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.

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Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Japan 2025 is the leading conference in Japan connecting the open source ecosystem under one roof, providing a forum for technologists and open source industry leaders to collaborate and share information, learn about the latest in open source technologies and find out how to gain a competitive advantage by using innovative open solutions.

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.

PROJECT LIGHTNING TALKS - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10

 Audience: Attendees (Beginner) 

Projects will have the opportunity to deliver lightning talks lasting 5-minutes during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. This platform offers projects the chance to showcase their recent updates, features, and other highlights to their peers. The project lightning talks will be included in the conference schedule and are based on availability.

Because these talks are centered on the project rather than any individual speaker, complimentary passes are not provided. If you don’t already have a pass and are unable to secure funding to attend, we recommend applying for a scholarship. Alternatively, if you're unable to attend, we would still consider the talk if another project representative is available to present on your behalf.

A maximum of 1 speaker is allowed per Project Lightning Talk. Please do not submit more.

CONTRIBFEST

Audience: Attendees (Intermediate + Expert)

Contribfest sessions are available to all conference attendees and are 75 minute in-person sessions designed to provide projects with the space and resources to tackle outstanding technical debt, security issues, or outstanding impactful feature requests. It is intended to provide a place for maintainers to meet contributors and potential contributors and work together on solving a problem. 

In order to be considered, you must satisfy the requirements below:

• At least one speaker must be a maintainer of the project with the commit bit. A maximum of four speakers are allowed.
• Maintainers do not need to lead the Contribfest but projects must provide at least one individual to facilitate the work during the Contribfest
• In your session description field, describe the problem space and benefit a Contribfest can provide your project

Contribfest is offered only to graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects. SIGs, TAGs, and Working Groups are not eligible for a Contribfest session at this time.

A maximum of 5 speakers total are allowed per Contribfest.

MAINTAINER TRACK - TUESDAY - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11 - 13

Audience: Non-Maintainers and End-Users (Any)

Leaders of CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects and Activities (Such as members of Working Groups or TAGs) can submit one 30-minute Maintainer Track session during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Participation is subject to availability and submitting does not guarantee selection. 

Each speaker can participate in only one Maintainer Track session. This does not count against the speaker limits for Kubecon + CloudNativeCon standard CFP.

Requirements for Submission

Graduated/Incubating Projects

• To submit, you must be a maintainer on the list for a CNCF Graduated or Incubating project.
• The actual speaker(s) do not need active maintainer status but should be contributors to the project.
• Sandbox projects are not eligible for maintainer track sessions.

All Others

To submit, you must be a chair or technical lead of a CNCF TAG, a lead for a Kubernetes SIG, CNCF or K8s Working Group, or Subproject.

A maximum of 5 speakers total are allowed per Maintainer Track session.

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:

ArgoCon, BackstageCon, CiliumCon, Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, Cloud Native University, Data on Kubernetes Day, EnvoyCon, FluxCon, Istio Day, Kubeflow Summit, Kubernetes on Edge Day, KyvernoCon, Observability Day, OpenFeature Summit, OpenSource SecurityCon, OpenTofu Day, Platform Engineering Day, and WasmCon. 

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

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. 

MAINTAINER SUMMIT - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9

The CNCF Maintainer Summit is an exclusive event for the people behind our projects to gather face-to-face, collaborate, and celebrate the projects that make “Cloud Native”. Programming will be focused around sharing best practices, diving into contributing processes, and solving common problems across projects to enrich our great community of maintainers. 

To submit a proposal you must be one of the following:

• TOC Representative
• Graduated Project Maintainer or Org Member
• TAG Lead
• Incubating Project Maintainer

Sessions may be submitted in one of the following categories (descriptions of each category are available here):

• Kubernetes
• Growing Contributors
• CI/CD/Distribution
• Open submission option
• Project Meetings*

*Please note: Project Meetings will be listed on the schedule with the project name only, and meeting facilitator will not receive a speaker registration pass. 

CODE OF CONDUCT

By submitting, you agree to the CNCF Code of Conduct.

COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVITY

Please review The Linux Foundation's Inclusive Speaker Orientation and Inclusive Language Initiative.

QUESTIONS?

Contact us at projectsatkubecon@linuxfoundation.org.

PRIVACY POLICY

At The Linux Foundation, we are committed to safeguarding your privacy. Sensitive speaker information will only be accessible to event organizers and program committee members who adhere to the highest confidentiality standards. Rest assured that your information will never be sold or shared beyond these parties.

Speaker personal information including name, company, job title, biography and photo will appear on the public schedule. For information on our privacy practices and commitment to protecting your privacy, please review our Privacy Policy.

You can update or delete your account information at any time through your Sessionize profile account settings. Please contact support@sessionize.com directly for any questions or issues. 

