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16-17 June, 2026
Mumbai, India
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Tuesday, June 16
 

10:00am IST

Keynote: From Consumption to Global Leadership - Open Source Summit - Arpit Joshipura, SVP/GM & Head of LF India, The Linux Foundation
Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)

Speakers
avatar for Arpit Joshipura

Arpit Joshipura

SVP/GM & Head of LF India, Linux Foundation

Arpit OSS Keynote LF India June 2026 FINAL pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

10:30am IST

Keynote: The Open Source Runway: Building the Foundation for the Agentic Era - Toddy Mladenov, Principal Product Management Manager, Microsoft
Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:30am - 10:40am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
AI is moving from experimental "chat" to autonomous "agents," but the infrastructure remains the biggest bottleneck. This keynote session highlights how the industry is collaborating on open source projects to build a standardized AI-Native stack. From hardware-aware scheduling to automated deployments and secure isolation, learn how open collaboration is turning complex AI infrastructure into a production-ready utility for the enterprises.

Speakers
avatar for Toddy Mladenov

Toddy Mladenov

Principal Product Management Manager, Microsoft
Toddy has over 25 years of experience in software engineering and design, consulting, and product management for companies like Microsoft, T-Mobile, and SAP. He started his cloud journey in 2009 as part of the Azure team. Since then, Toddy worked on large-scale cloud implementations... Read More →
2. Toddy Mladenov pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:30am - 10:40am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Josephine Eskaline Joyce

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 →
avatar for Tanya Shanker

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 Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  CI/CD

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Aparna Prabhu

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 →
avatar for Nikhil Pathak

Nikhil Pathak

Lead Platform Engineer, DigitalOcean
Actively working for Kubernetes clusters creation, management and upkeep
Operating a Self Healing Bare Metal Kubernetes Platform at Global Scale pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Cloud & Orchestration

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 Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Vishnu Pratap Singh

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 →
avatar for Paresh Bhagat

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 →
Linux Based Zero Copy DSP Offload Framework pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  Embedded
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Kaiwan N Billimoria

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 →
Hey Yocto, build me a custom embedded Linux! Er, no OSS Mumbai June2026 pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Open Source 101 (LF Education)
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Soumya Tripathy

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 →
avatar for Khasim Syed Mohammed

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 →
BareMetal Zephyr OSS2026 Khasim pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Zephyr
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Paranitharan kalaiselvan

Paranitharan kalaiselvan

Principal Engineer, Comcast India Engineering Center
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 →
OSS India 2026 Paranitharan pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  CI/CD
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for manik bindlish

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 →
Manik OSS 2026 pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Cloud & Orchestration

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 Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Krzysztof Kozlowski

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 →
DTS 101 From Roots to Trees, aka Devicetree for Beginners Krzysztof Kozlowski, Qualcomm OSS India 2026 pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  Embedded
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:50pm IST

Keep AI on Track: Guardrails + OpenTelemetry Observability - Prabal Rakshit, Infosys Technologies
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Prabal Rakshit

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 →
Guardrail Observability Jun16 OSPO Format pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Open AI + Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Mike Bursell

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 →
Security open source MBursell OSS India 2026 06 16 pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:50pm - 3:30pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Open Source 101 (LF Education)
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:40pm IST

Event-Driven Platform Engineering: From Reactive Ops To Autonomous Control Loops - Josephine Eskaline Joyce & Prashanth Bhat, IBM India Pvt Ltd
Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
206 (Level 2)
Modern platform teams are overwhelmed by reactive operations where manual escalation, delayed remediation, and siloed automation take over. This session presents Event-Driven Platform Engineering as a framework for the design of platforms from ticket-driven systems to autonomous control loops. With the aid of Kubernetes controllers, event streams, policy engines, and real-time telemetry, platforms can identify, decide, and act without recourse to human intervention. We will also look at how events from observability systems, CI/CD pipelines, policy violations, and runtime signals can be transformed into actionable triggers for automation that powers scaling, remediation, governance enforcement, and developer workflows. The talk presents a reference architecture consisting of Kubernetes operators, Prometheus metrics, event brokers, and policy-as-code frameworks for developing self-adaptive internal developer platforms. Attendees will gain a structured approach to designing event-native platforms such as MTTR reduction, SLA compliance, continuous guardrails enforcement, and developer experience enhancement that align with open-source cloud-native environments.
Speakers
avatar for Josephine Eskaline Joyce

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 →
avatar for Prashanth Bhat

Prashanth Bhat

Lead Architect, IBM Cloud, IBM India Private Limited
Prashant is a Cloud Architect working in the PaaS and Automation space, with a strong focus on cloud-native, event-driven architectures, and resilience engineering. Over the years, I’ve designed and built large-scale cloud services that power proactive alerting, automation, and... Read More →
From Reactive Ops to Autonomous Control Loops pptx
Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  CI/CD

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 Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Premved Dhote

Premved Dhote

Software Engineering Intern @ Red Hat, Red Hat
Premved Dhote is a Software Engineering Intern at Red Hat. He actively contributes to open-source software and is passionate about building futuristic AI tools. His interests include cloud-native development and Agentic AI. Driven by continuous learning, he enjoys tackling complex... Read More →
Premved Dhote Open Source Summit PPT pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 3:40pm - 4:20pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  CI/CD

4:50pm IST

Guide To Become Linux Kernel Maintainer - Krzysztof Kozlowski, Qualcomm
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Krzysztof Kozlowski

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 →
Guide to Becoming a Linux Kernel Maintainer Krzysztof Kozlowski, Qualcomm OSS India 2026 pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Manish Baing

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 →
avatar for Arun Mahendran

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 →
An Introduction to coreboot and LinuxBoot v3 pptx
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:50pm - 5:30pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers

5:40pm IST

Efficient Performance Profiling for Virtual Machines - Sandipan Das, AMD
Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Sandipan Das

Sandipan Das

Linux Kernel Engineer, AMD
Sandipan is a Linux kernel engineer at AMD specializing in 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.
Efficient Prof VMs pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  Linux

5:40pm IST

Scientific Machine Learning With NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo - Aniket Kulkarni & Samudyata Minasandra, Curlscape
Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Aniket Kulkarni

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 →
avatar for Samudyata Minasandra

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 →
OSS 2026 Curlscape Solutions pptx
Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Open AI + Data
  • Audience Experience Level Advanced
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Soundarya Rangarajan

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 →
Making Sense Of Containers in 2026 pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Open Source 101 (LF Education)

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
206 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Amrit Kumar Verma

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 →
avatar for Gaurav Mishra

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 →
Maintainers Storm OSS India 2026 pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 5:40pm - 6:20pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  OSS Enabling & Management
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Rutvij Trivedi

