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7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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Thursday, October 8
 

08:00 CEST

Welcome Coffee
Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 09:00 CEST

Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
TBA

08:00 CEST

Hacker Space
Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 17:20 CEST
Discover a space, where you can collaborate, create, and explore new ideas with fellow attendees. Whether you’re here to learn or build, our space is open for everyone to enjoy throughout the conference!


Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 17:20 CEST
Terrace 2B (Floor 2)

08:00 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 17:20 CEST

Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 17:20 CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

08:00 CEST

Zen Zone
Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 17:20 CEST
All attendees may feel free to use the Zen Zone as needed. This is a quiet space for sensory relaxation, meditation, and worship. It is not to be used for conversations or as a workspace.

Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 17:20 CEST
TBA

08:00 CEST

Solutions Showcase
Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 18:20 CEST
The Solutions Showcase is your hub to network, explore sponsor exhibits, and learn how these organizations are shaping the future of the ecosystem.

**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.**
Thursday October 8, 2026 08:00 - 18:20 CEST
Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers

09:00 CEST

Welcome Back - Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST

Speakers
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Thierry Carrez

General Manager, OIF & LF Europe

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:00 CEST

Linux Security Summit [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required]
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 CEST
Linux Security Summit (LSS) is a technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users with the primary aim of fostering community efforts to analyze and solve Linux security challenges.
LSS is where key Linux security community members and maintainers gather to present their work and discuss research with peers, joined by those who wish to keep up with the latest in Linux security development and who would like to provide input to the development process.
To learn more, visit the event website.
How to Register: Register for Linux Security Summit Europe as a stand alone event or add it to your Open Source Summit Europe registration.

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:00 - 17:00 CEST
Prague Congress Centre

09:05 CEST

Keynote: Tarek Becker, CTO of BTP Fabric, SAP
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:20 CEST

Speakers
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Tarek Becker

CTO of BTP Fabric, SAP
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:20 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:05 CEST

Enabling Multi-Stream Camera Sensors in Linux: RGB+IR Streams and Embedded Metadata - Rishikesh Donadkar & Devarsh Thakkar, Texas Instruments
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
Camera sensors are evolving beyond single-stream models to generate multiple concurrent streams like RGB+IR video and embedded metadata alongside image data. Supporting these sensors in Linux introduces new challenges for the V4L2 and media controller subsystem, particularly around per-stream configuration and stream identification.

This talk presents two practical use cases for enabling multi-stream cameras in Linux. First, RGB+IR sensor support through V4L2 control framework extensions using array-based controls, enabling independent per-stream configuration while preserving a unified sensor model. Second, sensors transmitting embedded metadata, leveraging RAW sensor model proposed by Sakari Ailus, internal pads for metadata propagation, and data-type filtering in V4L2 bridge drivers to separate and route metadata and image streams.

Ref (lkml) : [PATCH v11 00/66] Generic line based metadata support, internal pads

These concepts are demonstrated through POC implementations on TI AM62A platform using OV2312 and IMX219 sensors, with integration into GStreamer and libcamera.

Attendees will gain practical insight into Linux multi-stream camera sensor implementation
Speakers
avatar for Rishikesh Donadkar

Rishikesh Donadkar

Senior Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
Rishikesh is a 2024 graduate from VJTI, Mumbia. He has been involved in open-source community from 1st year of his college. He has completed GSoC in the year 2024 with the organization libcamera. He has been quite active in the media community contributing mainly to Linux media s... Read More →
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Devarsh Thakkar

Linux Media Lead at Texas Instruments, Texas Instruments
Devarsh Thakkar works as an Embedded Linux developer at Texas Instruments. He has 13+ years of experience in software development ranging from open-source bootloaders to the Linux kernel, middleware frameworks and applications. His expertise lies in Audio/Video related multimedia... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:05 CEST

Redesigning a Modern Linux Userspace: Lessons From Going Libc-Free - Manjeet Singh, IBM
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
Linux userspace is built on a long history of trusted pieces c, libc, shell scripts, BusyBox, coreutils, PAM, NSS, and many assumptions that most systems inherit by default. These pieces work, and they have solved real problems for decades. But they also carry complexity from a different time.

We explore a userspace with fewer moving parts, no traditional libc dependency, simple deployment, easy cross-compilation, readable system code, and fewer external runtime dependencies. The goal is not to replace everything just for the sake of being different. The goal is to understand what still needs to exist, what can be simplified, and what becomes harder when we stop relying on the usual stack.

By rebuilding familiar userspace components from the ground up, we learn which old assumptions are still valuable, which ones are accidental complexity, and where embedded or minimal Linux systems can become simpler without becoming fragile.

This is a practical report from trying to redesign Linux userspace instead of only replacing individual tools. It covers what worked, what broke, and what the experiment teaches us about building smaller, simpler, and more maintainable Linux systems today.
Speakers
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Manjeet Singh

Firmware Developer, IBM
Manjeet Singh is a Firmware Engineer at IBM working on the OpenBMC project. He is a Linux enthusiast and systems programmer interested in operating systems, Linux userspace, and low-level system design. He works on AvyOS, an experimental Linux-based operating system built as a side... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:05 CEST

Taming the Safety Dragon With U-Boot and Linux - Neha Francis & Josiitaa RL & Santhosh Kumar K, Texas Instruments
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
U-Boot and Linux boot flows lack safety monitoring for mixed-criticality systems. We address this gap for low-criticality use cases and development stages where customers work toward safety certification on TI K3 SoCs, offering a flexible alternative to rigid safety-critical frameworks. This approach can be extended to any of the heterogeneous SoCs with safety hardware support.

We cover safety drivers in both U-Boot and Linux that increase the safety level of a system: Error Signaling Module (ESM) for error routing, Power-OK (POK) voltage monitors (upstreaming WIP), Voltage-Thermal Monitor (VTM), Timeout Gasket (TOG, upstreaming WIP), DDR Inline ECC for memory protection, and watchdog. In U-Boot, we leverage its sequential non-threaded flow to initialize ESM, POK, VTM, TOG, and DDR ECC via uclasses, establishing hardware safety guarantees before kernel handoff. In the kernel, we cover configuration and error handling of watchdog, and ECC for self-resets and synchronous aborts. DDR thermal self-refresh rate management and runtime monitoring of POK, VTM, and TOG via hwmon (WIP) will also be covered. Testing approaches via U-Boot cmdline tests and LTP-DDT will also be discussed.
Speakers
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Neha Francis

Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
Neha Malcom Francis is a Software Engineer working in Texas Instruments in the Linux Core Product Development Team for Jacinto Processors. Neha mainly works on U-Boot development along with assisting customer requirements.
avatar for Josiitaa RL

Josiitaa RL

Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
Josiitaa is a TÜV certified Functional Safety Engineer and Embedded Software Engineer at Texas Instruments. She works in the Jacinto Software Applications team, where she partners closely with automotive customers to address safety challenges on a day-to-day basis. She has resolved... Read More →
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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 →
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:05 CEST

Demystifying Functional Safety in Zephyr RTOS - Alexandre Bailon, BayLibre
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
There is an increasing demand for functional safety and certifying Zephyr RTOS from SoC vendors and companies wishing to make medical and automotive products. In the meantime, there is a lot of pushback from developers who believe that open source software is not compatible with the rigors and the processes required by functional safety.
Alexandre Bailon is an active Zephyr developer who had no knowledge about functional safety. After attending numerous talks, he found himself facing more questions than answers.
Alexandre Bailon will give the talk he would have expected as an open source developer. He will first explain what functional safety is and why this is a must-have for Zephyr RTOS.
Then, he will try to address developers' concerns and tackle some common misconceptions they have. In addition, he will talk about the safety working group and how it aims to minimize the burden on contributors and maintainers while meeting certification requirements.
To finish, he will discuss the current initiatives and opportunities for community involvement in advancing functional safety support in Zephyr.
Speakers
avatar for Alexandre Bailon

Alexandre Bailon

Software Engineer, BayLibre
Alexandre Bailon is co-founder of BayLibre. He used to be a Linux kernel developer and has helped many companies build successful devices running Linux and Android.
After many Linux kernel upstreaming failures, he stopped developing the Linux kernel to start Zephyr development and upstreaming, where he has been more successful... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

09:05 CEST

Network Subsystem Status and Overview - Jukka Rissanen, Nordic Semiconductor
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
Network connectivity is important part of Zephyr. This talk will give information of current status of the network stack.
Speakers
avatar for Jukka Rissanen

Jukka Rissanen

Principal Engineer, Nordic Semiconductor
Jukka is one of the network maintainers in Zephyr RTOS
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

09:25 CEST

Keynote: From AI Runtime to System Agents: Reimagining Linux for the AI Era with openKylin - Qingbo Wu, openKylin Advisory Committee Member & Technical Committee Chair
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 CEST
As on-device foundation models, AI PCs and agentic applications converge, AI is evolving from an application-layer capability into a foundational service increasingly embedded within the operating system. For Linux distributions, the challenge is no longer simply hosting models, but providing reusable AI infrastructure that bridges model capabilities with real system functions.

openKylin is exploring this shift from "AI on OS" to "AI for OS". Its AI subsystem provides a unified runtime, inference services and developer interfaces, while a system-level agent framework exposes operating system capabilities as structured, verifiable tools, enabling bounded and auditable interactions with the desktop.
This session shares openKylin's architectural approach to operating systems in the age of AI, covering heterogeneous models and hardware support, abstraction of OS services into agent-accessible tools, and mechanisms for trustworthy execution through least-privilege design, policy enforcement and auditability. It also examines how Linux distributions may evolve beyond traditional software platforms into open, trusted and extensible foundations for intelligent computing.

Speakers
avatar for Qingbo Wu

Qingbo Wu

openKylin Advisory Committee Member and Technical Committee Chair
Systems software and operating systems scientist with a strong track record in foundational software and open collaboration.A senior academic leader and doctoral supervisor in systems software, working across operating systems, Linux and foundational software. His work spans system... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:40 CEST

Keynote to be Announced
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:40 - 09:45 CEST

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:40 - 09:45 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:45 CEST

Keynote: Red Hat Hardened Images: Zero CVEs, Zero Cost - N. Harrison Ripps, Director of Engineering, Red Hat
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:45 - 09:50 CEST
The volume of CVEs has become impossible to manage by hand. Nearly 50,000 were tracked last year — 130 a day — and no team can triage, backport, and patch at that pace without dropping something critical.

Red Hat Hardened Images take a fundamentally different approach: minimal, distro-less containers built as close to upstream as possible on a fully automated supply chain. The result is zero known CVEs at time of delivery — without a human in the loop until one is truly needed.

In five minutes, you'll learn what "hardened images" actually means in practice, how the automated supply chain delivers security at scale, and how to start using production-ready hardened images today at no cost.
Speakers
avatar for N. Harrison Ripps

N. Harrison Ripps

Director of Engineering, Red Hat
N. Harrison Ripps is a Director of Engineering at Red Hat, working with the Project Hummingbird / Hardened Images team. Harrison is a veteran engineering leader who specializes in running small teams that make an outsized impact. Since joining Red Hat, Harrison has led product teams... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:45 - 09:50 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:50 CEST

Keynote to be Announced
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 09:55 CEST

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 09:55 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:50 CEST

A/B Updates in a Secure Boot Environment - Michael Opdenacker, Root Commit
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
In a system with "secure boot", you want to lock down most aspects of the system, in particular the bootloader.

On the other hand, implementing A/B updates requires to keep a writable bootloader environment to implement several aspects of A/B updates: adapting the kernel command line to the active partition, counting boot attempts and implementing recovery after deploying a defective update. Without a careful implementation, this could open the door to altering the sequence of boot commands or to introducing unwanted kernel parameters, therefore breaking the security of the bootloader and the rest of the system.

Both secure boot and A/B updates techniques are well documented, but most often without considering their mutual requirements. In this presentation, I will share solutions I found and used in a recent project. I will also share implementation details with U-Boot and the Yocto Project.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Opdenacker

Michael Opdenacker

Linux Device Rider, Root Commit
Michael is an independent embedded Linux consultant and trainer, and former founder of Bootlin. His new company is Root Commit (https://rootcommit.com).

Michael is a contributor to the Linux kernel and to the Yocto Project (Yocto Project Ambassador since 2026).

Passionate about Free Software and knowledge sharing, he authored many presentations related to embedded Linux, the Linux Kernel and Free Software in general. He finds talking at conferences a great way to truly learn what he shares... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:50 CEST

Balancing Power Efficiency and Real-Time Performance on Intel Embedded Platforms - Junxiao Chang, Intel
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
Achieving both low power consumption and deterministic real-time performance is a key challenge for modern embedded systems. Intel embedded platforms are widely deployed in industrial, medical, robotics, and other edge computing applications where strict timing requirements must be satisfied while maintaining energy efficiency. Traditional real-time system configurations often disable CPU frequency scaling and deep CPU idle states to minimize latency and jitter. While this approach can improve real-time responsiveness, it significantly increases power consumption and reduces battery life in power-constrained deployments.
This proposal presents practical techniques for balancing power management and real-time performance on Intel embedded platforms running Linux with the PREEMPT_RT kernel. Based on experimental evaluation, we demonstrate that modern Intel power management features can be selectively enabled and tuned to reduce energy consumption while maintaining deterministic real-time behavior. These findings offer practical guidance for deploying power-efficient real-time applications on Intel edge platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Junxiao Chang

Junxiao Chang

Balancing Power Efficiency and Real-Time Performance on Intel Embedded Platforms, Intel
Junxiao Chang has worked in Linux domain for more than 20 years. He has rich experience on Real time Linux and He loves Linux!
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:50 CEST

Multi-Display Pipelines on Allwinner: Upstream Kernel DRM To Mesa3D - Parthiban N, Linumiz
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
Most Allwinner based products still runs on vendor BSP kernels with out-of-tree display drivers. But with recent upstream Linux Kernel improvements, its now possible to simultaneously drive multiple display panels over different interfaces like LVDS and MIPI, using mainline DRM subsystem on Allwinner A133 and A523 SoCs.

In this talk, I will share my experience bringing up a multi-display setup with 2 x LVDS and 1 x MIPI panels on Allwinner A133 using upstream kernel [1] and [2]. We will go through how the Allwinner display engine works, what the device tree topology looks like when you have multiple active display pipelines, and what DRM/KMS changes matters to get this working correctly.

We will also look at the userspace side - how a compositor like Weston handles multi-display and the limitations you hit in practice. I will cover some of the real problems I hit during bringup, not just the happy path.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/[email protected]/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/[email protected]/
Speakers
avatar for Parthiban

Parthiban

Director of Engineering, Linumiz
With over 14 years of experience in software engineering, Parthiban founded Linumiz, a company that provides domain-neutral software services for U-Boot, Linux, and Zephyr, ranging from board bringup, board supported package, customization, device drivers, to over the air software... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:50 CEST

From TTEthernet To TSN on Zephyr: What Space Systems Teach Us About Deterministic Networking - Yasushi Shoji, Space Cubics Inc.
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
Many spacecraft avionics and payload systems are already distributed embedded systems: onboard computers, payload controllers, sensors, and links must coordinate under strict reliability constraints. Aerospace has long used controlled onboard networks, from MIL-STD-1553 to Ethernet-based approaches such as TTEthernet. The next question is how open standards such as IEEE Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) can work in open RTOS ecosystems such as Zephyr.

Based on my experience with TTEthernet, Zephyr, micro-ROS, and space OBC development, this talk asks what TSN on Zephyr should become. TSN is not one feature: traffic shaping, scheduled transmission, redundancy, policing, configuration, time synchronization, and hardware support all matter. Linux already has a mature TSN operations model around user-space tools such as tc and linuxptp. Zephyr has no Linux-style userland, so TSN needs Zephyr-native APIs, shell commands, samples, diagnostics, and management interfaces.

Attendees will learn why TSN matters for Zephyr, why Zephyr cannot simply copy Linux tooling, and what design questions remain for TSN-capable endpoints.
Speakers
avatar for Yasushi SHOJI

Yasushi SHOJI

Co-Founder and CEO, Space Cubics Inc.
Yasushi SHOJI is a Linux kernel and embedded systems developer with over 20 years of experience. Founder of Space Cubics, he develops spacecraft using Zephyr RTOS and contributes to open source projects for high-reliability systems.
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

09:50 CEST

Zephyr and Xen in Automotive Mixed-OS Systems: Building Safety Readiness and Upstream - Harunobu Kurokawa, Renesas Electronics Corporation
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
In automotive systems, interest is growing in OSS adoption, Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV), and mixed-criticality architectures. In initiatives such as AGL and SoDeV, configurations combining Linux, RTOSes, and hypervisors are becoming a key focus. In this context, Zephyr may be used as a small RTOS domain with a limited, well-defined role.

This session views Zephyr and Xen as complementary components. Xen can provide domain isolation and resource partitioning, Linux can host high-level services and integration layers, and Zephyr can handle focused RTOS functions. It outlines role division in OSS-based automotive software.

Functional safety is also important. The Zephyr Safety WG is advancing related activities, treating safety readiness not as certification itself but as a technical foundation—requirements, tests, and documentation—that the community can build together. This session discusses how automotive stakeholders can participate and contribute upstream.

