Open Source Summit India 2026: Full Schedule

16-17 June, 2026
Mumbai, India
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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

2:50pm 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

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

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

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

4:50pm 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

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

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

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

12:00pm IST

Breaking Valkey on Purpose: Chaos Fuzzing a High-Performance Key-Value Store With Agentic AI - Renuka Uttarala, Amazon

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST

203 (Second Floor)

Valkey (forked from Redis) is expected to be fast and correct under an enormous variety of workloads, yet many of the nastiest bugs live outside the reach of traditional unit and integration tests. In this talk, we’ll demonstrate the Chaos Fuzzer for Valkey, built to systematically explore edge cases in the Valkey’s cluster bus, a fundamental part of valkey’s cluster communication model. We’ll show how introducing controlled and uncontrolled chaos into Valkey uncovers correctness issues, subtle crashes, and regression risks that only emerge under common real-world scenarios.

Additionally, we’ll explore how we used Agentic AI to scale fuzzing effectiveness. We will discuss how we leveraged custom AI agents to read, summarize and validate logs from the nodes in Valkey cluster to automatically identify the reasons for cluster failures and expose new bugs in Valkey. We’ll also discuss how AI can be used to generate new fuzzing inputs and scenarios based on prior failures, allowing the fuzzer to iteratively focus on the most error-prone scenarios.

In the end, we will close the talk by discussing how contributors can use this framework to deliver quality features and fixes.

Speakers

Renuka Uttarala

Amazon

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
203 (Second Floor)

CI/CD

Audience Experience Level Any

12:00pm IST

Secure by Default: Building an AI-Augmented, OSS-Powered Reusable CI/CD Pipeline - Jenisten Xavier, Full Creative

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

What if every repository in your organisation inherited security, compliance and AI-driven automation the moment it adopted your CI/CD pipeline - with zero extra configuration?

In this session, I'll walk through a fully reusable, open-source-first CI/CD pipeline system built on GitHub Actions/GitLab CI that enforces security and quality gates end-to-end. We'll cover how secret scanning, OWASP Dependency Check, OWASP Dependency-Track, OSV Scanner for container images and SonarQube - community edition for SAST are wired together as non-negotiable pipeline steps - not afterthoughts. I'll demonstrate how Dependabot, Projen and how strict controls actively prevent supply chain attacks before they happen.

Beyond security, the pipeline handles semantic versioning, Cloud deployments, package publishing, artifact management and test report hosting - all reusable across multiple repos.

The talk concludes with the AI layer: using LLMs to auto-generate changelogs, trigger SonarQube self-healing agents and track deployment history for incident response. Attendees will leave with a practical blueprint for adopting OSS tools to build pipelines that are secure, intelligent and built to scale.

Speakers

Jenisten Xavier

Sr IT Analyst (DevOps), Full Creative

I’m a DevOps professional specialising in CI/CD solutions, automation & IaC, with a strong focus on GCP. I have a track record of streamlining deployment strategies that enhance efficiency and scalability.
I’m an organiser for the GDG Cloud Chennai community, where I engage with fellow tech enthusiasts to foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing. I bring creativity to both technology always seeking solutions. I’m passionate about growth, learning, and contributing to the wider... Read More →

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

CI/CD

Audience Experience Level Any

12:00pm IST

ESim – Democratizing Electronic Design Automation Through Open Source - Sumanto Kar & Shanthi Priya, FOSSEE, IIT Bombay

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Linux has long been the backbone of open innovation in computing, yet access to fully open, Linux-native Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workflows remains limited due to proprietary tools, restrictive licenses, and platform lock-in. eSim(https://esim.fossee.in) is an open-source EDA platform developed under the FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) project at IIT Bombay, designed to bring complete circuit design and simulation workflows to the Linux ecosystem.

This talk presents eSim as a Linux-first, fully open-source EDA solution that integrates schematic capture, SPICE-based simulation, PCB design workflows, and support for open PDKs using established open-source tools and standards. Built to run natively on Linux distributions, eSim enables students, educators, and researchers to design and simulate electronic circuits without relying on proprietary software, aligning closely with Linux principles of transparency, and freedom.

The session will showcase real-world adoption of eSim across academic institutions and future directions toward scalable, reproducible, and community-driven open hardware design.

