🎟️ Get Your Ticket for InnerSource Summit 2025!
Join us on Thursday, 13th November 2025 to celebrate 10 years of InnerSource Commons — with events happening across Yokohama 🇯🇵, Berlin 🇩🇪, New York 🇺🇸, and online 🌍!
Choose where you’d like to take part:
Yokohama Ticket
Join us in person at Mitsubishi Electric in Yokohama, Japan.
Berlin Ticket
Attend at SAP in Berlin, Germany, and connect with the European InnerSource community.
New York Ticket
Be part of the celebration at IBM in New York, USA.
Online Ticket
Access the full 24-hour global program from anywhere in the world.
Each ticket includes access to inspiring keynotes, practical sessions, and the chance to connect with InnerSource practitioners from around the globe. 🌍✨
We can’t wait to see you — whether in person or online — as we look back on a decade of InnerSource and look ahead to the future together! 🙌
Our Host Venues
🌍 To mark 10 years of InnerSource collaboration and innovation, we’re thrilled to announce the host venues for InnerSource Summit 2025 — and they’re nothing short of extraordinary!
We’re proud to partner with three global tech leaders who are opening their doors to help us celebrate this milestone:
🏢 Mitsubishi Electric – Join us in their cutting-edge innovation space in Yokohama, Japan
🏢 SAP – Be part of the energy at their vibrant campus in Berlin, Germany
🏢 IBM – Experience the summit from their iconic One Madison office in NYC, USA
And of course, as always, you can join us online from anywhere in the world 🌐
Whether you’re joining in person or virtually, InnerSource Summit 2025 promises to be our most global, collaborative, and inspiring event yet. We can’t wait to see you there!
Why You Should Attend the 10-Year Anniversary InnerSource Summit
Don’t miss the landmark 10th Anniversary InnerSource Summit—where a decade of collaborative innovation meets the future of software development. This milestone event brings together pioneers, practitioners, and newcomers alike to celebrate InnerSource’s evolution from inception to a Gartner-recognized strategic technology trend. Gain exclusive insights from organizations that have transformed their development culture, participate in hands-on workshops led by industry veterans, and connect with a global community that’s reshaping how teams collaborate across organizational boundaries. Whether you’re looking to launch your first InnerSource initiative or scale existing programs, this summit offers the perfect blend of practical knowledge, strategic vision, and valuable connections that will position both you and your organization at the forefront of this revolutionary approach to software development. Early bird registration is opening shortly!
Agenda
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10:00 - 10:30 | Yuki Hattori / 服部 佑樹 (Mr.) (InnerSource Commons) Welcome to InnerSource Summit 2025: Navigating the AI Code Explosion: InnerSource Strategies for Quality at Scale (Show Abstract) |
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10:30 - 10:50 | Yusuke Shijiki / 志自岐 雄介 (Mr.) (Mitsubishi Electric) No Innovation without Co-Creation: Mitsubishi Electric’s Transformation into an Innovative Company (Show Abstract) |
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10:50 - 11:20 | Shingo Oidate / 追立 真吾 (Mr.)and Kazuma Nogi (Mitsubishi Electric) From Silos to Co-Creation: Mitsubishi Electric’s InnerSource Community Journey Across Diverse Domains (Show Abstract) |
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11:20 - 11:50 | Nitish Tyagi (Mr.) (Gartner Inc.) Implementing Innersource as Culture for Sustainable Productivity and Innovation (Show Abstract) |
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11:50 - 12:20 | Shane Martin Coughlan (Mr.) (The Linux Foundation) Understand Why Open Source Process Management Matters To InnerSource (Show Abstract) |
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12:25 - 12:50 | Zack Koppert (Mr.) - Virtual Session (GitHub) Can you measure InnerSource? (Show Abstract) |
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12:50 - 13:15 | Jerry Tan (Mr.) - Virtual Session (China OpenSource Promotion Union) AI for InnerSource & InnerSource For AI (Show Abstract) |
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13:20 - 13:50 | Tomohiro Nakajima / 中島 智弘 (Mr.) (KDDI Agile Development Center) The Origin Story of the InnerSource Hero: Lessons from Practitioners on Core Values (Show Abstract) |
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13:50 - 14:20 | Wei Chan (Mr.) (Huawei) Huawei InnerSource Culture and Value Closed-Loop Practice (Show Abstract) |
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14:30 - 15:20 | Katsura Ito / 伊藤かつら (Ms.) (National Personnel Authority) Shaping What's Next: The Transformative Power of Engineers and Organization (Show Abstract) |
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15:20 - 15:35 | Katsura Ito and Yuki Hattori (National Personnel Authority and InnerSource Commons) InnerSource Special Panel Talk |
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15:45 - 16:15 | Mishari Muqbil (Mr.) (Zymple) Beyond Metrics: Using Behavioral Design to Drive Quality in Software Projects (Show Abstract) |
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16:15 - 16:45 | Younes Hairej (Mr.) (Aokumo Inc.) What’s Your InnerSource Worth? (Show Abstract) |
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16:55 - 17:25 | TBD (TBD) TBD (Show Abstract) |
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17:25 - 17:55 | Yoshitake Kobayashi (Mr.) (Toshiba) Driving InnerSource Way in the Enterprise (Show Abstract) |
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17:55 - 18:05 / 09:55 - 10:05 | Yuki Hattori / Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar (InnerSource Commons) Handover from Yokohama to Berlin (Show Abstract) |
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10:05 - 10:20 | Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar (InnerSource Commons) Berlin Welcome address (Show Abstract) |
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10:20 - 11:00 | Peter Giese (SAP) Keynote - From Code to Culture: Scaling Collaboration with InnerSource (Show Abstract) |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Dr. Wolfgang Gehring - Virtual Session (Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH) A Frictionless Inner Source Journey (Show Abstract) |
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11:30 - 12:00 | Robert Hansel and Benjamin Ihrig (Bosch / SAP SE) InnerSource Contribution Insights (Show Abstract) |
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12:00 - 12:30 | Ayodeji Ogundare (Adyen) InnerSource by Design: Scaling Internal Collaboration with Open Source Operating Models (Show Abstract) |
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12:30 - 13:00 | Clare Dillon (CURIOSS) State of InnerSource 2025 (Show Abstract) |
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13:00 - 13:30 | Magaret Ekerendu - Virtual Session (Otaku.Hugo) Building a Culture of Ethical Collaboration: InnerSource in Data Annotation (Show Abstract) |
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13:30 - 14:00 | Gilles Gravier - Virtual Session (Geneva State Administration IT Services) InnerSource in Government (Show Abstract) |
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14:00 - 14:30 | Roman Martin, Carlos Navarro and Ana Gamito (Red Had / AXA Group Operations) Building InnerSource Foundations Through InnerSource Patterns (Show Abstract) |
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14:30 - 15:00 | Frédéric Sicot Mouret and Nataliia Kees (Airbus) InnerSourcing GenAI at Airbus (Show Abstract) |
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15:00 - 15:30 | Isabel Drost-Fromm (Europace AG) Open communication for open development (Show Abstract) |
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15:30 - 15:35 / 09:30 - 09:35 | Russ Rutledge and Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar (InnerSource Commons) Handover from Berlin to New York City (Show Abstract) |
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16:00 - 16:30 | Klaas-Jan Stol - Berlin In-person exclusive session (University College Cork) Does adopting inner source increase job satisfaction? (Show Abstract) |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Chamindra de Silva and Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar - Berlin In-person exclusive session (Citi) InnerSource Value Metrics (Show Abstract) |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Inez Störzer and Maximilian Capraro - Berlin In-person exclusive session (DATEV eG) Applying InnerSource for DATEV's Shared Frontend Library (Show Abstract) |
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09:35 - 09:50 | Russ Rutledge (InnerSource Commons) Welcome address (Show Abstract) |
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09:50 - 10:30 | Olivia Buzek (IBM) Humans In the Loop: Collaborating in the Age of AI (Show Abstract) |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Micaela D Eller and Jenna Ritten (Ernst & Young / IBM) We are People not Robots: An IBM InnerSource Story (Show Abstract) |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Christian DeFoe and Amber Lindsey-Rigg- Virtual Session (Shell) New Open Source Tools to Enable InnerSource (Show Abstract) |
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11:30 - 12:00 | Sebastian Blanc (Port.io) Platform Engineering and InnerSource: The Separated Twins Finally Reunited (Show Abstract) |
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12:00 - 12:30 | Fei Wan (Comcast) Reimagining InnerSource for the Agentic AI Era (Show Abstract) |
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12:30 - 13:00 | IBM ZTeam (IBM) TBD (Show Abstract) |
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13:00 - 14:00 | Jeff Bailey - Virtual Session (Nike) Effective InnerSource Strategies for Resource-Constrained Teams (Show Abstract) |
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09:35 - 09:50 | Oscar Lobaton Salas - Virtual Session (Credicorp) Building Bridges: Scaling InnerSource (Show Abstract) |
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14:00 - 14:30 | Katie Schueths (InnerSource Commons) Incentivizing InnerSource Adoption (Show Abstract) |
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14:30 - 15:00 | Lizzie Salita (Booz Allen Hamilton) AI: InnerSource Usurper or Superpower? (Show Abstract) |
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15:00 - 15:30 | IBM ZTeam - Virtual Session (IBM) TBD (Show Abstract) |
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15:30 - 16:00 | Lucas Gonze (Independent Practicioner) Securing InnerSource (Show Abstract) |
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16:00 - 16:30 | Trin Baumgarten and Caroline T Jones (The Aeorspace Corporation) Kickstart with a Contribfest (Show Abstract) |
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09:35 - 09:50 | Micaela Eller (Ernst & Young) Is the Future Forked? Navigating an Uncertain Era via InnerSource (Show Abstract) |
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17:00 - 17:15 | Russ Rutledge (InnerSource Commons) Closing address (Show Abstract) |
Meet the Speakers of InnerSource Summit 2025
This year’s Summit brings together the very best InnerSourcerers from across the globe. From groundbreaking keynote speakers to inspiring community voices, our program will highlight diverse perspectives and hard-won insights into InnerSource practice at scale.
With in-person presentations in Yokohama, Berlin, and New York, alongside contributions from online speakers worldwide, this is a truly global gathering. Together, our speakers will share their expertise, stories, and visions for the future of InnerSource—making this 10-year anniversary Summit one to remember.
Keynote speakers

