Open Source Summit Korea 2026: Full Schedule

11-12, August 2026
Seoul, South Korea
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07:30 KST

Welcome Coffee

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 09:00 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 09:00 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

07:30 KST

Registration + Badge Pick-up

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 17:45 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 17:45 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

07:30 KST

Zen Zone

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 17:45 KST

Wisteria Room

All attendees may feel free to use the Zen Zone as needed. This is a quiet space for sensory relaxation, meditation, and worship. It is not to be used for conversations or as a workspace.

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 17:45 KST
Wisteria Room

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

07:30 KST

Solutions Showcase

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 18:45 KST

Solutions Showcase - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 18:45 KST
Solutions Showcase - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Solutions Showcase

07:30 KST

Coat & Bag Check

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 19:00 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Tuesday August 11, 2026 07:30 - 19:00 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

09:00 KST

Keynote: Opening Address - Munyeong Lim, Member of the 22nd National Assembly, Republic of Korea

Tuesday August 11, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Speakers

Munyeong Lim

Member of the 22nd National Assembly, Republic of Korea

Member of the 22nd National Assembly and previous policy leader in artificial intelligence, digital governance, and industrial innovation. Leads delivery‑focused AI governance across eight subcommittees (tech & infrastructure; industrial AX; public‑sector AI; data; society; international... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Keynote Sessions

09:10 KST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, CEO, The Linux Foundation

Tuesday August 11, 2026 09:10 - 09:50 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Speakers

Jim Zemlin

CEO, The Linux Foundation

Jim Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing, and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 09:10 - 09:50 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Keynote Sessions

09:50 KST

Keynote: Linux in the Land of LLMs - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow, The Linux Foundation

Tuesday August 11, 2026 09:50 - 10:05 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Recently, LLMs have changed the landscape of security issues in open source software in a radical way. This talk goes into the problems that all open source projects are having with this, and how to use the enemy's resources against them to solve the problem.

Speakers

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fellow, Linux Foundation

Tuesday August 11, 2026 09:50 - 10:05 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Keynote Sessions

10:15 KST

Keynote: Open Source for AI and AI for Open Source - Priya Nagpurkar, Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and AI Platforms, IBM Research

Tuesday August 11, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open source has been the single most powerful force democratizing AI—taking capabilities that might otherwise be confined to a handful of well-resourced labs and putting them within reach of researchers, developers, and IT operators everywhere. But the relationship runs both ways: as AI systems increasingly write and contribute code, they are reshaping the open-source ecosystem itself—straining how we manage a rising tide of machine-generated contributions and how we secure code in an era when both attackers and defenders are AI-augmented. In this keynote, I make the case for why open models and open technologies like PyTorch, vLLM, and llm-d are critical enablers for enterprises and governments seeking greater control and flexibility over their AI, and I highlight the technical innovation making this possible. I close by arguing that we have a real opportunity to turn this two-way street into a virtuous loop—building AI that accelerates and secures open source even as open source accelerates AI.

Speakers

Priya Nagpurkar

Vice President, AI-native Systems Research, IBM Research

Priya Nagpurkar is the Vice President of AI-native Systems research at I.B.M.'s T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. She leads a global team of systems and AI experts working on all interesting aspects of the AI platform -- from scalable, performant, and efficient deployment... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Keynote Sessions

10:30 KST

Morning Break

Tuesday August 11, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Tuesday August 11, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

11:00 KST

Building Event-Driven WebAssembly on Kubernetes: Runtime, Observability, and Security - Brandon Kang, Akamai Technologies & Nam Hai, Hylatek JSC

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Orchid 2

As cloud native systems evolve, WebAssembly(WASM) is emerging as a runtime that complements and sometimes challenges container based approaches. With fast startup, strong isolation, and portability, WASM enables efficient and secure event driven workloads.

In this session, we explore how to build and run the systems using WebAssembly on Kubernetes, focusing on SpinKube, an open source project that brings WASM workloads into Kubernetes.

Through a live demonstration, we will deploy and run WASM workloads using SpinKube, highlighting real workflows. We will also compare cold start and execution performance, showing millisecond startup and lower latency than traditional containers. Plus to demonstrate observability using eBPF based telemetry, we enable visibility into runtime behavior without overhead. Attendees will learn how to trace execution, monitor performance, and troubleshoot distributed WASM systems.

Finally, we will talk how WebAssembly improves security and operational efficiency by reducing the attack surface and enabling consistent execution across environments, providing a practical guide for production adoption.

Speakers

Kai Nguyen

Engineer, Hylatek JSC

Nam Hai is a senior backend engineer with over 12 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, serverless architecture, and blockchain technology. He has led projects across domains such as IoT, e-commerce, and decentralized finance. Currently, he is focused on building AI-powered... Read More →

Brandon Kang

Principal Technical Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies

Brandon Kang is a Principal Technical Solutions Architect at Akamai Technologies, overseeing cloud computing products and cloud-native initiatives across Asian countries.

Before joining Akamai, he held key roles in leading technology companies, including serving as a software e... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

11:00 KST

Upstream Kernel Hardening: Recent Progress and Challenges - Gustavo A. R. Silva, Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Orchid 1

With the release of Linux 7.0, Rust is no longer considered experimental. New and safer components are expected to be written in Rust in the near future. However, the Linux kernel still contains more than 35 million lines of code written in C. This code will remain critical for years to come and, for the benefit of everyone, must continue to be maintained, improved, and hardened where possible.

In the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project, we care deeply about this, and we've been advancing kernel hardening upstream for several years. In this presentation, we'll review recent hardening efforts and discuss the challenges we continue to face as we work toward our ultimate goal of eliminating classes of bugs and methods of exploitation in the upstream Linux kernel.

Speakers

Gustavo A. R. Silva

Upstream Linux Kernel Engineer, Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project

Gustavo A. R. Silva works full-time as an Upstream Linux Kernel Engineer focused on hardening and proactive security. He's spent the past several years fixing all sorts of bugs & hardening the Linux kernel. His work is supported by The Linux Foundation and the Alpha-Omega project... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

11:00 KST

Squeezing Every Millisecond: A Practical Guide To Optimizing Time To First Token With OSS Muscle - Aman Mundra, Welzin.ai & Hrittik Roy, Platform Advocate

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Large language models are getting faster GPUs every year, yet users still notice the pause before the first word appears. That pause has a name: Time To First Token (TTFT). And in production LLM systems, shaving even a few hundred milliseconds from it can dramatically change how responsive an application feels.

This talk tells the story of where those milliseconds go.

We will walk through the lifecycle of a request in modern LLM serving systems and explore the practical techniques engineers use to reduce TTFT in real deployments. Using examples from open source stacks like vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, and Hugging Face TGI, we will examine four powerful optimization levers: KV cache strategies, speculative decoding, model quantization, and batching policies.

Instead of focusing only on theory, the session highlights the tradeoffs practitioners face. When does speculative decoding actually help? When does batching hurt latency? When does quantization reduce memory pressure enough to speed up the first token?

Attendees will leave with a practical playbook for diagnosing TTFT bottlenecks and choosing the right optimization strategy for their model, infrastructure, and workload.

