About the Tracks

Cloud & Containers delivers valuable content across cloud native, cloud infrastructure, and container technologies. It is the go-to destination for developers, engineers, and operations teams to explore new tools, projects, platforms, and best practices. Attendees will gain insights into cloud automation, deployment, and scalability while learning how containerization enhances portability, efficiency, and infrastructure management.

This track explores strategies and best practices for fostering inclusive, diverse, and accessible communities. Sessions will cover data-driven insights, real-world case studies, and actionable approaches to building welcoming environments. Topics include allyship, mentorship, diversity badging, recruitment and retention of diverse contributors, and overcoming inclusivity challenges. Attendees will gain the tools and knowledge to drive meaningful change and create more equitable and accessible spaces for all.

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.

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 covers strategies for navigating security, legal, and regulatory requirements while optimizing operations. Topics include risk management, procurement, remediation, M&A, sustainability, and supply chain management. Sessions will also explore automation, stakeholder engagement, and best practices for aligning business strategy with compliance and customer expectations.

Open Source Leadership fosters innovation, growth and partnerships among the leading projects and corporations working in open technology development. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation and investment.

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.

Standards & Specifications is a track supporting collaboration and open conversation surrounding specification development and adoption from ideation to international standards.

This track provides best practices for open source project documentation processes and communication, and provides an open forum to share real world experiences, how documentation impact and success is measured, what’s working and what’s not, and so much more.