Yokohama Keynote speakers
Katsura Ito (Shaping What’s Next: The Transformative Power of Engineers and Organization)
Gained diverse experience at software companies including IBM and Adobe Systems, working in field engineering, product marketing, business management, and other roles. Joined Microsoft Japan in 2011, overseeing enterprise marketing. Became an Executive Officer in 2013. At the Developer Evangelism Division, was responsible for technical evangelism centered on emerging technologies such as cloud computing, AI, and HoloLens. In 2017, joined the Digital Transformation Business Division and established a new corporate DX technology team. From 2019, served as Chief Learning Officer, supporting digital talent development and organizational reform for many corporate organizations.Became Commissioner of the National Personnel Authority in April 2022. Working toward realizing a national civil service system that provides the world’s highest quality administrative services, focusing on digital skills development, women’s advancement, and work style reform for national civil servants.
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Berlin Keynote speakers
Peter Giese (From Code to Culture: Scaling Collaboration with InnerSource)
Peter Giese is Director of SAP Open Source Program Office and member of the Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board. Peter is focusing on refining SAP’s open source strategy, developing new tools and approaches for managing open source at scale and on further promoting InnerSource at SAP. Since joining SAP in 1996, Peter has held several managerial and executive positions in application and technology development. Before joining SAP, Peter worked as researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) and as development manager at Kiefer & Veittinger Software Unternehmensberatung GmbH. Peter holds a M.Sc. degree in computer science from Kaiserslautern University of Technology.

