Open Source Summit + AI_dev Japan 2024: Full Schedule

October 28-29, 2024 | Tokyo, Japan
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11:15 JST

Democratizing Diffusion Models with Diffusers - Sayak Paul, Hugging Face

Monday October 28, 2024 11:15 - 11:55 JST

Hall B (4)

The talk “Democratizing Diffusion Models with Diffusers” will explore the diverse applications of the open-source Python library Diffusers in the image and video generation space. The talk will showcase how Diffusers, based on diffusion models, enables fast and high-quality image and video generation, making it accessible to a wide range of users. The presentation will cover various use cases, including image inpainting, image editing, and scene composition, demonstrating the capabilities of Diffusers in enabling users to create and edit photo-realistic images with minimum effort. The audience will gain insights into the potential of Diffusers in revolutionizing the way images and videos are generated and edited, making it a must-attend session for anyone interested in the latest advancements in this field.

Speakers

Sayak Paul

Research Engineer, Hugging Face

Sayak works on diffuson models at Hugging Face, focusing on training them, maintaining the diffusers library, and leading some applied research efforts. Off the work, he likes to binge-watch ICML tutorials and Suits.

Monday October 28, 2024 11:15 - 11:55 JST
Hall B (4)

AI_dev

Audience Intermediate

11:15 JST

Safe Systems with Linux - Philipp Ahmann, Etas GmbH (BOSCH) & Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation

Monday October 28, 2024 11:15 - 11:55 JST

Main Hall

As Linux is increasingly deployed in systems with varying criticality constraints, distro providers are expected to ensure that security fixes in their offerings do not introduce regressions for customer products that have safety considerations. The key question arises: How can they establish consistent linkage between code, tests, and the requirements that the code satisfies? And which open source tools and specifically for Linux exist to support traceability in order to comply with standards such as ASPICE, ISO26262 or ISO21434? This talk addresses critical challenges in requirements tracking, documentation, testing, and artifact sharing within the Linux kernel ecosystem. Functionality has historically been added to the kernel with requirements explained in the email justifications for adding, but not formalized as “requirements” in the kernel documentation. While tests are contributed for the code, the underlying requirement that the tests satisfies is likewise not documented in a consistent manner. This and further topics will be discussed. Additionally, the results from the "Safe Systems with Linux" micro conference at Linux plumbers will be summarized.

Speakers

Philipp Ahmann

Sr. OSS Community Manager, Etas GmbH (BOSCH)

Philipp Ahmann is a senior OSS community manager at Etas GmbH (BOSCH) specializing in safety and automotive grade open source software. He holds the position of technical steering committee chair for the Linux Foundation (LF) ELISA project to Enable Linux in Safety Applications and... Read More →

Kate Stewart

VP Dependable Embedded Systems, Linux Foundation

Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. Since joining The Linux Foundation, she has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, as well as supporting other embedded projects... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 11:15 - 11:55 JST
Main Hall

Critical Software Summit

Audience Intermediate

11:15 JST

The Kernel Report - Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net

Monday October 28, 2024 11:15 - 11:55 JST

Hall A (4)

The Linux kernel is at the core of any Linux system; the performance and capabilities of the kernel will, in the end, place an upper bound on what the system as a whole can do. This talk will review recent events in the kernel development community, discuss the current state of the kernel and the challenges it faces, and look forward to how the kernel may address those challenges. Attendees of any technical ability should gain a better understanding of how the kernel got to its current state and what can be expected in the near future.

Speakers

Jonathan Corbet

Editor, LWN.net

Jonathan Corbet is the kernel documentation maintainer, co-founder of LWN.net (and the author of its Kernel Page), a member of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board, and the lead author of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Monday October 28, 2024 11:15 - 11:55 JST
Hall A (4)

LinuxCon

Audience Intermediate

11:15 JST

Building an Active Developer Community to Strengthen Open Source Program Offices (OSPO) - Regina Nkenchor, IKEA

Monday October 28, 2024 11:15 - 11:55 JST

Hall A (2)

OSPO initiatives thrive on the strength and engagement of their developer communities. However, creating and sustaining a vibrant community poses its own set of challenges. The primary goal of this talk is to share the strategies employed by Ingka IKEA’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) for nurturing a dynamic and engaged developer community while considering the challenges of fostering collaboration within the open source ecosystem. Developers in an open source community often come from varied backgrounds and possess different levels of understanding and experience with open source contributions. Additionally, developers within an organization have varied concerns around their primary work goals, and contributing to open source may not always be a priority. Therefore, what are the strategies that OSPO’s can implement to enhance the appeal of open-source initiatives and encourage participation and contributions? How do they retain and support contributors to ensure consistent engagement? In this talk, I will share strategies from Ingka IKEA’s OSPO for building an active developer community to strengthen OSPO initiatives, empowering contributors in open-source projects.

