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

09:05 CEST

Embedded Linux Kernel Testing With Pytest - Fabrizio Castro & Chris Paterson, Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH
Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
Testing drivers reliably across several versions of Linux (mainline, linux-next, stable, linux-cip, etc.) and several SoCs can be a challenging task, and it gets even more challenging if the whole process needs to be automated.

In this talk we introduce a testing framework centered around pytest, that makes heavy use of pytest markers to describe the test SW and HW requirements, and we combine this with other open-source projects (like Yocto, LAVA, and GitLab CI/CD) to fully automate Linux kernel testing on embedded devices.
Speakers
avatar for Fabrizio Castro

Fabrizio Castro

Principal Software Engineer, Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH
I fell in love with software and hardware when I was a boy. I've had the privilege of working with brilliant people on exciting projects across several industries and universities. For the past 15 years, I have dedicated my professional life to Embedded Linux and products based on... Read More →
avatar for Chris Paterson

Chris Paterson

Engineer, Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH
Chris Paterson is a Senior Staff Software Engineer focused on embedded Linux and making CI work on real hardware, where things rarely go to plan. He works with tools like LAVA and KernelCI, and contributes to the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project.
Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:20 CEST

Making Your CI Lab More Reliable - Patrick Titiano, Baylibre SAS
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
If you've ever built your own CI Lab, you've probably already faced some of these issues:
- Remote power cycling of the boards (particularly when it requires pressing a push-button)
- Managing remote debug console
- Handling inrush current/power outage and surges
- Handling boards with heterogeneous form factors
- Handling remote GPIOS/accessories
- Handling remote displays/ KVMs
- Handling non-disruptive lab/board maintenance
- Handling distributed CI labs

At Baylibre, we've been dealing with CI Lab maintenance for many years, starting from 'scratch' (boards laying on shelves with wires all over the place) to standardised labs in server racks. In this presentation, we will share all the solutions we've found and developed to tackle all these issues, with the objective of improving the quality of our FOSS projects by making our CI labs reliable and easy to maintain.
Speakers
avatar for Patrick Titiano

Patrick Titiano

Co-founder, System Power Management Expert at BayLibre, Baylibre SAS
Patrick Titiano has 20 years of engineering experience in embedded technologies. Patrick spent 9 years at Texas Instruments as an OMAP Power Management Expert (from architecture to use-case power optimization). Patrick also developed embedded diagnostic open source tools (“omapconf... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:40 CEST

ORBIT Launchpad: Building the Due Diligence Bridge Between Manufacturers and Open Source - Nicole Bates-Callaghan, Microsoft & Sarah Evans, Dell Technologies
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
The EU Cyber Resilience Act requires manufacturers to exercise due diligence when integrating open source components — but what does that actually look like in practice? ORBIT Launchpad is an OpenSSF initiative building the catalogs, criteria, and tooling that help manufacturers demonstrate they've done the work.

This talk covers how ORBIT Launchpad bridges the gap between regulatory intent and operational reality. We'll share how the CRAB-FOSC and CRAB-FOMA catalogs translate CRA obligations into actionable criteria that manufacturers can evaluate against, how we're aligning with complementary efforts across foundations to avoid duplication, and what the open source ecosystem needs to provide so that due diligence doesn't become an unfunded mandate on maintainers.

Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of: what due diligence means for manufacturers consuming open source under the CRA; how ORBIT Launchpad's open catalogs and tooling reduce that burden; and how standards bodies and open source communities can work together to make compliance achievable.
Speakers
avatar for Nicole B

Nicole B

Principal Technical Program Manager, Microsoft
Nicole Bates is a Principal Technical Program Manager on Microsoft's Azure OCTO Open Source Ecosystem team, where she focuses on open source supply chain security strategy. She co-chairs the IETF SCITT Working Group, ORBIT Launchpad SIG, and Supply Chain Integrity Working Group at... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans

Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies
Sarah Evans is a Distinguished Engineer and security applied research program lead at Dell Technologies, driving technical innovation for secure business outcomes. She is a recognized leader focusing on extending secure operations and supply chain principles to securing AI and agentic... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:40 - 12:00 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications

13:30 CEST

Secure by Default in Embedded Linux: The Features You Are Probably Not Using - Marta Rybczynska, Ygreky
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
Linux offers an impressive collection of security mechanisms, and recent years have added even more to the stack. Yet when reviewing embedded Linux products, I repeatedly run into a different problem: security features that are available, mature, and practical are simply not enabled.

Many embedded projects still start from vendor examples, reference BSPs, or existing products. As a result, design decisions made years ago often become the default for the next generation of devices. This talk focuses on a set of practical security mechanisms that embedded developers can deploy from the beginning of a project with relatively little effort.

Using examples from Yocto Project-based systems, we will examine features and tools such as:
- overlayfs with its advanced features
- filesystem permission hardening
- seccomp-based system call filtering
- fs-verity for file integrity protection
- fscrypt for protecting data belonging to different users and use cases.

We will discuss why they should be part of a base configuration and and show practical examples on how to do it.
Speakers
avatar for Marta Rybczynska

Marta Rybczynska

Founder and CEO, Ygreky
Marta Rybczynska has a network security background, with 20 years of experience in Open Source.
She has worked with embedded operating systems like Linux and various real-time OSes, and with
system libraries and frameworks up to user interfaces. Contributed to various projects in... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

13:30 CEST

Building Your Own Linux Kernel CI on Commodity Platforms - Shung-Hsi Yu, SUSE
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
While Continuous Integration (CI) has become a standard for most software projects via platforms like GitHub, testing massive, highly complex repositories like the Linux kernel has traditionally required bespoke environments. This limitation creates significant friction for new kernel contributors, out-of-tree module maintainers, and low-level system library authors attempting to validate compatibility against the latest development branches.