Speakers

Aman Mundra

CEO, Welzin.ai

Hrittik Roy

TPME, vCluster

Hrittik is a Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, with expertise in cloud native technologies and open source communities. He has contributed extensively to developer advocacy, technical writing, and community engagement. Hrittik has been a featured speaker at events... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

11:00 KST

SBOMs Aren't Enough. Secure Your Software Supply Chain End-To-End - Yongjae Chung, New York University Secure Systems Lab & Justin Cappos, New York University

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Magnolia

You probably heard that SBOMs are helpful, but did you know that an SBOM only addresses a fraction of what can go wrong in your software supply chain? The SLSA (Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts) specification identifies 9 distinct threat areas, spanning from source code, all the way to package distribution. Most development teams address one or two of these and call it a day, leaving gaps that real-world attacks like SolarWinds and Log4J have already exploited. We understand that it is difficult to cover all aspects when it comes to the software supply chain.

How about we make this much easier? In this talk, we will present an overview of the modern software supply chain threat model, and show how you can provide integrity throughout the whole process of your software development life cycle. We will introduce an easy-to-setup, end-to-end open source stack, built from frameworks and tools within the CNCF/OpenSSF ecosystem.

Speakers

Justin Cappos

Professor, New York University

I am a professor at NYU who has been working on software supply chain security for more than 20 years. I am a maintainer / creator of the TUF, Uptane, and in-toto projects, which are all under the LF.

Yongjae Chung

Master's Student, New York University Secure Systems Lab

Yongjae is a Master's student at New York University. He is a contributor to gittuf, an incubating project at Open Source Security Foundation.

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Magnolia

Packages + Images + Containers

11:00 KST

Sponsored Session: A New Security Standard for the AI Era: Zero-CVE and Real-Time Threat Response - SeungEll Lee, Red Hat

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Rose

As Generative AI and Agentic AI continue to evolve, cyberattacks have become increasingly automated. With hundreds of new CVEs disclosed every day and AI-powered attacks are automated in zero-hour, traditional security and patch management approaches have reached their limits.

This session explores how organizations can build a lightweight hardened infrastructure and a trusted Zero-CVE environment with Red Hat AI on a proven platform that leverages the strengths of the open source ecosystem. It also examines the need for autonomous defense systems and approaches to implementing them, enabling real-time threat response while maintaining infrastructure stability through controlled AI-driven automation.

Speakers

SeungEll Lee

Enterprise Solution Architect, Red Hat

SeungEll Lee is an Enterprise Solution Architect at Red Hat Korea, who helps customers achieve business success through tailored architecture strategies for the hybrid cloud and AI era. By providing consulting services and phased transformation roadmaps, he enables customers to navigate... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Rose

Safety Critical Software

11:40 KST

Self-Healing Rollouts: Automating Production Fixes With Agentic AI - Kevin Dubois, IBM

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST

Orchid 2

Your software rollouts to production are probably always flawless, right? For the rest of us, once in a while we do run into issues when releasing code to production. Even with robust CI/CD, production rollouts can hit unexpected snags. While in Kubernetes, ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts excels at Progressive Delivery and automated rollbacks to mitigate deployment issues, what if we could go a step further?

This session explores how to elevate your release process by integrating Agentic AI and asynchronous coding agents, with Argo Rollouts canary deployments. We'll demonstrate how an intelligent agent can automatically analyze a rollout failure, pinpointing the root cause. Beyond diagnosis, these agents can take proactive steps on your behalf, suggesting and even implementing code fixes as new pull requests, which can be redeployed automatically after PR review. This approach moves us closer to truly self-healing deployments.

Join us to learn how to combine the power of cloud native projects like Kubernetes, ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts with the autonomous capabilities of Agentic AI, achieving a release experience that is not only seamless but also resilient.

Speakers

Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Kevin Dubois is often featured as a (keynote) speaker at conferences around the world, where he shares his passion and knowledge about developer experience, Agentic AI, open source, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

11:40 KST

Getting Started With Kernel Programming: The Linux Kernel Mentorship Program - Jori Koolstra, Independent

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST

Orchid 1

The Linux Kernel is one of the most influential and widely-used open source software projects today. However, getting started -- understanding the code and contributing to it -- can be quite daunting. Kernel code often carries history and conventions that are not always documented, but are rather shared by the community as tribal knowledge. Moreover, understanding operating-system-level source code comes with its own unique challenges: there is no libc, you need to know about low-level primitives like memory barriers and various types of locking mechanisms, and memory handling errors can bring the whole system down (no garbage collection either, of course!).

The Linux Kernel Mentorship Program (LKMP) addresses some of these difficulties and aims to mentor prospective contributors to overcome the initial hurdle -- because everything becomes easier after your first contribution. The program is led by experienced kernel maintainers with the assistance of regular contributors and is open to anyone.

In this talk I will detail my experience as an LKMP mentee and explain how I have progressed since. I will also explain how you can get started with a small patch!

Speakers

Jori Koolstra

Software Engineer

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

11:40 KST

Sponsored Session: From Clicks to Rankings: Building a Learning-to-Rank Pipeline with OpenSearch - West Kim, AWS

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST

Rose

Search relevance improves when ranking reflects how users actually interact with results. OpenSearch provides three plugins that work together to enable this: User Behavior Insights (UBI) collects click and query data, Search Relevance Workbench (SRW) evaluates ranking quality, and Learning to Rank (LTR) applies machine-learned models to reorder results. This session walks through the full workflow: collecting user behavior data with UBI, training an XGBoost-based ranking model, and deploying customized search rankings using the LTR plugin.

Speakers

West Kim

AI Specialist SA, AWS

West is an AI Specialist who supports the development of information retrieval technologies for AI and provide solutions.

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST
Rose

Open AI + Data

11:40 KST

Stop Trusting a Black Box: The Economic Case for Open, Sovereign AI - Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

As AI matures from a novelty into a strategic asset, 79% of organisations now prioritise sovereignty to mitigate vendor lock-in and secure critical data. Despite this, the market remains paralysed by a paradox: while open models have achieved performance parity with proprietary systems at a fraction of the cost, they remain massively under-utilised due to perceived friction and trust gaps.

This session dissects this market inefficiency, with insights from LF Research revealing how closed-source dominance is often driven by inertia rather than superior capability. We will explore how to operationalise true independence by rejecting "open-washing" in favour of rigorous frameworks that demand full model completeness: verifying everything from training data to weights. Join us to learn how to transition from renting black-box APIs to architecting a transparent, reproducible, and economically superior AI stack.

Speakers

Vincent Caldeira

CTO APAC, Red Hat

Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat APAC CTO and Industry Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, drives tech strategy and emerging engineering. A Top 10 APAC CTO (2023) with 20+ years in finance IT, he is an authority on open source, cloud-native technologies and AI. Vincent holds leadership... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

11:40 KST

One Binary, Every Package Manager: Shipping a Rust CLI To PyPI, Npm, Homebrew, Winget, and Beyond - Ajit Kumar, Wellmatix

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST

Magnolia

Most dev tools die in obscurity because installation friction kills adoption before the first command is run. This talk provides a battle-tested playbook for solving that problem using evnx—a Rust CLI for validating and secret-scanning `.env "files"—as a real-world case study.

Launched in early 2026, evnx achieved thousands of cross-ecosystem downloads within weeks by treating distribution as a first-class engineering concern. The session breaks down a complete distribution matrix:

Registry Packaging: Using crates.io as a source of truth, Maturin for native Python wheels, and npm wrappers for platform-specific binaries.
OS Package Managers: Automating Homebrew formulas via cargo-dist, plus Scoop and Winget submissions.
Developer Integration: GitHub Actions with SARIF output, pre-commit hooks, and lightweight Docker CI images.
Supply-Chain Security: Leveraging PyPI Trusted Publishing (OIDC), provenance attestations, and cosign for signed containers.