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 →
IF ZEPHYR WANTS TO POWER AI CAMERAS WHAT MUST CHANGE pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 6:45pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  Zephyr

6:30pm IST

Hardware Assisted PMU Virtualization - Manali Shukla, AMD India PVT LTD
Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Manali Shukla

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.
Hardware Assisted PMU Virtualization pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  Linux

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for S Ashwin

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 →
avatar for M Viswanath Sai

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 →
How Kubernetes Networking Really Works A Packet’s Journey Across Pods and Nodes pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Open Source 101 (LF Education)

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 Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Elgin Perumbilly

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 →
avatar for Ankit Siddhapura

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 →
STRENGTHENING ZEPHYR'S CAMERA FRAMEWORK pdf
Tuesday June 16, 2026 6:55pm - 7:10pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  Zephyr
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes
 
Wednesday, June 17
 

10:05am IST

Keynote: The Moat Moved from Code to Context - Manish Dixit, Senior Vice President of Product, Engineering & IT, The Linux Foundation
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:05am - 10:20am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
The Linux Foundation runs the world's open source infrastructure — and over the past year we put AI agents on the engine that powers it. This is the honest field report: what we automated, what broke, and what it means for the millions of developers whose careers are built on writing code. The headline is uncomfortable but freeing: AI has made writing code nearly free, so the value moved elsewhere — to judgment, domain depth, and trust. The moat moved from code to context. Drawing on India's own proof points, from UPI to open models like Sarvam and BharatGen, I map the ladder AI can't climb and the concrete moves people, companies, and projects can make to build the open future under their own name.

Speakers
avatar for Manish Dixit

Manish Dixit

SVP, GM Product Engineering and IT, The Linux Foundation
Manish Dixit is Senior Vice President of Product, Engineering & IT at The Linux Foundation, where he leads teams building the digital platforms, systems, and capabilities that support the global open source ecosystem. His work spans product strategy, engineering execution, IT operations, data... Read More →
OSS INDIA 2026 keynote deck Final pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:05am - 10:20am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

10:40am IST

Keynote: Cut Database Costs, Fund Innovation with Valkey - Roberto Luna-Rojas, Sr Developer Advocate for Valkey OSS, AWS
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:40am - 10:45am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
Every dollar your database wastes on redundant queries is a dollar not funding Innovation. In the era of AI-driven applications, core infrastructure must run lean so budgets can shift to model inference, embeddings, and training. Valkey delivers that headroom. In benchmarks across MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL, adding Valkey dramatically reduced response times and cut database costs by more than half. For LLM workloads, semantic caching with Valkey eliminates redundant inference calls, delivering significant savings on prompt costs while slashing latency. This keynote shows the benchmarks, the architecture, and the cost model that frees budget for innovation.
Speakers
avatar for Roberto Luna-Rojas

Roberto Luna-Rojas

Sr Developer Advocate for Valkey OSS, AWS
Roberto Luna Rojas is a Sr Developer Advocate for Valkey based in the USA, originally from Mexico. He tries to get the most out of in-memory databases one bit at the time. When not in front of the computer, he loves spending time with his family, listening to music, and watching movies... Read More →
4. Roberto V2 pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:40am - 10:45am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

10:50am IST

Keynote: Open By Design - Open Ecosystem, Governed AI, Trusted Outcomes - Geeta Gurnani, Field CTO, IBM Technology India & South Asia
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:50am - 11:05am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)

Speakers
avatar for Geeta Gurnani

Geeta Gurnani

Field CTO, IBM Technology India & South Asia
With 27+ years of experience shaping enterprise technology strategy, I serve as Technical Community Leader for IBM India & South Asia, where I lead cross-functional teams across technical pre-sales, client engineering, and customer success. My remit spans IBM’s core technology portfolio—Data... Read More →
5. Geeta Gurnani pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:50am - 11:05am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:05am IST

Keynote: Rust and Linux​: How the Rust ​Language is ​Going to ​Help Linux ​Succeed in the ​Future - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:05am - 11:25am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)

Speakers
avatar for Greg Kroah-Hartman

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fellow, Linux Foundation

6. Greg Kroah Hartman pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:05am - 11:25am IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Renuka Uttarala

Renuka Uttarala

WW Head - Data & AI Services, AWS, Amazon
As WW Head of Data & AI Services at AWS, I lead a global team helping enterprises architect and scale complex data and AI workloads. With 20+ years across enterprise architecture, product strategy, and open source, I work at the intersection of distributed systems and emerging technologies... Read More →
OSSummit ValkeyFuzzer pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
203 (Level 2)
  CI/CD
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Jenisten Xavier

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 →
oss in26 pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  CI/CD
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

12:00pm IST

The Containerization of the Operating System: Exploring Bootc and the Future of Linux Deployment - Hema Arun, EmiratesNBD
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
206 (Level 2)
For decades, Linux servers have been maintained using package managers, configuration management, and patching cycles. But what if the operating system itself behaved like a container image?

bootc introduces a new model where a full Linux host is delivered, updated, and rolled back using OCI images — bringing application deployment semantics to operating systems.

In this talk, I explore what changes when the host becomes immutable: updates, drift management, disaster recovery, and fleet consistency. Through hands-on experimentation, I compare traditional configuration management approaches with image-based host delivery and highlight where each model succeeds or fails.

Rather than a product introduction, this session focuses on operational impact: how platform engineers can rethink provisioning, patching, and rollback strategies in data center and edge environments.

Attendees will leave with a clear mental model of when this approach simplifies infrastructure — and when it does not.
Speakers
avatar for Hema Arun

Hema Arun

Senior Technology Engineer, Emirates National Bank of Dubai
Hema Arun is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Linux and Platform reliability in enterprise environments. She is the first woman in the Middle East to earn the Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification and actively contributes to the community through workshops... Read More →
oss in26 ppt bootc hemaArun pptx
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Cloud & Orchestration

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 Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Sumanto Kar

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 →
avatar for Shanthi Priya

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
Fossee eSim pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  Embedded
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

12:00pm 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 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Saramma George

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 →
avatar for Chetana Amancharla

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 →
avatar for Suganya Selvaraj

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 →
avatar for Deepak Sharma

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 work... Read More →
avatar for Praveen Kumar Kalapatapu

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.
OpenSourceBeyond Static Benchmarks Chaos Based AgentCert Evaluation V3 pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Open AI + Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