New York Keynote speakers
Olivia Buzek (Humans In the Loop: Collaborating in the Age of AI)
Olivia has been building machine learning and natural language processing models since before it was cool. She’s spent several years at IBM working on opening up Watson tech, around the country and around the world.
Speaker Bios

Amber Lindsey-Rigg (New Open Source Tools to Enable InnerSource )
Amber Lindsey-Rigg is the Senior Applied Innovation Developer at Shell where she works in in Data Engineering and Software Engineering. She has expertise in NLP, OCR, IoT, cloud based solutions and big data storage and has over 5 years’ experience working in data and technology. She has a Master’s in Chemistry from the University of St. Andrews.

Ana Gamito (Building InnerSource Foundations Through InnerSource Patterns)
Ana Gamito is Open Source Program Officer at AXA, leading the strategy and implementation of Open Source and InnerSource initiatives. With a background in frontend engineering, and a deep commitment to open collaboration, she focuses on building strong developer communities. Based in Barcelona, Ana is member of MujeresTech and co-hosted adaJS BCN for over five years, promoting inclusion and knowledge sharing in tech. She is a strong advocate for transparency, driving innovation responsibly, inclusive design, and sustainable software ecosystems.

Ayodeji Ogundare (InnerSource by Design: Scaling Internal Collaboration with Open Source Operating Models)
Ayodeji Ogundare is a Developer Advocate at Adyen, where he focuses on improving developer experience across public APIs, SDKs, and open source plugins. He supports internal teams and external contributors by streamlining contribution workflows, enabling better tooling, and advising on open source and InnerSource practices. Ayodeji speaks and writes about developer productivity, OSPO models, and the role of structured governance in building a strong engineering culture.

Benjamin Ihrig (InnerSource Contribution Insights)
Benjamin Ihrig is a Cloud Native Developer with 8+ years, specializing in SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and Kubernetes as well a trainer for SAP-internal trainings, sharing his experience with colleagues within SAP. Currently, as InnerSource Officer, he passionately promotes collaboration through InnerSource, guiding teams to adopt and live this methodology.

Carlos Navarro (Building InnerSource Foundations Through InnerSource Patterns)
Carlos Navarro Segarra is a Principal Engineer at AXA with deep expertise in Java development and architecture. His journey spans from Java Developer to Lead Developer and Solutions Architect, where he focused on scalable systems and system performance. Now, as Principal Engineer and Solutions Architect Lead, he drives developer productivity and operational efficiency through DevOps practices and Platform Engineering, while overseeing the OSPO.

Caroline T Jones (Kickstart with a Contribfest)
Caroline Jones is an Engineering Manager at The Aerospace Corporation leading a team developing cloud native solutions to tackle some of the most difficult problems in space. She also leads Aerospace’s initiative for software standards and developer best practices, including spearheading the InnerSource project. Caroline began her career at Aerospace as an intern in 2016 before joining full-time in 2017 after completing her B.S. in Computer Engineering at Boston University. She resides in Santa Monica, CA, and has far too many hobbies to list here.

