SPEAKER 2026

Samir Kamerkar
Engineering Director, Canonical
About Talk
Freeing your development environment
Traditionally developers, especially enterprise developers, have been locked in into proprietary systems for their development environment with very little control. Over the past couple of years there has been a focused effort to make the developer experience on Ubuntu as friction-less as possible. And of course it is all open-source and free. These projects have built an end to end platform for developers, especially those developing for Hybrid Cloud. It encompasses enterprise application runtimes like Java, .NET, as well as developer favorites like Rust and Golang. And it is all open source, so you can contribute the enhancements you wish to see. Let’s dive into some of these enhancements like versioned toolchains, devpacks, build and test containers and chiseled containers.
TRACK: FOSS For Everyone
8th Oct 2026 | Hall A | Time:11:45-12:15
About Speaker
Samir Kamerkar is an Engineering Director at Canonical with 25+ years of experience in Java, cloud runtimes, Ubuntu, and open source. He leads Java, .NET, and cloud runtime strategy on Ubuntu, with a focus on developer toolchains, security, and DevSecOps. Previously at IBM, he led the transformation of its Java SDKs into IBM Semeru Runtimes. His expertise includes OpenJDK, Eclipse Adoptium, OpenJ9, and Java in the cloud.