OSS + ELC EU 2026: Full Schedule

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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11:20 CEST

How Uber Uses Intelligent Agents for Open Source Governance - Chris Howard, Uber

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 11:40 CEST

Conference Hall (Floor 4)

Open Source compliance is no longer just about coping with legal headaches; between navigating the Cyber Resilience Act & managing strict SBOM mandates it is a critical regulatory hurdle. Enforcing these standards without slowing developer velocity is a giant challenge. To solve this, the Uber OSPO overhauled our ecosystem of 6 Monorepos, 4k microrepos & over 35k dependencies to move away from manual audits & remove the friction placed on our engineers.
We built a system that scans our entire codebase every 24 hours, but detection is only half the battle. By integrating agentic tooling with our compliance policies & historical exception data, our system now makes calculated judgments on resolution versus escalation. The OSPO agent autonomously raises tickets, remediates issues & learns how to handle complex scenarios that would have required legal insight. This has automated our checks and eradicated high risk libraries from our codebase.
It’s not all as complex as it looks though. With clear policies, legal alignment, and a commitment to learning by doing, any organisation can do this. I'll share Uber's blueprint for turning open source governance into an automated & smart engine.

Speakers

Chris Howard

Head of Open Source, Uber

Chris is a specialist Open Source strategist and community builder dedicated to fostering healthy developer ecosystems.
As Head of the OSPO at Uber, he leads global strategy for open-source consumption, contribution, and Developer Relations. He previously spearheaded the OSPO at EPAM, where he focused on maturing open-source programs and scaling contributions for global clients... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 11:40 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

11:20 CEST

When PWM Meets the Common Clock Framework: How To Write a (not So) Simple Linux PWM Driver - Richard Genoud, Bootlin

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST

South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)

Over time, Pulse Width Modulators went from simple devices with only an input clock and a prescaler to more complex ones.
Nowadays, we can find PWM with several input clocks, several channels, shared and unshared prescalers among channels, and even bypasses which permits the PWM to act as a clock provider itself.

This talk covers a presentation of PMW basics, how to write a kernel driver with the new PWM waveform internal API.
Then, we will present a complex real life PWM device (Allwinner H616 PWM) and show how to leverage the power of the Common Clock Framework to help writing the kernel driver.
We'll continue with use cases of the H616 PWM internal bypass, which short-cuts the PWM logic and outputs a sine wave.
And finally, we'll show how to handle this bypass in the PWM driver and in the device tree.

Speakers

Richard Genoud

Embedded Linux and kernel engineer, Bootlin

Richard Genoud joined Bootlin as an embedded Linux and kernel engineer in 2024 and has more than 20 years of experience in embedded Linux engineering.
His areas of expertise include bootloader, kernel device driver development, up to user space applications.

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Any

11:20 CEST

Context Engineering: Connecting the Dots With Graphs - Stephen Chin, Neo4j

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST

Forum Hall (Floor 2)

AI systems need more than intelligence; they need context. Without it, even the most advanced models can misinterpret information, lose track of details, or arrive at conclusions that don’t hold up. Context engineering is emerging as a discipline that shapes how AI perceives, recalls, and reasons about information.

This talk will explore how context provides the foundation for reasoning, problem solving, and explainability in AI. We will look at techniques such as connected memory, contextual retrieval, and graph-based knowledge representation that give large language models a more reliable way to connect information and draw logical conclusions.

Attendees will come away with a practical understanding of how to design effective context pipelines that align AI with real-world knowledge and user intent, and why context engineering is becoming a central part of building trustworthy and impactful AI systems.

Speakers

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, conference chair of the LF AI & Data Foundation, and author of numerous titles including the upcoming GraphRAG: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly. He has given keynotes and main stage talks at numerous conferences around the world... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)

Open AI & Data

Audience Experience Level Any

11:40 CEST

How Open Source Communities and OSPOs Are Responding To AI Assisted Contributions - Norio Kobota & Alin Jerpelea, Sony

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST

Conference Hall (Floor 4)

Open source communities are entering a new phase as more contributions are created with AI assistance. This raises a practical question for the ecosystem: how should projects, maintainers, and companies handle AI-assisted contributions while preserving accountability, trust, and review quality?

This session brings together two complementary perspectives:
1. An outside-in view of how open source communities are responding, including early observations on how such contributions are being identified and categorized, and
2. An inside-out view of what this shift means for OSPO strategy, compliance, and coordination across engineering, legal, IP, and security stakeholders.

