Nithya Ruff's schedule for OSS + ELC EU 2026

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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Nithya Ruff

Independent

Chair, Linux Foundation Board

Raleigh, NC

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About me

Nithya has been in open source leader for over 25 years. She is a bridge builder working with companies large and small to create productive and strategic paths to working with open source. She led the Amazon OSPO & prior to Amazon, she started and grew Comcast and SanDisk's OSPOs.

Nithya has been director-at-large on the Linux Foundation Board for the last 5 years and in 2019 was elected to be Chair organization. Nithya is an advisor to the UCSC OSPO and to rising leaders in open source.

My Speakers Sessions

10:15 CEST

Keynote: Open Source at a Crossroads: Geopolitics, Sovereignty, and the Fight to Stay Open - Nithya Ruff, Chair, Linux Foundation Board & Johan Linaker, Senior Researcher, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden & Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lund Univers... Congress Hall (Floor 2)

15:50 CEST

Panel: Can University OSPOs Unlock Global Open Source Partnerships? - Stephanie Lieggi, UC Santa Cruz; Nithya Ruff, Independent; Clare Dillon, CURIOSS; Jacek Plucinski, University of Luxembourg South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

OSS + ELC EU 2026