The Linux Foundation Member Summit 2026

The Linux Foundation Member Summit 2026

8:00am PST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up Beaulieu Room (Mansion - Main Level)

9:00am PST

Summit on Human Agency [Pre-Registration Required] Silverado Ballroom

2:00pm PST

Napa Valley Bike Tour Market & Bakery WAITLIST | Charles Krug Winery – Wine Tasting Market & Bakery

4:00pm PST

GUILD Napa – Charcuterie Board Styling Workshop Royal Oak

7:30am PST

Breakfast Fairway Deck & Inside Terrace Registration & Badge Pick-Up Beaulieu Room (Mansion - Main Level) Zen Zone Silverado Resort

9:00am PST

Keynote: State of the Union - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation with Special Guests to be Announced Silverado Ballroom

9:40am PST

Keynote: Free Isn’t Free: Moving From Open Source Abuse to Alignment - Brian Fox, Co-founder & CTO, Sonatype Silverado Ballroom

10:05am PST

Keynote: Open Source Economics, Incentives & Governance - Frank Nagle, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Chief Economist, The Linux Foundation Silverado Ballroom

10:25am PST

Keynote: We Are Not Done Yet; The Third Decade of Open Technologies - Nithya Ruff, Director of Amazon OSPO, Amazon Silverado Ballroom

10:50am PST

Keynote: Fireside Chat with Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick, Wired Magazine Silverado Ballroom

11:10am PST

Coffee Break Fairway Deck

11:50am PST

Linux and Zephyr: Comparison of Best Practices and Governance - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation Vintner's Court Contribution ROI: How Code, Community & Direct Financial Investments "Show Companies the Money!" - Hilary Carter, Sam Boysel & Frank Nagle, The Linux Foundation Silverado West Panel Discussion: Why Public Policy Matters for Open Source: Insights From the OpenSSF Public Policy Committee - Kris Borchers, OpenSSF; Mike Linksvayer, GitHub; Hila Hanif, AWS; Eva Hampl, Dell Technologies Sebastiani & Beringer LF as a Steward: CRA, LFX, Baseline, and Beyond - Eddie Knight, Sonatype Silverado East

12:20pm PST

Lunch Fairway Deck & Inside Terrace

1:30pm PST

Driving Innovation: How Open-Source Automotive Communities Accelerate the Future of Mobility - Yuichi Kusakabe, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Vintner's Court Ecosystem Growth Under Pressure: How the CRA May Reshape Corporate Participation in Open Source - Jan Melen & Philip Robb, Ericsson Software Technology Silverado West Panel Discussion: Japanese Open Source Journey and the Challenge of Expanding OSPO - Masato Endo, Toyota Motor Corporation; Yuichi Kusakabe, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; Ayumi Watanabe, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.; Yoshiya Eto, The Linux Foundation Sebastiani & Beringer From Compliance To Community: Securing the Supply Chain by Uplifting Upstream in OpenSSF - Sarah Evans & Lisa Bradley, Dell Technologies Silverado East

2:10pm PST

Space Grade Linux: The Next Phase of Open Source for Space Systems - Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation Vintner's Court Collaborating With Standards Bodies: Practical Guidance for Open Source Communities - Jory Burson, The Linux Foundation Silverado West Bridges, Not Barriers: Can We Create Sustainable Open Source University-Industry Partnerships? - Stephanie Lieggi, UC Santa Cruz & Nithya Ruff, Amazon Sebastiani & Beringer Securing Open Source – Lessons From the GitHub Security Lab - Xavier René-Corail, GitHub Silverado East

2:50pm PST

Teaching Open Source Communities With a Little Help From AI - Justin Mclean, Datastrato Vintner's Court Pivoting Under Pressure: Rethinking the OSPO Identity - Bob Killen, CNCF Sebastiani & Beringer Warning Signs: How To Respond Before the OSS Supply Chain Breaks - Brittany Istenes, Fannie Mae Silverado East

3:20pm PST

Coffee Break Fairway Deck

4:00pm PST

Data-Driven Open Source AI Strategy: The Practice of Ant Group OSPO and Use Case of OceanBase - Xiaoya Xia, Ant Group & Fiona Duan, Oceanbase Sebastiani & Beringer Securing the Open Source Supply-chain, a Better Approach To Generating SBOMs - Jeff Shapiro, The Linux Foundation & Yue Xiao, William and Mary Silverado East Going Zero To One in Developer Communities - Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Linux Foundation & Jayson DeLancey, Semgrep Vintner's Court

