Sonic Foundation

SONiC Workshop at ONE Summit 2024
2024-04-29 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Jose Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos Street San Jose, San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
The SONiC Foundation would like to invite you to participate in our upcoming SONiC Workshop, a co-located event at the ONE Summit on April 29, 2024. Come learn about the latest developments of SONiC from industry experts including innovations in NOS management, improvements in routing, software-defined networking, and system design.
Date & Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PT, April 29, 2024
Check out the event agenda here
How to Register: To attend in-person, add the SONiC Workshop to your ONE Summit registration. To attend virtually, register here.
About ONE Summit:
ONE Summit, organized by LF Networking and LF Edge, is the ONE industry event to focus on the best practices, technical challenges, and business opportunities facing network decision makers from Access to Edge to Cloud. Whether you’re deploying a 5G network, building government infrastructure, or using automation and networking to transform your business, this collaborative environment enables interaction with peers to learn about the open source networking technologies that will transform your business.
Have questions about the event? Contact eventhelp@sonicfoundation.dev.

SONiC Workshop Japan 2024 - SONiC User Group Japan
2024-05-24 13:30 - 18:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | Daiba Frontier Building, 2 Chome-3-2 Daiba, Minato City, Tokyo, 135-8074, Japan
This is an event (workshop) aimed at communicating in Japanese regarding SONiC, an open source NOS (Network Operating System).

This event is planned and managed by volunteers who agreed to hold this event.
Although we are in contact with the main SONiC Foundation management members, this is not an event sponsored by the SONiC Foundation/Linux Foundation, but rather a community-sponsored event by volunteers.

“Users Group” refers to SONiC users in a broad sense, including engineers who use SONiC, SONiC sales support, SONiC research and development, and people who have tried SONiC for study purposes. Anyone who is interested in SONiC can participate.
Date & Time:

Friday, May 24, 2024

Workshop: 14:00-17:00 (tentative) (doors open at 13:30)
Social gathering (membership fee system): ~ around 20:00

Location: Daiba Frontier Building 12F, 2-3-2 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Please refer to Google Map here.
Learn more and register for the event here >>

SONiC Workshop India 2024
2024-09-04 09:00 - 17:00 UTC
Date & Time: September 4, 9 am – 5 pm IST
Location: Hyderābād, India
About: SONiC Workshop India 2024, sponsored by the SONiC Foundation, is dedicated to the revolutionary free and open source network operating system, SONiC! This workshop is a must-attend for all SONiC enthusiasts, contributors, and consumers eager to delve into next-generation networking.
Led by industry experts, the workshop will provide an immersive experience, delving into recent innovations and real-world deployment scenarios. Whether you are a seasoned network professional or simply curious about the future of networking, the SONiC Workshop in Hyderabad is the perfect platform to learn, engage, and network with like-minded individuals. Mark your calendars for September 4 and secure your spot at this cutting-edge event that will unlock new possibilities in the world of networking.
Check out the event agenda and register for this event!

SONiC Mini Summit, co-located at Open Source Summit EU
2024-09-19 09:00 - 12:30 UTC
Date & Time: September 19, 9 am – 12:30 pm CET
Location: Room 0.14 (Level 0), Austria Center Vienna
About: The SONiC Foundation would like to invite you to participate in our upcoming SONiC Mini Summit, a co-located event at the Open Source Summit EU. Come learn about the latest developments of SONiC from industry experts including innovations in NOS management, improvements in routing, software-defined networking, and system design.
View event agenda
Come to visit the SONiC booth at Open Source Summit EU! Check out the SONiC demos at our booth here.
How to Register: Pre-registration is required. To register for SONiC Mini Summit, add it to your Open Source Summit Europe registration.

SONiC Events, co-located at OCP Global Summit
2024-10-15 - 2024-10-18
SONiC Workshop (Part 1)
Date: Tuesday, October 15, 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: San Jose Convention Center, Room: LL20BC
SONiC is hosting a half-day workshop at the OCP Global Summit. This is a prime opportunity to learn about the latest innovations in Network Operating System (NOS) management, software-defined networking, routing advancements, and system design from industry experts. This workshop is perfect for those looking to dive deeper into SONiC’s expanding capabilities and its impact on modern network infrastructure.

