Open Source Summit Korea 2026: Full Schedule

11-12, August 2026
Seoul, South Korea
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08:00 KST

Sponsor Showcase

Wednesday August 12, 2026 08:00 - 15:55 KST

Sponsor Showcase - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Wednesday August 12, 2026 08:00 - 15:55 KST
Sponsor Showcase - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Sponsor Showcase

08:00 KST

Registration + Badge Pick-up

Wednesday August 12, 2026 08:00 - 17:45 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Wednesday August 12, 2026 08:00 - 17:45 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

09:00 KST

Keynote: Welcome Back - Jim Zemlin, CEO, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday August 12, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 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 →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Keynote Sessions

09:10 KST

Keynote Sessions To Be Announced

Wednesday August 12, 2026 09:10 - 10:05 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Wednesday August 12, 2026 09:10 - 10:05 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Keynote Sessions

10:10 KST

Keynote: Building Trust in the Age of AI: From Data Openness to Responsible Innovation - Dr. Hongrak Lee, President and Chief AI Officer, LG AI Research

Wednesday August 12, 2026 10:10 - 10:25 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

This presentation examines the evolving role of open data in the next phase of artificial intelligence development, and the growing imperative to align innovation with trust. As AI systems become increasingly data-driven, the quality, origin, and governance of data are emerging as foundational issues that will shape not only technological progress, but also public confidence and global competitiveness.
The talk situates these developments within a broader shift toward greater transparency and accountability in AI, reflected in emerging policy directions such as the EU AI Act and Korea’s Korean AI Basic Act. Rather than viewing openness as a risk to be constrained, it explores how responsible data practices and shared governance approaches can enable wider participation in AI development while maintaining integrity and trust.
Ultimately, the presentation argues that the future of AI will depend not only on model performance, but on the strength of the underlying data ecosystem. Building sustainable trust around open data—through transparency, collaboration, and accountability—will be critical to unlocking the full potential of AI at scale.

Speakers

Dr. Hongrak Lee

President and Chief AI Officer, LG AI Research

Honglak Lee is currently an Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of Artificial Intelligence at LG AI Research and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously he worked as a Research Scientist at Google Research, Brain Team... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 10:10 - 10:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Keynote Sessions

10:30 KST

Morning Break

Wednesday August 12, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Wednesday August 12, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

11:00 KST

Building and Orchestrating Production-ready Agentic AI Systems - Kevin Dubois, IBM & Daniel Oh, Red Hat

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Orchid 2

Agentic AI is all the hype right now, but how do you actually implement such a system for real enterprise, cloud based use cases?

The challenge for developers, architects and platform engineers alike lies in custom building agents, and even more so, orchestrating these agents to collaborate effectively towards a common goal. Unfortunately though, despite all the promises from vendors, a "one-size-fits-all" or “off-the-shelf” approach just doesn't work due to the complex nature of software. In addition, just like traditional apps, these agentic systems will likely need to be deployed, managed and observed in cloud environments.

In this session we'll explore:
* The spectrum of Agentic AI patterns
* A real world-ish implementation of a highly performant - open source - agentic system (with Java!)
* Deploying this agentic system to Kubernetes
* Other considerations such as observability and fault tolerance to get it all running smoothly in production.

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

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, open source, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

11:00 KST

Exploring Unikernel: An Empirical Comparison With Linux - Taekyung Kang & Kyungha Kim, Boeing

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Chrysanthemum

Unikernels are specialized operating systems designed for efficiency by including only the components needed by an application. By eliminating the traditional user–kernel separation and omitting general-purpose services such as background daemons and unused device drivers, this design reduces system complexity and overhead while providing a fundamentally different execution model from conventional Linux systems.
This study examines the structure of Unikraft-based unikernels from a library operating system perspective. It also presents an empirical comparison with Linux under controlled conditions. Both systems were deployed on the same Xen hypervisor and executed on a hardware platform, running the same application with a common subset of POSIX APIs. Execution latency was measured, and assembly-level analysis was performed to investigate potential reasons for the observed differences.
The results are presented as an example of combining performance measurement and low-level inspection when analyzing specialized operating systems. Similar approaches may be applicable to other specialized OS or unikernel contexts, depending on the application and execution environment.

Speakers

Kyungha Kim

Software Engineer, Boeing

Software Engineer at Boeing, currently working on the Boeing Linux team since 2025. Previously involved in BFMS CPS verification at Boeing and HILS for infrared missile systems at the Agency for Defense Development in South Korea.

Taekyung Kang

Software engineer, Boeing

Software Engineer at Boeing
- Boeing Linux (Current)
- Computing Platform Software Verification

Systems Engineer at Agency for Defense Development
- Unmanned Reconnaissance Vehicle systems

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Chrysanthemum

Embedded

11:00 KST

Fusing AOSP and Linux! To Open a New Chapter for Linux Desktops - Yong Gong, Phytium: OpenFDE open-source community

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Orchid 1

The Linux desktop system boasts strong customization and freedom, but its application ecosystem has long been a weakness. Recently, the Android system has millions of applications, covering all aspects of work and life. If we could integrate these and create a brand-new desktop experience, what kind of impact would it have?

This presentation will introduce our open-source project - OpenFDE (Open Fusion Desktop Environment). This is an innovative desktop environment that integrates the Android open-source project (AOSP) deeply with Linux applications, enabling users to run various Android applications seamlessly on their Linux desktops.

We will share:
1、Project Vision: Why did we choose AOSP and Linux integration? What problems are we aiming to solve?
2、Core Architecture: How do we achieve the integration of these two major systems? In-depth analysis of the key technologies of OpenFDE in terms of graphics, window management, and application lifecycle.
3、Live Demonstration: Witness firsthand the smooth coexistence of Linux and the latest Android applications (including large-scale games) in the OpenFDE environment.