12:00pm IST

Speeding up Your ML Workload: Pytorch Compile and Distributed Training - Aishwariya Chakraborty, Priyanka Naik & Kavya Govindarajan, IBM; G Chander, Independent
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
PyTorch is a widely adopted library for deploying ML workloads. It provides robust support for resource optimization, including CPU offload capabilities, memory and distributed workload management. The primary objective of any ML workload is to achieve maximum performance during inference or training. PyTorch enables acceleration of these workloads through support for torch.compile and distributed library capabilities. This session will cover the internals of the torch.compile stack, including the reasons for performance improvements such as internal graph representation optimization. These benefits will be demonstrated in the hands-on part of the session. While torch.compile can provide performance improvements on a single GPU, most production workloads require multiple GPUs to significantly reduce overall execution time. This session will examine how tensor distribution across GPUs is performed using various parallelization techniques, including data, tensor, and pipeline parallelism. The hands-on part of the session will involve implementing these parallelization techniques within a mini-PyTorch implementation, enabling practical understanding of distributed training strategies.
Speakers
avatar for Aishwariya Chakraborty

Aishwariya Chakraborty

Research Scientist, IBM Research
Aishwariya Chakraborty is a Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, India, with experience in networked system optimizations. She is currently working on systems for LLMs.
avatar for Priyanka Naik

Priyanka Naik

Staff Research Scientist, IBM Research
Priyanka Naik is a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, India with experience in networked system. She is working
on multi-cloud aspects around edge observability. She is a speaker at multiple tutorials, workshops and a co-author to a cloud networking book.
avatar for Kavya Govindarajan

Kavya Govindarajan

Research Software Engineer, IBM
Kavya is a research software engineer at IBM Research in the systems team working on networks and systems for AI.
avatar for G Chander
torch compile oss pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:00pm - 12:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Open Source 101 (LF Education)

12:50pm IST

“Hey AI, Train Llama”: Making Kubeflow Agent-Native With MCP - Akash Jaiswal, Oracle & Abhijeet Dhumal, Red Hat
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
ML platforms are powerful, but not always easy to use. A data scientist might understand their model well, yet struggle with Kubernetes configs, SDK APIs, or GPU scheduling. The result is friction — and a lot of “Can someone submit this job for me?” messages.

In this talk, I’ll introduce Kubeflow MCP Server — a Model Context Protocol bridge that exposes the Kubeflow SDK as AI-callable tools. Instead of writing Python or YAML, users can train and manage workloads through natural conversation, while the MCP layer handles validation and policy enforcement underneath.

KEP: https://github.com/kubeflow/community/pull/937

We’ll show:
Turning Kubeflow operations into structured MCP tools
Pre-flight checks that catch resource mismatches before submission
Persona-based filtering so data scientists get safe access while admins keep full control
A two-phase confirmation pattern to avoid accidental large GPU allocations

This session explores what it means for ML infrastructure to become agent-friendly — without compromising governance or cluster safety.
Speakers
avatar for Akash Jaiswal

Akash Jaiswal

Software Engineer, Oracle
Software Developer @Oracle,
2x GSoC (KubeFlow, CC Extractor)
Speaker at 5+ events
avatar for Abhijeet Dhumal

Abhijeet Dhumal

Software Engineer, Red Hat
Software Engineer at Red Hat, specialising in cloud native AI and Kubernetes infrastructure.
An active open-source contributor to CNCF projects as well as OpenSource communities - Kubeflow, Ray and Feature Store with experience in cloud-native AI/ML platform development and distr... Read More →
presentation pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  CI/CD

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 Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Dheeraj Reddy Jonnalagadda

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 →
OSS India 2026 Dont Trash it Hack it Dheeraj Jonnalagadda pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  Embedded
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

12:50pm IST

Demystifying PCI Interrupts: Understanding MSI/MSI‑X in Linux - Shradha Gupta, Microsoft
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
206 (Level 2)
Efficient interrupt handling is at the heart of modern operating systems, enabling hardware devices to communicate seamlessly with the kernel. In the Linux ecosystem, the evolution from legacy line based interrupts to advanced mechanisms like Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and MSI X has significantly improved scalability, performance, and reliability. Yet, for many developers and practitioners, the inner workings of these mechanisms remain opaque.
This talk aims to demystify PCI interrupt handling in Linux, with a focus on MSI/MSI X. We will begin by revisiting the limitations of traditional interrupt models, then explore how MSI/MSI X leverage in band signaling to overcome them. Attendees will gain insights into:
• The architectural differences between legacy interrupts and MSI/MSI X.
• How the Linux kernel configures and manages these interrupts.
• Practical debugging techniques for PCI devices using MSI/MSI X.
• Real world performance implications in networking, storage, and virtualization workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Shradha Gupta

Shradha Gupta

Senior Software Engineer, microsoft
A Microsoft engineer who is an open‑source enthusiast and lifelong learner with a deep interest in Linux internals, device drivers, and system performance. Rather than claiming mastery, I approach technology with curiosity and a commitment to continuous growth
LFOSS demystifying pci msi pdf pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Linux

12:50pm IST

Pruning Kernel CVEs With Code Reachability Analysis - Ashish Bijlani, Ossillate Inc & Chandni B, Independent Contributor
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
203 (Level 2)
The Linux kernel is now a CVE Numbering Authority, a change that has driven an unprecedented increase in reported kernel vulnerabilities. In Kubernetes environments, this shift has amplified compliance requirements that mandate per-CVE tracking, remediation, or justification.

This talk presents a methodology for kernel CVE pruning via static code reachability analysis. We map CVEs to vulnerable kernel functions and evaluate whether those functions are reachable under a specific kernel configuration and execution environment. The analysis incorporates build-time configuration (Kconfig), loadable modules, and inter-procedural call graphs to approximate practical exploitability.

We present an open-source tool that automates this analysis and evaluate it with representative workloads. Our results show that many kernel CVEs are in unreachable code, yielding a high reduction in reported exposure. We also discuss limitations and implications for compliance-driven vulnerability management.
Speakers
CB

Chandni B

Independent contributor, Independent Contributor
avatar for Ashish Bijlani

Ashish Bijlani

Entrepreneur/Researcher, Ossillate Inc
Ashish is the founder of Ossillate Inc, a cybersecurity startup. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has co-authored peer-reviewed papers in top-tier academic conferences, and has also presented his work at premier industry conferences, such... Read More →
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
203 (Level 2)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

