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.
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Aaron Lange, CTO @ Marketing Architects - Stop Piloting AI: Start Running the Business With It
Adam Dehnel, Platform Engineer @ Improving - The Golden Key to Badass Products
Amy Gebhardt, Senior Engineering Manager @ 1Password - Navigating a Season of Change
Brian Repko, Bioinformatician / Open Source Developer @ Novartis Oncology Research (retired) - Open Source and the FDA
Clay Cotter, Director, Information Security Engineering @ Thrivent - Evolving Security: Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation
Colin Dean, Lead AI Engineer / Managing Director @ Target Corp. / Code & Supply - make python devex: Towards Red-Green-Refactor in 1 Command with an Old Tool
David Norton, President @ Platformers - Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms
Dorothy Toth, Lead User Experience Designer @ BI Worldwide - The Golden Key to Badass Products
Esse Komlanvi, Founder @ Nuse & AI for Financial Inclusion Advocate - Women in AI: Building for Social Good
Gaurav Shekhar, Vice President - Sr Group Applications Manager @ U.S. Bank - From Firewalls to eBPF: How Cloud-Native Security Is Being Rewritten
Hugo Guerrero, Principal Technical Product Lead @ Kong Inc - Leading the Agentic Transformation: A Blueprint for the AI-Native Enterprise
Isaac Johnson, Sr Staff Cloud Architect @ Abbott - Let's make an MCP Server!
Jana Gunn, Sr Director, Advanced Analytics and AI @ Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota - Balancing Governance and Innovation: Practical Lessons from Healthcare AI
Jana Schmid, Marketing Director @ CodeWeavers - Brand Voice in Open Source: Staying Human Without Losing Credibility
Jason Scherschligt, Head of Product @ Solution Design Group - Product Rescue: Turning Stalled or Underperforming Products into New Opportunities
Jena Zangs, Chief Data & AI Officer @ University of St. Thomas - Women in AI: Building for Social Good
John Benninghoff, Cybersecurity Consultant @ Security Differently - Insecure at any speed: why Secure by Design is not enough
Justin Castilla, Senior Developer Advocate @ Elastic - Building your own Developer Advocate with Deep Agent!
Justin Grammens, Founder + CEO @ Labs651 - Spec First, Agents Second: Engineering AI Systems with Discipline
Kate Agnew, null @ - Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms
Kelly Calendine, Client Director @ Genesis10 - undefined
Kevin Klos, Senior Experience Designer @ Best Buy - Beyoncé, Domino's Pizza, and the Web Accessibility Battlefield: What You Must Know
Mark Soule, Principal Engineer @ Improving - Data Streaming Platform Playbook
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
Nick Larson, VP - Technology @ Improving - Data Streaming Platform Playbook
Rahul Gauli, Senior Software Engineer @ Thrivent - Evolving Security: Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation
Sandon Jacobs, Senior Developer Advocate @ Confluent - What Can We Do with an Apache Kafka Queue?
Shannon Seaver, Founder & CEO, Executive Director @ TailorEDU & createMPLS - Women in AI: Building for Social Good
Simba Khadder, Lead, Context Engine @ Redis - Context Engineering 2.0: MCP, Agentic RAG & Memory
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