[DigitalToday reporter Hwang Chi-gyu] The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organisation, will hold Open Source Summit Korea from Aug. 13 to 14 at the Grand InterContinental Parnas hotel in Seoul.

The event will feature 8 keynote speeches and 68 technical sessions. It will also include Ask the Experts discussions, networking events and community collaboration, among other programmes.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Lee Hong-lak (이홍락), director and chief AI officer at LG AI Research; Greg Kroah-Hartman (Greg Kroah-Hartman), a Linux Foundation fellow and Linux kernel maintainer; Priya Nagpurkar (Priya Nagpurkar), vice president for AI Native Systems Research at IBM; Kim Chanran, a senior manager for developer support at NVIDIA; and Jim Zemlin (Jim Zemlin), CEO of the Linux Foundation.

Additional keynote programme details will be announced in the coming weeks.

Experts from a range of companies and institutions will take part as speakers, including Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom, LG Electronics, Hyundai Motor, Hyundai AutoEver, SK Hynix, KT Cloud, Naver Cloud, KakaoBank, LINE Plus, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), AWS, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Qualcomm, Red Hat, SAP, Snowflake, SUSE, Datadog, Akamai and Boeing. They will show how open source is being used in real-world operating environments across a wide range of industries.

Angela Brown (안젤라 브라운), senior vice president of events at the Linux Foundation, said, "Many of the world's most innovative technology companies are based in South Korea, and many of them are shaping the future of open source." She said Open Source Summit Korea offers a special opportunity for developers and technology leaders to engage directly with experts implementing software infrastructure that underpins AI, cloud computing, telecommunications, embedded systems and enterprise platforms. She said it is meaningful in that it fosters an environment in which the South Korean open source community and the global open source ecosystem can share experience and expertise and build stronger technology together.