CFP - Open Source Summit Korea 2026
2026-03-01 - 2026-04-26
🗓 CFP closes: April 26
📍 Event date: August 11-12, 2026
📍 Event location: Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas (Seoul)
👉 Submit your proposal

CFP - DevOpsDays Graz
2026-03-01 - 2026-04-30
🗓 CFP closes: April 30
📍 Event date: September 4-5, 2026
📍 Event location: WIFI & Campus02, Graz
👉 Submit your proposal

CFP - BSides Des Moines
2026-03-01 - 2026-04-30
🗓 CFP closes: April 30
📍 Event date: June 13, 2026
📍 Event location: FFA Center, Ankeny
👉 Submit your proposal

CFP - BSides TLV
2026-03-01 - 2026-04-30
🗓 CFP closes: April 30
📍 Event date: June 25, 2026
📍 Event location: Tel Aviv
👉 Submit your proposal

CFP - BSides SATX (San Antonio, TX)
2026-03-01 - 2026-05-01
🗓 CFP closes: May 1
📍 Event date: June 13, 2026
📍 Event location: St. Mary’s University
👉 Submit your proposal

CFP - DefCon 34
2026-03-01 - 2026-05-01
🗓 CFP closes: May 1 at midnight UTC
📍 Event date: August 6 – 9, 2026
📍 Event location: Las Vegas, NV (USA)
👉 Submit your proposal

SCALE 23x
2026-03-05 - 2026-03-08
Speaking: The OpenSSF community will be speaking at SCALE, North America’s largest community-run open source conference.

Don’t Gawk. Use GUAC Instead.
2026-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
The definition of “gawk” is “to stare stupidly, rudely, or with amazement, often with an open mouth”. This perfectly captures the reaction that software engineers have when they encounter supply chain security issues.
Lack of transparency is a huge blindside when working with open source tools. This blind spot could blow up into a project black hole — invisible, resource depleting, destructive — if not handled correctly. How do we build situational awareness from this position of incognizance?
Enter GUAC! A project built by the community and devised to solve the problem of not knowing your software composition.
Whether you’re an enterprise or just an enterprising indie dev, this session has something for you. Learn how to make use of GUAC for improving your supply chain security posture. Find out how teams are benefitting from better knowledge of the OSS components in their toolchain.
Guest Bio
Shreyas Pandya
Staff software engineer @Guidewire software
Shreyas Pandya is a results-oriented Software Engineer and leader with deep expertise in web application development. He has built web services (microservices), APIs, and has handled scalability, security, and cloud infrastructure. Shreyas possesses experience in working within agile environments and fast-paced startup teams. He currently serves as a Platform Engineer at Guidewire, where he leads a team of engineers in the delivery of various products.
Date: 5th March 2026
Time: 2 pm IST

The Invisible Threat: Secure & Sovereign Digital Backbone
2026-03-11 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
As India’s critical infrastructure shifts from a hardware-heavy setup to “softwarized” environments, our national security now depends on the integrity of the software supply chain. Join us for an in-depth session with Arpit Tripathi as we move beyond traditional cybersecurity tropes to discuss why the real battlefield isn’t the radio—it’s the interface.
We will explore how modern, cloud-native telecom systems are vulnerable not just to hackers, but to fundamental modeling failures in Service-Based Interfaces (SBI) and API trust assumptions.
Key Discussion Points

The Shift to Softwarization: Why software supply chain security is now a geopolitical imperative.
Beyond the Radio: Understanding the new attack surfaces in API-driven, interconnected systems.
Policy & Standards: Insights into Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) governance and the role of the TSDSI in India.
Proactive Defense: Why designing security at the interface level is the only way to move from “reacting” to “preventing.”

Meet the Speaker
Arpit Tripathi is a Telecom Engineer and Research Scholar at the Networked and Wireless Systems Lab (IIT Hyderabad). With a unique background spanning both deep technical engineering and public policy, Arpit’s work focuses on the intersection of open-source security, telecom infrastructure, and the doctrinal analysis of tech policy governance in India.