Attendees will receive reusable GitHub Actions workflows and manifest templates from the public evnx repo to ship any Rust CLI across ecosystems without sacrificing security or maintainer sanity.

Speakers

Ajit Kumar

Senior Software Architect, Wellmatix

Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST
Magnolia

Packages + Images + Containers

12:10 KST

Lunch

Tuesday August 11, 2026 12:10 - 13:35 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Tuesday August 11, 2026 12:10 - 13:35 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

13:35 KST

Beyond Round-Robin: GPU-Aware Load Balancing for LLM Inference in Kubernetes - Seokhwan Kong, NETLOX

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Orchid 2

Standard load balancers route LLM requests without awareness of KV-cache state or GPU queue depth — causing inflated Time-To-First-Token and wasted accelerator capacity.

loxilb closes this gap with an eBPF-native AI gateway. The L4 layer uses XDP/TC and kernel sockmap for zero-copy forwarding. The L7 layer adds API-key validation, token-quota enforcement, and accelerator-aware routing via Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads (CHWBL).

This talk focuses on KV-exact routing for P/D disaggregated deployments. When requests share a prompt prefix, prefill GPUs recompute identical KV tensors repeatedly — wasting up to 80% of GPU cycles. Tier 1.5 eliminates this: loxilb tokenizes the prompt in-process (HuggingFace Rust tokenizer via CGO), computes block hashes matching vLLM's internal format, and routes to the exact GPU already holding those KV blocks — via a live inventory fed by vLLM's native ZMQ event stream.

Unlike serving-layer schedulers (llm-d, Dynamo), this runs in the eBPF data-plane hot path with no Kubernetes dependency — works on bare metal, VMs, and BlueField DPUs.

We'll trace a live request through the P/D testbed and share lessons from building GPU-state-aware routing

Speakers

Seokhwan Kong

CO-CEO & CTO, NETLOX

SeokHwan Kong is CTO and Co-Founder of NetLOX and creator of LoxiLB, an open-source eBPF-powered cloud-native load balancer. I holds a Ph.D. from Yonsei University with 15+ years in networking, SDN, Kubernetes, and Telco/5G. He has published at IEEE Future Networks World Forum (2024... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

13:35 KST

KNOD: In-Kernel Network Offload Device for GPU-Accelerated Packet Processing - Taehee Yoo, LINE Investment Technologies & Hoyeon Lee, SUSE

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Orchid 1

GPU compute resources remain inaccessible to the Linux kernel without userspace runtimes (ROCm, CUDA), forcing network packet processing to stay CPU-bound regardless of available GPU capacity.

We present KNOD (in-Kernel Network Offload Device), a Linux kernel framework that enables GPU-accelerated network packet processing entirely within the kernel. KNOD compiles and launches GPU kernels natively, dispatching packet processing workloads directly to the GPU — no ROCm, no userspace involvement, using only publicly documented hardware interfaces.

XDP offload is KNOD's first use case. Building on our LPC 2025 talk, this talk covers: in-kernel GPU kernel compilation targeting AMD GFX9/Vega ISA with post-processing optimizations (latency: ~118µs → ~46µs); a lock-free GPU-side queue between NIC RX path and GPU compute; and branch divergence mitigation to maximize SIMT utilization across heterogeneous packet flows.

At equivalent throughput (~32 Mpps), KNOD reduces system-wide CPU utilization from 40% (CPU-based XDP) to 17-20%. We discuss lessons from MACsec/WireGuard offload attempts and the path toward KNOD as a general kernel framework for GPU-accelerated network functions.

Speakers

Taehee Yoo

Algo Engineer, LINE Investment Technologies

Taehee Yoo is a contributor to the Linux Networking Stack and a maintainer of the AMT module in the networking stack. And he is working as an Algo engineer at LINE Investment Technologies. He is currently focusing on KNOD project.

Hoyeon Lee

BPF System Engineer, SUSE

Hoyeon Lee is a BPF System Engineer at SUSE, focusing on BPF and system internals in the Linux kernel. He enjoys sharing knowledge through writing and speaking, and has been active in open source communities and technical translation.

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

13:35 KST

Science in the Agentic Era: Structured Experimentation With Ado - Alessandro Pomponio, IBM

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

As AI agents become increasingly capable of generating code and executing complex workflows, their use in research is still limited by concerns about rigour and reproducibility. This session introduces ado, an open-source framework that brings structure to agent-driven scientific experimentation.

ado defines schemas for the core elements of a discovery process: the problem space and how to explore it. Agents iteratively propose and refine experimental campaigns as validated configurations based on these schemas, while ado handles execution. This separation of research intent from execution constrains agents to focus on the research task, reducing hallucinations and the need to write boilerplate code. Combined with a set of agent skills for formulating problems, creating and running experiments, and analysing their results, ado provides a framework for end-to-end agent-driven discovery workflows.

Whether you are an experienced researcher or new to computational experimentation, this talk presents a practical model for integrating AI agents into research workflows while keeping experimentation structured, transparent, and reproducible.

Speakers

Alessandro Pomponio

Research Software Engineer, IBM

Alessandro Pomponio is a Research Software Engineer and a member of the Next Generation Systems and Cloud team in IBM Research Europe – Ireland. His work focuses on optimizing containerized workflows and accelerating the scientific discovery process. His main areas of interests... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

13:35 KST

Sponsored Session: Trust by Design: Engineering Reliable Enterprise AI Workflows with Open Source - KyoSeok Kim & Suyeon Woo, IBM

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Rose

When enterprises bring AI into real-world operations, reliability challenges extend far beyond hallucinations and response accuracy. Document structure and meaning can be lost during processing, retrieval may fail to provide sufficient grounding, and models may violate business rules or operational constraints. As agents connect to enterprise systems, additional risks emerge, including unauthorized tool calls and actions that are difficult to trace or audit.
These challenges cannot be addressed by adding a guardrail at the final stage. Reliability must be designed across the entire workflow, from document understanding and retrieval to reasoning, generation, and execution.
This session presents an open-source reference architecture that combines document representation with Docling and DocLang, grounded retrieval and reasoning with OpenRAG and Granite, requirement-driven generation and validation with Mellea, and controlled, observable tool integration with ContextForge.

Speakers

Suyeon Woo

Solutions Architect, IBM

Suyeon Woo is a Solution Architect at IBM, specializing in enterprise AI, application modernization, and cloud-native architecture. He works with organizations across the financial services, telecommunications, and manufacturing sectors to design and implement enterprise AI platforms... Read More →

KyoSeok Kim

Technical Specialist and Senior Systems Management Specialist, IBM

KyoSeok Kim is Technical Specialist on OSS and Hybrid Cloud and Senior Systems Management Specialist in IBM Korea OSS Competency Team experienced 30+year. His working is based on Open Source-based Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and On-prem Infrastructure. His focus is on helping... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Rose

Open AI + Data

13:35 KST

Panel Session: Realizing Sovereign AI: Strategies for Korea’s Tech Sovereignty and AI Independence Via Open Source - Yongkook Kim & Priya Nagpurkar, IBM; Jae Lee, Rebellions; Alice Oh, KAIST

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Magnolia

When global AI development being centralized around proprietary "black-box" models, the demand for Sovereign AI has become a national priority for many countries, including South Korea. True sovereignty requires more than just local data or local LLMs; it demands independence across the entire stack—from silicon up to the software services, as well as AI model itself. This panel challenges the misconception that global technology leaders are incompatible with national goals, demonstrating instead how open-source collaboration is the only viable path to technical and data independence as foundation for Sovereign AI.