Chamindra de Silva (InnerSource Value Metrics)
Chamindra de Silva is long time Open Source advocate and contributor originally from Sri Lanka and was active promoting Free and Open Source with FSF and OSI. He has contributions to Apache, Google Summer of Code, UNDP IOSN networks. Open Source projects he has lead have been awarded from SourceForge and Free Software Foundation in the past particularly for his work in the Humanitarian Open Source Domain. He is presently working in Citi in London being the InnerSource Project Manager and Solution Architect for some of the leading InnerSource projects in the organization and is member of the InnerSource governance program. He has published articles and papers in CACM, IEEE, IDRC, UNDP, UN ESCAP and CMI.

Clare Dillon (State of InnerSource 2025)
With over 25 years’ experience in the technology industry, Clare Dillon is currently a researcher with the Lero, Science Foundation Ireland’s Research Centre for Software, where she focuses on InnerSource. Clare also works with CURIOSS, a global community for university and research institution OSPOs (Open Source Program Offices). Clare has been participating in the InnerSource Commons community since 2019 and is currently serving as vice president on the board of directors. From 2021-2023, Clare served as the inaugural Executive Director of InnerSource Commons Foundation. Previously, Clare was as a member of the Microsoft Ireland Leadership Team for 8 years, heading up their Developer Evangelism Group. Clare is a also certified coach and frequently speaks at international conferences and corporate events on topics relating to open collaboration and the future of work.

Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar (InnerSource Value Metrics)
Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides open source business intelligence services based on development analytics risk management and software production indicators at scale. Currently the Chief Executive Officer at Bitergia, he is focused on the quality of the data; research of new metrics, analysis; and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Daniel holds a PhD in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, where he focused on the analysis of buggy developer activity patterns in the Mozilla Community. Daniel serves on the Board and is a Member of the InnerSource Commons, the CHAOSS community and the Apereo Foundation.

Fei Wan (Reimagining InnerSource for the Agentic AI Era)
Fei Wan is a Distinguished Architect known for driving cross-organizational solutions and leading technology transformation. With deep expertise in large-scale systems, open source, InnerSource, DevOps, cloud, and enterprise architecture, she brings a passion for innovation and a strong commitment to collaboration. As the agentic AI era unfolds, Fei is inviting teams to reimagine how we build software — together.
Frédéric Sicot Mouret (InnerSourcing GenAI at Airbus)
Frédéric Sicot Mouret joined Airbus in 2017 as a Data Scientist. In previous life, he worked 10 years as a high-performance computing researcher in aerodynamics applications. Then he switched to data science and artificial intelligence for precision agriculture. At Airbus, beyond his duty as data scientist, he has built a community of Open- and InnerSource enthusiasts and eventually got the institution buy-in to create an Open Software Program Office.

Gilles Gravier (InnerSource in Government)
Gilles is a director, and senior open source, InnerSource and innovation strategy advisor. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he provides innovation strategy consulting and advisory services to his key customers worldwide, through the application of open source, InnerSource, blockchain, metaverse, quantum and other highly innovative technologies. He can also offer service as a Chief Open Source or InnerSource Officer, or Head of Innovation for your company. After delivering these services for almost 10 years as part of Wipro’s open source consulting practice, he is now proposing his skills and experience as an independent consultant. He is currently working for the State Administration of Geneva’s IT Services (OCSIN) where, after creating their open source strategy, he is driving its implementation as open source and InnerSource programs.

Inez Störzer (Applying InnerSource for DATEV’s Shared Frontend Library)
Inez Störzer has been with DATEV eG for more than 15 years and currently holds the position of Product Owner for platform services in the areas of data management and artificial intelligence. As a passionate advocat of InnerSource, she actively drives the transformation of DATEV’s internal development culture. Her efforts are focused on dismantling organizational silos and promoting effective cross-team collaboration. She brings both her technical background in computer science and many years of leadership experience to the role.

Isabel Drost-Fromm (Open communication for open development)
Isabel Drost-Fromm recently finished services as the Chair of the board of directors of the InnerSource Commons Foundation, as well as (former board) member of the Apache Software Foundation. Interested in all things search and text mining with a thorough background in open source collaboration, she is working at Europace AG as Open Source Strategist. True to the nature of people living in Berlin she loves giving friends a reason for a brief visit - as a result she co-founded and is still one of the creative heads behind Berlin Buzzwords, a tech conference on all things search, scale and storage and FOSS Backstage.

Jeff Bailey (Effective InnerSource Strategies for Resource-Constrained Teams)
Jeff is a software development leader at Nike with 25+ years of experience building full-stack applications on numerous platforms to solve business problems. Jeff applies knowledge of several programming languages to deliver high-quality software solutions. With a continuous improvement mindset he focuses on leading software product development communities, boosting productivity, and automating almost everything. His work at Nike revolves around growing Communities of Practice, InnerSource, and evangelizing global adoption of Platform Engineering to drive efficiency.