View the event agenda here
How to Register: Registration for the OCP Global Summit is required to attend the SONiC Workshop. Register for OCP Global Summit.

SONiC Booth Demos at OCP Global Summit
Date: October 15 – October 17, 2024
Location: San Jose Convention Center
Join us at the SONiC booth on the OCP Global Summit show floor, where community members will be presenting over 10 demos highlighting SONiC’s latest innovations and applications in real-world environments.

View the booth demo agenda: SONiC Booth Demo Agenda
How to Register: Registration for the OCP Global Summit is required to attend the SONiC Workshop. Register for OCP Global Summit.

SONiC Workshop (Part 2)
Date: Friday, October 18, 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM
Location: Cisco Building 9 260 E Tasman Dr, San Jose, CA 95134
Can’t get enough of SONiC? We’re extending the SONiC Workshop with Part 2, offering more insights into cutting-edge advancements in NOS management, routing improvements, software-defined networking, and system design.

View the event agenda here
Register for the event here before spaces fill up

SONiC Virtual Hackathon 2024
2024-11-06 - 2024-11-08
SONiC would like to invite you participate in the annual SONiC Hackathon! We welcome innovators to participate and showcase their ideas and implementations with SONiC.
The hackathon will be fully virtual. Please review the following guidelines and submit your interest to participate.
Submission Topics

Debuggability, analyzing test logs/pipeline,
Manageability and track with yang/ansible models
Boot time optimization
build time reduction
CLI/config improvements
New feature enablement
Other topics are welcome

Timeline

November 1 – Team formation submission deadline (project abstract due at submission)
November 6 (9:00am PST) – November 8 (11:00pm PST) – Hackathon Participation dates
November 8 (11~1:00pm PST) presentation upload
November 8 (1~5:00pm PST) review and winner selection
November 11 Results published online

Logistics

Demo and presentation will be uploaded to a shared online location
Hackathon presentation: 5 minutes to present your idea, your results/demo, and next steps
A team may include a maximum of five participants.
No more than 3 teams from one participating organization

Have questions? Contact eventhelp@sonicfoundation.dev

SONiC Booth at Open Networking & Edge Summit
2025-03-31
Date: March 31
Location: Excel London, England
For over 10 years, Open Networking & Edge Summit (ONE Summit) has remained the premier event for open networking, edge, cloud, and IoT industries, bringing together technical and business leaders for in-depth, interactive discussions in a neutral and collaborative environment. This dynamic forum fosters innovative planning and strategizing of cutting-edge technologies with the operational support needed to maximize their impact.
This year’s event is hosted alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU given the significant evolution the industry is undergoing as it moves towards cloud native infrastructure.
SONiC is excited to be a part of this event with its own booth. Check out the SONiC booth demo schedule and meet the community onsite!

SONiC Booth at 2025 OCP EMEA Summit
2025-04-29 08:00 - 2025-04-30 17:00 UTC
Date: April 29-30, 2025
Location: Dublin, Ireland
The OCP EMEA Summit is a key event in the open hardware ecosystem, bringing together innovators, engineers, and leaders to explore advancements in open compute technologies. This vibrant forum is a platform for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and showcasing innovations driving the future of open computing.
SONiC is thrilled to participate with its own booth at this year’s Summit, and check out the SONiC booth demo schedule and meet the community onsite!

SONiC Workshop Japan 2025 – SONiC User Group Japan
2025-05-16
This is an event (workshop) aimed at communicating in Japanese regarding SONiC, an open source NOS (Network Operating System). This event is planned and managed by volunteers who agreed to organize it. Although we are in contact with the main SONiC Foundation management members, this is not an event sponsored by the SONiC Foundation/Linux Foundation but rather a community-sponsored event by volunteers.
“Users Group” refers to SONiC users in a broad sense, including engineers who use SONiC, SONiC sales support, SONiC research and development, and people who have tried SONiC for study purposes. Anyone interested in SONiC can participate.
Date & Time:

Friday, May 16, 2025

Workshop: 14:00-18:00 (tentative) (doors open at 13:30)

More info about the Workshop can be found here

Social gathering (membership fee system): 18:00-20:00

More info about social gathering and registration can be found here.

