The Linux Foundation Announces Schedule for Open Source Summit North America 2025

Kicking off in Denver this year, one of the largest open source events in North America will bring together thousands of open source enthusiasts.

SAN FRANCISCO – April 3, 2025 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the schedule for Open Source Summit North America 2025 (OSSNA), taking place June 23-25 in Denver, Colorado. The premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders will feature 225+ sessions across 15 tracks, alongside 13 co-located events, covering a wide range of topics critical to today’s open source ecosystem. The schedule can be viewed here. 

OSSNA 2025 will feature 15 tracks, including cdCon, Cloud & Containers, Embedded Linux Conference, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility, Linux, Open AI + Data, Open Source 101, Open Source Leadership, OpenGovCon, Operations Management, OSPOCon, Safety-critical Software, Standards & Specifications, Technical Documentation, and Zephyr. This year's 225+ sessions will include keynote presentations, conference sessions, lightning talks, tutorials, birds of a feather sessions, and more. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with open source leaders and project communities across a variety of session formats.

2025 Conference Session Highlights Include:

• Why Rust and Zephyr Are a Good Fit - David Brown, Linaro
• Leveraging the OPEA Platform and GraphRAG Architectures to Drive Cloud-Native AI Adoption - Stephen Chin, Neo4j & Rachel Roumeliotis, Intel 
• State Persistence Over kexec - Mike Rapoport, Microsoft 
• Wait, So Now You're Telling Me We Need FGA? - Carla Urrea Stabile, Auth0 by Okta 
• Effortless Secure and Control Traffic using Kubernetes Gateway API for Ingress, Egress and Mesh Traf - Lin Sun, solo.io 
• Recipe for Discovery: Building the UC Open Source Repository Browser from Scratch - Juanita Gomez, UC Santa Cruz 
• Turning Policies, Standards, and Governance into Enablers for Open-Source Innovation - Mark Paulsen, TD Bank
• ​Who Will Maintain the Future? Tackling the Graying of Open Source Software - Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, GitHub

Event Registration
Registration is now available at the early bird price of US$699 through April 7th, a US$200 discount off the standard rate. Discounted registration is available for academics, government employees, hobbyists, and small businesses — view full details here. Members of the Linux Foundation receive a 20% discount on registration and may contact events@linuxfoundation.org to request a discount code.

Registration includes access to all conference content, social events and networking activities, the Solutions Showcase, continental breakfast, lunches, morning and afternoon coffee and snacks (Monday – Wednesday), a conference T-shirt, LF project mini-summits (some may have an additional fee), and more. View all registration benefits here.

Scholarships and Travel Funding
Applications for scholarships are now being accepted. For details on eligibility and how to apply, click here. The Linux Foundation’s Travel Fund is also accepting applications, with the goal of enabling open source developers and community members to participate in these events, that otherwise wouldn't be able to attend due to funding limitations. Learn more and apply here.

Event Sponsors
Open Source Summit North America 2025 is made possible thanks to our sponsors, including:

• Platinum Sponsors: Amazon Web Services, Ericsson, Google, IBM Cloudability, OpenSearch, and Red Hat
• Gold Sponsors: Chainguard, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Discover Financial Services, and SUSE
• Silver Sponsors: Arm, Celestica, Intel, Mezmo, NetApp Instaclustr, Percona, and Sonatype

For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here or email us.

Press Passes
Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact pr@linuxfoundation.org.

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