August 11-12 | Seoul, South Korea
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today.
Please be aware that the Linux Foundation will now utilize Sessionize for CFP submissions. Sessionize is a cloud-based event content management software designed to be intuitive and user-friendly. If you need guidance, please review how to submit your session for an event to see step-by-step instructions and helpful screenshots.
- CFP Closes: April 26 (Sunday) at 11:59 PM KST (UTC +9) / 7:59 AM PDT (UTC -7)
- CFP Notifications: June 5 (Friday)
- Schedule Announcement: June 11 (Thursday)
- Event Dates: August 11 (Tuesday) – August 12 (Wednesday)
Open Source Summit Korea 2026 TRACKS + TOPICS
Cloud & Orchestration
- Cloud Infrastructure and Architecture
- Open Cloud Infrastructure
- Hybrid & Multicloud
- Edge-to-Cloud Computing
- Cloud Native Storage
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Virtualization and Container Runtimes
- App, Management and Orchestration
- Cloud Native Application Development and Operations
- Architectures and Architectural Patterns
- APIs, SDKs, Frameworks, and Libraries
- Observability, Debugging, and Test Techniques for Cloud
- Monolithic to Cloud Native: Migration and Refactoring
- AI Applications and Patterns
- Security
- Cloud Infrastructure Security
- Policy Agents
- Confidential Computing
- Identity, Authentication, Authorization
Embedded
- Embedded Hardware Platforms and CPU Architectures
- Board Bring-Up, Boot Loaders, Kernel Drivers, and Device Enablement
- Real-Time Linux, Performance, and System Optimization
- Embedded Multimedia, Graphics, and Android on Devices
- Networking and Wireless Technologies for Embedded Systems
- Embedded Linux Build Systems, SDKs, and Development Toolchains
- Testing, Validation, and Reliability for Embedded Platforms
- Security, System Integrity, and OTA / Lifecycle Management
- Scaling Linux for Constrained and Specialized Devices
- Practical Embedded Linux Experiences, Case Studies, and War Stories Systems
- Embedded Storage Technologies
- Flash Memory Devices and Filesystems
- Boot Speed
- Device Tree and Other Linux Subsystems
- Android (in embedded devices), Yocto and Debian
Linux
- Filesystems, Storage & io_uring
- Linux Kernel Development (Advanced & Beginner)
- Mission-Critical, Real-Time, and Long Life Systems (Scientific & Medical)
- Programming Languages and Toolchains
- Tracing
- Scheduler
- VFIO/IOMMU/PCI
- Kernel Dependability & Testing (static analysis, kcov, kcov triggered fuzzing testing, fuzzing, kmsan, kcsan, kubsan, test rings, and bots)
- System Boot
- Security
- Live Patching
- RDMA
- Power Management
- Containers and Checkpoint/Restart
- Linux on the Desktop & Distribution Kernels & Distros Considerations for Servers, Desktops, etc.
- Virtualization
- Networking & eBPF
- Performance & Benchmarks
- Rust
- Community Health (maintainer and developer stress, burnout, well being)
Open AI + Data
- Open Models
- AI Code Generation and Developer Tools
- RAG & LLM Frameworks
- AI Agents
- Eval Frameworks and LLM Ops
- Inferencing and GPU Acceleration
- Multimodality
- AI in Industry and Enterprise
- Sustainability, Ethics, and Responsible AI
- Data Management and Processing
- Scalability and Cloud-Native AI
- Edge AI and On-Device Inference
OSS Enabling & Management
- Operations Management & OSPOs
- C-Level Strategy
- Risk Management
- AI Policy, Risk and Compliance in OS projects
- Security Governance and Organizational Responsibility
- Compliance
- Supply Chain Security
- Developer Advocacy and DevRel
- Internal Stakeholder Engagement and Innersource Communities
- Open Source AI Strategy & Governance
- Project Leadership
- Growing, Managing & Sustaining Open Source Projects
- Open Source Governance and Models
- Strategies for Inclusiveness
- Recruiting & Retaining Contributors
- Project Metrics
- Project Security
Packages, Images & Containers
- Package Management and Repositories
- Container Images and Registries
- Build, Test, Release Pipelines
- Reproducible Builds
- Supply Chain Security
- Dependency Management
Safety-Critical Software
- Open Source Software Interaction with Safety Standards
- Best Practices to Work with Regulatory Authorities when using Open Source
- Best Practices for Security Updates to Safety-critical Systems
- Safety Engineering Applied to Open Source Projects
- Quality Assessments based on Data from Development
- Requirements traceability and testability in Open Source projects
- Development of Technical Features with Safety Relevance
- Safety Analysis Approaches and Methodology to Apply to Systems
- Case Studies of Existing use of Linux in Safety-critical Domains, such as Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial, Medical, Energy, etc.
