The SONiC Foundation invites you to submit a session for SONiC Events at OCP EMEA Summit 2026: 

SONiC Workshop at OCP EMEA Summit

• 29 April 2026
• Barcelona International Convention Center (CCIB)

SONiC Booth at OCP EMEA Summit

• 29 - 30 April 2026
• SONiC booth in Expo Hall (shared booth with CHIPS Alliance, OPI Project, and SONiC Foundation) 

Timeline

• CFP Open: 13 January - 15 February 
• Speaker Notifications: 13 March
• Schedule Announced: Week of 16 March
• Presentation Slides Due: Monday, 20 April

IMPORTANT! By submitting a proposal:

• You agree to The Linux Foundation's Code of Conduct. 
• You agree that you have both read and agree to adhere to the SONiC Foundation's Vendor Neutrality Guidelines. 

Have questions? Contact eventhelp@sonicfoundation.dev

GraphQLConf 2026, the official GraphQL conference brought to you by the GraphQL Foundation, brings the entire GraphQL community together to learn, engage, and discuss everything GraphQL. Putting on an amazing conference depends on great content, which is where you come in! Join other GraphQL practitioners and leaders as a presenter by submitting to our CFP and sharing your experience across a wide range of topics.

Sessions and slides should be presented in English.

Location: GraphQLConf will be hosted at the Meta Campus at Menlo Park.

The DPDK Summit 2026 is a community event designed for individuals who develop, utilize, or have a professional interest in DPDK technologies. The agenda will cover the latest developments and roadmap suggestions for future releases. This is a unique opportunity to meet the community and discuss the ecosystem's challenges and innovations.

To encourage open collaboration and stimulate discussions that will help advance open source adoption and drive the automotive industry forward, we invite our members, developers, and industry experts to submit a speaking proposal for the AGL All Member Meeting Japan 2026 taking place in Tokyo, Japan. AGL Members and Invited Guests provide sessions at AGL’s All Member Meeting.

Not a member but still want to speak at an All Member Meeting? Join AGL Now!

CHOOSE ONE (1) TRACK

OSS + 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.

OpenSSF Community Days bring together a vibrant community from across the Security and Open Source ecosystems to share ideas and progress on capabilities that make it easier to sustainably secure the development, maintenance, and consumption of the software on which we all depend. These events, held regionally and co-located with Open Source Summits, offer an opportunity to engage with the brightest minds in security for a day of collaboration and innovation in software security best practices. As a home for tools, standards, and education, OpenSSF provides attendees the opportunity to explore these resources, share their experiences, and contribute to a safer, more secure digital world.

Suggested Topics:

• AI and ML in Security
• Regulatory Compliance
• Enhancing Security Tools
• Cyber Resilience
• Securing the Software Supply Chain
• Case studies and real-world experiences
• OSS Signatures and Verification
• Implementation Success Stories

Linux Security Summit North America 2026 is a technical forum for collaboration among Linux operating system developers, researchers, and end users.

Its primary aim is to foster community efforts to analyze and address Linux operating system security challenges, including those in the Linux kernel. Presentations are expected to focus intensely on new or improved technologies and how they advance the state of practice for addressing these challenges.

We encourage snippets of source code or assembly code. Presentations marketing a product are out of scope. Presentations discussing software must focus on open source software (OSS) that is publicly viewable by the CFP close; proprietary and unviewable software are out of scope. 

Presentations on other OSS operating systems may be relevant if they offer lessons to be learned between them and Linux operating systems, or if they cover algorithms or hardware, and focus on Linux-specific implementation.

Suggested Topics

• Access Control
• Case Studies
• Cryptography and Key Management
• Emerging Technologies, Threats & Techniques
• Hardware Security
• IoT and Embedded Security
• Integrity Policy and Enforcement
• Open Source Supply Chain for the Linux OS
• Security Tools
• Security UX
• Linux OS Hardening
• Virtualization and Containers

The OpenSearch community is coming together again to learn and connect about all things search and analytics at OpenSearchCon. The event is in-person only, and there is no fee for speakers to attend. This three-day event 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 & Apache Lucene: Connect with other search and relevance practitioners with demos, deep dives, or new and novel techniques for building rich search applications. Master Lucene, the search engine library that powers OpenSearch - from relevancy tuning and efficient matching to analyzers and scoring.

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 source technologists is up for consideration here.

Operating OpenSearch: Have you have 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.

PROJECT LIGHTNING TALKS - THURSDAY, 18 JUNE

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.

MAINTAINER TRACK - THURSDAY - FRIDAY, 18 - 19 JUNE

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.

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

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.

As open source becomes integral to financial services, OSFF provides companies with the tools to maximize 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.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. Join our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.