This session details a practical architecture for running the latest development kernels entirely within commodity CI environments. There are two key components: a highly optimized, VM-tuned kernel configuration, and vmtest, an open-source utility that abstracts away the complexities of QEMU configuration, seamlessly maps the CI workspace as the virtual machine's root filesystem via the 9P protocol, and propagates test command return codes back to the runner.

By the end of the session, attendees will gain the knowledge to build custom kernel CI workflows, leaving with a boilerplate GitHub Actions .yml from danobi/vmtest-action-demo to immediately deploy their own testing pipelines.
Speakers
avatar for Shung-Hsi Yu

Shung-Hsi Yu

Kernel Engineer, SUSE
Mainly working on maintaining the eBPF stack of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) distribution.
Currently drawn to the inner working of eBPF verifier and formal verification.
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
  Linux

13:30 CEST

Making the Kernel Chat: How To Get Debug Output - Richard Weinberger, sigma star gmbh
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
When starting with Linux kernel development, beginners quickly encounter a frustrating roadblock: system crashes that produce absolutely no output, neither on the screen nor in the logs. Fortunately, Linux provides a rich toolbox designed to extract debug information even in the most desperate situations. The main challenge is knowing which tool fits a specific scenario and what data to expect.

In this talk, Richard shares practical guidance on the debugging mechanisms he has relied on over his past decade of working inside the Linux kernel. Attendees will learn how to break through the silence by deploying the right tool for the right type of crash. Besides well known mechanisms such as earlyprintk, pstore, and ftrace, Richard will reveal lesser known Linux debugging gems used to capture logs from freezing systems, trace internal behavior, and retrieve postmortem panic data.

By the end of the talk, beginners will have a clear and actionable roadmap for diagnosing actual kernel issues, ensuring they know exactly what to do the next time the kernel suddenly goes quiet.
Speakers
avatar for Richard Weinberger

Richard Weinberger

CTO, sigma star gmbh
Richard Weinberger is co-founder of sigma star gmbh where he offers consulting services around Linux and IT security. Upstream he maintains various subsystems of the Linux kernel such as UserModeLinux and UBIFS. Beside of low level and security aspects of computers he enjoys growing... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

13:30 CEST

From Reset To Main(): Porting Infineon TriCore AURIX To Zephyr - Parthiban N, Linumiz & Christoph Seitz, Infineon Technologies AG
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
Infineon's AURIX family of automotive microcontrollers is based on the TriCore architecture and is widely used across automotive systems, from powertrain and chassis control to safety-critical ECUs. This talk presents the upstream effort to add TriCore architecture support and enable Infineon AURIX TC3x and TC4x devices in Zephyr (https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/107516).

Starting from CPU reset, we will walk through the key architecture bring-up steps required to reach the first Zephyr thread, including trap and interrupt handling, Context Save Area (CSA)-based context switching, and system timer integration. We will also cover the work required beyond the architecture layer, including SoC support, board enablement, and QEMU-based development and testing.

Finally, we will discuss the challenges of upstreaming a new architecture into Zephyr, from toolchain and CI integration to HAL dependencies and ecosystem support, along with the remaining work needed for automotive and safety-critical systems.
Speakers
avatar for Parthiban

Parthiban

Director of Engineering, Linumiz
With over 14 years of experience in software engineering, Parthiban founded Linumiz, a company that provides domain-neutral software services for U-Boot, Linux, and Zephyr, ranging from board bringup, board supported package, customization, device drivers, to over the air software... Read More →
avatar for Christoph Seitz

Christoph Seitz

Field Application Engineer, Infineon Technologies AG
Started out designing FPGA-based high-speed data platforms — where open source first got under my skin. Now at Infineon, I drive adoption of Ethernet-based solutions in the automotive segment across EMEA, with a deep understanding of hardware-software interaction and industry standards... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

13:50 CEST

The Japan-Type OSS Model: Native Species, Seeding Strategy, and Rules as Code - Kazuki Imamura, IPA: Innovation Platform Agency, Japan
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:50 - 14:10 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
Open source is now social infrastructure, rarely recognized until it fails. To shape a forward-looking strategy, we must know where we stand. In 2025, IPA ran two foundational surveys: a software-trends survey of domestic firms, and a GitHub study of 30,298 public-sector repositories across seven countries.

The findings show modest but clear momentum. Corporate OSS policy adoption rose from 32.0% to 36.7% (normalized), and vague "don't know" answers gave way to concrete work on security and talent development—a shift from awareness to practice. Japan's government OSS repositories rank alongside Germany, Singapore, and Estonia, with GIS and geospatial strengths grown from frontline needs—now a uniquely AI-ready foundation.

We propose a "Japan-Type OSS Model" with three axes: cultivating "native species" OSS rooted in real needs; a "seeding strategy" where the public sector publishes building blocks industry scales into services; and "Rules as Code," making institutions machine-readable for trustworthy AI.

