OSS + ELC EU 2026

Open source communities are entering a new phase as more contributions are created with AI assistance. This raises a practical question for the ecosystem: how should projects, maintainers, and companies handle AI-assisted contributions while preserving accountability, trust, and review quality?

This session brings together two complementary perspectives:
1. An outside-in view of how open source communities are responding, including early observations on how such contributions are being identified and categorized, and
2. An inside-out view of what this shift means for OSPO strategy, compliance, and coordination across engineering, legal, IP, and security stakeholders.

Rather than debating AI in the abstract, the talk focuses on concrete issues communities and companies are already facing, including human accountability, maintainer workload, traceability, stewardship, and software supply chain quality.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for discussing AI-assisted contributions inside their projects, OSPOs, and cross-functional governance teams.