Speakers

yong gong

Associate Researcher, Engineer, Phytium: OpenFDE open-source community

Over 6 years of experience porting Android systems to Linux. A major contributor and administrator of the OpenFDE project, primarily responsible for product form planning and implementation. Has in-depth understanding of the technical principles and development history of the Linux... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

11:00 KST

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

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

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 →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

11:00 KST

When Semantic Search Breaks: RAM Walls, Silent Failures, and the Architecture Decisions That Actual - Jeevan D C, Entain

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST

Rose

The team shipped semantic search. It worked. Then came 100M vectors, a RAM bill that tripled overnight, filtered queries silently returning zero results, and a proposal to "just add Pinecone alongside Postgres."

This talk is for engineers who've already built the thing and now need to scale it without burning the budget or the team. We'll do the RAM math that should happen before any architecture decision, walk through quantization strategies that deliver 32x compression with 95%+ recall, show why filtered search is the #1 silent production failure, and lay out when DiskANN, hybrid BM25+vector search, or a specialized vector DB actually makes sense — and when it doesn't.

Live demos included. Decision matrices to take back to the team on Monday. No hype, just trade-offs in plain English.

Speakers

Jeevan D C

Senior Principal Engineer, Entain

I build systems, teams, and the structures that connect them. I've architected consumer apps for 30M users at Southeast Asia's largest telco, wrote the first line of code for a digital bank that scaled to 1.5M customers in 18 months, and migrated an entire cloud (Alicloud → GCP... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:00 - 11:30 KST
Rose

Open AI + Data

11:40 KST

From Static Rules To Reasoning Platforms: Scaling Intelligent Canary Delivery in 2026 - Daniel Oh, Red Hat

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

Orchid 2

As organizations scale their Kubernetes footprint, the "Day 2" reality of GitOps becomes clear: static thresholds are brittle. Standard Canary rollouts rely on fixed Prometheus queries (e.g., Error Rate < 1%), but these rules lack the context to distinguish between a minor transient blip and a systemic failure. For Platform Engineers, this results in "Alert Fatigue" and manual "promotion" gates that slow down the delivery pipeline.
In 2026, we are moving from Static Automation to Reasoning Platforms.
This session explores how to evolve your delivery infrastructure into an intelligent system that doesn't just follow rules, but reasons through data. We will demonstrate how to wrap ArgoCD Rollouts with an Agentic Reasoning Layer capable of cross-referencing metrics, logs, and distributed traces to make autonomous "Go/No-Go" decisions.

We will trigger a Canary deployment that passes basic health checks but introduces a "silent failure" (e.g., a cache hit-rate drop causing downstream latency). You will see the Reasoning Platform detect the anomaly, pause the rollout, "investigate" the root cause, and present a natural-language justification for the automated rollback.

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

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

Cloud + Orchestration

11:40 KST

From CVEs To Compliance: Automating Embedded Linux Kernel Security - Kyungsik Lee, LG Electronics

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

Chrysanthemum

Global security regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) have raised security requirements for embedded products. Open source components, especially the Linux kernel, must now support systematic vulnerability management, fast security patching, and long-term maintenance, making kernel security a key challenge.

This session discusses practical solutions for managing Linux kernel vulnerabilities in embedded products. It begins with an overview of recent kernel CVE trends and their impact on long-lived and customized kernels. The session then introduces a CI-based vulnerability response pipeline designed to minimize the time from CVE disclosure to patch deployment.

A key challenge is backporting security fixes to older or vendor-modified kernels, where patches often do not apply cleanly. To address this, the session presents an AI agent–based approach that assists developers by analyzing CVE data, upstream patches, and kernel context to suggest candidate backports.

By adopting an AI-assisted vulnerability response workflow, teams can reduce response time and prepare for compliance with evolving global security regulations.

Speakers

Kyungsik Lee

Senior Software Engineer, LG Electronics

Kyungsik Lee is a Senior Software Engineer at LG Electronics working on the Linux kernel for embedded consumer products. He currently focuses on kernel security, including vulnerability response and patch management. He has spoken at LinuxCon Japan and Open Source Summit + Embedded... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 KST
Chrysanthemum

Embedded

11:40 KST

Run Queue Secrets: How the Linux Scheduler Shapes Your Application Performance - Anjali Jain, Amazon Web Services & Abhineet Saxena, Atlassian

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

Orchid 1

In modern cloud environments, CPU usage often looks healthy while applications still experience latency and unpredictable slowdowns. In one Kubernetes based system running latency sensitive workloads, services degraded despite CPU staying below 50%. Traditional monitoring showed no clear issue, leading to delayed debugging and reactive fixes.

This case study highlights how the real bottleneck was hidden in the Linux scheduler specifically run queue contention and scheduling delays. By examining run queue depth and task scheduling behavior, the team uncovered how fairness-driven scheduling (CFS) impacted performance under load. The session also touches on how newer approaches like EEVDF aim to improve scheduling decisions.

The result was faster root cause identification, better workload tuning, and improved application responsiveness without scaling resources.

Key Takeaways:

- Why CPU utilization can mislead performance analysis
- How run queue depth and scheduling latency impact applications
- The gap between fair scheduling and real-world performance
- What’s changing in modern schedulers (CFS > EEVDF)
- Practical ways to reason about scheduler related bottlenecks

Speakers

Abhineet Saxena

Systems Reliability Engineering II, Nutanix

Abhineet Saxena is a Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS, Linux, and DevOps, and an AWS User Group and CNCF Community Leader. He has organized and spoken at events like Kubernetes Birthday Bash, Grafana Jaipur, and Navigating the Cloud. A speaker at KubeCon India 2026, he focuses on... Read More →

Anjali Jain

Cloud Support Engineer Networking, Amazon Web Services

Anjali Jain is an IT Engineer currently serving customers at Amazon Web Services (AWS), helping them design and optimize cloud solutions with best practices in the Networking domain. She began her career as a Software Engineer at Infosys, building scalable applications, and now focuses... Read More →

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

Linux

11:40 KST

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

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

Grand Ballroom 2-3

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

Mostafa is a technologist specialized in cloud native computing, observability, and security.

