2026 Round 1 Presentations & Speakers!
We do two rounds of speaker selection, and this is Round 1 selection. We have selected 12 of the 48 presentations for #osn2026. 36 more presentations will be selected in Round 2. All submittals we have already received will be considered in Round 2 selection. If you haven't submitted yet, there is still time. The final submission deadline is Friday, February 13.
Brian Repko, Bioinformatician / Open Source Developer @ Novartis Oncology Research (retired) - Open Source and the FDA
Shannon Seaver, Founder & CEO, Executive Director @ TailorEDU & createMPLS - Women in AI: Building for Social Good
Clay Cotter, Director, Information Security Engineering @ Thrivent - Evolving Security: Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation
Kevin Klos, Senior Experience Designer @ Best Buy - Beyoncé, Domino's Pizza, and the Web Accessibility Battlefield: What You Must Know
Nick Larson, VP - Technology @ Improving - Data Streaming Platform Playbook
Kate Agnew, @ - Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms
Jena Zangs, Chief Data & AI Officer @ University of St. Thomas - Women in AI: Building for Social Good
David Norton, President @ Platformers - Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms
Mark Soule, Principal Engineer @ Improving - Data Streaming Platform Playbook
Rahul Gauli, Senior Software Engineer @ Thrivent - Evolving Security: Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation
Isaac Johnson, Sr Staff Cloud Architect @ Abbott - Let's make an MCP Server!
Justin Castilla, Senior Developer Advocate @ Elastic - Building your own Developer Advocate with Deep Agent!
Meagan Taylor, UX Designer II @ Riot Games - The Myth of the UX/UI Unicorn
Michelle Thorsell, Lead Full Stack Engineer @ Blank Metal - It's Not Too Late: A Beginner's Guide to Claude Code for Developers
Simba Khadder, Lead, Context Engine @ Redis - Context Engineering 2.0: MCP, Agentic RAG & Memory
Sandon Jacobs, Senior Developer Advocate @ Confluent - What Can We Do with an Apache Kafka Queue?
Esse Komlanvi, Founder @ Nuse & AI for Financial Inclusion Advocate - Women in AI: Building for Social Good
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