diff --git a/assets/scss/_custom.scss b/assets/scss/_custom.scss
index e465f58183..c62f6a3c3d 100644
--- a/assets/scss/_custom.scss
+++ b/assets/scss/_custom.scss
@@ -1133,3 +1133,32 @@ body.has-notice {
     display: none !important;
   }
 }
+
+
+// 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: 0.14em 0.6em 0.02em;
+    border-radius: 0.8em;
+    font-size: 0.7em;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    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 3029dc7b3b..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
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        <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
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        <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="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
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        <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
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        <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="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
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        <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="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
 
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        <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)
+**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)
+**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)
+**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)