Rather than debating AI in the abstract, the talk focuses on concrete issues communities and companies are already facing, including human accountability, maintainer workload, traceability, stewardship, and software supply chain quality.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for discussing AI-assisted contributions inside their projects, OSPOs, and cross-functional governance teams.

Speakers

Norio Kobota

Senior Open Source Strategist, Sony Group Corporation

Norio Kobota is a Senior Open Source Strategist in Sony Group Corporation. He is the chair of Open Source Software License Committee in Sony and works to improve OSS compliance and relationships with OSS communities.
He represents Sony as a board member of OpenChain Project. And he is participating the SPDX Project and contributing the SPDX Lite profile... Read More →

Alin Jerpelea

Senior Architect, Sony

Alin Jerpelea is a senior software architect and a local OSPO member at Sony, located in Lund, Sweden.
He has been part of Sony since 2010 when he joined Sony Mobile as a community manager for the Xperia Open Source initiative and has since worked in numerous projects and Open So... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

13:30 CEST

Presentation From the European Commission Open Source Observatory (OSOR) - Éléonore Daxhelet, OpenForum Europe

Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 13:50 CEST

Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

This presentation gives an overview of the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory’s (OSOR) activities and latest Paper on Progress and Trends. The report examines how open source software has evolved within public administrations, based on the country reports published in 2025. It covers 18 EU member states and includes for the first time five candidate countries from the Western Balkan region, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia and North Macedonia. The session provides insights into the state of open source adoption and regulation in Europe, with a particular focus on findings from the Balkan countries, providing insights into how EU integration shapes digital policy in candidate countries.

Speakers

Éléonore Daxhelet

Policy Analyst, OpenForum Europe

Éléonore Daxhelet is a policy analyst at OpenForum Europe, where she has worked on the Open Source Observatory (OSOR) since July 2025. She holds a Master's degree in Political Science from the Free University of Brussels and a Master's in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 13:50 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications

Audience Experience Level Any

13:30 CEST

Panel Discussion: The Latest From TODO Group: Advocacy, Community, and Our AI Initiatives - Natali Vlatko, Cisco; Georg Kunz, Ericsson; Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Linux Foundation; Annania Melaku, F5 NGINX

Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST

Conference Hall (Floor 4)

The TODO Group’s mission is to empower and educate open source management best practices inside organizations through effective Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) and similar initiatives. With the latest developments in AI, as well as the shift of importance in open source across different industries, several new initiatives have been spun up that the community has embraced with fresh energy.

Join the TODO Group Steering Committee as they present the latest updates from the community, including a new Working Group focused on agentic AI tooling for OSPOs, changes to how our content is created and shared, as well as the growth in local events by TODO Group Ambassadors from around the world. The Steering Committee will also share the data they’re collecting in partnership with LF Research that informs ecosystem trends worth exploring and what the TODO Group community wants to focus on most in terms of learnings and growth.

Plan on attending if you’re in an OSPO, looking to create one at your organization, or interested in helping to spin up new open source initiatives!

Speakers

Annania Melaku

Lead, Open Ecosystem Programs, F5

Annania Melaku leads Open Ecosystem Programs at F5, spanning open source, open standards, open source AI, and cross-ecosystem collaboration. She also serves on the steering committee of the TODO Group, the Linux Foundation community for Open Source Program Offices. With a background... Read More →

Georg Kunz

Director Open Source Software, Ericsson

Georg is a director in Ericsson's Open Source Program Office. He is a passionate advocate for open source software and a long term contributor to a wide range of open source projects. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Council and the Governing Board of the Open Source... Read More →

Ana Jiménez Santamaría

Senior Project Manager, Linux Foundation

Ana Jiménez Santamaría is an open source community leader and data scientist with 5+ years of experience at the Linux Foundation, working as Sr. project manager supporting global, multi-stakeholder IT ecosystems. She is also an Agentic AI Foundation Ambassador, helping developers... Read More →

Natali Vlatko

Director of Open Source Software Engineering, Cisco

Natali Vlatko (she/her) is a Director of Open Source Software Engineering at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, and governance. She is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes and a member of the TODO Group Steering Committee. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

