Open Source Summit India 2026: Full Schedule

16-17 June, 2026
Mumbai, India
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8:30am IST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up

Tuesday June 16, 2026 8:30am - 7:30pm IST

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

10:00am IST

Keynote Sessions to be Announced

Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Keynote Sessions

12:00pm IST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)

Tuesday June 16, 2026 12:00pm - 2:00pm IST

Solutions Showcase, Lotus 1 (Third Floor)

Tuesday June 16, 2026 12:00pm - 2:00pm IST
Solutions Showcase, Lotus 1 (Third Floor)

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

2:00pm IST

Performance-by-Design: Embedding Intelligent Scaling and Guardrails Into Platform Engineering - Josephine Eskaline Joyce & Tanya Shanker, IBM India Pvt Ltd

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

In the modern practice of Platform Engineering (PE), performance has traditionally been viewed as an outcome of optimization rather than an architectural principle. This session presents a Performance-by-Design methodology that integrates intelligent scaling, guardrails, feedback-driven control loops within Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). Instead of reacting to incidents, we design platforms that manage latency, throughput, cost efficiency, and stability by applying policy-driven autoscaling, SLO-aware metrics, and Kubernetes-native mechanisms constantly. The session outlines a reference architecture with observability pipelines, custom metrics, horizontal pod autoscaling, and platform guardrails to ensure a self-regulating cloud-native operating environment. We show how performance constraints can be codified into golden paths; teams will inherit optimized defaults. Attendees will receive a structured framework to convert performance from reactive tuning task to platform capabilities - increasing reliability, decreasing resource consumption and allowing scalable innovation on enterprise cloud-native ecosystems.

Speakers

Josephine Eskaline Joyce

STSM, Principal Cloud Architect, IBM India Pvt Ltd

Josephine Eskaline Joyce is a Principal Cloud Architect and Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) at IBM India, bringing over 26 years of experience in the IT industry. As an IBM Master Inventor, she is recognized for her deep expertise in cloud architecture, cloud security, enterprise... Read More →

Tanya Shanker

Cloud Engineer, IBM India Pvt Ltd

Tanya Shanker is a Cloud Engineer at IBM with 8 years of experience in building and operating cloud-native systems, and has a strong focus on IaC, backend development in Go, automation, and CI/CD. She specializes in designing and developing scalable and secure cloud solutions and... Read More →

Performance by Design pptx

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

CI/CD

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm IST

Operating a Self-Healing Bare-Metal Kubernetes Platform at Global Scale - Aparna Prabhu & Nikhil Pathak, DigitalOcean

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

Running global, self-managed k8s for stateful apps is notoriously complex. Most teams opt for managed platforms or VMs to mask the difficulty.

For platform engineers and SREs, this talk reveals how to confidently run mission-critical StatefulSets on bare-metal k8s. We share how we sustain 99.99% availability SLAs and sub-second recovery. We also explain why bare-metal drastically outperforms VM or managed setups by eliminating hypervisor overhead and granting direct hardware access.

We will dive into the architectural decisions behind:

Cluster-of-clusters: Scaling geographically with isolated regions.
Intent-driven placement: Hardware isolation for predictable performance.
Blast-radius containment: Limiting fallout via dedicated failure domains.
Automated recovery: Software, not humans at 2 a.m., handles failures.
Continuous reconciliation: Shifting operational burden to code.

This is not a "Kubernetes solves everything" pitch. It’s a candid, numbers-driven account of engineering a multi-region bare-metal k8s platform where performance and reliability are non-negotiable.

Speakers

Aparna Prabhu

Senior Engineering Manager, Storage and Platform Engineering, DigitalOcean

I’m a Senior Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean, where I lead teams focused on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). My work revolves around building and optimising cloud infrastructure that is both scalable and secure. With a passion for innovation, specially green innovation, I... Read More →

Nikhil Pathak

Senior Platform Engineer, Digitalocean

Actively working for Kubernetes clusters creation, management and upkeep

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm IST

Building a Zero-Copy DSP Offload Framework in Linux Using RPMsg - Vishnu Pratap Singh & Paresh Bhagat, Texas Instruments

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Modern embedded audio devices increasingly run mainline Linux, but achieving deterministic low-latency multi-channel audio processing remains a challenge. While heterogeneous SoCs include DSP accelerators capable of handling signal processing workloads efficiently, integrating these accelerators into a standard Linux audio stack without proprietary middleware is non-trivial.
This talk presents a practical, upstream-friendly approach to building a zero-copy DSP offload framework using mainline Linux components such as remoteproc, rpmsg, and ALSA. Instead of relying on custom kernel patches or vendor-specific frameworks, the solution leverages DMA-backed shared memory and rpmsg-based signaling to enable efficient inter-processor communication between ARM application cores and a DSP.
A key focus of this session is eliminating redundant memory copies across kernel and user space boundaries. By designing a ping-pong buffer architecture with shared memory mapping and pointer-based synchronization, we achieved deterministic real-time streaming with significantly reduced CPU utilization and improved latency characteristics.

Speakers

Vishnu Pratap Singh

Engineering Leader, Texas Instruments Incorporated

Vishnu Pratap Singh is an embedded systems expert and engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience in Linux development, BSP, and Linux based product engineering for communication devices, Satellite terminals, smart devices, IoT, and pro-audio. He is currently driving... Read More →

Paresh Bhagat

Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments India

I am an Embedded Software Engineer at Texas Instruments with nearly 3 years of experience in developing and integrating solutions for embedded Linux systems. My experience includes Hypervisor such as Jailhouse, embedded Linux build systems like Buildroot and Yocto, and Linux audio... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Embedded

Audience Experience Level Any

2:00pm IST

Hardening and Scaling Open Agentic Infrastructure With MCP - Hema Veeradhi, Red Hat

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

AI agents are often limited by proprietary "plugin" silos and bespoke integrations. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) offers a universal interface to break these walls, but moving from local scripts to enterprise-scale introduces Day 2 operational hurdles. How do we discover tool-servers in a dynamic cluster? How do we secure the bridge between LLM reasoning and system execution?