Speakers

Sumanto Kar

Assistant Project Manager, FOSSEE, IIT Bombay

Sumanto Kar did his M.Tech in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, IIT Bombay and B.E. in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University. His interests lie in contributing to the open-source EDA tools. He is actively involved with the FOSSEE project, contributing to the development... Read More →

Shanthi Priya

Research Assistant, FOSSEE, IIT BOMBAY

Research Assistant at the eSim FOSSEE project, IIT Bombay, engaged in simulation workflow development, digital electronics analysis, and technical evaluation using open-source electronic design tool

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Embedded

Audience Experience Level Any

12:50pm IST

Don’t Trash It, Hack It: Reverse Engineering Secrets & Re-purposing ISP Routers - Dheeraj Reddy Jonnalagadda, Pixxel

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

We trust ISP-provided routers with authentication, firmware updates, and remote management. Yet, many remain opaque black boxes running outdated, poorly audited software built on open source tools.
In this session, we open that box.
Using a commercially deployed embedded Linux router, I will demonstrate a practical workflow for analyzing locked-down firmware and reclaiming control with open source tools.

First, the Security Lesson: We will walk through firmware extraction and forensic analysis in a structured way. This includes inspecting the flash storage, reverse engineering vendor binaries to uncover hardcoded passwords, and manipulating U-Boot to alter the boot process to gain root access. The focus throughout is understanding how embedded Linux systems are built and identifying where security assumptions fail.

Second, the Practical Upgrade: With root access secured, we move beyond analysis to utility. We will transform the router into a network-wide ad blocker using lightweight tools like dnsmasq, demonstrating how open source enables device longevity and architectural control.
This session is not about breaking devices; it is about understanding and reclaiming them.

Speakers

Dheeraj Reddy Jonnalagadda

Senior Flight Software Engineer, Pixxel

Embedded software engineer who started close to the metal — close enough to smell the solder fumes. Moved to Embedded Linux when I got bored of microcontrollers, and never looked back, mostly because there's always another router to liberate. I believe hardware ownership is non-negotiable... Read More →

Dont Trash it Hack it Dheeraj Jonnalagadda OSS India 2026 pptx

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Embedded

Audience Experience Level Any

12:50pm IST

Beyond the First PR: Why Contributors Stay in Open Source Communities - Yashvant Singh, EmissionZero

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST

204 AB (Second Floor)

Open source projects often attract many new contributors, but only a small percentage stay long enough to become long-term community members. What makes some communities different?

In this talk, I share lessons from my journey from a first-time contributor to a maintainer and community manager in the CircuitVerse ecosystem. Through mentoring contributors, reviewing pull requests, and helping grow a community used by hundreds of thousands of learners, I discovered that retention in open source is less about technical complexity and more about belonging.

This session explores practical strategies for building communities where contributors feel welcomed, supported, and empowered. From responsive communication and mentorship to giving contributors ownership and encouraging collaboration, small actions can significantly impact contributor retention.

Attendees will leave with actionable practices that maintainers and community leaders can apply to build open source communities where contributors not only participate, but choose to stay.

Speakers

Yashvant Singh

Co-founder at EmissionZero; Open Source Maintainer and Community Manager at CircuitVerse, EmissionZero

Yashvant Singh is an open source contributor, maintainer, and community manager at CircuitVerse, an open source digital logic simulator used by over 300,000 learners worldwide. A Google Summer of Code contributor and mentor, he actively supports new developers entering open source... Read More →

Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
204 AB (Second Floor)

Open Source 101 (LF Education)

Audience Experience Level Any

1:40pm IST

The Next Evolution of Java: ☕️ Achieving Hyper Performance and Efficiency in Cloud Native Workloads - Daniel Oh, IBM

Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST

206 AB (Second Floor)

Java is fundamentally changing. Enterprises deploying to Kubernetes now demand nanosecond startup times, minimal memory footprints, and fully optimized containers. This advanced session goes beyond basic JVM tuning to explore the cutting edge of Java modernization for cloud-native deployment. We’ll provide a deep dive and comparative analysis of optimization techniques, including Jib for minimal image creation, utilizing GraalVM Native Image for incredible cold-start acceleration, and leveraging the CRaC project (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) for state-of-the-art responsiveness. Join this hands-on Cloud Native Experience walkthrough to see live demonstrations of complex configuration patterns, detailed trade-off discussions, and actionable strategies for dramatically improving the cost-efficiency and velocity of your containerized Java microservices.