This session shares what one country learned from mapping its terrain—and calls for cross-border collaboration on how open source will underpin digital sovereignty worldwide.
Speakers
avatar for Kazuki Imamura

Kazuki Imamura

Open Source Promotion, IPA: Innovation Platform Agency, Japan
Born in 1974. I started my current job in March 2024. Prior to that, I worked in web development for 13 years. I started activities as a civic tech contributor in 2018.
Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:50 - 14:10 CEST
Chamber Hall (Floor 3)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Standards & Specifications

15:35 CEST

FreeBSD as a Linux Platform: LinuxKPI, Linuxulator, and the Case for Convergence - Moin Rahman, The FreeBSD Project
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
Linux dominates modern infrastructure, yet its monopoly on hardware support and application ecosystems creates a false premise, that Linux is the only viable platform. FreeBSD has quietly built two production grade compatibility layers that challenge this assumption.
LinuxKPI implements Linux kernel APIs directly inside the FreeBSD kernel, enabling unmodified GPU, wireless, and RDMA drivers including but not limited to amdgpu, iwlwifi, and Mellanox OFED to compile and run natively. Contrary too emulation this is source-level API compatibility with negligible runtime overhead.
The Linuxulator complements this at the userland boundary which is a high-performance syscall translation layer that executes unmodified Linux ELF binaries on the FreeBSD kernel, with measured overhead consistently under 2% for I/O-bound workloads.
Combined with FreeBSD Jails and VNET, operators gain isolated Linux environments with native ZFS storage, DTrace observability, and a hardened network stack without a hypervisor.
This talk examines the architecture of both layers, their production deployment patterns, and the upstream contribution model that keeps them current with Linux kernel releases.
Speakers
avatar for Moin Rahman

Moin Rahman

Contributor, The FreeBSD Project
Long-time contributor to The FreeBSD project, he works on release engineering, reproducible build infrastructure, automated CI/CD pipelines, and distributed cluster administration. He also leads Cybermancer Infosec, a consultancy focused on Zero Trust OS pipelines, artifact verification... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
  Linux

15:35 CEST

Iceberg for Agents - Turning Lakehouse Data Into AI-Ready Context - Andrew Madson, Fivetran
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
AI agents fail in production because they're overwhelmed with data but starved for context. LLM models aren’t the problem. The bottleneck is the data stack: fragmented silos, inconsistent definitions, and logic hidden in tribal knowledge. Agents need structured, reliable, and interpretable context—not just data access.

In this session, we'll show how Apache Iceberg becomes the backbone of AI-ready pipelines. You’ll learn how to elevate your Iceberg implementation from a storage format to a live context layer that powers structured retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), schema-aware agents, and autonomous reasoning grounded in truth.

What we’ll cover:
1. Iceberg Foundations for AI - from ACID to Time Travel
2. From Rows to Relationships - The role of the semantic layer
3. Structured RAG in Practice - Fully open source

The session includes a live demo of a fully open-source Structured RAG stack built on Apache Iceberg, featuring semantic query translation, hybrid retrieval, and governed agent reasoning. Expect architecture diagrams, real code, and practical guidance.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Madson

Andrew Madson

Head of Developer Relations, Fivetran
Andrew Madson is Head of Developer Relations at Fivetran, where he builds global programs that help developers and data teams adopt modern data and AI tooling. He previously led DevRel and evangelism at Tobiko Data (creators of SQLMesh) and Dremio, is author of the O'Reilly Definitive... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
  Open AI & Data

15:35 CEST

Your Backup Data Doesn't Belong To You - Julien Castets, Plaklar
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
You can rebuild your infrastructure from a git repo and migrate workloads across clouds. Your backup data is locked in a proprietary format, on vendor hardware, encrypted with keys you don't fully control. This talk applies the open-source portability argument to resilience, and examines what genuine backup ownership actually requires: open formats, storage-backend independence, and key custody that stays with the data owner.
Speakers
avatar for Julien Castets

Julien Castets

Software Engineer, Plaklar
Julien Castets is a French software engineer based in Prague, Czech Republic. Passionate about infrastructure, he previously worked at cloud providers Scaleway and Koyeb as a DevOps and backend engineer, and now works at Plakar, an open-source backup platform, where he focuses on... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

15:35 CEST

BoF: Open by Default or Intent: Inflection Points for Public Sector Open Source Decisions - Clare Dillon, CURIOSS; Remy DeCausemaker, CMS.gov; Johan Linåker, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden; Karel Rietveld, Netherlands Tax Administration
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
Many organizations have bought into the value of open source, but don't choose to open source everything. This Bird of a Feather session focuses on the inflection points for public sector organizations: what actually causes an organization to move projects from closed source to Open Source, or — just as importantly — to make a deliberate call that something should stay closed. The triggers are rarely just technical. Public Sector organizations may consider the ROI on open sourcing; whether the codebase, the team, and the organization are actually in a position to do this well; if there are regulatory obligations or policy considerations that push you towards being more open or closed. Sometimes the honest answer is that the perceived collaboration overhead (e.g. documentation, governance) may not be worth it for code that's considered throwaway or not ready for public consumption. Session participants will include researchers, representatives from InnerSource Commons and OSPOs in public sector organizations who have experience navigating these decisions.
Speakers
avatar for Clare Dillon

Clare Dillon

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

Remy DeCausemaker

Acting Director, OSPO, CMS.gov
Remy DeCausemaker is the Acting Director of the Open Source Program Office at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS.) Remy helps developers, designers, and other contributors work with dedicated civil servants to create open accessible health technology projects, programs... Read More →
avatar for Johan Linaker

Johan Linaker

Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Johan Linåker is a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University, working at the intersection of empirical software engineering, open technologies, and digital sovereignty. His work focuses on how public and private... Read More →
avatar for Karel Rietveld

Karel Rietveld

Open Source Program Office lead, Netherlands Tax Administration
Working within the Chief Technology Office in building an Open Source Program Office for the Netherlands Tax administration, Customs and Benefits
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

15:35 CEST

AI in Zephyr PSIRT: Lessons From the Front Line - Flavio Vinicius Alvares Ceolin, Hubble Network & David Brown, Linaro
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
Zephyr’s security response is run by a small, mostly volunteer team handling a large and growing workload. Every vulnerability report must be triaged against a million-line codebase, confirmed in source, scored, mapped to a CWE, written up as a CVE record, documented for disclosure, and tracked across multiple release branches — often under embargo deadlines that don’t move. It’s repetitive, high-stakes work, and it’s exactly the kind of burden that burns maintainers out.

