ValkeyConf is a day for anyone running Valkey in production, and those seriously thinking about it. Developers, SREs, DBAs, and DevOps pros come together to talk shop, share hard-won knowledge, and connect with the people building Valkey's future. Sessions, lightning talks, and plenty of time for real conversation. If you care about where Valkey goes next, this is where it happens. 

DATES TO REMEMBER:

- CFP Opens: Wednesday, June 17, 2026
- CFP Closes: Saturday, August 1, 2026 (11:59 pm Pacific Time)
- CFP Notifications: by Tuesday, September 1, 2026
- Event Date: Monday, October 12, 2026

Reminder: This is a community event — so no product and/or vendor sales pitches.

The P4 Workshop event is an opportunity for the P4 ecosystem to share knowledge, insights, and experiences across the broader community and to facilitate collaboration. It will take place on October 12, 2026, in Silicon Valley, California (venue will be announced soon).

We invite innovative and thought-provoking submissions that offer unique perspectives from both industry and academia. This year’s Workshop theme is Building AI-Native Networks with P4, but we also encourage proposals about the following topics:

+ P4 language
+ P4 targets
+ P4 tool chain
+ P4 use cases & applications
+ Control plane or network OS for P4 targets
+ Extensions to P4
+ Cross-cutting work between P4 and related systems such as eBPF, service meshes, and AI systems (e.g. in-network support for AI training and inference)

The Technical Program Committee (TPC), composed of P4 community members, will review all submissions, make selections, and inform each speaker of their decision to accept or deny each proposal.

We highly encourage speakers to attend the Workshop to present in person, but if you are unable to attend, the TPC will be accepting a limited number of pre-recorded presentations. Please note that we don’t provide visa sponsorship for this event.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

There are four submission formats. Please indicate if you plan to attend in person or prefer to pre-record your talk with each submission:

- In-Depth Talk: 30-minute total (up to 25 minutes for presentation, followed by Q&A).
- Lightning Talk: 10-minute total (up to 5 minutes for presentation, followed by Q&A).
- Tabletop Demo
- Poster

For in-depth talks, please submit a two-page summary of your presentation. For other types of submissions, please submit a one-page outline of what you plan to present.

Learn more on the 2026 P4 Workshop event website: https://p4.org/2026-workshop/

The Second OPI Summit on DPU/IPUs will be co-located with the OCP Global summit, and will take place in October 2026. The OPI Summit is open to everyone involved in the design, development, integration, marketing, use, or support of DPU/IPUs, or related hardware, software, or services. The Second OPI Summit on DPU/IPUs seeks original, high-quality submissions that improve and further the knowledge of DPU/IPUs, with an emphasis on ease-of-use, PoC implementations, and experimental results. We are interested in systems of all scales, from small embedded devices to data centers and clouds.

The OCUDU Ecosystem Developer Summit brings together developers, telecom operators, and academic researchers to advance OCUDU, the carrier-grade, open-source 5G stack already powering real deployments. Attendees will connect with the community, contribute to the codebase, and help shape the reality of what's next for 5G and 6G.

The Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) is the premier event connecting the leaders in financial services, technology, and open-source innovation - a unique combination of business decision-makers and developers at one conference. This conference is uniquely designed to foster partnerships, advance talent development, and accelerate technological advancements across the finance industry, building faster, trusted, and secure solutions.

Open source is fundamental to the financial services industry, and OSFF provides companies with the tools and insights to maximize value through open source collaboration. By strategically contributing to open projects, organizations benefit from reduced development costs, heightened security, top talent, and rapid innovation. OSFF 2026 will spotlight groundbreaking advancements, deliver insights on best practices, and offer exclusive access to the leaders shaping open source in finance.

SUGGESTED TOPICS:

We welcome talks on a wide range of topics relevant to open source in the financial services industry. Our talk themes this year center around our strategic initiatives. 

Please Note:

Below are potential / suggested tracks and topics that speakers may use as guidelines within the conference themes above. PRODUCT / SALES PITCHES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Please do not submit a general talk. We are very interested in talks that build around our financial services decision maker and technologist audience. Regulated industries like finance have a different set of rules that our community has to negotiate daily, so make your talk have an impact on this community, not open source communities in general.

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Track Name: Financial Services Process Orchestration with Fluxnova

Note: Day 1 (November 4) will focus on Fluxnova and how it crosses over to many, if not all of our FINOS open source projects. There will be about 20-30 talks total that day. Please choose "Fluxnova" in the drop down menu to be featured on Day 1: Fluxnova Con.