Based on Linux/AGL mixed-OS integration experience, this case study discusses what should be addressed when applying Zephyr and Xen to automotive systems and how these efforts can advance with the community.
Speakers
avatar for Harunobu Kurokawa

Harunobu Kurokawa

Sr. Manager, Renesas Electronics Corporation
He has been involved in automotive Linux development since 2013 and actively contributes to Linux Foundation projects, including Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). At Renesas, a semiconductor company, he leads embedded Linux development and promotes OSS adoption. Since joining the AGL... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

10:00 CEST

Keynote: Scaling the Shield - Turning AI-Driven Vulnerabilities into a Massive Defensive Advantage - Jamie Thomas, Chief Client Innovation Officer | Enterprise Security, IBM
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 CEST
Open source has been the single greatest accelerator of productivity in modern software development. As AI reshapes how software is built, and attacked, the priority is clear: we must use AI to reduce friction for maintainers, not create more work. Today, maintainers face a surge of AI-generated vulnerability reports that risks overwhelming the very people who sustain the global software supply chain. This keynote examines how the open source community (OpenSSF in particular) is turning AI from a source of noise into a force multiplier for defenders.


Jamie Thomas will highlight how maintainer-centered AI tooling, shared standards, and practical security techniques are being applied to restore balance at scale. These efforts focus on making security more actionable, automated, and sustainable, ensuring open source remains a resilient, trusted foundation for global innovation.


Join us as we outline a roadmap for systemic resilience, where the global community puts cutting-edge AI capabilities directly into the hands of maintainers to secure the software on which we all depend.
Speakers
avatar for Jamie Thomas

Jamie Thomas

Chief Client Innovation Officer | Enterprise Security, IBM
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

10:20 CEST

Coffee Break
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:20 - 10:50 CEST

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:20 - 10:50 CEST
TBA

10:50 CEST

Community Update - Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:10 CEST

Speakers
avatar for Ramon Roche

Ramon Roche

Executive Director - Dronecode Foundation, The Linux Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:10 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

10:50 CEST

From Fragile To Self-Healing: Operationalizing Etcd at Scale - Shreyas Rao & Ishan Tyagi, SAP Labs
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Running etcd across thousands of production Kubernetes clusters reveals critical failures: data corruption, quorum loss, member failures, and storage bloat, all capable of disrupting clusters. Managing these manually is complex, error-prone, and difficult to scale.

In this talk, we will be sharing lessons from 8+ years of operating production-grade etcd at scale with close to zero manual intervention and how we built etcd-backup-restore to reliably automate tasks like scheduled backups, corruption detection, quorum loss recovery, member replacement, and scheduled defragmentation, with zero recorded data loss across thousands of clusters.

Used in production by SAP Gardener, Akamai Cloud, StackIT, and Scaleway, etcd-backup-restore is now a Linux Foundation project under Linux Foundation EU via the NeoNephos Foundation, with an active maintainer community. We'll show what it takes to run etcd reliably at scale, and make it truly self-healing.
Speakers
avatar for Shreyas Rao

Shreyas Rao

Senior Software Engineer, SAP Labs
Shreyas Rao is a Senior Software Engineer at SAP Labs, working on Project Gardener. He is currently a maintainer of the open source Gardener project, and the original author of `etcd-druid`, the Kubernetes operator that manages the lifecycle of every etcd cluster in Gardener's fleet... Read More →
avatar for Ishan Tyagi

Ishan Tyagi

Senior Developer, SAP Labs, Bangalore
I am associated with SAP Labs India in Gardener Team & involved in the development of etcd-backup-restore and etcd-druid.
I specialise in working with Cloud native technologies and distributed database.
I love designing systems, solve problems and find easy and better solutions to solve them. I like to learn about the world behind the screen which involves system designs, cloud, virtualisation, databases, servers, and also promising technologies... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Any

10:50 CEST

Evolving Video4Linux2 To Support Modern Camera Use Cases - Jacopo Mondi, Ideas On Board
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Modern camera use cases are realized by complex pipelines of several IPs blocks that process frames produced by an image sensor to deliver great looking images to applications.

Support for the most advanced use cases is implemented by time-multiplexing the underlying hardware resources, performing job scheduling at the hardware/firmware level and orchestrating the image processing steps across multiple drivers and IPs.

The Video4Linux2 kernel subsystem currently doesn't provide any abstraction for drivers and applications to fully support modern designs and vendors that intend to make use of the capabilities of their hardware had so far worked around this
limitations by implementing downstream solutions.

This talk describes the most recent and the forthcoming developments in the Video4Linux2 kernel framework to support modern camera use cases, including but not limited to multi-driver pipelines, multi-context time multiplexing of hardware resources and job scheduling, with practical examples from the field on recent SoC designs.
Speakers
avatar for Jacopo Mondi

Jacopo Mondi

Linux camera specialist, Ideas On Board
Jacopo is an embedded Linux engineer with 10 years of experience in the field of camera and multimedia systems.

With the Ideas On Board team he's trying hard to "make cameras work on every platform" with mainline Linux and libcamera
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

10:50 CEST

No Reboot Required: Over-the-Air Updates for Immutable Filesystems - Jana Perić, Northern.tech
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Designing immutable filesystems is becoming the default for embedded Linux development: they're more secure, easier to reason about, and resilient to field drift. But they make a once-easy thing surprisingly awkward: a one-line fix to a single script means shipping a whole new rootfs and rebooting the device.
systemd-sysext addresses half this problem by merging extension images onto /usr/ at runtime, with integrity enforced via dm-verity. But sysext is the activation mechanism only — it says nothing about how those signed images reach a fleet of devices in the first place.
This talk walks through a working proof-of-concept that closes the gap: a verity-signed sysext image, delivered over the air through a standard OTA framework, merged live onto a read-only Ubuntu rootfs, with health checks and automatic rollback on failure — all without a single reboot.
This talk covers the architecture end to end, the non-obvious operational gotchas, and an honest accounting of what this approach does and doesn't replace.
Speakers
avatar for Jana Peric

Jana Peric

Embedded Linux Engineer, Northern.tech
Jana is an Embedded Linux Engineer at Northern.tech, where she helps developers succeed (and occasionally survive) with Mender. Having shipped firmware updates into the wild, she has seen everything from flawless rollouts to devices that went mysteriously silent mid-update. She secretly... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

10:50 CEST

Real-time Performance Comparison of Linux, Zephyr and FreeRTOS - Zbynek Fedra & Mingkai Hu, NXP
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
In industrial and real-time applications, strict timing constraints can exceed the capabilities of standard Linux systems—even when enhanced with the PREEMPT_RT patch. As a result, developers increasingly deploy real-time operating systems (RTOS) on application-class cores (e.g., ARM Cortex-A) to meet deterministic requirements.
This session presents a comparative study of latency characteristics measured on identical hardware platforms running Linux with PREEMPT_RT, Zephyr, and FreeRTOS. We first analyze how the PREEMPT_RT patch impacts kernel latency across different workload scenarios, highlighting both its strengths and practical limitations. We then extend the comparison to RTOS environments, focusing on scheduling latency and interrupt (IRQ) handling behavior under equivalent conditions.
The results are based on systematic benchmarking and provide insight into latency trade-offs, determinism, and suitability of each system for industrial workloads. We will also provide industrial specific examples of target use-cases, where this performance numbers are key parameter.
Speakers
avatar for Zbynek Fedra

Zbynek Fedra

Product Manager - Real-time Software​, NXP Semiconductors
Product Manager at NXP Semiconductors with a background spanning embedded development from 8-bit MCUs to multicore GHz systems. With a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and 10+ years in software and product roles, I enjoy bridging low-level engineering with product strategy—from bare-metal... Read More →
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Mingkai Hu

Director of IIoT Vertical Enablement, NXP
I am a Director at NXP, leading the Real-time Edge and Robotics Edge platforms, with responsibilities spanning industrial IP bring-up (e.g., EtherCAT, TSN), performance optimization, multi-core system architecture, and global customer engagement.
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

10:50 CEST

When the Kernel Writes Its Own Code: Debugging Runtime-Generated Instructions - Alexis Lothoré, Bootlin
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
While most instructions the Linux kernel executes come from a standard compiler like GCC or Clang, the kernel can also patch itself at runtime: ftrace, kprobes, eBPF programs... Debugging these runtime-generated instructions is a whole new challenge, as we lack the usual debug data: symbol names, offsets, debug info. Fortunately, we can adapt our tooling to observe them.

This talk explores practical debugging techniques for runtime-generated instructions, using eBPF as a concrete example: when a user loads an eBPF program, the kernel's JIT compiler emits native machine code. After a brief eBPF introduction, we will debug these programs and the surrounding generated code (trampolines, dynamic instrumentation, verifier patches...). Starting from standard debug information in bare binaries or exposed at runtime, we will gradually build up our toolkit: running a custom kernel under QEMU, taking control with GDB, debugging userspace and kernel space together, adding TUI and GDB scripts, and finally stepping through raw machine instructions. Aimed at developers familiar with C/kernel
development, attendees will gain hands-on techniques and confidence for any kind of low-level analysis.
Speakers
avatar for Alexis Lothoré

Alexis Lothoré

Embedded Linux engineer and trainer, Bootlin
Alexis is an embedded Linux developer and trainer with 10 years of experience, currently working at Bootlin. He has made several contributions to the Linux kernel, specifically around networking: support and improvement for ethernet switches and wireless chips, as well as improvements... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
  Linux

10:50 CEST

Just Keep Swimming: Benchmarking OSS Agent Memory on Kubernetes With OpenTelemetry - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Your AI agent is Dory. Every conversation it wakes up unable to remember a thing , so you, Marlin, re-explain everything every turn. Four open-source memory systems promise to fix that: Cognee, MemOS, Honcho, and MemPalace. But which architecture actually pays off in tokens, dollars, and resolved tasks?
This talk runs two experiments. First, we benchmark all four backends head-to-head on a single Kubernetes substrate , same harness, same workloads, same OpenTelemetry Collector and rank them by token efficiency, cost per resolved task, and recall under contradiction.
Then we test the question most teams haven't asked: is running an agent with memory worth it at all? We measure two real OSS agent frameworks , kagent (CNCF Sandbox) and sympozium with their built-in memory turned on, then turned off. Real workloads, real numbers.
None of the four backends ships first-party OTel today; the Helm chart, OTel pipeline, and upstream PRs are how we close that gap for the ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for Henrik Rexed

Henrik Rexed

Cloud Native Advocate, Dynatrace
Henrik is a Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace, the leading Observability platform. Prior to Dynatrace, Henrik has worked more than 15 years, as Performance Engineer. Henrik Rexed Is Also one of the Organizer of the conferences named WOPR, KCD Austria and the owner of the Youtube... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data

10:50 CEST

K8s Dungeon Crawl: Learning Kubernetes Controllers and Webhooks Through a Roguelike Project - Kim Schaefer, Game Plan Tech
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
In this session, we’ll explore Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, and admission webhooks using K8s Dungeon Crawl: a modified roguelike game where in-game monsters are represented by live Kubernetes resources running in the cluster.

As gameplay unfolds, the Kubernetes control plane becomes part of the game itself. Monsters are represented as Kubernetes Deployments, dungeon entities are modeled as CRDs, and admission webhooks dynamically mutate and validate cluster behavior as gameplay progresses.

Using KubeBuilder, we’ll walk through how controllers and webhooks interact with the Kubernetes API while demonstrating reconciliation loops, admission control, CRDs, declarative state management, runtime policy enforcement, and event-driven Kubernetes behavior.

The session demonstrates controllers reconciling game and cluster state, mutating and validating admission webhooks, GitOps deployment using Helm and Argo CD, and observability with Prometheus and Grafana.

Rather than treating Kubernetes concepts as abstract control-plane mechanics, this session turns them into visible gameplay interactions that make Kubernetes behavior easier to understand and reason about.
Speakers
avatar for Kim Schaefer

Kim Schaefer

Senior DevOps Engineer, Game Plan Tech
Kim Schaefer is a Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer focused on Kubernetes, GitOps, and secure platform engineering. She designs and operates production Kubernetes platforms with a focus on deployment reliability and automation in constrained environments.

Kim's work centers on bu... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

10:50 CEST

Panel: OpenChain 2.0: Open Source Compliance in the Age of Automotive SBOM, Generative AI, and the CRA - Masato Endo, Toyota Motor Corporation; Marcel Kurzmann, Robert Bosch GmbH; Meixia Wang, LF; Jimmy Ahlberg, Ericsson; Ayumi Watanabe, Hitachi
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Ten years ago, the OpenChain Project launched at this very event. A decade on, it has built the global baseline for open source compliance, culminating in ISO/IEC 5230 — the "1.0" era. With Mary Meixia Wang as Executive Director, OpenChain now enters its next chapter, and this panel asks what "2.0" must deliver.

Two frontiers define the road ahead. First, Automotive SBOM: as vehicles become software-defined, the deepest supply chain anywhere needs SBOM practices scaling from silicon to OEM. Second, license compliance in the era of generative

AI and "vibe coding": as more code is generated by AI than written by hand, licensing of models, training data, and AI-produced code raises questions traditional compliance never anticipated. Regulation such as the EU CRA adds urgency, making machine-readable SBOMs effectively mandatory and reinforcing the trust and security OpenChain pursues.

The panel goes beyond discussion: it first shares the community's latest work on these challenges — from the Automotive SBOM Guideline to evolving thinking on compliance for AI-generated code — then opens a cross-industry conversation on what the shift from 1.0 to 2.0 must deliver in practice.
Speakers
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Masato Endo

Manager of TOYOTA OSPO, Toyota Motor Corporation
Masato Endo is a Group Manager of TOYOTA. He focuses also on building the Open Source governance structure within Toyota and developing relationships with the Open Source community, through projects such as AGL and OIN. From 2017, he began to work with the OpenChain Project as a board... Read More →
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Marcel Kurzmann

Software and Open Source Management Consultant, Robert Bosch GmbH
Marcel Kurzmann joined Bosch in 1997. After working at Bosch Engineering , Automotive Electronics and Bosch Software Innovations in different roles, he is now member of the Center of Excellence Open Source and Inner Source at Bosch Digital. He represents Bosch in the OpenChain Governing... Read More →
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Meixia Wang

Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Mary Wang is the Executive Director of the OpenChain Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation.

Prior to this role, she served as Director of the Open Source Ecosystem at Volvo Cars, where she founded and led the company’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
Mary also spent nine years at Ericsson. During that time, she worked as a DevOps engineer, developing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, and later as a Technical Product Manager (TPM), taking end-to-end ownership of products... Read More →
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Jimmy Ahlberg

Expert & Senior Legal Counsel, Ericsson
Currently Mr Ahlberg is the Director of Open Source Policy with the Ericsson OSPO. Prior to the inception of the Ericsson OSPO he worked in different roles with various aspects of Open Source in the Ericsson organization, This included consumption of and contribution to Open Source... Read More →
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Ayumi Watanabe

Senior OSS Specialist of Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
Ayumi Watanabe is a core member of OpenChain Japan community and known as an evangelist who is certified by the Linux Foundation Japan. Her strong point is a knowledge of many tools for SBOM generation and management, a wide range of experiences as an OSS management consultant, and... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

10:50 CEST

Sponsored Session: Advancing Trust in Open Source: CIP IEC-62443-4-x Achievement and CRA Compliance Readiness - Dinesh Kumar, CIP Security WG Chair / Toshiba Software & Pasquale Nieddu, CIP Security WG / Siemens Mobility
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
With increasing regulatory pressure and evolving cybersecurity requirements, product teams must navigate complex standards while maintaining speed to market.

This session provides a practical, implementation-focused deep dive into achieving IEC 62443-4-x compliance for components, alongside insights into aligning with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

We will showcase how the CIP Security Workgroup has developed precise engineering artefacts—including IEC layer test suites and supporting documentation—that significantly reduce the effort required for compliance.

In addition, we will examine recent investigations into CRA requirements and demonstrate how IEC 62443-4-x compliance can help bridge critical gaps toward CRA readiness.

Attendees will leave with actionable guidance, reusable assets, and a clear roadmap to streamline compliance efforts while future-proofing their products against regulatory demands.

Speakers
PN

Pasquale Nieddu

Job DevOps Engineer, CIP Security WG / Siemens Mobility
Pasquale Nieddu is a DevOps Engineer within the CoreShield Secure Operating Systems team at Siemens Mobility s.r.o. in Prague. Passionate about railways, open source, and Linux, he has been an active contributor to the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project since February 2025... Read More →
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Dinesh Kumar

CIP Security WG Chair / Toshiba Software
Dinesh Kumar is an experienced embedded software engineer specializing in Embedded Linux, secure boot, Debian package development, board support packages (BSPs), and Android application and framework development. His research interests include Embedded Linux, Linux kernel security... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)

10:50 CEST

Technical Writing in the Age of AI - Jiri Herrmann & Vendula Ferschmannova, Red Hat Czech
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
With the advent of large language models, looking up human-made software documentation might seem like an antiquated and inefficient way of getting information. On top of that, Claude Code and similar tools can now crunch information straight from your JIRAs and conjure new pull requests at speeds that cannot be matched by even the most veteran documentation maker.

So where does this leave you as a technical writer?