This talk is a candid look at how we started using AI to help: grounding analysis in the source tree with file:line citations, drafting CVE records against a strict schema to prevent fabricated fields, and reducing release vulnerability accounting from hours to minutes. It covers what worked, what failed, and the guardrails we built to keep a human in the loop. You’ll leave with a practical blueprint and checklist for using AI in security response — and an honest view of where it helps and where it’s still a liability.
Speakers
avatar for Flavio Vinicius Alvares Ceolin

Flavio Vinicius Alvares Ceolin

Principal engineer, Hubble Network
Flavio Ceolin is a Principal Engineer at Hubble Network, where he works on embedded SDKs, device firmware, and communication protocols that use Zephyr and Bluetooth chips to connect devices to satellites. He is also a long-time Zephyr RTOS contributor, Zephyr’s Security Architect... Read More →
avatar for David Brown

David Brown

Tech Lead, Linaro
David Brown has worked on the Linux kernel, with a focus on security for a number of years. Recently, he has been focusing on security as it relates to IoT and embedded devices, including focusing on secure booting, and secure network communications. He is currently the Security Chair... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

16:30 CEST

MCP and AI Protocols: Questions for Open Source Managers - Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Linux Foundation
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 16:50 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
Open protocols are creating a new layer of infrastructure for how AI agents connect to tools, data, and each other. For OSPOs and open source managers, this also creates a new governance surface: How should open source repositories document instructions for AI agents?; What policies are needed for AI-assisted contributions?; How can OSPOs help bring an open source perspective into agentic AI policies and processes while working with the teams responsible for security, legal and platform engineering?

This talk will introduce the basic concepts behind the open agent protocol landscape, with a special focus on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and explore how OSPOs can apply this knowledge to open source policies, developer experience, contribution workflows, and reporting

The session will close with a few open questions and practical considerations for open source managers starting to explore this space, including how collaborative efforts such as TODO Group’s Agentic AI to Empower OSPOs initiative can help the community build in collaboration
Speakers
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 →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 16:50 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

16:30 CEST

A Day in the Life of a CVE Remediator - Shubham Kalloli & Cameron Scholes, Ericsson Software Technology
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
This talk will focus on a day in the life of CVE remediators. It will go through the full process of identifying, resolving, upstreaming and following up CVEs in various dependencies. It will also go through the various Open Source tools that we use throughout the full process, touch on our experiences working upstream and go through how we are sharing this knowledge and experience internally.
Speakers
avatar for Shubham Kalloli

Shubham Kalloli

Senior Software Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology
Senior Software Engineer at Ericsson Software Technology working in the Open Source Community
avatar for Cameron Scholes

Cameron Scholes

Software Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology
Cameron is a software engineer working for Ericsson Software Technology in Ireland for over 3 years. He has been working in many different open-source projects and communities with a focus on the security supply chain and CVE remediation upstream. He has experience with many different... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

17:25 CEST

Sandlock: Rootless and Containerless Confinement for AI Agents - Cong Wang, Multikernel Technologies
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
Your AI agent just wrote some code and wants to run it on your machine. It can read your SSH keys, exfiltrate data to any host, and overwrite your project. How do you give it just enough freedom to be useful, and nothing more?

This talk presents Sandlock, an AI agent sandbox for Linux that locks a process down in about 5 milliseconds using nothing but the kernel. No root. No cgroups. No containers. Spinning up a container or microVM per agent action means image builds, privileged setup, and a ~100 ms tax on every launch. Sandlock makes confinement cheap enough to wrap every command an agent runs.

We will show how it composes three kernel features: Landlock for filesystem, network, and IPC scoping; seccomp-bpf for syscall filtering; and seccomp user notification, where a supervisor enforces memory limits, an IP and port allowlist, HTTP-level ACLs with zero-config HTTPS inspection, and a copy-on-write working directory.

Live demos: pin an agent's egress to a single API, give it data access but no network, preview every file it would change before committing, and see real numbers (44x faster startup than Docker).
Speakers
avatar for Cong Wang

Cong Wang

Founder and CEO, Multikernel Technologies
Cong Wang is a professional Linux kernel developer mainly focuses on AI agent infrastructure, he founded Multikernel Technologies and Agentry. He has contributed over 1000 patches to the Linux kernel project and many other open source projects.
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
Panorama Hall (Floor 1)
  Linux

17:25 CEST

Panel Discussion: Open Source in Software-Defined World - Sven Jeroschewski, Robert Bosch GmbH; Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Linux Foundation; Cornelius Schumacher, DB Systel GmbH; Agustin Benito Bethencourt, Independent
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
Many initially hardware-driven industries, undergo a profound transformation and become more defined by software like it is the case in the automotive industry. Driven by increasing software complexity, this shift demands unprecedented levels of collaboration and joint integration. As many organizations whose core business was not selling software accelerate towards a more software-defined world, a critical question is how to consume, grow, run and consume the involved Open Source projects to deliver lasting value.

While many of the effects of open collaboration are not unique to a particular domain, the lessons learned from already more "software-defined" industries unlock invaluable insights that are collected in the TODO Group Business Guide.

Taking the learnings from that guide, this panel will delve into how Open Source activities effectively contribute to reaching business goals.