Speakers

Regina Nkenchor

Software and OSPO Ambassador IKEA IT AB, IKEA

Regina is an OSPO Ambassador at IKEA. Her role also involves collaborating with the OSPO team to shape strategies and initiatives for adopting open source tools, developer community growth, and participation. Additionally, she is a software engineer at IKEA. Previously, Regina served... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 11:15 - 11:55 JST
Hall A (2)

OSPOCon

Audience Intermediate

12:05 JST

Data Prep Kit: A Comprehensive Cloud-Native Toolkit for Scalable Data Preparation in GenAI App - Daiki Tsuzuku & Takuya Goto, IBM

Monday October 28, 2024 12:05 - 12:45 JST

Hall B (4)

Every conversation on AI starts with models and ends with data. Data preparation is emerging as a very important phase of the GenAI journey, as high quantity and quality text and code corpora for GenAI model training have shown to play a crucial role in producing high performing Large Language Models (LLMs). The data preparation phase in the Generative AI lifecycle aims to clean, filter, and transform the datasets of text and code that are acquired from various sources into a tokenized form that is suitable for the training of LLMs, be it pre-training, or constructing LLM apps via fine-tuning or instruct tuning. The latter poses unique challenges, as each use case may necessitate tailored data preparation approaches. Given the enduring and evolving demand for data preparation techniques in LLM applications, we are introducing Data Prep Kit as an open-source software asset. This endeavour is geared towards fostering collaborative efforts within the community, enabling collective development and utilization, and ultimately reducing time to value. DPK has been instrumental in powering the IBM open-source Granite models.

Speakers

Takuya Goto

Software Engineer, IBM

Takuya is a software engineer at IBM where he works on software product development, and open-source development. Takuya specializes in NLP, ML, and text-based data processing. In his free time, Takuya likes running, and traveling with my wife and son.

Daiki Tsuzuku

Software Developer, IBM

I have been working in IBM as a software developer for about 7 years. I have been the backend developer, and sometimes frontend developer, of Watson Explorer, Watson Discovery, and watsonx Orchestrate. My field is to develop the application of processing a wide variety and large volume... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 12:05 - 12:45 JST
Hall B (4)

AI_dev

Audience Intermediate

12:05 JST

Unlocking Agility with Open Source: A Guide for Modern Businesses - Younes Hairej, Aokumo Inc.

Monday October 28, 2024 12:05 - 12:45 JST

Hall A (1)

For modern businesses navigating today's dynamic tech environment, open source is more than just a platform – it's a game-changer. This session dives deep into the transformative power of open-source software as a key driver of business agility and innovation. Real-world stories from the world of FinTech will showcase how open source empowers Japanese organizations to adapt swiftly to evolving markets and technological advancements. We'll address a common pain point: security concerns during open-source adoption and explore effective strategies to mitigate them. Beyond the technology itself, this session explores the cultural shift required to thrive in an open-source ecosystem. We'll highlight the unique collaborative spirit and community aspects within the Japanese business landscape, empowering you to leverage open source effectively.

Speakers

Younes Hairej

Founder & CEO, Aokumo Inc.

Younes is a senior technologist and business leader with over 10 years of experience in cloud and open source technologies. He is the founder and CEO of Aokumo Inc., a cloud infrastructure company. He is a trusted technology advisor and has won awards for his work, including the FX-Markets... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 12:05 - 12:45 JST
Hall A (1)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Intermediate

14:00 JST

Unlocking the Power of OpenTelemetry: Enhancing Design, Development, and Testing - Takaya Ide & Yasuo Nakashima, Hitachi, Ltd.

Monday October 28, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 JST

Hall A (3)

Developers often face the complex challenges of designing, debugging, and testing distributed systems like microservices. Understanding failures, identifying performance issues, and ensuring system reliability from the early stages of design and development can be daunting. Observability technologies provide valuable insights not just in production but also during design and development. In this session, we will explore OpenTelemetry, a cutting-edge observability framework, and its practical applications in the design, debugging, and testing of distributed systems. Key topics include: - Assessing the impact of incorporating a cache server on system behavior during the design phase. - Evaluating how database failures affect both backend and frontend applications during fault testing. - Detecting performance bottlenecks for specific requests during load testing. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how OpenTelemetry can revolutionize their debugging and testing processes, leading to more effective experiments and increased reliability in their distributed systems.