Let us come together as professional technical communicators to grumble and bellyache, but mainly to share tips and insights on how to make the best of the paradigm shifts and upheavals that AI advancements now introduce to our work-life on a regular basis.
Speakers
avatar for Jiri Herrmann

Jiri Herrmann

Principal Technical Writer, Red Hat Czech
A long-time technical writer at Red Hat, a language enthusiast, and a fan of all sorts of nerdy things.
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Vendula Ferschmannova

Senior Manager, Customer Content Services, Red Hat Czech
Technical communication professional passionate about minimalism, structure, and technical writing in general.
My other area of interest is Usability in technical documentation and helping writers with their career.
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)

10:50 CEST

Verifying ABI Compatibility Across Releases and CPU Architectures - Adarsh Jagadish Kamini & Daniel Turull, Ericsson Software Technology
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Package updates across multiple architectures and long-term release branches complicate pipeline testing. Source-level tests usually pass during a package upgrade, missing Application Binary Interface (ABI) changes that later break downstream images and containers at runtime.

This talk introduces an extension to meta-binary-audit [1] that adds automated binary analysis to release CI pipelines for Yocto environments. Integrating libabigail into the pipeline reports exactly what changed in the binary interface before code is released.

The session details the CI architecture, parallel binary audits across multiple architectures, and how to track symbol-level ABI changes during LTS uplifts, using the migration from Scarthgap to Wrynose as an example. Attendees will leave with practical methods to analyze these interface changes, evaluate compatibility across releases, and prevent broken downstream images.

[1] https://github.com/Nordix/meta-binaryaudit/
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Turull

Daniel Turull

Senior Specialist in Operating Systems, Ericsson
Daniel is a senior specialist at Ericsson. Currently, he focuses on embedded Linux with Yocto, working on both internal and commercial distributions. He works on the Ericsson Linux distribution team, productifying Yocto and ensuring supply chain security to safeguard critical inf... Read More →
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Adarsh Jagadish Kamini

Linux Support Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology AB
Adarsh currently works as a Linux Support Engineer at Ericsson Software Technology in Stockholm. He has a broad background in engineering spanning embedded systems, connectivity, and robotics. However, he is most passionate about build systems, integrating devices and real-time systems... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)

10:50 CEST

Bringing IEC 60730 Class B Functional Safety To Zephyr - Andrej Butok, NXP Semiconductors
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
The IEC 60730 Class B standard defines safety requirements for automatic electrical controls in household appliances, mandating diagnostic mechanisms that ensure safe operation under fault conditions.
Despite its widespread adoption, IEC 60730 implementations remain fragmented and vendor-specific, typically delivered as proprietary libraries tightly coupled to individual MCUs. This approach limits portability, duplicates engineering effort, and prevents meaningful integration with modern open-source ecosystems.
This talk presents an open, reusable IEC 60730 Class B diagnostic framework built on Zephyr RTOS, demonstrating how functional safety mechanisms can be implemented in a portable and extensible way. The framework includes key diagnostics such as power-on self-tests, periodic runtime checks, watchdog supervision, and safe-state handling.
This work establishes a foundation for standardizing safety mechanisms in Zephyr and aims to catalyze community collaboration around common APIs and reference implementations for safety-critical embedded systems.
The session is targeted at embedded developers working on consumer appliances and industrial control systems.
Speakers
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Andrej Butok

Embedded Software Engineer and Technical Leader, NXP Semiconductors
Andrej Butok is an Embedded Software Engineer and Technical Leader at NXP Semiconductors with over 25 years of experience in MCU platforms, networking stacks, and embedded systems. He currently focuses on bringing functional safety approaches, particularly IEC 60730 Class B, into... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

10:50 CEST

Zephyr Network Buffers - Johan Hedberg, Silicon Labs
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Zephyr has had its own abstraction for network buffers ever since the creation of its Bluetooth and Networking stacks that were part of the project's public launch back in 2016. The presenter is the original author of the buffer implementation and still acts as maintainer for it. The presentation will go through the original use cases, related design decisions, key terminology, and how the implementation has evolved over time as Zephyr has grown and received more users and requirements for the subsystem.

The presentation will also go through common mistakes/oversights that user make when starting to use the APIs, and show some best practices to avoid them. Finally, there will be an overview of some of the latest enhancements and new convenience APIs of the network buffer subsystem.
Speakers
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Johan Hedberg

Staff Software Engineer, Silicon Labs
Johan got started with Open Source and Bluetooth early in his career, and eventually became a BlueZ & Linux kernel Bluetooth subsystem maintainer. The shift to Zephyr happened in 2015, about a year before the project's public launch, when Johan implemented its Blueooth host stack... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

11:10 CEST

Fleet-Scale Bug Hunting in PX4 - Alexander Lerach, Auterion AG
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:10 - 11:30 CEST
Running PX4 on thousands of devices surfaces errors that don't appear in lab testing or flight tests. The kind that only show up at a customer site, that you cannot reproduce locally, that disappear when you add or remove code in a completely unrelated module.

This talk presents real incidents from running PX4 at commercial scale: problem descriptions, how debugging was done, and how the errors were fixed.

For each incident we share the heuristics we use to quickly identify which part of the system to investigate, and the tools we use to diagnose Heisenbugs.

We conclude with the hardware CI setup we built, including hardware tracing capabilities and describe how this can help to catch certain kinds of failures described in this talk. In addition we describe how this can be shared with upstream.
Speakers
avatar for Alexander Lerach

Alexander Lerach

Lead Embedded Software Engineer, Auterion AG
I am an embedded developer who likes working with microcontrollers and debugging low-level problems.

I previously worked in the automotive industry, where I developed a safe RTOS. Now, I enjoy writing drivers in PX4 and optimizing resource usage.

In my free time, I enjoy spending time in nature, especially hiking... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:10 - 11:30 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit

11:40 CEST

Measuring What Matters: Building an Open Source Health Model for the Npm Ecosystem - Adam Herzog, AboutCode & Alyssa Wright, Bloomberg
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST
Open source software powers critical digital infrastructure across every industry. But, how do you know if the software you are depending on is actually healthy? A project that looks active may have one key maintainer. A package you've never heard of may be a single point of failure for thousands of downstream projects. npm's scale and deep dependency chains turn that uncertainty into real supply chain risk – remember Shai-Hulud?

Based on learnings from open source community health analytics projects like CHAOSS, OpenSSF Scorecard, and GrimoireLabs, Bloomberg and AboutCode are building an open, data-driven framework that applies the Goal-Questions-Metrics methodology to assess project health across the npm ecosystem.

This talk presents our npm Health Model and open source tooling, early findings, and how this approach can extend to other OSS project ecosystems. We are sharing the model, methodology, data, and tooling openly so other organizations can apply it to their own processes. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for assessing open source health at scale, and a path to contributing to this open effort.
Speakers
avatar for Adam Herzog

Adam Herzog

Community, AboutCode
Adam leads the community for AboutCode, reusable open source building blocks of reliable data, interoperable tools, and practical standards to automate and secure software supply chains. He previously worked in different roles at (mostly) developer-facing startups, including field... Read More →
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Alyssa Wright

Open Source Program Office, Bloomberg
Alyssa Wright helps lead Bloomberg's Open Source Program Office, applying the principle of "be curious, solve problems, do good" to drive sustainable open source impact. Her experience spans the World Bank, Samsung Research, and board roles with Open Source Collective and OpenStreetMap... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

11:40 CEST

Learning To Navigate: Challenges of RL With PX4 as a Real-Time Controller - Kyrillos Adeeb, NXP
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST
Training an RL policy with PX4 as a real-time controller is often considered impractical due to SITL limitations, communication overhead, and strict safety constraints. In this presentation, I will share how I addressed these challenges during my master’s thesis to successfully train a navigation and obstacle avoidance policy using Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab.
The talk focuses on the practical steps required to make PX4 compatible with unsupported simulators, including key preparations to enable stable SITL operation. I will discuss how to keep the PX4 SITL instance stable and continuously running throughout training.
Additionally, I will cover methods for accessing PX4 state and control interfaces via MAVLink and ROS 2, and highlight how PX4’s built-in safety layers can unintentionally block RL training. Finally, I will present strategies to work around these constraints while preserving system stability and realism.
Speakers
avatar for Kyrillos Adeeb

Kyrillos Adeeb

Robotics Integration Engineer, NXP
An enthusiast who loves robotics and autonomous systems where he could innovate and create better solutions for everyone.
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:40 CEST

Own Your Stack: Sovereign Kubernetes From Bare Metal To Fleet - Sunnatillo Samadov, Ericsson & Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc.
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
For a decade, the default answer to "where does Kubernetes run" was someone else's cloud. But lately, regulated organizations, telcos, banks, and the public sector are pulling sensitive workloads back onto hardware they own and operate — for cost, performance, sovereignty, and increasingly to run AI and GPU workloads they control. The hard part is doing that without giving up the automation the cloud offers.

This talk covers the open-source stack for running your own bare metal, with each layer explained by the people who work on it. At the bottom, Metal3 turns physical servers into declarative Kubernetes resources and manages their lifecycle through the Kubernetes API. At the top, k0rdent manages fleets of those clusters with templates, policy, and drift detection. In the middle sits Cluster API, the standard both layers build on.

We'll walk through the layers working as one — from a rack of bare metal to provisioned clusters to a managed fleet, on hardware we run ourselves. Attendees get a reference architecture, practical guardrails, and clear criteria for when this fits. We'll be honest about the trade-offs: slower provisioning and elasticity bounded by the servers you have.
Speakers
avatar for Bharath N R

Bharath N R

OSPO Lead, Mirantis Inc.
Bharath Nallapeta leads the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at Mirantis, driving strategic open-source initiatives and community engagement. With deep expertise in cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes, he bridges engineering excellence with open-source strategy, helping enterprises... Read More →
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Sunnatillo Samadov

Open Source Developer, Ericsson
Sunnatillo is an open-source developer with 5 years of experience in cloud-native infrastructure. He is a maintainer of the Metal³ project (CNCF), where he works on bare-metal provisioning, Kubernetes operators, platform engineering, and CI/CD.

He also contributes to Cluster API, where he was Release Lead for the 1.9 cycle, and to the storage projects Rook and Ceph. He loves DevOps and building reliable Kubernetes platforms... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration

11:40 CEST

Beyond Cyclictest: Evaluating Real-Time Linux Through Real Interrupt Workloads - Koshiro Onuki, Toshiba Corporation
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Real-time Linux systems are often judged with timer-based benchmarks such as cyclictest, a useful baseline for wakeup latency caused by scheduling and system activity. Yet many embedded workloads are driven by external events, not periodic timers: GPIO edges, network packets, serial I/O, or other hardware interrupts. In these systems, the critical value is the latency from an interrupt to a high-priority task.

This talk asks how much end-to-end interrupt-driven latency timer-based benchmarks can explain, and where path-specific measurements are required.

We revisit RT evaluation on modern PREEMPT_RT Linux by combining cyclictest with measurements for GPIO interrupt paths, network receive paths, and interrupt-to-userspace wakeups. Across scenarios with CPU isolation, IRQ affinity tuning, and other common RT optimizations, we compare what each method reveals and misses. For selected setups, we also compare kernel/PREEMPT_RT revisions and use ftrace to locate latency sources.

Rather than treating one benchmark as a complete RT verdict, this session clarifies how timer-based results can inform, but not replace, measurements for practical interrupt-driven embedded workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Koshiro Onuki

Koshiro Onuki

Software Engineer, Toshiba Corporation
Koshiro Onuki has been working as a Software Engineer at TOSHIBA Corporation since 2022. His main role is to develop Linux for various industrial embedded products. He is mainly involved in research and development of software updates.
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:40 CEST

FOSS Camera Support for the Qualcomm OPE ISP - Hans de Goede & Loic Poulain, Qualcomm
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Until recently camera software stacks have mainly been a proprietary closed source affair. Thanks to the linux-media and libcamera communities this has been slowly changing.

We are happy to present the first Free and Open Source Software stack for a Qualcomm camera hardware ISP, the Offline Processing Engine found on the QRB2210 (Agatti) SoC used on the Arduino UNO Q SBC. Using a standard mainline V4L2 ISP kernel driver together with libcamera.

This talk will cover the following topics:

* Overview of the Qualcomm camera subsystem architecture
* Mainline V4L2 ISP kernel driver for the Agatti OPE block
* CAMSS libcamera pipeline-handler and camss IPA for OPE
* Image processing steps supported by the presented FOSS stack
* Future plans for more image processing steps
* Future plans for supporting the ISP on other Qualcomm SoCs
Speakers
avatar for Hans de Goede

Hans de Goede

Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm
Hans is a FOSS developer and enthusiast with 20 years of experience. He is co-maintainer for the kernel’s x86 platform drivers subsystem.

He has worked on various projects such as USB redirection for VMs, laptop support and flicker free boot. Currently Hans focuses on MIPI cam... Read More →
avatar for Loic Poulain

Loic Poulain

Software Engineer, Qualcomm
Loïc Poulain is a software engineer working on embedded and low-level systems, with contributions to open-source projects such as the Linux kernel, U-Boot, and the Zephyr real-time operating system. His work focuses on device drivers, hardware enablement, and system bring-up. More... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:40 CEST

Navigating the Complexity of Modern SoC Bootflows - Marco Felsch, Pengutronix e.K.
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
The last decade has shown a clear trend in dramatically increasing the boot process of modern SoC. If the i.MX6 bootflow reads like a short novel, the i.MX95 or TI K3 bootflow is a whole encyclopedia.

Today's heterogeneous SoCs combine CPUs of different types — Cortex-R/M cores alongside the application-class Cortex-A — and boot now begins on one of the smaller cores before handing control over to the Cortex-A. There are good reasons for this, such as meeting functional-safety requirements, but it is also a real burden for system designers who simply want to run Linux on the Cortex-A cores and make use of the GPU or VPU.

Each new component needs its own firmware: ideally built from open source, though closed-source pieces remain in the chain. The result is no shortage of cryptic acronyms — TF-A, FF-A, TEE, SCMI, PSCI, SCP, FIP.

This talk sheds some light into the dark. It explains what each of these components actually does and how they fit together. Attendees will leave able to map this general picture onto their own SoC, see which parts are open source and which are not, and know where to look when the bootflow misbehaves.
Speakers
avatar for Marco Felsch

Marco Felsch

Software Engineer, Pengutronix e.K.
Marco joined the Pengutronix graphics team in 2017. His work covers everything from system architecture to low-level bootloader firmware up to kernel and user-space development.
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:40 CEST

Building Real-Time, Data-Aware Intelligence With Postgres & Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Yogesh Jain, EnterpriseDB
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Imagine asking an AI agent to analyze any data, only for it to hallucinate a schema that doesn't exist. This "context gap" is the primary barrier to reliable Data-Aware AI. While LLMs are brilliant reasoners, they are historically "blind" to the live, structured world of Postgres - until now!

In this talk, we will explore how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridges this gap, transforming Postgres from a passive storage layer into an active reasoning engine. We’ll dive into the architecture of a Postgres MCP server, demonstrating how it provides agents with secure, structured access to schemas and metadata. By utilizing tools like pg_catalog and EXPLAIN, we enable LLMs to understand table relationships and optimize performance before running queries.

Expect live demos and practical insights on making Postgres "talk" to AI safely and effectively.

Key Takeaways:

* How Postgres + MCP provides LLMs with correct, real-time database context.
* Leveraging Postgres metadata and schema to eliminate SQL hallucinationcs.
* Implementing secure, multi-tenant, and read-only access for AI agents.
* Enabling AI agents to use EXPLAIN and other tools for self-optimization.
Speakers
avatar for Yogesh Jain

Yogesh Jain

Staff SDE at EDB, EnterpriseDB
Yogesh Jain is a Staff SDE at EnterpriseDB and a passionately curious full-stack developer. He specializes in building scalable solutions leveraging open-source technologies, with expertise spanning Kubernetes, observability, distributed systems, and cloud-native PostgreSQL.He is... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data

11:40 CEST

Hardening Your Software Supply Chain, Pin Your Actions and Patch Your Dependencies - Richard Tweed, Tessl
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
2026 has been a big year for supply chain attacks. Shai-Hulud, TeamPCP and others are determined to weaponise open source to hack our communities.