Date: 11th March 2026
Time: 2 PM IST

FOSS Backstage
2026-03-16 - 2026-03-17
Speaking: The OpenSSF Community will be speaking at The 8th edition of FOSS Backstage in Berlin on 16-17 March 2026.

Security In An Open World
2026-03-19 14:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
Join us on March 19th 2026 for a chat with Abhishek Chauhan, who leads Sonatype India.
Millions of software developers trust Sonatype to keep their open source codebases, libraries, and dependencies safe. This is one of the oldest companies securing the software supply chain.
India is home to one of the world’s fastest-growing developer communities and is rapidly emerging as a key market for AI-driven software development. The demand for building, consuming, and securing code is reaching unprecedented levels as organizations accelerate their adoption of modern technologies.
At the same time, the country continues to produce exceptional engineering talent, making it a global hub for innovation and technical expertise. Given these factors, India presents a compelling opportunity for Sonatype to deepen its innovation and talent footprint.
Another important topic is the Security Slam event! We will spend a little time talking about what the event is, what Sonatype aims to achieve, and how best you can participate in this.
Guest: Abhishek Chauhan
Senior Director, Sonatype
Date: 19th March 2025
Time: 2 pm to 3 pm IST

Open Source SecurityCon EU 2026
2026-03-23
Hosting: Open Source SecurityCon is coming to Europe! This is a new event that fosters collaboration and shares innovation in cloud native security and open source software security. Sessions will cover architecture and policy, secure software development, supply chain security, identity and access, and open source public policy. The 1-day event will gather a diverse community of professionals to include software developers, security engineers, public sector experts, CISOs, CIOs and tech pioneers to address challenges and opportunities in modern security. Join us to collaborate and discover tools, knowledge and strategies to ensure a safer, more secure tomorrow.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
2026-03-23 - 2026-03-26
Sponsoring: OpenSSF is proud to sponsor KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026! We’ll have a full booth presence throughout the week, plus a colocated event – Open Source SecurityCon – taking place on 23 March. Join us to connect with the community, learn about the latest in open source security, and explore how our projects support a more secure cloud native ecosystem.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon brings together adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. This year’s conference takes place in Amsterdam from 23–26 March 2026.Come visit us at the OpenSSF booth!

RSAC Conference 2026
2026-03-23 - 2026-03-26
Attending: The OpenSSF community is attending RSAC Conference this year. RSAC Conference is a premier global cybersecurity event series, with the 2026 USA event taking place March 23–26 in San Francisco, focusing on AI-driven security, agentic security, and collaborative defense.
Andrew Carney from DARPA, will join Taesoo Kim, Michael Brown, and Tyler Nighswander for a conversation on what they’ve built and learned since winning AI Cyber Challenge last August.
If you’re interested in where automated cyber defense is heading, join us for “Automated Cyber Defense: Lessons from DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge” at RSA Conference 2026, Thursday at 12:20 PM PDT in Moscone South 202.
Learn more about the session.

CFP - KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America
2026-04-06 - 2026-05-31
🗓 CFP closes: May 31 at 11:59pm Mountain Time (UTC-7)
📍 Event date: November 9 – 12, 2026
📍 Event location: Salt Lake City, UT (USA)
👉 Submit your proposal

Handing Over The Keys to Your Kingdom: AI-Driven Security Woes
2026-04-09 18:00 - 19:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
The current security landscape reveals a dangerous paradox: the very tools we trust to secure our code—AI agents and DevSecOps utilities—possess the broadest permissions but the weakest oversight. We are currently witnessing a “credential-drift” crisis where automated tools are becoming the primary vectors for supply chain contagion.
To prevent the next cascade, we must move away from reactive patching and toward a Closed-Loop Integrity System.
The last 14 days have highlighted a systemic failure in how we manage “privileged automation.” Trivy, Axios, LiteLLM, OpenAI Codex, and Claude Code have all fallen prey to various supply chain attacks.
We are handing the “keys to the kingdom” to AI agents and automated scanners that are, by nature, high-value targets. If you aren’t monitoring your security tools with the same intensity you use for your production databases, you aren’t running a secure shop—you’re just waiting for the next cascade.
Join this talk to learn more about how you can prevent supply chain security failures in your AI world.

