Name: Open Source Summit NA 2025
Start: 2025-06-26T17:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-06-26T20:15:00.000Z

Thursday, June 26 (UTC)

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Keynote Analysis

In this keynote analysis from Open Source Summit North America 2025, theCUBE Research’s Sam Weston and Paul Nashawaty unpack the major themes shaping the future of open source. From AI’s growing influence on development cycles to the complexity of compliance and observability, the conversation draws from fresh research presented at the App Dev Summit and connects it to real-world trends seen across the summit floor.

Paul shares insights from four studies spanning 160 questions on DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines and SDLC practices. He highlights how AI agents are shifting the skills landscape, enabling generalists to fill gaps traditionally held by specialists. The conversation also covers evolving security risks, governance hurdles and why modernization is now a continuous journey, not a one-time fix.

Listeners will hear detailed breakdowns of key data points, including why 67% of companies are hiring generalists and how 72% of IT leaders are prioritizing supply chain transparency in 2025 planning. The discussion explores the rise of agentic models, open observability and how unified views are driving actionable insights across organizations.

From the EU Cyber Resilience Act to the expanding role of open standards like OTEL, Sam and Paul trace how open source is becoming the connective tissue for AI, regulation and innovation. They also preview what’s next on the show floor, including deep dives into CNCF research, production use of open AI tooling and announcements on open modeling and foundation collaboration.

Paul Nashawaty
Practice Lead and Principal Analyst theCUBE Research

Sam Weston
Industry Analyst SiliconANGLE & theCUBE
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Frank Nagle, Linux Foundation

In this Open Source Summit North America 2025 interview, Frank Nagle, Advising Chief Economist at the Linux Foundation and Harvard Business School professor, joins theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty for a deep dive into the economic value and future direction of open source software. Nagle shares how his latest research estimates that open source contributes over $9 trillion in global value – an amount that remains conservative when accounting only for in-production enterprise-use.

The conversation explores how organizations are measuring the ROI of open source contribution, how startups can benefit from and participate in the ecosystem, and why contributing – even in small ways – can lead to double the productivity gains compared to just consuming. Nagle also discusses the evolving challenges around AI, including data openness, safety, and regulation, and how these dynamics are influencing the next wave of open source policy, especially in government and academic settings.

Listeners will gain insight into why “collaborate on the core, compete on the edges” is becoming a guiding philosophy, and how Linux Foundation initiatives aim to quantify the unseen but transformative impact of open collaboration. Whether you’re modernizing heritage apps or building AI-native platforms, this discussion offers a compelling framework for understanding the economics of open source today.

Frank Nagle
Advising Chief Economist The Linux Foundation
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Karim Marucchi & Joost de Valk

In this Open Source Summit North America 2025 segment, Karim Marucchi, CEO of Crowd Favorite, and Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast and open source advocate, join theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to explore a new chapter for the WordPress ecosystem through the FAIR Package Manager initiative. Designed in response to growing concerns around software supply chain security and centralized control, FAIR [Federated and Independent Repositories] aims to decentralize WordPress plugin and theme distribution while preserving the community’s collaborative spirit.

The conversation dives into why FAIR was created, how it addresses supply chain vulnerabilities and what it means for developers, enterprise users and hosting providers. Marucchi and de Valk explain how FAIR enables resilient distribution across mirrored nodes, allowing secure, customizable deployment behind firewalls and across global regions. The discussion also touches on the need for open telemetry and shared analytics to meet evolving global compliance frameworks like GDPR and CRA, all while supporting innovation at the edges of the ecosystem.

With support from the Linux Foundation, FAIR is positioned as a model for governance and sustainability in open source CMS development. The interview outlines next steps for FAIR’s adoption, how community participation is being fostered and what success will look like over the next 12 months – from university-run nodes to expanded interoperability across CMS platforms.

