Exploring AI, observability and community at OSS Summit Korea 2025

Key Sessions My key takeaways AI – The central theme Meeting Linus Torvalds and others leaders Linux mentorship showcase Networking and swag Seoul: City, culture, and food Tips for first timers 🌱 Stay active in local communities Final Thoughts About me Posted on December 9, 2025 by Akash Jaiswal CNCF projects highlighted in this post Attending OpenSearchCon, OpenSSF Day, and the Open Source Summit in Seoul was a truly memorable experience, especially because this was the first-ever Open Source Summit hosted in South Korea. I have previously attended two KubeCons in India including the Open Source Summit in Kubecon Hyderabad, but experiencing a Linux Foundation conference in another country offered a completely new perspective. Thanks to the Linux Foundation for sponsoring me to make this journey possible. The events were packed with insightful sessions. Here are a few of the most interesting talks I attended, focusing heavily on AI, Observability, and LLM performance. You can find the slides and recordings via the official event links and on YouTube. Keynote: Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux & Git) in conversation with Dirk Hohndel (Head of the Open Source Program Office, Verizon) Link Tutorial: Building Custom MCP Servers With FastMCP and Integrating AI Agents Using Google ADK – Mehmet Hilmi Emel (Acedemand) Link Who Ate My Resources? Trace LLM Performance in Real Time With OTel – Aditya Soni (Forrester Research) & Seema Saharan (Autodesk) Beyond Keywords: Building an AI-Powered Search That Reads Your Mind – Prashant Agrawal (Amazon Web Services) From Telemetry to Insight: Building AI-Powered Observability Pipelines with OpenSearch – Neel Shah (Middleware) Link Standardizing the Unstandardized: Securing AI Supply Chain With Model-Spec and Kitops – Prasanth Baskar (8gears) Link Event Schedules and Resources You can find the full schedules and details here: Open Source Summit Korea Schedule OpenSSF Day Schedule OpenSearchCon Korea Schedule 2025 truly felt like the year of AI. As with much of the current tech landscape, there were countless talks and sessions centered around AI and its related technologies. Jung-Woo Ha delivered a keynote on AI that genuinely shifted how I think about the field. As the Senior Secretary to the President for AI and Future Planning in Korea, he offered a rare policymaker’s perspective on how countries are preparing for large-scale AI adoption, covering responsible AI, infrastructure readiness, and national research strategies. David Hirsch from Dynatrace talked about OSPOs, Open Source Program Offices and how enterprises govern open source at scale. Jay Lee from Microsoft shared insights into how they build and run on open source.