Join us to uncover enablers of sustainable Open Source development, learn from cross-industry successes, and equip your teams with the necessary competencies to thrive in the rapidly evolving software-defined world.
Speakers
avatar for Sven Erik Jeroschewski

Sven Erik Jeroschewski

OSPO Member, Robert Bosch GmbH
Sven Erik Jeroschewski is a Software Engineer with the OSPO of the Robert Bosch GmbH. He combines Open Source strategy with software engineering and actively works within the automotive open-source ecosystem by acting as a committer for Eclipse Kuksa. Sven studied Computer Engineering... 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 Cornelius Schumacher

Cornelius Schumacher

Open Source Steward, DB Systel GmbH
Cornelius helps teams at Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company, to use and contribute to open source software. He has a background from more than two decades in the open source community and industry. Originally a software developer he now focus on management of open source.
avatar for Agustin Benito Bethencourt

Agustin Benito Bethencourt

Consultant, self-employed
Independent consultant, focused on increasing organizational performance in two ways:
1.- Through Tagoross, the forum for professionals at the crossroad of open source as strategy and business
2.- By supporting their journey towards becoming good open source citizens, including AI... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs
 
Thursday, October 8
 

09:05 CEST

Demystifying Functional Safety in Zephyr RTOS - Alexandre Bailon, BayLibre
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
There is an increasing demand for functional safety and certifying Zephyr RTOS from SoC vendors and companies wishing to make medical and automotive products. In the meantime, there is a lot of pushback from developers who believe that open source software is not compatible with the rigors and the processes required by functional safety.
Alexandre Bailon is an active Zephyr developer who had no knowledge about functional safety. After attending numerous talks, he found himself facing more questions than answers.
Alexandre Bailon will give the talk he would have expected as an open source developer. He will first explain what functional safety is and why this is a must-have for Zephyr RTOS.
Then, he will try to address developers' concerns and tackle some common misconceptions they have. In addition, he will talk about the safety working group and how it aims to minimize the burden on contributors and maintainers while meeting certification requirements.
To finish, he will discuss the current initiatives and opportunities for community involvement in advancing functional safety support in Zephyr.
Speakers
avatar for Alexandre Bailon

Alexandre Bailon

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

09:05 CEST

Network Subsystem Status and Overview - Jukka Rissanen, Nordic Semiconductor
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
Network connectivity is important part of Zephyr. This talk will give information of current status of the network stack.
Speakers
avatar for Jukka Rissanen

Jukka Rissanen

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

09:50 CEST

Multi-Display Pipelines on Allwinner: Upstream Kernel DRM To Mesa3D - Parthiban N, Linumiz
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
Most Allwinner based products still runs on vendor BSP kernels with out-of-tree display drivers. But with recent upstream Linux Kernel improvements, its now possible to simultaneously drive multiple display panels over different interfaces like LVDS and MIPI, using mainline DRM subsystem on Allwinner A133 and A523 SoCs.

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

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

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

Parthiban

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

09:50 CEST

Zephyr and Xen in Automotive Mixed-OS Systems: Building Safety Readiness and Upstream - Harunobu Kurokawa, Renesas Electronics Corporation
Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
In automotive systems, interest is growing in OSS adoption, Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV), and mixed-criticality architectures. In initiatives such as AGL and SoDeV, configurations combining Linux, RTOSes, and hypervisors are becoming a key focus. In this context, Zephyr may be used as a small RTOS domain with a limited, well-defined role.

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

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

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

Harunobu Kurokawa

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

10:50 CEST

K8s Dungeon Crawl: Learning Kubernetes Controllers and Webhooks Through a Roguelike Project - Kim Schaefer, Game Plan Tech
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
In this session, we’ll explore Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, and admission webhooks using K8s Dungeon Crawl: a modified roguelike game where in-game monsters are represented by live Kubernetes resources running in the cluster.

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

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

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

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

Kim Schaefer

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

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

10:50 CEST

Bringing IEC 60730 Class B Functional Safety To Zephyr - Andrej Butok, NXP Semiconductors
Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
The IEC 60730 Class B standard defines safety requirements for automatic electrical controls in household appliances, mandating diagnostic mechanisms that ensure safe operation under fault conditions.
Despite its widespread adoption, IEC 60730 implementations remain fragmented and vendor-specific, typically delivered as proprietary libraries tightly coupled to individual MCUs. This approach limits portability, duplicates engineering effort, and prevents meaningful integration with modern open-source ecosystems.
This talk presents an open, reusable IEC 60730 Class B diagnostic framework built on Zephyr RTOS, demonstrating how functional safety mechanisms can be implemented in a portable and extensible way. The framework includes key diagnostics such as power-on self-tests, periodic runtime checks, watchdog supervision, and safe-state handling.
This work establishes a foundation for standardizing safety mechanisms in Zephyr and aims to catalyze community collaboration around common APIs and reference implementations for safety-critical embedded systems.
The session is targeted at embedded developers working on consumer appliances and industrial control systems.
Speakers
avatar for Andrej Butok

Andrej Butok

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

11:40 CEST

FOSS Camera Support for the Qualcomm OPE ISP - Hans de Goede & Loic Poulain, Qualcomm
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
Until recently camera software stacks have mainly been a proprietary closed source affair. Thanks to the linux-media and libcamera communities this has been slowly changing.

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

This talk will cover the following topics:

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

Hans de Goede

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

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

Loic Poulain

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

11:40 CEST

Building Real-Time, Data-Aware Intelligence With Postgres & Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Yogesh Jain, EnterpriseDB
Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
Imagine asking an AI agent to analyze any data, only for it to hallucinate a schema that doesn't exist. This "context gap" is the primary barrier to reliable Data-Aware AI. While LLMs are brilliant reasoners, they are historically "blind" to the live, structured world of Postgres - until now!