He started his career as a software engineer before getting in the trenches of application and production support.

He worked as a Solutions Architect at Docker where he helped enterp... Read More →

Brandon Kang

Principal Technical Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies

Brandon Kang is a principal solutions architect at Akamai, driving cloud-native and AI initiatives.
With experience at Samsung, Microsoft, and Akamai, he brings deep expertise in large scale cloud native architecture and AI.
He is the author of 12 IT books on S/W engineering, Sec... Read More →

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

Open AI + Data

11:40 KST

Simplifying Edge Compute for Open-Source AI - Reza Jelveh, Dynamia

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

Rose

The open-source community is rapidly producing powerful, autonomous AI agents capable of complex reasoning and tool use, such as Hermes and OpenClaw. However, the barrier to entry for deploying these agents remains high, often requiring complex infrastructure setups and significant computational resources. To truly democratize access to agentic AI, we must simplify the deployment and management of edge compute.
This technical deep dive breaks down the complexities of orchestrating edge resources for autonomous agents. We will focus on practical strategies for deploying hybrid Kubernetes clusters designed specifically for local AI workloads. The session will highlight the critical role of GPU management, demonstrating how to optimize hardware utilization through memory slicing and time-sharing with open source projects. By providing a blueprint for efficient edge orchestration, this talk aims to empower developers and builders to deploy sophisticated open-source agents without the need for massive cloud budgets.

Speakers

Reza Jelveh

GTM & Solution Engineer, Dynamia

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

Open AI + Data

12:10 KST

Lunch

Wednesday August 12, 2026 12:10 - 13:35 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

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

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

13:35 KST

EZIO: Predictable, Fast, Scalable BitTorrent-Based Bare Metal Provisioning - Date (Yu-Chiang) Huang, DozenCloud

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Orchid 2

Deploying OS images to bare metal clusters is painful. Unicast scales linearly with node count. Multicast stalls if one node is slow. Past BitTorrent approaches either transfer entire raw partitions (wasting bandwidth) or require RAM buffering for image conversion (size limited).

EZIO's provisioning time depends on image size and bandwidth, not node count. It transfers only used filesystem blocks and writes directly to raw disk by calculating offsets on the fly. No RAM buffering, no image conversion, no size limit. Each node works independently. Broken nodes can rejoin after recovery. This enables deploying large HPC environments with pre-installed software and data. Clonezilla has integrated EZIO for production use.

Benchmarks: On HDD (50GB, 32 nodes), 11x faster than unicast, 50% faster than multicast. In the cluster with NVMe SSD and 10G network at Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), 500 MB/s across 32 nodes. Lab tests reach 700 MB/s.

This talk covers EZIO's architecture, real-world benchmarks, and integration approach.

Speakers

Date (Yu-Chiang) Huang

Cloud and Network Solution Architect, DozenCloud

Date Huang is a Solution Architect with 7+ years of experience in cloud and datacenter networking. He is the creator of STUNMESH-go and maintainer of EZIO Project. His expertise includes AWS/Azure/GCP networking, OpenStack, Kubernetes, SD-WAN, and open-source development.Speaking... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

13:35 KST

From Closed To Collaborative: Perspectives and Lessons From Qualcomm’s Open Development Experience - Craig Northway, Qualcomm Technologies Inc

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Chrysanthemum

For more than 15 years, Qualcomm’s been actively involved in a range of Open Source ecosystems. Until recently, some parts of our development were handled behind closed doors, with contributions coming a bit later and enablement being somewhat limited. We tried various projects and partnerships to push things upstream sooner, but it wasn’t until lately that we truly made a complete shift.

Over the past 18 months, we’ve totally revisited our approach—moving an entire Linux product development ecosystem, with hundreds of contributors, from a private downstream setup to a full-blown Open Development model. This wasn’t just a surface change: it meant overhauling how our engineers work, syncing up our internal systems with open practices, and fundamentally changing the way our developers connect and collaborate.

In this session, we’ll share what made this transition work for us—including how we managed to weave our internal systems into Open Source workflows, encouraged developers to embrace new ways of thinking, and built scalable processes that can handle all sorts of Linux ecosystems and distributions.

Speakers

Craig Northway

Senior Director of Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies Inc

Craig Northway is a Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI). Craig leads the Qualcomm Software Content Compliance team, a group formed to improve process, policy and tooling around Open Source software at Qualcomm, including within the Qualcomm Innovation... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Chrysanthemum

Embedded

13:35 KST

Kernel Live Patching: Mitigating CVEs With Zero Downtime - Shung-Hsi Yu, SUSE

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Orchid 1

Service operators often face a constant friction: maintaining high Service Level Indicators (SLIs) versus addressing immediate security vulnerabilities. While userspace updates cause minimal disruption, mitigating Linux kernel vulnerabilities traditionally mandates a full system reboot, forcing administrators into the dilemma of choosing between proactive security practices and continuous uptime.

This session explores the workings of Linux kernel live patching, details how a livepatch kernel module is built, examines the internal mechanisms that power the technology (e.g., ftrace), and provides a practical overview of the current ecosystem so administrators can start using live patches immediately.

Speakers

Shung-Hsi Yu

Kernel Engineer, SUSE

Mainly working on maintaining the eBPF stack of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) distribution.
Currently drawn to the inner working of eBPF verifier and formal verification.

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

13:35 KST

Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: Securing Tool-Using Agents - Jigyasa Grover, Uber & Rishabh Misra, Atlassian

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

As LLM-based agents gain access to tools - APIs, databases, file systems, and internal services, the security model changes. The model is no longer only generating text; it is selecting actions and invoking capabilities across systems.

Prompt injection attacks exploit this boundary. between model reasoning & external execution.

This talk examines how tool-enabled agents built on open LLM frameworks expand the attack surface and why traditional input validation approaches are insufficient.