Workshop Location:

Daiba Frontier Building 12F, 2-3-2 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo.

Registration is now open! The agenda is expected to be finalized in early April, and we will share it once it’s ready. You can also view the Workshop live on our YouTube Channel.

SONiC Virtual Hackathon 2025
2025-07-28 - 2025-10-01
SONiC invites innovators to join the annual SONiC Hackathon! This fully virtual event brings together developers and community members to showcase ideas and implementations with SONiC.
⚠️ Hackathon signup is now closed.If you’ve signed up, please refer to the timeline below for next steps. If not, stay tuned and look forward to the winner announcement!
Submission Topics:

Network for AI
AI agents for networking
AI + debugging & root causing test failures, analyzing test logs
Developer experience improvements: builds, CI/CD
System & software security
Test reliability
CLI/config/tracking improvements
New feature enablement
Other topics are welcome

Timeline:

September 15: Team formation submission deadline (project abstract due at submission)
September 19: Judges selected
September 29 (9:00 AM PST – October 1 (11:00 PM PST): Hackathon participation dates
October 1 (11:00 PM – 1:00 AM AOE): Presentation upload period
October 6 (8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT): Live Presentations
Each team: 4-minute presentation + 2-minute Q&A
Break: 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Attendees & Judges: Present on Zoom Throughout
October 8 (8:00 PM PT): Judge Deliberation Deadline
October 13: Winners Finalized
October 16: Results announced at OCP Global Summit SONiC Workshop

Logistics:

Demo and presentation will be uploaded to a shared online location
Hackathon presentation: 5 minutes to present your idea, your results/demo, and next steps
A team may include a maximum of five participants.
No more than 3 teams from one participating organization

Have questions? Contact eventhelp@sonicfoundation.dev

SONiC AI Summit at 2025 AI Network Technology Application and Innovation Summit
2025-08-09
Date: August 9, 2025
Location: Beijing, China
Join the SONiC community in China at the SONiC AI Summit to discover how open source networking is powering the next generation of AI infrastructure. Visit the event page to learn more about the agenda and how to get involved.

SONiC Booth and SONiC Mini Summit at Open Source Summit Europe
2025-08-25 - 2025-08-28
Dates:

Open Source Summit Europe – August 25–28, 2025
SONiC Mini Summit, co-located with Open Source Summit Europe – August 28, 2025 | 9:00 – 12:30

Location: RAI Amsterdam, Netherlands
The SONiC Foundation is excited to host the SONiC Mini Summit, a co-located event with Open Source Summit Europe. This half-day gathering brings together SONiC contributors, users, and community leaders to explore the latest developments in:

Network Operating System (NOS) management
Software-defined networking
Advances in routing
System design best practices

Whether you’re building, deploying, or evaluating SONiC, this is your chance to connect directly with industry experts and peers shaping the future of open networking.
How to Register: Pre-registration is required. To register for SONiC Mini Summit, add it to your Open Source Summit Europe registration.
Visit the SONiC Booth at Open Source Summit Europe
Stop by the SONiC booth during Open Source Summit Europe (August 25–28) to see live demos, ask questions, and explore how SONiC is powering real-world data centers and AI infrastructures. Meet with project maintainers, view multi-vendor demos, and learn how SONiC is enabling cloud and enterprise networking with scale, reliability, and flexibility. Check out the full demo schedule here.
SONiC Mini Summit Schedule
View the full SONiC Mini Summit Schedule here!

SONiC Workshop India 2025
2025-09-03 - 2025-09-04
Dates: September 3–4, 2025Location: Microsoft Campus, Hyderabad, India
See the Agenda Now!

The SONiC Foundation is excited to host the SONiC Workshop India 2025, a two-day in-person event that brings together SONiC contributors, users, developers, and community members from across the region. The agenda will be launched soon!
Registration Update:
This event has reached full capacity, and the waitlist has closed. We hope to see you at an upcoming event!
Review the Full Agenda Now!