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

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

Key Takeaways:

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

Yogesh Jain

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

13:50 CEST

Babylon-as-Code: A Single Tower, Multiple Languages, and Multiple Formats in One Pipeline - Florent Zara, Eclipse Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)
Producing documentation in multiple languages and formats often sounds like a simple promise... until it is time to maintain translations, review changes, publish consistent versions, and avoid diverging copy-pastes.

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

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

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

Florent Zara

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

13:50 CEST

Still Leading the Pack: Modernizing Kubernetes Supply Chain Security - Adolfo García Veytia, Carabiner Systems & Carlos Tadeu Panato Junior, Chainguard
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 14:30 CEST
Club E (Floor 1)
Container image signing, SBOMs, SLSA attestations.... five years ago, the Kubernetes project was a trailblazer securing its releases using these and other security features. Having developed its own tools and solutions, things "just worked" for the project, but security technologies evolve and so have we.

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

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

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

Carlos Panato

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

Adolfo Garcia Veytia

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

13:50 CEST

Make YAML Dumb Again: The Config as Data Approach - Jaisheesh Venkat Goud, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior & Liam Fallon, Ericsson Software Technology
Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 15:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
Building on my Google Summer of Code experience, this tutorial addresses one of the major challenges in open source software systems – at scale, file management results in overly complicated templates and bad composability. People put logic into YAML files resulting in non-debuggable pipelines while local modifications are wiped away by upstream updates.
This tutorial delves into the idea of Configuration as Data with the help of kpt tooling allowing for logic separation from configuration files. The idea is to keep YAML "dumb" and pure data, which makes it fully predictable and WYSIWYG.
You’ll get to use the example of the OpenTelemetry Demo - a complex e-commerce microservices application – by packing it in independent and dependent subpackages.
Using KRM functions and custom Starlark scripts you'll:
• switch from a shop selling astronomical equipment to a website offering flowers
• localize languages, currencies, taxes
• manage different deployments sizes (small/medium/large).
As the last point you will use three way merging to allow applying upstream package updates while keeping all local changes safe.
Speakers
avatar for Jaisheesh Venkat Goud

Jaisheesh Venkat Goud

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

Liam Fallon

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

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

14:10 CEST

MAVLink: State of the Nation - Hamish Willee, Auterion
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:10 - 14:30 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)
An update on MAVLink project and standardization: how we're aligning stakeholders around common definitions, why standardization takes as long as it does, and what PX4 is doing right now to be a better MAVLink citizen.
Speakers
avatar for Hamish Willee

Hamish Willee

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

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

14:40 CEST

Ship Less: Scoping Open Source Contributions That Actually Merge - Yurii Bliuchak, Apify
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
Most first contributions fail before the code does. They try to solve too much, touch too many files, and stall in review while the maintainer waits for a smaller entry point that never comes.

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

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

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

Yurii Bliuchak

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

14:40 CEST

Diagrams & Dragons: Teaching Technical Writing to University Students the Open Source Way - Jiri Herrmann & Vendula Ferschmannová, Red Hat Czech
Thursday October 8, 2026 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)
For 4 years, the documentation team of Red Hat Czech has been teaching the fundamentals of technical writing to university students in Brno.

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

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

Vendula Ferschmannova

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

Jiri Herrmann

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

15:50 CEST

Open Standards for Measuring Carbon, Energy, and Water in Software and AI - Navveen Balani, Linux Foundation
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Forum Hall (Floor 2)
Software’s environmental footprint, especially AI’s, is becoming a business, governance, and regulatory priority. The EU AI Act introduces environmental transparency expectations for general-purpose AI, while the CSRD expands sustainability reporting obligations to 50,000+ companies. As software and AI adoption accelerate, organizations are increasingly seeking consistent ways to measure carbon, energy, and water impacts across workloads and inference.

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

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

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

Navveen Balani

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

15:50 CEST

Ask for Help Like a Pro! - Jakub Scholz, Cloudera
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
Open source communities are like a busy marketplace from some fantasy book. They are crowded, full of magic, and have all kinds of information. You will meet there many different characters: the wizards who saw everything twice and have every answer; the newbies who just landed and are completely lost; or the jumpy folks looking desperately for some quick fix for their production issue. It can be an intimidating place and it can be hard to find the right answers. This talk will try to help you navigate it. What are the differences between commercial support and community help? How do you find the right channel for your questions? What are the things you should always include when asking for help with some problem? How to deal with confidential data in your logs or configurations? This talk will try to answer all these questions and more. It will help you to ask for help like a pro and get the best answers quickly to get your systems up and running as soon as possible.
Speakers
avatar for Jakub Scholz

Jakub Scholz

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

15:50 CEST

Panel: Can University OSPOs Unlock Global Open Source Partnerships? - Stephanie Lieggi, UC Santa Cruz; Nithya Ruff, Independent; Clare Dillon, CURIOSS; Jacek Plucinski, University of Luxembourg
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
University researchers create innovative open source ecosystems that can reshape global digital infrastructure, however translating that work into sustainable partnerships with open source communities - and industry - remains difficult. Promising projects disappear based on funding cycles and student/faculty transience. Barriers to collaboration – IP issues, funding models, institutional culture – remain difficult to tackle. While these challenges are universal, the landscape looks different depending on in which part of the world you sit. Funding, technology transfer norms, and expectations from academic partners vary significantly between the EU and North American contexts. This panel brings together university OSPO practitioners to examine what a genuinely international model for university-industry open source collaboration could look like. They will share what's working in their ecosystems, where barriers lie, and whether shared infrastructure could bridge regional differences. The session includes space for audience input on what is most needed to make academic partnerships stronger at a global level.
Speakers
avatar for Stephanie Lieggi

Stephanie Lieggi

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

Nithya Ruff

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

Clare Dillon

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

Jacek Plucinski

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

15:50 CEST

Enabling Matter on Zephyr - Aksel Mellbye, Silicon Labs
Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
Matter is an open-source application-layer connectivity standard for connected home devices built on top of Wi-Fi and Thread, technologies that are both supported in Zephyr. Until recently, Matter support on Zephyr was primarily delivered through vendor-specific downstream SDKs, but there has been a growing effort to collaborate upstream in both the Matter and Zephyr communities to improve integration between the two projects.

