From 0b4c24f778b57f746b4056fa74a1d6dc2d051299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Rutledge <russell@rrrfamily.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 17:08:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Mark Featured Speakers on the Summit 2026 page

Omar Mohsine, Nathen Harvey, and Dave Nielsen now carry a Featured Speaker badge
in their agenda rows and speaker bios.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012Kcnfrjb4RhTy9Txzje1qv
---
 assets/scss/_custom.scss      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 content/en/events/isc-2026.md | 12 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/assets/scss/_custom.scss b/assets/scss/_custom.scss
index e465f58183..efac898e3b 100644
--- a/assets/scss/_custom.scss
+++ b/assets/scss/_custom.scss
@@ -1133,3 +1133,19 @@ body.has-notice {
     display: none !important;
   }
 }
+
+
+// Marks Featured Speakers in the Summit agenda rows and in their speaker bios.
+.featured-badge {
+    display: inline-block;
+    margin-left: 6px;
+    padding: 1px 8px;
+    border-radius: 10px;
+    background: #f0a30a;
+    color: #1a1a1a;
+    font-size: 0.75em;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    letter-spacing: 0.02em;
+    vertical-align: middle;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+}
diff --git a/content/en/events/isc-2026.md b/content/en/events/isc-2026.md
index 3029dc7b3b..f20aa660c0 100644
--- a/content/en/events/isc-2026.md
+++ b/content/en/events/isc-2026.md
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ Attendees will leave with practical ideas for applying InnerSource practices to
  </tr>
  <tr>
        <td class="time">12:30 CET</td>
-  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Omar_Mohsine">Omar Mohsine </a></b><br>(United Nations Office of ICT)<br>
+  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Omar_Mohsine">Omar Mohsine </a></b> <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span><br>(United Nations Office of ICT)<br>
    InnerSourcing at the United Nations
   <span onClick="toggleAbstract('Omar_Mohsine_abstract')" class="abstract-toggle">(<a id="Omar_Mohsine-link">Show Abstract</a>)</span>
     <div style="display:none" class="abstract" id=Omar_Mohsine_abstract>
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ The future of InnerSource is not simply AI-assisted development—it is AI-power
  </tr>
  <tr>
        <td class="time">13:00 EST</td>
-  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Nathen_Harvey">Nathen Harvey</a></b><br>(DORA)<br>
+  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Nathen_Harvey">Nathen Harvey</a></b> <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span><br>(DORA)<br>
   AI as an Amplifier: Creating a community of collaboration
   <span onClick="toggleAbstract('Nathen_Harvey_abstract')" class="abstract-toggle">(<a id="Nathen_Harvey-link">Show Abstract</a>)</span>
     <div style="display:none" class="abstract" id=Nathen_Harvey_abstract>
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ The sharing aspect of skills truly leads to democratization of Gen AI improvemen
  </tr>
  <tr>
        <td class="time">16:00 EST</td>
-  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Dave_Nielsen">Dave Nielsen </a></b><br>(Cognee)<br>
+  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Dave_Nielsen">Dave Nielsen </a></b> <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span><br>(Cognee)<br>
    Introduction to Company Brain
   <span onClick="toggleAbstract('Dave_Nielsen_abstract')" class="abstract-toggle">(<a id="Dave_Nielsen-link">Show Abstract</a>)</span>
     <div style="display:none" class="abstract" id=Dave_Nielsen_abstract>
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ Clare Dillon is community lead for CURIOSS, a community for university & researc
 <img alt="Dave Nielsen photo" src="/images/events/speakers/Summit2026/Dave Nielsen.jpeg" width="200" class="speaker-photo" id="Dave_Nielsen" />
 <div class="speaker-bio-text">
 
-**Dave Nielsen** (InnerSource Value Metrics)
+**Dave Nielsen** (InnerSource Value Metrics) <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span>
 
 
 Dave Nielsen is a longtime community leader with two decades in Developer Relations. As Cognee's Head of Developer Relations, he bridges the product and developer community around Cognee's AI-memory platform, supporting contributors and building the community around agentic AI memory.
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ Mishari Muqbil is a Fractional CTO and technology strategist who helps organisat
 <img alt="Nathen Harvey photo" src="/images/events/speakers/Summit2026/nathen-harvey-3334.png" width="200" class="speaker-photo" id="Nathen_Harvey" />
 <div class="speaker-bio-text">
 
