Open source
12 keynotes · 9 conference series · 2024 to 2026
Open-source software and communities: Kubernetes, Linux, Postgres and more.
Keynotes where open source was a key theme
12 keynotes
| Date | Keynote | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2026 |  Red Hat Summit 2026Matt Hicks · 1h 35m · 2 announcedOpen source, Agents, Governance | Open source, Agents, Governance | "Every AI agent runs on Linux," Hicks said, the open source foundation built over decades | 2 |
| Nov 11, 2025 |  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025Jonathan Bryce, Chris Aniszczyk · 42m · 3 announcedOpen source, AI infrastructure | Open source, AI infrastructure | CNCF opened KubeCon NA 2025 in Atlanta by marking 10 years since the foundation's creation | 3 |
| Oct 14, 2025 |  dbt Coalesce 2025Tristan Handy · 1h 38m · 4 announcedData platforms, Open source, Agents | Data platforms, Open source, Agents | dbt Labs had announced its merger with Fivetran the day before; Handy explained what it means for the community | 4 |
| Jun 12, 2025 |  AMD Advancing AI 2025Lisa Su · 2h 7m · 3 announcedAI infrastructure, Open source | AI infrastructure, Open source | Demand for inference has grown significantly, driven by more capable models and new uses | 3 |
| Jun 11, 2025 |  Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025Ali Ghodsi · 22m · 11 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | Databricks now counts more than 15,000 customers running on the platform across every major cloud | 11 |
| May 20, 2025 | Red Hat Summit 2025Matt Hicks · 1h 47m · 3 announcedOpen source, AI infrastructure, Cloud | Open source, AI infrastructure, Cloud | Red Hat promised to change how Linux is managed, which it said has barely changed in 10 to 15 years | 3 |
| May 19, 2025 |  Microsoft Build 2025Satya Nadella · 1h 59m · 8 announcedAgents, AI coding, Open source | Agents, AI coding, Open source | Satya Nadella framed the event around building an open agentic web at scale. | 8 |
| Nov 12, 2024 |  Snowflake BUILD 2024Christian Kleinerman · 59m · 8 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | Streaming and read-write support for Apache Iceberg tables became generally available | 8 |
| Oct 8, 2024 | dbt Coalesce 2024Tristan Handy · 1h 32m · 4 announcedData platforms, Open source, AI coding | Data platforms, Open source, AI coding | One dbt: teams on different clouds and data platforms, like Databricks and Snowflake, can reference each other's projects | 4 |
| Sep 17, 2024 |  Confluent Current 2024Jay Kreps · 1h 37m · 3 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | AI applications need data that is relevant and up to date with what is happening right now, Kreps argued | 3 |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Databricks Data + AI Summit 2024Ali Ghodsi · 28m · 4 announcedData platforms, Open source, Governance | Data platforms, Open source, Governance | Databricks confirmed it is acquiring Tabular, founded by the original creators of Apache Iceberg | 4 |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Snowflake Summit 2024Sridhar Ramaswamy, Jensen Huang · 35m · 2 announcedData platforms, Open source, AI infrastructure | Data platforms, Open source, AI infrastructure | Snowflake framed its next chapter as making AI easy for everyone, on the same simplicity it brought to data | 2 |
By year and related themes
| Theme | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open source | 5 | 6 | 1 |
Often together with: Data platforms (7), Agents (6), AI infrastructure (4), Governance (2), AI coding (2)
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