In this talk I'll show you tools and techniques you can use to defend your projects against them, and common pitfalls
Speakers
avatar for Richard Tweed

Richard Tweed

Member of Technical Staff - Leading security and infrastructure, Tessl
Richard Tweed is the security, compliance and infrastructure person at Tessl. He's the OWASP Project Lead and Lead Maintainer for [Github-Workflow-Updater-Extension](github.com/OWASP/GitHub-Workflow-Updater-Extension/) and the lead maintainer of [kube-audit-rest](https://github.c... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

11:40 CEST

Establishing a Documentation Process in an Open Source Community - V. Thulisile Sibanda, AsyncAPI Initiative
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Many communities reach a point where knowledge has naturally concentrated in the hands of a few dedicated people. It happens organically. Someone steps up, carries the weight, and keeps things moving. But without a process to capture and distribute that knowledge, the community becomes fragile without ever meaning to. Contributors arrive eager and leave quietly. Decisions get made but are never recorded. Onboarding repeats itself because nothing was ever written down.
This talk is about what happens when a community decides to change that. Drawing on experience as a maintainer and community manager, I will walk through the journey of building a documentation process from the ground up, not by writing more docs, but by shifting how the community thinks about knowledge itself. From auditing where knowledge lived, to creating structures for knowledge capture and decision documentation, forming a working group that distributed ownership, and building triage and mentorship pathways that made contribution genuinely accessible.
Speakers
avatar for V Thulisile Sibanda

V Thulisile Sibanda

Senior Community Manager, AsyncAPI Initiative
I’m an Open Source maintainer and community builder who works across documentation, programs, governance, and contributor experience. I spend my time building, scaling, and sustaining global developer communities by improving how Open Source projects are run, how knowledge is shared... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)

11:40 CEST

Same Tag, Different Risk: Catching Semantic SBOM Drift Across Multi-Arch Containers - Yogesh Sardana, Airtel
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
This isn't just about Airtel but for every organisation as multi-arch OCI manifest list lets one image tag resolve to different binaries per architecture, teams treat that tag as a single security unit, yet the amd64, arm64 & riscv64 builds underneath frequently diverge, a base-image bump, a differently resolved dependency version or missing backport can leave one architecture patched against CVE while another silently isn't & no scanner today compares SBOMs across the architectures inside same manifest list, each platform image is scanned in isolation & reported as N separate, ostensibly fine results. Talk introduces manifest-list-aware SBOM differ that pulls every per-architecture image inside tag, generates SBOM for each & diffs them against each other rather than against historical baseline, flagging any package, version or vulnerability status that differs across architectures sharing same tag, the same Dockerfile & same assumed security posture across every platform it claims to support. We show this catching real drift in popular base images, demo CI gate that blocks a push when architectures diverge unexpectedly & discuss how it slots into existing signing pipelines.
Speakers
avatar for Yogesh Sardana

Yogesh Sardana

Deputy General Manager - AI & Cloud Engineering, Airtel
I'm working as a Cloud Engineering Leader & Researcher, leading Open Source Stack R&D wing, known as Jack of all trades, master of Cloud. Been into various tech stacks of Software Development Life Cycle, having fun with tech.
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
  Packages & Images & Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:40 CEST

Reverse Engineering Zephyr's Software Architecture for Safety-Critical Use - Roberto Bagnara, BUGSENG / University of Parma
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Zephyr RTOS is increasingly relevant for safety-related and
mixed-criticality systems, where qualification and certification must
address standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 26262. A key question is
how to provide evidence that software components are independent, that
freedom from interference is preserved, and that future changes can be
assessed without redoing unnecessary qualification work.

This session presents ongoing work on reverse engineering Zephyr's
effective software architectural constraints using static
analysis. Starting from concrete Zephyr configurations, we model
components, observe calls and data accesses, identify dependencies,
and compare the result with the project's intended layered
architecture.

The talk will show how this analysis supports safety arguments by
making software-level independence explicit and checkable. It will
also show how the same model enables Change Impact Analysis: when a
qualified Zephyr version or configuration evolves, the model helps
determine which components, assumptions, tests, and safety evidence
are affected. This is essential to make Zephyr's safety effort
sustainable over time and viable for safety-related development.
Speakers
avatar for Roberto Bagnara

Roberto Bagnara

Functional Safety Expert / Professor of Computer Science, BUGSENG / University of Parma
Roberto Bagnara is professor of Computer Science at the University of Parma and Software Verification Expert and Evangelist at BUGSENG. He coauthored more than 40 papers, in international journals and conference proceedings, on programming languages, static analysis and other techniques... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

11:40 CEST

Zephyr Documentation BoF - Benjamin Cabé, Linux Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Over the past few years, the Zephyr documentation has continued to evolve, with steady improvements to content structure, discoverability, consistency, and the overall contributor experience. One thing that has proven especially valuable is having a regular community check-in where we can openly discuss what is working, what still gets in the way, and where our documentation priorities should be headed next.

Join this Birds of a Feather session to catch up on recent documentation improvements you may have missed, share feedback from your own experience using or contributing to the docs, and help shape what we should focus on in the year ahead.
Speakers
avatar for Benjamin Cabé

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 →
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

12:00 CEST

How To Talk To Your Lawyer About Open Source - Jimmy Ahlberg & Georg Kunz, Ericsson
Thursday October 8, 2026 12:00 - 12:20 CEST
Have you ever felt frustrated that your legal counsel simply does not seem to understand what you are saying? Or are you a lawyer who simply cannot understand why the developers you are trying to help can’t speak clearly? Then you are not alone, and this is the session for you! Lawyers and engineers often speak different languages, which can lead to frustration when collaborating in an open source setting.

Removing friction between legal and engineering communication is no small task. However, doing so unlocks significant value: legal can provide clearer, more actionable advice and better understand risks, while engineers and developers gain a deeper understanding of that guidance. We will will share personal OSPO insights and practical strategies for enabling efficient, clear communication between these distinct functions.

The goal is not to turn engineers into lawyers or lawyers into software developers, but rather helps both sides understand and support each other more effectively. Without a shared language between engineering and legal, messages to management risk getting lost in translation. With clear communication we can all work more efficient together!
Speakers
avatar for Jimmy Ahlberg

Jimmy Ahlberg

Expert & Senior Legal Counsel, Ericsson
Currently Mr Ahlberg is the Director of Open Source Policy with the Ericsson OSPO. Prior to the inception of the Ericsson OSPO he worked in different roles with various aspects of Open Source in the Ericsson organization, This included consumption of and contribution to Open Source... Read More →
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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 →
Thursday October 8, 2026 12:00 - 12:20 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

12:00 CEST

From Observing To Working: PX4-Powered Aerial Manipulators - Ayham Alharbat, Saxion University / University of Twente
Thursday October 8, 2026 12:00 - 12:20 CEST
Recently, drones have evolved from passive observers into active workers, enabling them to carry out physical work in the sky. This lightning talk shares recent advances in Aerial Manipulators (AM), where flying robots physically interact with their surroundings to perform tasks such as inspecting and maintaining offshore wind turbines.
We showcase how PX4 is accelerating the move from lab research to real-world deployment with the journey of a field test of our open AM framework, Sarax (github/sarax), physically interacting with a wind turbine by the North Sea (youtu.be/Er0f0A97aG8). Alongside it, we highlight two research threads (with references to our open-source HW/SW and PRs). First, a PX4/Pixhawk compliant open standard-interface for active, high-power payloads (e.g. manipulator with a steel brush for surface maintenance) to enable modular AM. Second, developing PX4-powered omnidirectional and actively tilting-rotor aerial robots that enable dexterous physical tasks in windy environments.
We close with next steps and open issues for PX4-powered aerial manipulators and an open invitation for the community to join forces and shape this future together.
Speakers
avatar for Ayham Alharbat

Ayham Alharbat

Robotics Researcher, Saxion University / University of Twente
Ayham Alharbat is a researcher at the Smart Mechatronics and Robotics Research Group in Saxion University of Applied Sciences and at the Robotics and Mechatronics Lab at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the modelling and control of Floating-body... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 12:00 - 12:20 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

12:20 CEST

Better Together Lunch
Thursday October 8, 2026 12:20 - 13:50 CEST
About the Better Together Lunch
The Better Together Lunch offers the opportunity for all event participants from marginalized communities (including race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability), and their allies, to join together to build connections to carry through the event and beyond. Our hope is that this event will help continue to increase the diversity both at the event as well as in the open source community as time goes on.

No pre-registration is required to attend. We do our best to accommodate everyone interested in joining, but please note that participation is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Who Can Attend?
Any event participant from a marginalized community (including race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability) and their ally guests. 

Is This Event Open to Allies?
Attendees of the Better Together Lunch are welcome to invite (1) Ally to this event. 

We encourage allies to support diversity in tech while at the event by seeking out and engaging with diverse attendees onsite.

If you are interested in learning about the other ways the Linux Foundation promotes inclusion and accessibility, visit our Inclusion & Accessibility page.
Thursday October 8, 2026 12:20 - 13:50 CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 4B

12:20 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)
Thursday October 8, 2026 12:20 - 13:50 CEST

Thursday October 8, 2026 12:20 - 13:50 CEST
TBA

13:50 CEST

Flying a Drone Onto a High Voltage Power Line - Mads Bornebusch, Heimdall Power
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:10 CEST
Safely flying a drone close to high voltage power lines is a challenge. Making contact with a power line to install hardware on it is even more challenging. The line generates strong electromagnetic interference and there is no room for error in positioning.
In this talk we will go through the challenges we faced with positioning, magnetic interference and changing payload weight. We will show how tailoring the PX4 parameters can address these challenges and compare this to our experience using a DJI M600 where all problems have to be accounted for by our own specialized software. Finally we will present an open problem with RTK degradation resulting in sudden position jumps which we have currently handled in our own software.
Speakers
avatar for Mads Bornebusch

Mads Bornebusch

Head of Drone Development, Heimdall Power
Mads Bornebusch is Head of Drone Development at Heimdall Power, where he has spent 6 years building payloads for the DJI Matrice 600 Pro and Freefly Alta X that install sensors onto live high-voltage power lines. He works across the PX4 stack and ROS, adapting a commercial PX4 airframe... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:10 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit

13:50 CEST

10 Years of Bootable Containers in Production - Michal Toman, balena
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
While bootc has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last few years, we had been using a similar technology in production for over a decade. This timeline has given us long enough to go through the whole life-cycle of thousands of devices: initial provisioning, operating, delivering updates, and decommissioning.

Though our system is based on Yocto and Moby and specifically tailored for over 100 different (mostly edge/embedded) device types, it shares the same core principle of modern bootable container architecture: shipping the OS as a container image and configuring the init system to boot directly into it.

During the session, you will learn:
* How to boot into a containerized rootfs.
* How to manage state, persistent data, and OS updates via container registries over unstable networks.
* Lessons learned from 10 years of using bootable containers on 100+ different edge hardware types.

Prerequisites: Attendees should have a general understanding of OCI containers, Dockerfiles, and container registries.
Speakers
avatar for Michal Toman

Michal Toman

Embedded Linux Engineer, balena
Michal is a member of the OS team at balena. With over 15 years experience of bootstrapping, maintaining and optimizing Linux distributions, he now maintains a Yocto-based OS tailored to run containers on edge devices.
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

13:50 CEST

Beyond Best-Effort: Guaranteed Real-Time Ethernet on Multi-Core Linux - Meghana Malladi & Daolin Qiu, Texas Instruments
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Industrial Ethernet protocols (EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET) require deterministic, low-latency packet processing that degrades when real-time and best-effort traffic compete for CPU resources. This work investigates the extent to which bounded latency behaviour can be achieved for real-time industrial traffic on a multi-core ARM Cortex-A53 SoC running PREEMPT_RT Linux while sharing a single Ethernet interface with concurrent best-effort traffic. The study demonstrates that both traffic types can coexist on a single physical port and be separated across cores using software-based techniques such as the XDP framework. To enforce bounded latency, CPU isolation, processor affinity, and real-time scheduling policies are applied to networking-related kernel threads and application tasks. Results compare real-time traffic latency and jitter across three configurations: no traffic steering, traffic steering to dedicated cores, and traffic steering with techniques to enforce bounded latency. The goal is a reproducible tuning guide for engineers deploying deterministic networking on Linux-based industrial platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Meghana Malladi

Meghana Malladi

Senior Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
Meghana has been working at Texas Instruments for the last 3 years with networking drivers for RTOS and Linux. She has been actively working on enabling XDP and zero copy for TI SoCs, benchmarking and providing networking solutions with XDP and eBPF
avatar for Daolin Qiu

Daolin Qiu

Embedded Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments
Daolin Qiu is an embedded systems application engineer at Texas Instruments (TI). Her focus areas are real-time networking and control applications using embedded Linux. She also provides technical support on low level Ethernet issues for TI customers using embedded Linux. She received... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

13:50 CEST

Cursed Camera Connectors - Kieran Bingham, Ideas on Board
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
An exploration into the complexities of physically connecting cameras to your embedded development board, and configuring them through device tree, and hopefully how we can make it easier in the future!


Small board computers are now prolific with their ability to connect RAW MIPI cameras directly to the board, and now that libcamera provides an open camera stack, connecting cameras to all your favourite boards should be easy.

But it's not. The connectors might have 15, 22 or 30 pins. The functions of each pin differ between boards. There's TypeA and TypeB cables.... And they better not be too long!

The lack of standardisation means it can still be difficult to connect your camera, and the combinatorial explosion of potential device tree overlays will soon become unmaintainable.

Lets look at suggestions that have been around for a decade already, and where that work is now leading to make connecting cameras easier!
Speakers
avatar for Kieran Bingham

Kieran Bingham

Director of Engineering, Ideas on Board
Kieran Bingham is an embedded software engineer working with Ideas on Board and specialising in Linux kernel developments with a focus on media related subsystems.

Kieran has worked with embedded Linux systems for 20 years through professional service companies and silicon vendo... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

13:50 CEST

Beyond Strace: Syscall Analysis the Wireshark Way - Roland Knall, Wireshark Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Every Linux engineer knows the moment: a process is misbehaving, so you reach for strace, get a wall of text, and start grepping. It works - until the problem spans multiple processes, the output is too much to read, or you need to correlate what a process did to the system with what it did on the network. strace and bpftrace are excellent at capturing syscalls. They give you much less help analyzing them.

Stratoshark, the Wireshark Foundation's newer tool, takes a different approach: it captures system calls and logs system-wide through the Falco libraries, then hands them to the same analysis engine that has served packet analysts for 25 years — display filters, coloring rules, follow-stream views, time correlation, and shareable capture files.

In this talk I'll show, live, how a Wireshark user's instincts transfer directly to syscall troubleshooting, where Stratoshark beats reaching for strace, and — just as importantly — where the older tools are still the right call. Expect real debugging scenarios, honest limitations, and a clear picture of when this newer approach earns its place in your toolbox.
Speakers
avatar for Roland Knall

Roland Knall

Core Developer, Wireshark Foundation
I'm a core developer at the Wireshark Foundation, and by day I'm a systems engineer in the network visibility space. I've spent the past decade working with OT networks and safety-critical protocols like openSAFETY. I also help organize the Wireshark community's events across Europe... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
  Linux

13:50 CEST

Yukti: A Unified Inference Interface for Low-Latency Machine Learning in High-Energy Physics - Sanjiban Sengupta, CERN, University of Manchester
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Machine learning is increasingly used in high-energy physics, particularly in trigger systems that process data at rates of 100 kHz while making real-time event selection decisions. The latency and reliability requirements demand highly optimized inference pipelines. While portable solutions such as ONNX Runtime simplify deployment, many applications rely on hardware-specific libraries like NVIDIA TensorRT and MIGraphX (via ROCm) for optimal performance. Code-generation approaches such as SOFIE offer additional efficiency but introduce integration complexity.

We present a unified inference interface that abstracts backend-specific details while preserving performance. It enables execution across multiple inference libraries without data copies or user-side configuration changes. An offline processor converts trained models into backend-optimized plans, and a lightweight runtime loads and executes them through a common API with direct data access for heterogeneous environments.
Speakers
avatar for Sanjiban Sengupta

Sanjiban Sengupta

Doctoral Student, CERN, University of Manchester
Sanjiban is a Doctoral Student at CERN, affiliated with the University of Manchester, researching ML inference optimization for the LHC. He contributed to SOFIE, focusing on Keras/PyTorch parsing, ONNX-based operators, and GNN support. He was a CERN Summer Student (2022) and a GSoC... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data

13:50 CEST

Observability Signals Outages Before They Happen: Lessons from MySQL - Igor Donchovski, Planetscale
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Most MySQL incidents don't start with downtime, they start with small changes that go unnoticed for weeks or months.

This session focuses on operational trend analysis rather than real-time monitoring. We'll explore how growing full table scans, rising temporary table usage, lock contention, redo log pressure, buffer pool inefficiencies, and index bloat can reveal future performance and stability issues long before users are affected.

Through practical examples, attendees will learn how to identify meaningful signals, separate noise from actionable insights, and build lightweight monitoring approaches that provide long-term visibility into database health.

Whether you're a DBA, SRE, platform engineer, or developer responsible for production systems, you'll leave with a practical framework for understanding MySQL health over time.
Speakers
avatar for Igor Donchovski

Igor Donchovski

Enterprise Support Engineer, Planetscale
Most database problems aren't really database problems. They're problems nobody had time to look at closely until things started breaking.
Looking closely is the part I love. For 20+ years I've dug into why systems get slow, cost too much, or can't handle more users and turned th... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

13:50 CEST

Babylon-as-Code: A Single Tower, Multiple Languages, and Multiple Formats in One Pipeline - Florent Zara, Eclipse Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Producing documentation in multiple languages and formats often sounds like a simple promise... until it is time to maintain translations, review changes, publish consistent versions, and avoid diverging copy-pastes.

Drawing from the real-world experience of building a structured multilingual glossary for embedded AI, we will explore how to apply a Docs-as-Code approach to documentation using AsciiDoc. We will cover modular design, conditional content, preprocessing, and automated HTML and PDF generation, all while leveraging the full power of Git for versioning, reviews, and reproducible deployment pipelines.

The goal isn't merely to "write multilingual docs," but to treat documentation as a fully-fledged software artifact. Through this concrete example, we will demonstrate how to organise and maintain a shared structure across languages, centralise common elements, and automate the production of your deliverables.