12:50pm IST

Democratizing Grid Intelligence for Developing Nations Through Linux-open-source Infrastructure - Dr. Satabdy Jena, Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd. & Dr. Nikita Rao, IIT Guwahati
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
Developing countries face increasing renewable integration, ageing power grid infrastructure and dependence on proprietary energy management systems. This session presents an open, Linux‑powered blueprint for future-ready power grids built entirely on FOSS principles. Aligned with Shell’s inner‑source philosophy, the approach demonstrates how shared innovation, standardized interfaces and reusable components accelerate scalable grid intelligence. Leveraging the LF Energy ecosystem—extending critical modules for load forecasting, system‑state estimation, load flow, voltage control and fault restoration for electric power grids—the architecture shows how community‑driven development reduces vendor lock‑in, lowers deployment costs and enables rapid iteration. For emerging economies such as India, this model illustrates how open collaboration strengthens energy resilience while advancing secure and efficient digital infrastructure to support long‑term energy transition goals.
Speakers
avatar for Dr. Satabdy Jena

Dr. Satabdy Jena

RESEARCHER- POWER SYSTEMS MODELING, Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd.
Satabdy Jena completed her PhD in Electrical engineering (Power Systems) from IIT ROORKEE in 2023. Post this , she joined Shell Technology Centre Bangalore as a Power Systems Modelling Researcher. Her broader domain of work and research interests include microgrids, control systems... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Nikita Ramachandra

Dr. Nikita Ramachandra

Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Guwahati
Dr. Nikita Ramachandra is a Visvesvaraya Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Guwahati and a researcher in power systems and smart grid technologies. She previously served as a Project Officer at IIT Madras, where she contributed to the development of advanced grid automation functionalities using a microservices... Read More →
OSS 2026 V4 zip
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Linux for Emerging Countries

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Yashvant Singh

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 →
Beyond the First PR pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Open Source 101 (LF Education)
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

12:50pm IST

Poisoning the Well: Why AI Governance Is the OSPO’s New Frontier - Madhusudanan GK, NatWest Group
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
205 (Level 2)
As banks shift from traditional software to LLMs, the threat landscape is evolving from "bugs in code" to "poison in data." Traditional vulnerability management (CVEs) cannot detect a model that has been trained to have a backdoor. This lightning talk explores the critical risk of Data Poisoning and Indirect Prompt Injection in a regulated fintech environment.

We will walk through concrete examples—from "hidden" instructions in customer documents to "Trojan Horse" models downloaded from public repositories—that can lead to unauthorized transfers or massive reputational damage. The session provides a 3-step governance framework for OSPOs to move beyond SCA and toward Model Integrity:

Implementing Data Lineage for fine-tuning sets,

Adopting Adversarial Red-Teaming as a standard release gate, a
Leveraging open-source frameworks like MITRE ATLAS to map AI-specific threats and tools like garak, augustus to detect the vulnerabilities
Learn why the OSPO is the natural home for AI Safety and how to protect your organization's "Intelligence Supply Chain" from being poisoned at the source.
Speakers
avatar for Madhusudanan

Madhusudanan

OSPO Principal Engineer, NatWest Group
I am working as a Principal Engineer for the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) in NatWest group India. Although my primary area of focus is enhancing the supply chain security in open source and safe adoption of open source applications within a highly regulated financial institution... Read More →
Poisoning the well OSPO AI Governance NWG pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 12:50pm - 1:30pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  OSS Enabling & Management

1:40pm IST

When Nobody Owns Quality: Making Testing Responsibility Explicit in Open Source Projects - Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Skeps
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
Who owns testing standards in your project? Who decides release gates? Who pays the cost of test debt?

Many open source projects cannot answer clearly. Not because maintainers do not care, but because test health responsibility emerges informally rather than being explicitly defined. What remains informal becomes nobody's obligation until it turns into everyone's problem.

Examining governance docs, contributor guidelines and issue discussions from Linux kernel, Kubernetes, Apache and OpenStack, this talk surfaces a recurring pattern: investing in CI alone does not clarify who owns test health. Kubernetes has a testing SIG and extensive CI, yet flaky test discussions reveal uncertainty about who can enforce fixes.

Four practical steps projects can adopt:

Make testing ownership explicit in governance and contributing documentation.
Define release quality gates that are written, versioned and enforced.
Designate CI health stewardship the way projects designate release managers.
Track flaky test debt the way projects track open issues.

Open source conferences focus on tools. This talk focuses on ownership: a framework for identifying and closing gaps in test health responsibility.
Speakers
avatar for Ujjwal Kumar Singh

Ujjwal Kumar Singh

Software Development Engineer in Test, Skeps
Ujjwal Kumar Singh is a Software Tester who focuses on exploring software quality beyond traditional test cases and automation. His work centers on understanding how testing practices interact with engineering workflows, contributor collaboration, and project governance. He is particularly... Read More →
Nobody Owns Quality pptx
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  CI/CD

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 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Daniel Oh

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

oss in26 The Next Evolution of Java ☕️ Achieving Hyper Performance and Efficiency in Cloud Native Workloads pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Cloud & Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:40pm IST

Detecting and Defusing the Ticking Time Bomb: Understanding CVEs and Upstreaming in Yocto - Siddharth Doshi, Montavista Software LLC
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
Unpatched vulnerabilities don't break builds, but can compromise entire infrastructures. A single neglected CVE in an embedded device can be a ticking time bomb, potentially causing millions in damages. But in an ocean of CVE's known vulnerabilities, how do you achieve high detection rates without drowning in false positives?

This session touch bases the lifecycle of a CVE, their exploitability, including how CVSS scores are calculated. It then addresses "translation problem"-explaining why different OS ecosystems label and backport CVEs differently, often confusing automated scanners.

Next, the talk deep-dives into practical solutions, demonstrating how to use SBOMs to map dependencies and implement a semi-automated, custom scanning strategy on top of it to maximize threat detection.

Finally, it focuses on practical application within the Yocto Project. The session explores "sustainability loop," sharing tips for applying security patches and version upgrades without breaking the build and dicusses why hoarding local patches creates crushing technical debt, and why pushing fixes upstream is the most strategic, secure choice for both their organization and open-source community.
Speakers
avatar for Siddharth Doshi

Siddharth Doshi

Senior Software Engineer, Montavista Software LLC
I am open-source engineer with nearly a decade of experience across Yocto,RPM and Debian-based ecosystems, specializing in userspace architecture and toolchain domains and some kernel features. I have spent the last seven years integrating LF projects and 4 years actively contributing... Read More →
Detecting and Defusing the Ticking Time Bomb Understanding CVEs and Upstreaming in Yocto pptx
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  Embedded

1:40pm IST

Syzbot To Mainline: How I Merged 21 Kernel Patches as a First-Time Contributor - Deepanshu Kartikey, Clickpost
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
The Linux kernel can feel impenetrable to newcomers — millions of lines of code and a mailing-list workflow unlike anything else in open source. But what if there was a repeatable, beginner-friendly path in?
During my LFX Mentorship (Fall 2025), which I successfully graduated from, I merged 21 patches across 15+ kernel subsystems — including ext4, gfs2, btrfs, ocfs2, f2fs, mm, tracing, networking, and BPF — all using syzbot bug reports as my starting point.
This lightning talk distills that experience into a practical playbook for first-time contributors:

Finding your first bug: navigating the syzbot dashboard and picking approachable reports like memory leaks and missing validations.
Understanding the bug: reading KASAN/KMSAN reports, tracing call stacks, and using git blame.
Writing the fix: structuring kernel patches with good commit messages following kernel conventions.
Surviving code review: handling v2/v3 revisions and learning from maintainer feedback.