Jenna Ritten (We are People not Robots: An IBM InnerSource Story)
Jenna Ritten is Chief Developer Advocate & Architect for the InnerSource Ecosystem at IBM Research and Lead Organizer for InnerSource Summit 2025 New York. She leads IBM’s InnerSource transformation across the enterprise, enabling open collaboration, innovation and reuse done right at scale. Jenna partners with InnerSource Commons to co-create industry patterns and standards while building bridges between IBM Research innovations and the global developer community. Her expertise spans developer relations, enterprise infrastructure and platform, cloud-native, AI/ML, quantum computing, and fostering collaborative development cultures. A passionate advocate for open innovation in Tech, Jenna champions non-traditional paths into technology and actively builds communities that foster open collaboration and sustainable technology.

Jerry Tan (AI for InnerSource & InnerSource For AI)
Open Source Expert, Board member of InnerSourceCommons, now serves as Executive Vice Secretary-General of COPU (China Open Source Promotion Union),
20+ years working experience in Sun/Baidu/Tencent,
familiar with Open Source, DevOps, AI.

Katie Schueths (Incentivizing InnerSource Adoption)
Katie has a passion for driving community development and is an active member at the InnerSource Commons Foundation. She established the InnerSource program Offices at Analog Devices and Indeed, where she implemented processes to improve collaboration, code reuse, code quality, and documentation across the internal engineering organizations. She has also served on the InnerSource Commons Foundation Board of Directors and helped build the open source community at IEEE SA OPEN.

Kazuma Nogi (From Silos to Co-Creation: Mitsubishi Electric’s InnerSource Community Journey Across Diverse Domains)
NOGI Kazuma is a Head Researcher in Mitsubishi Electric’s R&D division. He is engaged in the operational design of IT services. He joined the company in 2020, working as an engineer and architect in the autonomous driving field, involved in development environments and testing. Since joining the R&D division in 2024, he has focused on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Platform Engineering to improve development environments. He participated in launching the company’s InnerSource initiative, approaching its operational efficiency and user growth from a technical perspective.

Klaas-Jan Stol (Does adopting InnerSource increase job satisfaction?)
Klaas-Jan Stol is Professor of Software Engineering at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Ireland. He holds a PhD in software engineering from the University of Limerick. His current research focuses on contemporary software development processes (including InnerSource) and technologies (e.g. the adoption of GenAI in SE), as well as the social processes of software professionals (e.g. onboarding). He has published extensively in the leading journals and conferences, and co-authored a book on InnerSource.

Lizzie Salita (AI: InnerSource Usurper or Superpower?)
Lizzie Salita is a Developer Experience strategist driving cultural change to enhance the impact of Booz Allen technical talent. As a customer success lead for Booz Allen’s internal developer platform, Lizzie is an advocate for InnerSource, developer relations, and engineering standards. With a background in software engineering, Lizzie brings firsthand experience to technical community-building and a passion for the advancement of women in STEAM.

Lucas Gonze (Securing InnerSource)
Lucas Gonze is a specialist in enterprise open source architecture, with a focus on security, governance, and sustainable program design. He has led both outbound and inbound open source initiatives across major corporations including Meta, Toyota, Cisco, eBay, and New Relic, helping them integrate open source best practices into complex engineering environments. Lucas currently serves as Security Technical Program Manager for the Magmacore project, where he leads efforts around software supply chain security, OpenSSF alignment, and secure development workflows. His work blends deep hands-on knowledge of open source tooling with a strong programmatic perspective, enabling organizations to adopt open source methods without compromising security or compliance. Over his multi-decade career, Lucas has played pivotal roles in open source community leadership, product management, and software engineering. He’s especially focused on translating the open source ecosystem’s strengths—like transparency, automation, and collective trust—into frameworks that support the scale and constraints of the enterprise.

Magaret Ekerendu (Building a Culture of Ethical Collaboration: InnerSource in Data Annotation)
Magaret Ekerendu is a Data Annotation Specialist and AI Ethics Advocate based in Lagos, Nigeria. She has extensive experience in building and validating AI systems through annotation, labeling, and anomaly detection. Magaret is passionate about ensuring AI systems are both accurate and ethical, bridging technical expertise with a focus on transparency, collaboration, and shared ownership. She is a co-founder of creAIte, an initiative that empowers individuals to leverage AI responsibly, and served as a Local Ambassador for Teens in AI, mentoring teenagers in building AI solutions aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. At the InnerSource Summit, she brings her experience in applying collaborative, transparent, and culturally responsible practices to AI development and annotation workflows.

Maximilian Capraro (Applying InnerSource for DATEV’s Shared Frontend Library)
Dr. Maximilian Capraro is software engineer at DATEV eG where he consults on InnerSource and open source and is maintainer in one of the firm’s most successful InnerSource projects. Max is a co-founding member of the InnerSource Commons Foundation and served two terms on its board of directors. Back in academia, Max performed over six years of research, published multiple articles on InnerSource in peer reviewed venues, and consulted companies including Siemens, Continental, and Black Duck Software. He developed the contribution-flow method for evaluating and auditing InnerSource success in large organizations. His interests include InnerSource governance, transfer pricing for InnerSource, as well as community analytics and management. Max holds a doctoral degree from FAU Erlangen, Germany. Learn more about Max at capraro.net.