Karim Marucchi
CEO Crowd Favorite

Joost de Valk
Partner Emilia Capital
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Alok Bhide & Bill Hineline, Chronosphere

In this interview from Open Source Summit North America 2025, Alok Bhide and Bill Hineline of Chronosphere join theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to discuss the evolving role of logs in modern observability strategies. With the launch of their new logging capabilities, Chronosphere extends its platform to help users not only unify their telemetry data but also gain control over growing data volumes and associated costs.

Hineline and Bhide explain why logs remain essential in troubleshooting and system insight, acting as the connective tissue between metrics and traces. They highlight how Chronosphere enables customers to better understand the value of their telemetry data, avoid data sprawl and take a more strategic approach to observability aligned with business goals like revenue, MPS and performance.

The conversation also addresses a key industry challenge: tool sprawl. With many organizations using 6 to 15 tools for observability, Chronosphere’s unified platform approach boosts developer efficiency and reduces noise. The guests emphasize the importance of meeting teams where they are, integrating with open standards like OpenTelemetry, and providing visibility that allows teams to prioritize innovation over maintenance.

For companies considering DIY observability stacks, Bhide shares candid insights into the hidden opportunity costs, while Hineline outlines a strategy-first mindset as the foundation for a mature observability practice. This discussion offers a clear vision of where observability is headed and how Chronosphere is helping lead that transformation.

Alok Bhide
Head of Product Innovation Chronosphere

Bill Hineline
Field CTO Chronosphere
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David Nalley & Antje Barth, AWS

In this Open Source Summit North America 2025 interview, David Nalley, head of developer experience at AWS, and Antje Barth, principal developer advocate at AWS, join theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to explore how open source and agentic AI are converging to shape the future of application development. The conversation dives deep into recent ecosystem shifts, including the Linux Foundation’s A to A Agent Project and the rise of multi-agent systems that demand new communication standards and protocols. Nalley and Barth break down the challenges and opportunities in modernizing applications through open source tools, while navigating developer complexity, governance and AI interoperability.

Barth highlights the launch of the open source Strands Agents SDK, an AWS initiative designed to help developers securely build, connect and validate agentic systems using a model-driven approach. The discussion also unpacks practical enterprise use cases, from automating internal business processes to enabling asynchronous agents that augment research and innovation across departments. Nalley shares insights into the growing need for experimentation with tools like MCP and A to A as organizations aim to close the skill gap and unlock new AI-powered efficiencies. The segment closes with a call to action: open source is accelerating fast – developers need to get involved now or risk falling behind.

David Nalley
Governing Board Chair AAIF

Antje Barth
Principal Developer Advocate AWS
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Crob Robinson, OpenSSF

In this exclusive interview from Open Source Summit North America 2025, Crob Robinson, a leader at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), joins theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to unpack the growing global impact of open source compliance. The conversation centers around the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), a new regulation with far-reaching consequences for software supply chains across the globe. Robinson brings a practical lens to the discussion, explaining how upstream open source projects, maintainers and vendors can meet CRA requirements by adopting the OpenSSF Security Baseline – a framework that aligns with dozens of global security and compliance regimes.

Robinson breaks down how this open security blueprint reduces noise for maintainers, increases project credibility and acts as a ready-made checklist for vendors navigating CRA, NIST, PCI and other regulatory landscapes. He also introduces OpenSSF’s educational initiatives, including a free 90-minute CRA course and a comprehensive cybersecurity skills matrix designed to close industry knowledge gaps. From Europe’s CE mark mandates to global procurement policies in the US, India and beyond, this conversation underscores why open source developers and vendors alike must prepare now to unlock future markets.

CRob Robinson
CTO OpenSSF
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Mukul Karnik, OpenSearch Software Foundation

In this interview from the Open Source Summit North America 2025, Mukul Karnik, Director of OpenSearch at OpenSearch Software Foundation, joins theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to explore how OpenSearch is driving next-gen innovation across search, analytics and observability. Karnik unpacks the advancements in OpenSearch 3.0 and 3.1, including hybrid search, vector database enhancements and support for agentic AI use cases. He emphasizes how OpenSearch is becoming a foundational platform for real-time insights, log analytics and anomaly detection at scale.