Speakers

Alice Oh

Endowed Professor, School of Computing & Head of the Global Cooperation Subcommittee of the Presidential Council on National AI Strategy, KAIST

Alice Oh is a KAIST ICT Endowed Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST and Head of the Global Cooperation Subcommittee of the Presidential Council on National AI Strategy. She received her PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2008. Her major research area is at the intersection... Read More →

Priya Nagpurkar

Vice President, AI-native Systems Research, IBM Research

Jae Lee

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, Rebellions

Dr. Lee leads Forward Deployed Engineering at Rebellions, Korea's sovereign AI chip company, deploying its accelerators into datacenters through deep integration with open-source frameworks. He drives strategic implementation, technology enablement, and customer engagement to accelerate... Read More →

Alex Kim

CTO for Strategic Ecosystem Partnership at IBM, IBM

Yongkook (Alex) is an OSS advocate, and a tech leader with 25+ years in R&D and IT architecture. He started as a security chip engineer at IBM Poughkeepsie, then worked as an enterprise IT architect for financial clients like Morgan Stanley and DTCC. Alex co-founded the Linux Foundation's... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Magnolia

OSS Enabling & Management

14:15 KST

How I Tricked ArgoCD Into Sharding on a Single Cluster - Faeka Ansari, Slice Financial Bank

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Orchid 2

One controller at 846m CPU. The other at 6m. Both running. Both supposedly doing the same job.

We had two ArgoCD application controllers. Scaling looked solved on paper. Except -- one was doing all the work and the other was just... sitting there.

The thing nobody tells you when you first set up ArgoCD HA is that sharding works at the cluster level, not the application level (sadly). So when you only have one cluster -- it doesn't matter how many controller replicas you spin up. The work doesn't split. It all piles onto one pod.

We were running 300+ apps across 11 EKS clusters in a banking environment. Dropping availability was not an option. So we went digging.

What we found was not in the official docs. It was a trick - something so counterintuitive that the first time I thought of it, I laughed. Then I tried it. Then it worked.

This talk is the story of that fix -- how we found it, why it works, and how we shipped it safely to production using Terraform without touching a single app config.

Speakers

Faeka Ansari

Senior Software Engineer | CNCF Ambassador, Slice Financial Bank

Faeka is Senior Software Engineer at fintech startup, an International technical speaker and helping maintain open-source K8s-native projects. She is a Kubernetes Release team member and was an Linux Fn. mentee under Istio. She leads several community initiatives across CNCF, Google... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

14:15 KST

Advanced Performance Profiling Using Perf Tools - Namhyung Kim, Google

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Orchid 1

Explore advanced Linux perf techniques for sophisticated performance analysis. This session delves into specialized areas beyond typical CPU profiling:

* Data Type Profiling: Learn how to associate memory access hotspots with specific data structures and fields, gaining insights into data layout efficiency.
* Latency Profiling: Discover methods to identify and analyze serial execution segments within parallel programs that act as scalability bottlenecks.
* Kernel Lock Contention profiling: Understand how to use perf to detect and analyze kernel-level lock contention issues.
* And more..

This talk will cover the concepts and perf tool methodologies to diagnose these critical performance aspects in both user-space and kernel contexts, empowering you to pinpoint elusive performance problems.

Speakers

Namhyung Kim

Software Engineer, Google

Namhyung Kim is a software engineer at Google. He is a co-maintainer of the Linux perf tools and the creator of uftrace project.

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

14:15 KST

LLMs Change — Where Should Knowledge Live? (Lessons From SBOM) - Koji Annoura, Annoura Office

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Rose

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used to search, summarize, and generate answers. They are powerful, but results are not always stable and can be difficult to verify.

Many systems use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to connect LLMs with external data. This helps, but does not fully solve the problem. The same question can produce different answers depending on the model or context, making knowledge hard to manage.

This raises a simple question: where should knowledge be managed?

A similar issue exists in software supply chains. SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) makes components and relationships visible, but is often treated as static data.

Based on hands-on experience designing graph-based knowledge systems, this session introduces a design approach: managing knowledge outside LLMs as structured, persistent data.

We discuss lessons from SBOM and how graph-based approaches—using technologies such as SQL/PGQ or GQL—can help understand relationships and trace changes.

The focus is a practical way of thinking for more open and sustainable knowledge practices.

Speakers

Koji Annoura

Graph Data & AI Practitioner, Annoura Office

Koji Annoura is a practitioner in graph data and knowledge systems, focusing on modeling relationships in real-world systems.

He co-founded the Neo4j Users Group Tokyo in 2013 and founded the Apache Hop User Group Japan in 2021.
His work focuses on structuring complex data usi... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Rose

Open AI + Data

14:15 KST

The Era of Vibe Coding: Why High-Skill Engineers Are More Critical Than Ever - Yongjin Lee, Songnae High-school

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

"Let’s be real: My AI has dementia."
"Vibe-coding in real: Me and My AI is stupid"
Welcome to the "Vibe Coding" era, where anyone can prompt their way to complex code. But as a 17-year-old developer who "bullied" LLMs to build a custom Linux Based OS (MaruxOS) from scratch, I’ve seen the ugly truth: AI is a brilliant assistant, but a chronic liar with a 5-minute memory.
In this session, I expose the messy reality of AI-native development. I’ll share how I battled "Contextual Dementia"—where AI forgets my ARM64 architecture mid-patch—and survived "Mindless Yes-Clicking Syndrome," where a single trusted prompt almost nuked my entire glibc.
Key Takeaways:
The Hallucination Hunter: Sniffing out AI’s "confident bullshit."
The Dementia Doctor: Managing AI’s memory loss to maintain architectural integrity.
The Final Decider: Moving beyond the "Yes-Clicking" trap to take true technical ownership.
AI might be writing the code, but only a real engineer can stop it from burning the house down.

Speakers

Yongjin Lee

Student, Developer, Songnae High-school

A normal(maybe?) Student from Korea

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

14:15 KST

From Contribution To Culture: 14 Years of Building an OSPO That Outgrew Itself - Darae Ahn, Samsung Electronics

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Magnolia

Over the past decade, many organizations have established OSPOs to manage open source usage and compliance. However, building a sustainable open source culture requires more than policies and processes.

This session shares a 14-year journey of an OSPO that evolved from a contribution-focused group into a broader organization encompassing usage, compliance, and internal enablement.

It explores how open source practices were embedded into engineering culture through project incubation, developer engagement, and internal leadership programs. Over time, these efforts led to a shift where open source activities became self-sustaining, with teams proactively initiating projects and contributions.

The session also reflects on an unexpected outcome: talent mobility. As internal open source leaders grew, many moved on to new opportunities, revealing both retention challenges and the broader impact of cultivating open talent.

Key lessons include the balance between control and autonomy, the role of leadership in cultural change, and how open source can be viewed not only as a compliance requirement, but as a long-term investment in culture and organizational brand.

Speakers

Darae Ahn

Staff Engineer, Open Source Group, Samsung Electronics

I have over 12 years of experience in open source at Samsung Electronics, where I have built and scaled open source programs. My work spans contribution, policy, compliance, and tooling, strengthening organizational capabilities.