Overcoming Challenges in Lifecycle Management of SONiC NOS Switching Fabric: A Study on Maintenance

Amir Elbaz, BE Networks

Next-Gen DHCP Relay for Cloud-Scale SONiC

Shivashankar CR & Venkata Gouri Rajesh Etla, CISCO Systems Inc.

Accelerated Open Config Enablement for SONiC

Anukul Verma & Bidipta Das, Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited

SONiC-Powered AI Fabrics: Scalable High-Performance Networking for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure

Saurabh Kapoor, Dell Technologies

Lab Without Limits: Running SONiC Virtually for Rapid Testing & Learning

Priya Singh, Red Hat India Pvt Ltd

SONiC Agentic Diagnostics

Sreenivas Voruganti & Navya Singla, Google

Architecting Scalable, Lossless AI Networks with SONiC

Chintan Shah, Broadcom

L1 telemetry and troubleshooting in SONiC

Pandurangan R S & Milind Kulkarni, Arista Networks

SONiC: Enabling Sustainable Networking

Santo K, Juniper Networks

Gearing SONiC for Scale-Out and Scale-Up Networks

Gnanapriya S & Ravindranath C Kanakarajan, Marvell

Adaptive CPU/GPU Data Center Networks with SONiC Telemetry

Vignesh Kesavan, PalC Networks & Chintan Shah, Broadcom

Building India’s Payment Backbone: NPCI’s Strategic Journey to Open Networking using SONiC

Shiva RV, National Payments Corporation of India & Chintan Shah, Broadcom

Developing Dash Hero Test

Venkat Pullela, Keysight

Why are my tests skipped? The nitty gritty of ensuring test coverage in sonic-mgmt for new products.

Manoharan Sundaramoorthy & Prasoon Saurav, NextHop AI

Enabling SONiC with Edge Networking and SONiC-PENS

Kasinath Rajendran & Tarun Kumar Polanki, Aviz Networks

Journey of a new company built for SONiC

Ryan Torres & Vijay Kulkarni, Nexthop AI

SONiC for Network Monitoring

Kashinath Ganapathy & Kannan Rajadurai, PALC Networks

SONiC as Management plane in UALink

Uma Ramanthan & Ramana Mohan Rao Dasari, Upscale ai

SONiC Workshop and SONiC Booth at OCP Global Summit
2025-10-13 - 2025-10-17 | San Jose Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos Street San Jose, San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
Event Dates & Locations:

OCP Global Summit

October 13–16, San Jose Convention Center

SONiC Workshop at OCP Global Summit

October 16, San Jose Convention Center, Room 230A

Extended SONiC Workshop at Google Campus

October 17, Google MP3 Campus, Sunnyvale, CA

The SONiC Foundation is excited to host the SONiC Workshop, co-located with the OCP Global Summit 2025, as well as an extended SONiC Workshop hosted by Google. These events bring together SONiC developers, users, and collaborators to explore technical advancements, real-world deployments, and community-driven innovation in open networking.
Why Attend?
Whether you’re contributing to SONiC or deploying it in production, both workshops offer unique opportunities to:

Participate in technical sessions and real-world use cases
Connect with peers and SONiC maintainers
Help shape the next phase of scalable, vendor-neutral open networking

The October 17 extended SONiC Workshop will feature deeper technical deep dives, roadmap discussions, and SONiC Technical Committee meetings—ideal for active contributors and maintainers looking to engage at a deeper technical level.
Visit the SONiC Booth on the OCP Global Summit showfloor
See SONiC in action at the OCP Global Summit: live demos, maintainer meetups, AI and cloud-scale use cases, and multi-vendor collaboration. Check out the booth demo schedule.

SONiC Workshop at OCP Global Summit

Registration: SONiC Workshop at OCP Global Summit: No separate registration required—just register for the OCP Global Summit.
Location: Room 230A

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Extended SONiC Workshop at Google Campus

Registration: Extended SONiC Workshop at Google Campus: Free and open to all, and you can register here.
View event agenda