4:40pm PST

Panel Discussion: Infrastructure Risk at Scale: Sustaining the Open Source Toolchains Behind Global Software - Kris Borchers, OpenSSF; Sudakshina Das, Arm Ltd; David Edelsohn, IBM; Carlos O'Donell & Gomathi Anandan, Red Hat Silverado West What AI Businesses Must Learn From Commercial Open Source Businesses - Heather Meeker, Chinstrap Community Sebastiani & Beringer Notes From the Field: Dos and Don’ts of OSS Security at Scale - Adolfo García Veytia, Carabiner Systems Silverado East

6:00pm PST

Attendee Reception The Estate Yountville

8:00am PST

Breakfast Fairway Deck & Inside Terrace Registration & Badge Pick-Up Beaulieu Room (Mansion - Main Level) Zen Zone Silverado Resort

9:00am PST

TODO Group Steering Committee (OSPO): Ask Anything - Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Linux Foundation; Ashley Wolf, GitHub; Stephen Augustus, Bloomberg; Brittany Istenes, Fannie Mae & Natali Vlatko, Cisco Vintner's Court Unconference Session to be Announced Silverado West Unconference Session to be Announced Sebastiani & Beringer Unconference Session to be Announced Silverado East

10:00am PST

CRA: Ask Us Anything - David Wheeler, The Linux Foundation & Christopher Robinson, OpenSSF Vintner's Court Unconference Session to be Announced Silverado West Unconference Session to be Announced Silverado East Unconference Session to be Announced Sebastiani & Beringer

10:50am PST

Coffee Break Fairway Deck

11:30am PST

OpenSearch Software Foundation: 1 Year of Open Governance - Kris Freedain, OpenSearch Project (at AWS) & Amanda Katona, NetApp Instaclustr Silverado West We Need a State Open Source Policy Coalition - Margaret Tucker, GitHub Sebastiani & Beringer OIN 2.0 — a Sustainable Business Model That Scales Open Source Ecosystem Growth - Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network Vintner's Court Security Through Education: Meeting AI, CRA, and Supply Chain Challenges in Software Development - David A. Wheeler, The Linux Foundation Silverado East

12:20pm PST

Lunch Fairway Deck & Inside Terrace

1:40pm PST

Saying Yes To NoSQL - The DocumentDB Journey To the Linux Foundation - Abinav Rameesh, Microsoft Corporation Silverado West Model Signing Is Just a Tiny Piece of the Puzzle. Let's Build It All - Mihai Maruseac, Google Sebastiani & Beringer Continuous Valuation: Methodologies for Measuring Investment and Return in Open Source - Sam Boysel, The Linux Foundation & Bob Killen, CNCF Vintner's Court The First Person Linux Kernel Maintainer Verification Project - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel Maintainer; Daniela Barbosa, LF Decentralized Trust; Glenn Gore, Affinidi; and Geoff Turk, FPP Technical Lead Silverado East

2:20pm PST

Collaborative Infrastructure at Scale: PyTorch's Multi-Cloud CI Model - Andrea Frittoli, IBM Sebastiani & Beringer Addressing Burnout and Growing Long-Term Contributors - Patty Chow, Microsoft Silverado West

3:00pm PST

Open Source and AI Enabled Trust and Safety Tools as Instruments of International Peace - Amye Scavarda Perrin, amye.org Sebastiani & Beringer The Spark of Collaboration: Scaling OSS Sustainability Through Industry Teamwork - Alyssa Wright, Bloomberg & George Chellapa, NVIDIA Vintner's Court SAFE-MCP: Securing Tool-Using AI Agents With MITRE ATT&CK - Saurabh Yergattikar, eBay Inc. Silverado East

3:30pm PST

Coffee Break Fairway Deck

4:00pm PST

Log4Shell, React2Shell, and AI Dependency Confusion - Brian Fox, Sonatype Sebastiani & Beringer How Audit-Driven Security Framework Serves Institutional Adoption in Korea - Jisu Park, SOOHO.IO Inc. Silverado East

4:40pm PST

Facilitated Discussion: Built in the Open: What the Past Years Taught Us About the Future of Open Source - Jeffrey Borek, IBM; Sarah Evans, Dell Technologies; Nithya Ruff, Amazon Silverado West Strategies To Running Mentorship in the Age of AI - Shuah Khan, The Linux Fundation Sebastiani & Beringer Facilitated Discussion: Decentralized Trust for the Internet of Agents - Drummond Reed, Ayra Association; Tricia Wang, Advanced AI Society; Brendan Miller, The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University Silverado East

5:10pm PST

Evening Happy Hour The Arbor

6:15pm PST

Evening Shuttle Service to Downtown Napa Market & Bakery