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7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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Wednesday, October 7
 

11:20 CEST

How Uber Uses Intelligent Agents for Open Source Governance - Chris Howard, Uber
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 11:40 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
Open Source compliance is no longer just about coping with legal headaches; between navigating the Cyber Resilience Act & managing strict SBOM mandates it is a critical regulatory hurdle. Enforcing these standards without slowing developer velocity is a giant challenge. To solve this, the Uber OSPO overhauled our ecosystem of 6 Monorepos, 4k microrepos & over 35k dependencies to move away from manual audits & remove the friction placed on our engineers.
We built a system that scans our entire codebase every 24 hours, but detection is only half the battle. By integrating agentic tooling with our compliance policies & historical exception data, our system now makes calculated judgments on resolution versus escalation. The OSPO agent autonomously raises tickets, remediates issues & learns how to handle complex scenarios that would have required legal insight. This has automated our checks and eradicated high risk libraries from our codebase.
It’s not all as complex as it looks though. With clear policies, legal alignment, and a commitment to learning by doing, any organisation can do this. I'll share Uber's blueprint for turning open source governance into an automated & smart engine.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Howard

Chris Howard

Head of Open Source, Uber
Chris is a specialist Open Source strategist and community builder dedicated to fostering healthy developer ecosystems.
As Head of the OSPO at Uber, he leads global strategy for open-source consumption, contribution, and Developer Relations. He previously spearheaded the OSPO at EPAM, where he focused on maturing open-source programs and scaling contributions for global clients... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 11:40 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:20 CEST

When PWM Meets the Common Clock Framework: How To Write a (not So) Simple Linux PWM Driver - Richard Genoud, Bootlin
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
Over time, Pulse Width Modulators went from simple devices with only an input clock and a prescaler to more complex ones.
Nowadays, we can find PWM with several input clocks, several channels, shared and unshared prescalers among channels, and even bypasses which permits the PWM to act as a clock provider itself.

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

Richard Genoud

Embedded Linux and kernel engineer, Bootlin
Richard Genoud joined Bootlin as an embedded Linux and kernel engineer in 2024 and has more than 20 years of experience in embedded Linux engineering.
His areas of expertise include bootloader, kernel device driver development, up to user space applications.
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:20 CEST

Context Engineering: Connecting the Dots With Graphs - Stephen Chin, Neo4j
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
AI systems need more than intelligence; they need context. Without it, even the most advanced models can misinterpret information, lose track of details, or arrive at conclusions that don’t hold up. Context engineering is emerging as a discipline that shapes how AI perceives, recalls, and reasons about information.

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

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

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j
Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, conference chair of the LF AI & Data Foundation, and author of numerous titles including the upcoming GraphRAG: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly. He has given keynotes and main stage talks at numerous conferences around the world... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:40 CEST

How Open Source Communities and OSPOs Are Responding To AI Assisted Contributions - Norio Kobota & Alin Jerpelea, Sony
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
Open source communities are entering a new phase as more contributions are created with AI assistance. This raises a practical question for the ecosystem: how should projects, maintainers, and companies handle AI-assisted contributions while preserving accountability, trust, and review quality?

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

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

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

Norio Kobota

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

Alin Jerpelea

Senior Architect, Sony
Alin Jerpelea is a senior software architect and a local OSPO member at Sony, located in Lund, Sweden.
He has been part of Sony since 2010 when he joined Sony Mobile as a community manager for the Xperia Open Source initiative and has since worked in numerous projects and Open So... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Any

13:30 CEST

Presentation From the European Commission Open Source Observatory (OSOR) - Éléonore Daxhelet, OpenForum Europe
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 13:50 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
This presentation gives an overview of the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory’s (OSOR) activities and latest Paper on Progress and Trends. The report examines how open source software has evolved within public administrations, based on the country reports published in 2025. It covers 18 EU member states and includes for the first time five candidate countries from the Western Balkan region, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia and North Macedonia. The session provides insights into the state of open source adoption and regulation in Europe, with a particular focus on findings from the Balkan countries, providing insights into how EU integration shapes digital policy in candidate countries.
Speakers
avatar for Éléonore Daxhelet

Éléonore Daxhelet

Policy Analyst, OpenForum Europe
Éléonore Daxhelet is a policy analyst at OpenForum Europe, where she has worked on the Open Source Observatory (OSOR) since July 2025. She holds a Master's degree in Political Science from the Free University of Brussels and a Master's in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 13:50 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications
  • Audience Experience Level Any

13:30 CEST

Panel Discussion: The Latest From TODO Group: Advocacy, Community, and Our AI Initiatives - Natali Vlatko, Cisco; Georg Kunz, Ericsson; Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Linux Foundation; Annania Melaku, F5 NGINX
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
The TODO Group’s mission is to empower and educate open source management best practices inside organizations through effective Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) and similar initiatives. With the latest developments in AI, as well as the shift of importance in open source across different industries, several new initiatives have been spun up that the community has embraced with fresh energy.

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

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

Annania Melaku

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

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 →
avatar for Ana Jiménez Santamaría

Ana Jiménez Santamaría

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

Natali Vlatko

Director of Open Source Software Engineering, Cisco
Natali Vlatko (she/her) is a Director of Open Source Software Engineering at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, and governance. She is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes and a member of the TODO Group Steering Committee. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:25 CEST

Open Source as a Government Goal: Berlin’s Strategy for Digital Sovereignty – Lessons Learned - Marcel Scholze, PwC Germany & Florian Ebel, Senatskanzlei Berlin
Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 14:45 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
Everyone is talking about digital sovereignty - but what happens when a federal state takes this concept seriously? In 2025, Berlin adopted an Open Source strategy to achieve innovation and digital independence through OSS, open standards, and collaboration.
We report on how this strategy came about and what its implementation means in a complex administrative landscape. Seven measures form the backbone—from establishing an OSPO at ITDZ Berlin to identifying critical software dependencies to giving Open Source priority in procurement law. Behind each measure lie organizational, cultural, and legal challenges.
What are the low-hanging fruits? Where do strategies reach their limits? And how do you keep a “learning” strategy alive - rather than letting it fizzle out? An honest account of progress and setbacks that shows what others - whether government agencies or companies - can learn from Berlin’s Open Source journey.
Speakers
avatar for Florian Ebel

Florian Ebel

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

avatar for Marcel Scholze

Marcel Scholze

Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
Marcel Scholze is a Director at PwC Germany leading the firm's Open Source and Digital Sovereignty practice. He has shaped OSS strategies and enablement programs for organizations across the public sector and industry. With a background in large-scale IT sourcing, he brings a pragmatic... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 14:45 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:25 CEST

Enabling High-Performance SPI NAND in Linux: PHY Tuning, DDR, and Beyond - Santhosh Kumar K, Texas Instruments & Miquèl Raynal, Bootlin
Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
Modern OSPI NAND devices are pushing the Linux SPI memory stack beyond its original assumptions. Features such as DDR transfers, continuous read modes, multi-frequency operation, and PHY tuning promise substantial performance improvements, but at the cost of added complexity. Furthermore, there is no well-established standard for these implementations, leading vendors to adopt different approaches and assumptions that software must accommodate.

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

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

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 →
avatar for Miquèl Raynal

Miquèl Raynal

Embedded Linux & kernel engineer, Bootlin
Miquèl Raynal joined Bootlin in 2017 as an embedded Linux engineer. He is the
maintainer of the NAND subsystem in the Linux kernel, and a co-maintainer of the
MTD subsystem. Over the past years, he has made significant contributions to the
Linux MTD subsystem, and has already sp... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:25 CEST

Agent Gateway: The One Decision That Eliminates AI Engineering Complexity - Lin Sun, Solo.io
Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
As AI systems move from experimentation to production, engineering teams face a growing number of infrastructure decisions. How do you secure MCP servers without modifying them? How do you seamlessly transition and fail over across multiple LLM providers? How do you enforce token rate limits and usage policies for LLMs? How do you govern agent-to-agent and agent-to-MCP communication, control context growth, enforce security policies, observe traffic, and scale operations across environments?

