2:00pm • Hey Yocto, Build Me a Custom Embedded Linux! Er, No - Kaiwan Billimoria, kaiwanTECH
2:50pm • Security: Why It _has_to Be Open Source - Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing
3:40pm • Open Source Is Not the Same Anymore - Faeka Ansari, Akuity Inc. & Hrittik Roy, vCluster
4:50pm • CI/CD, APIs, and Scaling: What Every Cloud Native Developer Needs To Know - Aditya Soni, SailPoint & Aditi Gupta, JioStar India Pvt. Ltd.
5:40pm • Recipes and Runtimes: Making Sense of Containers in 2026 - Soundarya Rangarajan, Canonical
6:30pm • How Kubernetes Networking Really Works: A Packet’s Journey Across Pods and Nodes - Ashwin Sriram, Deutsche Bank & M Viswanath Sai, IIT (BHU)
2:00pm • Operating a Self-Healing Bare-Metal Kubernetes Platform at Global Scale - Aparna Prabhu & Nikhil Pathak, DigitalOcean
2:50pm • Kubernetes OIDC That Works in Practice: Keycloak + RBAC + Kubelogin Without Day‑2 Pain - Manik Bindlish, Orange Business Services
3:40pm • Decoding the Open-source Blueprint for India's Sovereign AI Future - Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat & Abhishek Kumar Singh, NxtGen Cloud Technologies
4:50pm • Strengthening India's FOSS Community - Ansh Arora, FOSS United Foundation
5:40pm • Panel: India’s Leading Role in Developing and Deploying Open Source Technologies Powering Digital Trust Infrastructure - Ankita Patidar, AYANWORKS; Kamlesh Nagware, FSV Labs; Smita Selot, IDS; Rajesh Dhuddu, PwC India; Denver Dsouza, Ethereum Foundation
6:30pm • Learnings From a $1M Discovery and Funding Experiment - Ansh Arora, FOSS United Foundation
10:00am • Keynote: From Consumption to Global Leadership - Open Source Summit - Arpit Joshipura, SVP/GM & Head of LF India, The Linux Foundation
10:30am • Keynote: The Open Source Runway: Building the Foundation for the Agentic Era - Toddy Mladenov, Principal Product Management Manager, Microsoft
10:45am • Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting
11:25am • Keynote Panel: Open Source Innovation Powering India’s Digital Public Infrastructure - Radha Kizhanattam, Networks for Humanity; Suresh M Khadakbhavi, Digi Yatra Foundation; Julian Gordon, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
2:00pm • Judgement Day: Benchmarking "Black Box" LLMs With Open Legal Datasets - Kannan Murugapandian, DPS International School
2:50pm • Keep AI on Track: Guardrails + OpenTelemetry Observability - Prabal Rakshit, Infosys Technologies
3:40pm • Trust, but Sandbox: Securing AI Agents in Kubernetes - Sudhanshu Prajapati, Improving & Prateek Mishra, Founda Health
4:50pm • How To Tame Your Agents? - Devidas Jadhav, Vertiv
5:40pm • Scientific Machine Learning With NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo - Aniket Kulkarni & Samudyata Minasandra, Curlscape
6:30pm • Running On-Device AI With Qualcomm AI Engine Using LiteRT & ExecuTorch - Kartikey Rawat, Qualcomm
12:00pm • Speeding up Your ML Workload: Pytorch Compile and Distributed Training - Aishwariya Chakraborty, Priyanka Naik & Kavya Govindarajan, IBM; G Chander, Independent
12:50pm • Beyond the First PR: Why Contributors Stay in Open Source Communities - Yashvant Singh, EmissionZero
1:40pm • Building Hybrid Quantum-Classical Pipelines : A Practical Guide With Qiskit - Sainath Sativar, International Business Machines; Guncha Malik, Divya Singh & Amutamil E, IBM
3:35pm • Oops, My AI Agent Just Deleted All My Email: Locking Down Agents With Signed Policies - Rahul Vishwakarma, Highlevel
4:25pm • What If Npm Install Could Say No? Real-Time Defense Against Malicious Packages - Sahil Bansal, SafeDep
5:15pm • From Pipelines To Provenance: Reproducible Builds With Tekton - Shubham Bhardwaj & Divyanshu Agrawal, Red Hat
6:25pm • Beyond SBOMs and SLSA: Build Trust With Custom Attestations for End-to-End Supply Chain Security - Lavakush Biyani & Pranay Shah, Harness
12:00pm • Governing the Ungovernable: Security and Compliance for AI Agents in Open Source Projects - Ronit Raj, GitMesh
12:50pm • Poisoning the Well: Why AI Governance Is the OSPO’s New Frontier - Madhusudanan GK, NatWest Group
1:40pm • Panel Discussion: A Balancing Act: OSPOs in Action Within BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) - Ram Iyengar, Linux Foundation; Srividya Giri, Independent; Madhusudanan GK, NatWest Group; Charudutta Panchmatia, HDFC Bank Ltd.