The conversation also highlights OpenSearch’s evolving role in AIOps and enterprise-grade observability, as well as the platform’s readiness for compliance initiatives like the EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act. Karnik reflects on the growing momentum of the OpenSearch community, now under the Linux Foundation, which has seen a 46% increase in active contributors over the past six months. He explains how rapid innovation and community-driven development are key differentiators for organizations choosing between open and proprietary platforms in the age of GenAI and data-intensive workloads.

Whether you're modernizing infrastructure, scaling agentic AI, or seeking open source alternatives with enterprise features, this conversation offers practical insights from the frontlines of open innovation.

Mukul Karnik
GM, Search Services AWS
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Clyde Seepersad, The Linux Foundation

In this exclusive segment from Open Source Summit North America 2025, Clyde Seepersad, SVP and GM of Training & Certification at The Linux Foundation, joins theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty for a wide-ranging conversation on the evolving intersection of open source, talent development and AI.

Seepersad unpacks how rapid shifts in AI tooling and cloud-native technologies are accelerating demand for upskilling while simultaneously challenging traditional career development models. He addresses common misconceptions around AI-driven job displacement and emphasizes how strategic learning programs can close both capability and operational gaps. Drawing from recent research, the conversation explores key findings such as why 97% of organizations are prioritizing internal talent development over hiring, and why the productivity promise of AI depends more on people than tech.

They also tackle critical questions facing the open source ecosystem: how should enterprises redefine entry-level roles in an AI-accelerated world? What’s the impact of collapsing silos between business and development functions? And how can organizations avoid the long-term risks of overlooking junior talent in favor of short-term gains?

With insights on the role of open source in education, the future of DevOps and developer productivity, and the human dimension behind technological transformation, this session delivers a forward-thinking view on workforce resilience in the AI era.

Clyde Seepersad
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Education The Linux Foundation
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Matt White, The Linux Foundation

In this interview from the Open Source Summit North America 2025, Matt White, executive director of the PyTorch Foundation and GM of AI at The Linux Foundation, joins theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to explore the evolving landscape of open source AI governance. White offers a detailed breakdown of how PyTorch has grown from a Meta-originated framework into a cornerstone of the Linux Foundation's AI ecosystem, now operating under an umbrella structure that includes projects like vLLM and DeepSpeed.

The conversation dives into the Open Model Definition and Warranty (OpenMDW) license initiative, a permissive licensing approach designed to bring clarity, standardization and legal consistency to the distribution of AI models. White explains how OpenMDW addresses critical challenges in the re-use of AI artifacts [such as weights, architecture and training data], helping developers and enterprises confidently adopt and deploy open models. He also discusses the practical implications of copyright, patents and data ownership within AI model distribution, underscoring why a single, permissive license benefits both creators and downstream users.

The interview also highlights upcoming PyTorch certification programs and community engagement efforts as the foundation prepares for a rapidly evolving AI future. From licensing nuance to cross-project interoperability, this session delivers essential context for developers, legal teams and enterprise adopters navigating open source in the AI age.

Matt White
Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation and GM of AI The Linux Foundation
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Sean Pomeroy, Kubecost an IBM Company

In this Open Source Summit North America 2025 interview, Sean Pomeroy, solution engineer at Kubecost [an IBM Company], joins theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to explore the evolving role of FinOps in a world increasingly dominated by Kubernetes, AI and cloud-native workloads. Pomeroy highlights how open source tools like OpenCost are helping engineers and organizations gain early visibility into resource costs, laying the groundwork for smarter modernization strategies.

The conversation dives into the financial side of Kubernetes optimization, touching on why over-provisioning happens, how to align engineering priorities with business goals and how right-sizing can drive efficiency without sacrificing performance. Pomeroy explains how Kubecost’s enterprise capabilities help translate observability into action, with automation that proactively governs workloads and prevents budget overruns.

As AI adoption accelerates, Pomeroy calls out the growing impact of GPU usage and the need to revisit sustainability goals, sharing how fractional GPUs and smarter scheduling can make resource use more efficient. Whether you're just starting out with cost governance or managing large-scale LLM deployments, this discussion offers practical entry points and strategic insight into building a cost-conscious, future-ready infrastructure.