Speakers

Yasuo Nakashima

Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd.

Researcher, Digital Services Platform Innovation Center.

Takaya Ide

Senior Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd.

Takaya is a Senior Researcher in Service Computing at Hitachi, Ltd. With a passion for Cloud Native, DevSecOps, and open-source contributions, he has been instrumental in designing architectures and implementing monitoring and security within the company.

Monday October 28, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 JST
Hall A (3)

CloudOpen

Audience Intermediate

14:00 JST

Enhancing Cyber Resilience and Sustainability in Critical Infrastructure with CIP and IEC-62443-4 - Yoshitake Kobayashi, Civil Infrastructure Platform & Dinesh Kumar, Toshiba Software India

Monday October 28, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 JST

Main Hall

Linux is the foundational infrastructure for mission-critical systems across sectors like energy, transportation, and healthcare. These systems must operate reliably for decades while adapting to evolving Smart City and IoT landscapes. Interconnectivity brings challenges in managing vulnerabilities and upgrades, requiring adherence to standards and maintaining system integrity.

The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project addresses these challenges by providing an Industrial Grade Linux platform for robust, secure, and sustainable operations. Over 7 years, CIP has demonstrated a commitment to meeting current needs and addressing future threats.

This presentation will explore CIP's pivotal role in strengthening cyber resilience and enhancing system reliability. It will also delve into the CIP Security Working Group's efforts to align the platform with the IEC 62443 standard for industrial control system security.

The key topics covered will include ensuring IEC-62443-4-x compliance, bridging gaps for updates and long-term support, traceability between code, tests, and requirements for standards compliance. The presentation will also discuss CIP's role in building sustainable and cyber-resilient critical infrastructure, integrating security throughout the CIP ecosystem using the IEC 62443 framework, and the benefits of this alignment for improved risk management and threat mitigation.

Attendees will gain insights on how CIP can help build future-ready, cyber-resilient systems

Speakers

Yoshitake Kobayashi

TSC Chair, Civil Infrastructure Platform (Toshiba)

Yoshitake Kobayashi is the Technical Steering Committee Chair for the Civil Infrastructure Platform Project, hosted by The Linux Foundation. He is actively working to leverage open-source software for a secure and sustainable society. Additionally, he leads a software R&D department... Read More →

Dinesh Kumar

Engineering Manager, Toshiba Software India pvt Ltd

Experienced, in developing Embedded linux software , Secure boot, Debian packages, board support packages, development of Android Application & Framework. My research interest includes embedded linux, Linux kernel security, cybersecurity and Cloud technologies. Currently working for... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 JST
Main Hall

Critical Software Summit

Audience Intermediate

14:50 JST

Unlocking Local LLMs with Quantization - Marc Sun, Hugging Face

Monday October 28, 2024 14:50 - 15:30 JST

Hall B (4)

This talk will share the story of quantization, its rise in popularity, and its current status in the open-source community. We'll begin by reviewing key quantization papers, such as QLoRA by Tim Dettmers and GPTQ by Elias Frantar. Next, we'll demonstrate how quantization can be applied at various stages of model development, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and inference. Specifically, we'll share our experience in pre-training a 1.58-bit model, show how fine-tuning is achievable using PEFT + QLoRA, and discuss optimizing inference performance with torch.compile or custom kernels. Finally, we'll highlight efforts within the community to make quantized models more accessible, including how transformers incorporate state-of-the-art quantization schemes and how to run GGUF models from llama.cpp.

Speakers

Marc Sun

Machine Learning Engineer, HuggingFace

Marc is a ML Engineer working on the Open Source team at Hugging Face and he collaborates with researchers and developers to add new exciting features in the HF ecosystem and have contributed to various libraries in the HF ecosystem (transformers, accelerate, PEFT). Marc is also deeply... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 14:50 - 15:30 JST
Hall B (4)

AI_dev

Audience Intermediate

14:50 JST

Exploring CXL Memory: Configuration and Emulation - Yasunori Goto, Fsas Technologies Inc.

Monday October 28, 2024 14:50 - 15:30 JST

Hall A (4)

CXL memory offers the promise of increased memory capacity, which addressing the limitations of conventional DDR DRAM, and also features a memory pool that allows users to dynamically adjust memory allocation based on workload needs. The Linux community has been rapidly developing many CXL features. Additionally, users can try a CXL memory environment with QEMU emulation without actual CXL hardware. This allows users to experiment with CXL memory features in an emulated environment. However, there are some difficulties and considerations when using CXL memory. For example, you cannot use CXL (2.0 or later) memory devices without configuring them using the "cxl create-region" command. Moreover, if you want to utilize memory interleave to achieve optimal performance, you need to understand the hardware topology, including the CXL switch, and reconfigure the region for CXL volatile memory at every boot time. While development is ongoing, these features may be improved in the future. However, there are still many difficulties for users at present. This talk will cover how to use CXL memory and its emulation.