This session presents a technical blueprint for operationalizing MCP within a sovereign, open source stack. We move beyond basic connectivity to address 3 core pillars:
1) Dynamic Discovery: Implementing cloud-native service discovery so agents can dynamically negotiate capabilities with ephemeral MCP servers.
2) Zero-Trust Security: Hardening the "Reasoning-to-Execution" path with fine-grained authorization and audit trails to prevent privilege escalation.
3) Full-Stack Observability: Using OpenTelemetry to bridge the gap between model thinking and backend execution, pinpointing failures in production pipelines.

Attendees will leave with a roadmap for building a modular, interoperable agentic infrastructure, ensuring the future of AI remains open and auditable.

Speakers

Hema Veeradhi

Principal Data Scientist, Red Hat

Hema Veeradhi is a Principal Data Scientist working in the Emerging Technologies team part of the office of the CTO at Red Hat. Her work primarily focuses on implementing innovative open AI and machine learning solutions to help solve business and engineering problems. Hema is a staunch... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm IST

Hey Yocto, Build Me a Custom Embedded Linux! Er, No - Kaiwan Billimoria, kaiwanTECH

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST

204 AB (Second Floor)

The Linux ecosystem powers many, if not most, devices these days. Having a well designed sustainable way to build and maintain one – and not having to rely on a hodge-podge collection of hacky scripts – is critical. This talk introduces the Yocto Project - _the_ industry standard way to build and maintain your custom Linux.

With Yocto, one can build a custom (embedded or otherwise) Linux in an efficient and completely reproducible manner, along with several related advantages; it's a 100% open source, has the ability to build-in security features, all/most major BSP layers are already available, and more.

This session will show you exactly how to get started on building such a custom system with Yocto; it will of course include leveraging Yocto/OE’s famed layer+recipes model.

Speakers

Kaiwan N Billimoria

Founder, kaiwanTECH

Kaiwan taught himself programming on his Dad's IBM PC back in 1983. Next, with C/Assembly on DOS until he discovered Unix and Linux!
Kaiwan is the author of five books on Linux:
https://amazon.com/author/kaiwanbillimoria
He's worked on many aspects of Linux including drivers and embedded Linux projects. His Linux mania feeds well into his passion for teaching these topics to engineers (for close to 30 years now). As well, he's an international speaker and a recreational (ultra)runner... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
204 AB (Second Floor)

Open Source 101 (LF Education)

Audience Experience Level Beginner

2:00pm IST

Sponsored Session: Does Zephyr Scare the Bare Metal Embedded Developer World? - Khasim Syed Mohammed & Soumya Tripathy, Texas Instruments

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST

206 AB (Second Floor)

Bare-metal developers pride themselves on simplicity, control, and understanding every line of code. Then along comes Zephyr—with device trees, Kconfig, west, and layers of abstraction—and suddenly, even blinking an LED feels complicated. So… is Zephyr actually scary?

In this talk, we take a practical and honest look at why Zephyr often feels overwhelming to bare-metal developers, what’s really going on under the hood, and whether that complexity is justified. Through side-by-side comparisons and live examples, we map familiar bare-metal concepts to their Zephyr equivalents and uncover where the fear comes from—and where it disappears.

This isn’t a “Zephyr is better” talk. It’s about understanding trade-offs, choosing the right tool, and making the transition without losing your mental model.

By the end, you’ll see that Zephyr isn’t replacing bare metal—it’s structuring the complexity you were already managing.

Speakers

Soumya Tripathy

Member Group Technical Staff, Texas Instruments

Soumya has been working with TI for 4 years with contributions and expertise in the field of bootloader, flash devices and display for the Sitara family of processors. He is the engineering lead for Zephyr RTOS for Sitara family of of processors, actively working in onboarding Zephyr... Read More →

Khasim Syed Mohammed

Director of Engineering, Texas Instruments

Khasim Syed Mohammed having more than two decades of experience with Open source software is a consistent contributor to various initiatives and projects in open source eco-system. Khasim has contributed to various Linux device drivers and Yocto project for Arm platforms, he is co-founder... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
206 AB (Second Floor)

Zephyr

2:50pm IST

AI as a Platform Engineer: Explaining Kubernetes Failures, Not Just Detecting Them - Paranitharan Kalaiselvan, Comcast

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Modern Kubernetes platforms generate massive volumes of logs, events, metrics, and reconciliation signals, yet developers still struggle to answer a basic question: why did my deployment fail? At Comcast, operating large-scale internal Kubernetes platforms, failures often span platform abstractions, custom controllers, policies, and cluster runtime behavior—making manual diagnosis slow and unreliable.

This talk explores how AI can act as a diagnostic layer in Kubernetes platforms, focusing on failure explanation rather than detection. It presents architectural patterns for correlating platform intent with Kubernetes signals and translating complex control-plane behavior into clear, human-readable explanations and actionable guidance. Attendees will learn how AI can augment platform engineers, improve developer trust, and significantly reduce time-to-resolution without becoming another opaque system.

Speakers

Paranitharan kalaiselvan

Principal Platform Engineer, Comcast | CNCF kubestronaut, Comcast

Paranitharan is a Principal Platform Engineer at Comcast with 12+ years of cloud-native experience. He played a key role in architecting Comcast’s Cloud Native Application Platform (CNAP), supporting thousands of developers. A CNCF Kubestronaut and ecosystem advocate, he focuses... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

CI/CD

Audience Experience Level Any

2:50pm IST

Kubernetes OIDC That Works in Practice: Keycloak + RBAC + Kubelogin Without Day‑2 Pain - Manik Bindlish, Orange Business Services

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

Kubernetes supports OIDC login, but in real life it often becomes painful: users can’t log in, TLS trust breaks with private Keycloak, usernames don’t match RBAC rules, and people end up sharing kubeconfigs or using long‑lived tokens.

In this talk I’ll show a practical way to run Kubernetes access with Keycloak: configure OIDC the right way, bind users/groups to Kubernetes RBAC, and use kubelogin (kubectl exec plugin) so tokens are short‑lived and refresh is handled automatically on the client side.
I’ll also cover the “boring” but important part: handling the Keycloak CA certificate so the login works from admin machines without manual steps.
You’ll leave with a clear checklist and a working “golden path” setup you can copy for your own clusters, that eliminate manual day‑2 steps while keeping security and auditability intact.