-**Nathen Harvey** (AI as an Amplifier: Creating a community of collaboration)
+**Nathen Harvey** (AI as an Amplifier: Creating a community of collaboration) <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span>
 
 
 Nathen Harvey leads the [DORA team](https://dora.dev/). He leverages industry-shaping research to drive product strategy and help organizations improve software delivery speed, stability, and the developer experience. A frequent speaker on DevOps and AI, Nathen is dedicated to building solutions that empower technical communities. He co-authored multiple DORA reports and contributed to "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know" published by O'Reilly in 2020.
@@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ Neil Douek is an engineering futurist, socio-technical strategist and speaker wh
 <img alt="Omar Mohsine photo" src="/images/events/speakers/Summit2026/Omar Mohsine.png" width="200" class="speaker-photo" id="Omar_Mohsine" />
 <div class="speaker-bio-text">
 
-**Omar Mohsine** (InnerSourcing at the United Nations)
+**Omar Mohsine** (InnerSourcing at the United Nations) <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span>
 
 
 Open Source Coordinator, United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (UN-ODET)

From 7d896ae057551fdfa330ff946c73a32a98548e2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Rutledge <russell@rrrfamily.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 07:27:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Label keynote and featured speakers with inline badges

Badges are inline so they add no vertical space; keynotes get a teal label,
featured speakers an amber one, in both agenda rows and bios.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012Kcnfrjb4RhTy9Txzje1qv
---
 assets/scss/_custom.scss      | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 content/en/events/isc-2026.md | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/assets/scss/_custom.scss b/assets/scss/_custom.scss
index efac898e3b..b80f9c44a1 100644
--- a/assets/scss/_custom.scss
+++ b/assets/scss/_custom.scss
@@ -1135,17 +1135,26 @@ body.has-notice {
 }
 