Zephyr
- Maintainer
- Developer
- Zephyr In the Field: Practical Experiences and Lessons Learned
- Zephyr Infrastructure and Best Practices for New Developer Onramp
- Machine Learning and AI Working with Zephyr
- Benchmarking and Identification for Areas to Improve
- Products Running Zephyr
- Session Presentation (typically 30-40 minutes in length)
- Panel Discussion (typically 30-40 minutes in length)
- Birds of a Feather (typically 45 minutes to one hour in length)
- Tutorial/Hands-on Lab (typically 1.5 – 2 hours in length)
- Lightning Talk (typically 5 – 10 minutes in length)
- For Linux Only: Hackathon Session (typically 1-1.5 hours in length) – Led by experts to walk new developers through areas of the kernel.
- All speakers are required to adhere to our Code of Conduct. We also highly recommend that speakers take our online Inclusive Speaker Orientation Course.
- Reviewers must be able to confidently assess a speaker’s subject-matter expertise from the proposal. Submissions that rely heavily on AI-generated or templated content often lack the specificity needed to evaluate technical depth and may be harder to advance. Please ensure your proposal clearly reflects your own experience and understanding of the topic you intend to present.
- Panel submissions must include the names of all participants in the initial submission to be considered. In addition, The Linux Foundation does not accept submissions with all-male panels in an effort to increase equity & inclusion.
- Complimentary Passes For Speakers – One complimentary pass for the event will be provided for the accepted speaker(s) per submission.
- Avoid sales or marketing pitches and discussing unlicensed or potentially closed-source technologies when preparing your proposal; these talks are almost always rejected due to the fact that they take away from the integrity of our events, and are rarely well-received by conference attendees.
- All accepted speakers are required to submit their slides prior to the event.
preparing to submit your proposal
While it is not our intention to provide you with strict instructions on how to prepare your proposal, we hope you will take a moment to review the following guidelines that we have put together to help you prepare the best submission possible. To get started, here are three things that you should consider before submitting your proposal:
- What are you hoping to get from your presentation?
- What do you expect the audience to gain from your presentation?
- How will your presentation help better the ecosystem?
There are plenty of ways to give a presentation about projects and technologies without focusing on company-specific efforts. Remember the things to consider that we mentioned above when writing your proposal and think of ways to make it interesting for attendees while still letting you share your experiences, educate the community about an issue, or generate interest in a project.
How to Give a Great Talk
We want to make sure submitters receive resources to help put together a great submission and if accepted, give the best presentation possible. To help do this, we recommend viewing seasoned speaker Dawn Foster’s in-depth session titled Overcoming Imposter Syndrome to Become a Conference Speaker!.
Have More Questions? First Time Submitting? Don’t Feel Intimidated
Linux Foundation events are an excellent way to get to know the community and share your ideas and the work that you are doing and we strongly encourage first-time speakers to submit talks for our events. In the instance that you aren’t sure about your abstract, reach out to us and we will be more than happy to work with you on your proposal.
The Linux Foundation is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for participants at all of our events. We encourage all submitters to review our complete Code of Conduct.