We will analyze concrete failure modes such as:
- Prompt injection vs classical injection: control of model reasoning rather than query structure
- Tool outputs as secondary injection vector in multi-step workflows
- Why system prompts & guardrails are not reliable isolation boundaries
- Capability scoping & least-privilege design for tool access
- Isolation patterns for tool execution (sandboxing, mediated execution layers)
- Structured tool interfaces vs free-form prompting
- Observability patterns for tracing agent decisions and tool calls
- Adversarial testing of agent pipelines

Examples draw from patterns emerging in open-source LLM and agent ecosystems.

Speakers

Jigyasa Grover

ML Tech Lead • Google Developer Advisory Board Member • LinkedIn [in]structor • Book Author • Startup Advisor • 12 time AI + Open Source Award Winner • Featured @ Forbes, UN, Google I/O, and more!, Uber

Jigyasa Grover is an ML tech lead at Uber focused on large-scale ML and personalization, previously at Twitter/X, Meta, Faire, and Bordo AI. Author of Sculpting Data for ML, she serves on Google’s Developer Advisory Board and was selected for Google I/O. A Google Developer Expert... Read More →

Rishabh Misra

Principal ML Engineer, Atlassian

I am a Principal ML Engineer & Researcher with over 10 years of experience in the AI and ML space. I am currently driving LLM pretraining, postraining, and personalization efforts at Atlassian, and have previously led Deep Learning & GenAI-powered user personalization at late-stage... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

13:35 KST

AI-Powered Open Source Risk Management: ISO Self-Certification Kit and 5-Level AI Coding Governance - Haksung Jang, SK Telecom

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST

Rose

Trusted OSS is an open-source self-certification kit that guides any organization from zero to ISO/IEC 5230 (license compliance) and ISO/IEC 18974 (security assurance) conformance using AI agents.
No prior expertise required.

Built by the OpenChain Korea Work Group and released under CC BY 4.0, the kit features:

• AI agents (Claude Code) that auto-generate company-specific compliance artifacts: OSS policy, SBOM, vulnerability response procedures, training curriculum, and conformance declaration
• DevSecOps pipelines (SAST, SCA, secret detection, IaC) ready to drop into any CI/CD environment
• A 5-level AI Coding Governance Maturity Model — from ad-hoc prompting (Level 1) to AI-augmented defense (findings-driven review, AI fuzzing) and continuous auto-remediation (Level 5).

In this session, I'll walk through how any team can go from no compliance process to a fully documented, self-certifiable program in hours, not months. I'll also share how we're using AI to close the compliance skills gap across Korean enterprises and SMEs — making OpenChain certification accessible to all.

Attendees leave with a working toolkit they can clone and run today.

Speakers

Haksung Jang

Manager, SK Telecom

Haksung Jang is the Open Source Program Manager at SK Telecom and Chair of the OpenChain Korea Work Group.
He specializes in ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974 compliance, leading open source governance programs at enterprise scale. He is the creator of Trusted OSS —an open-source, AI-powered toolkit that enables any organization to achieve OpenChain self-certification using AI agents... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 KST
Rose

OSS Enabling & Management

14:15 KST

Clouds on Clouds: OpenStack and Kubernetes With Cloud-Barista - Seokho Son, ETRI

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Orchid 2

Can you build OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters anywhere, across multiple clouds, and still understand how network connectivity works?

This session explores that question through a scenario using Cloud-Barista, an open-source multi-cloud orchestrator.

Instead of separate project overviews, this talk connects Cloud-Barista, OpenStack, and Kubernetes as infrastructure layers. Cloud-Barista provisions VMs on public clouds, then OpenStack is deployed on them. The OpenStack-based cloud is registered back into Cloud-Barista to create VMs and host a web service.

Will that service be reachable from Internet? If not, why? What makes it complex? These questions guide our explanation of network paths and reachability. We will apply the same lens to Kubernetes on multi-cloud VMs.

The focus is not just automation, but how connectivity works: public/private IPs, bastion access, cluster nodes, and how users reach workloads.

Beginners curious about these topics will gain practical insight into open-source infrastructure stacks.

This is not another cluster deployment talk. It is an experimental journey across open-source cloud layers, from multi-cloud IaaS to OpenStack and Kubernetes.

Speakers

Seokho Son

Special Fellow and Principal Researcher, CNCF Ambassador, ETRI

Dr. Son is a Special Fellow and Principal Researcher at ETRI, South Korea's national research institute. He develops systems and algorithms for cloud and cloud native computing in national projects. As a CNCF Ambassador, he promotes cloud native technologies globally. He leads the... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

14:15 KST

Finding Vulnerabilities in IoT Embedded Devices Using Linux OS and Open Source Tools - Dr. Nkuba Kayembe Carlos, Korea University

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Chrysanthemum

Smart home ecosystems are increasingly powered by embedded Linux platforms, yet the security of their underlying firmware, memory management, and wireless communication stacks remains dangerously underexamined. This talk presents a systematic approach to vulnerability discovery in IoT embedded Z-Wave smart home devices using freely available Linux OS tools and developed open source frameworks — bridging the gap between theoretical security research and hands-on embedded testing.

Drawing directly from original research that resulted in 18 CVEs assigned by U.S. CERT and U.S. MITRE, and from a live-demonstration talk presented at TyphoonCon 2025 in Seoul, the speaker will walk attendees through a structured open source testing methodology:

• Fuzzing embedded protocol stacks to uncover memory-corruption vulnerabilities
• Live exploitation: manipulating controller internal memory to delete or modify secured slave device properties
• Triggering Denial-of-Service (DoS) conditions that disable an entire smart home network
• Coordinated disclosure and remediation work with SiLabs and the Z-Wave Alliance

Speakers

Dr. Nkuba Kayembe Carlos

Dr. Nkuba, Korea University

Dr. Carlos Nkuba is a Research Professor at the Center for Software Security & Assurance (CSSA) at Korea University. He is a cybersecurity researcher and IoT security expert specializing in wireless communication protocols and smart home security. With deep expertise in Z-Wave security... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Chrysanthemum

Embedded

14:15 KST

Beyond Main(): Orchestrating Early Boot With Linker Scripts and ELF Sections - Antra Purohit & Hemant Bharadwaj, Microsoft

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Orchid 1

Modern Linux init systems don't just magically start executing services. Long before PID 1 reaches its main loop, a complex, carefully orchestrated dance of initialization routines takes place. This presentation explores the crucial, often-overlooked machinery bridging the compiler toolchain and system orchestration: the linker.

