7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
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Michael Coté
Tanzu
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Building on Open Source: The New Product Playbook
Cédric Gégout
VP of Product · Canonical
Dana Lawson
CTO · Netlify
Michael "Monty" Widenius
CTO · MariaDB
Sebastian Kister
Chief AI Architect · Volkswagen Group
Ignacio Riesgo
Senior Director, Developer Advocacy · IBM & Red Hat Runtimes
July 9, 2026
11:30
–
12:00
·
30
min
Tech Leaders Stage
What this session covers
Open source powers modern software, but building a real product and business on it has never been simple. This panel brings together people who have lived it to talk about what the playbook looks like today. Honest lessons on turning open source into something that lasts.
World Congress 2026 Europe
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