Open Source Summit Korea 2026: Full Schedule

11-12, August 2026
Seoul, South Korea
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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

Presentation Language English

09:30 KST

Keynote: Zephyr RTOS: 10 Years After Applying OSS Best Practices - Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday August 12, 2026 09:30 - 09:45 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

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 to 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

Vice President of 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 →

20260812 OSSK ZephyrKeynote Stewart.pptx pdf

Wednesday August 12, 2026 09:30 - 09:45 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Keynote Sessions

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

09:50 KST

Keynote: What Agentic AI Asks of Open Source Strategy: A New Layer for OSPOs - Ana Jíménez Santamaria, Senior Project Manager, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday August 12, 2026 09:50 - 10:05 KST

Grand Ballroom 2-3

As AI agents become active participants in software development, organizations need to rethink how they approach open source strategy. This talk explores why Agentic AI introduces new responsibilities for Open Source Program Office (OSPO) teams: from governance and policy to trust, security, and organizational enablement. This session shares a strategic perspective on how OSPOs can help organizations adopt AI agents responsibly while strengthening open source practices

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 →

AnaJimenez WhatAgenticAIAsks OSSstrategy Keynote osskr26 pdf

Wednesday August 12, 2026 09:50 - 10:05 KST
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Keynote Sessions

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

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

Open Source Summit Korea Building and Orchestrating Real Production ready Agentic AI Systems pdf

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

Cloud + Orchestration

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

11:00 KST

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

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

Magnolia

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 OS team (Current)
- Computing Platform Software Verification

Systems Engineer at Agency for Defense Development (Previous)

Exploring Unikernel pdf

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

Embedded

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

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

OpenFDE oss 2026 korea pdf

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

Linux

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

11:00 KST

When Semantic Search Breaks in your RAG systems: RAM Walls, Silent Failures, and the Architecture Decisions - 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 →

vector search basics to scale pdf

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

Open AI + Data

Presentation Language English

11:40 KST

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

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

EZIO Predictable, Fast, Scalable BitTorrent Based Bare Metal Provisioning pdf

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

Cloud + Orchestration

Presentation Language English

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

Magnolia

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

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 →

OSSK CVEs to Compliance pdf

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

Embedded

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

11:40 KST

Simplifying AI for Edge Compute with HAMi - Reza Jelveh, Dynamia

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

Rose

Open-source agents like Hermes and OpenClaw can reason and use tools, but edge deployment is still hard - not the model, the compute underneath: limited memory, tight power budgets, no ops team. Democratizing agentic AI means fixing the compute layer. This deep dive covers GPU and memory slicing at the edge: carving one device’s unified memory so multiple agents run concurrently on hardware as small as an NVIDIA Jetson, and time-sharing when demand exceeds memory.

We compare Jetson-class GPUs with NPUs from Axelera and DeepX - higher performance per watt - and what it takes to make them schedulable. HAMi, the CNCF Incubation project for hardware-agnostic GPU virtualization, is that layer: one scheduling plane across heterogeneous accelerators, fine-grained memory slicing, open source. A blueprint for edge AI without a cloud budget.

Speakers

Reza Jelveh

GTM & Solution Engineer, Dynamia

ossummit korea pdf

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

Open AI + Data

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

11:40 KST

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

Wednesday August 12, 2026 11:40 - 12:10 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 of OpenChain Project, The Linux Foundation

Mary Wang is the 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, where she founded and led the company’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
Mary also spent nine years at Ericsson. During that time, she worked as a DevOps engineer, developing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, and later as a Technical Product Manager (TPM), taking end-to-end ownership of products... Read More →

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

OSS Enabling & Management

Presentation Language English

13:35 KST

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

Wednesday August 12, 2026 13:35 - 14:05 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, AAIF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

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

Cloud + Orchestration

Presentation Language English

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

Magnolia

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 →

Closed Collaborative LinuxFoundation OSSKorea2026 pdf

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

Embedded

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

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.

Live patching for Linux kernels pdf

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

Linux

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

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 the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (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... Read More →

OSSKorea26 CloudsOnClouds SeokhoSon vFinal pdf

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

Cloud + Orchestration

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

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

Magnolia

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
Magnolia

Embedded

Presentation Language English

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.

How to Make AI Assisted OSS Contributions Review Ready pdf

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

OSS Enabling & Management

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

14:55 KST

Connecting the Dots With Context Graphs - Stephen Chin, Neo4j

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

Orchid 2

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, 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 →

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

Open AI + Data

Presentation Language English

14:55 KST

Breaking the Sharing Paradox: A Working Foundation and a Call for the Next Phase - Jinyong (Dave) Jeon, SOOHO.IO

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

Magnolia

Institutional blockchain systems need collective defense, yet the data behind the vulnerabilities they discover cannot leave the institution. The OpenReagent project was launched to break that paradox through an open standard built on sharing signatures, not source. A year in, the concept has become a working technical foundation, with early benchmark evidence and first conversations with institutions testing real fit. This session shares what that foundation now enables, and what it doesn't yet, and issues a direct call to researchers ready to deepen the technical frontier, and to institutions ready to join the initiative as early partners.

Speakers

Jinyong (Dave) Jeon

Head of Security Business, SOOHO.IO

Jinyong Jeon is a head of security business at SOOHO.IO

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

Safety Critical Software

Presentation Language English

15:25 KST

Ask the Expert Session Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, on Linux Kernel.

Wednesday August 12, 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.

Ask Greg Kroah-Hartman about Linux Kernel.

Speakers

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fellow, Linux Foundation

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

Ask the Experts

Presentation Language English

15:25 KST

Ask the Expert Session Gustavo A. R. Silva, Upstream Linux Kernel Engineer, on the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project

Wednesday August 12, 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.

Ask Gustavo about the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project.

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 →

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

Ask the Experts

Presentation Language English

15:25 KST

Ask the Expert Session Kevin Dubois, Sr Principal Developer Advocate, on building enterprise AI apps

Wednesday August 12, 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.

Ask Kevin about building enterprise AI apps.

Speakers

Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

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

Ask the Experts

Presentation Language English

15:25 KST

Ask the Expert Session Minsoo Song, Senior Developer Relations Manager, on Building Physical AI for Robotics with NVIDIA Cosmos

Wednesday August 12, 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.

Ask Minsoo about Building Physical AI for Robotics with NVIDIA Cosmos.

Speakers

Minsoo Song

Senior Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA

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

Ask the Experts

Presentation Language English

15:55 KST

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

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

Sho Tanaka is 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... Read More →

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

Open AI + Data

Presentation Language English

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

Magnolia

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
Magnolia

Safety Critical Software

Presentation Language English

16:35 KST

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

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

Keita 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 →

Event Driven Terraform Drift Detection With Falco pdf

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

Cloud + Orchestration

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

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.

Updating Linux Userspace at the Speed Of a Service Restart pptx

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

Linux

Presentation Language English
Slides Attached Yes

16:35 KST

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

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

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

Open AI + Data

Presentation Language English

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

Magnolia

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

Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation

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

Safety Critical Software

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