Guest: Himanshu Sangshetti
Date: Thursday, 9th April 2025
Time: 6 PM IST

Open Source Summit North America
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-20
Sponsoring: The OpenSSF community will be onsite at the Open Source Summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is the premier event for open source developers and contributors. It’s where maintainers, technologists, and community leaders come together to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push open source projects forward. It’s the home for code, community, and the people driving the future of open source.

OpenSSF Community Day North America 2026
2026-05-21
Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2026 for an OpenSSF community gathering! OpenSSF Community Days bring together a vibrant community from across the Security and Open Source ecosystems to share ideas and progress on capabilities that make it easier to sustainably secure the development, maintenance, and consumption of the software. These events, held regionally and co-located with Open Source Summits, offer an opportunity to engage with the brightest minds in security for a day of collaboration and innovation in software security best practices. As a home for tools, standards, and education, OpenSSF provides attendees the chance to explore these resources, share their experiences, and contribute to a safer and more secure digital world.
View the agenda.

Sword and Shield: Security Strategy Needs Both Offense & Defense
2026-05-21 14:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
In the world of software development, security is often treated like the “veggies” of the SDLC—everyone knows they’re good for you, but most developers would rather just skip straight to the dessert (shipping code). But what happens when the “bad guys” decide to join the party uninvited?
In this episode, we sit down with two titans of the industry to see what happens when the irresistible force of Red Teaming meets the immovable object of Blue Teaming.
Meghana Rao, our resident VAPT and Cloud Security specialist, walks us through the art of the “friendly break-in.” She’ll explain why thinking like a villain is the only way to build a digital fortress. On the flip side, Shubham Mishra, a seasoned Threat Hunter and Insider Threat specialist, shows us how she tracks the whispers in the wires to catch intruders before they even realize they’ve been spotted.
Together, they’ll dive into the “Why” of the tandem. Join us to learn why Red and Blue aren’t rivals, but actually the ultimate “work spouses.” You will also learn how this maps to the SDLC Lifecycle. Fully understand how to bake security into your code so you aren’t trying to “bolt it on” while the house is already on fire.
Whether you’re a developer trying to understand why your security lead is crying, or a CISO looking to harmonize your teams, this episode provides the roadmap to a safer digital landscape.
Date: 21st May 2026
Time: 2 pm IST

European Open Source Security Forum 2026
2026-06-09
Hosting: OpenSSF is hosting European Open Source Security Forum 2026. This event brings together leaders from the open source software (OSS) community, European governments, institutions and agencies and the private sector to advance impactful security initiatives, policy efforts, and cross-collaboration.
This year’s program will feature keynotes from European policymakers, panels on regulation and emerging technologies such as open source and quantum security, targeted discussions on lessons learned from legislation like the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and forward-looking conversations on how to ensure open source is well-represented in future policy frameworks, along with presentations, fireside chats, and opportunities for networking.
*This event is an invite-only event.

OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2026
2026-10-06
Hosting: OpenSSF is hosting another Community Day in Europe this fall, and we’d love for you to join us in Prague, Czechia. This event is co-located with Open Source Summit EU, bringing together a dynamic community from the security and open-source ecosystems to share ideas and progress on advancing the capabilities that make it easier to securely develop, maintain, and consume secure software.
CFP opens from May 4 to July 12, 2026!

Open Source Summit Europe 2026
2026-10-07 - 2026-10-09
Sponsoring: The OpenSSF community will be onsite at the Open Source Summit in Prague, Czechia with booth presence. This is the premier event for open source developers and contributors. It’s where maintainers, technologists, and community leaders come together to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push open source projects forward. It’s the home for code, community, and the people driving the future of open source.