Speakers

manik bindlish

DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead, Orange Business Services

Technical Lead with 14+ years building and operating hybrid infrastructure platforms (Kubernetes, KubeVirt, OpenStack, bare metal). I lead upstream work on Sylva, an open-source Kubernetes platform for telco/edge that orchestrates containers and VMs. Focus: secure, automated, observable... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

2:50pm IST

DTS 101: From Roots To Trees, Aka Devicetree for Beginners - Krzysztof Kozlowski, Qualcomm

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Practical guide to writing Devicetree sources (DTS) and bindings for the Linux kernel. Jump in if you want to know:
1. What compatibility means between devices and how to express it in DTS.
2. What can be in DTS and what cannot.
3. Fastest way to upstream your DTS (no need for 10 iterations!).
4. Validate your DTS and live error-free ever after.

The talk will focus on Devicetree (DTS and bindings) in the context of Linux kernel, which is also applicable to several other projects like U-boot.

Speakers

Krzysztof Kozlowski

Linux Kernel Maintainer, Qualcomm

Krzysztof Kozlowski is an active Linux Kernel developer, working currently for Qualcomm. Krzysztof (co-)maintains several upstream kernel subsystems: the SoC subsystem (formerly arm-soc), Devicetree bindings, Memory controller drivers and Samsung Exynos SoC ARM/ARM64 architecture... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Embedded

Audience Experience Level Beginner

2:50pm IST

Keep AI on Track: Guardrails + OpenTelemetry Observability - Prabal Rakshit, Infosys Technologies

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Robust guardrails are a foundational requirement for preparing AI agents for enterprise‑grade deployment. They ensure that agents consistently adhere to organizational standards, policies, and ethical expectations.

OpenTelemetry provides a vendor‑agnostic, standards‑based framework for observing and validating guardrail behavior at runtime. Its unified APIs and emerging generative AI semantic conventions enable organizations to safely instrument guardrail logic, eliminate silent failures, and capture valuable telemetry across decision points.

This session explores the role of guardrails across the entire AI stack, including data layers, infrastructure, orchestration components, and LLMs themselves. We demonstrate how open‑source frameworks such as NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails or OpenLIT can be used to implement production‑ready guardrail mechanisms. Finally, we show how key guardrail metrics such as pass/fail rates, top violation categories, and latency impact can be instrumented using OpenTelemetry and visualized through enterprise observability backends like Dynatrace or Grafana.

Speakers

Prabal Rakshit

Principal Technology Architect, Infosys Technologies

Prabal is an architect with experience in cloud first integration and application development. He has been responsible for collaborating with clients to define a solution roadmap to build scalable and resilient cloud native solutions. Areas of interest include Spring Boot, Kubernetes... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Any

2:50pm IST

Security: Why It _has_to Be Open Source - Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST

204 AB (Second Floor)

We all believe in open source - or we wouldn't be attending this conference. But although open source may be a "nice to have" property for software in general, this talk will try to convince you that security software really _must_ be open source. With nearly 30 years of open source and security experience, Mike will address some of the key ways in which the open source community does security - and also debunk a dangerous myth. We will ensure we have lots of times for questions - open source and security should both be two-way conversations!

Speakers

Mike Bursell

Executive Director, Confidential Computing Consortium

Mike Bursell is the Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium. He is one of the co-founders of the Enarx project (https://enarx.dev), and was CEO and co-founder of Profian, a start-up based on Enarx. He currently holds advisory board roles with various start-ups... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
204 AB (Second Floor)

Open Source 101 (LF Education)

Audience Experience Level Any

3:40pm IST

I Break Things, AI Fixes Them: Building a Self-Healing CI/CD Pipeline - Premved Dhote, Red Hat

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

A broken deployment is every developer's nightmare. Standard CI/CD pipelines fail on minor typos or missing dependencies, forcing engineers to dig through logs and push manual fixes. What if your infrastructure could safely fix itself?
This session explores the transition from rigid automation to AI-driven recovery, introducing the "Pipeline Doctor" in Python: an agentic AI system acting as a self-healing safety net for your repositories.
Allowing AI to write production code sounds terrifying, doesn't it? This is why this talk prioritizes strict execution guardrails. Attendees will learn to set strict tool-calling boundaries around the LLM that securely restrict its capabilities.
Watch me intentionally break a live deployment pipeline to demonstrate how the autonomous agent catches the failure, securely verifies its fix inside an isolated GitHub Actions sandbox, and submits a Pull Request paired with an auto-generated Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Attendees will leave with a practical, open-source blueprint to build self-healing pipelines in their own environments.

Speakers

Premved Dhote

Software Engineering Intern @ Red Hat, Red Hat

Premved Dhote is an undergraduate pursuing his Bachelor's in Computer Science at PCCOE Pune. He is currently a Software Engineering Intern at Red Hat in OpenShift AI. He contributes actively to open source software and is ambitious about building futuristic AI tools. His interests... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

CI/CD

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:40pm IST

Decoding the Open-source Blueprint for India's Sovereign AI Future - Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat & Rajgopal A S, NxtGen Cloud Technologies

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

As India transitions from being the world’s largest consumer of open-source software to a leading creator of digital public infrastructure, a new mandate has emerged: Sovereign AI. To achieve true digital autonomy, Indian enterprises and public institutions must build AI ecosystems that protect data residency, reflect local context, and avoid vendor lock-in. But how do we practically build this sovereign stack?

This session provides an end-to-end technical blueprint for building enterprise-grade sovereign AI infrastructure entirely on open-source technologies. Using a homegrown, production-ready AI coding assistant as a practical case study, we will deconstruct the architectural layers required for AI independence. We will explore how to orchestrate scalable infrastructure with OpenStack, abstract complex multi-vendor GPU environments using Kubernetes, and deploy high-throughput inference for open-weight models using vLLM.

Beyond the architecture, we will discuss how Indian firms can adopt this open-source stack to implement highly secure, air-gapped environments, protect intellectual property, and empower local engineering talent to shift from consuming global AI to building it.