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

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

Aksel Mellbye

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

16:40 CEST

Stateless by Design: Lessons From Building Infrastructure-as-Code Without Local State - Prashansa Kulshrestha, Kong Inc
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
Most IaC tools, Terraform chief among them, keep a local copy of state to plan changes, detect drift, and resolve references. That state file is also a known source of pain: it can go stale, get corrupted, and become a coordination bottleneck.

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

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

Prashansa Kulshrestha

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

16:40 CEST

How One Open Source Program Changed the Direction of My Career - Saumya Singh, IBM
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
In 2018, I applied to an open source program with no expectations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saumya Singh

Software Engineer & Tech Influencer, IBM
Saumya Singh is a Software Engineer, Educator, and Tech Influencer with an audience of 1M+ developers across social media. Based in India, she has over 5 years of experience in Kotlin, Android Development, Open Source Technologies, and AI. Through her content, she helps students... Read More →
Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101
 
Friday, October 9
 

09:05 CEST

Clocks in Zephyr: A Practical Guide for BSP Developers (Lesson Learned From a Real Porting) - Martin Hoff, Silicon Laboratories
Friday October 9, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
Clocks are easy to ignore until your first Zephyr BSP port — when UART, SPI, or DMA suddenly depend on device tree properties you have never touched.
This beginner-friendly talk explains how clocks work in Zephyr today: clocks as phandle-arrays (like pwms and gpios), the meaning of #clock-cells, and how DT macros connect DTS to driver code. We separate three everyday questions: enabling a clock, selecting its source, and reading its rate — mapped to clock_control_on(), clock_control_configure(), and get_rate().
We then cover practical porting decisions any SoC author faces: what to describe in device tree at boot, what to leave to runtime (for example power management), and common mistakes — wrong cells, gates versus muxes and over-modelling hardware in DT.
Finally, we look at where Zephyr is heading: RFCs for a Clock Management Subsystem propose richer clock trees and predefined clock states, closer to how silicon is wired. You will leave with a reusable mental model for today’s APIs and a map of tomorrow’s direction.
Audience: developers new to Zephyr, BSP porters, and device tree authors. No prior clock-driver experience required.
Speakers
avatar for Martin Hoff

Martin Hoff

Software System Engineer, Silicon Laboratories
Four years of Zephyr experience, including two at Silicon Laboratories co-maintaining upstream support for SiWx91x and EFR32 SoCs. My work spans BSP porting, device tree, and driver development across Silicon Labs platforms.
Friday October 9, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

09:05 CEST

From Zero Hardware To Production: High-Performance Sensors With Zephyr - Jan Germer, Fluke Deutschland GmbH
Friday October 9, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
This talk shares practical lessons learned from building multi-platform sensor firmware on Zephyr RTOS for industrial alignment tools. Zephyr enabled our team to deliver a high-quality solution despite an extremely tight project schedule. Early prototyping along with Zephyr’s native simulator (native_sim) enables firmware development and testing long before first PCBs are available. A modular architecture based on message queues and the Kconfig system allows for independent, testable components.
Finally, we dive into the hardware-facing challenges we encountered and solved: deterministic event handling under tight timing constraints and zero-CPU data acquisition using DMA-driven ADC pipelines.
Attendees will gain insights into structuring scalable Zephyr firmware, accelerating development without hardware, and building high-performance embedded systems with confidence.
Speakers
avatar for Jan Germer

Jan Germer

Senior Development Engineer, Fluke Deutschland GmbH
Jan Germer is a Senior Development Engineer at Fluke Deutschland GmbH, working on solutions for industrial sensing applications. After completing his PhD in Physics, he moved into industry, where he has worked across R&D, software, and firmware development. His focus areas include... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 09:05 - 09:45 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

09:50 CEST

Yocto BSP Layers: Breaking Free From Complexity - Mathieu Dubois-Briand & Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Friday October 9, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
Many Yocto layers provided by silicon vendors prioritize vendor-specific tooling, demos, and opinionated decisions often at the expense of simplicity, flexibility and maintainability. This makes
them challenging to integrate for custom boards or to adapt to specific customer needs.

Additionally, some of those vendor-provided layers create a maintenance burden: when you need to update, you become dependent on the vendor's choices and changes, which are often hard to understand and follow.

In this talk, we'll examine common issues found in vendor-provided Yocto layers and show how they introduce unnecessary complexity into embedded Linux projects. Much of what new users perceive as “Yocto complexity” actually comes from the design and maintenance practices used in vendor layers.