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

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

Lin Sun

Head of Open Source, Solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, co-chair of KubeCon + CloudNatibeCon 2026. She actively contributes to AAIF and CNCF projects. She is the author of “Sidecar-less Istio Explained” and “AI Agents in Kubernetes”, and holds more than 200 patents.
Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:35 CEST

A Clockwork Frequency: Bringing Spread Spectrum To the Linux Clock Subsystem - Dario Binacchi, Amarula Solutions
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
Reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI) is often a key requirement for embedded products seeking EMC certification. Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) is a common hardware technique used to lower peak emissions by slightly modulating clock frequencies.

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

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

Dario Binacchi

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

Joining Amarula aroused in me the desire to actively contribute to proje... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:35 CEST

The Engineer's Guide To the Embedded Linux Galaxy: Navigating Failures and Bricked Devices - Leon Anavi, Konsulko Group & Piotr Buliński, Qbee
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
Everyone can build a prototype, but shipping products is where the chaos begins. In this session, we explore embedded systems by discussing failures we have experienced as engineers, consumers, and industry observers. Navigating the vast open-source ecosystem of the embedded Linux galaxy and selecting the right tools for the job is a challenge.

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

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

Leon Anavi

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

Piotr Buliński

Chief Technologist, Qbee
Piotr is the Chief Technologist of Qbee, where he drives the technological vision for secure, automated IoT fleet management. Over a 20+ year career across the tech stack, Piotr has specialized in low-level system internals, large-scale cloud-native architectures, and global data... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:35 CEST

The EU Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Product Vendors Must Do - Timo Perala & Gergely Csatari, Nokia
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

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

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

Timo Perala

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

Gergely Csatari

Senior Open Source Specialist, Nokia
Working in the telecom industry in the last two decades it was possible for Gergely to see the evolution from vendor specific hardware to virtualisation and cloud and a to cloud native. Currently Gergely is part of the OSPO team of Nokia CTO which is reponsible for open source. In... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 CEST

Modernizing Vmalloc With Maple Tree: Design, Challenges, and Trade Offs - Pranjal Arya, Qualcomm
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
Linux has steadily evolved toward Maple Tree as the preferred infrastructure for range-based indexing. While Maple Tree transformed process address-space management, several core memory-management subsystems still rely on legacy rb-tree-based designs.

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

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

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

Pranjal Arya

Senior Software Engineer, Qualcomm
Pranjal Arya is a Linux kernel & system engineer at Qualcomm, working on GPU and data center SoCs. His 6 years of experience spans PCIe & GPU drivers, memory management, Vulkan, DRM, and graphics software across kernel and user space. His contributions include PCIe, VFIO, QEMU, and... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 CEST

CRA Readiness With SPDX 3 SBOMs in Zephyr - Benjamin Cabé, The Linux Foundation
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
SBOMs for embedded firmware are harder than simple dependency lists. A Zephyr-based product typically combines upstream Zephyr code, vendor HALs, out-of-tree modules, binary blobs, generated files, Kconfig and devicetree configuration, and of course user/application code. Some of these pieces end up in the final firmware image, some do not, and yet it is important to have a clear picture of what was used, what was changed, and what actually shipped. This is what helps teams avoid chasing false positives, while still knowing when a new CVE might really affect them.

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

We will also discuss how build-aware SBOMs can directly support vulnerability management and help prepare for regulations such as the Cyber Resilience Act.
Speakers
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 →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:50 CEST

Rebuilding Mini-Grid Metering as Open Infrastructure - Joscha Winzer & Vivien Barnier, EnAccess Foundation
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
In the past 9 months, the two largest smart-metering providers serving rural mini-grids entered insolvency or severe distress, putting ~250,000 meters in 30+ countries at risk of losing billing, payment, and remote management, and threatening to leave over a million people, plus clinics and schools, in the dark. The cause was structural and familiar to anyone in open source: vertically integrated proprietary stacks, cloud lock-in, and no "supplier of last resort" for critical infrastructure.

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

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

Vivien Barnier

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

Joscha Winzer

Head of Technology, EnAccess Foundation
Joscha Winzer is a battery and energy systems engineer with 10+ years' experience designing, certifying, and industrializing electrical energy systems, including the world's first second-life EV battery storage products. And co-founded SunZilla, an early open-source renewable battery... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications
  • Audience Experience Level Any

17:25 CEST

Rethinking Wireless Networking With Synchronous Transmissions: The OpenSTX Standard - Davide Vecchia, University of Trento
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 17:45 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
Synchronous Transmission (STX) techniques have matured over a decade of research, enabling a new approach to low-power wireless networking. STX protocols exploit floods that, unlike traditional methods, purposefully embrace on-air collisions via tightly synchronized transmissions. Research repeatedly shows order-of-magnitude gains in reliability, and reduced latency and energy use over conventional approaches.

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

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

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

Davide Vecchia

Technical Chair, OpenSTX Foundation, University of Trento
Davide Vecchia is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Trento, where he earned his M.Sc. (2018) and Ph.D. (2022). His research focuses on ultra-wideband (UWB) communication and localization in large-scale multihop networks. Within the OpenSTX Foundation, a Linux Foundation... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 17:45 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications
  • Audience Experience Level Any

17:25 CEST

Your Network Is Already a Compute Platform. Time To Treat It Like One - Eleni Grosdouli & Josh Halley, Cisco
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
Network switches and routers are no longer passive packet forwarders. They have been running containers for some time already. But managing them still requires separate tools, CLIs, and workflows, and that creates real operational friction.

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

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

Eleni Grosdouli

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

Josh Halley

Principal Architect, Cisco
Josh Halley, is a Principal Architect and published technical author, in the office of the CTO at Cisco,
focused on next generation technologies and technical transformation for some
of Cisco’s largest global customers. His main focus today is in the domains of AI Operations, leading and supporting multiple teams in their generation of Agentic AI systems to support todays and tomorrows future technologies use cases... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Cloud & Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Any

17:25 CEST

5 Practical Tips To Improve Your Log File Analysis Efficiently - Syed Usman Ahmad, Grafana Labs
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
Linux now stands as the most widely used operating system for production and development environments, as it provides a lot of services (daemons) and tools for debugging.

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

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

Join us to learn more about Linux, log analysis, aggregation tools, and the value of Open Source Community.
Speakers
avatar for Syed Usman Ahmad

Syed Usman Ahmad

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

He has over 15 years of experience in IT and Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over EU, US and Japan.
... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Any
 
Thursday, October 8
 

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
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

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
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 →
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 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
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 →
avatar for Alyssa Wright

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
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

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
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)
  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
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

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
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

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
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

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
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

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
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)
  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
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

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
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

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
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

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
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

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
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
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
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)
  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
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
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
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

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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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.
avatar for Nili Guy

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.
avatar for Cong Liu

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.
avatar for hyunkyun moon

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
avatar for Ruth Suehle

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
avatar for Paulo Santos

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
 
Friday, October 9
 

09:05 CEST

Buildroot LTS in the CRA Era: 18 Months of Keeping a 3-Year Branch Secure - Thomas Perale & Titouan Christophe, Mind OSS NV
Friday October 9, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
The Buildroot Long-Term Support (LTS) sponsorship initiative was launched in March 2025. Its goal is to help Buildroot users maintain stable and secure products over longer periods, particularly in light of upcoming security regulations such as the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

We transitioned from a day-to-day maintenance workflow to a more systematic, weekly peer-reviewed approach. After more than a year and a half of maintaining the Buildroot LTS branch, we have encountered both successes and unforeseen challenges. We had to develop custom tooling to deal with a growing number of vulnerability reports, all while preserving stability for the releases.

This talk covers:

* How we tackle the maintenance task as a distributed team.
* Maintenance challenges with the constant flow of CVEs.
* Keeping the package metadata up-to-date and improving the vulnerability
monitoring across branches.
* What worked and what didn't.
* How we plan to evolve and improve for the future.
Speakers
avatar for Thomas Perale

Thomas Perale

Embedded Software Engineer, Mind OSS NV
Thomas Perale is a Belgian embedded software engineer working for Mind with a strong passion for free software development and embedded systems.