If you have ever wanted to contribute to the kernel but did not know where to start, this talk gives you a concrete, battle-tested roadmap.
Speakers
avatar for Deepanshu Kartikey

Deepanshu Kartikey

Performance Engineer, Clickpost
Deepanshu Kartikey is a Linux kernel developer with patches merged across BPF, networking, ext4, and memory management subsystems. His contributions have been reviewed by maintainers including Alexei Starovoitov and Theodore Ts'o. He specializes in eBPF-based observability, building... Read More →
my slides pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Linux for Emerging Countries
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:40pm IST

Building Hybrid Quantum-Classical Pipelines : A Practical Guide With Qiskit - Sainath Sativar, International Business Machines; Guncha Malik, Divya Singh & Amutamil E, IBM
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Quantum computing is moving from theory to practice, but getting started can feel challenging. This session offers an accessible, open‑source path to writing and running quantum programs. We begin by explaining how quantum computing differs from classical computing starting with bits, then introducing qubits, superposition, and entanglement using clear, intuitive descriptions rather than heavy math.

We then explore why quantum computing matters, highlighting problems where classical methods struggle and quantum techniques may help. Next, we shift to hands‑on work: participants will build simple circuits with Qiskit, run them on simulators, and learn how to execute the same code on real quantum hardware. We also demonstrate hybrid quantum‑classical workflows for practical use.

Throughout, we focus on intuition, visuals, and step‑by‑step guidance. By the end, attendees will understand how quantum programs are structured and feel confident continuing their exploration—whether they’re developers, students, researchers, or curious learners.
Speakers
AE

Amutamil E

Senior Staff System Developer | z/OS, IBM india pvt. ltd
avatar for Divya Singh

Divya Singh

Senior Software Developer, IBM
Divya Singh has 5.5 years of experience at IBM, starting as a DevOps engineer managing continuous integration environments and now working as a back-end developer specializing in client–server architectures, networking, application development, and databases. Passionate about emerging... Read More →
avatar for Guncha Malik

Guncha Malik

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Guncha Malik is a Senior Security Architect at IBM with over 25 years of experience driving cloud security initiatives and quantum‑safe migration strategies. As an IBM Quantum Ambassador and a Qiskit Advocate, she mentors students and professionals, shares industry insights, and... Read More →
avatar for Sainath Sativar

Sainath Sativar

Senior Staff System Engineer, International Business Machines
Sainath Sativar is a Senior Staff System Engineer at IBM Hyperprotect Services, specializing in Confidential Computing and security-focused solutions. His expertise spans secure execution, virtualization, container technologies (Podman, Docker), and Golang, with a strong emphasis... Read More →
Building Hybrid Quantum Classical Pipelines OSS Mumbai 2026 pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Open Source 101 (LF Education)
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:35pm IST

Operators Live in the Past: Designing Reliable Kubernetes Controllers - Someshwaran Mohan Kumar, Elastic
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
203 (Level 2)
Writing a Kubernetes operator looks easy with Kubebuilder and controller-runtime, until production traffic hits. Then the real problems begin.

This session dives into the hard parts of building production-grade operators, focusing on the reconciliation loop and managing stateful workloads safely.

Operators inherently "live in the past" because they read from a cache populated by watch events. This stale view can cause subtle race conditions, over-creation bugs, and inconsistent state. We’ll explore how to handle this safely using optimistic concurrency, resource versions, and the memory expectations pattern used by core Kubernetes controllers.

I’ll also cover designing idempotent reconciliations, deterministic resource naming, spec-hash comparisons instead of brittle DeepEqual checks, safe pod template customization, and the realities of StatefulSets and persistent volumes, including update strategies like OnDelete and volume binding pitfalls.

If you’re building or operating controllers in real clusters, this talk will help you avoid painful production mistakes.
Speakers
avatar for Someshwaran Mohan Kumar

Someshwaran Mohan Kumar

Developer Advocate, Elastic
I’m a Developer Advocate at Elastic and an open-source enthusiast shaped by community collaboration. I enjoy building systems, exploring codebases, and solving real-world distributed systems challenges.

At Elastic, I lead developer communities across India, helping platform teams understand cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, observability, search, and scalable system design. I share practical insights from our engineering journey through talks, workshops, demos, and technical w... Read More →
Operators Designing Reliable Kubernetes Controllers pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
203 (Level 2)
  Cloud & Orchestration

3:35pm IST

Pull Once, Scale Everywhere: Fixing Image Pull Bottlenecks With Dragonfly - Shivani Rathod, Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
206 (Level 2)
In large Kubernetes clusters, scaling isn’t just about replicas — it’s about distribution efficiency.
When hundreds of pods start simultaneously, container image pulls can silently become your biggest bottleneck.

In this session, we’ll explore how Dragonfly (D7y) transforms traditional image pulling into a peer-to-peer, high-performance distribution system within Kubernetes.

We’ll break down:
Why image pull storms happen
How P2P distribution solves real scaling problems
Dragonfly architecture in Kubernetes
Live flow of how images propagate across nodes
Real-world performance improvements and use cases
This talk is for engineers who want their clusters to scale smarter — not slower.
Because Kubernetes is fast
but only if your images are too.
Speakers
avatar for Shivani Rathod

Shivani Rathod

DevOps Developer, Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Shivani oss 2026 pptx
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Cloud & Orchestration

3:35pm IST

Generic BootLoader on Android Platforms - Naina Mehta, Qualcomm India Private Limited
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
Bootloaders are critical foundation of Android boot process, responsible for everything from hardware initialization to kernel handoff. However, the current landscape is heavily fragmented, with each silicon vendor and OEM maintaining different bootloader implementations. This diversity leads to duplication of effort, slower security patching, and complex barriers to upgrading the Android boot framework across the ecosystem.
To address these challenges, Google has introduced Generic BootLoader (GBL) - a unified, Rust-based bootloader developed within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Designed as a UEFI application, GBL standardizes the boot flow across x86, ARM64, and RISC-V architectures and can be deployed across various existing firmware stacks, including U-Boot, EDK2, and LittleKernel.
This session provides a deep dive into GBL’s architecture. We will explore how GBL utilizes standard upstream UEFI protocols and how it interfaces to select appropriate Device Trees (DT), apply DT fixups, and prepare prepare kernel data (bootconfig/command-line). We will also examine GBL-specific protocols handling Android requirements like A/B slots, Verified Boot (AVB), and Fastboot.
Speakers
avatar for Naina Mehta