Speakers

Yasunori Goto

Senior Software Engineer, Fujitsu Ltd.

Yasunori Goto has been working for the Linux kernel since 2002 and currently leads a Linux kernel development team at Fujitsu. He has much experience in Linux kernel development and difficult kernel troubles for end-users. In recent years, he has taken an interest in Compute Express... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 14:50 - 15:30 JST
Hall A (4)

LinuxCon

Audience Intermediate

14:50 JST

Best Practices for Reducing Patent Risk to OSS Projects - Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network

Monday October 28, 2024 14:50 - 15:30 JST

Main Hall

At Open Source Summit Japan, within the Operation Management Summit, Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention network, will address ways to mitigate risk to open source projects, developers and distributors. Few developers or businesses will show interest in contributing to an open source project if it doesn't address potential bugs, security issues, or feature additions to its repository. This is well understood by the OSS community and spurred its growth into new technological areas such as AI/ML, FinTech and Automotive, among many others. However, many of today’s most popular open source licenses do not adequately address patent risk for open source projects. As patent risk is a challenge that must be addressed, this presentation will discuss the key tenets around patent non-aggression in open source, key patent-related risks, and the best practices that open source projects and their management should consider moving forward to “address the issue.” . Key Takeaways: - An understanding of the patent threat matrix to open source projects - Ways patent litigation risks are rising & ways to reduce these risks - Best practice solutions for management to mitigate these challenges

Speakers

Keith Bergelt

CEO, Open Invention Network

Keith Bergelt is the CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN), the only institution focused on mitigating patent risk in open source software. Funded by Google, IBM, NEC, Philips, Sony, SUSE, and Toyota, OIN has nearly 4,000 community members. In his capacity as CEO, he is directly responsible... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 14:50 - 15:30 JST
Main Hall

Operations Management Summit

Audience Intermediate

14:50 JST

Middle-Platform Empowerment: Growing and Sustaining Open Source Projects at Ant Group - Xiaoya Xia & Peggy Dong, Ant Group

Monday October 28, 2024 14:50 - 15:30 JST

Hall A (2)

This session introduces Ant Group OSPO's approach to growing and sustaining open source projects through governance and tooling services. We employ systematic strategies to discover and nurture open source talent, providing comprehensive lifecycle support from project initiation to incubation and maturation. These governance practices ensure that projects are well-managed, leading to sustainable development and long-term success.On the other hand, we leverage digital and tooling-based open source infrastructure to create dynamic ecosystems. This includes digital growth dashboards that offer relational insights and analytics, as well as contribution incentive mechanisms that promote deeper community engagement. Join us to uncover: 1. How our governance service foundation lays the groundwork for robust open source project development. 2. Strategies for effective talent cultivation and project lifecycle management. 3. The utilization of digital tools to track and foster project growth. 4. Mechanisms to encourage and reward community contributions, driving active participation.

Speakers

Xiaoya Xia

Open source program analyst, Ant Group

Xiaoya Xia is a member of the Ant Group OSPO, where she focuses on catalyzing open source success through data-driven insights. Before joining Ant Group, Xiaoya was a PhD at East China Normal University (ECNU), where she concentrated on research into open source ecosystem sustain... Read More →

Peggy Dong

Open Source Governance Expert, Ant Group

I believe Open source represents a force for good. Being attracted by the concepts of open source, collaboration and sharing, I joined Ant Open Source OSPO early last year. Before this, I was mainly engaged in strategic planning, hoping to bring a different perspective to open source... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 14:50 - 15:30 JST
Hall A (2)

OSPOCon

Audience Intermediate

15:40 JST

From Design to Launch: Implementing AI Governance at Scale - Nathália Kuromiya & Martin Winkler, Google

Monday October 28, 2024 15:40 - 16:20 JST

Hall B (4)

What does it take to design, implement, and roll out a comprehensive AI governance program? What challenges and opportunities do companies encounter when scaling AI governance across diverse products and AI applications, and how can AI governance programs be designed to stay agile in a dynamic technological and regulatory environment? Insights on scaling AI governance programs progressively across multiple jurisdictions while keeping them agile in a dynamic technological and regulatory landscape. Practical learnings, effective solutions and challenges to watch out for. Topics discussed: - What are the building blocks of your company’s AI Governance program? - What challenges did we face when building an AI Governance program? - The AI Governance landscape is evolving rapidly – both through technical innovation and regulatory advances. How to keep an agile approach to AI governance? - What kinds of risks are front and center when you’re building an AI Governance program? What kinds of opportunities?

