Linux Foundation AI Executive Forum
February 26, 2026 | San Francisco
Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco
Draft Agenda – additional updates will be added shortly
| 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Registration / Badge Pick-up |
| 2:00 – 2:30 PM | Welcome & Opening Remarks, Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation |
| 2:30 – 3:00 PM | Plenary Sessions: The Near-Term Future of Open AI Forward-looking perspectives from AI leaders on what’s changing next, where momentum is accelerating, and what leaders should be preparing for over the next 12–36 months. Peter Norvig, Stanford & Google Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley & Sky Computing Lab |
| 3:00 – 4:00 PM | Project Updates: State of the Union Short briefings from leaders across key open AI projects and ecosystems highlighting what’s evolving faster than expected, where constraints are emerging; and what other projects and practitioners should understand now. MCP: Den Delimarsky, Anthropic PyTorch: Joe Spisak, Meta Kubernetes: Jago Macleod, Google Ray: Robert Nishihara, Anyscale Goose: Manik Surtani, Block vLLM: Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley & Sky Computing Lab |
| 4:00 – 4:30 PM | Networking Break Informal conversation and connection-building |
| 4:30 – 5:30 PM | Facilitated Executive Discussions Simultaneous small-group discussions with designated facilitators, focused on timely, real-world issues facing organizations building and deploying open AI. Sessions are designed to surface shared challenges, areas of alignment, and open questions across projects and sectors. – Trust and Identity – Facilitators TBA – Security & Privacy – Facilitator: Matt White, PyTorch Foundation/Linux Foundation – Governance, Risk & Regulatory Alignment – Facilitators TBA |
| 5:30 – 8:30 PM | Cocktail Reception & Dinner in the Julia Morgan Ballroom |