He is involved in maintaining Buildroot stable and LTS releases.
avatar for Titouan Christophe

Titouan Christophe

Embedded Software Engineer, Mind OSS NV
Titouan is an embedded and backend developer. He has worked in remote railway vehicle monitoring and automated visual quality control for the manufacturing industry.

Titouan is now working at Mind OSS, helping customers with Zephyr, embedded Linux and open source in general. He is the author of Zephyr's USB-MIDI and Network MIDI 2.0 stacks, and co-steward of the Buildroot LTS initiative... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

09:50 CEST

Seeing Inside the NPU: Open-Source Hardware Counter Profiling for Ethos-U on Linux and Zephyr - Vibhore Vardhan, BayLibre
Friday October 9, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
Edge AI runs on dozens of NPUs — Ethos-U, Hexagon, APUs, DSPs — each with its own closed toolchain and proprietary profiling tools. Application developers have no standard way to answer the basic question: what is my NPU actually doing?

This talk walks through the edge AI software stack — frameworks, delegates, drivers, hardware counters — and shows what it takes to make performance visible. Building on Tomeu Vizoso's Ethos-U PMU kernel work (upstream), we are instrumenting ONNX Runtime and TFLite operators with per-operator CPU PMU data (cycles, cache miss, bandwidth), surfaced via open trace formats, and wiring NPU hardware counter values into ExecuTorch ETDump traces on Zephyr.

The goal: per-operator timing, CPU cache and bandwidth data, and NPU cycle counts in a single open trace — without a proprietary tool.

Contributing to the Linux perf subsystem, this work lays the groundwork for open profiling support on other NPU targets.
Speakers
avatar for Vibhore Vardhan

Vibhore Vardhan

Senior Software Engineer, BayLibre
Vibhore Vardhan is a senior embedded systems engineer and researcher at BayLibre, leading R&D with a current focus on Edge AI. He brings a background in system-level power management on TI SoCs, now applied to NPU toolchain observability and profiling across the Edge AI software... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

09:50 CEST

Apps, Not Firmware: A Service-Oriented Application Layer for Zephyr - Sylvio Alves, Espressif Systems
Friday October 9, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
Microcontroller firmware is monolithic: one image, one failure domain, where a bug anywhere can crash everything. Yet modern MCUs ship with memory protection (MPU, MMU, or PMP), and Zephyr already has the isolation pieces - userspace, memory domains, kernel-object capabilities, watchdogs, zbus - never assembled into an application model.

This talk presents a service-oriented application layer for Zephyr: multiple memory-isolated apps running as managed units, each reaching hardware and the network only through a capability-gated service broker, so a misbehaving app cannot corrupt, starve, or crash its neighbors.

We build the missing keystone - an app-group lifecycle and a service broker - on top of existing Zephyr, and demonstrate it live: two isolated apps share one Wi-Fi stack, each making independent network requests; one hangs and another faults, both are killed and reclaimed, while the healthy app runs on. We close with hardware lessons and upstreamable RFC targets.
Speakers
avatar for Sylvio Alves

Sylvio Alves

Software Engineer, Espressif Systems
Sylvio Alves is an Embedded Software Engineer at Espressif Systems, driving ESP32-family support in Zephyr RTOS. Over 15+ years in embedded - as both a hardware and firmware developer - he has worked across many chip families and frameworks, and today focuses on low-level bring-up... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:05 CEST

Pairing PX4 and ROS 2 Through Micro XRCE-DDS and Zenoh-pico, a Comparison - Beniamino Pozzan, Archangel Autonomy
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:25 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
Since Micro XRCE-DDS replaced Fast-RTPS in PX4 version 1.14 the support for direct communication between ROS 2 and PX4 never stopped improving.
With PX4 stable version 1.17 recently released and version 1.18 close to enter its beta testing phase this presentation aims to cover the latest changes, imporvents and limitations of the Micro XRCE-DDS and Zenoh-pico interfaces.
The presentation will also compare the two communication methods to give the audience all the information necessary to choose the best approach given their requirements and application contraints.
Speakers
avatar for Beniamino Pozzan

Beniamino Pozzan

Senior Robotics Engineer, Archangel Autonomy
B. Pozzan is a PX4 Maintainer and Senior Robotics Engineer at Archangel Autonomy. He has extensive experience integrating autopilots with ROS 2 for UAV control and GNSS-denied navigation. With a Ph.D. in Automation Engineering from the University of Padova, he has extensive experience... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:25 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:05 CEST

Proofs of Personhood: Managing Identity in the Age of AI - Hart Montgomery, The Linux Foundation; Drummond Reed, First Person Cooperative; Glenn Gore, Affinidi
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)
“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” the famous New Yorker comic goes, and that aphorism couldn’t ring truer today. In a world of AI agents, how can we be sure that we (or our agents) are interacting with other trusted, reputable systems and agents rather than impersonators or scammers? As open source maintainers, how can we be sure that new contributors are responsible, trustworthy individuals rather than adversarial state actors, helping to thwart compromises like the XZUtils attack? More generally, how do we deal with digital identity in the age of AI?

Our proposal is to use cryptographic proofs of personhood. These can be built from a decentralized, privacy-preserving reputation system, which we can build with tools and standards we have developed in several projects in LFDT. The session will cover some background on how proofs of personhood work, including privacy guarantees from cryptography (at a beginner level). Then, we will explain some applications in agentic AI and open source software maintenance. Finally, we will give an end-to-end demo of how our systems work in practice which will include audience participation in a “verifiable trust graph”.
Speakers
avatar for Drummond Reed

Drummond Reed

Director, First Person Cooperative
30+ years working on Internet identity, security, privacy & trust
Co-Editor, W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) Specification
Steering Member, Trust Over IP (ToIP) Foundation
Co-Author, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning, 2021)
avatar for Hart Montgomery

Hart Montgomery

CTO, LFDT, Linux Foundation
Hart Montgomery serves as the CTO of LFDT and the ED of the PQCA. Hart previously worked in blockchain and cryptography research at Fujitsu Research where he helped lead Fujitsu’s contributions to Hyperledger. Prior to Fujitsu, Hart received a Ph.D. in cryptography at Stanford under... Read More →
avatar for Glenn Gore

Glenn Gore

CEO, Affinidi
30+ year Veteran of building Internet-scale infrastructure (OzEmail, UUNet, AWS, Affinidi). CEO of Affinidi, board member to tech startups. Glenn is still a hands-on developer, building next-generation security and privacy services that are open by design and open-source in devel... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)
  Digital Trust
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:05 CEST

Is It Time To Retire Kas? - Jan Kiszka & Felix Mößbauer, Siemens
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
You are using kas, the user-friendly orchestration tool for bitbake projects, and you just got nervous? Sorry for that.

With your full attention now, this talk shall bring you up to date with latest developments in kas. Among them are the diff plugin, buildtools support, build attestations, improved lock file handling, unprivileged containers, commit signature validation, easier CI builds, and more.

But we would also like to hear from you what could be further improved. Are there use cases or workflows that should be added to kas or could be better handled than so far. Be prepared for an interactive part.

Last but not least, we will relieve you from worries that kas might be retired by explaining our motivations and plans to drive this project also in the foreseeable future.
Speakers
avatar for Jan Kiszka

Jan Kiszka

Principal Key Expert, Siemens
Jan Kiszka is working as consultant, open source evangelist and Principal Key Expert Engineer in the Linux Expert Center at Siemens Technology. He is supporting Siemens businesses with adapting, enhancing or strategically driving open source as platform for their product demands... Read More →
avatar for Felix Mößbauer

Felix Mößbauer

Senior Embedded Developer, Siemens AG
Having a strong background in High Performance Computing, Felix is currently focusing on embedded Linux platforms for realtime applications. Hereby, he works across country and company boundaries to unify patterns that are recurring and mandatory for embedded products (like secure... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:05 CEST

Scaling OSS Code Quality With Multi-Agent Swarms - Vikram Vaswani, Independent
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
Development teams are seeing a rapid increase in code contributions, many of them from AI tools and pair-programming copilots. As AI-generated code increases, human reviewers can quickly get overwhelmed.