Micaela D Eller (Is the Future Forked? Navigating an Uncertain Era via InnerSource) (We are People not Robots: An IBM InnerSource Story)
Micaela doesn’t just lead transformations; she architects them for resilience from the inside out. As a change agent she has been and continues to be instrumental in the success of cultural, Agile and AI transformations. She uses her gift for unconventional problem-solving and systems thinking to untangle complex organizational structures and turn them into thriving high collaboration cultures and ecosystems. She embodies servant leadership to the core, is adept at building trust, empowering teams to make an impact and believes that for innovation to flourish we must focus, not on technology alone, but on the human experience to create a better future for everyone.

Mishari Muqbil (Beyond Metrics: Using Behavioral Design to Drive Quality in Software Projects)
Mishari Muqbil has a strong technical and management background and has been part of various open source communities for almost 30 years and is passionate about getting people together to openly collaborate on solving difficult problems. Presently he is an InnerSource coach, helping companies bring open source ways of working in house so that their technical teams experience a collaboration method that feels smooth and natural. In his professional career, Mishari has helped clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies, SE Asian Unicorns to Non Governmental Organisations and small start ups. Mishari is a co-founder OpenTech Thailand Association, a group that advocate for contributing to open technology projects in Thailand, and a co-organizer of FOSSASIA, Asia’s premiere open source conference.

Nataliia Kees (InnerSourcing GenAI at Airbus)
Nataliia Kees is an experienced Data Scientist with a strong background in both corporate and academic settings. She is currently part of the Data Science team at Airbus in Hamburg where she leads the development of a Generative AI platform. Passionate about sharing her knowledge, she also holds a position as a Lecturer for Robot_dreams and has previously taught for GoIT. Her prior industry experience includes roles at inovex GmbH and qdive GmbH.

Nitish Tyagi (Implementing Innersource as Culture for Sustainable Productivity and Innovation)
Nitish Tyagi is a Principal Analyst at Gartner, specializing in the Software Engineering Leaders practice. He advises VPs, Directors of Engineering, CIOs, and CTOs on mission-critical priorities, with a focus on InnerSource, Open Source Software, Open Source Program Offices, Generative AI, AI Code Assistants, and talent development. Nitish has authored over a dozen in-depth research publications on InnerSource and Open Source, and is recognized for leading Gartner’s coverage in these domains. His insights help technology leaders drive innovation, foster collaboration, and build high-performing engineering organizations.

Oscar Lobaton Salas (Building Bridges: Scaling InnerSource)
Oscar is a Systems Engineer and currently serves as Corporate DevSecOps Architect at Credicorp, the largest financial holding in Peru. In his role, he leads the technical standardization of DevSecOps practices across more than 15 companies and a community of over 8,000 developers. His focus is on building key capabilities—such as version control, documentation as code, AI for software development, CI/CD, and developer portals—by applying InnerSource as a driver of collaboration and reuse. Alongside his corporate work, he collaborates as a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab of the National University of Engineering, where he guides students in developing advanced AI capabilities, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning of models, and Model Context Protocol (MCP). He is also an active contributor to the InnerSource Commons community through the Open Source InnerSource Patterns project. This experience has helped him connect theoretical concepts with real-world implementations in complex and regulated enterprise environments. Oscar has shared his insights at conferences such as DevOpsDays Medellín, DevSecOps Fest, and GitHub Copilot Week, and he was also featured in GitHub Latam Connect. His passion is enabling organizations to embrace InnerSource as a catalyst for innovation, compliance, and cultural transformation.

Robert Hansel (InnerSource Contribution Insights)
Robert is a passionate software developer and data engineer advocating for InnerSource at Bosch. He has joined the InnerSource initiative at Bosch in 2012. Robert is currently driving InnerSource adoption at Bosch as a member of the Center of Excellence Open and InnerSource, focusing on data driven insights and compliance.

Roman Martin (Building InnerSource Foundations Through InnerSource Patterns)
Roman Martin Gil, Principal Architect at Red Hat, has a deep background in software development in open source environments and a passion for making things work better. He shows how Open Source principles like collaboration, transparency, and community-driven innovation can be successfully applied within enterprises to unlock new levels of efficiency and agility.

Russell Rutledge (Inside the Origins of the InnerSource Commons)
Russ Rutledge is the Executive Director of the InnerSource Commons, a non-profit foundation dedicated to the teaching of InnerSource across the industry. Russ is a founding director of the foundation and has served in many leadership positions there. Russ has worked at several multi-national software companies and participated at all levels of InnerSource practice, both as individual contributor, director, and everywhere between. Russ currently serves as Senior Director, InnerSource and Collaboration at WellSky, which is the health technology company leading the charge to make health care better and more efficient for everyone through technical innovation. Russ’ drive and passion is to enable all software engineers worldwide to achieve incredible technical, business, and personal results via streamlined, collaborative, InnerSource process.