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 →

Rajgopal A S

Chief Executive Officer, NxtGen Cloud Technologies

Raj is CEO of NxtGen, India's largest domestic cloud provider.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:40pm IST

Hardening IoMT Medical Devices: Defense‑in‑Depth on Yocto‑Based Embedded Linux - Abraham Gogulamudi, GEHealthcare

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Connected medical devices (IoMT) increasingly depend on Yocto‑based Embedded Linux platforms to perform critical, patient‑impacting functions. As cyberattacks on healthcare rise, securing these devices is now central to patient safety, regulatory compliance, and lifecycle quality. This session provides a practical, defense‑in‑depth blueprint for hardening IoMT devices—starting from secure boot and measured trust to OS‑level hardening, system integrity, secure OTA updates, sandboxing, runtime protection, and zero‑trust device‑to‑cloud communication.
We will map real‑world cyber trends to specific embedded mitigations and align them with global regulatory expectations for medical devices. The session also demonstrates how open‑source tools within the Yocto ecosystem can enforce reproducible security controls, generate SBOMs, and support automated vulnerability triage throughout the device lifecycle.
Attendees will gain engineering‑ready patterns to build secure, maintainable Linux‑based devices—applicable not only in healthcare, but also industrial IoT, automotive, and safety‑critical embedded domains.

Speakers

Abraham Gogulamudi

Abraham Gogulamudi, GEHealthcare

Abraham Gogulamudi is a Senior Engineering Manager at GE HealthCare with 19+ years of experience in Embedded Linux, Yocto, and cybersecurity for regulated medical devices. He leads the PCS medOS platform, driving secure‑by‑design architectures, SBOM/CVE automation, and lifecycle... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Embedded

Audience Experience Level Any

3:40pm IST

Trust, but Sandbox: Securing AI Agents in Kubernetes - Sudhanshu Prajapati, Improving & Prateek Mishra, Founda Health

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

You wake up, open X, and see the post: new model just dropped. By the time you finish your coffee, it’s installed, pointed at your repo, and already making “helpful” suggestions. It works. It feels safe. But what did you actually just hand over access to, and how would you even notice if it crossed a line?

In this talk, we’ll unpack why testing every new AI model or coding assistant can quietly introduce serious security risks. Using real examples inspired by incidents like OpenClaw, we’ll show how AI systems can access internal data, influence code paths, and create vulnerabilities without ever asking for permission.

We’ll discuss why experimentation without guardrails can bypass existing security controls and normalize unsafe patterns. Most importantly, we’ll focus on what teams can do instead. The session will include a live walkthrough using the Kubernetes agent-sandbox project to demonstrate how AI agents can be isolated, sandboxed, and constrained with clear boundaries.
By the end, attendees will leave with practical approaches to evaluate AI tools safely, apply guardrails, and enable innovation without putting code or data at risk.

Speakers

Sudhanshu Prajapati

Senior Developer Advocate | AI Leader | Open Source Contributor | CNCG Organizer, Improving

Sudhanshu Prajapati is a data and backend engineer turned developer advocate with over 5 years of experience, specializing in cloud-native technologies and distributed systems. He writes technical blogs, docs, and videos to help teams adopt/build tooling around cloud native and AI... Read More →

Prateek Mishra

Cloud Engineer, Founda Health

Cloud Engineer at Founda Health. I spent the last 5 years at Atlan, starting as an intern and leaving as an SDE-II, focused on keeping cloud systems fast, scalable, and secure.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

3:40pm IST

Open Source Is Not the Same Anymore - Faeka Ansari, Akuity Inc. & Hrittik Roy, vCluster

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST

204 AB (Second Floor)

Open source used to mean something simple: the code is open, the community builds it, and everyone benefits. That world is gone. Today, billion-dollar companies release model weights and call it "open source"

Projects launch with permissive licenses but lock their APIs behind paywalls. Foundations host projects where one vendor controls 95% of the commits. And a new generation of developers is entering open source through AI-generated pull requests they barely understand.

I've spent 7 consecutive Kubernetes release cycles on the release team, helped build and maintain Kargo - a OSS project for GitOps continuous delivery and worked as a CNCF Ambassador helping new contributors navigate this ecosystem

I've watched the definition of "open source" stretch, bend & sometimes break in real time.

This talk is about the real problems developers face today when they try to contribute to, depend on, or build careers around open source projects that don't play by the old rules. I'll share what I've learned about spotting "open-washing" evaluating project health beyond the GitHub star count, and building genuine community in an era where the incentives have fundamentally shifted.

Speakers

Hrittik Roy

TPME, vCluster

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

Faeka Ansari

DevEx Platform Engineer, Slice Financial Bank

Faeka is Platform Engineer at Slice Financial Bank, an international speaker, and a contributor to several open-source Kubernetes-native projects. She has served on the Kubernetes Release team 5 consecutive releases and leads several community initiatives across CNCF, Google, GitHub... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
204 AB (Second Floor)

Open Source 101 (LF Education)

Audience Experience Level Any

4:20pm IST

Coffee Break

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:20pm - 4:50pm IST

Solutions Showcase, Lotus 1 (Third Floor)

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:20pm - 4:50pm IST
Solutions Showcase, Lotus 1 (Third Floor)

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

4:50pm IST

Guide To Become Linux Kernel Maintainer - Krzysztof Kozlowski, Qualcomm

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Linux kernel development has long since moved past the point of lacking contributors, with around 2,000 developers participating in each release and up to 330 first-time committers [1]. What the development process is missing, however, are reviewers and maintainers.

If you ever thought that becoming a Linux kernel maintainer was something reserved for members of a secret kernel lodge, join this talk in which we will explain why - and how - you should become a Linux kernel maintainer, with a focus on improving the Embedded Linux ecosystem.

Intention of this talk is not only present Krzysztof's ideas how to become Linux kernel maintainer, but also bring discussion with the audience, hoping more senior kernel maintainers will join and participate with their ideas and comments. Thus it could be considered a sort of half-Birds of Feather session.

[1] LWN.net: Some 6.18 development statistics, https://lwn.net/Articles/1046966/

Speakers

Krzysztof Kozlowski

Linux Kernel Maintainer, Qualcomm

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Linux

Audience Experience Level Advanced

4:50pm IST

An Introduction To Coreboot and LinuxBoot: Building Modern Open Boot Stack - Manish Baing & Arun Mahendran, Lenovo

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST

206 AB (Second Floor)

Modern server infrastructure is frequently limited by proprietary UEFI firmware—a slow, unauditable "black box" that introduces security risks and operational bloat. This session presents a transformative alternative: a lean, open-source boot stack pairing coreboot with LinuxBoot to achieve rapid boot times .
We will explore the technical synergy between these two powerhouses. coreboot handles the critical "early wake-up" of silicon—including DRAM, CPU, and PCI initialization—before handing control to LinuxBoot. By embedding a minimalist Linux kernel directly into the firmware flash, LinuxBoot replaces complex UEFI DXE phases with battle-tested upstream drivers. Attendees will learn the conceptual foundations of the u-root Go-based userland for flexible networking and storage logic, alongside the kexec system call for seamless transitions to the production OS. This session provides a roadmap for building vendor-neutral, high-performance infrastructure from the reset vector up.