Often treated as a black box, the linker (ld) is an immensely powerful tool for low-level systems engineers. This deep dive pulls back the curtain on how modern init architectures leverage custom linker scripts, specifically defined ELF sections, and compiler directives (like __attribute__((constructor))) to precisely control execution order and optimize memory layouts before the system fully comes alive.

Speakers

Hemant Bharadwaj

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft, Microsoft

Hemant Bharadwaj is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer working on large-scale Linux infrastructure. He focuses on observability, incident response, debugging, and automation across distributed systems. His work centers on turning operational pain points into repeatable, open, and... Read More →

Antra Purohit

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Antra Purohit is a software engineer working on Linux‑based cloud and embedded platforms. She works on Yocto‑based systems and cloud infrastructure, translating open‑source technologies into reliable, production‑ready solutions.

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

14:15 KST

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

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

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

Junhyeok Yoo is a Researcher at Four Pillars in Seoul, deeply focused on the infrastructure of agentic commerce and machine economies. As a 4th-year CS undergraduate at SKKU(Sungkyunkwan University) and VP of Decipher (SNU’s blockchain academy), he explores the intersection of computer... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

14:15 KST

How To Make AI-Assisted OSS Contributions Review-Ready - Jaewoo Choi, Hyundai Autoever

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST

Rose

AI coding tools can generate patches quickly, but maintainers still cannot merge a PR on generated code alone. They need evidence, what was reproduced, what changed, how it was validated, and whether the contributor actually reduced review work instead of shifting it downstream.

In this session, I draw on recurring patterns from reviewing and maintaining Argo CD contributions to show why many AI-assisted PRs stall and what makes others move quickly. I present a simple four-stage framework for review-ready OSS contributions, Set up the environment, validate the problem before changing code, harden the fix with tests and checks, and submit a PR with enough context and proof for efficient review. Attendees will leave with practical guidance they can use immediately to improve contribution quality and reduce maintainer burden.

Speakers

Jaewoo Choi

DevOps Engineer | Argo CD Maintainer, Hyundai Autoever

Jaewoo is a DevOps Engineer at Hyundai-Autoever, focused on GitOps and cloud-native developer experience. He recently joined the Argo CD reviewer team after contributing to the project. In his free time, he enjoys going to the gym and running outdoors.

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:15 - 14:45 KST
Rose

OSS Enabling & Management

14:55 KST

Supply Chain Security in Air-Gapped Kubernetes: SBOM, Provenance, and What Breaks - Michel Schildmeijer, SSC-ICT

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Orchid 2

Running Kubernetes in air-gapped environments changes how the software supply chain behaves. Image distribution, signature verification, and dependency updates cannot rely on upstream access and need to be handled explicitly.
This talk examines what breaks when enforcing SBOM and image provenance in restricted networks. It covers artifact promotion across trust boundaries, signature verification without external services, base image drift, and coordinating updates across disconnected environments.
The focus is on concrete failure patterns and trade-offs: broken trust chains, stale dependencies, inconsistent SBOM data, and operational overhead introduced by manual controls. Several common supply chain practices do not translate directly to air-gapped setups.

The session shows which parts of the supply chain need to be redesigned to keep provenance and integrity intact without relying on continuous connectivity to upstream ecosystems.

Speakers

Michel Schildmeijer

Enterprise Architect, SSC-ICT

Michel Schildmeijer began his career in the pharmaceutical industry before moving into IT. He worked as a solutions and IT architect across multiple sectors and currently serves as an Enterprise Architect for the Dutch government. Michel regularly speaks at international conferences... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

14:55 KST

From Continuous Tracing To Automated Insights: AI-Driven Performance Analysis With Guider - Peace Lee & Jaeguk Lee, Hyundai Motor Company

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Orchid 1

Catching transient performance drops is notoriously hard; by the time you attach a profiler, the bottleneck is often gone. Continuous tracing is the solution, but manually analyzing the resulting massive data is a huge hurdle.

This session introduces a practical methodology for always-on performance monitoring and automated analysis using Guider. First, we demonstrate how Guider efficiently profiles system performance in the background with minimal overhead. Upon detecting an anomaly, it automatically generates a retroactive report using trace data captured just before the event.

We will then show how to feed these structured reports into an AI pipeline. Instead of manually deciphering complex kernel metrics, you will see how AI instantly pinpoints the root cause of performance regressions.

Attendees will learn to build a continuous monitoring pipeline that automatically turns raw trace data into real-time, actionable insights.

Speakers

Peace Lee

Software Performance Engineer, Hyundai Motor Company

Peace Lee is a Linux Performance Specialist. He has been analyzing and improving the performance of apps and system on various platforms based on Linux. He is the owner of Guider (https://github.com/iipeace/guider).

Jaeguk Lee

Software Engineer, Hyundai Motor company

Hyundai motors , Korea
Software Engineer
2023.3 ~ present
- enhance performance in automotive system (linux, android)

LG electronics , Korea
Software Engineer 2010.6 ~ 2023.2
- kernel/bsp debugging and optimization
- performance enhancement in linux kernel/user space... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

14:55 KST

Yukti: A Unified Inference Interface for Low-Latency Machine Learning in High-Energy Physics - Sanjiban Sengupta, CERN, University of Manchester

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Machine learning is increasingly used in high-energy physics, particularly in trigger systems that process data at rates of 100 kHz while making real-time event selection decisions. The latency and reliability requirements demand highly optimized inference pipelines. While portable solutions such as ONNX Runtime simplify deployment, many applications rely on hardware-specific libraries like NVIDIA TensorRT and MIGraphX (via ROCm) for optimal performance. Code-generation approaches such as SOFIE offer additional efficiency but introduce integration complexity.

