Chief Architect at Honda Motor Co., Ltd. , AGL(Automotive Grade Linux) member and COVESA(Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance) member since 2011 with over twenty years of Automotive and Open Source Software Experience.Prior to joining Honda Motor he worked for... Read More →

Takashi Ninjouji

Chief Engineer, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Takashi Ninjouji, Chief Engineer at Honda Motor Co., Ltd., focuses on Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) and the Open Source Program Office (OSPO). His interests also include Security Assurance and SBOM. He spent 10 years in Telecom and Mobile industries working on R&D. For the past 15... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am PDT
Vintner's Court

OS Program Office (OSPO) / TODO Group

Audience Experience Level Any

10:45am PDT

Six Years of Empowering Open Source Communities - Shuah Khan, The Linux Foundation

Thursday March 20, 2025 10:45am - 11:15am PDT

Silverado East

Growing new talent and attracting new developers is challenging for open source communities. Yet, it is vital to reach out to train the next generation of developers to keep the open source communities healthy and sustainable.

Equitable access to learning resources is a barrier for a significant number of new developers. It isn't easy for new developers to get a start in open source, connect with open source communities and contribute to them. It is equally challenging for employers to find new developers to add to their technical projects.

Shuah Khan will talk about Linux Foundation's six year journey to provide learning resources for new open source developers, opportunities to experts in open source communities to train and mentor the next generation, and make newly trained talent available to prospective employers.

Speakers

Shuah Khan

Kernel Maintainer & Linux Fellow, The Linux Foundation

Shuah Khan is a Kernel Maintainer & Linux Fellow at The Linux Foundation. She is an experienced Linux Kernel developer, maintainer, and contributor. She authored, A Beginner’s Guide to Linux Kernel Development (LFD103) training course. She designed and leads the Mentorship program... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 10:45am - 11:15am PDT
Silverado East

Sustainability and Innovation in Open Source

Audience Experience Level Any

2:00pm PDT

Power To the Data Creators: Building Ethical and Inclusive Open Source AI Through Data Governance - Stefano Maffulli, Open Source Initiative

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT

Silverado West

Undertaking effective data governance in AI training has become a central issue among Open Source AI advocates due to the complex nature and diversification of shared data resources. To have effective governance requires navigating a matrix of rules and ethical principles to protect copyright, privacy and other data-related rights. Effective data governance must also consider the impact on fundamental rights, ensuring that equitable and inclusive standards are maintained within AI ecosystems and the oversight of such systems.

In this talk I will discuss the role of data governance and data sharing as they relate to Open Source AI development. Specific approaches and strategies will be shared that can be undertaken both by Open Source AI developers and by other stakeholders to increase the amount of data that is properly governed and available for use in Open Source AI development.

Speakers

Stefano Maffulli

Executive Director, Open Source Initiative

Stefano joined OSI in 2021 after decades of open source advocacy, both as a contributor and leader. He co-founded and led the Italian chapter of Free Software Foundation Europe from 2001 to 2007, structured the developer community of the OpenStack Foundation and subsequently led open... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Silverado West

OS in the Public Sector and Society

Audience Experience Level Any

2:45pm PDT

Solving the Immigration Bottleneck: Cap-Exempt H-1B Programs as a Game-Changer for U.S. Talent Strategy - Jeff Goldman & Danielle Goldman, Open Avenues Foundation

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT

Silverado West

The U.S. is facing a critical talent shortage, with companies struggling to hire the best international professionals due to restrictive visa policies and the uncertainty of the H-1B lottery. Open Avenues Foundation has developed a groundbreaking solution that not only provides companies with an alternative pathway to hire top foreign talent but also invests in the future of the U.S. workforce.

Through its national Fellowship program model, Open Avenues partners with tech and scientific companies by obtaining a cap-exempt H-1B visa for the company’s key foreign national personnel who has no other option to work in the United States, without the requirement to win the H-1B lottery. Open Avenues then employes the highly skilled foreign professional for five-hours per week to train U.S. college students in the foreign national’s STEM profession. Once the foreign national has an approved part-time cap-exempt H-1B with Open Avenues, the law permits the tech or science company to immediately file its own concurrent cap-exempt H-1B for the same person, also without needing to win the H-1B lottery. This program provides international talent in the Fellowship to work for high-growth companies and contribute to the U.S. economy while concurrently preparing the next generation of American workers with the skills they need to compete globally.

Join Danielle Goldman and Jeff Goldman, Co-Founders of Open Avenues Foundation, as they share how this innovative approach is transforming both immigration and workforce development. Learn how business leaders can use this model to attract and retain global talent, strengthen their hiring pipeline, and stay competitive in today’s evolving economy.

Speakers

Danielle Goldman

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Open Avenues Foundation

Jeff Goldman

Co-Founder & General Counsel, Open Avenues Foundation

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
Silverado West

Global Collaboration and Diversity

Audience Experience Level Any

2:45pm PDT

The Road to use OpenTelemetry for LLM Observability - Guangya Liu, IBM & Nir Gazit, Traceloop

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT

Silverado East

If 2023 is the year of LLMs, then 2024 will be the year for LLM Applications. As LLMs continue to integrate into various applications ranging from chatbots and search engines to creative writing aids, the need to monitor and comprehend their behaviors intensifies.