The instinct to throw "an AI reviewer" at the problem mostly doesn't work. A single agent produces shallow comments, misses context, and either over-flags or under-flags depending on how it's prompted.

This talk presents a pattern that works better, built and demonstrated from scratch: three specialized reviewing agents in parallel, followed by a developer agent that applies the fixes. One reviewer focuses on architecture, one on security, one on test coverage. When all three finish, a fourth agent rewrites the code to address each issue and opens a new PR for human sign-off.

The architecture is adaptable: teams with data sovereignty requirements can swap the hosted model for a self-hosted open-weight alternative (Llama 3, Mistral) served via vLLM or Ollama.

Attendees leave with a concrete, working pattern they can adapt to their own projects, and a clearer picture of where AI can genuinely reduce review bottlenecks.

Includes live demo.
Speakers
avatar for Vikram Vaswani

Vikram Vaswani

Developer Advocate

Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:05 CEST

This Talk Is Already Out of Date: Planning for the Long Term in a Short Term World - Rebecca Rumbul, Rust Foundation
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
Successful Open Source projects have always had to balance the need to work towards long term sustainability and growth with meeting shorter term issues such as immediate funding and human resourcing needs. Projects would generally work to an annual rhythm to align with budgeting and funding decisions made by corporate supporters, and annual planning cycles were in many places well established. However, this rhythm has been hugely impacted by the new age of AI and the pivots in focus of the commercial tech industry. Long term planning feels impossible, and funding work sustainably feels increasingly out of reach when projects are reliant on companies engaged in an AI arms race. Once-robust human processes now move too slowly to be effective, and the key individuals that still need to be a part of this new world increasingly feel like they are a day late and a dollar short for everything. This talk looks at how the human side of Open Source is being affected by these shifts, and how communities can consider how to respond to these challenges.
Speakers
avatar for Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Executive Director & CEO, Rust Foundation
Rebecca is the Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation. She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant and researcher with governments, parliaments and development agencies all over the world, advocating for openness and transparency, and developing... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:05 CEST

500,000 Containers, 5 Minutes, 10x Load: Scaling Uber’s Container Registry for Disaster Recovery - Sambhav Jain & Anton Kalpakchiev, Uber
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
Kraken is Uber's open-source P2P container registry. It serves 23 petabytes of data daily with 99.9% reliability. However, during recovery from a complete regional failure, Kraken was pushed over its historical peak load by 10 times. It had to distribute over 100,000 container images every minute. The registry that "just worked" became the bottleneck blocking disaster recovery.

Adding capacity proved insufficient. So, the team reworked the caches and tuned download parallelism. But closing such a large performance gap required architectural changes. If downloads are too slow, move the data closer to the client. If you cannot serve everything at once, tier images by criticality. These optimizations eventually broke Uber’s deployment throughput record.

This talk presents a case study of evolving Kraken to deliver 10x performance under extreme load - the architectural changes, necessary trade-offs, and hard-won lessons. All optimizations are open-sourced in Kraken.

Speakers
avatar for Sambhav Jain

Sambhav Jain

Software Engineer, Uber
Sambhav Jain currently works as a Software Engineer at Uber on the container runtime team. Primarily working on container resource metrics and distributed container registry systems at Uber.
Before Uber, Sambhav worked at Cockroach Labs in the Database Performance team and at Confluent in the Kafka Connect team... Read More →
avatar for Anton Kalpakchiev

Anton Kalpakchiev

Software Engineer, Uber
Anton works as a software engineer at Uber's Compute team. He works on Kraken - Uber's P2P open-source Docker registry that distributes ~30PB of data per day. Additionally, Anton works on developer tooling used by thousands of software engineers at Uber to debug their containers live... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
  Packages & Images & Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:05 CEST

Functional Safety Certification in Upstream Xen for Automotive and Avionics - Ayan Kumar Halder, AMD
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)
Safety-critical systems in avionics, automotive, and industrial domains increasingly rely on mixed-criticality architectures where workloads of different safety levels share hardware. This talk presents ongoing work to bring functional safety to the upstream Xen hypervisor, composed with Zephyr RTOS and Linux, to meet standards including DO-178C (avionics), ISO 26262 (automotive), and IEC 61508 (industrial).
We walk through concrete upstreamed and published contributions: MISRA C fixes, MPU support in Xen, requirements and architecture specifications, and test specifications. We describe how Xen is validated as a Safety Element out of Context using domain-based tests, fault injection, gdb-based interface testing, fuzzing, platform emulation, Ceedling unit testing, and coverage analysis (line, branch, function, MC/DC).
We also cover efforts to shrink the safety-certifiable codebase through fine-grained hardware configuration, and how Xen enforces freedom from interference between VMs via isolation. We close with opportunities to collaborate with the ELISA and Xen FuSa communities toward an open safety case for open-source systems.
Speakers
avatar for Ayan Kumar Halder

Ayan Kumar Halder

SMTS, AMD
Ayan has been working on Arm based low based software stack for the past 14 years. He has worked on variety of projects ranging from board bringup, post silicon validation to developing new features. He has contributed upstream to Xen, Linux and Zephyr.
More recently he is been actively involved within AMD on the Xen FuSa project... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)
  Safety-Critical Software
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:25 CEST

Lightning Talk: Beyond Immutable Machines: Introducing Cluster API In-Place Updates - Lennart Jern, Ericsson Software Technology
Friday October 9, 2026 11:25 - 11:35 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
Cluster API (CAPI) is by now a relatively mature project with many adopters using it in production already for years. Despite this, or perhaps rather thanks to it, CAPI keeps evolving, growing and adding new features. In this session, I'll present one of the most recent features: in-place updates.

In-place updates marks an important change to a fundamental assumption in CAPI. Traditionally, the Machines were considered mostly immutable. Any change required a replacement where new Machines were created and old Machines deleted. This method of operation has served CAPI well, and continues to do so, but it is not without pain points. With in-place updates, it is now finally possible to avoid replacement. This opens the door for unique use-cases and solutions, such as Talos, where each node's lifecycle can be managed through a built-in controller in the node itself.

Come learn about this new feature in CAPI, and how to make use of it!
Speakers
avatar for Lennart Jern

Lennart Jern

Senior Developer, Ericsson Software Technology
Lennart Jern is a senior developer at Ericsson with more than 6 years experience from the CNCF ecosystem. He works mainly on open source projects related to the Cluster API and is a maintainer for the Cluster API Metal3 and OpenStack infrastructure providers as well as the Baremetal... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:25 - 11:35 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:25 CEST

Cryptographic Flight Security: Implementing Hardware-Enforced FAA Remote ID and Trusted Identities - Ashok Kumar, gotoashok
Friday October 9, 2026 11:25 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
Global regulatory shifts—driven by strict NDAA requirements and EASA U-Space mandates—require drone manufacturers to implement verifiable supply chain security. Software-only implementations of FAA Remote ID remain vulnerable to key spoofing and firmware tampering. This session delivers a practical breakdown of how to enforce a hardware root of trust by embedding physical Secure Elements (like the OPTIGA Trust M) into open flight controllers running PX4 and NuttX.
We will bypass high-level concepts to dive straight into the embedded architecture:
Configuring the SPI/I2C bus interface between the flight MCU (PSoC C3M) and the security peripheral.
Modifying the NuttX driver layer to offload ECDSA signing keys for broadcast messages without blocking safety-critical flight loop threads.
Structuring secure boot sequences to protect downstream firmware from local physical exploits.
We will share timing benchmarks showing how to manage cryptographic latency within standard PX4 task frequencies to build compliant systems without sacrificing real-time flight performance.
Speakers
avatar for Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar, gotoashok
I am a Systems Architect and Embedded Engineer with a 26-year obsession: defining what actually constitutes 'good' design in an era of over-engineering. I operate at the high-stakes intersection of Silicon and Software, translating complex hardware capabilities into mission-critical... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:25 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:55 CEST

Bitbake-setup Has Shipped in Yocto: Producing Complete Linux Systems From One File - Alexander Kanavin, Linutronix
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
The Yocto project is a toolkit for creating custom Linux distributions for the embedded use cases. Historically it has not provided tools and standards for setting up and replicating build configurations in a reproducible manner, leaving that to third party projects and custom scripts.

