OSS + ELC EU 2026

Open source is the bedrock of European digital sovereignty, but a wave of aggressive new EU legislation is transforming how organizations must build, source, and secure their digital environments. Navigating this shift requires unpacking complex regulatory mandates and understanding their operational impact on modern enterprise and cloud software architecture.

This fast-paced session strips away the legal jargon to deliver a real-time status update on Europe’s changing digital roadmap. We will analyze the mandatory software bill-of-materials (SBOM) rules of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the open standards driving the Interoperable Europe Act. Crucially, we dive into the European Commission's freshly unveiled Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) to unpack its cloud sovereignty tiers and its "open-source first" procurement principles.

Moving from compliance theory to practical execution, attendees will gain a concrete framework to audit their own production IT stacks. We will walk through the web-based SUSE Cloud Sovereignty Self-Assessment tool to measure true autonomy using weighted SEAL (Sovereignty Effective Assurance Level) metrics.