Speakers

Manish Baing

Firmware Engineer, Lenovo

I am Manish Baing, an Embedded Software Developer with over 12+ years of experience. Currently working at Lenovo, focusing on OpenBMC development for Lenovo's ThinkSystem servers.
My career progressed from 8-bit microcontrollers to advanced embedded systems, covering power management, industrial automation, Semiconductor, and storage. I have presented Linux foundation 1st ever open source summit at India . I have presented two break-out session in Open compute pro... Read More →

Arun Mahendran

Advisory Engineer Lenovo, Lenovo

I am a seasoned System Software Engineer and Data Science & Machine Learning Architect with over 18 years of experience in building software systems using Python, C/C++, and advanced scripting technologies. My expertise spans cloud computing, machine learning, embedded systems, and... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
206 AB (Second Floor)

Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

How To Tame Your Agents? - Devidas Jadhav, Vertiv

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

As a developers, we use AI for our tasks. but there are stages.
1. user of web. copy paste code.
2. opencode calude code users basic.
3. using system proimpt PRD driven developement.
4. adding MCP server/ Skills.
5. agentic tools pipelines (code-rabbit)
6. AI Dark factories (gas town)

I have grown from stage 1 to exploring stage 6. creating projects has became trivial with improved models.

Realising tools are there to be tamed but we still need to keep some gaurdrails.

Session will give chronological order how I have grown and How will I develop same project in all stages. using embedded systems example using modbus mcp as well as playwright mcp. in agent.

More over I want to put across the point although AI will make few roles redundant but it will make so many of newer role. How your domain knowledge will help you deliver same projects way faster. passing all minial tasks to AI and perform architectural and review tasks.

Helping AI to write code and Help it to test and fix errors if any. avoiding overfitting.

I will be sharing my personal journey and show How can we achive using FOSS agentic tools for perfect autonomous software facotries.

Speakers

Devidas Jadhav

Senior Software Engineer, Vertiv

I have worked mainly Embeeded Linux. Alumni of CDAC Acts. OpenWrt, Android BSP, OpenBSP and many OSS used in my work. Has been passinate contributor to stackoverflow answering quenstion it the domain of Linux. Avid interst in AI and LLM. Working on implementing Redfish MCP from scratch... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

CI/CD, APIs, and Scaling: What Every Cloud Native Developer Needs To Know - Aditya Soni, SailPoint & Aditi Gupta, JioStar India Pvt. Ltd.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST

204 AB (Second Floor)

Building modern applications in the cloud is exciting—but also overwhelming. You need CI/CD to ship fast, APIs to connect everything, and scalability to handle growth. But where do you start?

This session will break down the essentials of cloud-native development, covering CI/CD pipelines, API-driven architectures, and scalable deployments— while also showcasing how open-source cloud-native projects can accelerate your journey from beginner to pro.

You will learn:
1. CI/CD without confusion – Automate deployments with ArgoCD, Tekton & more.
2. APIs made simple – REST, GraphQL & event-driven APIs for cloud-native apps.
3. Scaling smartly – Kubernetes, Knative & serverless for effortless growth.
4. Open-source power-ups – CNCF projects that accelerate your development.
5. Best practices – The tools & workflows every cloud-native dev must know.

Join us to get a clear roadmap, hands-on tools, and the confidence to build, deploy, and scale like a pro!

Speakers

Aditya Soni

CNCF Ambassador, Senior DevOps Engineer, SailPoint

Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Forrester Research, Searce, and is currently positioned at SailPoint as a Senior DevOps Engineer. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He... Read More →

Aditi Gupta

Software Engineer II @JioHotstar, JioStar India Pvt. Ltd.

I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer. Graduated from Asia's largest tech university for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service architecture... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
204 AB (Second Floor)

Open Source 101 (LF Education)

Audience Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

Strengthening India's FOSS Community - Ansh Arora, FOSS United Foundation

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

This talk presents an overview of FOSS United's mission to promote and support the FOSS ecosystem in India. The Foundation was registered in India in 2020 and is supported by thousands of volunteers nationwide throughout the year.

Our programs operate on three orthogonal directions-

- Individual creators and maintainers (by giving them a platform to talk about their work, or direct support)
- Communities (by either directly creating FOSS communities in India or supporting existing ones)
- Organizations (to adopt, acknowledge use of, contribute to, and create FOSS projects)

The talk aims to share insights into the programs we have developed to foster collaboration, innovation, and community engagement within the tech ecosystem. Attendees will learn about the challenges and successes of building FOSS communities, increasing awareness about open-source tools, and strengthening industry-academia-government partnerships. The session will also highlight the broader implications of these efforts on promoting digital inclusivity and shaping India's position in the global free & open-source landscape.

We will also showcase some Indian FOSS projects that have come out of the community!

Speakers

Ansh Arora

Program Manager, FOSS United Foundation

Ansh works as a Program Manager at FOSS United Foundation, a non profit aimed at promoting and supporting the Indian FOSS ecosystem. At the foundation, he looks into maintainer programs, grants, fundraising. He is also the co-chair of the annual IndiaFOSS conference.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

OSS Enabling & Management

Audience Experience Level Beginner

4:50pm IST

Downstream Zephyr RTOS Release Management - Keeping up With Upstream Pace - Parthiban N, Linumiz

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Zephyr is officially 10 years old and many silicon manufacturers are moving towards it as a de-facto RTOS. With over 3000+ contributors and 15,000+ commits per release, Zephyr is one of the fastest moving open source RTOS projects today.
Linumiz is a software partner with silicon manufacturers like Infineon and Texas Instruments, maintaining open source downstream Zephyr releases for their customers. This involves backporting bug fixes, security fixes, rebasing, and moving to new release cycles to keep up with Zephyr's upstream development pace.
In this talk, I will walk through how we manage these downstream releases and cope with upstream pace - what works, what doesn't, and what product developers should keep in mind when building long-term products on Zephyr.