We will highlight the core principles, best practices, and reusable patterns required to build an industrialised, multilingual technical documentation system, completely freeing you from word processors and manual publishing workflows.
Speakers
avatar for Florent Zara

Florent Zara

Senior Manager, Eclipse Foundation
Florent has been a FLOSS community active member since 1999. With nearly 20 years of experience as an Open Source advisor, he has guided major corporations through governance, licensing, Innersource, and change management. Currently, as Senior Manager of the Professional Services... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)

13:50 CEST

The Evolving OSPO: Driving Technology Governance and Strategic Value in the AI Era - Hiroshi Ota, LY Corporation & Meixia Wang, The Linux Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
As AI transforms the tech landscape through AI-generated code and new security threats, software supply chains and corporate environments face an unprecedented paradigm shift. Consequently, the OSPO's role is becoming more complex, requiring broad coordination across internal and external organizations. We will discuss how enterprises position their OSPOs to realize comprehensive strategic value—including governance and risk management—as well as the challenges they face.

In this joint presentation, Mary Meixia Wang (Executive Director of OpenChain) and Hiroshi Ota (Senior Manager of the Governance & OpenTech Division leading the OSPO at LY Corporation and a W3C Advisory Board member) will deliver a dialogue exploring the strategic convergence of open source, technical standards, and corporate technology governance.

To drive smooth operations and growth while mitigating technical risks, we will share the LY Corporation model. Through this case introduction, we will highlight the enterprise challenges such as the impact of AI and the expectations companies have for open-source communities like OpenChain. Responding to these realities, Mary will share OpenChain's global vision.
Speakers
avatar for Hiroshi Ota

Hiroshi Ota

Senior Manager, Governance & OpenTech Division / OSPO Lead, LY Corporation
Hiroshi Ota is the Senior Manager of the Governance & OpenTech Division at LY Corporation (LINE Yahoo), where he leads the corporate OSPO and comprehensive technology governance. He oversees a strategic organization that integrates open-source engagement, web standards, and technology... Read More →
avatar for Meixia Wang

Meixia Wang

Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Mary Wang is the Executive Director of the OpenChain Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation.

Prior to this role, she served as Director of the Open Source Ecosystem at Volvo Cars, where she founded and led the company’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
Mary also spent nine years at Ericsson. During that time, she worked as a DevOps engineer, developing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, and later as a Technical Product Manager (TPM), taking end-to-end ownership of products... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

13:50 CEST

Still Leading the Pack: Modernizing Kubernetes Supply Chain Security - Adolfo García Veytia, Carabiner Systems & Carlos Tadeu Panato Junior, Chainguard
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Container image signing, SBOMs, SLSA attestations.... five years ago, the Kubernetes project was a trailblazer securing its releases using these and other security features. Having developed its own tools and solutions, things "just worked" for the project, but security technologies evolve and so have we.

Join us as as we dig deep to explore and compare the metadata the project started producing in 2021 with how modern supply chain tools expect them today.

During this talk, we'll do an overview of the updates and modernization of the Kubernetes secure build process and tools. We will examine visually the quality improvements to the Kubernetes SBOMs, how we migrated the SLSA provenance we use to gate our releases to SLSA v1, signing into Sigstore bundles, and, most importantly, how the the toolchain built by K8s Release Engineering enables more than a hundred independently managed projects under the Kubernetes umbrella to build and ship security features to protect themselves and their users.

Out tooling is available for anyone so perhaps we can inspire you to to the same for your projects!
Speakers
avatar for Carlos Panato

Carlos Panato

Staff Software Engineer, Chainguard
Carlos Panato (@cpanato) is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, Inc., specializing in development and infrastructure with Kubernetes and containers. He has a diverse background in development, testing, processes, and management. Carlos actively contributes to several Linux Foundation... Read More →
avatar for Adolfo Garcia Veytia

Adolfo Garcia Veytia

Founding Engineer, Carabiner Systems
Adolfo García Veytia (@puerco) is one of the Kubernetes SIG Release Technical Leads and actively works on the Release Engineering team. He specializes in improving the software that drives the automation behind the Kubernetes release process. He is also the creator of the OpenVEX... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
  Packages & Images & Containers

13:50 CEST

Sponsored Session: Building Secure and Compliant Critical Infrastructure with Open Source - Benjamin Weber, Hitachi Energy
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Critical infrastructure operators face growing pressure to modernize their systems while maintaining the highest levels of security, reliability, and regulatory compliance in an era shaped by regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). In this session, Hitachi shares two real-world modernization journeys with open source from the energy and railway sectors.

The first half focuses on Hitachi Energy’s adoption of Embedded Linux and Yocto for next-generation grid automation products. Hitachi Energy actively contributes to the modernization of energy systems, making electricity more accessible worldwide. In product development, adopting Embedded Linux and Yocto enhances flexibility and maintainability, with strong legal compliance, license management, and open-source collaboration. Hitachi Energy is rolling out Linux-based energy grid automation products and this talk covers their transition to embedded Linux via Yocto, addressing industry protocol support, impacts of CRA, OSS license challenges, and navigating these within a slow-evolving sector.

The second half presents Hitachi Rail’s modernization of mission-critical railway management systems using Keycloak, an open source identity and access management platform. As railway systems become increasingly interconnected, cybersecurity and identity management have become fundamental architectural concerns. We show how secure-by-design principles were applied to modernizing legacy environments, with Keycloak. We also demonstrate how Keycloak helps address several IEC 62443-4-2 requirements and provides a strong foundation for meeting emerging regulatory expectations such as CRA.

Speakers
avatar for Benjamin Weber

Benjamin Weber

Business R&D Manager, Hitachi Energy
Benjamin holds a PhD in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich and is with Hitachi Energy since 2023. He held various positions in diverse industries as firmware developer for Linux and other systems as well as design engineer for a fabless semiconductor company.
avatar for Bernhard Denner

Bernhard Denner

Chief Architect, Hitachi Rail
Bernhard is the Chief Architect of a cloud-native application platform that forms the foundation of many Hitachi Rail products. With a strong background in IT system administration and software engineering, he began automating infrastructure long before “DevOps” became widely... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)

13:50 CEST

No Board, No Problem: Testing Zephyr Applications With Native_sim - Marco Widmer, bytes at work AG
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Zephyr makes it easy to build the same code for multiple board targets. native_sim lets you run (parts of) your zephyr application and associated tests as a regular Linux process, allowing reproducible runs, easy debugging and CI integration.

In this talk, I will share what we learned structuring, testing, and debugging several real-world Zephyr applications:

* The native_sim execution model: How time is handled
* How to emulate hardware: Fake drivers, virtual bluetooth controllers, networking, PTY UART, emulators
* Examples of what can be built using these primitives:
* Connecting to the Android Emulator over BLE
* Writing Zephyr tests using the Cucumber framework
* ...
* Tooling around native_sim: twister, sanitizers, GDB, code coverage
* Integrating external binaries into twister through the pytest harness
* Designing for testability: Separating business logic from hardware-dependent software units
* When native_sim is not enough: Running tests in qemu or on real hardware

The goal of this talk is to provide a broad overview about what is possible thanks to native_sim, hopefully inspiring new ideas on how to test code without ever touching hardware.
Speakers
avatar for Marco Widmer

Marco Widmer

Software Team Lead, bytes at work AG
After obtaining his electrical engineering degree from EPFL, Marco started his first job in the chip industry. Wishing for a more dynamic environment, Marco transitioned to software engineering and started working for the Swiss company bytes at work in 2023. As the software team lead... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

13:50 CEST

USB Development and Testing on Native Simulator - Johann Fischer, Nordic Semiconductor
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Zephyr's new USB support has been in development for some time. It consists of USB device and USB host support. The new device support has been the default for the last two releases. Work on the device part also introduced initial support for the host stack at that time. This was primarily necessary to enable USB/IP support on the native_sim board.

Johann will start with a brief overview of the current status of USB support.

Johann will then present information on virtual device/host controllers and the virtual bus. These are not actually platform-dependent, but they are most often used with native_sim. Furthermore, he will explain how virtual device/host controllers make it possible to build USB applications for native_sim and then export them to a Linux client using USB/IP server support.

Johan will demonstrate that the main benefit of virtual device/host support and native_sim is the ability to test hardware-independent USB code in CI, even on a pull request basis. For example, we can test the behavior of the host/device stack in response to invalid or undefined requests.

Johann will either provide a few examples or point to the samples and specific tests in the repository.
Speakers
avatar for Johann Fischer

Johann Fischer

R&D Engineer, Nordic Semiconductor
I am research and development engineer for NORDIC SEMICONDUCTOR ASA. Zephyr contributor since 2016, right after ELCE 2016 in Berlin. One of my main tasks is the maintaining of USB support in Zephyr.
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

13:50 CEST

Make YAML Dumb Again: The Config as Data Approach - Jaisheesh Venkat Goud, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior & Liam Fallon, Ericsson Software Technology
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 15:20 CEST
Building on my Google Summer of Code experience, this tutorial addresses one of the major challenges in open source software systems – at scale, file management results in overly complicated templates and bad composability. People put logic into YAML files resulting in non-debuggable pipelines while local modifications are wiped away by upstream updates.
This tutorial delves into the idea of Configuration as Data with the help of kpt tooling allowing for logic separation from configuration files. The idea is to keep YAML "dumb" and pure data, which makes it fully predictable and WYSIWYG.
You’ll get to use the example of the OpenTelemetry Demo - a complex e-commerce microservices application – by packing it in independent and dependent subpackages.
Using KRM functions and custom Starlark scripts you'll:
• switch from a shop selling astronomical equipment to a website offering flowers
• localize languages, currencies, taxes
• manage different deployments sizes (small/medium/large).
As the last point you will use three way merging to allow applying upstream package updates while keeping all local changes safe.
Speakers
avatar for Jaisheesh Venkat Goud

Jaisheesh Venkat Goud

Student, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior
Jaisheesh Venkat Goud is a final-year Computer Science student at IIITM Gwalior, India. He is currently a Google Summer of Code contributor to the CNCF kpt project. His interests include cloud native technologies, Kubernetes, developer tooling with particular interest in configuration... Read More →
avatar for Liam Fallon

Liam Fallon

Principal Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology
Liam Fallon is a practitioner delivering Network Automation in open source. He is building the software frameworks needed to realise the promise of automation in modern Telco systems.

He is a maintainer on the CNCF kpt project, a package centric toolchain and package orchestration framework. He is also chair of Nephio SIG-Automation... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 15:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration

14:10 CEST

MAVLink: State of the Nation - Hamish Willee, Auterion
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:10 - 14:30 CEST
An update on MAVLink project and standardization: how we're aligning stakeholders around common definitions, why standardization takes as long as it does, and what PX4 is doing right now to be a better MAVLink citizen.
Speakers
avatar for Hamish Willee

Hamish Willee

Senior Technical Writer, Auterion
MAVlink co-ordinator, PX4 Dev Team maintainer (docs), ArduPilot Dev Team member.

Involved with drone communities since 2014, working with PX4, ArduPilot, QGC, Dronecode & MAVLink.
My work is fully funded by Auterion and entirely dedicated to open source drone projects... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:10 - 14:30 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit

14:40 CEST

Rsinit -- A Tiny Initramfs Toolbox for Embedded Systems - Michael Olbrich, Pengutronix
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:00 CEST
Traditionally, embedded systems were simple enough that an initramfs was not needed at all. This has changed in the last recent years with new requirements, often related to verified boot. That means that additional steps are now needed before the rootfs can be mounted.

Existing solutions, such as the Yocto initramfs-framework have significant drawbacks. The resulting initramfs is quite big (multiple megabytes) which has a noticeable impact on the boot time. And while the shell scripts make it easy to customize, robust error handling is difficult.

In this talk, Michael will introduce rsinit (https://github.com/pengutronix/rsinit), a single-binary-initramfs for embedded systems, written entirely in Rust.
It is tiny (less than 200 KiB), very fast and "just works" for simple use-cases. Alternatively, it can be uses as a library crate to build a fully custom binary.

Beyond being small, it brings the full power of Rust to the initramfs, which allows building additional features (such as splash screens or read-ahead) without pulling in further dependencies.

Michael will present the existing features, explain the design choices and give an overview of what is planed for the future.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Olbrich

Michael Olbrich

Software Engineer, Pengutronix
Michael Olbrich is an open-source developer with a focus on platform integration on embedded Linux. He works as a full-time Linux developer for Pengutronix. His job is to provide a smooth Linux experience on embedded devices from init systems to graphics and multimedia frameworks... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:00 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

14:40 CEST

A Fork Load of Maintenance - Forking a Key Dependency - Tom Sadler & Joel Keers, BBC
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:00 CEST
The benefits of building software on top of open source solutions are well understood, such as avoiding reinventing the wheel, leveraging global expertise, and enabling interoperability. Another benefit is the ability to customise open source software for your use case, but in practice this will often be done by making a fork of the project, which can result in a significant maintenance overhead.

This talk is a case study of the BBC's fork of dash.js, a JavaScript library for media playback that is a key dependency for BBC web and connected TV apps. We will explore the reasons why a fork is being maintained, what the costs and benefits have been, and what is being done to reduce the maintenance overhead going forwards, including contributing to the mainline and engaging with the community. Attendees will come away with a better understanding of why and why not to fork, and how to reduce the burden of maintaining a fork.
Speakers
avatar for Tom Sadler

Tom Sadler

Senior Principal Software Engineer, BBC
Tom Sadler is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at the BBC, working with a number of teams on open source and industry engagement. He has led multiple teams working on the BBC’s Connected TV applications, with a focus on cross team collaboration. Tom has been a regular speaker... Read More →
avatar for Joel Keers

Joel Keers

Principal Software Engineer, BBC
Joel Keers is a Principal Software Engineer at the BBC with a focus on media playback for connected TV experiences. He's the lead maintainer on the BBC's open source TV playback library bigscreen-player and works with media playback experts within the BBC and the industry.
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:00 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

14:40 CEST

Serial Passthrough in PX4: Accessing FC Serial Ports Over MAVLink - Philipp Engljähringer, Auterion
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:00 CEST
PX4 v1.18 introduces a serialpassthrough driver that lets any MAVLink client read from and write to flight controller serial ports. This talk walks through the design: how SERIAL_CONTROL messages are mapped to hardware UART ports and, on STM32F7/H7 boards, to ESC signal pins via a software bit-bang UART; How reply routing, buffer management, and channel exclusivity are handled. We also cover the MAVLink↔UART bridge pattern that makes the feature usable from standard host-side tools, and the PASSTHRU_EN mechanism for safely handing off ESC signal pins at boot. Whether you need to debug a serial peripheral over a telemetry link, configure an ESC remotely, or build custom tooling on top of SERIAL_CONTROL, this talk gives you the full picture.
Speakers
avatar for Philipp Engljähringer

Philipp Engljähringer

Embedded Software Engineer, Auterion
Philipp Engljähringer
Embedded Software Engineer, Auterion

I studied computer science at ETH Zurich and graduated last year. I now work at Auterion as an embedded software engineer and mostly focus on PX4. I enjoy building, debugging, flying, and crashing drones (mostly not intentionally) and developed the serial passthrough feature presented... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:00 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:40 CEST

Building Deterministic Heterogeneous Multicore Industrial Systems on MPUs - Mingkai Hu, NXP
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
With the increasing availability of high-performance Arm® Cortex-A cores and multiple Cortex-M cores in modern MPUs, industrial systems are evolving toward heterogeneous multi-core architectures. For example, compute-intensive applications running on Linux with PREEMPT_RT on A cores, while deterministic real-time tasks running on A core with RTOS (Zephyr or FreeRTOS).
This session will explore the key challenges and corresponding solutions in enabling efficient multi-OS deployment on a single MPU. Topics include:

- Unified life cycle management for booting and orchestrating multiple operating systems across cores using TF-A, U-Boot, and Linux, and fast-boot optimization with TF-A mechanism.
- High-performance inter-core communication mechanisms for low-latency data exchange
- Resource sharing that allow different operating systems to access shared hardware IPs as isolated “virtual peripherals”

The session provides practical insights into building efficient and deterministic heterogeneous systems for industrial applications.
Speakers
avatar for Mingkai Hu

Mingkai Hu

Director of IIoT Vertical Enablement, NXP
I am a Director at NXP, leading the Real-time Edge and Robotics Edge platforms, with responsibilities spanning industrial IP bring-up (e.g., EtherCAT, TSN), performance optimization, multi-core system architecture, and global customer engagement.
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

14:40 CEST

From Power Sequences To Zink: Mainlining Hardware Accelerated 3D for RISC-V - Michał Wilczyński, Samsung Electronics
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
RISC-V is evolving into a capable desktop replacement, driven by boards like the Lichee Pi 4A, but a major barrier remains: the lack of a fully open, upstream graphics stack.

This talk explores enabling hardware accelerated graphics on modern RISC-V SoCs by extending the open source Imagination PowerVR driver for the TH1520. We dive into the architectural challenges of this port, including the complex power sequencing that necessitated the new pwrseq-thead-gpu driver. We break down how the kernel DRM driver interacts with the Mesa PVR Vulkan driver, and how leveraging the Zink translation layer finally brings standard OpenGL desktop acceleration to the platform. Finally, we cover the current mainline status and next steps for the StarFive JH7110 display controller integration.

