The Linux Foundation Member Summit 2025: Full Schedule

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

Unconference Session: Shaping the Future with Responsible AI: Insights from the Generative AI Commons - Anni Lai, Generative AI Commons & Futurewei

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

Anni Lai

Head of Open Source Operations; Chair of Generative AI Commons, LF AI & Data, Futurewei

Anni drives Futurewei’s open source (O.S.) governance, process, compliance, training, project alignment, and ecosystem building. Anni has a long history of serving on various O.S. boards such as OpenStack Foundation, LF CNCF, LF OCI, LF Edge, and is on the LF OMF board and LF Europe... Read More →

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

Unconference Sessions

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: 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: 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

10:00am PDT

Transforming App Development With Open Source: How LF EU Is Driving SDK Interoperability in the Mobi - Diego Zuluaga, Futurewei Technologies & Saurabh Goyal, Open Mobile Hub

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

Silverado East

Discover the power of the Open Mobile Hub Project (OMH), a game-changer in mobile development. Hosted by the Linux Foundation Europe and supported by a global network of industry leaders, OMH is creating an open, collaborative ecosystem for developers, service providers, and users alike.

This session will highlight how OMH’s open-source framework simplifies cross-platform app development, boosts interoperability, and fosters innovation. Learn how OMH is reshaping the mobile landscape and how you can get involved in driving this transformative movement forward.

Speakers

Saurabh Goyal

Senior director, Open Mobile Hub

Saurabh Goyal, currently Senior Director at Futurewei, has almost 20 years of experience in the tech industry. He has worked with Amazon and Google in the past in the ecommerce and mobile ads domain. At Amazon, he was involved in the initial development of tech for running Amazon’s... Read More →

Diego Zuluaga

Solution Partner Director at OMH, Futurewei Technologies

Diego Zuluaga, Solution Partner Director at OMH (Futurewei), brings extensive experience in software development, developer relations, and solutions engineering. He has driven key initiatives at Google, contributing to Android, Google Assistant, and Google Cloud, with a strong focus... Read More →

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

Open Source Project Highlights

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

10:45am PDT

Defining Openness in AI: Real-World Use Cases of MOF-Classified Models - Anni Lai, Generative AI Commons & Futurewei

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

Silverado East

As AI innovation accelerates, the definition of "openness" in AI models becomes critical for fostering collaboration, transparency, and trust. The Model Openness Framework (MOF) provides a clear and actionable classification for AI models based on their openness:
• Class III: Open Models
• Class II: Open Tooling Models
• Class I: Open Science Models
In this talk, we will introduce MOF and showcase exemplary AI models that qualify for each class, highlighting how they align with MOF criteria. We will explore real-world use cases of these models demonstrating how openness drives tangible value, innovation, and collaboration.

Speakers

Anni Lai

Head of Open Source Operations; Chair of Generative AI Commons, LF AI & Data, Futurewei

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

Open Source Project Highlights

12:00pm PDT

From PoC To Production - Sergio Gago Huerta, Diego Mastroianni & Louise Hopkins, Moody's

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

Silverado East

Generative AI has plenty of use cases in Finance. From the customer support on the front office, to research, business analysis and optimization of investment cases.
However most companies get stuck at the "Proof of concept" stage.
While it is relatively quick to create a demo with a "Wow effect", building the right pipelines, governance, security and controls and in general get the buy in and approvals from legal and compliance teams is extremely hard.

In this presentation we will show a detailed runbook on how to leverage Generative AI cases at scale in the organization, from the perspective of the first company that delivered a production application in the market.

We will review how to build an open innovation system that promotes collaboration in what we called "The era of the 14.000 innovators" where every employee became a prompt engineer. And how we harnessed that power to put dozens of use cases in production (internal and external) as well as the edge research on agents and beyond.

Speakers

Sergio Gago Huerta

MD AI and Quantum Computing, Moody's

Sergio Gago is a serial entrepreneur expert in AI and Data Science and Quantum Computing. He joined Moody's with the acquisition of AcquireMedia and now is the Managing Director of AI and Quantum Computing. Prior to that he was CTO at several companies. He is an Engineer with a Postgrad... Read More →

Diego Mastroianni

Director - Moody’s Open Source Office, Moody’s

Diego Mastroianni is the Director of the Moody’s Open Source Office, where he helps drive the management of open-source tools and practices across the organization. With a background in computer engineering and a Ph.D. in Management, he has years of experience leading teams, optimizing... Read More →

Louise Hopkins

Product Director - GenAI, Moody's

Louise leads product for GenAI Innovation at Moody's, including Moody's OpenSource initiatives. An experienced product leader, her passion lies in unlocking the potential of new technologies with high performing teams. She leverages her background in corporate venture building and... Read More →

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

Open Source Project Highlights

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm PDT

Deploying Linux as Firmware at Global Scale: Update - Ronald Minnich, Hewlett Packard

Wednesday March 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT

Silverado East

In 2017, I gave a talk, "Replace your exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux kernel", describing the NERF project we had started at Google. NERF (Non-Extensible Reduced Firmware) replaced much of the proprietary, buggy, exploit-friendly UEFI firmware with a Linux kernel and user programs, written in Go, from the u-root project (u-root.org).

