OpenSSF Community Day North America 2026 took place in Minneapolis on May 21, 2026, co-located with Open Source Summit North America. The event brought together security researchers, enterprise maintainers, and working groups to address open source software supply chain security. Key themes included AI security orchestration (Darnit tool), software transparency as an architectural principle, dependency selection best practices, governance frameworks (AMPEL, Gemara), keyless signing with Sigstore/Cosign, Git commit identity security via Gittuf, confidential SBOM transparency via Petra, SLSA adoption in automotive IVI systems, post-quantum cryptography for Sigstore, and AI-driven bug-finding with OSS-CRS. The OpenSSF Ambassador Program was also announced. Session recordings are available on YouTube.