Observability plays a crucial role in this context. It involves the systematic collection and analysis of data to enhance LLM performance, identify and correct biases, troubleshoot issues, and ensure AI systems are both reliable and trustworthy.

In this discussion, we will explore the concept of LLM observability in depth, focusing on how OpenTelemetry can fit into the world of LLM observability . Additionally, we will talk about challenges around modeling of prompts, completions, events, semantic conventions, and basically our path with the llm-sem-conv working group.

Speakers

Guangya Liu

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

Guangya Liu is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) for IBM Instana. He is the technical leader driving the IBM Instana development and customer support. He is also the open source leader for IBM Instana team, driving the cloud-native open source contribution to integrate with... Read More →

Nir Gazit

CEO, Traceloop

CEO @ traceloop; ex-chief architect @ Fiverr, ex-tech lead @ Google; OpenTelemetry contributor

Thursday March 20, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
Silverado East

Sustainability and Innovation in Open Source

Audience Experience Level Any

4:30pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Japan Evangelist Program - A Model To Foster Regional Communities - Noriaki Fukuyasu, The Linux Foundation; Yuichi Nakamura & Ayumi Watanabe, Hitachi; Masato Endo, Toyota Motor Corporation; & Munehiro Ikeda, Cybertrust Japan

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT

Vintner's Court

Open source is everywhere. Anyone can use it and anyone can contribute codes to the community regardless of the countries and regions. It is inherently borderless.In the meantime, it is also true that most of the critical open source projects are English speaking communities. This actually creates a gap between English speaking regions and non-English speaking regions in terms of the knowledge about the technologies as well as opportunity to get involved in the community development. There has to be a “Bridge” to fill the gap.

The Linux Foundation Japan office launched a program to solve this issue by launching the Japan Evangelist Program, which has been a big success so far. The evangelists can also become a community by itself, they become a force to connect multiple communities to co-work to create larger values as well as sharing best practice to run meetup etc, which has been a nice side effect of the program.

In this session, through the discussion with the panelists (they are all Japan Evangelists) we would like to elaborate how the program is actually working.

Speakers

Munehiro Ikeda

Lead Architect, Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.

Ikeda Munehiro is a key engineer in the IoT Technology Division at Cybertrust Japan, working on leading-edge technologies and contributing to the Open Source Security Foundations (OpenSSF) activities on OSS security and supply chain.

Noriaki Fukuyasu

VP of Japan Operations, The Linux Foundation

VP of Japan Operations at Linux Foundation.

Masato Endo

Project General Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation

Masato Endo is a Project General Manager of Value Chain Innovation Project in TOYOTA. He focuses also on promoting Open Source Innovation and he set up TOYOTA OSPO in 2024. Furthermore, he plays the following roles in Open Source Communities. -The Linux Foundation Japan Evangelist... Read More →

Yuichi Nakamura

Head of OSPO, Hitachi,Ltd

Yuichi Nakamura, Ph.D has been engaged with OSS over 20 years, contributed to SELinux, given presentations in many OSS events such as Linux Security Summit, Embedded Linux Conference and KubeCon. He also launched ecosystem of business and OSS contribution model based on Keycloak in... Read More →

Ayumi Watanabe

Senior OSS Specialist of Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.

Ayumi Watanabe is a Senior OSS Specialist of Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.. She is also a core member of OpenChain Japan and known as a SBOM evangelist. Her strong point is a knowledge of many tools for SBOM generation and management, a wide range of experiences as an OSS management consultant... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Vintner's Court

Global Collaboration and Diversity

Audience Experience Level Any

4:30pm PDT

A Data-Driven Analysis To Decode Open-Sourced Large Model Technology Impacts: For Now and Next - Yonghua Lin, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT

Silverado East

The rapid evolution of large-scale AI models has been fueled by open-source contributions across four critical dimensions: models, data, evaluation, and system software. To access the real impact of these contributions, we conducted the first large-scale, cross-platform study over six months, investigating nearly 100,000 data points from platforms like Hugging Face, GitHub, and ModelScope. This study, carried out by key contributors from BAAI, CSDN, Linux AI & Data, and other leading organizations—provided deep insights through monthly evaluations, revealing trends, challenges, and opportunities in the open-source large model ecosystem.

In this presentation, we will decode the current state of open-source large model technology, highlight key findings from this groundbreaking collaborative analysis, and discuss its implications for future innovation. From tracking global adoption patterns to identifying critical gaps in open-source collaboration, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how open-source efforts drive AI development today and the strategies needed to shape the next wave of breakthroughs.

Speakers

Yonghua Lin

VP and Chief Engineer, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

Yonghua Lin is the Vice President and CTO of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, responsible for AI System, and Large Model Foundation Technology research, industry and open-source ecosystem cooperation. She is formerly the Director of IBM China Research Lab and Distinguished... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Silverado East

Sustainability and Innovation in Open Source

Audience Experience Level Any