This has changed with the latest Yocto LTS release (6.0 'wrynose'), which includes a tool called bitbake-setup. This talk will give an overview of what is available and how it can be used to write a record of how to build a complete system, and to replicate that build elsewhere with that record. I will also briefly cover possible future directions for build configuration management.
Speakers
avatar for Alexander Kanavin

Alexander Kanavin

Open Source Software Engineer, Linutronix
Alexander is an open source developer specializing in distribution engineering using vendor-neutral tooling and userspace stacks. He is one of the primary contributors to the Yocto project and has an interest in developing foundations of digital infrastructure in a sustainable ma... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:55 CEST

Mainline Allwinner Support Status Update - Paul Kocialkowski, sys-base
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
Support for Allwinner SoC chips in mainine projects like Linux, U-Boot and TrustedFirmware-A has been thriving for over a decade, enabling a large number of use cases and applications. This ongoing effort is lead by the linux-sunxi community and supported by various companies and individuals.

This talk presents an overview of the current status of support on the boot, firmware and kernel sides, along with a comprehensive list of the supported chips with specific information for each aspect. This includes advanced topics like power management, multimedia, graphics and accelerators. The latest developments and ongoing chip support efforts is also highlighted.

Context and history regarding Allwinner and the linux-sunxi community is also presented, as well as related tools and resources.
Speakers
avatar for Paul Kocialkowski

Paul Kocialkowski

Multimedia, Graphics and Embedded Linux Expert, sys-base
Paul is a free software developer working on hardware support in mainline projects like Linux and U-Boot.

Since 2014, he has contributed hundreds of patches to the kernel, in areas that include v4l2 (decoder, capture, isp, sensor), drm (display, bridge) and platform support for... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:55 CEST

Measuring What Matters: Introducing Hardware Performance Counters in Zephyr RTOS - Kedareswara Rao Appana, AMD
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
Embedded developers optimizing Zephyr applications often rely on software timers and GPIO toggles—intrusive techniques that alter the behavior they try to measure. Modern SoCs instead provide rich hardware performance counters across the system: CPU PMUs, interconnect/NoC monitors, and memory subsystem telemetry that capture cycles, cache behavior, bandwidth, and contention with near-zero overhead. Until now, Zephyr lacked a unified way to access these metrics.

This talk introduces Zephyr’s new portable **pmu.h** API, a cross-architecture abstraction for hardware performance monitoring. We present the first backend: an ARMv8-A PMUv3 driver that probes counters at runtime, self-calibrates CPU frequency, and maintains per-CPU state using IRQ-locked sequences for SMP safety.

Using real hardware benchmarks, we show how to measure context-switch cost, IRQ latency, cache behavior, branch prediction, and memory bandwidth. Attendees will learn how to add low-overhead profiling to their applications today and how the API will extend to RISC-V HPM, Cortex-M DWT, and SoC-level monitors without changing application code.

Pull request: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/107016
Speakers
avatar for Kedareswara Rao Appana

Kedareswara Rao Appana

Member of Technical Staff, AMD
Device driver developer (linux and Baremetal), Expertise on the ARM, Microblaze and Microblaze Risc-v processors, Zephyr OS and System device-tree concepts and Lopper tool, Contributed to open source Linux Up streamed CAN and Xilinx DMA drivers and contributed to axi ethernet and... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:00 CEST

Container Metrics on Diverse Hardware: Driving Observability, Efficiency, and Real-Time Autoscaling - Sambhav Jain & Digvijay Singh Shekhawat, Uber
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
Uber runs about 4 million containers on over 150,000 hosts. Our fleet includes a mix of cgroupv1 and v2 hosts, multiple cloud providers, and multiple Linux kernel versions. Tracking container performance at this massive scale is a difficult engineering challenge, including the cost of storing them. We currently process 60 million data points every second to keep everything running smoothly.

We run Cadvisor and open-source Nvidia and AMD GPU metrics exporters to reliably and affordably collect and store these metrics. This infrastructure is vital for our real-time autoscaling, which ensures our services stay online. We also use these metrics to track memory usage and keep costs low for our AI workloads. Despite maintaining all the critical use cases, we have saved around $ 4 million compared to last year by changing how we collect and store data.

We will share how we use these metrics to detect and prevent system failures before they affect users. Attendees will learn practical patterns for operating container metrics at scale. We will also discuss the hard lessons we learned while building a reliable metrics system for a complex global fleet.
Speakers
avatar for Sambhav Jain

Sambhav Jain

Software Engineer, Uber
Sambhav Jain currently works as a Software Engineer at Uber on the container runtime team. Primarily working on container resource metrics and distributed container registry systems at Uber.
Before Uber, Sambhav worked at Cockroach Labs in the Database Performance team and at Confluent in the Kafka Connect team... Read More →
avatar for Digvijay Singh Shekhawat

Digvijay Singh Shekhawat

Software Engineer, Uber
I've always loved solving problems. As a kid, that passion started with mathematics, which led me to competitive programming and eventually computer science.

At Uber, I was one of the founding engineers on the AI Solutions team, helping build Uber's new gig platform from the gr... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:00 CEST

Buildroot at 25: A Quarter Century of Making Embedded Linux Easy - Peter Korsgaard, Barco
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
Buildroot started in 2001 with the goal of having a simple and easy way to build embedded Linux systems. Now, 25 years later the size and complexity of embedded Linux systems have increased dramatically and so have the required features of the build system, but the goals are still the same.

This talk celebrates Buildroot's 25th anniversary by exploring the project evolution, the community that shaped it and the technical decisions that enabled it to remain relevant for modern projects before finishing up with some thoughts about what the future may bring.

Attendees will gain both a historical perspective, insight into how Buildroot is developed and a view to what lies ahead.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Korsgaard

Peter Korsgaard

Senior Expert Embedded Development Engineer, Barco
Peter is an embedded Linux developer and long time Buildroot maintainer with 20+ years of experience
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:00 CEST

The Foundational Misnomer Hiding in Plain Sight - Powen Shiah, Sovereign Tech Agency
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
"Foundation" is a word that carries weight: endowments, permanence, institutional resources. In the philanthropic world, foundations often have millions or billions in their endowments. In open source, the same word describes organizations that range from trademark holders and event hosts to genuine funders of development work.
That gap between expectation and reality matters. When developers, companies, and governments hear "foundation," many assume someone already has it covered. That assumption is one reason so many critical open source projects remain underfunded: the name signals security that often doesn't exist.
This talk unpacks the spectrum of what open source foundations actually do and don't fund, why the word creates a misleading picture of available resources, and what genuine infrastructure funding looks like in practice. Drawing on the work of the Sovereign Tech Agency, which funds critical open source projects and the ecosystem infrastructure sustaining them, this session offers a clearer picture of where the money is, where it isn't, and what that means for the long-term health of open source.
Speakers
avatar for Powen Shiah

Powen Shiah

Communications Lead, Sovereign Tech Agency
Powen handles communications at the Sovereign Tech Agency, highlighting the importance of open source digital infrastructure and the government's role in supporting it in the public interest. He’s worked in product marketing, communications, and internationalization in technology... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:00 CEST

Let's Perform a Hazard Assessment! - Chuck Wolber, The Boeing Company & Pete Brink, Underwriter Laboratories (UL)
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)
A hazard assessment is “a process that allows the identification and evaluation of potential hazards related to [...] system function regardless of the details of its implementation” (SAE ARP4761A, section C.1). The outcome of a hazard assessment has far-reaching consequences for overall project design and the degree of engineering rigor required during development. In this session, Chuck will take the audience through a hazard assessment exercise based on a simplified model and describe the effects of the assessment on the design and development process. In addition to exposing the audience to a relatively simple but rigorous method for thinking about failure conditions during design, Chuck will also touch on gaps in non-safety-critical software engineering that can benefit from best practices developed by the safety engineering community.
Speakers
PB

