2024 Congress

13:00 – 20:00

Badge Pickup

17:30 – 20:00

Welcome Reception

7:30 – 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15

Opening Remarks

Xiaoming Cheng (Chair & Secretary-General, OpenAtom Foundation)
Jim Zemlin (Executive Director, Linux Foundation)

9:15 – 10:00

Panel: Unlocking Innovation: Open Strategies in Generative AI

Moderator:
Anni Lai (Chair of Generative AI Commons; Board member of LF AI & Data; Head of Open Source Operations, Futurewei)

Panelists:
Richard Sikang Bian (Outreach Chair, LF AI & Data; Head of OSPO, Ant Group)
Richard Lin (Member, OpenDigger Community; Head of Open Source, 01.ai)
Ted Liu (Co-founder, KAIYUANSHE)
Zhenhua Sun (China Workgroup Chair, OpenChain; Open Source Legal Counsel, ByteDance)

10:15 – 11:00

Panel: Open Source AI Security

Moderator:
Bill Ren (Vice Chair, OpenAtom Foundation Open Source Security Committee)

Panelists:
Jonathan Bryce (Executive Director, Open Infrastructure Foundation)
Lin Shi (Chair of Security Governance Office, Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance)
Jim Zemlin (Executive Director, Linux Foundation)

11:15 – 12:00

Panel: Collaboration between Open Source Organizations

Moderators:
Daniel Goldscheider (Executive Director, OpenWallet Foundation)
Chris Xie (Board Advisor, Linux Foundation Research)
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Panelists:
Keith Bergelt (CEO, Open Invention Network)
Bryan Che (Advisory Board Member, Software Heritage Foundation)
Stefano Maffulli (Executive Director, Open Source Initiative)
Mike Milinkovich (Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation)
Rebecca Rumbul (Executive Director, Rust Foundation)
Xiaohua Xin (Deputy Secretary-General, OpenAtom Foundation)
Jim Zemlin (Executive Director, Linux Foundation)

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:10

Open Source AI

Open Source AI Fireside Chat: Datasets, Privacy and Copyright
Stefano Maffulli (Executive Director, Open Source Initiative)
Donnie Dong (Steering Committee Member, Digital Asia Hub; Senior Partner, Hylands Law Firm)

‍Talk: Liability and Obligations of OSAI
‍Udbhav Tiwari (Director, Global Product Policy at Mozilla Foundation)

‍Closing Keynote: Driving Adoption of OSAI for the Public Good
‍Amreen Taneja (Standards Lead at the Digital Public Goods Alliance)

13:30 – 15:10

Open Source AI

Open Source AI Fireside Chat: Datasets, Privacy and Copyright
Stefano Maffulli (Executive Director, Open Source Initiative)
Donnie Dong (Steering Committee Member, Digital Asia Hub; Senior Partner, Hylands Law Firm)

‍Talk: Liability and Obligations of OSAI
‍Udbhav Tiwari (Director, Global Product Policy at Mozilla Foundation)

‍Closing Keynote: Driving Adoption of OSAI for the Public Good
‍Amreen Taneja (Standards Lead at the Digital Public Goods Alliance)

15:10 – 15:20

Tea Break

15:20 – 17:00

‍Keynotes: Open Source Software

Security Observations on Open Source Software Security
‍Jian Han (Member, OpenAtom Foundation Open Source Security Committee)

‍Open Source Security: Research Insights and Related Work from CAICT
‍Xue Guo (Department Director of Open Source, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology)

‍Software Heritage – A revolutionary infrastructure for Open Source
‍Bryan Che (Advisory Board Member, Software Heritage Foundation)

‍Challenges in Securing the Rust Ecosystem
‍Rebecca Rumbul (Executive Director, Rust Foundation)

17:00 – 18:40

Discussion: Collaboration between open source organizations

Daniel Goldscheider (Executive Director, OpenWallet Foundation)
Chris Xie (Board Advisor, Linux Foundation Research)

7:30 – 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 – 9:45

Keynote: Decentralized Infrastructure

Keynote: Decentralized Infrastructure

Moderator:
‍Hilary Carter (SVP Research, Linux Foundation)

Speakers:
Joshua Simmons (Managing Director, The Matrix.org Foundation)

10:00 – 11:40

Panel and Discussion: Decentralized Infrastructure

Moderator:
Hilary Carter (SVP Research, Linux Foundation)

Panelists:Shu Cai (Founder, Web3Infra Foundation)
Isabela Dias Fernandes (Executive Director, The Tor Project)
Rebecca Rumbul (Executive Director, Rust Foundation)
Joshua Simmons (Managing Director, The Matrix.org Foundation)

11:40 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 13:45

Panel Discussion: The Future of Open Source Congress: Converting Ideas to Shared Action

Moderator:
Deborah Bryant (US Policy Director, Open Source Initiative)

Panelists:
Guofeng Zhang (Founder & Executive Director, Shanghai Open)
Enzo Ribagnac (Associate Director of European Policy, Eclipse Foundation)
Rebecca Rumbul (Executive Director, Rust Foundation)

Guest Speakers via Video Cameos:
Tracy Hinds (General Manager, ReStack Foundation)
Deb Nicholson
(Executive Director, Python Foundation)
Simon Phipps (Director of Standards and European Policy, Open Source Initiative)
Leah Silen (Executive Director, NumFocus)

14:00 – 15:40

The Future of Open Source Congress Group Discussion – Moving Forward, Envisioning Our Next Steps

Moderator:
Deborah Bryant (US Policy Director, Open Source Initiative)

15:40 – 16:00

Closing Remarks

Xiaoming Cheng (Chair & Secretary-General, OpenAtom Foundation)