14:25 CEST

Open Source as a Government Goal: Berlin’s Strategy for Digital Sovereignty – Lessons Learned - Marcel Scholze, PwC Germany & Florian Ebel, Senatskanzlei Berlin

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 14:45 CEST

Conference Hall (Floor 4)

Everyone is talking about digital sovereignty - but what happens when a federal state takes this concept seriously? In 2025, Berlin adopted an Open Source strategy to achieve innovation and digital independence through OSS, open standards, and collaboration.
We report on how this strategy came about and what its implementation means in a complex administrative landscape. Seven measures form the backbone—from establishing an OSPO at ITDZ Berlin to identifying critical software dependencies to giving Open Source priority in procurement law. Behind each measure lie organizational, cultural, and legal challenges.
What are the low-hanging fruits? Where do strategies reach their limits? And how do you keep a “learning” strategy alive - rather than letting it fizzle out? An honest account of progress and setbacks that shows what others - whether government agencies or companies - can learn from Berlin’s Open Source journey.

Speakers

Florian Ebel

Head of Strategy and Governance Unit (CDO-Department), Senatskanzlei Berlin

Marcel Scholze

Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Marcel Scholze is a Director at PwC Germany leading the firm's Open Source and Digital Sovereignty practice. He has shaped OSS strategies and enablement programs for organizations across the public sector and industry. With a background in large-scale IT sourcing, he brings a pragmatic... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 14:45 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

14:25 CEST

Enabling High-Performance SPI NAND in Linux: PHY Tuning, DDR, and Beyond - Santhosh Kumar K, Texas Instruments & Miquèl Raynal, Bootlin

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST

South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)

Modern OSPI NAND devices are pushing the Linux SPI memory stack beyond its original assumptions. Features such as DDR transfers, continuous read modes, multi-frequency operation, and PHY tuning promise substantial performance improvements, but at the cost of added complexity. Furthermore, there is no well-established standard for these implementations, leading vendors to adopt different approaches and assumptions that software must accommodate.

This talk will walk through recent upstreaming efforts to enable advanced OSPI NAND capabilities in Linux. We will focus on one of the most challenging aspects: the introduction of fine-grained PHY tuning, which allows operating frequencies to be doubled or even tripled, enabling significantly faster transactions between the NAND device and the host controller.

Introducing such features has raised a number of architectural challenges. We will discuss both the specifics of PHY tuning and the broader subsystem considerations required to support increasingly sophisticated flash devices. Particular attention will be given to integration challenges across the SPI-MEM and MTD stacks, as well as the lessons learned while upstreaming the solution.

Speakers

Santhosh Kumar K

Embedded Linux Engineer, Texas Instruments

Santhosh Kumar K joined Texas Instruments in 2023 as an embedded Linux engineer working on TI Sitara platforms. His work focuses on SPI, MTD, and DDR subsystems across Linux and U-Boot development, with contributions to upstream, platform enablement, and performance optimization... Read More →

Miquèl Raynal

Embedded Linux & kernel engineer, Bootlin

Miquèl Raynal joined Bootlin in 2017 as an embedded Linux engineer. He is the
maintainer of the NAND subsystem in the Linux kernel, and a co-maintainer of the
MTD subsystem. Over the past years, he has made significant contributions to the
Linux MTD subsystem, and has already sp... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Any

14:25 CEST

Agent Gateway: The One Decision That Eliminates AI Engineering Complexity - Lin Sun, Solo.io

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST

Forum Hall (Floor 2)

As AI systems move from experimentation to production, engineering teams face a growing number of infrastructure decisions. How do you secure MCP servers without modifying them? How do you seamlessly transition and fail over across multiple LLM providers? How do you enforce token rate limits and usage policies for LLMs? How do you govern agent-to-agent and agent-to-MCP communication, control context growth, enforce security policies, observe traffic, and scale operations across environments?

Rather than solving each challenge independently, organizations can adopt a single architectural pattern: the agent gateway.

Through live demos, Lin introduces the agent gateway pattern and demonstrates how it simplifies AI infrastructure by eliminating the need for teams to repeatedly solve the same cross-cutting concerns. Using agentgateway, an open-source implementation of the pattern, she will show how to secure and federate MCP servers without modifying them, route, fail over, and rate limit LLM traffic across providers, enable advanced capabilities such as code mode and progressive disclosure, and operationalize AI workloads on Kubernetes.

