Running 4-5 December 2024, Cephalocon is the premier yearly event that brings together the global community of operators, developers, and researchers to celebrate Ceph, the open source distributed storage system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. Join new and existing community members from around the world at CERN to learn more about Ceph and the future of the project from the developers writing the code and the operators deploying it.

The Linux Foundation Member Summit is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation members that fosters collaboration, innovation, and partnerships among the leading projects and organizations working to drive digital transformation with open source technologies. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation, and investment in their organizations and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time.

WasmCon is the premier conference for technical developers and users interested in exploring the potential of WebAssembly. This two-day event will bring together leading experts, developers, and users from across the Wasm community.

WasmCon will feature a diverse range of sessions, workshops, and keynote speakers, all focused on providing attendees with the latest insights and best practices for working with Wasm. Whether attendees are interested in performance optimization, security considerations, or integrating Wasm into existing applications, there will be content for everyone.

In addition to the technical sessions, WasmCon provides attendees with numerous opportunities to network with peers and build relationships with other developers and users in the Wasm community.

Who should attend WasmCon:

• Web developers interested in leveraging the full potential of Wasm.
• Technical developers and engineers looking to build faster, more secure, and more efficient applications and interested in contributing to the Wasm ecosystem.
• Users interested in learning about the latest developments and use cases for Wasm.
• Software architects and team leads looking to incorporate Wasm into their development roadmap.
• Business leaders and executives interested in exploring the potential business value of Wasm for their organization.

OCS is an event for Linux Foundation members and select invitees to discuss process management and automation related to open source license compliance, security assurance and adjacent subjects. This is the world’s foremost venue to discuss and network around these topics. Our goal is to ensure the global supply chain works effectively and efficiently.

The DPDK Summit 2024 is a community event designed for software developers who contribute to or use DPDK. The agenda for DPDK Summit will cover the latest developments and the roadmap suggestions for future releases. This is a unique opportunity to meet the community for discussing the challenges and innovations of the ecosystem.

The SONiC Foundation would like to invite you to submit to speak in an upcoming SONiC co-located event or host a demo in the SONiC booth.

Presentations: 20 minutes: 15 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A.

SONiC Booth Demos: Final time allotment will be determined once all demos are selected.

Reminder: This is a vendor neutral community event — no product or vendor sales pitches.

Currently accepting proposals for:

• SONiC Mini Summit + SONiC Booth @ Open Source Summit Europe 2024
• SONiC Workshop + SONiC Booth @ OCP Global Summit 2024

Registration Funding - Limited funding is available to cover registration fees. Note that applying to speak or for a demo presentation, does not guarantee registration fees will be covered. Please consider funding requests if they are truly required.

CNCF-hosted co-located events are masterfully designed to foster discussion, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing in a vendor neutral space with participants just like you! Connect with fellow attendees interested in:

AppDeveloperCon, ArgoCon, BackstageCon, Cilium + eBPF Day, Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, Cloud Native StartupFest, Cloud Native University, Data on Kubernetes Day, EnvoyCon, Istio Day, Kubernetes on Edge Day, Observability Day, OpenFeature Summit, OpenTofu Day and Platform Engineering Day 

From technical sessions to lightning talks, CNCF-hosted co-located events support the future of cloud native computing.

The premier event for RISC-V, the open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) enabling the innovation defining the future of open computing.

The Secure Open Source Software (SOSS) Fusion Conference is a premier event, from OpenSSF, where the brightest minds in software development and cybersecurity converge as one community committed to securing the open source software that we all depend on. SOSS Fusion will host in-depth technical conversations on innovative and industry leading ways to secure open source software, fostering a collaborative platform for cutting-edge solutions and security insights.

Suggested Topics:

• OSPO: Security and Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)
• Maintainer Roles: Maintainer and Contributor roles in Securing Open Source Software
• Dev: Secure Open Source Software Integration in the Software Development Lifecycle
• What’s Next: Fresh Ideas for Security Research & Innovation
• Digital Public Goods (DPG): How the Public Sector (Gov’t) can Promote & Adopt Secure Open Source Software Principles
• Public Policy: Regulations to Improve the Security of Open Source Software
• As We Are: How Diversity Improves Security of Open Source Software
• Education (K-12+): The Future of Secure Open Source Software
• End Users: Secure Open Source Software Supply Chains
• Dependencies: Understanding the OSS in Your Stack
• Towards a Secure Baseline: The Ecosystems Role as a Rising Tide to Lift all OSS
• AI for Security: Leveraging AI to Secure Open Source Software
• Security for AI: Starting with Security for Open Source AI

Types of Submissions:

• Lightning Talk (5-10 minutes)
• Keynote Presentation (10-15 minutes)
• Session Presentation (30 minutes)
• Panel Discussion (30-40 minutes)

KubeDay events connect international and local experts in global cities with adopters, developers, and practitioners to promote face-to-face collaboration and deliver rich educational experiences. The new event series is hosted by CNCF and targeted toward specific geographical regions experiencing community expansion and interest. 