Speakers

Martin Winkler

Software Engineer, Google

Martin Winkler is a Software Engineer at Google as part of the Privacy, Safety and Security team. He works as a lead for privacy and governance tooling and tackled cross-company privacy challenges to ensure the safety of users and their data. Additionally, he is establishing company... Read More →

Nathália Kuromiya

Software Engineer, Google

Nathália Harumi Kuromiya is a Software Engineer at Google as part of the Privacy, Safety and Security team. She works as a lead for privacy and governance tooling and had a privacy reviewer role. For the past year, she's been working on AI safety space as one of the technical contributors... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 15:40 - 16:20 JST
Hall B (4)

AI_dev

Audience Intermediate

15:40 JST

eBPF-Powered Observability for Sustainable Computing - Paras Mamgain, Anmol Krishan Sachdeva, Samrat Priyadarshi & Miki Katsuragi, Google

Monday October 28, 2024 15:40 - 16:20 JST

Hall A (3)

With the advancements in the fields of Applied AI/ML, computational power, FinOps practices, and cloud services, organizations are increasingly building and deploying AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes. Cloud Computing gives the impression that the underlying resources (like Virtual Machines, CPU, RAM, Storage, etc.) are infinite, and hence many individuals don’t focus on the count of machines and resources when training their AI/ML models and proceed with training fairly large models with millions and billions of parameters. The energy-intensive nature of model training and iterations, coupled with the growing scale of AI/ML deployments, is contributing to a considerable environmental impact in the form of Carbon Emissions.

This talk introduces some key open-source cloud agnostic tools and techniques to build eBPF-powered observability solutions for practicing Sustainable Computing. By analyzing and tuning performance and energy metrics from Kubernetes resources like Pods and Nodes, AI/ML Practitioners and Platform Engineers can optimize workloads, reduce energy consumption, lower costs, and minimize environmental impact while maintaining performance.

Speakers

Miki Katsuragi

AI Consultant, Google Cloud

Miki is an AI Consultant at Google with a background in Data Analysis and Machine Learning. She has experience working at a database vendor, and currently develops cloud-based ML services and implements data analysis solutions. She is also a co-author of "Scalable Data Science" published... Read More →

Paras Mamgain

Software Engineer, Google

I am a passionate programmer and a backend developer with a special taste for information retrieval and using new ideas to collaborate with team members to solve existing challenges and attempting to convert them to Intellectual property.Currently, as a Software Engineer my work is... Read More →

Anmol Krishan Sachdeva

Hybrid Cloud Architect, Google

Anmol is an International Tech Speaker, a Distinguished Guest Lecturer, an active conference organizer, and has published several notable papers. He works at Google and focuses on Emerging Technologies. Anmol has years of rich experience in handling and configuring large-scale K8s... Read More →

Samrat Priyadarshi

Cloud Engineer, Google

Samrat is a Cloud Engineer at Google with 8 years of experience in Cloud Computing focussing mainly on Kubernetes and related landscapes. He has given several talks in Google Developers Group, Google DevFest.

Monday October 28, 2024 15:40 - 16:20 JST
Hall A (3)

CloudOpen

Audience Intermediate

15:40 JST

OS Sustainability in Japan: Open Collaboration Model to Spin up the OSS 3P Cycle - Yuichi Nakamura & Ayumi Watanabe, Hitachi; Shingo Fujimoto, Fujitsu; Masato Endo, Toyota; Munehiro Ikeda, Cybertrust Japan; Moderated by Nori Fukuyasu, The Linux Foundation

Monday October 28, 2024 15:40 - 16:20 JST

Main Hall

To sustain the OS industry, we must assess the efficiency of the open source 3P cycle (Projects, Products, and Profits). Companies build products using open source software and generate revenue. This should incentivize them to reinvest in open source communities, thereby creating better products and increasing profits. However, the 3P cycle is not functioning smoothly. While companies utilize open source technologies, they often do so without collaborating with the community. This lack of interaction reduces their interest in reinvesting in the open source ecosystem. This issue significantly impacts the Japanese industry. Companies miss opportunities to leverage cutting-edge technologies and remain less inclined to invest in talent development within and outside their organizations. The resulting talent shortage poses a serious sustainability challenge for the industry. In this session, LF Japan evangelists will discuss this topic from their respective areas of expertise, including cloud, blockchain, security, compliance, and OSPO. Attendees will learn about the latest trends in open source and business and engage in discussions on how to enhance the 3P cycle in Japan.