Naina Mehta

Lead Engineer, Senior, Qualcomm India Private Limited
Linux Kernel engineer primarily supporting core kernel frameworks and BootLoader for Android on Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets.
GBL OSS IN26 pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  Embedded

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 Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Madadi Vineeth Reddy

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 →
avatar for Aboorva Devarajan

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)
Tool for Access Affinity pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:35pm IST

Quantum-Safe TLS in Practice With Open Quantum Safe & OpenSSL 3 - Divyanshu Agrawal, Shubham Bhardwaj & Anitha Natarajan, RedHat
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
205 (Level 2)
This session gives attendees a ground-up understanding of post-quantum cryptography and shows how it applies to real-world TLS. We start with the essentials: why classical public-key cryptography breaks under quantum attack, what NIST's post-quantum standardization process produced (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA), and how hybrid key exchange lets you transition incrementally without abandoning classical security.
We then walk through how the Open Quantum Safe project's oqs-provider plugin for OpenSSL 3 brings post-quantum algorithms into a standard TLS stack. The session covers:
  • Installing and configuring oqs-provider against a standard OpenSSL 3 installation
  • Generating post-quantum and hybrid X.509 certificates using ML-KEM and ML-DSA
  • Standing up a TLS 1.3 server and connecting with a PQ-enabled openssl s_client
  • Inspecting negotiated ciphersuites and key exchange algorithms in live TLS handshakes
  • Comparing classical vs. hybrid vs. pure PQ handshake performance and the tradeoffs involved
  • Exploring the algorithm catalogue - KEMs, signature schemes, and their NIST standardization status
No prior post-quantum knowledge is assumed. Attendees should be comfortable with the Linux CLI and have a basic understanding of TLS.

Speakers
avatar for Divyanshu Agrawal

Divyanshu Agrawal

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
A Software Engineer at Red Hat and active open-source contributor focused on Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms. He contributes to open-source projects and works on building scalable systems using modern cloud-native technologies. He is passionate about open source, community collaboration... Read More →
avatar for Shubham Bhardwaj

Shubham Bhardwaj

Software Engineer, Red Hat
A Software Engineer focused on Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and software supply chain security. He works on building and securing CI/CD and deployment workflows, with hands-on experience across containerized systems, Kubernetes controllers, and pipeline automation.
avatar for Anitha Natarajan

Anitha Natarajan

Principal Software Engineer, RedHat
An aspiring Enterprise Architect adept at technology requirements analysis, application design & development. Hands on leveraging multicloud services and DevOps solutions to meet technology requirements.
PQC pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:35pm IST

The Process of Exploration in AI Research: A Researcher’s Perspective - Bibekananda Hati, ExperQuick.org
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
AI research is often portrayed as breakthroughs driven by larger models and more compute. In reality, it is an iterative process shaped by uncertainty, failed hypotheses, and refinement. When unstructured, this exploration leads to wasted compute, irreproducible results, and opaque decision-making.

This talk examines AI exploration from a researcher’s perspective, focusing on responsibility and sustainability. From hypothesis formation to experiment design and model comparison, we explore how structured experimentation enables clearer reasoning and accountable research practices.

A central theme is understanding the behavior of every component of an experiment through systematic testing. Models, data pipelines, loss functions, optimization strategies, and training loops interact in complex ways. By isolating and analyzing these components deliberately, researchers can reduce redundant experimentation, improve transparency, and make more responsible use of computational resources.

Attendees will gain practical principles for building reproducible, sustainable, and ethically grounded AI research workflows in open ecosystems.
Speakers
avatar for Bibekananda Hati

Bibekananda Hati

Founder & CEO, ExperQuick.org
I hold an MSc in Data Science. My journey began in my first semester while building PyTorchLabFlow, which later became generalized as PyLabFlow. I recently founded, ExperQuick.org, around it to support researchers across domains.
oss in26 ppt bbek11 pptx
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Open AI + Data

3:35pm IST

Oops, My AI Agent Just Deleted All My Email: Locking Down Agents With Signed Policies - Rahul Vishwakarma, Highlevel
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Last week, a developer's AI coding agent was asked to refactor a module. Instead, it read .env files, ran git push --force on main, and made 300 API calls costing $47. The agent worked exactly as designed - there were just no guardrails with teeth.

AI agents can now execute shell commands, access secrets, call APIs, and spawn sub-agents. But today's safety approaches are just filters - they can't prove an agent actually stayed within bounds.

Aflock is an open source framework built on Witness and in-toto that treats agent permissions like a lockfile treats dependencies - signed, immutable, and verifiable.
No trusted hardware needed. Just policy files and attestations.

https://github.com/aflock-ai/aflock (Apache 2.0)
Speakers
avatar for Rahul Vishwakarma

Rahul Vishwakarma

Open Source Developer | in-toto / Witness | GSoC & LFX Mentee, Highlevel
Rahul Vishwakarma is an active open source contributor to CNCF's in-toto project, where he has worked on Witness and Archivista — building attestors and policy verification features for supply chain security. He previously contracted with TestifySec and is currently an SDE Intern... Read More →
Oops My AI Agent Deleted All My Email OSS Summit 2026 new (2) pptx
Wednesday June 17, 2026 3:35pm - 4:15pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Packages & Images & Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:25pm IST

"I Didn't Peek: and I Can Prove It": Confidential Computing for Audits and Regulators - Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
206 (Level 2)
Protecting privacy for customers and business partners is a key requirement across jurisdictions and sectors, but proving that privacy is preserved can be extremely difficult. Confidential Computing, available as a chip-level capability across servers and clouds, provides not only isolation for sensitive data and applications, but also cryptographic assurances that it is in place.
This session explains how Confidential Computing can be used as the basis for privacy-centric systems and processes, and the types of assurance that can be derived using remote attestation.
Confidential Computing also has uses across supply chain, collaboration, AI and blockchain - we will touch on these topics as well.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Bursell

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 →
I didnt peek MBursell OSS India 2026 06 17 pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Cloud & Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Stefan Lengfeld

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 →
A Practical Perfetto Introduction for AOSP and Linux Developers.v5 pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  Embedded
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
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
avatar for Shivansh Dhiman

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 →
FRED prez v2.5 20260612 pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:25pm IST

53 Years of Ethernet: Evolving With Open Standards for AI Infrastructure - Kapil Mehta, Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
205 (Level 2)
The rapid growth of AI data centres is placing unprecedented demands on Ethernet, pushing the 53 year old technology beyond its legacy of best effort delivery. While Ethernet has continuously evolved, modern AI workloads introduce unique challenges such as RDMA driven traffic patterns, network congestion, and the need for lossless, ultra-low latency communication. These demands are critical across both scale-up and scale-out AI fabrics, which must support high-throughput training and latency-sensitive distributed inference between tightly coupled GPUs or xPUs.