Sean Pomeroy
Solutions Engineer Kubecost an IBM Company
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Sam Gammon, Elide

In this interview from the Open Source Summit North America 2025, Sam Gammon, founder and developer behind Elide, joins theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to discuss why the future of software performance lies in rethinking the runtime. Built on Oracle’s GraalVM, Elide offers a radical new approach to language interoperability, compiler speed and system performance – delivering up to 75x gains over Node.js while remaining fully open source.

Gammon explains how Elide bridges the gap between traditionally siloed languages like Java, Python and JavaScript by allowing developers to use them interchangeably within the same runtime, without performance penalties. He unpacks the technical underpinnings behind Elide’s multi-language support, including real-world benchmarks showing 3x faster Python, 24x faster Ruby, and sub-millisecond compiler startup times. Gammon also highlights the platform’s ability to cut cloud infrastructure costs by enabling more efficient compute, while reducing the complexity and cost of hiring across tech stacks.

The conversation dives into the implications for enterprises facing high developer costs, CI/CD bottlenecks and memory safety risks. Gammon outlines Elide’s vision for sustainable open source growth under the MIT license, along with its early traction among developers looking for secure, high-performance, drop-in alternatives to Node. Whether you’re modernizing legacy systems or building greenfield apps, this interview offers key insights into where polyglot platforms and local AI are headed next.

Sam Gammon
Co-Founder & CEO
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Martin Mao, Chronosphere

In this exclusive interview from Open Source Summit North America 2025, Martin Mao, co-founder and CEO of Chronosphere, joins theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to unpack the latest in cloud-native observability. Mao shares details on the launch of Chronosphere Logs 2.0, a major expansion of the platform’s log management capabilities designed to help organizations control data sprawl, reduce costs and improve performance across telemetry streams.

Mao explains how Chronosphere’s approach flips the traditional model of observability by helping enterprises retain only valuable log data, thanks to innovations like usage analytics and telemetry pipelines. The discussion explores how data volume is outpacing business growth, creating a financial and operational bottleneck for observability teams. By offering a usage-based analyzer and tools for log-to-metric transformation, Chronosphere is helping customers cut data volumes by up to 90% while maintaining actionable insights.

The conversation also highlights how Chronosphere’s unified MELT (metrics, events, logs, traces) platform supports faster root cause analysis, reduces mean time to resolution and enables tool consolidation – critical for modern enterprises juggling up to 15 observability tools. With AI-native workloads and open source protocols on the horizon, Mao previews a future where standards like OpenTelemetry play an even more strategic role in scaling reliable, future-proof observability stacks.

Martin Mao
CEO & Co-Founder Chronosphere
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Jonathan Bryce, The Linux Foundation

In this exclusive interview from Open Source Summit North America 2025, Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of Cloud and Infrastructure at The Linux Foundation, joins theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty to unpack the evolving dynamics of open source infrastructure and cloud-native innovation. Bryce, previously with the OpenInfra Foundation, discusses his expanded leadership role across the Linux Foundation and CNCF, highlighting new opportunities for collaboration between foundational open source communities.

The conversation explores the convergence of infrastructure and cloud-native layers, emphasizing how organizations are integrating technologies like OpenStack and Kubernetes to optimize performance, meet regulatory demands and ensure scalability across global deployments. Bryce shares his vision for fostering tighter synergy among regional communities, spotlighting OpenInfra and CNCF initiatives in Asia, and elaborates on how end users are harmonizing open source stacks to enable enterprise-ready platforms.

Also discussed is the role of open source in supporting AI workloads, as businesses shift from experimentation to operationalization. Bryce outlines the long-term roadmap for CNCF, focusing on growth, contributor inclusion and creating resilient ecosystems that serve both legacy applications and next-gen use cases. It’s a must-watch for those tracking the strategic evolution of open source in a rapidly expanding global tech environment.

Jonathan Bryce
Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure The Linux Foundation