 
-// Marks Featured Speakers in the Summit agenda rows and in their speaker bios.
-.featured-badge {
-    display: inline-block;
-    margin-left: 6px;
-    padding: 1px 8px;
-    border-radius: 10px;
-    background: #f0a30a;
-    color: #1a1a1a;
-    font-size: 0.75em;
+// Labels keynote and featured speakers in the Summit agenda rows and in their bios.
+// Inline (not inline-block) so the label's padding never grows the line box:
+// it sits on the text baseline without adding vertical space.
+.speaker-badge {
+    margin-left: 0.5em;
+    padding: 0.1em 0.6em;
+    border-radius: 0.8em;
+    font-size: 0.7em;
     font-weight: 600;
-    letter-spacing: 0.02em;
-    vertical-align: middle;
+    letter-spacing: 0.04em;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
     white-space: nowrap;
 }
+
+.speaker-badge--featured {
+    background: #f0a30a;
+    color: #1a1a1a;
+}
+
+.speaker-badge--keynote {
+    background: #1d4e5f;
+    color: #fff;
+}
diff --git a/content/en/events/isc-2026.md b/content/en/events/isc-2026.md
index f20aa660c0..a719d21cda 100644
--- a/content/en/events/isc-2026.md
+++ b/content/en/events/isc-2026.md
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ Welcome to the EMEA leg of InnerSource Summit 2026 and hear about our exciting y
  </tr>
  <tr>
        <td class="time">9:00 CET</td>
-  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Sarah_Novotny">Sarah Novotny</a></b><br>(No Kat Food Limited)<br>
+  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Sarah_Novotny">Sarah Novotny</a></b> <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--keynote">Keynote</span><br>(No Kat Food Limited)<br>
    Free Like a Puppy, Fast Like a Robot: Trust When the Contributor Isn't Human
   <span onClick="toggleAbstract('Sarah_Novotny_abstract')" class="abstract-toggle">(<a id="Sarah_Novotny-link">Show Abstract</a>)</span>
     <div style="display:none" class="abstract" id=Sarah_Novotny_abstract>
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ Attendees will leave with practical ideas for applying InnerSource practices to
  </tr>
  <tr>
        <td class="time">12:30 CET</td>
-  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Omar_Mohsine">Omar Mohsine </a></b> <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span><br>(United Nations Office of ICT)<br>
+  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Omar_Mohsine">Omar Mohsine </a></b> <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--featured">Featured Speaker</span><br>(United Nations Office of ICT)<br>
    InnerSourcing at the United Nations
   <span onClick="toggleAbstract('Omar_Mohsine_abstract')" class="abstract-toggle">(<a id="Omar_Mohsine-link">Show Abstract</a>)</span>
     <div style="display:none" class="abstract" id=Omar_Mohsine_abstract>
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ Welcome to the Americas portion of InnerSource Summit 2026 and hear about our ex
  </tr>
  <tr>
        <td class="time">10:30 EST</td>
-  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#David_Spinks">David Spinks</a> and </a> <a href="#Micaela_D_Eller">Micaela Eller </a></b><br>(Community Leadership Coach, author of The Business of Belonging, and former Co-founder of CMX and E&Y)<br>
+  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#David_Spinks">David Spinks</a> and </a> <a href="#Micaela_D_Eller">Micaela Eller </a></b> <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--keynote">Keynote</span><br>(Community Leadership Coach, author of The Business of Belonging, and former Co-founder of CMX and E&Y)<br>
    Spilling the Tea!  A conversation on InnerSource Community and coaching
 <span onClick="toggleAbstract('David_Spinks_abstract')" class="abstract-toggle">(<a id="David_Spinks-link">Show Abstract</a>)</span>
     <div style="display:none" class="abstract" id=David_Spinks_abstract>
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ The future of InnerSource is not simply AI-assisted development—it is AI-power
  </tr>
  <tr>
        <td class="time">13:00 EST</td>
-  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Nathen_Harvey">Nathen Harvey</a></b> <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span><br>(DORA)<br>
+  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Nathen_Harvey">Nathen Harvey</a></b> <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--featured">Featured Speaker</span><br>(DORA)<br>
   AI as an Amplifier: Creating a community of collaboration
   <span onClick="toggleAbstract('Nathen_Harvey_abstract')" class="abstract-toggle">(<a id="Nathen_Harvey-link">Show Abstract</a>)</span>
     <div style="display:none" class="abstract" id=Nathen_Harvey_abstract>
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ The sharing aspect of skills truly leads to democratization of Gen AI improvemen
  </tr>
  <tr>
        <td class="time">16:00 EST</td>
-  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Dave_Nielsen">Dave Nielsen </a></b> <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span><br>(Cognee)<br>
+  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Dave_Nielsen">Dave Nielsen </a></b> <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--featured">Featured Speaker</span><br>(Cognee)<br>
    Introduction to Company Brain
   <span onClick="toggleAbstract('Dave_Nielsen_abstract')" class="abstract-toggle">(<a id="Dave_Nielsen-link">Show Abstract</a>)</span>
     <div style="display:none" class="abstract" id=Dave_Nielsen_abstract>
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ I have seen this challenge firsthand in privacy engineering. A product may be co
 
   <tr>
        <td class="time">17:30 EST</td>
-  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Scott_Hanselman">Scott Hanselman</a></b><br>(Microsoft/GitHub)<br>
+  <td class="author w-70"> <b><a href="#Scott_Hanselman">Scott Hanselman</a></b> <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--keynote">Keynote</span><br>(Microsoft/GitHub)<br>
    What do you build when you can build anything?
   <span onClick="toggleAbstract('Scott_Hanselman_abstract')" class="abstract-toggle">(<a id="Scott_Hanselman-link">Show Abstract</a>)</span>
     <div style="display:none" class="abstract" id=Scott_Hanselman_abstract>
@@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ We look forward to sharing their stories and learning together throughout Summit
 
 <div class="speaker-bio-text">
 
-**Scott Hanselman**
+**Scott Hanselman** <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--keynote">Keynote</span>
 
 Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, podcaster, and VP / Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft and GitHub. He has been blogging for over 20 years, podcasting for more than 1,000 episodes, and speaking to developers around the world about technology, community, and the open web.
 
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, podcaster, and VP / Member of
 
 <div class="speaker-bio-text">
 
-**David Spinks**
+**David Spinks** <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--keynote">Keynote</span>
 
 David Spinks is a Community Leadership Coach who works with founders, execs, and teams to help them become the leaders their communities need to thrive. He was a cofounder of CMX, the world's largest network for community professionals. He is the author of *The Business of Belonging*, and a premier voice in the community-driven business movement who advises Fortune 500 companies on community architecture and continues to inspire global organizations to build deeper, more meaningful collaborative networks through his consulting, speaking, and writing.
 