Key Takeaways / What Attendees Will Learn:
- Porting the open PowerVR driver to the RISC-V TH1520 SoC.
- Implementing kernel power sequencing (pwrseq) for complex GPU domains.
- Interacting between DRM, Mesa Vulkan, and Zink for desktop GL support.
- Current mainline status of the JH7110 Display Controller.

https://mwilczynski.dev/posts/riscv-gpu-zink/
Speakers
avatar for Michał Wilczyński

Michał Wilczyński

Principal Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Michał Wilczyński is a Linux Kernel Engineer at Samsung, working on Tizen OS—where he gets to hack on the heart of smart devices. Before that, he spent time at Intel building networking drivers for the Linux kernel, and earlier in his career, he worked at Nokia and F5 Networks... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

14:40 CEST

Beyond the 10-Year Promise: How CIP's Industrial-Grade Foundations Anchor the AI Era - Yoshitake Kobayashi, Toshiba / CIP & Urs Gleim, Siemens AG
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
In April 2026, the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) reached a historic milestone—its 10th anniversary—and delivered on its founding promise: a full 10-year support lifecycle for the CIP Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) Kernel. CIP is believed to be the first open-source community to sustain a 10-year kernel support commitment in practice. It is also the first OSS project to conform to both IEC 62443-4-1 and 4-2.
At OSS Japan in December 2025, we looked "towards" this decade. This talk marks its completion—and turns to the next one. AI is accelerating software development at unprecedented speed while introducing new complexity and supply-chain risk into infrastructure that must run safely for decades. How do we sustain trust, security, and longevity when the software landscape shifts daily?
We will revisit the strategies and engineering behind CIP's 10-year support and security certifications, then examine why this proven framework matters more than ever in the AI era. Attendees will leave with practical insight into protecting supply-chain integrity, navigating compliance, and building open-source foundations that endure technological disruption.
Speakers
avatar for Urs Gleim

Urs Gleim

Distiguished Engineer Connectivity and Edge Computing, Siemens AG
Urs Gleim is leading the embedded systems group at Siemens Corporate Technology which hosts the Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux. This team centrally provides Linux and related technologies for various Siemens products. Additionally, he is the Chair of the Governing Board... Read More →
avatar for Yoshitake Kobayashi

Yoshitake Kobayashi

CIP TSC Chair, Toshiba / CIP
Yoshitake Kobayashi is the Assistant General Manager and Senior Fellow of the Digital Innovation Technology Center at Toshiba Corporation, where his team delivers a Linux distribution for a wide range of Toshiba products. His research interests span operating systems, distributed... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
  Linux

14:40 CEST

Designing Permissioned AI Agents That Can Run Offline - Miley Fu, Olares Tech
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
AI agents are moving from chat interfaces into workflows that read files, call tools, modify state, and coordinate multiple services. In cloud-hosted designs, this often creates a fragile trust boundary: private data leaves the device, tools are authorized through broad API keys, and the user has limited visibility into what the agent can do. This talk presents an open-source, local-first architecture for permissioned AI agents that can operate offline on Linux edge or personal infrastructure. We will break down the architecture into model serving, retrieval, tool invocation, capability scoping, identity, audit logs, sandboxing, human approval, and fallback synchronization when connectivity returns. The session is not about a specific agent framework; it is about the system boundary around agents. Attendees will learn how to separate reasoning from action, how to map tools to least-privilege permissions, how to keep sensitive context local, and how to evaluate agent workflows when network access is unavailable or intentionally disabled.
Speakers
avatar for Miley Fu

Miley Fu

Developer Relations Director, Olares Tech
Miley is the co-chair and keynote speaker for KubeCon+Open Source Summit and AI Dev China 2024. She works on WasmEdge runtime under Linux Foundation as the founding member for over 6 years. She talks at KubeCon, KCD Beijing+Shenzhen, CloudDay Italy, DevRelCon, Open Source Summit Japan... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:40 CEST

Ship Less: Scoping Open Source Contributions That Actually Merge - Yurii Bliuchak, Apify
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Most first contributions fail before the code does. They try to solve too much, touch too many files, and stall in review while the maintainer waits for a smaller entry point that never comes.

Adding HTTPS support to proxy-chain, a Node.js proxy library used across the web-scraping ecosystem, taught me this the hard way. My first attempt was comprehensive: tunnel support, byte accounting, certificate handling, the works. It went nowhere. What merged was a version that did one thing and stopped.

We'll use that contribution as a case study in scoping. The technical context matters, because it's a great example of hidden complexity: TLS changes proxy semantics in ways that aren't obvious until you're counting bytes and realising the handshake traffic your code never sees is inflating every number. But the talk is really about the decisions behind the code - how to identify what "done" looks like before you start, how to read a maintainer's priorities from their issue tracker, and how to negotiate a PR boundary that gets merged rather than praised and ignored.

You'll leave with a framework for scoping contributions that ship, and a clearer sense of when doing less is the right call.
Speakers
avatar for Yurii Bliuchak

Yurii Bliuchak

Engineering Team Lead at Apify, Apify
Yurii Bliuchak is an Engineering Team Lead at Apify, where his team maintains proxy-chain, an open-source Node.js proxy library used widely in the web scraping ecosystem. Over 14 years, he has gone from test automation to leading distributed teams on mission-critical, large-scale... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

14:40 CEST

Diagrams & Dragons: Teaching Technical Writing to University Students the Open Source Way - Jiri Herrmann & Vendula Ferschmannová, Red Hat Czech
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
For 4 years, the documentation team of Red Hat Czech has been teaching the fundamentals of technical writing to university students in Brno.

The courses have been attended by students of IT as well as non-technical majors, and have been well received by both

In this talk, we will share how we approached constructing the courses, what worked, what didn't, and how we refined the syllabus year-over-year to adapt to the recent turbulence in the world of technology.
Speakers
avatar for Vendula Ferschmannova

Vendula Ferschmannova

Senior Manager, Customer Content Services, Red Hat Czech
Technical communication professional passionate about minimalism, structure, and technical writing in general.
My other area of interest is Usability in technical documentation and helping writers with their career.
avatar for Jiri Herrmann

Jiri Herrmann

Principal Technical Writer, Red Hat Czech
A long-time technical writer at Red Hat, a language enthusiast, and a fan of all sorts of nerdy things.
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)

14:40 CEST

No Slides, No Pitches: What Practitioners Really Think of OpenSSF Tools - Katherine Druckman, JetBrains; Kadi McKean, ReversingLabs; Tabatha DiDomenico, G-Research Open Source
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Somewhere along the way, the security ecosystem started asking maintainers to add more steps, update more plugins, and generate more outputs, without asking what it costs them. At cdCon, the OpenSSF DevRel community ran two back-to-back sessions to fix that: first an open, no-pitches roundtable where practitioners told us where tools miss the mark, then a maintainer lightning round where the people who could act on that feedback were already in the room.

This talk distills what came out of both. We'll cover the adoption gap (lots of awareness, far less implementation), why a year on this community still doesn't trust the SBOMs it generates, the recurring "I have one security engineer — where do I start?" problem, and the confusion created by too many badges and not enough wayfinding. Then we'll show how a wave of OpenSSF projects — from gittuf and Sigstore to OpenVEX, SBOMit, and the OSPS Baseline — are responding, including where there is work to do.
Speakers
avatar for Tabatha DiDomenico

Tabatha DiDomenico

OSS Security Engineer, G-Research Open Source
Tabatha DiDomenico is part of the Open Source team at G-Research focusing on supply chain security, secure open source practices, and community and developer relations.

Tabatha is president of Security BSides Orlando, co-host of the GR-OSS Out podcast and holds an MS in Cybersecurity from the University of South Florida. She has spoken at conferences including Black Hat Tools Arsenal, SOSS Fusion, ShmooCon, and Grace Hopper Celebration... Read More →
avatar for Kadi McKean

Kadi McKean

Community Manager, ReversingLabs
Kadi is passionate about the DevOps / DevSecOps community since her days of working with COBOL development and Mainframe solutions. At ReversingLabs, she collaborates with developers and security researchers to educate the open source community on software supply chain security. She... Read More →
avatar for Katherine Druckman

Katherine Druckman

Head of Community and Partnership Engagement, JetBrains
Katherine Druckman is a senior technologist, speaker, and longtime advocate for open ecosystems. Currently Head of Community and Partnership Engagement at JetBrains, she specializes in developer experience, combining software ecosystem strategy, content strategy, and community building... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
  Packages & Images & Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:40 CEST

Evolving Zephyr USB Host Stack: Enabling UVC, CDC-ECM and Hub With Real-World Lessons - Mark Wang, NXP Semiconductors
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
The Zephyr USB host stack is still evolving and remains an experimental subsystem for many real-world applications. This session presents practical experience in enabling key USB host classes in Zephyr, including UVC (USB Video Class), CDC-ECM, and USB Hub support, along with a series of architectural improvements to the host stack.
The presentation highlights the challenges and lessons learned while bringing these features to Zephyr, including attach/detach handling, dynamic class matching for composite devices, device lifecycle management across class drivers, the core stack, and UHC drivers, dynamic configuration selection, and limitations in current APIs.
In addition, the session identifies gaps in the current USB host subsystem and outlines potential directions for future evolution. It aims to provide practical insights and guidance for developers working on USB host support in Zephyr.
Speakers
avatar for Mark Wang

Mark Wang

Principal Software Engineer, Zephyr collaborator for USB, Zephyr collaborator for Bluetooth Classic, NXP Semiconductors
I hold a Master’s degree from Jiangsu University and have been with NXP since early 2014. I have 12 years of experience in USB technologies and 7 years in Bluetooth.
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

14:40 CEST

Fake Drivers: A Practical Guide To Zephyr Test Doubles - Henrik Brix Andersen, Vestas Wind Systems A/S
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
In Zephyr, subsystems, middleware, and application components typically depend on one or more lower-level device driver APIs. For testing these upper-level subsystems in isolation, the lower-level driver dependencies must still be satisfied. A popular software design pattern for this is to use test doubles. However, how can this be achieved in Zephyr without introducing test-specific changes to the upper-level subsystem?

The solution is to use fake drivers. This presentation will explore various use cases for employing fake device drivers as test doubles, examine the structure of a fake driver implementation, and demonstrate how fake drivers can be used to not only satisfy test dependencies, but also facilitate test case isolation, driver API call inspection and instrumentation.
Speakers
avatar for Henrik Brix Andersen

Henrik Brix Andersen

Functional Lead, Embedded Platforms & Cyber Security, Vestas Wind Systems A/S
Henrik Brix Andersen is Functional Lead, Embedded Platforms & Cyber Security at Vestas Wind Systems A/S, providing firmware expertise for Vestas’ sustainable energy solutions. Brix is a passionate open-source software engineer and a long-standing contributor to the Zephyr RTOS project... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

15:00 CEST

LibreCar: Android Auto on Mobile Linux - Petr Hodina, SolderChef
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:00 - 15:20 CEST
Android Auto requires Google's device integrity checks before it will connect to a car head unit, which by design locks the protocol to stock Android. Mainline mobile Linux phones have no path to car integration as a result.

LibreCar is an open-source implementation of the Android Auto protocol for the phone side. It lets any mainline Linux phone connect to a head unit wirelessly over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, or wired over USB, without depending on Android or Google.
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This talk walks through what it takes to open a session with a head unit, how to compose and stream the video output it expects, and how to read touch input back from the interface.
Speakers
avatar for Petr Hodina

Petr Hodina

Mr, SolderChef
An embedded Linux developer focused on closing the gap between mobile Linux and Android. Currently works on hardware enablement and diagnostics for mobile Linux OS, building tooling that helps porters and users trust that a device actually works.
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:00 - 15:20 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:00 CEST

What You Need To Know About Project Health - Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar, Bitergia
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:00 - 15:20 CEST
Most organizations consuming open source have no systematic way to assess whether the projects they depend on are thriving, stagnating, or quietly dying. Scanners tell you about license, origin, and known vulnerabilities. Nothing tells you a maintainer is burning out or release cadence has silently stalled until it’s too late.

This talk introduces project health as a missing layer of supply chain risk management. We’ll cover the core metrics that matter from the work of CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software) and how they complement security-focused efforts like OpenSSF Scorecard.

We’ll look at what’s ahead: making health data federated, queryable, and built into the tools and metadata infrastructure teams already use, so a health check becomes as automatic as a vulnerability scan. We’ll cover what’s being built now, what’s still unsolved, and how you can get involved.

Leave with a practical framework for evaluating dependency health today, and understand where this ecosystem is headed: toward a future where operationalized open health data at scale makes project health visible, measurable, and actionable for everyone who depends on open source.
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar

Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar

CEO, Bitergia
Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar, PhD in empirical software engineering, is the co-founder and CEO of Bitergia. A recognized expert in Open Source and InnerSource ecosystems, Daniel helps organizations make data-driven decisions regarding community health, corporate risk, and digital sovereignty... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:00 - 15:20 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

15:00 CEST

State of MAVSDK - Julian Oes, Julian Oes Consulting
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:00 - 15:20 CEST
As a maintainer of MAVSDK I would like give an update on the current state of the project, specifically about changes and improvements coming with MAVSDK v4, such as:

- New lightweight Python wrappers
- New MavlinkDirect plugins
- And lots of improvements under the hood
Speakers
avatar for Julian Oes

Julian Oes

Drone Software Consultant, Julian Oes Consulting
Julian Oes has been working on and around PX4 since its inception in 2012, at various companies and always as a maintainer of the various open source projects. Since 2022, Julian operates as a consultant / freelancer in the drone space. He works at the intersection between drone internals... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:00 - 15:20 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit

15:20 CEST

Ask the Expert Sessions
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Come sit down with some open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions! No sign-up necessary. More information to come!
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 4B

15:20 CEST

Coffee Break
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:20 - 15:50 CEST

Thursday October 8, 2026 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
TBA

15:50 CEST

SIH: A Flight Simulator That Lives Inside the Autopilot - Marco Hauswirth, Auterion AG
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:10 CEST
Most PX4 simulation relies on an external simulator talking to the autopilot over a network bridge. SIH, the Simulator In Hardware, does the opposite: it is a single PX4 module that integrates the full rigid-body equations of motion right next to the flight stack. The same code runs as a SITL process on your laptop and, just as well, directly on the flight controller, feeding synthetic sensor data into the estimation pipeline while the board flies a virtual vehicle.

This talk opens up SIH and shows how little there is between you and a flying model: how actuator outputs become forces and torques, are integrated through the equations of motion, and are reconstructed into noisy IMU, baro, GNSS, and airspeed signals that the rest of PX4 cannot tell from real hardware. We cover the vehicle types supported, the aerodynamic model that makes adding an airframe a matter of physics rather than plumbing, and how to launch, run, and extend SIH.
Speakers
avatar for Marco Hauswirth

Marco Hauswirth

GNC Engineer, Auterion AG
2024 – present: GNC Engineer at Auterion with a focus on State Estimation. Upstream PX4 development and customizations for clients
2023 - 2024: Research engineer for GNSS-denied drones using radar sensors at ETH Zurich – ASL
2021-2023: Masters degree in Robotics, Systems, and... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:10 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit

15:50 CEST

KubePACS: From Systems Research To Open Source Spot Instance Provisioning on Kubernetes - Kyungyong Lee, Hanyang University
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Spot instances reduce cloud bills by up to 90%, but choosing which to use is a multi-dimensional puzzle where price, performance, interruption risk, and instance heterogeneity all interact. Kubernetes provisioners like Karpenter optimize a narrow slice of this problem, tightly coupled to a single cloud vendor, AWS.

KubePACS is an open source project that separates the decision from the execution. A vendor-neutral optimizer computes the best mix of instance types for a workload's cost-performance-availability profile, then translates that into native configuration for the user's provisioner

The talk goes deep into the system: the ILP-based selector for cost-performance-availability trade-offs, the GSS-driven optimizer that tunes them automatically, multi-node spot placement awareness for robust capacity across cloud providers, and clean integration with upstream Karpenter.

Attendees see measured gains over baseline configurations and take away an architecture pattern for performance-aware spot instance provisioning. We close with our intent to grow KubePACS as an open source community effort and welcome contributors to shape what comes next.
Speakers
avatar for Kyungyong Lee

Kyungyong Lee

Associate Professor, Hanyang University
Kyungyong Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Data Science at Hanyang University, South Korea. His research focuses on developing cost-efficient and highly available distributed big data and AI platforms on the cloud. Before joining academia, he worked as a software... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration

15:50 CEST

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Yocto Project Reference Containers - Tim Orling, Konsulko Group
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Containers ship everywhere, yet their software supply chain remains murky. Today's SBOM tools work backwards, scanning a finished image to guess what's inside — an approach prone to omissions and inaccuracies that the EU Cyber Resilience Act will make increasingly untenable.

The Yocto Project uses a fundamentally different path. Because we build everything from source, we generate an accurate, complete SPDX 3.0 SBOM during the build, not after it — with full license and provenance information. In this presentation, we discuss a new approach that lets us build minimal, multi-layer OCI container images using standard Yocto tooling, with no special privileges required, to produce repeatable and auditable results.