A lot has happened since that talk!

We renamed NERF to LinuxBoot, and set up a Linux Foundation project of that name. Google, Bytedance, and others have deployed LinuxBoot at global scale; it is no exaggeration to say that LinuxBoot is deployed on the better part of 10 million servers. The Go code in u-root continues to grow in capability, even as the Go compilers have gotten better, producing higher performance, higher quality, smaller code. We can also use Google's Go compiler or the TinyGo compiler, which uses an LLVM backend. The TinyGo compiler has been shown to produce code that is comparable in speed, footprint, and jitter to the best binary that Rust generates.

In this talk, I will review the core ideas of the LinuxBoot project; why we designed it that way; our deployment experience; and where we go from here.

Speakers

Ronald Minnich

Senior Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard

Dr. Minnich has been writing firmware for 40 years, starting with the z80 and 6800. He’s also a long time contributor in the Unix, BSD, Plan 9, and Linux communities. He started the LinuxBIOS project in 1999, which was renamed to coreboot in 2008 and is now used in tens of millions... Read More →

Wednesday March 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Silverado East

Open Source Project Highlights

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

10:00am PDT

Zephyr: Journey To Safety Certification - Kate Stewart, The LInux Foundation

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

Silverado East

When we launched the Zephyr project 9 years ago, we had the goal of adopting security and safety best practices. In the years since then it has grown to be one of the most active projects at the Linux Foundation. There were some good starting points and practices available to adopt for Security, but Safety was an open area. How could an open source project with a high velocity of change achieve safety certification? This session will go through some of the learning experiences that let us get our concept approval in December of 2024, and have a solid plan to achieve safety certification.

Speakers

Kate Stewart

VP Dependable Embedded Systems, The LInux Foundation

Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, as well as supporting other embedded projects... Read More →

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

Sustainability and Innovation in Open Source

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

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

12:00pm PDT

OpenMDW - A Permissive Future for Open AI Models - Matt White, Linux Foundation

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT

Silverado East

Join us to explore OpenMDW, a first-of-its-kind open license designed for AI models, datasets, parameters and associated artifacts. OpenMDW eliminates ambiguity, offering clear, permissive rights for use, modification, and distribution—empowering developers, researchers, and enterprises alike.

With an MIT-like style, OpenMDW includes an explicit patent grant, unrestricted use of outputs, and alignment with the Model Openness Framework, ensuring shared components have proper legal rights while respecting contributors' boundaries. It strikes the perfect balance between openness and protection, enabling innovation without mandating the release of all model elements.

Discover how OpenMDW fosters trust, transparency, and supports innovation and research, while reducing legal risks and driving industry collaboration.

This session is your opportunity to shape the future of open AI. Don’t miss it!

Speakers

Matt White

GM of AI, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation, Linux Foundation

Matt White is the Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation and GM of AI at the Linux Foundation. He is also the Director of the Generative AI Commons. Matt has nearly 30 years of experience in applied research and standards in AI and data in telecom, media and gaming industries... Read More →

Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
Silverado East

Sustainability and Innovation in Open Source

Audience Experience Level Beginner

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

3:45pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Funding: Positive and Negative Impacts in OSS Projects - Dawn Foster, CHAOSS; Emma Irwin, Microsoft; Cailean Osborne, Linux Foundation Europe

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm PDT

Silverado East

Open source software has become ubiquitous and can be found in almost every codebase, but sustaining those open source projects and communities over the long-term can be a challenge. Much of the critical infrastructure that we all rely on is made up of open source projects that lack the resources to be properly maintained over the long term. Companies, public institutions, and philanthropic organizations are beginning to fill this gap, but measuring the impact of this funding is an ongoing challenge, and we need to be able to understand the impacts to justify future rounds of funding as well as to optimize funding approaches whilst mitigating ineffective or even harmful approaches.

In this panel, we’ll talk about what we’ve learned from public funding programs in Europe and corporate FOSS funds along with measuring the impact of those funding initiatives. We’ll discuss the challenges of understanding how funding can have positive or negative impacts for open source projects with different characteristics. The audience will gain an appreciation for funding initiatives for open source projects and how to understand and maximize the impact of those initiatives.

Speakers

Cailean Osborne

Senior Researcher, Linux Foundation Europe

Cailean is a Researcher at the Linux Foundation and a PhD Candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His interests are in OSS, the digital commons, and public interest computing. Previously, Cailean worked as the International Policy Lead... Read More →

Dawn Foster

Director of Data Science, CHAOSS

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.

Thursday March 20, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm PDT
Silverado East

Sustainability and Innovation in Open Source

Audience Experience Level Beginner

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