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ David Spinks is a Community Leadership Coach who works with founders, execs, and
 
 <div class="speaker-bio-text">
 
-**Sarah Novotny**
+**Sarah Novotny** <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--keynote">Keynote</span>
 
 Sarah Novotny is an open source leader and self-described "Open Source Wonk" whose work has helped shape the modern open source ecosystem for more than two decades. She has led open source strategy and ecosystem teams at Google Cloud and in Microsoft Azure's Office of the CTO, and represented both companies on the Linux Foundation Board of Directors. Along the way she has championed projects and communities including Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, NGINX, and MySQL, and guided the merger of the Node.js and JS Foundations into the OpenJS Foundation. She serves on the advisory board for State of Open Con 2026 and continues to be a leading voice on open governance, developer relations, and the future of open collaboration.
 
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ Clare Dillon is community lead for CURIOSS, a community for university & researc
 <img alt="Dave Nielsen photo" src="/images/events/speakers/Summit2026/Dave Nielsen.jpeg" width="200" class="speaker-photo" id="Dave_Nielsen" />
 <div class="speaker-bio-text">
 
-**Dave Nielsen** (InnerSource Value Metrics) <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span>
+**Dave Nielsen** (InnerSource Value Metrics) <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--featured">Featured Speaker</span>
 
 
 Dave Nielsen is a longtime community leader with two decades in Developer Relations. As Cognee's Head of Developer Relations, he bridges the product and developer community around Cognee's AI-memory platform, supporting contributors and building the community around agentic AI memory.
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ Mishari Muqbil is a Fractional CTO and technology strategist who helps organisat
 <img alt="Nathen Harvey photo" src="/images/events/speakers/Summit2026/nathen-harvey-3334.png" width="200" class="speaker-photo" id="Nathen_Harvey" />
 <div class="speaker-bio-text">
 
-**Nathen Harvey** (AI as an Amplifier: Creating a community of collaboration) <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span>
+**Nathen Harvey** (AI as an Amplifier: Creating a community of collaboration) <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--featured">Featured Speaker</span>
 
 
 Nathen Harvey leads the [DORA team](https://dora.dev/). He leverages industry-shaping research to drive product strategy and help organizations improve software delivery speed, stability, and the developer experience. A frequent speaker on DevOps and AI, Nathen is dedicated to building solutions that empower technical communities. He co-authored multiple DORA reports and contributed to "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know" published by O'Reilly in 2020.
@@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ Neil Douek is an engineering futurist, socio-technical strategist and speaker wh
 <img alt="Omar Mohsine photo" src="/images/events/speakers/Summit2026/Omar Mohsine.png" width="200" class="speaker-photo" id="Omar_Mohsine" />
 <div class="speaker-bio-text">
 
-**Omar Mohsine** (InnerSourcing at the United Nations) <span class="featured-badge">Featured Speaker</span>
+**Omar Mohsine** (InnerSourcing at the United Nations) <span class="speaker-badge speaker-badge--featured">Featured Speaker</span>
 
 
 Open Source Coordinator, United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (UN-ODET)

From 807c66a1628213bd5827e375989c1e316a0ce4fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Rutledge <russell@rrrfamily.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 07:38:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Center the speaker badge on the name line

Raise the badge slightly and move its padding above the text so it no longer
crowds the line below it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012Kcnfrjb4RhTy9Txzje1qv
---
 assets/scss/_custom.scss | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/assets/scss/_custom.scss b/assets/scss/_custom.scss
index b80f9c44a1..c62f6a3c3d 100644
--- a/assets/scss/_custom.scss
+++ b/assets/scss/_custom.scss
@@ -1138,9 +1138,13 @@ body.has-notice {
 // Labels keynote and featured speakers in the Summit agenda rows and in their bios.
 // Inline (not inline-block) so the label's padding never grows the line box:
 // it sits on the text baseline without adding vertical space.
+// The all-caps label has no descenders, so the extra room goes above it and the
+// pill is nudged up (relative offset, no layout effect) to center on the name.
 .speaker-badge {
+    position: relative;
+    top: -0.1em;
     margin-left: 0.5em;
-    padding: 0.1em 0.6em;
+    padding: 0.14em 0.6em 0.02em;
     border-radius: 0.8em;
     font-size: 0.7em;
     font-weight: 600;