We will demonstrate end-to-end automation on the Yocto Project AutoBuilder: building reference container images, attaching SBOM and license attestations, signing them, and pushing to public registries. Attendees will leave understanding how reproducible builds, from source, close the container manifest gap — and how to consume these images today.
Speakers
avatar for Tim Orling

Tim Orling

Principal Software Engineer, Konsulko Group
Tim Orling is a Principal Software Engineer at Konsulko Group. Tim was elected to the OpenEmbedded Board in 2022 and the OE TSC in 2023. He has spent many years as a volunteer developer for OE and the Yocto Project. He has been an open source software and hardware enthusiast for many... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

15:50 CEST

Using the Linux Tracing Infrastructure and eBPF for Latency Analysis - Jan Altenberg, Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
The Linux tracing infrastructure provides several methods for recording events in the operating system. Apart from many other use cases, tracing is often being used to identify the root cause of high latencies on Linux with enabled real-time configuration. The possibility of filtering and a fine granular selection of the events to be recorded reduces the overhead and therefor allows tracing of time critical sections with low impact on the runtime behavior. Events generated by the tracing infrastructure can also serve as a hook for eBPF programs, which run in a sandbox inside the kernel. These can be used for timing analysis within the kernel without the need of switching to userspace. This presentation will give a brief overview of the Linux tracing infrastructure, eBPF and how they can be used to analyze scheduling latencies on a Linux system with real-time requirements.
Speakers
avatar for Jan Altenberg

Jan Altenberg

Director R&D, Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG
Jan Altenberg has more than 20 years of experience in developing and maintaining Embedded Linux systems. Since October 2021 Jan works as Senior Open Source Consultant and Embedded Systems Integrator at the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG and since 2024, he also serves... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

15:50 CEST

WPE Hands-On: Writing a Launcher for Embedded Devices With the New WPEPlatform API - Mario Sanchez-Prada, Igalia
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
WPE WebKit is the WebKit port for Linux-based embedded devices, powering Web-based user interfaces on platforms such as set-top boxes, smart appliances, and industrial systems. With the 2.54 release, a stable version of the new WPEPlatform API is now available, radically simplifying how the Web engine is embedded: thanks to built-in support for Wayland, DRM/KMS, and headless rendering, libwpe and external backends are no longer needed unless you target a different platform. Zero-copy buffer sharing via DMA-BUF is also available for efficient video and graphics pipelines on modern Linux kernels and supported platforms.

After a quick introduction to WPE WebKit, the session will demonstrate the new API in practice, showing how simple it has become to write a custom launcher to run Web-based applications on embedded devices. It will also offer practical guidance for migrating existing integrations to WPEPlatform, whether they are based on Cog or built directly on the legacy API.

Whether you are evaluating WPE for the first time or maintain devices already shipping it and wonder what it means for you, this talk will help you get started with the next generation of the WPE public API.
Speakers
avatar for Mario Sanchez-Prada

Mario Sanchez-Prada

Software Engineer and WebKit Team coordinator at Igalia, Igalia
Software engineer and partner at Igalia with 18+ years of experience working on the development of Linux-based Operating Systems, the GNOME platform, Web engines (i.e. WebKit, Blink) and Web browsers (Epiphany, Chromium).

Past experience includes work on the Maemo project, Litl... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:50 CEST

Plug-and-play Kernel CI: From Patch To PR Without a Test Lab - Shreeya Patel, CIQ
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
You maintain a kernel fork. Maybe it's an LTS branch, a distro kernel, or an embedded platform. You push a patch and wonder, will it boot? Will it break something that worked yesterday? Most CI solutions either need a full test lab you can't afford, or give you a virtme smoke test that won't catch real failures.

We faced the same problem. 5 engineers, multiple kernels, no test lab budget. So we built a kernel CI pipeline that does real boot, real tests using nothing but GitHub Actions.
The key difference from other CIs is that we don't use virtme. We boot a full disk image. The bugs that only show up during a real boot, module loading failures, get caught here.

In this talk, I'll walk through how we boot real disk images in CI, run test suites against every patch, and catch regressions before they hit your branch, all without a test lab.
I'll explain the pipeline design, demo the full cycle from patch to test results, and cover what it takes to go from "nothing" to a working multi-arch kernel CI.
We're also making this pipeline portable and open for others to use.

If you maintain a kernel and want real integration testing without the overhead of a test lab, this talk is for you.
Speakers
avatar for Shreeya Patel

Shreeya Patel

Linux Kernel Development Engineer, CIQ
Shreeya Patel is a Linux Kernel Developer working
mainly on Kernel Testing projects at CIQ. She previously also worked at Collabora on RK3588 hardware enablement, Steam Deck kernel development, ChromeOS and KernelCI projects. She was also an Outreachy intern for the Sound Open Firmware project in 2020... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:50 CEST

Open Standards for Measuring Carbon, Energy, and Water in Software and AI - Navveen Balani, Linux Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Software’s environmental footprint, especially AI’s, is becoming a business, governance, and regulatory priority. The EU AI Act introduces environmental transparency expectations for general-purpose AI, while the CSRD expands sustainability reporting obligations to 50,000+ companies. As software and AI adoption accelerate, organizations are increasingly seeking consistent ways to measure carbon, energy, and water impacts across workloads and inference.

The Green Software Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, is helping shape the open standards foundation for this transition:

• SCI (ISO/IEC 21031:2024): the ISO-ratified standard for software carbon intensity
• SEE: measuring software energy efficiency across workloads
• SCI for AI: extending measurement to AI training, fine-tuning, and inference
• SWE: addressing the growing water footprint of software and AI systems

Drawing on direct experience chairing and co-leading these specifications, this session explores how these standards connect, align with emerging expectations such as the EU AI Act and CSRD, and help organizations build measurable, transparent, and sustainable software and AI systems.
Speakers
avatar for Navveen Balani

Navveen Balani

Executive Director , Green Software Foundation, Linux Foundation
Navveen Balani is the Executive Director of the Green Software Foundation and a technology leader with 25+ years of experience building exponential and responsible technology systems. He chaired the creation of the ISO-ratified Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard and leads SCI... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data

15:50 CEST

Ask for Help Like a Pro! - Jakub Scholz, Cloudera
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Open source communities are like a busy marketplace from some fantasy book. They are crowded, full of magic, and have all kinds of information. You will meet there many different characters: the wizards who saw everything twice and have every answer; the newbies who just landed and are completely lost; or the jumpy folks looking desperately for some quick fix for their production issue. It can be an intimidating place and it can be hard to find the right answers. This talk will try to help you navigate it. What are the differences between commercial support and community help? How do you find the right channel for your questions? What are the things you should always include when asking for help with some problem? How to deal with confidential data in your logs or configurations? This talk will try to answer all these questions and more. It will help you to ask for help like a pro and get the best answers quickly to get your systems up and running as soon as possible.
Speakers
avatar for Jakub Scholz

Jakub Scholz

Engineer, Cloudera
Jakub is a CNCF Ambassador and engineer at Cloudera with deep expertise in Kubernetes, streaming, and messaging. As a co-founder and maintainer of the Strimzi project, he has spent years bridging the gap between Apache Kafka and cloud-native infrastructure. Before his time at Cloudera... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

15:50 CEST

Open Source Maintainers Vs. The CVE Tsunami - Madelyn Olson, AWS & Harkrishn Patro, Apple
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
AI-powered security models have fundamentally changed vulnerability discovery. What once took months of expert auditing now runs continuously at scale, flooding maintainers with vulnerability reports, coordinated disclosure requirements, patch demands, and CVE assignments. The industry celebrates AI finding more bugs; maintainers are drowning in the reports.

This talk examines how maintainers of critical open-source infrastructure can adapt to handle the incoming wave. This requires new processes at all levels of the development process. Maintainers can use AI tooling to help differentiate slop requests from genuine vulnerabilities, use them to help automate and coordinate disclosures, and start proactively searching for these vulnerabilities so they never entered production in the first place. We'll give concrete examples and patterns that you can use to apply to your own works as a maintainer or security researcher.
Speakers
avatar for Harkrishn Patro

Harkrishn Patro

Software Engineer, Apple
I love OSS. I’m primarily involved in the Valkey project. I’m always up for a chat about data storage systems. 
avatar for Madelyn Olson

Madelyn Olson

Principal software engineer, AWS
I work primarily on the open source Valkey project and evangelize the importance of open source software development.
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)

15:50 CEST

Panel: Can University OSPOs Unlock Global Open Source Partnerships? - Stephanie Lieggi, UC Santa Cruz; Nithya Ruff, Independent; Clare Dillon, CURIOSS; Jacek Plucinski, University of Luxembourg
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
University researchers create innovative open source ecosystems that can reshape global digital infrastructure, however translating that work into sustainable partnerships with open source communities - and industry - remains difficult. Promising projects disappear based on funding cycles and student/faculty transience. Barriers to collaboration – IP issues, funding models, institutional culture – remain difficult to tackle. While these challenges are universal, the landscape looks different depending on in which part of the world you sit. Funding, technology transfer norms, and expectations from academic partners vary significantly between the EU and North American contexts. This panel brings together university OSPO practitioners to examine what a genuinely international model for university-industry open source collaboration could look like. They will share what's working in their ecosystems, where barriers lie, and whether shared infrastructure could bridge regional differences. The session includes space for audience input on what is most needed to make academic partnerships stronger at a global level.
Speakers
avatar for Stephanie Lieggi

Stephanie Lieggi

Executive Director, Center for Research in Open Source Software, UC Santa Cruz
Stephanie Lieggi is executive director for the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) and the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office (OSPO). In her current roles she supports the work of academic-based open source projects and enables a sustainable contributor base... Read More →
avatar for Nithya Ruff

Nithya Ruff

Chair, Linux Foundation Board, Independent
Nithya has been in open source leader for over 25 years. She is a bridge builder working with companies large and small to create productive and strategic paths to working with open source. She led the Amazon OSPO & prior to Amazon, she started and grew Comcast and SanDisk's OSPO... Read More →
avatar for Clare Dillon

Clare Dillon

Community Lead, CURIOSS
Clare Dillon is community lead for CURIOSS, a community for university and research institution OSPOs. Clare is also a PhD researcher with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and a member of Lero's OSPO team. Clare was the inaugural Executive Director... Read More →
avatar for Jacek Plucinski

Jacek Plucinski

Technology Transfer Officer, University of Luxembourg
Jacek Plucinski is a technology transfer professional and open source strategist at SnT, University of Luxembourg. He leads SnT’s FOSS (OSPO) activities, manages IP for software assets, licensing and the Venture Program, and has driven key digital transformation projects including... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

15:50 CEST

Maven-Lockfile: Locking Down the JVM Supply Chain for Hermetic Builds - Aman Sharma, KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Bruno Pimentel, Red Hat
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Modern software projects depend on hundreds of third-party libraries, making reproducible and secure builds increasingly difficult. However, Maven, one of the most widely used Java build tools, has no native lockfile support. This leaves projects exposed to version drift, tampered artifacts, and dependency confusion attacks, while making hermetic builds difficult to achieve.

Maven-lockfile addresses this by generating a cryptographic record of all resolved artifacts, including transitive dependencies, and validating them on every build. This enables frozen dependency sets for exact historical reproducibility. In collaboration with Red Hat, we extended maven-lockfile to systematically capture build extensions, BOMs, and other dynamically fetched artifacts required for hermetic builds, and compare it against Maven-native approaches like Trusted Checksums.

To complete the workflow, we demo maven-lockfile alongside Hermeto, a CLI tool that pre-fetches dependencies into a local cache, enabling fully network-isolated builds.
Speakers
avatar for Aman Sharma

Aman Sharma

PhD Student, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
I am a PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and a researcher in CHAINS project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. We work on securing software supply chains. Before that, I received my Bachelor in Technology from Indian Institute... Read More →
avatar for Bruno Pimentel

Bruno Pimentel

Software Engineer, Red Hat
Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)

15:50 CEST

Enabling Matter on Zephyr - Aksel Mellbye, Silicon Labs
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Matter is an open-source application-layer connectivity standard for connected home devices built on top of Wi-Fi and Thread, technologies that are both supported in Zephyr. Until recently, Matter support on Zephyr was primarily delivered through vendor-specific downstream SDKs, but there has been a growing effort to collaborate upstream in both the Matter and Zephyr communities to improve integration between the two projects.

This session will explore the current state of Matter support in the Zephyr ecosystem, including how Matter is integrated today as an external middleware module. We will review ongoing development efforts across both projects to create a shared Zephyr platform abstraction layer for Matter, improve build system integration, maintenance and developer experience, and highlight opportunities for community contribution.

Attendees will gain an understanding of the architecture of Matter on Zephyr, recent upstream developments, the roadmap for future integration work, and how they can contribute to the effort.
Speakers
avatar for Aksel Mellbye

Aksel Mellbye

Staff Software Architect, Silicon Labs
Zephyr contributor and maintainer with 12 years of IoT experience, focusing on MCU drivers, security and machine learning.
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

15:50 CEST

Stop Rewiring: Scale Embedded Hardware Testing - Franklin Cooper, Texas Instruments
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Embedded test automation is often limited by something simple: wires. External loopback, testing another peripheral instance, validating a power domain, or connecting to external equipment can each require a different setup. As coverage grows, teams end up with custom fixtures, manual steps, fragile lab instructions, and CI systems that cannot reproduce a developer’s bench setup.

This talk presents an open source framework that uses a low-cost, off-the-shelf FPGA board as a programmable routing fabric. It sits between the device under test and the rest of the setup, routing pins to loopbacks, other peripherals, boards, or tools.

The framework is software-agnostic: it works with Zephyr, Linux, bare metal, or vendor SDK testing. Tests declare the needed connections, metadata describes the FPGA-to-device wiring, and the framework generates per-test Verilog, runs open source FPGA tools, and programs the FPGA.

The talk will cover lessons from real tests, common peripheral limits, demo and how to reproduce this setup at a desk, in a lab, or in CI.

Key benefits:
*Low-cost off-the-shelf hardware
*Open source software
*Easier developer desk testing
*More CI/CD regression coverage
Speakers
avatar for Franklin Cooper

Franklin Cooper

Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
Franklin Cooper Jr. is an embedded software engineer at Texas Instruments with over 15 years of experience in embedded software development. Throughout his career, he has contributed to and upstreamed work in several open source projects, including U-Boot, Linux, and Yocto. His work... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

16:10 CEST

Keep It in the Air: Surviving Motor Failures in PX4 - Gennaro Guidone, Auterion
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:10 - 16:30 CEST
What if losing a motor didn't mean losing the drone? This talk gives an end-to-end overview of how PX4 handles motor failure on multicopters: how it recognizes a failing motor, and the failsafe and control-allocation responses that decide what happens next.
We'll then look at where motor-failure handling is heading: a new filter-based detection method that learns each motor's expected behavior to catch faults earlier, the tooling to calibrate it from real flight data, and a recovery that can keep a vehicle flying, and bring it home, after losing a motor.
Speakers
avatar for Gennaro Guidone

Gennaro Guidone

Autonomous Flight Systems Intern, Auterion
I am an MSc student in Robotics at ETH Zurich and an intern at Auterion. Born in Naples, I previously served as a Research Assistant at the Robotics and Perception Group under Prof. Scaramuzza. My core professional interests lie in drones, AI, and applied optimization.
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:10 - 16:30 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:40 CEST

From Gazebo Simulation To Flight Operations: Developing a Production Precision Landing System - Andrei Cuenca, Censys Technologies
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:00 CEST
Autonomous VTOL aircraft require reliable, precision landing capabilities to enable real world applications from package delivery to infrastructure inspection. This session presents a complete open-source precision landing system built on ROS 2 and PX4, covering the full development lifecycle from high fidelity simulations to flight tested deployment.

We'll walk through how we developed, validated, and refined a multi-sensor perception and control stack that achieves centimeter-level landing accuracy using only commodity sensors and open-source tools. The system uses AprilTag fiducials for dock detection, fuses visible and infrared camera streams with a Kalman filter for robust pose estimation, and executes a phased descent state machine with real-time PID control.

The presentation covers:
Simulation first development: Building a Gazebo SITL environment with realistic sensor models
ROS 2 + PX4 integration: Bridging autopilot and perception via micro-XRCE-DDS,
Production deployment: Lessons learned scaling from lab prototype to field-tested hardware. Practical guidance on composing a production system from ROS packages, PX4 firmware, and community-contributed modules.


Speakers
avatar for Andrei Cuenca

Andrei Cuenca

Senior Autonomy Engineer, Censys Technologies
Dr. Andrei Cuenca is an Aerospace Autonomy Engineer at Censys Technologies Corporation, where he leads GNC development for autonomous UAS. He holds a PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and dual BS degrees in Mechanical and Electronics Engineering... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:00 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit

16:40 CEST

Stateless by Design: Lessons From Building Infrastructure-as-Code Without Local State - Prashansa Kulshrestha, Kong Inc
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Most IaC tools, Terraform chief among them, keep a local copy of state to plan changes, detect drift, and resolve references. That state file is also a known source of pain: it can go stale, get corrupted, and become a coordination bottleneck.

What happens when an IaC system deliberately keeps no local state? Instead of a stored snapshot, every operation reconciles desired configuration against live state at apply time. That single choice shapes everything else, and not all of it is smooth sailing.

Drawing on her experience building widely adopted open-source declarative CLIs, Prashansa unpacks the lessons she learned. The talk covers the tradeoffs statelessness forces: full-state sync versus additive configuration and when each fits, resolving references without a stored dependency graph, schema-aware diffing, and transparent reconciliation so users see what a tool does. It also covers production challenges: compatibility across platform versions, evolving schemas, and keeping behaviour predictable as systems grow.
Attendees will leave understanding why most IaC tools rely on state, what gets simpler and harder without it, and how to weigh these tradeoffs in their own systems.
Speakers
avatar for Prashansa Kulshrestha

Prashansa Kulshrestha

Senior Software Engineer, Kong Inc
Prashansa is a Senior Software Engineer at Kong, where she designs and builds open-source CLIs that teams use to manage their infrastructure declaratively through GitOps-style workflows. She thinks of the command line as a product, with developer experience and predictable, user-first... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration

16:40 CEST

Bring Linux DRM Display Panel Support in the Modern Age - Neil Armstrong, Linaro
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Since the introduction of the first Samsung DSI panel, the Linux DRM panel API became an important piece of software used to enable displays across very different hardware architectures. However, the panel support API hasn't evolved much since then.