Speakers

Lin Sun

Head of Open Source, Solo.io

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, co-chair of KubeCon + CloudNatibeCon 2026. She actively contributes to AAIF and CNCF projects. She is the author of “Sidecar-less Istio Explained” and “AI Agents in Kubernetes”, and holds more than 200 patents.

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)

Open AI & Data

Audience Experience Level Any

15:35 CEST

A Clockwork Frequency: Bringing Spread Spectrum To the Linux Clock Subsystem - Dario Binacchi, Amarula Solutions

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST

South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)

Reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI) is often a key requirement for embedded products seeking EMC certification. Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) is a common hardware technique used to lower peak emissions by slightly modulating clock frequencies.

This talk describes the journey of bringing SSC support to the Linux Clock Subsystem on platforms such as TI Sitara, STM32 and i.MX8M. The work started from customer requirements and platform-specific solutions, then evolved into a more generic approach integrated with the Linux clock framework and Device Tree.

After a brief introduction to SSC and the real-world use cases behind this work, the talk explores the challenges of exposing SSC configuration through Linux abstractions. We will cover the design of new Device Tree bindings, the implementation of SSC support within the Linux clock framework, and the upstream review process that helped shape a reusable solution across different SoCs, highlighting how Linux can turn existing silicon capabilities into practical product solutions.

Speakers

Dario Binacchi

Embedded Linux and kernel engineer, Amarula Solutions

With a thesis on DSP I graduated in Software Engineering in 2000, but above all I started my career in the embedded world, first on bare-metal systems and then on architectures with Linux operating systems.

Joining Amarula aroused in me the desire to actively contribute to proje... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Any

15:35 CEST

The Engineer's Guide To the Embedded Linux Galaxy: Navigating Failures and Bricked Devices - Leon Anavi, Konsulko Group & Piotr Buliński, Qbee

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST

South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)

Everyone can build a prototype, but shipping products is where the chaos begins. In this session, we explore embedded systems by discussing failures we have experienced as engineers, consumers, and industry observers. Navigating the vast open-source ecosystem of the embedded Linux galaxy and selecting the right tools for the job is a challenge.

Instead of idealized architectural theory, we will share war stories and costly mistakes, facing the grim reality of bricked devices, maintenance costs and e-waste generation. We will be talking about a coffee machine that needs a technician to cross the galaxy to replace a PCB, an OTA update strategy that lacks the ability to upgrade offline devices with a USB stick, a smart home turned into a wreck when a bankruptcy leaves the IoT fleet permanently bricked and a final story on what happens when immovable object like legacy incident management meets unstoppable force like AI and CRA.

This talk is for anyone working on an embedded Linux product, from junior developers to experienced engineers and managers. Since it is always better to learn from others' mistakes, you will walk away with insights that will help you improve your products.

Speakers

Leon Anavi

Software Engineer, Konsulko Group

Leon Anavi is an open source enthusiast and a senior software engineer at Konsulko Group. He is an active contributor to various Yocto/OpenEmbedded meta layers and many other open source projects. His professional experience includes maintaining embedded Linux distributions to Raspberry... Read More →

Piotr Buliński

Chief Technologist, Qbee

Piotr is the Chief Technologist of Qbee, where he drives the technological vision for secure, automated IoT fleet management. Over a 20+ year career across the tech stack, Piotr has specialized in low-level system internals, large-scale cloud-native architectures, and global data... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Any

15:35 CEST

The EU Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Product Vendors Must Do - Timo Perala & Gergely Csatari, Nokia

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST

Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is fundamentally changing how companies develop, secure, and bring products to market in the European Union. It introduces comprehensive security requirements across the entire software development lifecycle—including how open source components are selected, integrated, and maintained.
Timo and Gergely provide a practitioner-focused view of what CRA means in practice, with a particular emphasis on open source.

In their talk, they examine the CRA from a product vendor perspective, with focus on open source. They will break down the practical implications of the regulation across three key areas: open source consumption, vulnerability management, and open source stewardship. They will also highlight where the regulation leaves room for interpretation and share insights from ongoing industry discussions that are shaping emerging best practices.