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Agentic AI based workflows (using standard patterns such as MCP or A2A)
• Pre-trade, trade, post-trade process automation
• Using Fluxnova in conjunction with other open source projects (FDC3, CDM)
• Securing Agentic AI based workflows

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Track Name: Agentic AI, GenAI and AI Governance

Suggested Topics to Submit

• AI Readiness for Financial Services - Build Safe & Responsible AI through Open Source.
• FINOS AIGF (AI Governance Framework) - building a collection of risks and mitigations that support on-boarding, development of, and running Generative AI solutions within FSI environments
• The Rise of AI Agents and Digital Workforce in Financial Services: Enhancing Productivity, Automation, and Customer Experience.
• Moving from experimentation to production: Open Source for deploying Agentic AI workflows and Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration in financial environments.
• Practical applications of open source for AI agents for operational efficiency, customer service, and automating complex financial tasks.
• The role of emerging technologies, such as quantum computing and IoT, in shaping the future of finance.
• Practical applications of AI for operational efficiency, customer service, and risk management.
• Case studies on successful implementation of AI-driven financial models.
• Methods for complying with governance, regulations, & internal policies around emerging technology. 

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Track Name: OSERA & Open Source Security and Supply Chain Risk Management

Suggested Topics to Submit

• OSERA - FINOS Open Source Enterprise Resilience Alliance - regulated institutions close patch coverage gaps and operationalize remediation at scale. We help participants prioritize vulnerabilities, sponsor open back-patches, define shared consumption standards, and apply patches from upstream, vendors, and elsewhere - with greater consistency and evidence
• Implementing secure open source practices in highly regulated industries.
• Tooling and methodologies for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in the open source supply chain.
• Securing the open source software (OSS) supply chain: challenges, strategies, and innovations.
• Collaboration models that enhance the security of OSS projects through community oversight.

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Track Name: HPC - High Performance Computing

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Scaling Financial Workloads in HPC Environments
• Deployment of distributed workloads
• Hybrid Cloud and On-Premise HPC
• The Future of HPC in Finance

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Track Name: Evolution at Scale

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Reducing technical debt through shared infrastructure projects and community-driven architectural patterns.
• Essential developer tools and modernization techniques to tackle technical debt in large 
• financial institutions.
• Addressing common financial institutions' legacy modernization and ongoing maintenance challenges with AI.

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Track Name: The Business of Open Source: ROI and Strategy

Suggested Topics to Submit

• From Promise to Proof: Defining and measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) of open source contributions and usage.
• Case studies showcasing open source as a driver of measurable business value, cost reduction, and technical agility. Bonus points if leveraging FINOS projects. 
• Strategies for making the business case to executive leadership and shifting organizational culture from "consumer" to "contributor."
• Real-world success stories of financial institutions leveraging open source to accelerate speed to market.
• Gaining control of your own destiny: following the Fluxnova example, highlighting projects where financial institutions can and should come together to strategically maintain openly governed projects and reduce vendor lock-in.

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Track Name: Open Source Security and Automated Compliance

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Featuring CALM: Leveraging "Compliance-as-Code" to automate regulatory adherence and control frameworks.
• Securing the software supply chain through Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) adoption and automated vulnerability management.
• Meeting the requirements of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and other global cyber resilience regulations through open collaboration.
• Collaboration models and example projects for identifying and mitigating systemic risks in critical financial infrastructure.
• Featuring any FINOS projects in the tech risk space, like Common Cloud Controls, SDLC Controls, and AI Governance Framework.
• OSS Supply Chain Security in a Post-Mythos world. 

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Track Name: FDC3, Identity and Next-Gen Interoperability

Suggested Topics to Submit

• The evolution of the connected desktop: Integrating Voice, Natural Language Interfaces (NLI), and AI agents with FDC3 standards.
• Case studies in leveraging FDC3 to create seamless user experiences across desktop, web, and mobile applications.
• Innovations in cross-application identity management and secure data passing between financial workflows.
• Standards and best practices for unifying the financial workstation and improving trader productivity.
• FDC3 in the world of agents: the crossroads of MCP and FDC3.
• Fluxnova Tasks list feature in a FDC3-compliant mode.

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Track Name: CDM (Common Domain Model), Regulatory Technology (RegTech), and Compliance

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Standardizing data and workflows using the Common Domain Model (CDM) to simplify trade lifecycle events.
• CDM case studies: Implementing the CDM to deliver business value and drive market efficiency
• Extending CDM to a wider domain of asset classes, products, business events, and workflows.
• Interoperability of CDM with data standards (like FDC3, FIX, FpML) and internal data formats.
• Validating your data’s conformity with standards like CDM programmatically.
• Managing persistence of data with ever-changing versions of standards like CDM. 
• Leveraging collaborative solutions to meet evolving regulatory requirements.
• Collaboration and development of open standards to improve financial system interoperability and operational transparency

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Track Name: Open Source Regulatory Technology (Open RegTech) and Data Standards 

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Digital regulatory reporting: Open source approaches to transparent and automated reporting pipelines.
• Handling complex data and improving interoperability through industry-wide data standards.
• Collaboration among financial institutions to drive standardization in non-differentiating regulatory functions. 

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Track Name: OSPO Strategy, Governance, and Licensing

• Best practices for establishing and scaling Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) within highly regulated institutions.
• Navigating the legal and regulatory landscape of open source licensing, contribution policies, and IP management.
• Guidelines and tools for assessing organizational maturity and enhancing open source readiness.
• Strategies for managing vendor relationships and commercial open source software (COSS) procurement.