Peter Brink

Functional Safety Engineering Leader, Underwriter Laboratories (UL)

avatar for Chuck Wolber

Chuck Wolber

Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company
Chuck Wolber is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow primarily focused on embedded platform engineering. He has developed multiple DO-178C certified Linux platforms currently in service on Boeing production aircraft. Chuck is co-author of the book Linux Toys, he is credited with contributions... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)
  Safety-Critical Software
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:00 CEST

Multiple Cores, One Zephyr: The Path To Cortex-M SMP in Zephyr - Sanjay Vallimanalan, Linumiz
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
Multi-core ARM Cortex-M SoCs are becoming increasingly common in today's market. Yet Zephyr RTOS only supports Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) for these devices. The problem with AMP is that it limits true resource sharing, and leaves hardware parallelism underutilized. Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) addresses these issues by running a single Zephyr RTOS image with a unified scheduler across all cores. Zephyr RTOS currently lacks support for Symmetric Multiprocessing on ARM Cortex-M based SoCs and hence limits multi-core Cortex-M devices to AMP configurations. This talk presents a Proof-of-Concept implementation of SMP on Dual Core Cortex-M7 cores using the Infineon Traveo T2G (CYT4DN) SoC which runs a single Zephyr image with true parallel execution across cores.

The key framework challenges are: lack of a secondary boot up path for the secondary cores and the complications of unified timekeeping with per-core SysTick timers.

The talk details what has been achieved, the limitations that remain in timeout-driven context switching and scheduling, and outlines a path toward upstream-ready Cortex-M SMP support in Zephyr.
Speakers
avatar for Sanjay Vallimanalan

Sanjay Vallimanalan

Embedded Software Engineer, Linumiz
Sanjay Vallimanalan is an embedded software engineer with experience in Embedded Linux and real-time operating systems. He is currently working with technologies such as Yocto, Zephyr RTOS, and board support package development for embedded devices.
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:50 CEST

The PX4 Airspeed Pipeline - Mahima Yoga, Auterion
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:10 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
Airspeed sits at the center of fixed-wing flight. It determines how much lift the wings generate, how effective the control surfaces are, and ultimately how the aircraft can be controlled. As a result, it influences nearly every aspect of flight, from stability and maneuvering to energy management. Yet the airspeed value used throughout PX4 is far from a simple sensor reading. Behind a seemingly simple number lies a surprisingly large stack of sensor physics, conversions, calibration procedures, validation logic, control scaling, and TECS handling.

This talk traces the airspeed pipeline end-to-end: from pitot-tube measurements, through IAS → CAS → TAS conversion, in-flight calibration, and validation, to the controllers that ultimately use it. We'll also examine real-world failure modes from the PX4 community and show how to diagnose them from flight logs.
Speakers
avatar for Mahima Yoga

Mahima Yoga

GNC Engineer, Auterion
A Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) engineer at Auterion with a focus on fixed-wing vehicles.
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:10 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:50 CEST

Landscape of the Quantum Open Source Ecosystem - Mathys Rennela, Unitary Foundation
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
The discussion on quantum computers often focuses on abstract physics, but for the engineers manipulating those systems, the underlying software stack is becoming a very pressing reality. As the field matures, we are witnessing the emergence of a collaborative, open-source ecosystem.

This session provides a comprehensive tour of the current quantum open source landscape, and will aim to demystify programming for quantum computers. Community-led projects are currently providing the necessary plumbing (compilers, simulators, verification tools, ...) to ensure that quantum technologies are not only scalable and useful, but also transparent and interoperable.

No prior background in quantum physics or quantum computing is required. The session will actually aim to argue that most quantum software challenges are very known problems in software engineering and computer science, and that one can contribute to quantum open source projects without any knowledge of quantum physics.
Speakers
avatar for Mathys Rennela

Mathys Rennela

Fellow, Unitary Foundation
Mathys Rennela is a quantum software researcher. His main focus is on building the foundational & open source quantum software infrastructure to ensure that quantum computers can also be transparent & of public utility.
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:50 CEST

Two Sides of the Same Coin: What Software and Data Research Repositories Can Learn From Each Other - Kairo De Araujo, TU Delft
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
Research data repositories and software package registries serve different audiences, but they answer the same four questions:
- who published this and can we trust them
- has it been tampered with
- where did it come from
- how long will it stay available and verifiable?

Both communities have answered them in parallel, different vocabularies, different tooling, little exchange.

This talk maps that exchange both ways, grounded in my work on Djehuty (behind 4TU.ResearchData) and as a maintainer of TUF and in-toto and an OpenSSF Securing Software Repositories contributor.

Data repositories can borrow from software: delegated, verifiable signing (TUF, Sigstore), in-toto provenance for AI training data, and the OpenSSF security-maturity model.

Software registries can borrow from data: FAIR's verifiable provenance, persistent identifiers (DOIs, ORCIDs) for durable SBOMs, OAIS preservation against dependency rot, and pre-publication curation.

It closes on the problem neither has solved: permanence versus incident response revoking trust without deleting an immutable, citable record.
Speakers
avatar for Kairo De Araujo

Kairo De Araujo

Senior Software Engineer, TU Delft
Kairo de Araujo maintains TUF and in-toto, two CNCF-graduated supply-chain security projects, and authored RSTUF. He contribute to the OpenSSF Securing Software Repositories Working Group. As a Senior Software Engineer at TU Delft, Kairo now works on Djehuty, the open source platform... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
  Packages & Images & Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:10 CEST

Total Energy Control: A Deep Dive Into TECS in PX4 - Silvan Fuhrer, Auterion
Friday October 9, 2026 15:10 - 15:30 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
The Total Energy Control System (TECS) coordinates throttle and pitch to manage a fixed-wing vehicle's airspeed and altitude as a single energy problem — but for many users it remains a black box of tuning parameters. This talk opens it up.
We start from first principles, deriving how TECS balances kinetic and potential energy and why throttle and pitch are the natural levers to control them. We then cover the controller's concept, its architecture in PX4, a structured approach to tuning, and the shortcomings every operator eventually hits. Finally, we distill seven years of hands-on TECS tuning into the heuristics and hard-won insights that don't appear in the documentation.
Whether you're tuning your first fixed-wing or maintaining a fleet, you'll leave with a clearer mental model of what TECS is really doing.
Speakers
avatar for Silvan Fuhrer

Silvan Fuhrer

GNC Engineer, Auterion
Flight control engineer with a particular focus on fixed-wing and VTOL applications.
Friday October 9, 2026 15:10 - 15:30 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:40 CEST

Cloud Native Open RAN Across 1,000 Km: A GitOps Deployment With Duranta and Sylva - Sagar Arora, OpenAirInterface Software Alliance & Guillaume Grao, Orange Innovation
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
The telco industry has been on a cloudification journey for over a decade. In the context of Radio Access Networks (RAN), this deep transformation is primarily driven by Open RAN initiatives. This talk illustrates how RAN is gradually embrassing cloud native benefits. Key synergies between Sylva and Duranta open-source projects are driving this transformation:
- Sylva provides a telco-grade cloud stack, enabling scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure.
- The Duranta project focuses on developing RAN network functions using cloud-native design patterns to promote innovation and interoperability.