We present a unified inference interface that abstracts backend-specific details while preserving performance. It enables execution across multiple inference libraries without data copies or user-side configuration changes. An offline processor converts trained models into backend-optimized plans, and a lightweight runtime loads and executes them through a common API with direct data access for heterogeneous environments.

Speakers

Sanjiban Sengupta

Doctoral Student at CERN, University of Manchester, CERN, University of Manchester

Sanjiban is a Doctoral Student at CERN, affiliated with the University of Manchester, researching ML inference optimization for the LHC. He contributed to SOFIE, focusing on Keras/PyTorch parsing, ONNX-based operators, and GNN support. He was a CERN Summer Student (2022) and a GSoC... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

14:55 KST

Scaling Open Source Compliance With Argus - Luyen Vu, SAP

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Rose

Managing open source compliance at scale is no longer a spreadsheet problem — it’s an infrastructure and intelligence challenge. This session introduces Argus, an always-on compliance and code intelligence platform built for OSPOs and security teams managing hundreds of repositories.

Argus unifies license scanning, cryptographic analysis, AI/LLM dependency detection, infrastructure checks, and coding agent artifact discovery into a single pipeline. Its hybrid architecture combines Python orchestration, a high-throughput Rust engine for large repositories, and an LLM-powered analysis layer that turns raw findings into actionable insights.

We’ll demonstrate how techniques like blobless git cloning, bounded concurrency, and per-scanner task tracking enable scanning repositories with 100K+ files in minutes. Attendees will learn practical patterns for automated license resolution, large-scale crypto detection, and generating compliance reports that teams actually act on.

Finally, we’ll share lessons from integrating open source and commercial tools in a production OSPO — and how an agentic approach helps small teams scale compliance without increasing headcount.

Speakers

Luyen Vu

Senior Platform Engineer, SAP

I’m a software engineer with over 12 years of experience, including 6 years at SAP, specializing in backend systems and data-driven applications. Recently, I’ve been focusing on AI engineering, building agentic systems and intelligent tooling to enhance developer productivity... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Rose

OSS Enabling & Management

14:55 KST

Zephyr RTOS: 10 Years After Applying OSS Best Practices - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST

Chrysanthemum

Zephyr initially set out to solve a problem that many embedded teams quietly struggled with: how to build dependable real-time systems without being locked into a single vendor, toolchain, or proprietary stack. The project introduced a new model built around portability, adoption of open source and security best practices, modern tooling, and a shared ecosystem of drivers and middleware.

From the start, there was the commitment from the start apply known best practices to its development. While Zephyr is a different code base, a lot of the lessons learned from developing the Linux Kernel were applied. The project has also focused on incorporating security best practices from the start which now enables it to make compliance easier for manufacturers looking to conform to the emerging Cybersecurity Resilence Act (CRA).

Best practices have also enabled the project to work towards achieving formal safety certification for 61508 and 26262. The project has achieved 61508 concept approval at this point, as is working towards formal certification, using a combination of traditional V-Model analysis, and innovative techniques to keep up with the speed of open source development.

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, and supports other embedded projects. With... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 14:55 - 15:25 KST
Chrysanthemum

Zephyr

15:25 KST

Afternoon Break

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:25 - 15:55 KST

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:25 - 15:55 KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

Registration / Breaks / Special Events

15:55 KST

Who Watches the Watchers? Building Observability for the Platform Itself Across Multi-Cluster EKS - Faeka Ansari, Slice Financial Bank

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST

Orchid 2

There is this moment every platform team hits where an alert fires at 1am, everyone stares at it, and nobody is quite sure what it means or whose job it is to fix it.

That was us. 11 EKS clusters. 6 AWS accounts. Alerts routing to a channel. No runbooks. No context. Just noise.

Here is what made it worse --- we were the team responsible for the observability stack itself. VictoriaMetrics, vmagent, vmselect, Grafana, CloudWatch --- we ran all of it. And most of it was set up just well enough to fire alerts, but not well enough to actually help anyone during an incident.

Most observability talks are about how to instrument your applications. This one is about what happens when the platform itself becomes the thing you need to observe! and you are the one responsible for both the problem and the solution.

We will talk about what we got wrong first, what a P1 at 1am actually teaches you about your own stack, and what we built to make sure the next time something breaks, we know exactly where to look within the first five minutes.

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 →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

15:55 KST

Connecting the Dots With Context Graphs - Stephen Chin, Neo4j

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

AI systems need more than intelligence; they need context that persists. Without it, even strong models can misinterpret information, lose decision rationale, or repeat the same mistakes. Context Graphs have emerged as a practical pattern for agentic AI: a living graph that captures not only what was retrieved or known, but how context led to actions through tool calls, constraints, policies, and outcomes, stitched across entities and time so precedent becomes searchable.

This talk explores context engineering as the discipline of designing that context layer, and shows how context graphs complement retrieval by enabling multi-hop, structured context assembly (building on GraphRAG-style hierarchical summaries) while improving explainability and evaluation. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of how to build context pipelines that combine contextual retrieval with persistent memory and provenance, and why context graphs are becoming central to trustworthy, enterprise-ready AI systems.

