Speaker Guide

Thank you for joining us as a speaker at the Open Source Forum 2026, hosted by Academy Software Foundation. The event will be held on Thursday, February 26, at Netflix in Los Angeles, CA, and virtually. Below are key details to confirm your participation and prepare for the event.

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• Speaker Registration Deadline: Wednesday, January 28
• AV Requests Deadline: Monday, February 2
• Final Presentation Deadline: Thursday, February 12 – must be submitted in Google Slides
• Event Dates: Thursday, February 26

Please register as a speaker by Wednesday, January 28, to confirm that you will be presenting.  You received registration information in your acceptance email. If you need this information sent to you again, please contact Jennifer Crowley.

Open Source Forum 2026 will be at Netflix

Netflix
1455 N Van Ness Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90028

The schedule will be announced on Wednesday, January 21, and posted on our website using sched.com. You will receive an email from sched.com requesting that you create your account. Please upload your bio and photo (if missing) by Wednesday, January 28.

Please note that all sessions and multi-speaker presentations are 20 minutes, including Q&A (if you choose to open the floor to questions), and all lightning talks are 10 minutes in total. If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk, find that it conflicts with the content of another talk, or need help uploading your bio and photo, please contact Jennifer Crowley at jcrowley@linuxfoundation.org.

• The room will include (2) confidence monitors, a clicker, and wireless lav mics. Please note there is no podium on stage.
• Additional AV requests are due by Monday, February 2. 

Academy Software Foundation will make every effort to accommodate additional AV needs; however, final approval for such requests will be granted on a case-by-case basis.

• All presentations will be compiled into a master deck.
• Presentation must be submitted in Google Slides and formatted in 16:9.
• The due date for final presentations is Thursday, February 12.
• Day of edits will not be accepted.
• A conference-branded presentation template is available at this link – use of the template is optional.
  • To access the Google Slides conference-branded presentation template:
    • Click the Google Slides template link.
    • The template will open in your web browser. You do not need edit access to the original file.
    • In the top left corner, click File.
    • Select Make a copy to create your own editable version in Google Slides.
    • Choose where to save the copy in your Google Drive, then click Make a copy.
  • If you prefer to work offline:
    • Click the Google Slides template link.
    • Click File in the top menu.
    • Select Download.
    • The file will download to your computer and can be edited locally.

In collaboration with the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT), the Linux Foundation has created an online course designed to teach the viewer about inclusion, diversity, and unconscious bias. We highly recommend all of our speakers watch the course to learn tips/tools to use when speaking to encourage inclusivity in presentations and messaging.

Please read and comply with our Code of Conduct, available here. Our Code of Conduct is strictly enforced. We ask that speakers especially review this code of conduct and are careful to be inclusive in the words and images used during their presentation.

Do you have speaker or schedule-related questions?

Please get in touch with Jennifer Crowley at jcrowley@linuxfoundation.org.