A live demo will highlight the role of Open RAN interfaces in Duranta. It will showcase a FluxCD-based GitOps deployment of Duranta’s Open RAN Distributed Unit (O-DU), Centralized Unit Control Plane (O-CU-CP), and Centralized Unit User Plane (O-CU-UP) network functions on a Telco Cloud. The deployment will follow the Sylva GitOps approach. Sylva will orchestrate multiple Telco Clouds to showcase central, regional, and far-edge deployment scenarios across two labs located approximately 1,000 km apart.
Speakers
avatar for Sagar Arora

Sagar Arora

Solutions Architect, OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, OpenAirInterface Software Alliance
Sagar Arora holds a Ph.D. in mobile communications from Sorbonne University, France. His thesis title was “Cloud-native Network Slice Orchestration in 5G and Beyond”. At OpenAirInterface, he takes care of the on-premises data center, 5G radio equipment, and CD pipelines. He engages... Read More →
avatar for Guillaume Grao

Guillaume Grao

O-RAN and 5G Solution integrator, Orange Innovation
Working for Orange Innovation in different position: from C++ developper to an O-RAN and 5G Solution integrator
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:40 CEST

AI-Assisted CVE Triage in Yocto-Based Supply Chains: Designing the Human–Agent Judgment Boundary - Kazuyoshi Akiyama & Takashi Ninjouji, Honda
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
Automotive Linux products must assess supply chain security at every release.
Yocto-based SBOMs can serve as the foundation, but many teams have yet to answer how much CVE triage to automate and where humans should make the call.
An OSS toolchain also enables the same foundation to be shared with suppliers, with no license barriers.

Yocto-generated VEX and rule-based filtering handle many CVEs, but ambiguity remains — provenance of third-party components, applied patches, unintended dependencies.
AI agents can handle that ambiguity, but opaque and non-deterministic outputs make it impossible to explain a missed CVE or a false positive that blocked a release.

This talk presents a design for that, with a Yocto-based CVE triage pipeline as the example.

The workflow begins with frozen inputs, passes through layered triage, and ends with human approval: inputs locked at CI trigger time (Input Freezing); rule-based and lightweight LLM filtering of straightforward cases (Layered Triage); a high-performance LLM presenting suggestions, with humans making the final call (Suggestion-and-Approval Loop).
These patterns apply to embedded supply chain management beyond automotive Linux.
Speakers
avatar for Kazuyoshi Akiyama

Kazuyoshi Akiyama

Software Engineer, Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
Kazuyoshi Akiyama is a software engineer specializing in embedded Linux for the automotive industry, with years of experience in Linux kernel driver development and Yocto-based integration. Recently joined Honda R&D Co., Ltd., where he is exploring how AI agents can automate compliance... Read More →
avatar for Takashi Ninjouji

Takashi Ninjouji

Chief Engineer, Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
Takashi Ninjouji is a Chief Engineer at Honda Motor Co., Ltd., with a focus on Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV). He is a manager of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO). His interests also include AI-assisted engineering automation.
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:40 CEST

The Netdev Upstreaming Journey: Process, Pitfalls, and Best Practices - Maxime Chevallier, Bootlin
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
Network interfaces are a common thing on embedded devices, so it's no surprise that getting a device supported upstream involves interacting with the netdev community on mailing lists.

The netdev list is a very busy place, and like other subsystems, has its own sets of written and non-written rules. Recently, it's been busier than ever, partly due to new tooling making it more accessible to make first contributions, or finding bugs. This means the netdev community has had to adapt and put new tools, processes and rules in place to deal with this heavy influx of contributions.

This talk will discuss what the upstream process for network-related patches currently looks like. We'll discuss the common pitfalls when upstreaming patches, either due to common technical mistakes or traps when following the netdev process. This may also be a chance for other subsystems to take a peek at how netdev deals with the recent surge of new contributors.

We'll see how reviews are being promoted, what the recently created Netdev Foundation has been setting-up to ease the testing and CI effort, and how as a developer you can help this community and get your patches accepted in a smoother manner.
Speakers
avatar for Maxime Chevallier

Maxime Chevallier

Embedded Linux and Kernel Engineer, Bootlin
Maxime Chevallier is an Embedded Linux and Kernel engineer at Bootlin, where he has been working on Ethernet Controller drivers and PHY drivers for more than 6 years. He contributed to the Marvell PPv2 driver, and to various PHY, Switch and PCS drivers.
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:40 CEST

Yocto’s Hidden Gems: Lesser-Known Tools for Daily Development - Anna-Lena Marx, inovex GmbH
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
Yocto is a complex and huge ecosystem. Getting started may feel hard, but there are various tools to make our daily development easier right out of the box—if you know about them. Unfortunately, many developers are only used to a small subset of the available tools and their capabilities, which often leads to writing additional custom tooling for already solved problems.
In this presentation, we will dive into a selection of these existing tools and demonstrate how to take advantage of them in everyday workflows. For example, we’ll discuss how `bitbake-getvar` helps with debugging variables and overrides, and how to find all packages generated by a recipe with `oe-pkgdata-util`. We will also look into `yocto-check-layer`, `patchtest`, `bitbake-config-help`, and more.
The session will focus on practical use cases, showing how to leverage already available tools to save time and reduce the need for custom scripts.
Speakers
avatar for Anna-Lena Marx

Anna-Lena Marx

Tech Lead Embedded Linux, inovex GmbH
Anna-Lena Marx is TechLead for Embedded Linux at inovex, where she helps build robust systems. With an academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Embedded Systems, she bridges the hardware-software gap. Her core focus is the Yocto Project, guiding companies... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:40 CEST

One Scan To Rule Them All: Towards Shared Open Data Infrastructure - Philippe Ombredanne, AboutCode & Stephen Augustus, Bloomberg
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
Open source supply chain decisions such as what to depend on, what to ship, and what to trust are only as good as the open data behind them.

The organizations working hardest to produce that open data are largely doing it in parallel. OpenSSF Scorecard scans 1.3 million packages a week. ClearlyDefined has scanned over 55 million and AboutCode over 20 million, both with ScanCode. We share the same problem: we're scanning and rescanning the same packages for the same (or similar) data.

That redundancy has real costs. Compute, maintainer time, and contributor energy spent on work that's already done is capacity not spent on expanding coverage, improving accuracy, or hardening infrastructure.

It's time to build together. This talk is a conversation about what it would look like to join forces on open software supply chain data, produced with open source tools and backed by open standards with shared infrastructure and aligned and unlocked datasets for wider usage. We'll explore where our data models overlap, where they diverge, and what collaboration would require, so we all can get sustainable, high-quality, and open supply chain data at ecosystem scale faster together.
Speakers
avatar for Philippe Ombredanne

Philippe Ombredanne

Lead Maintainer, AboutCode
Philippe Ombredanne is a FOSS hacker passionate about enabling easier and safer reuse of open source code. He is the lead maintainer of the AboutCode stack of open source tools for Software Composition Analysis and license and security compliance, including the industry-leading ScanCode... Read More →
avatar for Stephen Augustus

Stephen Augustus

Technical Architect — Office of the CTO, Bloomberg
Technical Architect, Office of the CTO at Bloomberg
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:40 CEST

Securing the Builder: CI/CD Supply Chain Security for an Open Source African Community - Caleb Poku Ackom, Cellulant
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
Who secures the teams building open source security tooling? At Open Source & Security Africa (OSSAfrica) — a Linux Foundation Special Interest Group supporting the pan-African open source ecosystem — we asked that exact question and built the answer into our pipelines.
This lightning talk walks through the CI/CD architecture powering OSSAfrica's projects: GitHub Reusable Workflows for DRY, composable pipelines across repositories; CodeQL and Semgrep running automated SAST on every PR; and Cloudflare Pages and Render handling deployments with zero operational overhead for a volunteer-driven team.
The core argument: supply chain security isn't a luxury reserved for enterprise platforms. With the right reusable workflow patterns, a lean community team can ship with the same security guarantees as a well-staffed engineering org — and share those patterns across every project they maintain.
Attendees leave with a concrete, replicable blueprint for community-scale secure CI/CD, and a fresh perspective on what open source infrastructure looks like when it's built from and for the African tech ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for Caleb Poku Ackom

Caleb Poku Ackom

Site Reliability Engineer, Cellulant
Caleb is a Site Reliability Engineer at Cellulant, a Pan-African payments platform operating across 30+ markets, where he manages multiple EKS clusters supporting 40+ microservices in production. He also serves as DevOps Lead at Open Source & Security Africa (OSSAfrica), where he... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
  Packages & Images & Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:40 CEST