Speakers

Parthiban

Embedded Software Engineer, Linumiz

With over 14 years of experience in software engineering, Parthiban founded Linumiz, a company that provides domain-neutral software services for U-Boot, Linux, and Zephyr, ranging from board bringup, board supported package, customization, device drivers, to over the air software... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Zephyr

Audience Experience Level Beginner

5:40pm IST

Efficient Performance Profiling for Virtual Machines - Sandipan Das, AMD

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Performance profiling in virtualized environments has traditionally required trade-offs between accuracy and overhead. Mediated PMU, a recent change to Linux's built-in KVM hypervisor, fundamentally changes this by providing guests direct access to hardware Performance Monitoring Units (PMUs).

This talk will:
- Explore the differences between the old and new approaches.
- Demonstrate a reduction in PMU virtualization overhead and improvement in profiling accuracy.
- Discuss the key trade-off: while guests gain direct hardware access, the host loses the ability to profile guest workloads through perf.

This talk is ideal for virtualization engineers, kernel developers, and anyone performing performance analysis in cloud or virtualized environments who needs accurate, low-overhead profiling data.

Speakers

Sandipan Das

Linux Kernel Engineer at AMD, AMD

Sandipan is a Linux kernel engineer at AMD specializing in enhancing the perf events subsystem. In the past, he has also contributed to the memory management, eBPF, and tracing infrastructure as well as projects like IO Visor, QEMU and gem5.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Linux

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

5:40pm IST

India’s Leading Role in Developing and Deploying Open Source Technologies Powering Digital Public I - Julian Gordon, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust & Radha Kizhanattam, Networks for Humanity

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST

206 AB (Second Floor)

Julian Gordon of LF Decentralized Trust will host a conversation with a cross-section of Indian organizations that are driving digital public infrastructure implementations, both domestically and internationally, including Networks for Humanity and Digi Yatra Foundation. India is leading the way in transforming digital ecosystems in government, finance, identity, and more. This session will be an opportunity to hear from those developing and deploying critical open source decentralized technologies to modernize core systems, ushering in more efficiencies, enhanced transparency, stronger security, and increased privacy.

Key topics will include:

-Real-world cases in banking and payment networks, government data infrastructure, decentralized identities, and energy transition
-The role of open development and governance in fostering the collaboration, innovation and trust required for these deployments
-Challenges including interoperability, security, regulatory compliance and skill gaps
-Practical insights for building resilient, collaborative, future-proofed open source networks

Speakers

Julian Gordon

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

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

Radha Kizhanattam

Chief Operating Officer, Networks for Humanity

Radha is the Chief Operating Officer at NFH, where she champions technology as a scalable public good that expands access and empowers businesses & individuals. She brings deep engineering, venture investing , and operating experience. Earlier, she held engineering and product roles... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
206 AB (Second Floor)

Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers

Audience Experience Level Any

5:40pm IST

Scientific Machine Learning With NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo - Aniket Kulkarni & Samudyata Minasandra, Curlscape

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Predicting how air flows and heat distributes through a physical product is essential for product feasibility studies, performance analysis etc. But it takes hours to days per design variant. You model the geometry, generate a mesh, set up boundary conditions, run the solver, post-process the results. The bigger issue is the back-and-forth between the designer and the simulation engineer. Multiply that by the dozens to hundreds of variants you need to explore a design space, and you get missed deadlines, stale questions, and engineering time spent waiting instead of thinking.
This talk covers usage of OpenFOAM to generate parametric training datasets across geometric and flow parameters with Latin Hypercube Sampling, then train a surrogate model using NVIDIA's PhysicsNeMo framework and its DoMINO (Deep Operator Network for Multi-physics) architecture. DoMINO encodes 3D geometry as a signed distance field, combines it with local surface features, and predicts pressure, temperature, and velocity directly on the part surface in a single forward pass, replacing the entire simulation chain. We'll go through how DoMINO works and why it fits this class of problems.

Speakers

Aniket Kulkarni

Founder, Curlscape

Aniket Kulkarni is an experienced AI leader, entrepreneur, and technologist with expertise in AI; specifically AI Agents using OSS, open source small language models. Aniket is passionate about exploring technology for creating efficient, scalable, and accessible AI solutions that... Read More →

Samudyata Minasandra

Generative AI intern at Curlscape, Curlscape

I’m a Computer Science Engineering undergraduate and Generative AI intern at Curlscape working on scientific machine learning and deep learning. My work spans surrogate modeling for physical systems, operator learning, and building ML pipelines for real-world problems. Recently... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Advanced

5:40pm IST

Recipes and Runtimes: Making Sense of Containers in 2026 - Soundarya Rangarajan, Canonical

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST

204 AB (Second Floor)

If you feel overwhelmed by jargon thrown around in forums, conferences, and headlines focussed on containers and the cloud, you’re not alone. In 2026, image hardening, provenance, secure supply chains—oops, it’s happening again, isn’t it? Let’s step back.

This session takes a hands-on, bottom-up approach to understand containerization. Build along as we containerize a simple app and run it, starting with a naive approach and iteratively improving it until we have a production-grade image. At each step, new concepts are introduced only once we've understood the need for them. We'll work with Docker, understand container runtimes, even touch upon new-age tools like Rockcraft and Chisel.

To make this fun, we’ll use baking as a guiding analogy: images as recipes, dependencies as ingredients, and runtime environments as kitchens!

By the end, you’ll be able to walk confidently into real-world discussions about containers, ready to participate and learn better.

Speakers

Soundarya Rangarajan

Developer Success Engineer, Canonical

A classic full-stack dabbler, I’ve worked across domains, from mobile and game frontends to engineering microservices for travel workflows. Tech wasn’t always the plan though; I once saw coding as an exclusive club I didn't belong to. Community changed that, and today I’m driven... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
204 AB (Second Floor)

Open Source 101 (LF Education)

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

5:40pm IST

The Maintainer’s Perfect Storm: Survival, Succession, and a Decoupled Future - Amrit Kumar Verma & Gaurav Mishra, Siemens

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

Murphy's Law states, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." For an Open-Source project, this can be a daunting task. Imagine you are in between a major architectural change, trying to decouple a monolith and your community itself starts to decouple. This is what happened recently in our decade old community and we would like to share the raw behind-the-scenes of our journey, hoping it will be helpful for others who're going through the same.

