About the Tracks

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.

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.

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.

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.

This track explores the intersection of open source and safety standards, covering best practices for regulatory compliance, security updates, and safety engineering. Sessions will delve into requirements traceability, quality assessments, safety analysis methodologies, and technical development for safety-critical 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.