Open Source Summit Korea 2026: Full Schedule

11-12, August 2026
Seoul, South Korea
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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

Current Role: Member of the 22nd National Assembly, Republic of Korea (Trade, Industry, Energy, SMEs, and Startups Committee)Key Past Experience:Former Vice Chairman, Presidential Committee on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (Sep 2025 – May 2026)Former Director-General... Read More →

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

Keynote Sessions

Presentation Language Korean

09:10 KST

Keynote: Welcome - 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

Presentation Language English

09:50 KST

Keynote: Linux in the Land of LLMs - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel Maintainer & 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

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

Keynote Sessions

Presentation Language English
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10:05 KST

Keynote: Open Models Need Open Memory - Nigel Brown, Senior OSS Developer Advocate - Valkey, Amazon Web Services

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

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Modern AI agents are only as useful as what they can remember. Behind every agent that recalls a user, holds a session, or retrieves context sits a data layer that has to be fast, durable, and portable across the places the agent runs. That memory layer is becoming critical infrastructure, and how it is built and governed determines whether teams stay in control of their own systems or inherit the constraints of whoever owns the layer beneath them. This talk examines the technical problem of stateful memory for AI agents at low latency and scale: the architectural patterns for session state and vector retrieval, the trade-offs between them, and why the licensing and governance of the data layer matter as much as its performance. Valkey, a community-governed key-value datastore under the Linux Foundation, serves as a case study in how these challenges can be met in the open.

Speakers

Nigel Brown

Senior OSS Developer Advocate, Valkey, Amazon Web Services

Nigel is a Senior Developer Advocate based in Austin, Texas. He was drawn to the craft of software engineering because of the agency it provides people to build and interact with worlds of their own creation. He focuses on Cloud Native technologies and his passions in technology are... Read More →

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

Keynote Sessions

Presentation Language English

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

Presentation Language English

Open Source Summit Korea 2026

09:00 KST

Munyeong Lim

09:10 KST

Jim Zemlin

09:50 KST

Greg Kroah-Hartman

10:05 KST

Nigel Brown

10:15 KST

Priya Nagpurkar

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