The Jupyter ecosystem has transformed data science, scientific research, and education. It has shaped the way a generation of developers and scientists develop their workflows. JupyterCon 2025 will bring together data scientists, business analysts, scientists, educators, developers, core Project contributors, designers, and tool creators for a three-day, in-person event to learn and connect about all things Jupyter.

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Join us for the inaugural vendor-neutral open source conference in Korea, where developers and technologists come together to collaborate, share knowledge, and explore the latest innovations and advancements in open source technology. 

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.

The OpenSearch community is coming together  to learn and connect about all things search and analytics at the first OpenSearchCon Korea. The event is in-person only, and there is no fee for speakers to attend. This one-day event is co-located with Open Source Summit Korea and is designed to bring together builders from across the global community to celebrate the success of the OpenSearch Project and look to the future of search, analytics, and generative AI.

Suggested Topics
Search: Connect with other search and relevance practitioners with demos, deep dives, or new and novel techniques for building rich search applications.

Analytics, Security, and Observability: Deploying observability tools at scale? Using OpenSearch to turn log data into insights, or to help protect your infrastructure? We want to hear from you!

Community: Engage a community of builders on a topic that means something to you. Anything that might educate and inspire a community of open search technologists is up for consideration here.

Operation OpenSearch: Operating OpenSearch: Have you built out an implementation of OpenSearch? Do you use OpenSearch in a solution that helps your own business or project? Share how you operate OpenSearch.

OpenSSF Community Days are an opportunity for Community Members from across the Security and Open Source ecosystem to get together and share ideas and progress on capabilities that make it easier to sustainably secure the development, maintenance, and consumption of the open source software (OSS) we all depend on. Brought to you by OpenSSF.

Suggested Topics:

• Security Education & Community Development
• Open Source Security Tooling & Innovation
• Security Research
• Open Source Vulnerabilities & Threats
• AI & Open Source Security

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 to learn more about Ceph and the future of the project from the developers writing the code and the operators deploying it at scale.

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

Join us and learn about PyTorch, the cutting-edge renowned open-source machine learning framework. This two-day event brings together top-tier researchers, developers, and academic communities, fostering collaboration and advancing end-to-end machine learning.

At the intersection of open-source generative AI and machine learning, the PyTorch Conference embodies the principle that open source propels AI innovation. Immerse yourself in top-tier content, connect globally with developers, and stay at the forefront of the evolving tech landscape. The Conference draws developers worldwide, sparking discussions, fostering collaborations, and shaping PyTorch’s direction.

The Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) is the premier event bringing together leaders and technologists across financial services and the open-source ecosystem. This conference is uniquely designed to enable partnerships, advance talent development, and showcase open technologies that enable the financial industry to scale, modernize, and enhance profitability.

As open source becomes integral to financial services, OSFF provides companies with a unique venue to maximize open source ROI. By strategically contributing to open projects, organizations benefit from reduced development costs, heightened security, access to top talent, and overall faster innovation. OSFF 2025 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 impact for this community, not open source communities in general.

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Track Name: An Open Source AI-Powered Industry

This track focuses on developer-centric, open source technologies that enable artificial intelligence in financial services. We're seeking talks that offer practical insights, tools, and architectures for building AI-enabled systems that are scalable, secure, and suitable for highly regulated environments.

Link to Recently Accepted Talks (hint - this is what we’re looking for): See accepted talks from OSFF London 2025 

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Open source AI platforms, tools, orchestration frameworks and datasets for financial services
• Implementing AI agent infrastructure in capital markets and trading environments
• Developer tools and techniques for explainable, secure, and auditable AI systems
• Practical applications of AI to improve operational efficiency, customer service, and risk management
• Case studies on the successful implementation of AI-driven financial models using open source technologies
• Leveraging machine learning to drive innovation and reduce friction in financial workflows
• Exploring the role of quantum computing, IoT, and other emerging technologies in shaping open AI infrastructure for finance
• Governance, benchmarking, and lifecycle management for financial AI systems built on open source
• Strategies for integrating AI into legacy systems while meeting regulatory requirements
• Accelerating financial developer productivity with AI 

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Track Name: Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open

This track invites talks from business leaders, risk professionals, and technology managers focused on how open source can help mutualize the responsibility of compliance, governance, and technology risk across the financial industry. Sessions should explore how open frameworks, shared tooling, and collaborative approaches can help meet regulatory obligations while accelerating innovation in areas like AI, cloud, and infrastructure.

