InnerSource Summit 2026
About this year's Summit
Technology never stands still—and neither do the people and communities behind it.
As AI accelerates innovation, distributed teams become the norm, and organizations continuously adapt to new ways of working, InnerSource offers a proven approach to building resilient, collaborative, and open engineering cultures.
Join us for InnerSource Summit 2026, the flagship global event from InnerSource Commons, where practitioners, engineering leaders, researchers, and community builders come together for a unique virtual summit that follows the sun across every timezone.
This year's theme, InnerSource in Motion: Navigating the Shifting Tides, celebrates change as an opportunity rather than a challenge. Resilience isn't about standing still—it's about moving with change, embracing new technologies, supporting one another through transformation, and building cultures that thrive in an ever-evolving world.
For 20 continuous hours, ideas, experiences, and conversations will flow seamlessly around the globe, connecting communities across borders, cultures, and time zones in one shared experience.
InnerSource Summit 2026
APAC
UTC 03:30 12:30 JST Shane Coughlan (InnerSource Commons)
Welcome to InnerSource Summit 2026: InnerSource in Motion: Navigating the Shifting Tides
UTC 04:00 13:00 JST Yuji Sanada (Mitsubishi Electric)
Hidden Barriers to InnerSource
UTC 04:30 13:30 JST Mishari Muqbil (Mishari.net)
Scaling Context, Not Code
UTC 05:00 14:00 JST Sudeep Pournami (Natwest Group)
Innersourcing at NatWest
UTC 05:30 14:30 JST Wiky Li (HSBC Technology China )
AI Adoption through InnerSource
UTC 06:00 15:00 JST Yoshitake Kobayashi (Toshiba)
InnerSource in the Age of AI: Rediscovering the "Source" in InnerSource
UTC 06:30 15:30 JST Jerry Tan (China Open Source Promotion Union)
The Next Wave: How Government-Led InnerSource is Redefining Public Innovation
UTC 07:00 16:00 JST Alexandra_Zamfir-Circiu (ZF)
Why Great InnerSource Portals Fail (and How to Avoid It): Lessons from ZF
UTC 07:30 16:30 JST Shane Coughlan (InnerSource Commons)
From APAC to EMEA: Continuing the InnerSource Summit journey.
EMEA
UTC 07:35 08:35 CET Georg Grütter (InnerSource Commons)
Opening InnerSource Summit 2026 EMEA and review of our year
UTC 08:00 9:00 CET Sarah Novotny (No Kat Food Limited)
Free Like a Puppy, Fast Like a Robot: Trust When the Contributor Isn't Human
UTC 09:00 10:00 CET Dr. Wolfgang Gehring and Sim Daniel Kolamkanni (Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH / Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India)
Inner Source Friction — One Year Later
UTC 09:30 10:30 CET Luca Berton (Open Empower)
When AI Agents Become InnerSource Contributors: Governance at Machine Speed
UTC 10:00 11:00 CET Gus Shaw Stewart (Port IO)
Truly Autonomous: how InnerSource platforms have become the vehicle for agentic organisations
UTC 10:30 11:30 CET Magaret Ekerendu (Otaku.Hugo)
Building InnerSource Where the Conversation Is Just Beginning: Lessons from Africa's Growing Technology Landscape
UTC 11:00 12:00 CET Thomas Froment (Eclipse Foundation)
AI & InnerSource: Building Trusted AI Platforms for the Enterprise
UTC 11:30 12:30 CET Omar Mohsine (United Nations Office of ICT)
InnerSourcing at the United Nations
UTC 12:00 13:00 CET Katrina Warr (Balena)
Sharing Knowledge, Not Noise
UTC 12:30 13:30 CET Gilles Gravier (Geneva State Administration IT Services)
Implementing InnerSource in a Government - Where we are after 2 years
UTC 13:00 14:00 CET JosepOriol Ayats (AXA Group Operations)
Save Tokens, Share Knowledge
UTC 13:30 14:30 CET Isabel Drost-Fromm (Europace AG/ ASF/ InnerSource Commons)
Maximise the number of PRs - or how fail your InnerSource initiative
UTC 14:00 15:00 CET Georg Grütter (InnerSource Commons)
Wrapping up EMEA and handing over to the Americas programme.
The Americas
UTC 14:05 10:05 EST Addie Cobb (InnerSource Commons)
Opening InnerSource Summit 2026 EMEA and review of our year
UTC 14:30 10:30 EST David Spinks and Micaela Eller (Community Leadership Coach, author of The Business of Belonging, and former Co-founder of CMX and E&Y)
Spilling the Tea! A conversation on InnerSource Community and coaching
UTC 15:30 11:30 EST Clare Dillon (CURIOSS)
Beyond Code: InnerSource in the AI Age
UTC 16:00 12:00 EST Juan David Arguello Plata and Oscar Lobaton Salas (Credicorp)
GitOps in InnerSource: A Roadmap for Enterprise Infrastructure Governance
UTC 16:30 12:30 EST Sean Griffin (WellSky)
InnerSource Don'ts
UTC 17:00 13:00 EST Nathen Harvey (DORA)
AI as an Amplifier: Creating a community of collaboration
UTC 17:30 13:30 EST Elspeth Minty, Mimi Flynn, Mark Paulsen, Peter Smulovics and Rob Moffat (RBC Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley, TD, Morgan Stanley, FINOS)
The Border Is Porous: What Open Source and InnerSource Can Learn from Each Other
UTC 18:00 14:00 EST Guilherme Dellagustin (SAP SE)
InnerSource in the age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities
UTC 18:30 14:30 EST Brittany Istenes (Independent)
Don’t Just Adopt AI. InnerSource It (Show Abstract)
UTC 19:00 15:00 EST Isaac Johnson (Abbott)
Democratizing GenAI with Skills and MCP
UTC 19:30 15:30 EST Dave Nielsen (Cognee)
Introduction to Company Brain
UTC 20:00 16:00 EST Fei Wan (Comcast)
The Next Wave of InnerSource: From Code Reuse to Agent Reuse
UTC 20:30 16:30 EST Shruti Bist (Independent)
Beyond Code: Applying InnerSource Principles to Privacy Compliance
UTC 21:00 17:00 EST Scott Hanselman (Microsoft/GitHub)
What do you build when you can build anything?
UTC 22:00 18:00 EST Russ Rutledge (InnerSource Commons)
Closing Session: InnerSource in Motion – Navigating the Shifting Tides