I also participate in governance discussions within the community, focusing on how to sustain open source values in evolving development environments... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Magnolia

OSS Enabling & Management

14:55 KST

The Butterfly Effect of a Broken Disk: Top-Down Ceph Troubleshooting To Upstream Contribution - Sangyun Lee, CJ OliveNetworks

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Orchid 2

Tech blogs usually talk about huge Ceph clusters with thousands of disks. But in reality, many of us run smaller on-prem setups. I will share my real experience of debugging a small Ceph cluster (10 nodes, 10 NVMe, 15 normal SSDs) and how tracking a slow app led me to write an upstream C++ patch.

It started when our Valkey (Redis) pods suffered from severe write latency. We checked CephFS metadata and Istio network metrics, but they were fine. So we dug into the storage layer using ceph osd perf. We saw huge latency on one specific node. Looking at the kernel logs (dmesg -k), we found a failing NVMe disk. I will explain the "Slow OSD" issue—how one broken disk can freeze a 3-replication cluster.

During this outage, reading ceph osd perf was very frustrating because the OSD IDs were completely unordered. Since it made debugging harder, I decided to fix it. I looked into Ceph's C++ code, changed the unordered hash map to a sorted vector (std::sort), and opened PR #67915 (https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/67915). I will share my experience discussing the fix with Ceph maintainers and why I believe engineers should fix the open-source tools they use.

Speakers

Sangyun Lee

AI Platform Engineer, CJ OliveNetworks

Sangyun Lee is a 1st-year AI Platform Engineer at CJ OliveNetworks AI Research Lab, building on-prem K8s AI platforms using Ceph, Istio, ArgoCD, and Airflow. As a Kubestronaut (aiming for Golden status by August), he explores the depths of vLLM inference and low-level infrastructure... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

14:55 KST

Bridge X86-64 Applications To ARM64 and RISC-V With Dynamic Binary Translation - Jim Huang & Chi-Kuan Chiu, National Cheng Kung University

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Orchid 1

Running unmodified x86-64 binaries on ARM64 and RISC-V Linux systems remains important, but existing solutions often involve high overhead or depend on platform-specific hardware. Box64 addresses this gap with a wrapping-first architecture that prioritizes native execution by routing calls into host libraries through ABI translation, while reserving JIT compilation for guest code that cannot be directly mapped.

This session presents the core design of Box64 in three parts. First, a native wrapping layer that spans hundreds of libraries, handling entry-point interception and callback bridging. Second, a multi-pass JIT compiler that applies optimizations such as flag liveness analysis and deferred flag computation. Third, system-level integration techniques that enable practical deployment, including container bypass, mixed-bitness coordination with Wine, and memory ordering support on weakly ordered architectures.

We will also share performance results on ARM64 and RISC-V platforms, showing how Box64 achieves near-native performance in favorable cases and significant speedups over traditional emulation approaches.

Speakers

Jim Huang

Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University

Drawing from his contributions to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Jim specializes in real-time performance tuning and optimization of Linux-based automations. Additionally, he is a co-founder of the LXDE project, a lightweight desktop environment widely utilized in embedded... Read More →

Chi-Kuan Chiu

Student, National Cheng Kung University

Chi-Kuan Chiu is a Computer Science student at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He contributes to Box64, the open-source dynamic binary translator that runs x86-64 applications on ARM64 and RISC-V, and builds eBPF-based tooling to profile it across platforms. He will begin... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

14:55 KST

From Black Box To Insight: Observability for AI Agents in Production - Mostafa Radwan, Datadog & Brandon Kang, Akamai Technologies

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Rose

AI agents are quickly moving from prototypes to production systems that manage APIs, tools, and complex reasoning tasks.

Once these systems are deployed, they often act like black boxes, hiding failures, slowdowns, and unexpected behavior.

This session will show you how to add observability to agentic systems with open-source tools and cloud-native tech.

Brandon and Mostafa will break down the lifecycle of an AI agent, covering prompt execution, tool invocation, memory access, and multi-agent coordination, and demonstrate how to make each stage observable.

Using a practical, architecture-focused approach, they will show how to:

- Trace agent workflows across distributed systems
- Monitor latency and token usage
- Detect anomalies such as hallucinations, tool misuse, and runaway behavior.
- Connect LLM behavior with infrastructure metrics like GPU, container, and network data.

They will also present a complete reference architecture that uses open-source projects including OpenTelemetry (OTel), Prometheus, Grafana, and some new tools for LLM observability.

Attendees will learn practical ways to build transparent and reliable production AI agent systems.

Speakers

Mostafa Radwan

Senior Solutions Engineer, Datadog

Brandon Kang

Principal Technical Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Rose

Open AI + Data

14:55 KST

Open Source AI Agents on User-Owned Infra: K3s, MCP, and GPU Sharing in Practice - Miley Fu, OlaresOS

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Most open-source AI demos stop at a chatbot, but real users want agents that can work with private files, call tools, and run close to their important data without sending everything to the public cloud.

This talk shows a practical reference architecture for private agent workflows on a single-node K3s-based personal cloud, including local model serving, private knowledge bases, app sandboxing, secure remote access, and multiple GPU allocation modes for competing AI workloads.

Using an open-source personal cloud OS as a case study, I will share what works, what breaks, and which design choices matter when you try to make local AI usable by developers, creators, and small teams rather than just homelab experts.

Speakers

Miley Fu

DevRel, OlaresOS

Miley us the co-chair and keynote speaker for KubeCon+Open Source Summit and AI Dev China 2024. She works on WasmEdge runtime under Linux Foundation as the founding member for over 6 years. She talks at KubeCon, KCD Beijing+Shenzhen, CloudDay Italy, DevRelCon, Open Source Summit Japan... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

14:55 KST

How AI Is Changing Open Source Communities: Lessons From OpenEuler - Jianmin Wang, openEuler Community

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Magnolia

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how software is developed and maintained. From code generation to automated reviews, AI tools are increasingly influencing how open source communities collaborate. This also introduces new challenges, including how to handle AI-generated contributions, maintain trust and code quality, and define governance for AI-assisted workflows.

In this session, we share experiences from the openEuler community in integrating AI into development processes, including AI-assisted code review, package maintenance, and community guidelines for AI usage, as well as work on frameworks such as Intelligence BooM.

We will discuss how these changes affect contributor workflows, what challenges maintainers face in practice, and what approaches have worked so far. The goal is to provide practical reference points for other open source communities exploring similar directions.

Speakers

Jimmie Wang

Senior Software Engineer, openEuler Community

Jimmie Wang has over a decade of experience in system software and open source, focusing on operating systems, privacy and data, AI Security. He is a core contributor to the openEuler community, serving on the Technical Committee and maintaining multiple SIGs. He is a frequent speaker... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Magnolia

OSS Enabling & Management

15:25 KST

Ask the Experts

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:25 - 15:55 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Come sit down with some open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions! No sign-up necessary. More information to come soon!

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:25 - 15:55 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Ask the Experts

15:25 KST

Afternoon Break

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:25 - 15:55 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:25 - 15:55 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

15:55 KST

From Region To Multi-AZ: Building Resilient Cloud Infrastructure With OpenStack, Kubernetes, and OVN - 승진 한, kt cloud

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST

Orchid 2

As cloud service providers evolve their infrastructure, Multi-AZ architecture becomes essential for service continuity, failure isolation, and operational resilience. However, building a Multi-AZ cloud with open source technologies is not simply about spreading components across data centers. It requires design decisions across compute, networking, storage, observability, automation, and failure validation.

This session shares a CSP’s journey from a region-centric architecture toward a Multi-AZ cloud model using open source technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, OVN, Kube-OVN, OpenStack-Helm, Cluster API, Ceph, and cloud native observability tools.