Our story will portray, how we lost our veteran leaders and architects departing the community, placing an unprecedented load on the remaining maintainers to bridge a massive gap in expertise, institutional knowledge and maintain stability while executing a high-stakes architectural migration. We will also touch bases on how the GenAI can work as a double-edge sword when you are in short of contributors.

Key Takeaways:
1. Practical strategies for project survival when veteran institutional memory departs mid-migration.
2. Why Next.js was a strategic necessity and not just a nice-to-have upgrade.
3. Navigating the influx of high-volume, variable-quality contributions and managing the burnout.
4. Lessons on building a new leadership.

Speakers

Amrit Kumar Verma

Lead Research Engineer, SIEMENS

Lead Research Professional | Open-Source Contributor | Mentor
Amrit Kumar Verma, Lead Research Professional at Siemens, is a passionate advocate for OSS. Leveraging his 5 yrs. of exp. in enterprise apps and architectures, autonomous vehicle, DL, license compliance, actively contributes to SW360 tool & drives innovation that bridges industry... Read More →

Gaurav Mishra

Technology Professional, Siemens

Gaurav Mishra is a passionate advocate for open-source software. Leveraging his nine years of expertise in the domain of semantic web, license compliance and software architectures, he leads the SW360 & FOSSology organizations and drives innovation.

Gaurav actively mentors the next generation of developers. Since 2018, he has guided students through GSoC projects and empowered underprivileged students at Katalyst NGO, igniting their passion for technology... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

OSS Enabling & Management

Audience Experience Level Any

5:40pm IST

Zephyr at 10: The Open RTOS Powering India's IoT Boom - Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Ten years ago, the Zephyr Project set out to build an open, scalable real-time operating system for connected and resource-constrained devices. Today, Zephyr powers a rapidly growing ecosystem spanning IoT, industrial systems, automotive platforms, and edge computing.

This session celebrates Zephyr’s first decade and explores what has driven its success—from technical architecture and open governance to a vibrant global contributor community. Drawing on insights from a new Linux Foundation Research study, the discussion will highlight key milestones, ecosystem growth, and the forces shaping Zephyr’s future.

In this session, we’ll explore:

-The Zephyr features that are most valued
-How open collaboration accelerates RTOS innovation
-Growth of the global Zephyr developer ecosystem
-Real-world Zephyr practitioner use cases & insights

Key questions:
-How is Zephyr being used across embedded products?
-What are the defining features of Zephyr that have contributed to its adoption?
-What are the attributes of the Zephyr community that contribute to the project's growth and health?

Speakers

Hilary Carter

SVP Research, The Linux Foundation

Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Zephyr

Audience Experience Level Beginner

6:30pm IST

Lightning Talk: If Zephyr Wants To Power AI Cameras, What Must Change? - Rutvij Trivedi, Silicon Signals Pvt. Ltd.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 6:45pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Cameras are no longer just for pictures, they are now real-time data pipelines that send information to ISPs, NPUs, and control logic. This is because edge AI is becoming a most wanted vision systems. Zephyr is good at deterministic embedded control, but AI-driven camera workloads need new architectural features like zero-copy buffer sharing, accelerator coordination, bounded latency, metadata synchronization, and controlled backpressure.

This talks about what needs to change in Zephyr's camera and driver architecture to make AI vision work in the real world. Based on our experience with Linux media pipelines and setting up embedded cameras, we look at where traditional RTOS-style camera models fail and what simple abstractions are needed to make them work without adding too much complexity.

The goal is not to make Linux features equal, but to make the architecture better. This includes designing pipelines, structuring buffer ownership, making streaming states more predictable, and making things easier to see. The goal is to keep Zephyr lightweight while also allowing robotics, industrial, and mission-critical systems to work with the next generation of AI cameras.

Speakers

Rutvij Trivedi

Co-Founder & M.D., Silicon Signals Pvt. Ltd.

Rutvij, MD of Silicon Signals, has 12 years in Embedded Linux, board bring-up, product engineering, and software development. He built a team at Silicon Signals contributing to open source (Linux kernel, ZephyrOS, AOSP, U-boot, LineageOS). His product development experience spans... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 6:45pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Zephyr

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

6:30pm IST

Hardware Assisted PMU Virtualization - Manali Shukla, AMD India PVT LTD

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Virtualizing Performance Monitoring Units (PMUs) requires careful coordination between hardware and software to provide guests with accurate, low-overhead performance monitoring while maintaining security and isolation.

This talk examines what it takes to virtualize PMU features, focusing on a hardware-assisted approach built on the upstream Mediated PMU framework in the Linux kernel.
This talk will
1. Explore motivations such as protecting confidential guests, reducing context-switch overhead, and maintaining host-guest boundaries.
2. Cover hardware support for selective interception, direct interrupt delivery to guests, and automated guest state management, as well as software handling of host state for registers not saved by hardware.
3. Demonstrate performance monitoring counters and instruction-based sampling virtualization, showing how hardware automation improves software-based state management and strengthens security for confidential computing workloads.

This talk is aimed at virtualization engineers, kernel developers, and performance analysts working in cloud or confidential computing environments.

Speakers

Manali Shukla

Linux Kernel Engineer, AMD India PVT LTD

Manali is a Linux Kernel Engineer at AMD specializing in KVM development. She contributes to virtualization infrastructure in the Linux kernel, supporting AMD's hardware virtualization features.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Linux

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

6:30pm IST

Bridging the Gap To Autonomous AI-Native Telco - Ganesh Narayan & Praveen Kumar Kalapatapu, Infosys

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST

206 AB (Second Floor)

This session presents the challenges which Telco service providers have in moving towards Autonomous Networks and adopting GenAI, AgenticAI - especially for OSS and Network Operations. This presentation highlights how some of the challenges can be solved using LFN projects and benefits to Telco Network Service Providers

Speakers

Praveen Kumar Kalapatapu

Senior Principal Technology Architect, Infosys Ltd

An accomplished and results-oriented technology leader with 24 years of experience in AI, Digital technologies and telecommunications domain. Proven ability to incubate and develop innovative products in AI, Autonomous Network, Cloud, NFV, 5G, and Immersive Media domains.

