Open Source Summit North America

Anurag Sinha

Anurag Sinha is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and Manager at Google, where he leads engineering for Commerce AI Native Integrations. He is currently focused on building and scaling the Universal Commerce Protocol (ucp.dev), an initiative aimed at transforming how commerce operates in an AI-first world.

Belle Guttman

Belle Guttman leads the Agentic AI Engineering teams at AWS responsible for the Strands Agents SDK, AgentCore Developer Experience, and agentic chat in Q Developer products. With a background in software engineering, she has spent her career solving complex technical problems with simple solutions for her customers.

Brendan Burns

Brendan Burns is a co-founder of the Kubernetes open source project and Technical Fellow & Corporate Vice President for Azure cloud-native open source and the Azure management platform including Azure Arc. He is also the author and co-author of several books on Kubernetes and distributed systems. Prior to Microsoft he worked on Google web search infrastructure and the Google cloud platform. He has a PhD in Robotics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in Computer Science and Studio Art from Williams College.

Brendan Burns

Brendan Burns is a co-founder of the Kubernetes open source project and Technical Fellow & Corporate Vice President for Azure cloud-native open source and the Azure management platform including Azure Arc. He is also the author and co-author of several books on Kubernetes and distributed systems. Prior to Microsoft he worked on Google web search infrastructure and the Google cloud platform. He has a PhD in Robotics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in Computer Science and Studio Art from Williams College.

Conference Sessions

May 18 at 2026, 9:45 AM | Ballroom A

Deepyaman Datta

Maintainer

DH Consulting

Dirk Hohndel

Dirk is the Head of the Open Source Program Officer at Verizon. Prior to that, Dirk was VMware’s Chief Open Source Officer, where he lead the company’s Open Source Program Office, directing the efforts and strategy around use of and contribution to open-source projects and driving common values and processes across the company for VMware’s interaction with the open-source communities. Before joining VMware, Dirk spent almost 15 years as Intel’s Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist. Before that, among other roles, he worked as Chief Technology Officer of SuSE and Unix Architect of Deutsche Bank.

IBM Quantum

Jacob Murphy

Jacob is a member of the Valkey Technical Steering Committee and an engineer on Google Cloud’s Memorystore team.

Jakub Kuderski

Principal AI Compiler Developer

Jim Zemlin

Jim’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing at cloud computing and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through the use of open source and Linux.