The talk will cover regional versus AZ-local service design, OpenStack control plane deployment on Kubernetes, zone-aware networking, storage replication, image availability, observability, and DR validation. It will also discuss trade-offs in traffic locality, failover behavior, data consistency, and complexity.

Rather than presenting a vendor-specific platform, this session focuses on reusable architecture patterns and lessons for cloud operators who want to build resilient open cloud infrastructure with open source software.

Speakers

John Haan

cloud engineer, kt cloud

John Haan is a cloud platform engineering leader at kt cloud, focusing on open source-based cloud infrastructure, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and cloud native operations. His work includes OpenStack-on-Kubernetes architecture, Multi-AZ cloud design, automation, observability, and resilient... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

15:55 KST

Panel Session: The Next Phase for Digital Money: From Pilots to Production in Korea and Beyond with Open Source - Julian Gordon, LF Decentralized Trust; Alice Kim, Independent; Jisu Park, SOOHO.IO Inc.; Joonyi Sung, Bank of Korea; Jake Kim, FairSquareLab

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST

Rose

The shift to digital money is accelerating in Korea and globally - central bank digital currency pilots, tokenized deposits, and real-world asset tokenization are moving toward production, stablecoins are gaining regulatory clarity. However, key challenges remain around interoperability, scalability and integration with existing financial systems.

In this panel, Julian Gordon, VP Asia Pacific & Middle East at LF Decentralized Trust, will host a discussion with leaders from Korea’s financial and technology ecosystem on moving from PoC to production-grade digital money infrastructure.

Panelists will share insights from initiatives including CBDC pilots, public-private collaboration, agentic AI integration, and developments in tokenized deposits and assets – exploring how open source decentralized technologies are improving settlement efficiency, programmability and interoperability across platforms and networks.

They will examine the role of open development, governance and standards in building secure, scalable systems. Attendees will gain practical perspectives on architecture, ecosystem coordination and policy shaping the next phase of digital money.

Speakers

Jake Kim

CEO & Founder, FairSquareLab

Jake Joonhong Kim is a technology entrepreneur leading the on-chain transformation of South Korea’s financial industry. Since founding FairSquare Lab (FSL) in 2018, he has focused on integrating blockchain technology into institutional finance, drawing on 30 years of experience... Read More →

Julian Gordon

VP, Asia Pacific and Middle East, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

As VP, Asia Pacific and Middle East, for LF Decentralized Trust, Julian Gordon works with business leaders and technologists across the region to drive development and deployment of a growing ecosystem of open source blockchain, ledger, identity, cryptographic, and related technologies... Read More →

Jisu Park

CEO & Founder, SOOHO.IO Inc.

CEO and Founder of SOOHO.IO, a blockchain infrastructure company pioneering institutional-grade FX solutions for digital assets. Expert in smart contract security, blockchain standardization, and regulatory compliance. Built security audit systems and deployed blockchain infrastructure... Read More →

Joonyi Sung

Team Head, Bank of Korea

Joonyi Sung is the IT Head of Project Hangang at the Bank of Korea, leading the nation’s pioneering digital currency initiative. Since joining the Bank in 2004, he has built a multidisciplinary career as an IT Manager, Strategist, and Economist. He holds Master’s degrees in Public... Read More →

Alice Kim

Fintech & Payments Consultant, Independent

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST
Rose

Cloud + Orchestration

15:55 KST

Maximizing Heterogeneous Memory Bandwidth in Multi-Socket Systems - Rakie Kim, Yunjeong Mun & Honggyu Kim, SK Hynix

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST

Orchid 1

The advent of heterogeneous memory like CXL allows systems to secure additional bandwidth, but effectively utilizing it remains challenging. While widely adopted memory tiering optimizes latency by migrating hot pages to fast memory, bandwidth-intensive workloads require utilizing multiple memory tiers simultaneously.

To address this, Weighted Interleaving was introduced to distribute pages proportionally based on each node's bandwidth. However, it has a critical limitation: it ignores the physical topology of multi-socket systems, often leading to inefficient cross-socket memory accesses.

To resolve this, we introduce Socket-aware Weighted Interleave, an advanced memory policy currently being upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel. It recognizes multi-socket boundaries, preventing performance degradation from unintended remote accesses and maximizing total throughput via localized allocation.

This advanced policy is a newly integrated feature of HMSDK, an open-source toolkit introduced last year. This session will focus primarily on this new capability, exploring how HMSDK efficiently manages large-scale CXL and heterogeneous memory systems.

Speakers

Honggyu Kim

Principal Software Engineer, SK hynix

Honggyu Kim is a principal software engineer and team lead at SK hynix. His interests are memory profiling and management in the Linux kernel especially focusing on CXL memory expansion solutions. He has also worked on tracing, binary analysis tools as well as performance and memory... Read More →

Yunjeong Mun

engineer, SK hynix

Yunjeong Mun is a senior engineer at SK hynix. Her research interest is emerging memory system software and performance analysis.

Rakie Kim

Principal Software Engineer, SK Hynix

Rakie Kim is a Principal Software Engineer at SK hynix, specializing in Linux kernel memory management. He focuses on building solutions to maximize system performance using heterogeneous memory architectures like CXL. Notably, he serves as a reviewer for the Linux kernel's Memory... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

15:55 KST

MCP Adoption and Why OSPO Skills Matter - Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Linux Foundation (TODO Group and PyTorch Foundation)

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

As organizations explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP), many of the early conversations naturally happen around AI tooling, integrations, and experimentation. At the same time, MCP may also raise questions that are familiar to Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) and related teams or professionals with open source management experience, including governance, contribution strategy, standards engagement, and cross-functional coordination

This talk reflects on what organizations might gain by bringing those perspectives into MCP discussions earlier, as well as into their broader Agentic AI strategy. Rather than treating MCP only as a technical AI topic, the session will explore it as an area where open source process knowledge may also add value. Attendees will leave with ideas for how OSPOs can contribute to MCP adoption in practical, collaborative, and organization-aware ways

Speakers

Ana Jiménez Santamaría

Senior Project Manager, Linux Foundation

Ana Jiménez Santamaría is an open source community leader and data scientist with 5+ years of experience at the Linux Foundation, working as Sr. project manager supporting global, multi-stakeholder IT ecosystems. She is also an Agentic AI Foundation Ambassador, helping developers... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

15:55 KST

Skills-as-Packages: A Package Manager for AI Agent Skills - Brahada Srinivas, Amazon

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST

Magnolia

AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex learn libraries via SKILL.md files, but these skills are currently unversioned, ungoverned, and unshared. We solved code dependency management with pip and npm — now it's time to solve it for AI knowledge.
This talk presents an open-source, package-manager-style system for agent skills. Skills are linked to their packages, versioned with semver, declared in skills.toml, and locked via skills-lock.toml — just like regular dependencies.
The CLI (skills add, install, lock, publish) feels native to any developer using pip or uv.
We'll cover:

The SKILL.md open standard (YAML frontmatter + Markdown) — model-agnostic and runtime-agnostic
Manifest format supporting version constraints, inheritance, and monorepo scoping
Resolver that enforces constraint narrowing across org hierarchies
Registry with publishing, discovery, approval workflows, and security scanning
Real cases where this prevented production incidents by keeping agents on correct, up-to-date patterns

Live demo: Add a skill, resolve dependencies, publish it, and watch a new engineer's agent instantly get the right knowledge - no onboarding docs required.