Engage with the leaders of Kubernetes and other CNCF-hosted projects as we set the direction for the cloud native ecosystem. KubeDay will have both a beginner and an advanced track; about half of the speakers are international experts and half are from the local area.

Hosted by the Bazel Community, in partnership with The Linux Foundation, BazelCon is the premier annual event to connect Bazel build enthusiasts, the Bazel team, maintainers, contributors, users, and friends in an inclusive and welcoming environment. At this year’s event, we’ll showcase a number of new and interesting talks, share the Bazel State-of-the-Union, provide opportunities to collaborate with peers, as well as have a live Q&A with the Bazel team. 

KubeDay events connect international and local experts in global cities with adopters, developers, and practitioners to promote face-to-face collaboration and deliver rich educational experiences. The new event series is hosted by CNCF and targeted toward specific geographical regions experiencing community expansion and interest. 

Engage with the leaders of Kubernetes and other CNCF-hosted projects as we set the direction for the cloud native ecosystem. KubeDay will have both a beginner and an advanced track; about half of the speakers are international experts and half are from the local area.

We live in a noisy world. The marketing around cloud platforms and Platform Engineering is exceptionally so.

Come join us for Cloud Foundry Day, where we have been quietly working with a cloud platform for over a decade. Cloud Foundry supports planet-scale workloads and helps application developers and operations engineers maintain production excellence. We’re celebrating our technical and community achievements by bringing our community of engineers together at Cloud Foundry Day (EU 2024).

Cloud Foundry Day is designed to be a day of learning and sharing. The talks at the event will be designed to educate and inform the community about the current activities in the various working groups, new and interesting experiments conducted by engineering teams working with Cloud Foundry, and also shine the spotlight on initiatives that are pushing the boundaries for Cloud Foundry.

This event is hosted by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, with the technical community, end-users, and member companies in attendance.

The FINOS Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) is a premier gathering designed specifically for leading decision-makers in the financial sector, including C-suite and managing directors at sell-side banks and buy-side firms. This conference presents a unique opportunity for these decision-makers to engage directly with the evolving landscape of financial technology through the lens of open source innovation. It is an ideal platform for discussing and shaping the future of finance, focusing on collaborative strategies to enhance code efficiency and delivery speed.

SUGGESTED TOPICS:

Open Source Readiness

• The Open Source Readiness Initiative supports financial services organizations in their open source maturity journey so they can realize the benefits of open source code and collaboration. 
• Open Source Readiness is leading activities that enable safe and compliant open source consumption and contribution in financial services firms. 
• Talks submitted here would benefit from discussing best practices and case studies on how sell-side banks and buy-side firms move the needle to support and build consumption and contribution policies that help financial institutions become leaders in open source, reduce costs, and attract better talent.

Open Regulation Innovation

• The Open RegTech Initiative explores and promotes opportunities for open collaboration between financial institutions, technology firms, service providers, and regulators. It aims to use open source standards and software to change how financial regulation is implemented and supervised. 
• Talks submitted here would benefit from discussing the pressing challenges and priorities related to regulation interpretation and compliance, as well as examples of best practices and successful approaches to addressing the ever-growing needs for data and transparency in financial services under regulatory guidelines (US / UK as a starting point - but not exclusive to these regions). Current regulatory-related initiatives based on FINOS projects and frameworks and areas of opportunities in open innovation are talks that will have a high value.

Artificial Intelligence in FSI (AI) - In January 2024, the FINOS board approved AI as a strategic initiative to speak to the growing opportunity and need for open collaboration in AI in the financial services space. We’re looking for talks that address the following:

• AI Readiness for financial service companies (policy, frameworks, best practices for safe and compliant adoption of AI by Financial Services firms) 
• Financial Services LLM use cases
• AI Best Practices in regards to the regulatory nature of financial services
• Financial AI open source toolchain

Interoperability/FDC3

• Interoperability and FDC3 aim to provide an open standard for interoperability on the financial desktop. This includes standardized verbs to invoke actions between applications (called "intents"), a standardized data format, an OpenAPI app directory standard, and standardized API operations.
• Talks submitted here would benefit from discussing relevant FDC3 use cases and workflows, case studies of successful implementations, demos, and best practices to help extend the work already done in FDC3, and to uncover best use in and across financial desktop applications using the FDC3 standard.