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

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

Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
206 AB (Second Floor)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Any

3:35pm IST

Towards a Tool for Access-Affinity Based Structure Reordering in the Linux Kernel - Madadi Vineeth Reddy & Aboorva Devarajan, IBM

Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Modern CPUs rely on spatial locality when fetching fixed-size cache lines, but kernel structures are often laid out without reflecting runtime access patterns. Frequency-based reordering groups hot fields together but misses a key insight: two high-frequency fields accessed at different times can still waste cache capacity through eviction between accesses. We propose access-affinity-based reordering fields accessed close together in time should be placed close together in memory.

We trace field-level accesses on struct rq, compute co-access frequencies within a short time window, and build an access-affinity graph where edge weights reflect temporal co-access. Hierarchical clustering derives reorderings that collocate temporally correlated fields within cache lines. Evaluated on waitstressor, cache misses dropped from 36.2B (13.9%) to 25.1B (9.4%), with idle_cpu() misses falling from 6.40% to 3.11%. Tool automates this analysis across kernel structures. We explore HTM-based tracing and MemFriend for scalable profiling. Key discussion areas: workload selection per structure, 64B vs 128B line layouts, false-sharing avoidance, and extending this methodology beyond struct rq.

Speakers

Madadi Vineeth Reddy

Linux Kernel Developer, IBM

I am currently working as a Software Engineer at IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC), with a focus on the Linux CPU Scheduler. I actively review, test, and discuss on scheduler and perf sched related patches in the Linux community along with looking into performance issues that come... Read More →

Aboorva Devarajan

Software Engineer, Linux Technology Center, IBM Systems Labs, IBM

Working as a Linux Kernel Developer at IBM Linux Technology Center (India Systems Development Lab)

Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Linux

Audience Experience Level Any

4:25pm IST

A Practical Perfetto Introduction for AOSP and Linux Developers - Stefan Lengfeld, inovex GmbH

Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Perfetto is a tracing and profiling tool developed by Google and well integrated into Android. It's also used for Chromium and can be used on any Linux device, too.

In this talk, I want to give a practical and hands-on introduction to Perfetto. I will briefly describe the architecture of Perfetto which consists of the trace recording, trace analysis and trace visualization. Then I will describe and explain thfe key features of the Perfetto UI for tracing and profiling Android applications, native services, binder communication and gernally the Linux kernel, e.g., the ftrace events for IRQs or the scheduler. I will also present specialized features in Perfetto that the Android team implemented to analyze the graphics stack. Additionally, I will share real world usage tips and common pitfalls to avoid from my project experience. And at the end, I will showcase the SQL trace processor capability to programmatically analyze traces that can also be integrated into a command line or CI testing workflow.

Speakers

Stefan Lengfeld

Embedded Linux and Android Engineer, inovex GmbH

Stefan Lengfeld has been an Embedded Linux and Embedded Android developer at inovex since 2017. He is a Linux kernel contributor and has been professionally involved in all topics related to embedded software development since 2015. Even before that, he dove into the depths of Linux... Read More →

Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Embedded

Audience Experience Level Any

4:25pm IST

Meet FRED: The Future Face of X86 Event Processing - Shivansh Dhiman, AMD India

Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST

Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

FRED (Flexible Return and Event Delivery) represents a modernization of x86 processor event handling, replacing the decades-old IDT (Interrupt Descriptor Table) mechanism and eliminating its inherent design flaws. This advancement introduces new low-latency ring transitions that establish complete supervisor or user context. FRED uses stack-based event delivery with integrated event data and introduces dedicated ERETU and ERETS return instructions.

These enhancements resolve longstanding issues related to atomicity, consistency, and nested exception handling in x86 architecture. This results in faster, more reliable and robust event processing through simplified system software and reduced attack surface.

The talk will start with a look at traditional IDT event delivery and the issues it creates. Then, we’ll dive into the FRED overview, covering briefly its terminology, design, and core mechanisms. To wrap up, we’ll touch advanced topics like virtualization and GS segment handling, highlighting why FRED is a major leap forward for modern x86 architecture.

Speakers

Shivansh Dhiman

Linux Kernel Engineer, AMD India, AMD India

I'm a Linux Kernel Engineer at AMD India, specializing in KVM virtualization for x86 systems. I focus on hypervisor optimizations, hardware-assisted virtualization features, and modern x86 innovations including FRED. Fresh from IIT Bombay, I believe understanding the "why" behind... Read More →

Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
Lotus 3 (Third Floor)

Linux

Audience Experience Level Any

4:25pm IST

Confidently Wrong: When AI Cannot Catch Its Own Bugs - Shailja Thakur, IBM Research, Bangalore

Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

AI systems handle complex reasoning tasks with fluency, yet consistently fail at simple logic — arithmetic, timezone conversions, unit mismatches — with confidence. The problem deepens when AI agents injest AI-generated code/text: the generator and verifier share the same training distribution, and often the same blind spots. A model that writes a wrong timezone conversion will just as confidently verify it as correct. The error is invisible to both.
This talk presents concrete examples and an empirical study of these shared failure modes. We show which categories of errors are most prone to this — where they silently pass both generation and verification — and show practical approaches to break the symmetry using deterministic validation layers that catch what models miss.