Speakers

Brahada Srinivas

Senior Engineer, Amazon

Brahada Srinivas is a senior engineer working at Amazon focused on developer productivity and AI-assisted workflows. She designs systems at the intersection of package management and AI agent governance - making sure agents don't just write code, but write the right code. He is the... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST
Magnolia

Open AI + Data

16:35 KST

What Happens When Your AI Agent Meets OPA - Jyoti Bisht & Animesh Pathak, Harness

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST

Orchid 2

Tom and Jerry has run for over 80 years. Every episode follows the same plot: Tom builds an elaborate trap, Jerry walks straight through it, the house is destroyed, and the owner blames Tom. Sound familiar?

This talk is structured exactly like a Tom and Jerry cartoon except Tom is OPA and Jerry is your AI agent. Jerry is not malicious. He just wants the cheese. He will find every gap in every policy, squeeze through every webhook, and retreat to his mouse hole (MCP) the moment Tom gets close. The audience will root for Jerry. Jerry is still the problem.

We walk through three episodes. Episode one: Jerry discovers he can call kubectl delete and Tom's first policy stops him — but not before he's renamed two deployments. Episode two: Jerry finds a namespace Tom forgot to cover and provisions a GPU node at $8/hour. Episode three: Jerry and Tom finally cooperate — the agent runs a legitimate right-sizing workflow, OPA approves every step, and the cluster is actually better for it.

You'll leave with an OPA policy library for agentic tool-call governance, Argo Workflows, and a threat model built from real agent misbehaviour.

Speakers

Animesh Pathak

DevRel Engineer, Harness

Jyoti Bisht

DevRel Engineer, Independent

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

16:35 KST

Flexible Paging in Linux: Per-process Page Size - Dev Jain, Arm Ltd

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST

Orchid 1

Applications often run faster on a 64K page size kernel than on 4K. This is because larger pages reduce TLB pressure and pagetable walk overhead, greatly improving memory access speed. But, sysadmins are hesitant to use a 16K/64K kernel as most applications have been historically tuned for 4K pages, and larger pages can increase memory waste due to internal fragmentation. This creates a tradeoff between performance and memory waste.

We propose a design that changes the game by separating the page size of the user and the kernel. Instead of enforcing a single system-wide page size, processes can operate under different page-size ABIs. A performance-critical app can use a 64K page-size ABI while still running on a 4K kernel. We achieve this by enabling Linux to provide memory in 64K chunks via 16 contiguous 4K pages, and by translating operations on the 4K page table into a 64K “native” page table that serves as the actual hardware page table.

At the same time, lightweight or memory-sensitive applications can continue using 4K pages to minimize memory waste. All of this happens on the same Linux kernel, without requiring separate builds of the kernel.

Speakers

Dev Jain

Software Engineer, Arm Ltd

Dev is a software engineer at Arm India. He does Linux kernel development as part of the kernel Memory Management Performance team at Arm. Besides the kernel, he is interested in algorithms and mathematics.

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

16:35 KST

Benchmarking Beyond OpenSearch: Multi-Engine Vector Search Performance With OSB - Mike Oviedo, AWS

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

As vector search becomes foundational to AI workloads, teams need reliable ways to evaluate engine performance before committing to one. We extended OpenSearch Benchmark (OSB) to support Milvus and Vespa alongside OpenSearch, making it possible to compare throughput, latency, and recall across engines using the same datasets and query patterns.

In this talk, we'll walk through how OSB's new engine-as-module architecture lets you benchmark any search engine with a single CLI command. We'll show how customizable workload parameters control everything from HNSW graph construction to bulk ingestion strategies, and demonstrate how to visualize comparative results in OpenSearch Dashboards, turning raw benchmark data into actionable performance insights.

Whether you're evaluating engines for a new project or optimizing an existing deployment, you'll leave with practical knowledge of how to run your own benchmarks and how to extend OSB to support additional engines by implementing five functions.

Speakers

Mike Oviedo

Software Engineer, AWS

Michael Oviedo is a software engineer at AWS, working on performance and benchmarking tools for OpenSearch. He is a maintainer of the OpenSearch Benchmark project. Outside of work he enjoys playing golf and visiting national parks.

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

16:35 KST

Computer Programming Is Dead; Long Live AI-First Programming - Stephen Chin, Neo4j & Cassandra Chin, Independent

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST

Magnolia

Computer science graduates are facing an increasingly difficult job market. Recent data shows a sharp decline in employment outcomes for computer science majors, highlighting the mismatch between what universities teach and what employers now demand. The traditional model of teaching syntax first and hoping students eventually build something useful is no longer working. In this keynote we argue that programming as we knew it is effectively dead. The future lies in AI-First programming, built on the simple loop of try, learn, and grow. Learners try building code with AI assistance, learn by unpacking the generated code and asking AI for detailed explanations, and grow by testing and extending real applications. This loop not only builds confidence but also ensures we grow the generation of AI engineers that companies are desperate to hire.

Speakers

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, conference chair of the LF AI & Data Foundation, and author of numerous titles including the upcoming GraphRAG: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly. He has given keynotes and main stage talks at numerous conferences around the world... Read More →

Cassandra Chin

Java Champion, Book Author, Keynote Speaker, Kids Workshop Instructor, Independent

Cassandra Chin is a keynote speaker, book author, podcast host, children's workshop instructor, and a computer science student. She has been teaching technology kids workshops at international conferences since she was 13 years old and is passionate about helping allow women, minorities... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Magnolia

Open AI + Data

16:35 KST

Exploring HiFloat8: A Tapered Format Complementing the FP8 Ecosystem for Robust Model Training - Yun Zhao & Haonan Zhang, Huawei

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST

Rose

Standard FP8 formats suffer from frequent gradient overflows and heavy reliance on complex Delayed Scaling, which often lead to training instability or suboptimal convergence in large models. This session introduces HiFloat8 (HiF8) — a tapered precision format that offers an alternative approach to managing dynamic range. This "natural" alignment with neural network weight/gradient distributions allows HiF8 to capture high-magnitude outliers without the aggressive scaling required by standard FP8.We explore how HiF8 can works in the training and inference procedure.We will demonstrate the implementation of HiF8 within the ecosystem. They allow developers to evaluate performance of Hif8 on GPUs. Also, we will give an analysis of training stability and final loss parity where HiF8 provides relatively the same accuracy and 1.5-1.7 times GEMM performance than FP16. Finally, we will share insights from our ongoing collaboration on dedicated hardware support for HiF8.

Speakers

Haonan Zhang

Senior Engineer, PhD, Huawei Co,. Ltd.

Yun Zhao

Senior Engineer, Huawei

2025-Now Senior Engineer, Huawei Co,. Ltd
2021-2025 PhD student, Tsinghua University

Tuesday August 11, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Rose

Open AI + Data

17:15 KST

From Frankenstein To Kamaji: Lessons in Building a Single CAPI Cluster Across Multiple Providers - Antonia von den Driesch, Giant Swarm

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST

Orchid 2

At Giant Swarm we use Cluster API to provision and bootstrap our k8s clusters. With this setup, control plane (CP) and worker nodes must run on the same infrastructure which was never an issue so far...

However, in bare-metal environments, using 128-core servers for CP nodes is luxury. It's far more efficient to host them as virtual machines on a hypervisor while keeping workers on physical hardware. But can we get around CAPI's limitations?