Speakers

Yuichi Nakamura

Chief OSS Strategist, Hitachi

Yuichi Nakamura,Ph.D has been engaged with OSS over 20 years, contributed SELinux, gave presentations in many OSS events such as Linux Security Summit, Embedded Linux Conference and KubeCon. He also launched ecosystem of business and OSS contribution model based on Keycloak in Hitachi,Ltd... Read More →

Ayumi Watanabe

SBOM Evangelist, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.

Ayumi Watanabe is a Senior OSS Specialist of Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.. She is also a core member of OpenChain Japan and known as a SBOM evangelist appointed by the Linux Foundation Japan. Her strong point is a knowledge of many tools for SBOM generation and management, a wide range... Read More →

Shingo Fujimoto

Senior Research Director, Fujitsu

Shingo Fujimoto leads the development of various blockchain technologies in Fujitsu, based on his broad knowledge in the field of internet security and protocol design. He is also involved in several blockchain PoC projects with innovative customers. Shingo is a maintainer of Hyperledger... Read More →

Masato Endo

Manager of OSPO, Toyota Motor Corporation

Masato Endo is a Group Manager of TOYOTA. He focuses also on building the Open Source governance structure within Toyota and developing relationships with the Open Source community, through projects such as AGL and OIN. From 2017, he began to work with the OpenChain Project as a board... Read More →

Munehiro Ikeda

Lead Architect, Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.

Ikeda Munehiro is a key engineer in the IoT Technology Division at Cybertrust Japan, working on leading-edge technologies and contributing to the Open Source Security Foundations(OpenSSF) activities on OSS security and supply chain.

Nori Fukuyasu

VP of Japan Operations, The Linux Foundation

VP of Japan Operations at Linux Foundation.

Monday October 28, 2024 15:40 - 16:20 JST
Main Hall

Operations Management Summit

Audience Intermediate

15:45 JST

Recent TPM Security Enhancements to the Linux Kernel - James Bottomley, Microsoft

Monday October 28, 2024 15:45 - 16:25 JST

Hall A (4)

Recent security updates to Linux, such as the new Systemd Unified Kernel Image[1] rely on the discrete or firmware integrated TPM (Trusted Platform Module) to verify boot and release secrets securely. However, there are many known attacks against the TPM chip itself. We will discuss the newly upstreamed Linux Kernel TPM security patches[2], which not only provide a basis for securely communicating with the TPM but also provide a novel defences against a wide variety of TPM based attacks by using a unique (to Linux) null key scheme. This talk will cover what TPM based attacks are (including interposer attacks), how the Trusted Computing Group expects you to tell you're talking to a real TPM and how you can communicate with it securely and use its policy statements to govern key use and release. We will then move on to how the new Linux Kernel patches extend this and can be leveraged to validate the TPM on every boot and continually monitoring it for any TPM interposer substitutions in real time. [1] https://github.com/uapi-group/specifications/blob/main/specs/unified_kernel_image.md [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240429202811.13643-1-James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com/

Speakers

James Bottomley

Partner Architect, Microsoft

James Bottomley is a Partner Architect at Microsoft working on Linux. He is also Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem. He started at AT&T Bell labs to work on Lock Manager technology for clustering. In 2000 he helped found SteelEye Technology to bring HA to Linux, becoming... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 15:45 - 16:25 JST
Hall A (4)

LinuxCon

Audience Intermediate

16:40 JST

Leveraging Zephyr and ML to Bring Smart Devices to Market, Faster - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST

Hall B (4)

End point devices are resource constrained, either in terms of power, memory or communication capabilities - sometimes all three. However, being able to apply machine learning on these end point devices is possible and when applied strategically enables system wide efficiencies to be realized. This talk will explore the requirements and tradeoffs for such system to be considered when using the Zephyr RTOS and Tensorflow Lite for Embedded Microcontrollers projects.

