Speaker info
Matthew Trifiro
Founder & Executive Director
COSSA
Matt Trifiro is the Founder and Executive Director of the Commercial Open Source Startup Alliance (COSSA) at The Linux Foundation, an organization dedicated to strengthening the discipline of commercial open source through shared data, mentorship, and best practices for entrepreneurs, investors, and communities. He co-led the landmark 2025 State of Commercial Open Source report, which demonstrated that venture-backed open-source startups consistently outperform closed-source peers in valuations and funding outcomes.
Previously, Matt served as Chief Marketing Officer at Vapor IO, where he led global marketing and co-chaired the State of the Edge report. He is also Chair of The Linux Foundation's Open Glossary of Edge Computing and creator of the Over the Edge podcast on edge computing. He has been passionate about the business of open source for nearly three decades.
Schedule
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Lighting Up the Open-Source Dark Funnel (workshop)
A workshop on uncovering and understanding the hidden adoption patterns in open source projects that traditional analytics miss.
We Didn't Build a Funnel. We Found One. (talk)
A lightning talk about discovering organic adoption and conversion patterns in open source rather than engineering them from the top down.