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Track Name: Developer Experience, InnerSource, and Talent

• InnerSource Strategies: Fostering collaboration, code reuse, and transparency across internal engineering teams.
• Talent retention and upskilling: Using open source contribution to attract top developers and build internal expertise.
• Building internal talent pipelines and mentorship programs through involvement in OSS projects.

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Track Name: Hot Topics in Open Finance

• Streamlining cross-industry workflows through open source and open standards: collateral management, payments, and settlement.
• Digital Assets: Stablecoins, Institutional adoption of blockchain, tokenization, and interoperability between TradFi and DeFi protocols.
• Physical risk and Sustainability-aligned investing: Open source data standards for ESG reporting, climate risk modeling (OS-Climate), and net-zero transition planning.
• Lightning talks on emerging trends: Quantum computing, Post-quantum cryptography, Open Banking, edge computing, and novel industry collaborations.

OpenInfra Days North America is being jointly organized by the OpenInfra communities from the United States, Mexico, and Canada in support of the OpenInfra Foundation. Sessions will cover open source projects used to build data center infrastructure, including OpenStack, Kubernetes, Linux, Kata Containers, StarlingX, Ceph, and many more! We encourage involvement from open source users, contributors, and companies from these countries for a lively networking and community-building opportunity!

Event Details:

• Location: Chicago, Illinois
• Date: November 17
• Venue: Coming Soon
• Event Website: Coming Soon

Join key customers, project leads, and contributors that make up the gRPC ecosystem for a full day of talks, demos, case studies, and code labs. Experts will discuss real-world implementations of gRPC, best practices for developers, and topic expert deep dives. This is a must-attend event for those using gRPC in their applications today, as well as those considering gRPC for their enterprise microservices.

There will be ample time for meeting project leads, networking with peers, and Q+A.

Over the past year the MCP project has quickly reshaped how developers are building AI agents, introducing a critical layer of standardization, and a blueprint for how LLMs can interface with applications and tools. The MCP Dev Summit will bring together MCP co-founders and contributors working on the future of MCP project with developers using it to build the next generation of AI agents. 

CHOOSE ONE (1) TRACK

OSS + ALS + ELC is an umbrella event for open source projects and developer communities to come together under one roof for important collaboration and education.

You will be asked to select the "track" in which you’d like to submit. Each proposal may be submitted to only one track, so please review all carefully before making your selection. We understand some proposals could potentially fit into multiple tracks. Don’t worry, our program chairs are working together to move proposals around as needed for additional review.

NO PRODUCT PITCHES PLEASE

Please be sure your submission focuses on open source embedded technologies and/or projects, not products specific to your company. We will not select any talks that look like product or vendor pitches.

OPEN SOURCE ONLY

As this is an open source event, talks submitted based on closed or proprietary systems will not be reviewed.

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.

For more than a decade, Open Networking & Edge Summit has served as the premier gathering for the open networking, edge, cloud, and IoT communities, convening technical and business leaders in a neutral, collaborative forum to shape the future of connected infrastructure.

As the industry enters a new era defined by agentic AI, edge intelligence, cloud-native automation, and API-driven ecosystems, open networking has never been more critical. Networks are evolving from static infrastructure into dynamic, programmable platforms capable of supporting new business models, real-time intelligence, and distributed workloads at global scale.

Hosted alongside Open Source Summit Japan, this year’s event reflects the global momentum behind open source collaboration and the massive transformation underway across communications, cloud, telecom, and enterprise industries. Technologies such as Kubernetes, AI, APIs, and disaggregated architectures are reshaping how networks are built, operated, automated, and monetized.

At the Summit, attendees will explore how open source ecosystems are enabling this shift, bringing together the latest technical innovation with the operational, business, and community strategies needed to turn possibility into production. Through in-depth discussions, real-world use cases, and collaborative planning, leaders will examine how open networking can power the next generation of cloud-native, intelligent, and edge-enabled infrastructure.

With content designed for communications, cloud, and telecom service providers, as well as enterprise verticals that depend on advanced networking across the core, access, and edge, Open Networking & Edge Summit equips attendees to leverage open source as a foundation for digital transformation, Industry 4.0, and the agentic and edge AI era.

CFP Tracks:

• Open & AI Native Networking & Edge
• AI Implications on Networks and Network Implications on Enterprise, Government & Verticals
• Edge AI & Data at the Edge
• Network Evolution: Open Source and the Path Forward

NO PRODUCT PITCHES PLEASE
Please be sure your submission focuses on open source embedded technologies and/or projects, not products specific to your company. We will not select any talks that look like product or vendor pitches.

KubeVirt Summit is our annual online conference, now in its sixth year, in which the entire broader community meets to showcase all things KubeVirt, whether that is introducing new features, deploying in production, proposing architectural changes, or providing in-depth tutorials.

This will be a very special Summit as we will be marking 10 years of KubeVirt!

The Summit Speaker CFP is open to everyone who works on or with KubeVirt. We want to hear from our active developers about new features in the pipeline, as well as end users sharing their deployment journeys and use case at scale.