Speakers

Shailja Thakur

Research Scientist, IBM Research, Bangalore

I specialize in Large Language models for code, reasoning, alignment, and agentic harness architecture. Her work focuses on building efficient, reliable, and transparent AI system with a particular emphasis on production-grade design automation and safety. I hold a PhD from University... Read More →

Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Any

5:15pm IST

Breaking the TCP Barrier: Accelerated I/O for S3 With RDMA - Vidushi Mishra, IBM/Redhat

Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST

Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

S3 APIs power modern Linux infrastructure, yet most object storage traffic still relies on TCP/IP. Under high concurrency and large transfers, TCP becomes CPU-intensive and limits throughput. RDMA promises Accelerated I/O through kernel bypass and zero-copy data movement—but applying RDMA to S3 workloads is not the same as NFS or block storage.

This session explores how RDMA can accelerate S3-style object transfers in distributed storage systems. We examine memory registration strategies, connection scalability, and what changes when dealing with multipart uploads, HTTP range reads, and parallel clients.

Through real validation scenarios, we compare throughput, latency, and CPU usage across TCP and RDMA paths. We’ll also highlight where RDMA excels, and where it falls short, such as in small-object or metadata-heavy workloads.

Attendees will gain a practical framework for evaluating Accelerated I/O in their own Linux storage environments: what to measure, what to tune, and what performance gains to realistically expect.

Speakers

Vidushi Mishra

Senior Storage Engineer in Storage Ceph, IBM/Redhat

Storage Engineer (12 yrs) in distributed storage—Ceph & S3-compatible object systems. I build and break at scale: performance + scalability + correctness across multi-tenant/multisite deployments (resharding, replication, lifecycle, archive tiers, IAM/ACLs, notifications). Benchmarks... Read More →

Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
Lotus 2 (Third Floor)

Embedded

Audience Experience Level Any

5:15pm IST

Identity and Access Management for the Decade Ahead - Thivaharan Kalyanasundaram, WSO2

Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

Most organizations are running IAM infrastructure designed for a different era — built around human users and browser-based logins, then grown through procurement until it became fragmented and misaligned with how modern enterprises actually work.
Three forces are about to stress this model beyond its limits. AI agents need identities and governance just like humans but operate nothing like them. Converged identity platforms are replacing tool sprawl with unified architectures where governance, access management, and privileged access share a common foundation. And verifiable credentials are introducing decentralized trust models where identity claims can be carried and verified across organizational boundaries without a central provider.
This session maps what IAM needs to look like to handle all three, grounded in practical implementation experience rather than analyst predictions. Attendees will leave with a clear picture of where IAM is heading and how to start evolving today's infrastructure without rebuilding from scratch.

Speakers

Thivaharan Kalyanasundaram

Software Engineer, WSO2

Thivaharan Kalyanasundaram is a Software Engineer at WSO2, a leader in open-source IAM, where he develops modern identity and access solutions, scalable architectures, and secure frameworks. A gold medalist graduate of the University of Moratuwa, he leverages deep expertise in IAM... Read More →

Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers

Audience Experience Level Any

5:15pm IST

Writing for Machines: How To Capture Your Project's "Vibe" and Survive AI Slop - Kaushlendra Pratap Singh & Shaheem Azmal M MD, Siemens

Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Vibe coding is the latest buzz - the practice of defining your intent and letting AI handle the syntax. But are you doing it right to be the 10x developer, or still struggling with the AI Slop? Open source is currently the battleground for this transition, drowning in "AI Slop" and "AI Pressure".

The problem isn't isolated with the AI capabilities; our outdated developer mindset is to be blamed too. We are still treating syntax as the primary asset and writing documentation for human consumption.

We are introducing the new paradigm: In the age of vibe coding, code is a use-and-throw commodity. The true IP of your project is the context, the historical decisions, the constraints, and unwritten rules.

In this session, lets explore how to stop fighting AI agents buy designing for them. We will move beyond the traditional "human-in-the-loop" defense and embrace a new reality of Context Engineers.