Feasibility of an Open-Source Linux Platform for Autonomous Train Operation - Daniel Weingaertner & Sebastian Hetze, Red Hat
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)
Autonomous train operation requires a new generation of computing platforms capable of running AI-based perception, sensor fusion, and safety-critical control functions. Traditionally, railway systems have been delivered as tightly integrated proprietary hardware-software stacks, limiting software reuse, innovation, and vendor independence.
This talk presents the results of the Automated Train research project and explores whether a Linux-based platform can become the foundation for safety-critical rail applications. We examine the technical feasibility of using Linux to support mixed-criticality workloads while meeting stringent railway safety requirements.
Beyond technology, we discuss a fundamental challenge for open source in regulated industries: how can continuously evolving software be certified in environments governed by legally binding functional safety standards?
Finally, we explore the governance and business implications of a shared open-source platform for the railway sector. The lessons learned extend far beyond railways and provide a blueprint for applying Linux and open-source collaboration to other safety-critical and sovereign digital infrastructure domains.
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Weingaertner

Daniel Weingaertner

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
A seasoned technical leader and former professor, Daniel Weingaertner brings expertise in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and automotive software engineering. He has a track record of delivering open-source and Linux solutions for the public sector and possesses specialized knowledge... Read More →
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Sebastian Hetze

Principal Software Engineer, Field CTO, Red Hat
Sebastian Hetze has been developing free software since the 1980s. From 1992 to 2012, he ran his own Linux companies. He has been working for Red Hat since 2012, most recently as a Principal Software Engineer in the Field CTO organization. He is also an elected board member of the... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)
  Safety-Critical Software
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:00 CEST

Crash Dumps Without Cables: Live Coredump Capture Over UDP/Ethernet in Zephyr RTOS - Kedareswara Rao Appana, AMD
Friday October 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
When an embedded system crashes in the field, recovering the coredump often determines whether debugging takes hours or weeks. Zephyr has long supported coredumps over UART, but in modern industrial, IoT, and edge deployments the serial port is rarely accessible. Devices may be sealed in cabinets, deployed remotely, or connected only via network.

This talk introduces a new Zephyr coredump backend that streams crash data over UDP (IPv4/IPv6) at the moment of a fatal exception—no USB cable or physical access required. We will explore the design challenges of networking in the fatal path, including safely re-enabling interrupts so the NIC can transmit, and the ZCDU framing protocol used to packetize and reliably reassemble dumps from UDP datagrams. We also show how the host receiver integrates seamlessly with the existing Zephyr GDB workflow, making the switch from UART to Ethernet a simple Kconfig option. Attendees will learn how to enable fleet-scale crash capture and dramatically reduce time-to-root-cause for deployed Zephyr devices.

pull request : https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/108410
Speakers
avatar for Kedareswara Rao Appana

Kedareswara Rao Appana

Member of Technical Staff, AMD
Device driver developer (linux and Baremetal), Expertise on the ARM, Microblaze and Microblaze Risc-v processors, Zephyr OS and System device-tree concepts and Lopper tool, Contributed to open source Linux Up streamed CAN and Xilinx DMA drivers and contributed to axi ethernet and... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:20 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 CEST

State of the OSS Union: Assessing Your Stack’s Autonomy Under EU Law - Emiel Brok, SUSE / DOSBA
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)
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.
Speakers
avatar for Emiel Brok

Emiel Brok

Global Sovereignty Ambassador, SUSE / DOSBA
Open Source & Sovereignty Ambassador at SUSE.
Co-founder DOSBA (Dutch Open Source Business Alliance)
Social Media activities through #FridayKetchup and #GeekOnTour.
Mission in life: Make the world a better place by evangelizing open source.
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)
  Digital Trust
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 CEST

BoF: The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded - Josef Holzmayr, Mender.io & The Yocto Project & Philip Balister, OpenSDR
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
This BoF provides an open forum for the Embedded Linux community to ask questions and discuss issues with the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded community.

We open with a Yocto Project summary and OpenEmbedded State of the Union.

All users, contributors and maintainers as well as curious minds are invited to bring their thoughts and topics.
Speakers
avatar for Josef Holzmayr

Josef Holzmayr

Developer Enablement Expert & Community Manager, Mender.io & The Yocto Project
Josef has been active for more than 20 years as a "Complete"-Stack developer by now. He's done everything from debugging hardware over application development to web front ends.

A passion for showing, telling, and teaching people in both entertaining and engaging ways led Josef... Read More →
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Philip Balister

Minister of Progress, OpenSDR
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Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 CEST

How We Stopped Shai Hulud V4: Hunting a Self-Replicating Npm Worm With AI Toolchain Poisoning - Kush Pandya, Socket
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
The Shai Hulud worm family has stalked the npm supply chain across multiple variants, stealing credentials from developer and CI environments, propagating via stolen npm and GitHub identities, poisoning workflows, and carrying a dead switch that can wipe home directories on command. Version four just crossed a new line. SANDWORM_MODE, deployed across 19 malicious npm packages, keeps the full prior playbook and adds AI toolchain poisoning via MCP server injection into Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf. The rogue MCP server uses prompt injection to instruct AI assistants to silently exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS credentials, and LLM API tokens from nine providers, without alerting the user. We present the full story: the Shai Hulud lineage, how the obfuscated three-layer loader was detected, how 19 packages were linked to one operator, how a bidirectional CI worm loop was built from a weaponized GitHub Action, and how coordinated takedown with npm, GitHub, and Cloudflare dismantled the infrastructure, along with what the dormant polymorphic engine tells us about where version five is heading.
Speakers
avatar for Kush Pandya

Kush Pandya

Security Researcher, Socket
Security researcher at Socket.dev. Securing Open Source Supply chain, for various fortune 500 customers like Netflix, Salesfore, etc. and other leading AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI and many more.
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
  Packages & Images & Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 CEST

From Specification To Merge: Implementing a Standards-Compliant DALI Driver for Zephyr - Sven Hädrich, sevenlab engineering GmbH
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) is the dominant standard for professional lighting control, yet firmware support for it has been absent from the Zephyr ecosystem — until now. This talk walks through the full journey of designing and upstreaming a DALI low-level driver into Zephyr mainline: from understanding the protocol's precise timing and bus requirements, to crafting an API that fits naturally within Zephyr's driver model, to surviving the community review process through multiple rounds of discussion and refactoring.

Along the way we also experimented with AI-assisted code review as part of our workflow, and we'll share what that was actually like in the context of a real upstream contribution.

We'll be honest about what was hard, what the community pushed back on, and what we'd do differently.
Speakers
avatar for Sven Hädrich

Sven Hädrich

Co-Founder, sevenlab engineering GmbH
Sven started programming when the Tandy TRS-80 was a novelty. After studying physics and earning a PhD, he co-founded a laser company where he led electronics and software development. He then built a career as a freelance embedded systems developer before joining Grandcentrix, where... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:50 CEST

Self-Defending Swarms: MAVLink Signing Meets Peer-Consensus Exclusion Onboard PX4 - Yogesh Sardana, Airtel
Friday October 9, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
This isn't just about Airtel but for every organisation as MAVLink has supported per-message signing since MAVLink 2, yet almost no real-world PX4 fleet enables it, because key distribution, rotation & revocation across dozens of airborne vehicles has no production-ready tooling, so most swarms still accept any correctly formatted command from whatever radio reaches them. A single spoofed ground station or one drone with cloned key can inject commands rest of swarm has no way to reject. Talk introduces swarm-native trust layer that issues short-lived, mission-scoped MAVLink signing keys from a lightweight onboard authority, lets every drone verify signatures independently without round-tripping to a ground station & adds a peer-consensus exclusion protocol so that if one drone starts broadcasting commands inconsistent with its own attested mission profile, the rest of swarm votes to ignore it mid-flight without operator intervention. We demonstrate this on PX4 SITL & real hardware over a Zenoh-based inter-drone link, show a live command-injection attack being rejected by consensus & discuss key rotation strategy under degraded or fully lost ground-station connectivity mid-mission.
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.
Friday October 9, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
  PX4 Dev Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any
 

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