Speakers

Timo Perala

Head of Open Source Service & Network Automation, Nokia

Timo has over 25 years of experience in network systems, systems architecture research, new business incubation, to mobile network and operations systems standardization. In his current role Timo is with Nokia OSPO, responisble for Automation related open source projects and Regulatory... Read More →

Gergely Csatari

Senior Open Source Specialist, Nokia

Working in the telecom industry in the last two decades it was possible for Gergely to see the evolution from vendor specific hardware to virtualisation and cloud and a to cloud native. Currently Gergely is part of the OSPO team of Nokia CTO which is reponsible for open source. In... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications

Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 CEST

Modernizing Vmalloc With Maple Tree: Design, Challenges, and Trade Offs - Pranjal Arya, Qualcomm

Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST

Panorama Hall (Floor 1)

Linux has steadily evolved toward Maple Tree as the preferred infrastructure for range-based indexing. While Maple Tree transformed process address-space management, several core memory-management subsystems still rely on legacy rb-tree-based designs.

This session uses the my vmalloc Maple Tree migration patch series as a case study to explore a broader question: what does it take to modernize a mature memory-management subsystem at the heart of the Linux kernel?

Unlike VMAs, vmalloc combines range allocation, gap tracking, coalescing, and lazy reclamation used by drivers, architectures, modules, and core kernel services. More than a data-structure replacement, it demonstrates how foundational kernel infrastructure can evolve while preserving correctness and long-standing semantics.

The talk covers the design motivations behind the transition, key trade-offs between augmented rb-trees and Maple Tree, scalability and metadata-efficiency improvements, and lessons learned from modernizing a core allocator. Attendees will gain insight into vmalloc internals, Maple Tree adoption beyond VMAs, and practical approaches for evolving Linux memory management infrastructure.

Speakers

Pranjal Arya

Senior Software Engineer, Qualcomm

Pranjal Arya is a Linux kernel & system engineer at Qualcomm, working on GPU and data center SoCs. His 6 years of experience spans PCIe & GPU drivers, memory management, Vulkan, DRM, and graphics software across kernel and user space. His contributions include PCIe, VFIO, QEMU, and... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)

Linux

Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 CEST

CRA Readiness With SPDX 3 SBOMs in Zephyr - Benjamin Cabé, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST

South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)

SBOMs for embedded firmware are harder than simple dependency lists. A Zephyr-based product typically combines upstream Zephyr code, vendor HALs, out-of-tree modules, binary blobs, generated files, Kconfig and devicetree configuration, and of course user/application code. Some of these pieces end up in the final firmware image, some do not, and yet it is important to have a clear picture of what was used, what was changed, and what actually shipped. This is what helps teams avoid chasing false positives, while still knowing when a new CVE might really affect them.

In this talk, we will look at Zephyr’s SPDX-based SBOM generation, including its recently added support for SPDX 3.0. We will show why it is useful to describe not only _which_ components are present, but also _why_ they were pulled into the build and how they relate to each other.

We will also discuss how build-aware SBOMs can directly support vulnerability management and help prepare for regulations such as the Cyber Resilience Act.

Speakers

Benjamin Cabé

Developer Advocate, The Zephyr Project, Linux Foundation

Benjamin Cabé is a technology enthusiast with a passion for empowering developers to build innovative solutions.

He has invented an award-winning open source and open hardware artificial nose that he likes to use as an educational platform for people interested in diving into t... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)

Zephyr Developer Summit

Audience Experience Level Any

16:50 CEST

Rebuilding Mini-Grid Metering as Open Infrastructure - Joscha Winzer & Vivien Barnier, EnAccess Foundation

Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST

Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

In the past 9 months, the two largest smart-metering providers serving rural mini-grids entered insolvency or severe distress, putting ~250,000 meters in 30+ countries at risk of losing billing, payment, and remote management, and threatening to leave over a million people, plus clinics and schools, in the dark. The cause was structural and familiar to anyone in open source: vertically integrated proprietary stacks, cloud lock-in, and no "supplier of last resort" for critical infrastructure.

This talk is a field report on the open-source response: an alliance of competitors, NGOs, and operators building an unbundled, multi-vendor platform on Digital Public Good principles. We cover the architecture (open APIs, multi-OEM interoperability, code and key release tied to bridge funding), the governance model for an asset that must outlive any single contributor, and how critical open infrastructure can be funded sustainably.

We close with concrete contribution paths: protocol work, hardware integrations (DLMS/COSEM, MQTT, STS), security review, and governance participation.