Key Takeaways
* Understand the mechanics of AI-assisted coding.
* Why source code is becoming a disposable commodity, and the project context is the new asset.
* Actionable strategies to help AI understand your project's knowledge base.
* How to adapt TDD to validate AI intent.

Speakers

Shaheem Azmal M MD

Technology Expert, OSS Maintainer, Siemens

Kaushlendra Pratap Singh

Lead Research Engineer, Siemens

Kaushlendra Pratap, a Lead Research Professional at Siemens and a passionate advocate for open-source software. With nearly four years of experience in semantic web, license compliance, and machine learning, he has played a key role in contributing to and maintaining tools like FOSSology... Read More →

Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Any

7:15pm IST

Meaning Over Bits: How Semantic AI and eBPF Define the 6G Open Stack - Khushi Chhillar, NgKore

Wednesday June 17, 2026 7:15pm - 7:55pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

6G isn't just faster 5G it's a paradigm shift toward semantic and goal-oriented communications, where networks transmit meaning rather than raw bits. The ITU IMT-2030 framework positions native AI and semantic layers as first-class network citizens. But what does this look like in open source? This talk breaks down the semantic communication stack: the AI encoder/decoder models, the task-oriented transmission protocols, and the Linux-based infrastructure that will run 6G network functions. We'll explore how eBPF provides the programmable observability layer for semantic pipelines , tracing inference latency, enforcing semantic QoS policies, and monitoring model-level telemetry at the kernel boundary. Attendees will walk away with a concrete mental model of the open 6G architecture and where open source communities need to build next.

Speakers

Khushi Chhillar

Student, NgKore

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

Wednesday June 17, 2026 7:15pm - 7:55pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers

Audience Experience Level Any

7:15pm IST

Beyond Static Benchmarks: Chaos Based AgentCert Evaluation for Real World AI Agents - Saramma George & Suganya Selvaraj, Chetana Amancharla & Praveen Kumar Kalapatapu, Infosys; Deepak Sharma, Microsoft

Wednesday June 17, 2026 7:15pm - 7:55pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Current evaluation methods for AI agents, which depend on static benchmarks, are in adequate for real-world systems. This session reveals why accuracy-centric evaluations create a dangerous illusion of readiness and how real systems—shifting APIs, incomplete signals, tool failures, cascading dependencies, and environment drift—expose brittleness that benchmarks never measure. We introduce and demonstrate a chaos engineering driven AgentCert approach as an open source project, developed through a collaborative effort of Infosys and Microsoft, that evaluates agents the way real infrastructure tests resilience: by injecting controlled faults, observing recovery behavior, and measuring adaptation under stress. Participants will learn how scenario-based fault models, workload-coupled tests, and observability-rich metrics uncover latent weaknesses and emergent behaviors. The session presents a practical, open, and repeatable framework for certifying agents on robustness, not just correctness—empowering teams to build AI agents that remain stable, safe, and dependable when reality gets messy. See https://github.com/AgentCert for more details.

Speakers

Saramma George

Senior Technology Architect, Infosys Limited

Senior Technology Architect at Infosys, specializing in engineering innovative production‑grade solutions, agent‑driven automation, and next‑generation SD‑WAN and network platforms. With over 16 years of experience in the IT industry, she has built a distinguished career driving... Read More →

Chetana Amancharla

Leader, Emerging Technologies, Infosys

Chetana Amancharla is a Leader in Emerging Technology at Infosys, where she heads the Applied Research Center for Advanced AI. She focuses on sensing promising technologies, contextualizing them for enterprise use, and driving adoption through applied research and engineering validation... Read More →

Suganya Selvaraj

Senior Consultant, Infosys Limited, Infosys Limited

Senior Consultant at Infosys, specializing in Generative AI and Agentic AI, with over a year of experience in this role. Before joining Infosys, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Seoul National University for two and a half years, focusing on artificial intelligence. She... Read More →

Deepak Sharma

Principal Architect, Microsoft

Deepak Sharma is a Principal Architect and technology leader with 20+ years shaping how enterprises build and scale intelligent systems. He champions AI‑first, model‑driven and agentic architectures, helping organizations move from experimentation to real‑world impact.

His... Read More →

Praveen Kumar Kalapatapu

Senior Principal Technology Architect, Infosys Ltd

Wednesday June 17, 2026 7:15pm - 7:55pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)

Open AI + Data

Audience Experience Level Any

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