Link to Recently Accepted Talks - See accepted talks from OSFF London 2025

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Aligning open source initiatives with DORA, Basel III, and global financial regulations
• The FINOS AI Governance Framework and its implications for regulated AI deployment
• Governance and risk management strategies for AI-enabled systems in financial services
• Best practices for compliant cloud-native architectures using Common Cloud Controls
• RegTech platforms built on open standards or open source tooling
• Assessing and managing technology risk in AI, multi-cloud, and open source environments
• Strategies for balancing innovation and compliance in highly regulated markets
• Collaborating across the industry to reduce duplicative compliance efforts through open solutions
• Case studies on using open source to improve auditability, traceability, and regulatory reporting

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Track Name: Guarding the Vaults

This track explores the evolving challenges and innovative solutions for securing the open source software supply chain within financial services. Talks should focus on practical implementations of security and compliance strategies that address modern threats, regulatory pressures like the Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA), and the need for robust, community-driven defense mechanisms.

Link to Recently Accepted Talks - See accepted talks from OSFF London 2025

Suggested Topics to Submit

• Securing the open source software (OSS) supply chain: challenges, strategies, and innovations
• Responding to regulatory frameworks such as the Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA) and their implications for OSS
• Open source security and supply chain risk management in financial institutions
• Tooling and methodologies for identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in OSS components
• Implementing secure open source practices in highly regulated industries
• Enhancing cyber resilience through automation, SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials), and formal verification
• Governance, licensing, and policy best practices for OSS security at scale
• Real-world case studies: How financial firms hardened their OSS stacks
• Collaboration models that enhance the security of OSS through community and vendor engagement

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Track Name: Ushering a New Era with the Common Domain Model

This track focuses on the development, adoption, and real-world implementation of the Common Domain Model (CDM) across financial services. Talks should explore how CDM enables interoperability, simplifies regulatory compliance, and drives system integration through shared open standards.

Link to Recently Accepted Talks - See accepted talks from OSFF London 2025

Suggested Topics to Submit

Standards and Interoperability in Financial Services

• Developing and implementing open standards to improve financial system interoperability
• Leveraging common data models and protocols to enhance system integration
• Collaboration among financial institutions to drive industry-wide standardization
• The role of standards in fostering innovation and simplifying compliance

Use Cases and Implementation Approaches

• CDM adoption journeys within sell-side and buy-side institutions
• Lessons learned from implementing CDM in production environments
• How CDM supports tokenization, regulatory reporting, and operational automation
• Bridging CDM with emerging technologies (e.g., AI, knowledge graphs, blockchain)

Extension and Evolution of the CDM

• Proposals for CDM extensions in specific business domains (e.g., collateral, physical risk)
• Mapping CDM to legal contracts and regulatory frameworks
• Driving open contributions to the CDM specification and tooling

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Track Name: Supercharge Your Open Source Journey

This track is designed for leaders, program managers, and engineers working to advance open source maturity within their organizations. Talks should highlight strategies for open source readiness, proven practices in compliance and contribution, and case studies demonstrating how open collaboration drives business and technical value in financial services.

Link to Recently Accepted Talks - See accepted talks from OSFF London 2025

Suggested Topics to Submit

Open Source Readiness and Compliance

• Strategies for preparing financial institutions to engage in open source projects
• Open source compliance in regulated environments
• Establishing and scaling Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) in financial services
• Tools and frameworks for assessing and improving open source readiness
• Best practices for inner source adoption within large institutions

Case Studies and Strategic Value

• Case studies on successful open source implementations and business impact
• Overcoming organizational resistance to open source contribution
• How open source accelerates product development and speed to market

Community Building and Contributor Recognition

• Building and sustaining vibrant OSS communities in finance
• Recognizing and rewarding contributors to promote long-term engagement
• DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) strategies in open source communities
• Tools, metrics, and processes for healthy community and contributor management

Developer Tools, Best Practices, and Talent Development

• Essential developer tools for open source contributions in finance
• Upskilling through open source: training and resources for financial software developers
• Building internal talent pipelines through involvement in OSS projects
• Leveraging open source to attract top technical talent

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Track Name: The Open Connective Tissue of Financial Services

This track explores the technologies and standards enabling seamless integration across the financial services ecosystem. Talks should focus on how open APIs, open protocols like FDC3, open data standards, and decentralized protocols are building a more interoperable, efficient and customer-centric financial infrastructure.

Link to Recently Accepted Talks - See accepted talks from OSFF London 2025

Suggested Topics to Submit

Interoperability and FDC3 Standards

• Case studies in implementing FDC3 to streamline communication between financial applications
• Lessons learned from adopting interoperability frameworks across vendor and in-house apps
• Extending FDC3 to support new workflows, UI composition, or decentralized identity
• Frontend and UX innovations enabled by standardized desktop interoperability

APIs and Integration Strategies

• Best practices for designing and governing APIs in financial services
• API-first strategies to unlock composability and cross-platform consistency
• Leveraging API gateways and architecture-as-code to manage integration at scale
• Open Source powered Open Banking and Open Finance 

Open Data and Open Data Standards

• Financial application of new and established (truly) open data standards 
• Financial open data standards and datasets fueling the AI revolution
• Integration of existing open data standards and formats in FINOS projects

Decentralized and Open Protocols

• Using decentralized technologies (e.g., blockchain, identity, messaging) to future-proof financial infrastructure
• Protocol-level innovations supporting modular, extensible systems
• Enhancing collaboration between vendors and institutions through open protocols
• Enabling new cross-firm workflows through Decentralized protocols

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Track Name: The Business Case for Open Source

This track highlights how open source drives real business outcomes across the financial services industry. Talks should focus on tangible value—whether it's accelerating innovation, reducing cost, improving compliance, or enabling collaborative solutions that meet strategic objectives.