Speakers

Kate Stewart

VP Dependable Embedded Systems, Linux Foundation

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST
Hall B (4)

AI_dev

Audience Intermediate

16:40 JST

Secure and Efficient Data Sharing with Federated Cloud Storage - Masataka Mizukoshi, NTT

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST

Hall A (3)

As the importance of data utilization for AI grows, enterprises aim to securely exchange data with their customers and leverage external data.Many services and open-source software related to data sharing and governance have attracted attention and extensive research and development, such as Snowflake Marketplace and Databricks Delta Sharing, among others. However, sharing data between different companies presents numerous challenges in terms of data security and efficiency, including efficient access to geographically dispersed data and access control for data managed by multiple organizations. To address these challenges, we have developed virtual data lake system that achieves efficient and secure data sharing using federated cloud storage. In this approach, virtual data integration is performed by collecting and managing only metadata without collecting the original data. In this session, we’ll take a look at how to build a safe and efficent data lake system by using existing OSS for data governance and data federation tools, such as LinkedIn DataHub and Alluxio ..etc.

Speakers

Masataka Mizukoshi

Reseacher, NTT

I am a researcher at NTT Labs, focusing on developing a data platform using a variety of open-source software. Previously, I conducted research in distributed computing related to Hadoop/Spark. I have spoken at international conferences such as IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST
Hall A (3)

CloudOpen

Audience Intermediate

16:40 JST

Improving Bpftrace Reliability - Daniel Xu, Meta

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST

Hall A (4)

bpftrace is a popular and powerful dynamic tracer for Linux systems. In the vast majority of uses cases, bpftrace does its job quickly, efficiently, and accurately. However with the rapid growth of users, use cases, and features, the bpftrace community has started to feel (technical) growing pains. In particular, we've started to uncover various reliability issues. In this talk, we will cover what is already done as well as what is currently broken and how we will systematically fix and prevent these issues from re-occuring. Because bpftrace sits at the intersection of operating systems, compilers, and observability, we have the fortunate advantage of being able to absorb techniques and tricks from these fairly different disciplines. We hope that some of the knowledge we share will be both interesting as well practical to attendees. Audience participation is highly welcome. In particular, we are quite interested in receiving feedback in the form of bug reports, feature requests, complaints, etc.

Speakers

Daniel Xu

Software Engineer, Meta

I mostly work in the eBPF / kernel networking space these days. I contribute to and help maintain bpftrace along with other bits and pieces of software in the Linux world.

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST
Hall A (4)

LinuxCon

Audience Intermediate

16:40 JST

Enhancing Open Source Collaboration: From Incentive Programs to Data-Driven Contribution Metrics - Xiaoya Xia, Ant Group

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST

Hall A (1)

In this session, we will explore, analyze, and compare various existing models of incentivizing open source developers and the effectiveness of these models in promoting sustained contributions. We will cover different types of incentive programs such as: 1. Project-Based Internships: Programs like Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Open Source Promotion Plan (OSPP), and Outreachy. 2. Bounty Models: Platforms like IssueHunt and IssueBounty. 3. Direct Funding Models: Initiatives like GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective. Based on this foundation, this session will introduce a series of validated practices from various open source projects, corporate environments, and academic communities. These practices leverage an algorithm that precisely measures developer contributions within the community through collaborative behaviors. The contributions are quantified and scored, and the results are used to reward developers, thereby promoting better open source collaboration and community engagement. We call this measurement methodology Openrank.

Speakers

Xiaoya Xia

Open source program analyst, Ant Group

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST
Hall A (1)

Open Source Leadership Summit

Audience Intermediate

16:40 JST

A Practical Guide to Using International Standards for Open Source Procurement - Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST

Main Hall

International standards addressing specific challenges around open source provide organizations significant opportunities for increasing efficiency and reducing risk. This talk will explain practical ways for procurement departments to use these standards to benefit product teams, IP departments, legal departments or OSPOs supporting corporate policy. The focus will be on ISO/IEC 5230 (license compliance), ISO/IEC 18974 (security assurance) and ISO/IEC 5962 (SBOM), all mature standards maintained by Linux Foundation Projects. The audience of this talk will be equipped to immediately improve their supply chain management as either customers or suppliers in any industry sector.

Speakers

Shane Coughlan

General Manager, OpenChain Project

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include spearheading the licensing team that elevated OIN into the largest patent non-aggression community in history and establishing the first global network for open... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 16:40 - 17:20 JST
Main Hall

Operations Management Summit

Audience Intermediate

17:30 JST

GPU Distributed Caching for PyTorch Leveraging NVMe, GDS, and RDMA - Hope Wang, Alluxio

Monday October 28, 2024 17:30 - 18:10 JST

Hall B (4)

As GPUs become increasingly powerful, the separation between compute and storage often results in underutilized GPUs waiting for data. Meanwhile, high-performance components on GPU machines, such as NVMe storage and fast networks leveraging InfiniBand or special NICs, remain idle. Effectively leveraging these hardware resources to address GPU underutilization is a critical challenge. In this talk, we introduce a Kubernetes-native distributed caching layer that leverages NVMe disks and fast networks to optimize PyTorch training data access. Utilizing stateless workers for scalability and ETCD for membership services, this caching layer efficiently manages and serves data. Cached data is rapidly and efficiently fed into GPU memory using NVIDIA's DALI data loader, GPUDirect Storage (GDS), and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), significantly reducing data transfer bottlenecks and improving overall training performance.