Common Cloud Controls / Cloud in FSI

• FINOS Common Cloud Controls (FINOS CCC) is the codename for an open standard project, originally proposed by Citi, open sourced at the end of 2023 into FINOS, to describe consistent controls for compliant public cloud deployments in the financial services sector. This standard is a collaborative project which aims to develop a unified set of cybersecurity, resiliency, and compliance controls for common services across the major cloud service providers (CSPs).
• Talks submitted here would benefit from discussing cloud best practices, standards, and case studies, specifically as they relate to financial services and the relevant regulatory guidelines (US / UK as a starting point - but not exclusive to these regions).

Common Domain Model (CDM) (Part of Regtech)

• The Common Domain Model (CDM) is a standardized, machine-readable, and machine-executable data and process model for how financial products are traded and managed across the transaction lifecycle.
• The CDM is based on cross-industry collaboration between ICMA, ISDA, and ISLA and facilitates trade processing of repo, securities lending, bond, and derivatives transactions. The CDM is available in FINOS under the FINOS Community Specification License 1.0.
• Talks submitted here would benefit from discussing advantages of standard, digitized contracts, applicability of the CDM for managing front-to-back business events and workflows, and best practices for cost-effective regulation compliance. 

Open Source Software (OSS) Supply Chain Security

• Open source software is pervasive in financial services data centers, consumer devices, and applications. Securing open source software in finance, or any other sector requires fostering collaboration, establishing best practices, and developing innovative solutions. Financial services companies run into the same issues as other tech companies, with the added layer of financial regulation that holds them more accountable than other large tech companies.
• Identifying critical upstream and downstream dependencies for FINOS Projects and FINOS Members (specifically buy-side firms and sell-side banks) has accelerated in the past three years as banks have not only consumed more open source, but have now really started to contribute back to it.
• Talks submitted here would benefit from discussing innovative and collaborative approaches for the financial industry to manage supply chain risk while modernizing their software stack and adopting the best of open source solutions.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

• Talks covering cloud native projects and cloud native end-user stories ideal for the enterprise audience, particularly focused to those in the finance industry. Attendees will leave with enhanced knowledge on how to leverage cloud native projects and technologies to support various workloads to drive forward development within enterprises.

FinOps Foundation

• FinOps is an operational framework and cultural practice which maximizes the business value of cloud, enables timely data-driven decision making, and creates financial accountability through collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams.
• Sessions are prioritized for end-user practitioners and NO vendor talks will be accepted regardless of Foundation membership status.
• We welcome speakers to share their stories and experiences using real-world examples and data. Please be sure to have the proper permissions or attributions to use data examples in your talks. Many speakers choose to anonymize data or redact sensitive things in order to still use data to support their topics.
• You can also use findings from the State of FinOps annual survey to support your talk. We also encourage speakers to reference and cite past FinOps Foundation materials to help us grow our body of knowledge.

Open MainFrame

• Financial institutions have relied on mainframes for more than six decades. By many estimates, they process up to 90% of the credit card transactions in use today. They’re fast and reliable, despite what some sensationalized headlines might lead you to believe. In this track, we’re looking for open source on the mainframe including Linux on Z, those directly associated under the Open Mainframe Project and those that complement it. As modern tooling becomes more and more desirable to the mainframe workforce, our objectives include: encouraging developers of all ages and backgrounds and organizations to embrace the use of open source tools on the mainframe; demonstrating modern mainframe tooling; and establishing a thriving community of users and contributors. This track aims to cater to experience levels from the novice to the expert.

OS-Climate

• We welcome proposals regarding software, data, standards, and collaborations for climate- and sustainability-aligned finance, investing, business, and regulation. Open source collaboration on pre-competitive layers of technology and data that can integrate commercial components and services is crucial for helping financial institutions and corporations worldwide -- including in the Global South -- to address the growing wave of regulatory requirements across hundreds of regional, national, and subnational jurisdictions, as well as voluntary commitments such as those under the Global Financial Alliance for Net Zero. Innovations in AI, computer science, data science, business models, and other disciplines all tie into developing solutions for addressing climate risk and opportunity.