We will walk through how we built Frankenstein's cluster by mixing vSphere for the CP and Proxmox for workers as a testing ground. While technically functional, this required "hacky engineering". We will share the hurdles we hit and the operational risks of this hybrid cluster setup.

Finally, we will demonstrate how we solved this challenge with a cleaner, upstream-friendly alternative. Kamaji lets us run the CP as pods in a management cluster. We achieved even better resource optimisation with full native community support and no custom hacks.

Speakers

Antonia von den Driesch

Platform Engineer, Giant Swarm

Antonia has been a platform engineer at Giant Swarm for 5 years and is currently working on development of Giant Swarms Industrial IoT platform which brings their managed Kubernetes product to Smart Factory customers.

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

17:15 KST

Implementing a Stateless V4L2 Decoder Driver: Architecture and Lessons Learned - SungHo Lee, Chips&Media

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST

Orchid 1

Stateless video decoding has become the standard approach in V4L2 using the Request API, but implementing a stateless decoder driver remains complex. It requires careful handling of codec parameters, buffer management, and coordination between userspace and the kernel.

This session presents a practical overview of implementing a stateless V4L2 decoder driver based on real development experience. It covers how SPS/PPS and per-frame parameters are passed from userspace, how reference frames are managed, and how hardware constraints are handled within a generic V4L2 framework.

We also discuss common pitfalls such as synchronization issues and buffer lifecycle management, and highlight key differences from traditional stateful decoders.

Attendees will gain a clear understanding of stateless decoder architecture and practical insights for developing robust V4L2 drivers.

Speakers

Sungho Lee

Senior Principal Researcher, Chips&Media

I am a software engineer specializing in Linux media and video codec driver development. I have hands-on experience implementing V4L2 drivers for hardware encoders and decoders, including stateless decoding and advanced codec controls such as ROI and QP mapping. My work focuses on... Read More →

v4l2 stateless decoder en pdf

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

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GitAIOps: A 4-Layer Architecture for Predictable AI-Assisted Operations - Hoon Jo, Megazone

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST

Magnolia

AI agents have no memory between sessions. Every conversation starts from zero. Git becomes the only persistent memory an AI agent can rely on. GitAIOps is the pattern built on this principle: Git is the memory, and a 4-layer architecture defines what goes into that memory.

I applied this to a production migration: 15 Helm releases, Kafka ZooKeeper-to-KRaft, Redis-to-Valkey, full observability stack rebuild. The question: what does Git need to contain so any AI session picks up where the last one left off?

The answer is a 4-layer Git structure, each layer born from a production failure.
Layer 1: Human plans in Git (36 files, 23,854 lines). Too verbose for AI.
Layer 2: Distilled AI context in Git (6 files, 1,254 lines). 19:1 compression as a project state dashboard.
Layer 3: Command Guardrails in Git (117 files). Enforced ordering, no AI-generated commands.
Layer 4: Locked values in Git (30 files). Zero interpretation, reviewed like code.

Every AI action reads from Git, executes, and commits back. The loop is closed.

DEV: 2 weeks → 2 days. PROD: 1 week → 1 day. The session covers the architecture, each layer's failure, and real production artifacts.

Speakers

Hoon Jo

CNCF & AAIF Ambassador | AI & Cloud Native Engineer, Megazone

Hoon Jo is a CNCF Ambassador and Kubestronaut who has spoken at KubeCon North America, Europe, China, and India across multiple years. He is the author of multiple books on Kubernetes and AI-assisted operations. His current work focuses on building operational patterns where AI agents... Read More →

OSS Summit Korea 2026 GitAIOps A 4 Layer Architecture for Predictable AI Assisted Operations Hoon Jo,Megazone pdf

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST
Magnolia

Open AI + Data

17:15 KST

How x402 Brings Open Source Governance to Payments - Junhyeok Yoo, Four Pillars

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST

Rose

In April 2026, x402 joined the Linux Foundation with over 20 founding members. It is the first payment protocol under open source governance at the Linux Foundation.

x402 activates HTTP 402 "Payment Required," reserved in 1997 but never used. A server responds with 402 and payment terms, the client settles on-chain, the resource is delivered. Apache 2.0, zero protocol fees, chain-agnostic, no single-organization dependency.

Part 1: Why now. Every internet layer runs on open protocols except payments. That breaks when AI agents must pay at machine speed. We map the agentic payment stack and ask: is it open, who governs it?

Part 2: How x402 works. HTTP 402 challenge-response, stateless architecture, one middleware line to gate any API, production deployments today.

Part 3: Bottom-up to foundation. x402 was open-sourced, developers adopted it, major infrastructure providers shipped native support, competing protocols chose to integrate x402 rather than build a rival. Then it moved to the Linux Foundation.

Part 4: What comes next. The protocol is early. Foundation governance changes the signal. We examine what sustained adoption requires.

Speakers

Junhyeok Yoo

Researcher, Four Pillars

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST
Rose

Open AI + Data

17:15 KST

Personalisation and Specialisation of Search With OpenSearch Agentic Search - Cedric Pelvet & Aswath Srinivasan, AWS

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Agentic search lets you ask in Natural Language and have OpenSearch plan and execute retrieval. The Query Planner re-writes Natural Language to OpenSearch DSL using SOTA LLMs. This works amazingly well but not without important limitations:

1/ The biggest factor is added latency for remote inference. eCommerce Search demands sub-100ms response times. Even the best results when slow lead to search abandonment.
2/ We'll demo overcoming latency by hosting SLMs locally within OpenSearch nodes using vLLM/Ollama. This is faster & cheaper, but SLMs suffer quality decline in query re-writes. We'll explore fine-tuning with domain-specific data—proving fine-tuned SLMs beat SOTA LLMs.
3/ Relevance remains generic even with Agentic Search. We'll show how to improve it using user and business contexts with hybrid search and reranking.

This hands-on talk covers:
1/ Search Latency with Remote Inference
2/ Locally hosting SLMs using vLLM/Ollama
3/ Agentic search with SLM Local Inference
4/ Improving relevance with user and business contexts
5/ Fine-tuning SLMs for domain-specific query re-writing via Axolotl/LLaMA-Factory

Speakers

Cedric Pelvet

Principal OpenSearch Specialist SA, Amazon Web Services

Cédric Pelvet is a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, focusing on AI and near-realtime distributed systems for data like OpenSearch, Kafka and Flink.

Aswath Srinivasan

Senior Search Engine Architect,, OpenSearch @ AWS

Aswath Srinivasan is a Senior Search Engine Architect at Amazon Web Services currently based in Munich, Germany. With over 18 years of experience in various search technologies, Aswath currently focuses on OpenSearch. He is a search and open-source enthusiast and helps customers and... Read More →

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

17:45 KST

LFX Mentorship Showcase

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:45 - 18:45 KST

Solutions Showcase - Grand Ballroom Foyer

The LFX Mentorship Showcase is an opportunity for graduating mentees of the LFX Mentorship program to showcase the work they completed during their session term.

This event is free and open to all. Join us to explore the experiences of LF Mentorship Program mentees, discover the exciting projects they are working on, recruit fresh talent, and support new developer contributions.

The Linux Foundation’s Mentorship Program helps developers – many of whom are first-time open source contributors – gain the skills and experience necessary to contribute effectively to open source communities.

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:45 - 18:45 KST
Solutions Showcase - Grand Ballroom Foyer

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Solutions Showcase - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Tuesday August 11, 2026 17:45 - 18:45 KST
Solutions Showcase - Grand Ballroom Foyer

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