Speakers

Hope Wang

Developer Advocate, Alluxio

Hope Wang is a Presto Contributor and a Developer Advocate at Alluxio. She has a decade of experience in Data, AI, and Cloud. An open-source contributor to PrestoDB, Trino, and Alluxio, she currently works at Alluxio as a developer advocate and previously worked in venture capital... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 17:30 - 18:10 JST
Hall B (4)

AI_dev

Audience Intermediate

17:30 JST

Bug Hunting in Distributed Systems: Using Robustness Tests to Test Your Code Better - Chun-Hung Tseng, Swisscom & Arka Saha, Broadcom

Monday October 28, 2024 17:30 - 18:10 JST

Hall A (3)

Traditional testing methods like unit and integration tests are great for functional validation in isolation, but are they enough for distributed systems? Distributed systems need to deal with real-world failures such as network issues, hardware errors, and race conditions. One of the proven ways to test these systems is to inject failures during testing and see if the system still works as expected. This is called robustness testing, where you run the system like it would be used in real life. Jespen is one of the first frameworks to test distributed systems by simulating such real-world scenarios and validating the operational history. Inspired by Jespen, etcd, the backbone of Kubernetes, built its own testing framework. This framework is written in Golang and for Golang projects, allowing even more failure types on the fly and verifying if the data stays consistent using Porcupine. As etcd contributors, we will share our challenges in writing tests to force failure via gofail and our journey of developing, leveraging, and debugging issues caught by this ever-evolving framework, so that you can apply the findings to your projects with minimal tweaks.

Speakers

Arka Saha

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Arka Saha, a Broadcom Software Engineer, leads Kubernetes releases & maintenance for Tanzu Extended Support. He manages VMware by Broadcom's Prow infrastructure, ensuring long-term support for k8s, etcd, containers, Golang & related components. Previously he managed Red Hat OpenShift... Read More →

Chun-Hung Tseng

DevOps Engineer, Swisscom

Henry is a CK* certified DevOps Engineer who works in a team building the cloud-native 5G core at Swisscom. He brings a rich background from his prior experience as a software engineer. His passion for automation and problem-solving leads him to contribute to open-source projects... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 17:30 - 18:10 JST
Hall A (3)

CloudOpen

Audience Intermediate

17:30 JST

SBOM Implementation Reality: From Crawl to Walk - SPDX Lite Profile for the First Step - Norio Kobota, Sony Group Corporation & Takashi Ninjouji, Toshiba Corporation

Monday October 28, 2024 17:30 - 18:10 JST

Main Hall

This session will introduce the SPDX Lite profile, its background, and what and how it solves with many JSON examples. The Lite profile of SPDX 3.0 is designed to make it quick and easy to start creating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) when a company has limited capacity for introducing new items into its process. Over the past few years, the importance of SBOM has increased. As interest in SBOM from government agencies and industries grows, the SBOM specification extends significantly to meet these various needs. SPDX Lite is a lightweight and compact SBOM specification. The OpenChain Project Japan WG explores and promotes SBOM. The focus is on making the SBOM practical from security assurance and license compliance perspectives and on sharing and transferring SBOM across the global software supply chain in any industry. SPDX Lite is one of the achievements of collaboration between the OpenChain project and the SPDX project. Attendees in this session will learn the first steps to creating an SBOM using the Lite profile of SPDX 3.0 by several examples of SBOM documents that address regulations and requirements.

Speakers

Norio Kobota

Senior Open Source Strategist, Sony Group Corporation

Norio Kobota is a Senior Open Source Strategist in Sony Group Corporation. He is the chair of Open Source Software License Committee in Sony and works to improve OSS compliance and relationships with OSS communities. He represents Sony as a board member of OpenChain Project. And he... Read More →

Takashi Ninjouji

Chief Specialist, Toshiba Corporation

Takashi Ninjouji, Chief Specialist at Toshiba Corporation, works on open source, open standards, and compliance and was the first head of OSPO. He is strongly attracted to open source to collaborate with diverse communities. He is a member of the OpenChain Project's governing board... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2024 17:30 - 18:10 JST
Main Hall

Operations Management Summit

Audience Intermediate