Keynotes Presentation:

• Katharina Meyer: Mapping and Sustaining Open Source Ecosystems – The Role of Research and Research Funders
• Brian Fitzgerald: The Power of Open: The History and Future of Open Technologies

Lightning Talk:

• Aishat Muibudeen: Beyond the Code: How Diversity and Inclusion Shape the Future of Open Source
• Habib Noorbhai: OSPOs for Good (2024) Report: Driving global open-source collaboration to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Thematic Block 1: Funding and Open Source

• Brigitta Németh & Johannes Wachs: The Pitfalls of Centralized Sponsorship of Decentralized Innovation Communities
• Cailean Osborne, Paul Sharratt, Dawn Foster & Mirko Boehm: A Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development
• Stephen Jacobs & Mike Nolan: Funding Broad-Based Community Development Services to Foster Project Sustainability

Thematic Block 2: Diversifying Open Source

• Celina Agaton: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Local Data Economies: Gender, Jobs and Climate Equity
• Hana Frluckaj, Will Beason, Sherae Daniel, James Howison: The State of DEI in OSS: A Meta-Review
• Jennifer Tridgell: The Potential of Open-Source Software for Technology Transfer: Beyond Global North v South?

Thematic Block 3: Open Source Economics

• Eva Maxfield Brown, Cailean Osborne, Peter Cihon, Moritz Boehmecke-Schwafert, Kevin Xu, Mirko Boehm & Knut Blind: Measuring Software Innovation with Open Source Software Development Data
• Jara Pascual, Vilma Puriene, Colin Petruno, Krisjanis Krakops, Abdulkadir Nuhu, Khairool Adzelan Aman, Hazwan Razak & Mohamad Amir Shariff: Economic and political impacts through adoption of open innovation ecosystem frameworks
• Matt Germonprez, Yu-Kai Lin, Yiqi Li & Sean Goggins: Operationalizing Open Source Supply Chains as Complex Sociotechnical Systems
• Matteo Nebbiai: Decoding Firm Preferences: The Politics of Data Sharing Support and Opposition

Thematic Block 4: Open Source for the Public Sector

• Eve Elie, Vinuri Dissanayake & Aaron Snow: Scan of 50 Digital Public Goods in Government Use
• Jan Krewer, Zuzanna Warso: Digital Commons as Providers of Public Digital Infrastructures
• Johan Linåker, Astor Nummelin-Carlberg & Ciarán O’Riordan: Public Sector Open Source Program Offices – Archetypes for how to Grow (Common) Institutional Capabilities
• Johan Linåker & Sachiko Muto: Enhancing Digital Maturity through Open Source Software Reuse: Insights from a 16-Country Survey

Thematic Block 5: Open Source and AI

• Freyja van den Boom: The Irresponsible Licence generator or Balancing Benefits and Harms: Ensuring Inclusive and Responsible AI Governance
• Iana Kazeeva: The EU AI Act and the Future of Open Source AI
• Manuel Hoffmann, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng & Kevin Xu: Generative AI and the Nature of Work

Thematic Block 6: Open Source Ecosystems

• Anne Herfurth, Munsif Sokiyna & Pratyush Nidhi Sharma: The Impact of Generative AI on Open-Source Software Developer Motivations: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
• Dawn Foster: The New Dynamics of Open Source: Relicensing, Forks, & Community Impact
• Hatta Masayuki: Power and Hegemony in Open Source: Dynamics of Influence in Collaborative Software Project Management
• Ryan Ellis & Jaikrishna Bollampalli: Bug Bounties and FOSS : Opportunities, Risks, and a Path Forward