3:35pm • Quantum-Safe TLS in Practice With Open Quantum Safe & OpenSSL 3 - Divyanshu Agrawal, Shubham Bhardwaj & Anitha Natarajan, RedHat
4:25pm • 53 Years of Ethernet: Evolving With Open Standards for AI Infrastructure - Kapil Mehta, Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited
5:15pm • Identity and Access Management for the Decade Ahead - Thivaharan Kalyanasundaram, WSO2
6:25pm • Meaning Over Bits: How Semantic AI and eBPF Define the 6G Open Stack - Khushi Chhillar, NgKore & Satyam Soni, NitroStack
12:00pm • The Containerization of the Operating System: Exploring Bootc and the Future of Linux Deployment - Hema Arun, EmiratesNBD
12:50pm • Demystifying PCI Interrupts: Understanding MSI/MSI‑X in Linux - Shradha Gupta, Microsoft
1:40pm • The Next Evolution of Java: ☕️ Achieving Hyper Performance and Efficiency in Cloud Native Workloads - Daniel Oh, IBM
3:35pm • Pull Once, Scale Everywhere: Fixing Image Pull Bottlenecks With Dragonfly - Shivani Rathod, Motorola Solutions, Inc.
4:25pm • "I Didn't Peek: and I Can Prove It": Confidential Computing for Audits and Regulators - Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing
5:15pm • Full Disk Encryption for Confidential Computing Guests - Anirban Sinha, Red Hat
6:25pm • From Noise To Signal: Building Smart Observability Pipelines With OpenTelemetry - Manoj Sardana, HCL Software; Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify; Saiyam Pathak, vCluster
10:00am • Keynote: Welcome Back - Arpit Joshipura, SVP/GM & Head of LF India, The Linux Foundation
10:05am • Keynote: The Moat Moved from Code to Context - Manish Dixit, Senior Vice President of Product, Engineering & IT, The Linux Foundation
10:25am • Keynote: Accelerating Innovation Through Open Source - Aayush Bhatnagar, Chief Technology Development Officer, Jio Platforms Limited
10:40am • Keynote: Cut Database Costs, Fund Innovation with Valkey - Roberto Luna-Rojas, Sr Developer Advocate for Valkey OSS, AWS
10:50am • Keynote: Open By Design - Open Ecosystem, Governed AI, Trusted Outcomes - Geeta Gurnani, Field CTO, IBM Technology India & South Asia
11:05am • 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
12:00pm • 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
12:50pm • Democratizing Grid Intelligence for Developing Nations Through Linux-open-source Infrastructure - Dr. Satabdy Jena, Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd. & Dr. Nikita Rao, IIT Guwahati
1:40pm • Syzbot To Mainline: How I Merged 21 Kernel Patches as a First-Time Contributor - Deepanshu Kartikey, Clickpost
3:35pm • The Process of Exploration in AI Research: A Researcher’s Perspective - Bibekananda Hati, ExperQuick.org
4:25pm • Confidently Wrong: When AI Cannot Catch Its Own Bugs - Shailja Thakur, IBM Research, Bangalore
5:15pm • Writing for Machines: How To Capture Your Project's "Vibe" and Survive AI Slop - Kaushlendra Pratap Singh & Shaheem Azmal M MD, Siemens
6:25pm • JSON Wastes 60% of Your AI-LLM Tokens. TOON Fixes That - Vitthal Mirji
12:00pm • ESim – Democratizing Electronic Design Automation Through Open Source - Sumanto Kar & Shanthi Priya, FOSSEE, IIT Bombay
12:50pm • Don’t Trash It, Hack It: Reverse Engineering Secrets & Re-purposing ISP Routers - Dheeraj Reddy Jonnalagadda, Pixxel
1:40pm • Detecting and Defusing the Ticking Time Bomb: Understanding CVEs and Upstreaming in Yocto - Siddharth Doshi, Montavista Software LLC
3:35pm • Generic BootLoader on Android Platforms - Naina Mehta, Qualcomm India Private Limited
4:25pm • A Practical Perfetto Introduction for AOSP and Linux Developers - Stefan Lengfeld, inovex GmbH
5:15pm • Breaking the TCP Barrier: Accelerated I/O for S3 With RDMA - Vidushi Mishra, IBM/Redhat
6:25pm • Agentic Delivery, Guardrailed: AI in CI/CD & Platform Engineering (Open Source Patterns) - Manas Ray & Kalyan Kolachala, Symphony AI Group
12:00pm • Secure by Default: Building an AI-Augmented, OSS-Powered Reusable CI/CD Pipeline - Jenisten Xavier, Full Creative
12:50pm • “Hey AI, Train Llama”: Making Kubeflow Agent-Native With MCP - Akash Jaiswal, Oracle & Abhijeet Dhumal, Red Hat
1:40pm • When Nobody Owns Quality: Making Testing Responsibility Explicit in Open Source Projects - Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Skeps
3:35pm • Towards a Tool for Access-Affinity Based Structure Reordering in the Linux Kernel - Madadi Vineeth Reddy & Aboorva Devarajan, IBM
4:25pm • Meet FRED: The Future Face of X86 Event Processing - Shivansh Dhiman, AMD India
5:15pm • Introducing In-Kernel PSI Auto Monitor Feature - Pintu Kumar Agarwal, Qualcomm
6:25pm • Facing Extinction: The Fight To Keep Hardware Crypto Engines in Embedded Linux - Kamlesh Gurudasani & T Pratham, Texas Instruments
