OSS + ELC EU 2026: Full Schedule

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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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

Small Hall (Floor 0)

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

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 →

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

Real-time Performance Comparison of Linux, Zephyr and FreeRTOS - Zbynek Fedra & Mingkai Hu, NXP

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST

South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)

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

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 →

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

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

South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

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

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 →

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)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

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

South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

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

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

Establishing a Documentation Process in an Open Source Community - V. Thulisile Sibanda, AsyncAPI Initiative

Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST

Club H (Floor 1)

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

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)

OSS Enabling & Management, Technical Documentation

Audience Experience Level Any

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

Club E (Floor 1)

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

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

Zephyr Documentation BoF - Benjamin Cabé, Linux Foundation

Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST

South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)

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

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

From Observing To Working: PX4-Powered Aerial Manipulators - Ayham Alharbat, Saxion University / University of Twente

Thursday October 8, 2026 12:00 - 12:20 CEST

South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

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

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

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

South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)

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

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

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

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

South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

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

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 →

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)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

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

South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

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

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

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

South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

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

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

Designing Permissioned AI Agents That Can Run Offline - Miley Fu, Olares Tech

Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST

Forum Hall (Floor 2)

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

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

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

Club E (Floor 1)

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

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 →

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 →

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

15:00 CEST

LibreCar: Android Auto on Mobile Linux - Petr Hodina, SolderChef

Thursday October 8, 2026 15:00 - 15:20 CEST

South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)

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

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

South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

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

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)

OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

Audience Experience Level Any

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

South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)

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

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

Panorama Hall (Floor 1)

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

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

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

South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

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

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

State of Embedded Linux - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation

Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST

South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)

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

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

Panorama Hall (Floor 1)

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

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

Forum Hall (Floor 2)

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

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 →

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.

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.

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.

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

Building Resilience: The Future of Open Source - Ruth Suehle, Cloudera

Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST

Club H (Floor 1)

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

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)

OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

Audience Experience Level Any

16:40 CEST

ZView: Non-Intrusive Runtime Observability for Zephyr - Paulo Santos, EDGE-UFAL

Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST

South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

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

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

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