Name: Panel Discussion: Open Source & AI: Where OSPOs Make It Work - Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Linux Foundation, Developer Relations Foundation; David Peter Hirsch, Dynatrace; Natali Vlatko, Cisco; Ashley Wolf, GitHub; Richard Bian, Ant Group; Alexios Zavras, Int
Start: 2025-08-25T15:35:00+0200
End: 2025-08-25T16:15:00+0200

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Monday August 25, 2025 15:35 - 16:15 CEST

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As organizations race to integrate AI into their infrastructure, products, and processes, they face a shared set of challenges, ranging from data fragmentation, ethical governance, to cost management and sustainability. What’s often overlooked in these conversations is the essential role of open source: the AI technology stack today is built upon thousands of open source projects and frameworks, as well as some not-so open source offerings. Yet, many organizations still lack a coordinated strategy for engaging with and contributing to this foundational ecosystem.

This BoF session aims to provide a collaborative space for OSPO teams, platform architects, AI engineers, compliance professionals, etc to come together and explore how open source management talent helps organizations navigate AI adoption, and creation, sustainably and effectively. An open floor to exchange experiences and identify issues such as:

- Interface with legal and compliance teams

- New standards related to AI models and infrastructure, such as model cards, etc

- Balancing OSS transparency with Responsible AI development

- Do AI communities differ from traditional OSS communities, and how to approach them

Speakers

David Hirsch

Open Ecosystem Lead, Dynatrace

David is the OSPO Manager at Dynatrace, driving open-source strategy, governance, and security. He works with engineering teams to grow adoption and communities for projects like Keptn, OpenFeature, and OpenTelemetry. With 10+ years in cloud-native and open source, he builds industry... Read More →

Richard Sikang Bian

Head of Open Source , Ant Group

Richard Bian (Chinese: 边思康) led Ant Group Open Source initiative from day 1 and developed the initiative from a single person effort to a cross-functional Open Source Program Office (OSPO) team covering governance, strategy, developer experience, product development, growth... Read More →

Ana Jiménez Santamaría

Project Manager , Linux Foundation, Developer Relations Foundation

Ana is the Project Manager at the Linux foundation TODO Group collaborative project, whose aim is to create and share knowledge on open source management and operations best practices. Formerly she worked at Bitergia, a Software Development Analytics firm, and she has finished her... Read More →

Natali Vlatko

Open Source Lead Architect, Cisco

Natali Vlatko (she/her) is an Open Source Lead Architect at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, and governance. She is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes and a member of the TODO Group Steering Committee. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time. Her academic background... Read More →

Ashley Wolf

Director, Open Source Programs, GitHub

Ashley Wolf is the Director of Open Source Programs at GitHub. She runs initiatives and programs to empower developers to be successful with open source. She is also passionate about helping companies participate in the open source community. Prior to joining GitHub, Ashley led the... Read More →

Alexios Zavras

Chief Open Source Compliance Officer, Intel

Alexios Zavras is the Chief Open Source Compliance Officer of Intel Corporation. He has been involved with Software Bill of Materials and SPDX since 2011. Alexios has 40 years of experience in Free and Open Source Software and holds a PhD in Computer Science after having studied in... Read More →

Sachin Bhakar

Open Source Strategist, Shell

Sachin is responsible for designing the Open Source & AI strategy for the CSDI at Shell. He dons two hats as he has a degree in law & engineering, he has previously held positions such as Open Source counsel, Evangelist & IP analyst with HPE, HERE Technologies & Honeywell respectively... Read More →

Monday August 25, 2025 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
D204

OSPOCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

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