Ganesh Narayan

Principal Technology Architect, Infosys

Ganesh is a Principal Technology Architect with 21+ years of experience working with telco service providers across the globe. He has been instrumental in delivering award winning cloud native solutions for telcos leveraging open source solutions and contributed to industry frame... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
206 AB (Second Floor)

Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers

Audience Experience Level Any

6:30pm IST

Running On-Device AI With Qualcomm AI Engine Using LiteRT & ExecuTorch - Kartikey Rawat, Qualcomm

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Learn how to run real AI models fully on-device using Qualcomm’s AI Engine with LiteRT and ExecuTorch. This talk covers architecture, deployment pipelines, performance tuning on NPUs, and real demos showing how to achieve fast, private, low-latency inference on modern AI PCs and mobile devices.

Speakers

Kartikey Rawat

Senior Developer Advocate, Qualcomm

Senior Developer Advocate at Qualcomm| Google Developer Expert in AI and Google Cloud

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Any

6:30pm IST

How Kubernetes Networking Really Works: A Packet’s Journey Across Pods and Nodes - Ashwin Sriram, Deutsche Bank & M Viswanath Sai, IIT (BHU)

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST

204 AB (Second Floor)

Every time one Pod talks to another in Kubernetes, the Linux kernel does a surprising amount of work.

Engineers know Pods get IP addresses. They know Services like ClusterIP and NodePort make workloads reachable. And they trust that traffic somehow finds the right destination.

But what actually happens to a packet once it leaves a Pod, especially when it needs to reach another Pod on a different node?

In this session, we trace that journey across a live Kubernetes cluster. We follow real Pod-to-Pod traffic, observe how packets move across nodes using native Linux networking primitives, and examine what enables flat, routable Pod networking without NAT between workloads.

Rather than treating Kubernetes networking as magic, we connect what we see to the underlying constructs like network namespaces, veth pairs, bridges, routing tables, and packet filtering rules.

Through live demos, attendees will build a clear, practical mental model of how Kubernetes moves packets and leave with a clear mental model for explaining, observing, and debugging Pod-to-Pod traffic in Kubernetes.

Speakers

S Ashwin

Software Engineer, Deutsche Bank

Ashwin is a Software Engineer at Deutsche Bank, working on cloud-native platforms with a focus on automation and reliability. His interest in open source led him to join Prometheus-Operator as a GSoC’24 mentee, and he continues to contribute as an active triage member. He is particularly... Read More →

M Viswanath Sai

Student, Developer, Builder, IIT (BHU)

I am an Engineering undergraduate student at IIT Varanasi. I started dabbling with software development as a small passion during my freshman year and it has now become a significant part of my life with Open Source. I'm living my best life, constantly learning something new and exciting... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
204 AB (Second Floor)

Open Source 101 (LF Education)

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

6:30pm IST

Learnings From a $1M Discovery and Funding Experiment - Ansh Arora, FOSS United Foundation

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

In October 2024, we announced floss.fund as a big experiment to fund critical Free/Libre Open Source projects globally, which in turn was the culmination of a series of ad-hoc funding attempts over the years. It is the first of its kind in India, and one of the few in the world.

Over the last year, some of the biggest FOSS projects globally applied to the fund - from devtools, programming languages, libraries, critical FOSS infrastructure, to humanitarian and social-impact projects, all via word of mouth and volunteer outreach.

While the experiment itself has done well, there have been many disappointments and learnings owing to legal and compliance-related challenges

In this talk, we will share our experience from running the program, what other projects and funders should know, and our plans for the future (making FLOSS/fund a community driven effort, pushing for the creation of an Indian sovereign FOSS fund)

We will also introduce funding.json - an open JSON manifest for describing FOSS funding requirements that we launched as an experiment with FLOSS/fund. It has been adopted by some of the biggest projects globally, and platforms like GitHub, f-droid, thanks.dev

Speakers

Ansh Arora

Program Manager, FOSS United Foundation

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

OSS Enabling & Management

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

6:55pm IST

Lightning Talk: Strengthening Zephyr’s Camera Framework: Architecture Review and Enhancements - Elgin Perumbilly & Ankit Siddhapura, Silicon Signals Pvt LTD

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:55pm - 7:10pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

This session compares how camera support is built in the Zephyr Project and in the Linux kernel camera subsystem.

Zephyr focuses on real-time behavior, low memory usage, and simple system design, making it suitable for small, low-power vision devices. Linux, through frameworks such as Video4Linux2 and the Media Controller subsystem, provides a more structured and scalable approach capable of handling complex camera pipelines, multiple cameras, and advanced processing.

The session examines architectural trade offs between the two camera subsystems, comparing their design approaches and highlighting differences in driver structure, pipeline design, and overall system integration. It also explores how Zephyr’s camera architecture can evolve to support more advanced and scalable vision needs, moving closer to Linux capabilities.

Speakers

Elgin Perumbilly

Embedded Software Engineer, Silicon Signals Pvt LTD

Embedded Software Engineer at Silicon Signals Pvt. Ltd

Active contributor to Linux and Zephyr ecosystems, camera driver maintainer in Linux.

Embedded Software Engineer specializing in Linux and Zephyr camera stacks, with hands-on experience on NXP and Qualcomm platforms

... Read More →

Ankit Siddhapura

Technical Lead, Silicon Signals Pvt. Ltd

Ankit Siddhapura is a Technical lead in embedded software at Silicon Signals pvt ltd.

A dedicated contributor to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and the Android custom ROM.

Embedded Software Engineer with expertise in Android/Linux BSP, AOSP camera stack, and IoT solutions. Experienced with Qualcomm, NXP, and Amlogic platforms, camera HAL, and wireless protocols like Wi-Fi, Zigbee, and LoRaWAN

... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:55pm - 7:10pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Zephyr

Audience Experience Level Beginner

7:10pm IST

Tux Trek

Tuesday June 16, 2026 7:10pm - 8:30pm IST

Solutions Showcase, Lotus 1 (Third Floor)

Join us at Tux Trek to unwind with drinks and appetizers alongside fellow attendees. Visit the Solutions Showcase to connect with sponsors, explore new technologies, and keep the conversations going in a lively, collaborative atmosphere.

Tuesday June 16, 2026 7:10pm - 8:30pm IST
Solutions Showcase, Lotus 1 (Third Floor)

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