Sébastien Blanc (Platform Engineering and InnerSource: The Separated Twins Finally Reunited)
Sébastien Blanc, Staff Developer Advocate at Port, is a Passion-Driven-Developer with one primary goal : share his passion by giving talks that are pragmatic, fun and focused on live coding.

Shane Martin Coughlan (Understand Why Open Source Process Management Matters To InnerSource)
Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include building the largest open source governance community in the world through the OpenChain Project, spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network (OIN) into the largest patent non-aggression community in history and establishing the first global network for open source legal experts on behalf of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). He is a co-founder of both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to open source. He currently leads the OpenChain Project as General Manager and is a Staffing Committee, Management Board and General Assembly Member of OpenForum Europe.

Shingo Oidate (From Silos to Co-Creation: Mitsubishi Electric’s InnerSource Community Journey Across Diverse Domains)
Shingo Oidate is the General Manager leading Mitsubishi Electric’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), which also serves as the company’s InnerSource Program Office (ISPO). Recognizing the need for both InnerSource and open source engagement, he advocated the creation of the OSPO/ISPO and officially launched it in April 2025. He is driving the adoption of InnerSource practices across Mitsubishi Electric’s diverse businesses—from factory automation and energy to transportation and consumer systems—where seemingly unrelated domains can find new opportunities for co-creation. His focus is on building an internal culture of openness that bridges the gap between InnerSource and open source, enabling the company to move toward sustainable participation in the global OSS community. Shingo is also active in global open source and InnerSource communities, contributing to initiatives such as the Linux Foundation and InnerSource Commons. His leadership emphasizes breaking down organizational silos, fostering co-creation inside and outside the company, and aligning software development transformation with Mitsubishi Electric’s corporate philosophy, “Changes for the Better.”

Tomohiro Nakajima (The Origin Story of the InnerSource Hero: Lessons from Practitioners on Core Values)
Tomohiro Nakajima is a Product Owner and UX-oriented Product Designer at KDDI Agile Development Center in Tokyo, Japan. He has led cross-industry proof-of-concept and new business incubation projects, exploring solutions that span diverse domains. He is the creator of anycommu, a retrospective support tool with an AI Scrum Master, which has been adopted by nearly 400 teams inside and outside the company. He also actively contributes to the agile and InnerSource communities in Japan, frequently speaking at conferences such as Scrum Fest Osaka and InnerSource Gathering. Beyond his corporate role, Tomohiro is an indie musician and app developer, exploring how creativity and technology can shape better human connections.

Trin Baumgarten (Kickstart with a Contribfest)
Trin Baumgarten is a Full-Stack developer at The Aerospace Corporation with a passion for optimizing architecture, design-driven development, and reusable code. In 2020 They graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and became a full-time developer at The Aerospace Corporation. Since working at Aerospace, they have saved hundreds of work hours by setting up deployment pipelines and delivery workflows, helped build the corporations foundational project templates, and later co-hosted the corporations first ever Contribfest. They spend their free time taking care of rescue parrots and fixing up their 150 year old home in upstate New York. This is their first conference.

Dr Wolfgang Gehring (A Frictionless InnerSource Journey)
Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an Ambassador for Open and InnerSource and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to help enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. He has a passion for communities, leads Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation’s Open Source Program Office, is a member of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence, a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, and a member of the InnerSource Commons.

Yoshitake Kobayashi (Driving InnerSource Way in the Enterprise)
Yoshitake Kobayashi leads open source initiatives at Toshiba Corporation, where his team develops and maintains a Linux distribution used across a range of Toshiba products. His research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, and dynamically reconfigurable systems. He also serves as Chair of the Technical Steering Committee for the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) Project, hosted by The Linux Foundation.

Younes Hairej (What’s Your InnerSource Worth?)
Younes Hairej is the founder and CEO of Aokumo Inc., an AWS InnerSource Partner building tools that help organizations quantify and scale their internal collaboration. As former Group CTO at Invast Inc., he led a cloud-native transformation that reduced deployment times by 80% and earned an FX-Markets Asia Award—experience that shaped his understanding of how open source patterns can revolutionize internal development. At Aokumo, Younes developed a maturity assessment platform that translates InnerSource adoption into measurable ROI, helping engineering leaders move beyond vanity metrics to real business impact. He’s a two-time patent holder in wireless communication, holds AWS and Kubernetes certifications, and regularly speaks at conferences like AWS Summit and KubeDay about making InnerSource a practical, data-driven reality inside complex organizations.

