Featured Keynote Speakers

Romin Irani works as a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud. He lives and works in Mumbai, India.

An experienced AI and Data Science Executive skilled in strategic leadership in machine learning strategy and engineering innovation. She currently serves as a Lead Architect with People + ai, focusing on unlocking public sector datasets for population-scale AI readiness.

Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the ​Agentic AI Foundation

An award-winning educator and international keynote speaker, Angie shares her extensive knowledge with software companies and conference audiences worldwide.

As a Master Inventor, Angie is recognized for her innovative, out-of-the-box thinking, which has led to 27 patented inventions in virtual worlds, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet initiatives, and software development processes.

I’m Abhijay Jain, an open-source developer and FOSS enthusiast with experience across developer tooling, Bitcoin infrastructure, AI products, and modern web technologies. Over the years, I’ve contributed to global open-source programs and organizations including the Linux Foundation, Google summer of code, Block, UnternehmerTUM, and several community-driven ecosystems.

I started my open-source journey as an LFX mentee with Open Horizon (IBM open source) under the Linux Foundation, where I worked on edge computing and infrastructure tooling. Later, I joined SCoRe Lab as a Google Summer of Code 2022 contributor, followed by working with Infinite Reality (previously Ethereal Engine) as an XROS Fellow in 2023, contributing to extended reality and immersive open-source experiences.

In 2023, I was selected again for Google Summer of Code, contributing to Uptane under the Linux Foundation ecosystem, where I worked on secure automotive software update infrastructure. In 2024, I joined Summer of Bitcoin under Block’s Spiral initiative, focusing on Bitcoin and Lightning ecosystem development. I also worked as an Engineering for Change Fellow with Ampaire on impact-driven engineering initiatives and later participated in Digital Product School Munich Batch #22 by UnternehmerTUM, collaborating on product development and rapid prototyping.

Professionally, I’ve worked as a contractual software developer contributing to AI-driven products and full-stack applications. I’m also part of the Bitshala Developer Fellowship and grant program, contributing to BTCPay Server and Bitcoin-native merchant infrastructure. Currently, I’m working on AAIF Goose as a maintainer, contributor, and grant recipient, focusing on AI developer tooling, integrations, and open-source ecosystem development.

Alongside development, I actively contribute to technical writing, open-source maintenance, mentoring, and community initiatives. I’ve also contributed to projects and communities including Fossasia, JBoss, Layer5, Processing, and several independent open-source initiatives.

Sam Partee is CTO and co-founder of Arcade.dev. He started Arcade in 2024 with Alex Salazar to build the runtime layer for agents. Before Arcade, he was Principal Applied AI Engineer at Redis, where he led the applied AI team and built out the company’s vector search and LLM tooling. Earlier, he worked on ML infrastructure for high-performance computing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cray, including SmartSim. Avid open source contributor. CS degree from Haverford College.

Hrittik is a Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, with expertise in cloud native technologies and open source communities. He has contributed extensively to developer advocacy, technical writing, and community engagement. Hrittik has been a featured speaker at events such as Kubernetes Community Days, Open Source Summits, and more, and has served as a Program Committee member for several KubeCons and CloudNativeCons.

Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Forrester Research, Searce, and is currently positioned at SailPoint as a Senior DevOps Engineer. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He is a CNCF Ambassador, and AWS Community Builder for 4 years He leads AWS, CNCF, and HashiCorp user groups for Rajasthan State in India. He has spoken at many conferences, both in-person and virtually.

Manik Surtani is the co-founder and CTO of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF.io). A mission-driven technologist and longtime advocate of open source, he previously served as Head of Open Source at Block and VP of Engineering for Platform and Cloud at Cash App, and played a foundational role in the birth of gRPC. He founded Infinispan.org, has been a Sequoia Scout, Red Hat veteran, angel investor, and startup advisor, and is a published author and frequent speaker on AI, infrastructure, and open collaboration.

Shannon Williams is the Co-founder and President of Obot AI, an open-source software company building the enterprise gateway for the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard. Obot AI is focused on giving organizations the secure, scalable foundation they need to adopt AI assistants in the enterprise.

Prior to Obot, Shannon was Co-founder and President at Rancher Labs, where he helped build Rancher into the leading Kubernetes management platform. Following Rancher’s acquisition by SUSE, he served as CRO at SUSE, leading global go-to-market for the company’s cloud-native portfolio.