About the Tracks

Explore the evolving landscape of CI/CD through the lens of modern platform engineering, highlighting how automation, collaboration, and scalable infrastructure empower teams to build resilient software systems. Topics include the integration of AI and machine learning into CI/CD and platform engineering workflows, foundational principles and automation strategies for platform engineering, best practices for securing software delivery pipelines, and real-world use cases that demonstrate how organizations are optimizing development velocity while strengthening governance and reliability.

This track focuses on open-source technologies that enable scalable, automated, and resilient software systems across distributed environments. This track explores how cloud platforms provide on-demand computing resources, while orchestration tools coordinate applications, services, and infrastructure to deploy, scale, and recover workloads with minimal manual effort. Topics include cloud-native architectures, container management, infrastructure automation, and operational best practices that support modern, flexible, and vendor-neutral systems. Designed for developers and system architects, this track highlights practical approaches to building and operating reliable open-source platforms at scale.

The Embedded Track at Open Source Summit focuses on the software powering today’s connected devices, from edge systems and IoT to automotive and industrial platforms. Bringing together developers, maintainers, and architects, this track covers embedded Linux, real-time systems, firmware, security, device management, and hardware–software integration. Sessions highlight practical development techniques, performance optimization, upstream collaboration, and long-term maintenance strategies, offering attendees insights into building reliable, secure, and scalable embedded systems with open source.

Deep-dive into how open source technologies, particularly Linux, serve as a foundation for digital growth, innovation, and self-reliance in developing economies. With its low cost, flexibility, and community-driven model, Linux enables governments, educational institutions, startups, and enterprises to build secure and scalable technology infrastructures without the financial and licensing barriers of proprietary systems. This conference track highlights the expanding adoption of Linux across emerging markets, showcases solutions built on Linux that address local and global challenges, and examines how free and open source software fosters skills development, entrepreneurship, and sustainable economic progress. Sessions will feature real-world success stories, policy perspectives, and community initiatives that demonstrate how open collaboration can accelerate technological advancement and create inclusive opportunities worldwide, and also discuss the challenges open-source technologies like Linux face in emerging countries.

This track is for maintainers, developers and project leads in the Linux community to gather for updates, education, collaboration, and problem-solving to further the Linux ecosystem.

Multiple Technology disruptions have created Open Source Solutions for Digital Public Infrastructure and Vertical Markets like Telecommunications, Finance, Manufacturing, Agriculture. This track explores major Telecommunications areas like 5G/6G, AI Native Networking, Agentic AI Networking and India Specific Use cases for public good. Also included are blockchain implementations in DPI, Payments, Financial Open Source. As Edge AI and IOT are building blocks for startup innovation in India, this track covers Edge Compute, IOT enabled by AI and Data revolution in India + Sovereign AI. Finally, new technologies on the horizon like Quantum and Hardware Designs are also targets.

This track explores open models, AI-driven development, and data management. Topics include AI code generation, RAG & LLM frameworks, AI agents, inferencing, GPU acceleration, and edge AI. Sessions also cover scalability, cloud-native AI, and responsible AI practices, offering insights for building and optimizing AI-powered applications.

Open Source 101 is for developers who are new to open source. It is fundamental teaching in Linux, Cloud, and Embedded Administration and will help attendees gain the skills and understanding they need to further their careers.

This track highlights practical experiences across the open source software producer/consumer spectrum, strategies for growing healthy open-source projects, scaling collaboration, fostering sustainable adoption, and ensuring that open development efforts remain inclusive, resilient, and impactful over time.

This track examines the core open-source mechanisms used to distribute, reproduce, and run software across diverse environments. It highlights how packages support operating-system and language-level dependency management, how images capture complete and repeatable software environments, and how containers execute those environments in lightweight, isolated runtimes. Sessions emphasize practical tools, workflows, and decision-making, helping participants understand how these approaches work together to deliver consistent, portable, and maintainable software from local development through CI, edge deployments, and large-scale production systems.

The Zephyr track is for developers using or considering Zephyr in embedded products. Sessions will explore project advancements, security, tooling, and real-world applications across industries.