Link to Recently Accepted Talks - See accepted talks from OSFF London 2025

Suggested Topics to Submit

Open Source as Strategic Infrastructure

• Business value derived from adopting and contributing to open source
• How open source improves speed-to-market and platform resilience
• Success stories from financial institutions modernizing core systems with OSS
• Internal transformation through open collaboration models

Regulatory Technology (RegTech) and Compliance

• Leveraging open source RegTech to simplify compliance and reduce risk
• Open source solutions for digital regulatory reporting (DRR)
• Addressing evolving regulatory challenges with collaborative tooling

Sustainability and Transparency

• Open source’s role in advancing transparency and responsible business practices
• Collaborating on data models and tooling to support sustainability reporting and climate resilience
• Community-driven initiatives for risk modeling 

Risk Management and Accountability

• Quantifying and managing open source risk in financial environments
• Demonstrating accountability and auditability through shared standards
• The impact of OSS on governance frameworks in highly regulated firms

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Other Talks: Hot Topics in Open Source Finance

• The impact of blockchain, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and NFTs on financial services.
• Cloud adoption and its influence on open source financial applications.
• Harnessing AI and automation to transform financial services.
• Innovations in identity management, credit systems, and government-led open source initiatives.
• Emerging open source solutions and standards for modernizing payments infrastructure and processing.
• FinOps - FinOps is an operational framework and cultural practice that maximizes the business value of cloud and technology, enables timely data-driven decision-making, and fosters financial accountability through collaboration among engineering, finance, and business teams.
• Confidential Computing - securing data in use and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing through open collaboration

PromCon EU 2025 is the tenth conference fully dedicated to the Prometheus monitoring system. It will take place on 2025-10-21 & 2025-10-22 (Tues & Wed) in Munich as a single-track event with space for 200 attendees.

PromCon aims to connect Prometheus users and developers from around the world to exchange knowledge, best practices, and experience gained around using Prometheus. We also want to collaborate to build a community and grow professional connections around systems and service monitoring.

The SONiC Foundation invites you to submit a session for two events at OCP Global Summit:

SONiC Workshop at OCP Global Summit
October 16, 2025

SONiC Booth Demos at OCP Global Summit
October 14 - 16, 2025

Timeline

• CFP: May 29 - July 27
• Schedule Announced: Week of of August 10
• Presentation Slides Due: Monday, October 6

Have questions? Contact eventhelp@sonicfoundation.dev

For over a decade, Cloud Foundry has been a cornerstone of the PaaS tooling landscape, empowering developers and operators to build, deploy, and scale applications with ease. This one-day event brings together the passionate community of Cloud Foundry users, contributors, and industry leaders. In a day filled with insightful sessions and hallway discussions, they will explore the latest advancements, innovative practices, and future directions of this powerful platform., where we invite you to join them.

At Cloud Foundry Day, you can expect a deep dive into the technical intricacies of Cloud Foundry, from its foundational components to cutting-edge technologies like Buildpacks and Generative AI. You'll have opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals, share experiences, and collaborate on future projects. Additionally, hands-on workshops will provide practical experience with Cloud Foundry tools and techniques. Finally, open forums will allow you to participate in community-driven discussions that shape the future of Cloud Foundry.

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

The SONiC Foundation invites you to submit a session for the SONiC Workshop India to be hosted September 3-4 at the Microsoft Campus, Hyderabad.

DATES

Timeline

• CFP: May 20 - June 20
• Schedule Announced: Week of August 4

REMINDER! This is a vendor-neutral community event - no product or vendor sales pitches. 

Have questions? Contact eventhelp@sonicfoundation.dev

The SONiC Foundation invites you to submit a session for two events at Open Source Summit Europe:

SONiC Booth Demos at Open Source Summit Europe
25-27 August

SONiC Mini Summit
28 August

Timeline

• CFP: May 5 - June 8 Extended through June 20
• Schedule Announced: Week of June 23 July 14
• Presentation Slides Due: August 18

REMINDER! This is a vendor-neutral community event - no product or vendor sales pitches. 

Have questions? Contact eventhelp@sonicfoundation.dev