This session explores how the ecosystem is addressing these challenges, highlighting key advances in open standards including:

The Ultra Ethernet Transport (UET) protocol from the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a Linux Foundation project.
The SUE-T protocol associated with the UA Link industry initiative.
The Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) work-stream within the Open Compute Project (OCP).

Open collaboration is reinventing Ethernet as the scalable, interoperable backbone for the next generation of computing.
Speakers
avatar for Kapil Mehta

Kapil Mehta

Technical Leader, Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited
Kapil Mehta is a Technical Leader at Cisco with over 15 years of experience designing and operating large-scale Service Provider and Enterprise networks. He holds a Masters in Networks Technology & Management and multiple expert-level certifications, including CCDE & CCIE.A recognized... Read More →
OSS 53 Years of Ethernet Kapil Mehta pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers

4:25pm IST

What If Npm Install Could Say No? Real-Time Defense Against Malicious Packages - Sahil Bansal, SafeDep
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Every npm install or pip install pulls in dozens of packages which includes transitive dependencies no one has reviewed. This is the most unguarded moment in the software supply chain: malicious code enters a developer's machine before any CI/CD check or SBOM scan even runs.

Attackers know this. Typosquatting, dependency confusion, and pre/post-install script exploitation all target the install step specifically, because that's where defences are weakest.

In this talk, I'll discuss a different approach: guarding the package manager itself. Instead of scanning after installation, what if we could analyse packages in real-time and block threats before they execute? I'll walk through real attack patterns, explain how combining malware analysis with OS-native sandboxing makes this practical, and share what we've learned building open source tooling in this space.

You'll get to know about:
- Why install-time is the critical gap in dependency security
- How real supply chain attacks bypass pipeline-stage scanning
- Practical ways to add real-time package protection using open source tools
Speakers
avatar for Sahil Bansal

Sahil Bansal

Software Engineer, SafeDep
Sahil is a software engineer at SafeDep, where he works on open source supply chain security tooling including PMG. He has a background in systems programming, having built AtomixDB, a relational database in Go, and Runbox, a sandbox using Linux namespaces, cgroups and seccomp. He... Read More →
OSS When npm Install Could Say No pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Packages & Images & Containers

5:15pm IST

Full Disk Encryption for Confidential Computing Guests - Anirban Sinha, Red Hat
Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
206 (Level 2)
Modern confidential computing technologies like AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX provide a reliable way to isolate guest workload and data in use from the virtualization or cloud infrastructure. Protecting data at rest is, however, not something you get ‘by default’. The task is particularly challenging for traditional operating systems where users expect to get full read/write experience.

The good news is that Linux OS already offers a number of great technologies which can be combined to achieve the goal: dm-verity and dm-integrity, LUKS, discoverable disk images and others. Doing it all right, however, is left as an “exercise to the reader”. In particular, the proposed solution must allow for meaningful remote attestation at any time in the lifetime of the guest.

The talk will focus on the recent developments in various upstream projects like systemd and dracut which are focused on making full disk encryption consumable by confidential computing guests running in a cloud.
Speakers
avatar for Anirban Sinha

Anirban Sinha

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
I am a software engineer who works for Red Hat in the virtualization engineering group. My primary focus areas are Confidential computing, QEMU, KVM, libvirt and open source cloud virtualization tools like cloud-init, Microsoft WALA agent, hyperv-daemons etc. My Red Hat personal page... Read More →
oss 2026 anisinha pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Cloud & Orchestration

5:15pm IST

Introducing In-Kernel PSI Auto Monitor Feature - Pintu Kumar Agarwal, Qualcomm
Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
Pressure Stall Information (PSI) is excellent for detecting CPU/memory/I/O contention via trigger windows and user-space polling, but it intentionally avoids attributing pressure to individual tasks. In practice, during severe pressure the “who did it?” question is hardest to answer: systems are sluggish, logs are noisy, and user-space observers can be delayed or miss the critical moment.
Building on PSI work presented at LPC 2024, this session introduces an optional, configurable, lightweight In-Kernel PSI Auto Monitor that captures thread-level contributors exactly when configured PSI thresholds are breached. The design avoids changes to PSI fast paths, requires no always-on daemon, and records contending tasks using existing kernel mechanisms and tracepoints.
I will share upstream patch status and experimental results from real embedded workloads, including PREEMPT_RT scenarios, quantifying trigger latency, overhead, and improvements in root-cause identification. Finally, I will demo a GenAI-assisted pipeline that parses monitor logs, generates timelines, and produces actionable summaries to speed up pressure-event debugging.
Speakers
avatar for Pintu Kumar Agarwal

Pintu Kumar Agarwal

Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm
Pintu Kumar Agarwal is a Linux Kernel engineer with over two decades of experience in embedded product development. He has been contributing to the Linux kernel since 2012 with several patches and conference papers. This is his 8th talk in Linux conferences world-wide.
OSS IND 26 PSI Auto Monitor pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  Linux

5:15pm IST

Identity and Access Management for the Decade Ahead - Thivaharan Kalyanasundaram, WSO2
Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
205 (Level 2)
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
avatar for Thivaharan Kalyanasundaram

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 →
IAM Decade Ahead OSSI2026 (12) pptx
Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers
  • Audience Experience Level Any
  • Slides Attached Yes

5:15pm IST

From Pipelines To Provenance: Reproducible Builds With Tekton - Shubham Bhardwaj & Divyanshu Agrawal, Red Hat
Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
204 (Level 2)
What if two independent builds of the same source code produced byte-identical artifacts every time? That’s the goal of reproducible builds and one of the strongest guarantees we can provide for software supply chain integrity. Yet in many CI/CD systems, builds still include hidden sources of nondeterminism.

In this session we’ll break down what reproducible builds actually mean, why they matter beyond simple bit-for-bit equality, and the common pitfalls that quietly break reproducibility—embedded timestamps, non-deterministic file ordering, and environment leakage.

As a Tekton maintainer, I’ll show how Tekton pipeline primitives such as hermetic execution, parameterized TaskRuns, and provenance via Tekton Chains can make deterministic builds practical in real pipelines. Through a live demo, we’ll build a container image, verify identical digests across independent pipeline runs, and generate SLSA-compliant provenance.