Yuki Hattori (Navigating the AI Code Explosion: InnerSource Strategies for Quality at Scale)
Yuki Hattori is a Senior Architect at GitHub, renowned for his expertise in cloud technologies, DevOps methodologies, and AI-driven software development. He serves concurrently as President of the InnerSource Commons Foundation, leading global efforts to promote the adoption of InnerSource practices that break organizational silos and enhance collaboration. At GitHub, Yuki accelerates enterprise adoption of GitHub Copilot and integrates open-source methodologies within corporate environments to boost efficiency and innovation. Previously at Microsoft, he spent seven years driving Azure cloud adoption and DevOps in mission-critical manufacturing systems.

Yusuke Shijiki (No Innovation without Co-Creation: Mitsubishi Electric’s Transformation into an Innovative Company)
Yusuke Shijiki joined Mitsubishi Electric in 1989 after earning his master’s degree in Applied Mechanics from Kyushu University. He has since held key leadership roles including Deputy Senior General Manager of Communication Systems Center and Senior General Manager of Kamakura Works. In 2024, he was appointed Executive Officer, and since April 2025 he has served as Head of Corporate Manufacturing and Engineering, overseeing company-wide design and production technologies.
At the core of his leadership is his personal purpose: “Always moving forward with a smile, step by step, to pass the future on to the next generation.” He believes that sharing knowledge in simple and accessible ways, recognizing each other’s strengths, and growing together are essential for strengthening organizations and accelerating innovation. Both at work and in life, he values collaboration, joy, and openness as ways to create lasting impact for future generations.
With his strong belief in co-creation, he made the decision in 2025 to establish the Open Source & InnerSource Program Office (OSPO/ISPO) at Mitsubishi Electric, driving co-creation both inside and outside the company.

Zachery Koppert (Can you Measure InnerSource?)
Zack is a Senior Software Manager at GitHub in the Engineering department, with a focus on feature development and new user experience. He has a passion for collaborative coding and solving complex technical problems with teams. Zack is also an active member of the InnerSource Commons community, where he shares his knowledge and experiences with other like-minded developers. Previously Zack was a Senior Software Engineer on the Open Source team and a Senior DevOps Engineer on the Professional Services Team at GitHub helping customers adopt GitHub and guiding them through DevSecOps, InnerSource, and Open Source transformations. Before GitHub, he founded and led the Open Source Office at Tektronix focusing on both Open Source and InnerSource. Zack lives in Oregon with his wife, 3 kids, 2 dogs, and 3 cats and enjoys dirt bike racing and guitars.
Why Sponsor?
Unlock Exclusive Sponsorship Opportunities
We sincerely appreciate your interest in sponsoring the InnerSource Commons Summit 2025. This landmark event celebrates our 10th anniversary and will take place simultaneously across three global locations - Yokohama, Berlin, and New York - on Thursday, November 13th, 2025.
A Unique Global Experience
This summit represents a first-of-its-kind opportunity to connect with the InnerSource community across three continents simultaneously, offering unprecedented reach and impact for sponsors.
Connect with a Global InnerSource Audience
Participants will join both in-person across our three city hubs and via livestream, creating a truly international gathering of InnerSource practitioners, leaders, and enthusiasts.
Join Leading Technology Organizations
Each year, top companies and organizations in tech sponsor our events. We invite you to join them in 2025 for exceptional exposure and networking opportunities with the global InnerSource community.
World-Class Venues in Tech Innovation Centers
Our three host cities—Yokohama, Berlin, and New York—represent major global hubs for technology and innovation, placing your brand at the center of the conversation.
Fair Pricing with Exceptional ROI Potential
We prioritize fair pricing structures designed to maximize your return on investment. Our multi-location format offers the unique opportunity to target specific regional markets or achieve global reach in a single event.
Celebrate a Decade of InnerSource Innovation
By sponsoring, you’ll be supporting and connecting with the community that’s been driving InnerSource adoption and best practices for the past decade. For more information about sponsorship opportunities, contact Addie Girouard, Director of Sponsorship at Addie@InnerSourceCommons.org
Summit Planning Committee
Summit Planning Leadership
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Olive Cannon - Events Coordinator and Lead Organizer for ISC Summit 2025 |
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Guilherme Dellagustin - Lead Organizer, Berlin |
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Jenna Ritten - Lead Organizer, New York |
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Tsubasa Masui - Lead Organizer, Yokohama |
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Addie Girouard - Director of Sponsorships |
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Maryblessing Okolie - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Lead |
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Russ Rutledge - Executive Director, ISC |
Special Thanks to These Contributors:
- Elizabeth Barron
- Paul Berschick
- Matt Cobby
- Fernando Correa
- Clare Dillon
- Isabel Drost-Fromm
- Feyijimi Erinle
- Wolfgang Gehring
- Georg Grütter
- Yuki Hattori
- Barak Imam
- Daniel Izquierdo
- Ana Jimenez
- Yoshitake Kobayashi
- Niall Maher
- John Mark
- Ivan Lopez Morillo
- Aishat Muibudeen
- Regina Nkenchor
- Shingo Oidate
- Omotola Omotayo
- Ijeoma Onwuka
- Tom Sadler
- Katie Schueths
- Sebastian Spier
- Diego Torres