Speakers

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j 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 including AI Engineer Summit, AI DevSummit, Devoxx... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

15:55 KST

OpenChain’s Strategic Direction for 2027 in Global Practices - Meixia Wang, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST

Orchid 1

In this session, as the newly appointed Executive Director of OpenChain, I will outline the strategic direction for OpenChain in 2027 and beyond. Building on the solid foundation of our existing ISO standards, including ISO 5230:2020 and ISO 18974, I will share the next steps OpenChain will take to expand its global reach. We will focus on fostering international collaboration, adapting to emerging regulatory landscapes, and driving innovation in open-source compliance practices worldwide.

Speakers

Meixia Wang

Executive Director at Open Chain Project, The Linux Foundation

Mary Wang , Executive Director of the OpenChain Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation.
Prior to this role, she served as Director of the Open Source Ecosystem at Volvo Cars, and found Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
Before joining Volvo Cars. Mary spent nine years at Ericsson. she started working as a DevOps engineer, developing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, and later as a Technical Product Manager , taking end-to-end ownership of products

... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST
Orchid 1

OSS Enabling & Management

15:55 KST

Case Studies of Existing Use of Linux in Safety-critical Domains - Nikita Verma, Individual & Harshita Varma, Independent

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST

Chrysanthemum

The automotive transition to Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) relies on mixed-criticality architectures, consolidating open-source infotainment (Automotive Grade Linux) alongside safety-critical Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS). This virtualization boundary—often KVM/Xen—is assumed to be a secure airgap. However, guest-to-host communication requires hardware abstraction, primarily via the VirtIO standard.

This 40-minute session conducts a hardcore technical teardown of the virtqueue shared-memory mechanism, exposing how legacy C-based VirtIO backends (vhost-net) introduce critical vulnerabilities into the automotive supply chain.

We will dissect a hypervisor escape utilizing custom fuzzing. By crafting malformed descriptor chains to bypass frontend validation, a compromised guest can force the host's backend into out-of-bounds memory corruption, effectively bridging the airgap into the control plane.

Finally, we will architect the open-source defense: migrating to memory-safe rust-vmm virtualization components to mathematically eliminate buffer overflows, and deploying zero-overhead eBPF probes for kernel-level I/O anomaly detection.

Speakers

Nikita Verma

cloud Native Developer, Individual

Nikita Verma is an active contributor to the open-source community with a strong focus on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. She worked on developing forest growth simulations, automating configuration generation, and integrating CI/CD workflows. Nikita has volunteered at KubeCon... Read More →

Harshita Varma

Associate Product Manager, Independent

Harshita Varma is a contributor to the Kubernetes project, actively involved in the SIG Contributor Experience community, with a focus on enhancing the contributor journey. In March 2022, she was selected as an LFX mentee for Kubernetes under the CNCF. Since then, Harshita has significantly... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:55 - 16:25 KST
Chrysanthemum

Safety Critical Software

16:35 KST

Accelerating Open-Source 5G UPF on Kubernetes With eBPF (Live Demo) - Khushi Chhillar, NgKore

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST

Orchid 2

Running the 5G User Plane Function (UPF) as a Kubernetes pod using open-source stacks like free5GC often hits a wall: kernel networking overhead destroys packet throughput. eBPF can bypass this bottleneck, but the concept remains intimidating to network engineers who don’t do kernel programming.

This lightning talk provides a zero-to-understanding educational journey. The speaker will first illustrate, with simple diagrams, the kernel’s slow path versus the eBPF XDP/AF_XDP fast path for GTP-U packets. Then, using a live (or pre-recorded) demo on a Minikube cluster, they will show an open-source UPF accelerated by a small eBPF program—demonstrating how GTP encapsulation/decapsulation is handled in the driver, with line-rate forwarding. The entire code, including a ready-to-run Docker image and Helm chart, will be shared on GitHub. Attendees will leave with a mental model of exactly where eBPF sits, which hooks to use, and how to evaluate eBPF acceleration for their own 5G cloud-native network functions. No prior eBPF or 5G core knowledge is required ,only curiosity about high-performance networking.

Speakers

Khushi Chhillar

Opensource Contributor and Maintainer, NgKore

Hi, I’m Khushi, an undergraduate pursuing a BSc in Computer Science with 3 years of active involvement in the open source community. My primary focus is on eBPF research and real-world use cases. I have contributed to the HexaBPF project, enhancing interoperability, and developed... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

16:35 KST

Reboot Without Rebooting: Updating Linux Userspace at the Speed of a Service Restart - Nandakumar Raghavan & Prasanna Kumar T S M, Microsoft

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST

Orchid 1

What if you could replace your entire OS userspace — binaries, configs, services, even init itself — without ever stopping the kernel? No firmware POST, no hardware re-init, no multi-minute downtime. Just a clean userspace restart in seconds.

That's what soft-reboot (systemctl soft-reboot), implemented in systemd, delivers: a primitive that tears down all of userspace, pivots into a fresh root filesystem, and re-launches PID 1 — while the running kernel stays untouched.

This talk unpacks how soft-reboot works under the hood, why it matters for modern OS update workflows, and how it compares to a traditional reboot and kexec. We'll walk through real production use cases: zero-downtime OS updates, staged fleet rollouts, and rapid recovery from a wedged userspace — without paying the cost of a full boot cycle.

Attendees will leave with a clear mental model of soft-reboot internals, practical guidance on when to choose it over a full reboot or kexec, and concrete patterns for building soft-reboot-aware update pipelines.

If you've ever wished you could ship an OS update as fast as restarting a service, this talk is for you.

Speakers

Nandakumar Raghavan

Senior Software Engineer - Linux Systems Group, Microsoft

Nandakumar works as Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft - Linux Systems Group. He has worked on router board bring up, linux kernel development and user space. He has extensive work experience on MIPS and x86 architecture. He has made several contributions to systemd upstream.

Prasanna Kumar T S M

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Prasanna Kumar is a seasoned Linux kernel engineer, is currently working for Microsoft's Linux Systems Group. He has worked on low level CPU architecture code, board bring up, driver development, file system and related utilities etc. He has contributed to Linux kernel.