Attendees will leave with a clear mental model of reproducibility and concrete patterns for auditing and improving their own pipelines.
Speakers
avatar for Shubham Bhardwaj

Shubham Bhardwaj

Software Engineer, Red Hat
A Software Engineer focused on Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and software supply chain security. He works on building and securing CI/CD and deployment workflows, with hands-on experience across containerized systems, Kubernetes controllers, and pipeline automation.
avatar for Divyanshu Agrawal

Divyanshu Agrawal

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
A Software Engineer at Red Hat and active open-source contributor focused on Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms. He contributes to open-source projects and works on building scalable systems using modern cloud-native technologies. He is passionate about open source, community collaboration... Read More →
Reproducible builds pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Packages & Images & Containers

6:25pm IST

Agentic Delivery, Guardrailed: AI in CI/CD & Platform Engineering (Open Source Patterns) - Manas Ray & Kalyan Kolachala, Symphony AI Group
Wednesday June 17, 2026 6:25pm - 7:05pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
AI is changing software delivery—but most teams don’t need more “chat with logs.” They need an engineering platform that turns delivery signals into reliable, auditable outcomes. In this session, we’ll walk through practical AI patterns for CI/CD and internal platforms using open-source building blocks: pipeline failure triage copilots grounded in CI logs and runbooks, flaky test detection, test prioritization/selection to shorten feedback loops, and change-risk scoring to drive progressive delivery.
You’ll get a reference architecture that treats the platform as a product: a unified “delivery intelligence” layer that connects Git, CI, CD, and observability (OpenTelemetry) into a closed loop—recommend → assist → automate—only within strict guardrails. We’ll cover what makes this production-safe and open-source friendly: evidence-first outputs (no claim without links), policy-as-code boundaries, secrets redaction, prompt-injection defenses, and evaluation harnesses so AI behavior is testable like any other dependency.
Attendees leave with a starter backlog, rollout plan, and metrics to prove impact (cycle time, false-red rate, MTTR, and change failure rate).
Speakers
avatar for Manas Ray

Manas Ray

Distinguished Architect, Symphony AI Group (saigroup.ai)
Seasoned Technical Architect with expertise in platform and product engineering using Cloud Computing, BigData,
Machine learning, Agentic AI, Kubernetes, Microservices, and DevOps practices in diverse business domains.
avatar for Kalyan Kolachala

Kalyan Kolachala

Managing Director and Head of AI, SymphonyAI Group India
Kalyan is a senior engineering leader with experience in delivering world class, enterprise products and platforms involving SaaS, AI/ML, GenAI, Kubernetes, Cloud, and big data. He is currently India MD at SAI Group, a global enterprise AI leader. Worked previously at Intuit and Hitachi... Read More →
OSS IN26 Agentic Delivery Kalyan Manas pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 6:25pm - 7:05pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 2 (Level 3)
  CI/CD

6:25pm IST

Facing Extinction: The Fight To Keep Hardware Crypto Engines in Embedded Linux - Kamlesh Gurudasani & T Pratham, Texas Instruments
Wednesday June 17, 2026 6:25pm - 7:05pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
Hardware cryptographic accelerators have been essential in embedded SoCs for decades, yet upstream Linux maintainers are removing/rejecting them. The extinction is underway.

In 2025, maintainers began removing async crypto API support, targeting engines from major SoC vendors for deprecation.[1][2] Software wins on throughput for typical payloads. ARMv8/v9 Crypto Extensions amplify this advantage. Performance-wise, maintainers have a point.

But benchmarks miss critical security. Hardware provides what software cannot: DPA/EMA side-channel attack resistance[3], hardware-backed wrapped key isolation, and secure boundaries essential for physically accessible devices. With PQC transition, hardware crypto becomes more essential.

The crisis: maintainers remove features certifications require and contracts mandate, forcing vendor forks from mainline.

We address making the security case and finding compromises satisfying both maintainability and embedded security.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Speakers
avatar for Kamlesh Gurudasani

Kamlesh Gurudasani

Embedded Security Architect, Texas Instruments
Kamlesh Gurudasani works as an Embedded Security Architect at Texas Instruments.
He has a decade of experience in software development ranging from open-source bootloaders to the Linux kernel, middleware frameworks and applications.
His expertise lies in Linux crypto subsystem, L... Read More →
avatar for T Pratham

T Pratham

Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
Pratham is an embedded software engineer working at Texas Instruments' Sitara Processors team. His work focuses on Linux security on K3 devices, with significant experience with the Linux crypto layer. He is the author of the DTHEv2 Crypto Engine driver. He also has worked with OP-TEE... Read More →
oss in crypto facing extinction pptx
Wednesday June 17, 2026 6:25pm - 7:05pm IST
Lotus Ballroom 3 (Level 3)
  Linux

6:25pm IST

JSON Wastes 60% of Your AI-LLM Tokens. TOON Fixes That - Vitthal Mirji
Wednesday June 17, 2026 6:25pm - 7:05pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
Every token sent to an LLM costs money. When you serialize data as JSON for a prompt, you pay for repeated field names, extra braces, and structural noise on every single row. For large datasets that overhead runs to 40-60% of your token bill & it adds nothing useful to the prompt.

TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) is a compact, human-readable format built specifically for LLM prompts. It writes column headers once and streams data as plain rows, similar to CSV, but with full support for nesting, arrays, and schema markers. The result is 40-60% fewer tokens with measurably better LLM accuracy: 73.9% one-shot vs JSON's 69.7% on tabular tasks.
​
This talk covers the TOON format from the ground up: why it exists, how it encodes data, when it wins over JSON and when it does not, and how to use it in real LLM prompts today.

Finally we walk through the toon4s-spark integration, connecting Apache Spark and Databricks to TOON and streaming patterns on Delta Lake.

You will leave knowing exactly how to cut LLM prompt costs, with a format and library you can adopt from any JVM stack today.

Check-
https://github.com/com-vitthalmirji/toon4s
https://toonformat.dev/
Speakers
avatar for Vitthal Mirji

Vitthal Mirji

Staff Software Engineer - Data platforms, UPS
Vitthal is a Staff Data Engineer and Software Architect with over 12 years of experience in designing scalable data pipelines, building AI-driven systems, and translating complex business needs into robust technical architecture. He holds deep expertise in data engineering, distributed... Read More →
toon lf ossummit pdf
Wednesday June 17, 2026 6:25pm - 7:05pm IST
Jasmine Hall 2 (Level 3)
  Open AI + Data
 

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