OSPO GuideConferences, Events, & Awards
The CMS Open Source Program Office participates in conferences and events across open source, healthcare, and civic technology to share our work and learn from the community. Our presentations explore topics such as building an open source culture in federal agencies, improving upon repository best practices, and collaborating on software that supports public services.
Explore our presentations, news coverage, interviews, and event highlights below:
2026
External Talks
- Open Source Summit Europe 2026: Open by Default or Intent: Inflection Points for Public Sector Open Source Decisions
- Open Source Summit North America 2026: From Active To Archive: Shepherding Repositories Through Their Sunset @ Open Source Summit North America 2026
- Punch Tape: Inside the Federal Government's First OSPO
- GW Open Source Conference: It Is Time: Succession Planning, Shepherding, and Sunsetting Open Source Projects
Attended
- United Nations Open Source Week 2026
- California Department of Technology Open Source Summit
- GitHub Universe 2026
2025
CMS OSPO in the News
- FormFest: Sharing is Caring: How CMS is Leading on Federal Open Source Requirements: A FormFest 2025 Profile
- GovCIO: Fed Efficiency Drive Includes Code-Sharing Law
- GovCIO: New SHARE IT Act Mandates Federal Code Sharing to Cut Software Costs
- FedScoop: Meet the Winners of the 2025 FedScoop50
External Talks
- FormFest: Forming an Open Source Culture in Federal Agencies
- DEFCon: CMS.gov OSPO One Year Later: Launching the Agency's First Bug Bounty
- GovCIO Federal IT Efficiency Summit
- Code For America Summit: Open Source & CMS: Making a Bigger Impact
- George Washington University OSCON: Program Keynote of Open Source Conference
2024
CMS OSPO in the News
- GovCIO Media & Research: Health IT Leaders Receive Flywheel Awards
- GovCIO Media & Research: Feds Prioritize Open-Source Software Security Initiatives
- Nava Open Source Summit: Modernizing Government with Code
- 2024 Health Datapalooza: Highlighting Patient and Expert Interviews
- DevSecOps Days Washington DC 2024: Establishing the First Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at a United States Federal Agency
- IBM Center for The Business of Government: Exploring Digital Transformation at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- PyCon 2024: Repository Baselines
- Biden-Harris Administration Releases End of Year Report on Open-Source Software Security Initiative
- Biden-Harris Administration Releases End of Year Report on Open-Source Software Security and Memory Safe Programming Languages
- US Digital Response Case Study: How One Federal Agency Worked to Release Open Source Software Responsibly
- CHAOSScast: Managing Federal CHAOSS at CMS.gov
External Talks
- Nava OSS Summit 2024: DSAC Lightning Talk
- Grace Hopper Conference 2024: Open Source in Government: Raising the Floor and Ceiling as an Early-Career Software Engineer @
- Nava Open Source Summit: Advancing IT Solutions in Federal Health and Beyond
- ATAR Open Source Summit
- Code for America Summit 2024: Strengthening Government Engagement with the OSS community @
- PyCon May 2024: Repository Cohorts: Poster Session
- Open Source Summit North America (OSSNA) 2024
Podcasts & Interviews
- Celebrating 100 episodes of CHAOSScast! (Podcast)
- Managing Federal CHAOSS at CMS.gov (Podcast)
- Inside CMS’s work to become more digital and open-source
- Securing the Future of Open Source Software
- When 150M people depend on your code: Open source and government with Remy DeCausemaker
- The power and responsibility of open source at CMS
2023
CMS OSPO in the News
- Inside CMS’ Groundbreaking Open Source Program Office
- Open Source Summit EU 2023: OSPOs in Highly Regulated Environments Panel Discussion
- Innersource Summit 2023: Innersource to Open Source Journey in Government
- SCALE: Repodiving into Open Source at CMS.gov
External Talks
- Open Source Summit EU 2023: OSPOs & Transition Paths for Regulated Environments
- TODOGroup.org Monthly Meetup: OSPOs & Transition Paths for Highly Regulated Environments
Attended
- OSPOs for Good Summit 2023 @ United Nations Headquarters NYC
2022
External Talks
- All Things Open 2022: Open Source and the Digital Service at CMS.gov
- Linux Foundation Member Summit: Open Source and the Digital Service at CMS.gov
Decks
Link to presentations: https://www.github.com/DSACMS/decks