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Orchid 1

Linux

16:35 KST

Building Reliable AI Agents: An Open Source Approach To Evaluation and Observability - Sho Tanaka, Snowflake

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST

Rose

Building AI agents is easier than ever with open source tools, but ensuring their reliability in production remains a major challenge. Unlike traditional software, AI agents are non-deterministic, making simple pass/fail testing insufficient.

This talk introduces a practical approach to evaluation and observability for AI agents, combining open source tools such as TruLens with agent architectures inspired by AgentGPT.

We will demonstrate how to instrument agent workflows, capture execution traces, and implement evaluation metrics such as faithfulness, tool selection accuracy, and answer relevancy. Attendees will also see how to visualize agent behavior and identify failure points across retrieval, reasoning, and generation layers using a lightweight dashboard.

Finally, we show how to build a feedback loop to iteratively improve agent performance, and share a reference implementation (GitHub) that can be reused with different agent frameworks.

Speakers

Sho Tanaka

Lead Developer Advocate, Snowflake

A Lead Developer Advocate at Snowflake, focused on AI/ML and data engineering. He previously worked at Google (gTech) delivering ML/Data solutions across Japan, APAC and global. He is a Google Developer Expert (AI/ML) and a co-founder of the MLOps community in Japan, where he has... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Rose

Open AI + Data

16:35 KST

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

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 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

Michael Johnston

STSM, IBM Research, IBM

Michael Johnston is an STSM at IBM Research and manager of the Next Generation Systems and Cloud team at the Ireland lab. His background is in computational physics and HPC and his current focus is on future systems for science, with an emphasis on benchmarking, performance optimisation... Read More →

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 →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

16:35 KST

Using AI To Bridge the Gap Between Safety Standards and Open Source Development - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST

Chrysanthemum

Popular open source operating systems like the Linux Kernel and Zephyr RTOS accept up to 9 commits per hour. Safety standards, like 61508, 26262, and others were developed without this rate of change in mind. Safety standards also expect the requirements to be explicit, which is not part of OS development processes. By using AI tools, we're able to accelerate the analysis of OS code to derive the requirements and traceability to tests. By storing this info in tools that can import and export System Package Data eXchange (SPDX) 3.0+, we're able to capture the requirements in a way that can be leveraged for wider system analysis necessary for safety. Associating integrity methods with the requirements and code snippets, also enables monitoring. Combining requirements traceability with precise build SBOM metadata, gives us a framework to keep a component compliant to a safety profile after a security fix.

This talk will provide a view on the latest experiments occurring with the Linux Kernel in the ELISA project, as well as in the Zephyr Safety Working group, and SPDX Functional Safety working group to extend SPDX to meet the needs of establishing these frameworks.

Speakers

Kate Stewart

VP Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 - 17:05 KST
Chrysanthemum

Safety Critical Software

17:15 KST

Live Demo: Event-Driven Terraform Drift Detection With Falco - Keita Higaki, Sysdig,Inc

Wednesday August 12, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST

Orchid 2

Terraform is widely used to manage infrastructure as code, but traditional drift detection relies on periodic scans or manual checks such as terraform plan. This approach often fails to detect real-time changes, manual modifications, or unauthorized actions.

In this technical feature demonstration, we present an open source approach to drift detection using an event-driven model powered by Falco.

We will demonstrate how:

infrastructure is provisioned using Terraform
manual or out-of-band changes introduce drift
Falco detects these changes in real time via event streams
an open source tool analyzes and surfaces these events as actionable drift signals

Unlike traditional drift detection tools, this approach enables near real-time detection, user attribution, and continuous visibility into infrastructure changes.

This session introduces the concept of “event-driven runtime drift” and shows how it complements Terraform-based workflows using open source technologies.

The demo is based on a publicly available open source project, allowing attendees to reproduce the setup and apply it to their own environments.

Speakers

Keita Higaki

Senior Customer Solutions Engineer, Cloud-Native Security, Sysdig,Inc

eita Higaki is a Senior Customer Solutions Engineer specializing in cloud-native security and Kubernetes runtime protection. He supports enterprise environments adopting runtime security using open source technologies such as Falco. He focuses on bridging Infrastructure-as-Code and... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST
Orchid 2

Cloud + Orchestration

17:15 KST

Eval-Driven Development: Mastering Agentic Tracing and Expert-Aligned Judges With MLflow - Vincent Caldeira & Sharon Dashet, Red Hat

Wednesday August 12, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST

Rose

Building AI agents is easy, but ensuring their reliability is hard. Because agents operate in open-ended, non-deterministic environments, traditional Test-Driven Development (TDD) falls short. The solution is Eval-Driven Development (EDD), a paradigm that embeds continuous evaluation throughout the agent lifecycle.

This talk explores how to operationalize EDD. First, we examine the critical role of observability. Evaluating just a final output is insufficient for multi-step workflows. We show how OpenTelemetry (OTel) compatible tracing exposes internal reasoning and tool usage for granular debugging.

Next, we tackle scaling evaluation via LLM-as-a-Judge. Since uncalibrated judges often miss domain-specific nuances, we demonstrate aligning custom judges with human experts. Using open-source MLflow, attendees will learn to capture traces, collect expert feedback, and use alignment optimizers to create expert-aligned evaluators.

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 →

Sharon Dashet

Senior Principal Software Architect at Red Hat, Red Hat

Sharon Dashet is a seasoned Data and AI Architect with over 25 years of experience designing large-scale analytics, ML, and GenAI platforms. At Red Hat, they drive initiatives around Agentic AI and focus on emerging partnerships within the Red Hat AI ecosystem. Previously, they led... Read More →

Wednesday August 12, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST
Rose

Open AI + Data

17:15 KST

Exploring HiFloat8: A Tapered Format Complementing the FP8 Ecosystem for Robust Model Training - Speakers To Be Announced

Wednesday August 12, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

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.

Wednesday August 12, 2026 17:15 - 17:45 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Open AI + Data

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