Speakers

Vivien Barnier

Managing Direktor, EnAccess Foundation

Vivien has 9+ years of experience in the renewable energy sector. His expertise lies in technologies, business model development, operation, and regulation for Distributed Energy Systems in underserved areas. He has advised development banks, governments, and investors on setting... Read More →

Joscha Winzer

Head of Technology, EnAccess Foundation

Joscha Winzer is a battery and energy systems engineer with 10+ years' experience designing, certifying, and industrializing electrical energy systems, including the world's first second-life EV battery storage products. And co-founded SunZilla, an early open-source renewable battery... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications

Audience Experience Level Any

17:25 CEST

Rethinking Wireless Networking With Synchronous Transmissions: The OpenSTX Standard - Davide Vecchia, University of Trento

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 17:45 CEST

Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

Synchronous Transmission (STX) techniques have matured over a decade of research, enabling a new approach to low-power wireless networking. STX protocols exploit floods that, unlike traditional methods, purposefully embrace on-air collisions via tightly synchronized transmissions. Research repeatedly shows order-of-magnitude gains in reliability, and reduced latency and energy use over conventional approaches.

Standardization is now needed to make STX industry-ready. The OpenSTX Foundation aims to define an open standard from radio interface to application layer, targeting IEEE 802.15.4, Bluetooth, and UWB.

OpenSTX excels where routing-based protocols fall short: network-wide flooding completes in milliseconds with bounded latency; end-to-end reliability is above 99.9% in dense, interference-prone settings; and the absence of routing tables and topology maintenance makes networks inherently tolerant to failure and mobility. Radio duty cycling extends battery life, and network-wide time synchronization is a free by-product.

This session overviews STX techniques, showcases OpenSTX primitives across a layered architecture, presents the roadmap, and describes how to get involved.

Speakers

Davide Vecchia

Technical Chair, OpenSTX Foundation, University of Trento

Davide Vecchia is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Trento, where he earned his M.Sc. (2018) and Ph.D. (2022). His research focuses on ultra-wideband (UWB) communication and localization in large-scale multihop networks. Within the OpenSTX Foundation, a Linux Foundation... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 17:45 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications

Audience Experience Level Any

17:25 CEST

Your Network Is Already a Compute Platform. Time To Treat It Like One - Eleni Grosdouli & Josh Halley, Cisco

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST

South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Network switches and routers are no longer passive packet forwarders. They have been running containers for some time already. But managing them still requires separate tools, CLIs, and workflows, and that creates real operational friction.

Virtual Kubelet eliminates this. Network devices become Kubernetes nodes. Workloads are provisioned with standard kubectl commands. Device configuration is declared as Kubernetes resources with continuous drift detection. Telemetry flows through OpenTelemetry to any OTLP-compatible backend.

This session demonstrates how to converge network and platform operations into a single control plane. We will demonstrate live provisioning of network devices and show how the CNCF ecosystem enables observability, security, and policy enforcement for edge deployments.

Speakers

Eleni Grosdouli

DevOps Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems

Eleni is your go-to DevOps and GitOps expert, passionate about networking, security, and endpoint management. As a DevOps Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, she brings hands-on experience across diverse technical domains. A lifelong learner, Eleni loves experimenting with cutting-edge... Read More →

Josh Halley

Principal Architect, Cisco

Josh Halley, is a Principal Architect and published technical author, in the office of the CTO at Cisco,
focused on next generation technologies and technical transformation for some
of Cisco’s largest global customers. His main focus today is in the domains of AI Operations, leading and supporting multiple teams in their generation of Agentic AI systems to support todays and tomorrows future technologies use cases... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Any

17:25 CEST

5 Practical Tips To Improve Your Log File Analysis Efficiently - Syed Usman Ahmad, Grafana Labs

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST

Terrace 2A (Floor 2)

Linux now stands as the most widely used operating system for production and development environments, as it provides a lot of services (daemons) and tools for debugging.

One core part are the log files which is widely used. You can use built-in commands such as less, grep, awk/sed or tail for log analysis, but there are times when you need some more advanced commands or tools that can help to investigate large log files efficiently.

In this talk, you will learn five practical tips to view your log files for analysis. You will learn about Open Source tools that can make your job easier for your daily tasks.

Join us to learn more about Linux, log analysis, aggregation tools, and the value of Open Source Community.

Speakers

Syed Usman Ahmad

Staff Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany and works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.

He has over 15 years of experience in IT and Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over EU, US and Japan.
... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)

Open Source 101

Audience Experience Level Any

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