Currently, the API is showing its age alongside modern graphics stacks. It doesn't support the atomic DRM API and lacks the ability to adapt the power setup while changing DRM modes. Furthermore, it doesn't support the advanced features that new Display Driver ICs (DDIC) heavily rely on, such as standby and advanced power states, advanced color management, dynamic rate switching, command mode self-refresh and more.

Neil will present you the history of the panel API from its origins, outline its current architectural limitations, and lead this BoF to discuss how to bring Linux DRM Display Panel support into the modern age. This open discussion will focus on how to collaboratively solve all those missing features to support modern devices and close the widening gap with downstream vendor support.
Speakers
avatar for Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong

Senior Linux Engineer, Linaro
Neil joined Linaro in September 2022 to work full-time on Qualcomm Upstreaming of their high-end SoC platforms.
Neil has been hacking on embedded platforms since he was 16 years old, from Casio Calculators to Phones platforms in the last months.
He maintains the Amlogic Linux & U-Boot baseport, Linux DRM Bridge & Panel codebase. In addition to Qualcomm, Neil regularly contributes to the Linux Kernel and U-Boot supporting the Amlogic SoCs support and DRM codebase... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

16:40 CEST

One Yocto Distro, Many Boards, Few Engineers - Yann Cardaillac, Balena
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
At balena, a 6 person team maintains 1 distro meta for 80+ boards across multiple Yocto versions. This talk unpacks the layer layout that make this level of scale possible.
Maintaining one distro across multiple architectures and vendor BSPs is, above all, a separation-of-concerns problem. Centralizing every board in one BSP layer, forking vendor trees, or splitting repos without clear boundaries each trades one pain for another: merge hell or upgrade paralysis when vendors move at different speeds.
Yocto's layer model is built for it but the boundaries are easy to miss. I learned it the hard way: managing boards from several vendors in a single BSP works at first, then fails to scale.
During the session, you'll learn:
- How to structure distro logic, version-specific, board and vendor layers
- Anti-patterns from real projects
- Strategies for on-boarding new hardware boards without duplicating distro logic or getting blocked by a lagging vendor BSP
You will leave with a concrete layout to evaluate against your own BSPs and enough pointers using balenaOS’s oss repositories as a reference implementation to start migrating toward a maintainable global BSP.
Speakers
avatar for Yann Cardaillac

Yann Cardaillac

Embedded Linux Engineer at Balena, Balena
Yann is a member of the OS team at balena, where he works on the Yocto-based distribution that enables running Docker containers on the edge at scale. For over a decade, he has used Yocto and Buildroot and open-source tools across robotics, defense, IoT, and consumer electronics as... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

16:40 CEST

State of Embedded Linux - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
This talk offers a comprehensive look at what's changed in the embedded Linux world over the past year. Walt will walk through the latest kernel developments most relevant to embedded developers, survey key userspace projects shaping modern embedded designs, and cover the broader community, industry, and legal landscape — from the status of major processor architectures to initiatives at the Linux Foundation and beyond.

Whether you're tracking changes to subsystems you already rely on or looking for new tools and techniques to improve your workflow, this session will help you stay current in a fast-moving ecosystem. Come find out what's new, what's shifting, and what it means for your embedded Linux work.
Speakers
avatar for Walt Miner

Walt Miner

Senior Director - Automotive Grade Linux, The Linux Foundation
Walt Miner is the Senior Director of Community at The Linux Foundation and has served as Community Manager for Automotive Grade Linux since 2014. Walt has spoken at numerous conferences throughout the worlds and brings over 30 years of embedded software development and management... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:40 CEST

Caching in the Storage Path - How To Gain Performance Without Loosing Data - Werner Fischer, Thomas-Krenn.AG
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Every time you write data to or read data from a storage device in Linux, multiple caches are involved: the page cache (located in the memory) on the VFS layer, different kinds of caches on the storage devices (SSDs, HDDs) and controllers, and maybe filesystem-level or device mapper-level caches, too.

The caches help you to boost the I/O performance, but they also increase the risk of data loss in case of a sudden power outage. Understanding and configuring these caches correctly can be challenging, in particular if you are running virtualized systems and you have to set QEMU caching parameters (writeback, none, writethrough, directsync, unsafe), too.

In this talk, Werner explains how these caches work and shows you how to tune them for optimal performance while still being safe in case of a power outage.
Speakers
avatar for Werner Fischer

Werner Fischer

Knowledge Transfer Manager, Thomas-Krenn.AG
Werner studied computer and media security at Hagenberg Technical college and then worked at IBM for two years, where he wrote two Redbooks with colleagues. He has been working in the Linux area at Thomas-Krenn.AG since 2005. His previous roles include HA clusters, devops, 3rd level... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:40 CEST

Panel: The Future of AI Inference in Cloud Native: Open Source Innovation, Challenges, and Opportunities - Martin Hickey, IBM Research; Maroon Ayoub, Red Hat; Nili Guy, IBM; Cong Liu, Google; Hyunkyun Moon, Moreh
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
As AI workloads move into production in cloud native environments, the open source community must define the future of AI inference infrastructure. This panel convenes experts from leading projects to assess the ecosystem and chart a path forward.

Key themes include:

- The evolution of cloud native inference (from serverless to large‑scale distributed serving)
- Performance and efficiency advances such as KV cache management, quantization and hardware acceleration
- The need for standardization across APIs, model formats and interoperability.

They’ll also examine how projects like vLLM, llm‑d, and KServe can collaborate to reduce fragmentation.

Panelists will address real‑world challenges in Kubernetes deployment, including multi‑tenancy, GPU sharing, autoscaling and observability. There will also explore emerging trends such as edge inference, multi‑modal models and the convergence of training and inference systems.
Speakers
avatar for Martin Hickey

Martin Hickey

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Research
Martin Hickey is a STSM at IBM Research, focused on Open Source, Cloud Native Computing, and AI. Martin has notable contributions to open source projects like vLLM, LMCache, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTelemetry and OpenStack. Martin is a core maintainer for LMCache and an emeritus core... Read More →
avatar for Maroon Ayoub

Maroon Ayoub

Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Red Hat
Maroon Ayoub is an AI infrastructure architect at Red Hat focused on distributed inference. He co-leads development of llm-d and specializes in scaling LLM inference with Kubernetes-native architectures, KV-cache orchestration, and open source integrations.
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Nili Guy

R&D and Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Nili is a Research Manager and Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research, co-creator of llm-d, and an expert in distributed inference and Kubernetes-native AI systems. She has led key open-source and productized inference initiatives across IBM’s AI platforms.
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Cong Liu

Software Engineer, Google
Cong is a software engineering working on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), building solutions for AI Inference workloads, such as efficient request scheduling for Large Language Models (LLMs). His past experience include GKE release channels and safe cluster upgrades.
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hyunkyun moon

ML Platform Engineer, Moreh
Hyunkyun Moon is an ML Platform Engineer at Moreh, where he builds high-performance LLM inference platforms using llm-d. He is an active contributor to open-source projects, including llm-d and vLLM. Previously at LINE Plus, he specialized in developing large-scale DBaaS using Kubernetes... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:40 CEST

How One Open Source Program Changed the Direction of My Career - Saumya Singh, IBM
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
In 2018, I applied to an open source program with no expectations.

I wasn't from a well-known college. I didn't have a strong professional network. Like many students, I was simply looking for a way to learn, gain experience, and figure out where my career was headed.

That single application led to opportunities I could never have predicted.

Over the next few years, open source introduced me to mentors, global communities, speaking opportunities, internships, scholarships, leadership roles, and eventually a full-time career in technology. More importantly, it changed how I viewed learning, collaboration, and my own potential.

This session is a personal story about how one open source opportunity created a ripple effect that shaped an entire career.

Along the way, I'll share the practical lessons I learned about contributing to projects, building relationships within communities, overcoming self-doubt, and creating opportunities that don't exist in traditional classrooms.

Whether you're a student, an aspiring contributor, this talk offers a realistic look at how community-driven programs can create life-changing opportunities.
Speakers
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Saumya Singh

Software Engineer & Tech Influencer, IBM
Saumya Singh is a Software Engineer, Educator, and Tech Influencer with an audience of 1M+ developers across social media. Based in India, she has over 5 years of experience in Kotlin, Android Development, Open Source Technologies, and AI. Through her content, she helps students... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

16:40 CEST

Building Resilience: The Future of Open Source - Ruth Suehle, Cloudera
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Quietly over the course of 25 years, open source software evolved from a domain perceived as that of only hobbyists into the invaluable backbone of modern digital infrastructure. Sustaining that success for the future will require more than code. It requires resilience: a trait not of technology. but of people. Of community. With increasing regulation around the world, evolving cybersecurity requirements, burnt out contributors, and stagnant corporate participation and funding, how do we ensure the ecosystem’s continued success? The things that have worked for the first decades will not be the things that keep us going. Let’s look together at sustainability not only as a funding problem, but also from the perspectives of global policy changes, security, and other intertwined issues that face open source in the coming years.
Speakers
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Ruth Suehle

Vice President, Open Source Strategy and Ecosystems, Cloudera
Ruth Suehle is Vice President of Open Source Strategy and Ecosystems at Cloudera. She is also president of the Apache Software Foundation and vice-chair of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors. Ruth has helped build open source communities for nearly two decades, much... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)

16:40 CEST

From Source To Wheel: Solving Python's Bootstrapping Problem - Rohan Devasthale & Christian Heimes, Red Hat
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
When you run pip install numpy, pip downloads a pre-built binary someone else compiled. For most developers that's fine, but in regulated environments or anywhere supply chain integrity matters, it's a gap one that incidents like the LiteLLM PyPI compromise and fake DeepSeek packages have made harder to ignore.

There's a bootstrapping problem too: building numpy needs setuptools, and building setuptools needs… setuptools. Every existing tool pip, uv, conda breaks this cycle by quietly downloading pre-built binaries. None give you a unified view of the full dependency tree, making it hard to audit what was built, from where, and in what order.

This talk walks through an unsolved problem in Python packaging bootstrapping entire dependency trees from source and how Fromager tackles it using PEP 517. We'll cover:

1. Why pip install --no-binary :all: doesn't get you to "built from source"
2. Where pip, Nix, Spack, and Bazel each fall short
3. The two-stage discover/build split and the JSON artifacts it produces for auditing
4. Why building packages as collections keeps them ABI-compatible critical for stacks like PyTorch with CUDA/ROCm native code
Speakers
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Rohan Devasthale

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Hi! I am a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and an open source enthusiast based in the United States. I enjoy coding and use of AI to automate things. Apart from technical work, I like to travel and explore new places. I am a foodie and also play badminton.
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Christian Heimes

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)

16:40 CEST

A Generic RF PHY Driver API for Proprietary Protocols in Zephyr - Sean Lyons, Texas Instruments
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Zephyr has mature driver APIs for IEEE 802.15.4, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and LoRa but none for radios running proprietary or custom link-layer protocols. The gap is most acute in Sub-1GHz but applies equally to proprietary 2.4GHz radios used in audio, gaming peripherals, and industrial control.
Current workarounds include using a protocol-specific API like ieee802154_radio_api or shipping standalone drivers and importing MAC assumptions that don't belong at the PHY. The result is duplicate code across out-of-tree drivers that lock applications to a single chip and block upstream contribution. The problem spans standalone transceivers and integrated SoCs across TI, Silicon Labs, Microchip, and ST.
This talk revives Zephyr RFC #43201 (closed 2022) with a focused proposal: a new prop_rf driver API covering only physical-layer operations, leaving link-layer concerns to the application or protocol implementer. Three principles drive the design: applications port across vendors without API lock-in; vendor HALs remain free to expose custom features via device-specific extensions; and the API works for both external transceivers and integrated SoCs.
Speakers
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Sean Lyons

Software R&D manager, Texas Instruments
Sean Lyons (he-him) 6/24/2026 11:30 AM • Let me take a stab at it.

Sean has been working in TI's Connectivity team since 2015. He is leading a SW R&D department responsible for RTOS integration and low level driver development including RF drivers. He is passionate about open source and shifting TI's development flows towards open-source ecosyste... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

16:40 CEST

ZView: Non-Intrusive Runtime Observability for Zephyr - Paulo Santos, EDGE-UFAL
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Zephyr is a comprehensive ecosystem, but sometimes you want a better view of your system and end up reaching for shell, UART, printk, RTT, or tracing, all of which work, but all of which cost on-target code, pins, or configuration overhead, or even extra hardware.
ZView is a live, non-intrusive, low-integration-cost runtime observability tool that provides an overview of how your application behaves (threads, heaps, allocation and fragmentation, CPU usage, and more) all in a TUI, using only your debug probe via SWD.
It uses the debug access port to read kernel memory passively while the target keeps running. No instrumentation, no halt, no extra pins. ZView interprets what it reads, recognizing threads, heaps, and other kernel objects, turning raw memory into actionable runtime insights.
This talk covers what ZView is, how it works, its limits, and where it can go next. The goal is to make ZView a standard part of the Zephyr debugging toolkit, with the community's help.
Speakers
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Paulo Santos

Embedded Software Engineer, EDGE-UFAL
Paulo Santos is a Zephyr enthusiast, collaborator, and an embedded systems developer based in Brazil. Author of ZView and CLUTGen external west projects/modules.
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

17:00 CEST

An Open-Source PX4 Swarm With Onboard ESP32-P4 Vision - Mindaugas Jonauskis, Team Mach Mind
Thursday October 8, 2026 17:00 - 17:20 CEST
I want to share our bumpy road on Swarm Drone Challenge 2026 (ILA Berlin) with a team of two people and what two stubborn guys can achieve during weekends - 4th place. We built a swarm of 5 drones, each running PX4 for flight, coordinated by a ROS2 ground station and onboard with two ESP32-ser. microcontrollers. ESP32-P4 was dedicated to onboard ArUco vision and ToF obstacle sensing (no Linux SBC) and an ESP32-S3 handling MAVLink and micro-ROS comms over WiFi.

I will cover architecture — PX4 + MAVLink + a ROS2 commander that assigns swarm roles and streams waypoints — and the onboard vision pipeline on bare microcontrollers. Comparison of Version 1.0 (single-MCU) vs Version 2.0 (dual-MCU) and why we shipped a deterministic Manhattan-grid navigation fallback when ArUco-EKF localization could not be deployed in time.

Our solution was open-sourced - https://github.com/machmind-dev/drone-swarm-challenge-2026
Speakers
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Mindaugas Jonauskis

Co-Founder & Embedded Systems Engineer, Team Mach Mind
I'm co-founder of Mach Mind, a two-person team building autonomous drones in our spare time. At the 2026 Swarm Drone Challenge (ILA Berlin) we placed 4th with an open-source 5-drone PX4 swarm that runs onboard vision on bare ESP32 microcontrollers — no Linux SBC. By day I'm an embedded/systems... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 17:00 - 17:20 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit

17:20 CEST

Embedded Linux Conference Tech Showcase
Thursday October 8, 2026 17:20 - 18:20 CEST
We’re excited to host the Embedded Linux Technical Showcase at Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2026! This unique event brings the world of embedded Linux out into the open, literally. Unlike desktop or server environments, where Linux is front and center, embedded Linux often runs behind the scenes. The goal of this showcase is simple: “Seeing is believing!”

The showcase offers a chance to highlight the real-world applications of embedded Linux through hands-on demos, technical deep dives, and open-source projects. It’s a space for developers to share their work, exchange ideas, and learn directly from each other. By making these projects visible and accessible, we hope to inspire more developers to explore embedded Linux and contribute to its growth.

If you’re a speaker, the showcase is also a great opportunity to expand on your talk with a live demo or hands-on component, and spend more time connecting with attendees who want to dive deeper into your topic.

Interested in participating or want to learn more? Visit this page for more information.
Thursday October 8, 2026 17:20 - 18:20 CEST
Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers

17:20 CEST

LFX Mentorship Showcase
Thursday October 8, 2026 17:20 - 18:20 CEST
The LFX Mentorship Showcase is an opportunity for graduating mentees of the LFX Mentorship program to showcase the work they completed during their session term.

This event is free and open to all. Join us to explore the experiences of LF Mentorship Program mentees, discover the exciting projects they are working on, recruit fresh talent, and support new developer contributions.

The Linux Foundation’s Mentorship Program helps developers – many of whom are first-time open source contributors – gain the skills and experience necessary to contribute effectively to open source communities.
Thursday October 8, 2026 17:20 - 18:20 CEST
Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers

17:20 CEST

Tux Trek
Thursday October 8, 2026 17:20 - 18:20 CEST
Keep the momentum going after Day 2! Head to the Solutions Showcase for Tux Trek to unwind with drinks, appetizers, and great company. Expect a lively, collaborative evening where you can connect with sponsors, explore cutting-edge tech, and keep the conversations flowing.
Thursday October 8, 2026 17:20 - 18:20 CEST
Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers
 
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