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.