We'll then introduce yocto-kiss as an example of a simpler and more maintainable approach to vendor support layers. The talk will cover practical best practices for layer design, common pitfalls to avoid, and strategies for building vendor layers that are clean, flexible, and pleasant to maintain.
Speakers
avatar for Mathieu Dubois-Briand

Mathieu Dubois-Briand

Embedded Linux engineer, Bootlin
Mathieu Dubois-Briand is an Embedded Linux engineer at Bootlin since 2024, specializing in Yocto integration, kernel development, device drivers and bootloaders.
He is part of the Yocto Build Failure "SWAT" team, in charge of testing patches submitted to OpenEmbedded core layer and Bitbake master branches... Read More →
avatar for Köry Maincent

Köry Maincent

Embedded Linux engineer, Bootlin
Köry Maincent is an Embedded Linux engineer at [Bootlin](https://bootlin.com/) since 2020, working on kernel, device drivers, bootloaders and build system integration, and on upstreaming on all the above.
He is the maintainer of the [ST Buildroot External](https://github.com/boo... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:50 CEST

Playing Audio on a SoC DAC Output With Zephyr - Eve Redero, Redero Tech
Friday October 9, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
Some SoCs have an embedded DAC peripheral, which allow to play low or medium resolution audio with minimal electronics, no advanced I2S external codec required.

In this talk, I present a list of ingredients required to make an acceptable audio output:
- The DAC: what it is, how it is different from PWM audio output or I2S peripherals
- DMA, your DAC’s best friend, to run continuously and without drops
- Debug something fast and real-time thanks to tracing

Then I will discuss implementation, with the codec subsystem. Example platform will be ST STM32F7 and Atmel ATSAM3X8E.

Finally, if nothing crashes or burn in the meantime, I will give a demonstration.
Speakers
avatar for Eve Redero

Eve Redero

Senior Electronics Engineer, Redero Tech
I have worked as an electronics and embedded systems engineer for about 10 years, mostly in consumer electronics companies. My skills set includes board design, low-level firmware development, and a bit of knowledge about board production and testing. I usually work for tech companies... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 09:50 - 10:20 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

11:05 CEST

Small Language Models 101: Why Bigger Isn't Always Better - Mohit Gaur, Microsoft
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
Large Language Models often dominate headlines, but many real world AI applications don't need billions of parameters to be effective. Tasks such as classification, information extraction, intent detection, summarization and domain specific assistants can often be served effectively by smaller open source models with lower latency, reduced infrastructure requirements and improved privacy.

This session introduces Small Language Models (SLMs), explores the trade-offs between model size, accuracy, cost and performance and discusses techniques such as quantization, distillation and domain adaptation that make these models practical for deployment on laptops and edge devices.

Attendees will leave with a framework for selecting the right model for a given use case, understanding why bigger is not always better and how open-source SLMs are making AI more accessible to developers and organizations with limited compute resources.
Speakers
avatar for Mohit Gaur

Mohit Gaur

Software Engineer 2, Microsoft
Mohit Gaur is a software engineer at Microsoft with a passion for exploring new tools and sharing insights that help others harness the full potential of technology. He thrives on collaboration and mutual success and is guided by the belief that every challenge holds the potential... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

11:05 CEST

From Using To Leading: How a Grid Operator Leverages Open Source Strategically - Jonas van den Bogaard, Alliander
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
As the energy system transitions into a highly digital, data-driven ecosystem, grid operators face mounting complexity, rising costs, and increasing pressure to deliver scalable and future-proof solutions. In this context, open source is no longer a technical preference. It is becoming a strategic necessity.

In this session, Alliander shares how it has repositioned open source as a key enabler of its digital strategy. We show how a clear vision helps maximize public value, accelerate innovation, strengthen digital sovereignty, and improve transparency, while maintaining control over long-term costs.

We introduce three guiding principles: Open Source First, Building Together, and Confidence in Openness. We also highlight practical implications, from embedding open source in procurement to actively contributing and opening internal solutions.

This session offers a concrete example for executives on how to move from ad hoc use of open source to a coherent, organization-wide strategy. Reducing duplication, optimizing investments, and strengthening collaboration across the energy ecosystem, including within LF Energy.
Speakers
avatar for Jonas van den Bogaard

Jonas van den Bogaard

Open Source Office Lead, Alliander N.V.
Jonas van den Bogaard is a Digital Strategy Lead at Alliander, a distribution system operator (DSO) in the Netherlands. Alliander provides reliable, affordable, and accessible energy transport and distribution to a large part of the Netherlands. Open source has proved to be an enabler... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

11:05 CEST

Demystifying Pinctrl: Pin Multiplexing in Zephyr - Roy Jamil, Ac6
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
Pin multiplexing is always needed in embedded development. But when we start changing pins in a devicetree overlay, or when creating a custom board, things can quickly become confusing: build errors, wrong pin states, peripherals not starting, or hardware that simply does not behave as expected.

In Zephyr, the pinctrl subsystem is what connects the physical pins of the SoC with the peripherals we want to use. It defines the pin function, the electrical configuration, and the pin states used by the drivers.

In this talk, we will demystify pin multiplexing in Zephyr and explain how to use pinctrl in devicetree in simple words. We will go step by step through pin groups, pin states, common configurations, overlays, board files, and SoC-specific syntax.

We will also use practical examples for common peripherals and vendor families, and show how to debug the most frequent issues when customizing pins.
Speakers
avatar for Roy Jamil

Roy Jamil

Training Engineer, Ac6
Roy Jamil, with a PhD in the field of Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and real-time embedded systems, has over six years of experience as a Training Engineer at Ac6. He trains hundreds of engineers annually. His experience includes programming, Linux, drivers, Yocto, and various... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

11:05 CEST

Zenbedded: Bringing Ros2_control Closer To the Embedded World - Speakers to be Announced
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is the de facto standard open-source middleware for building robot software, providing standardized messaging, tooling, and reusable components. ros2_control is a hardware-agnostic control framework focusing on the modular composition of control systems for robots, sharing of controllers as well as real-time performance.

Bringing ros2_control to embedded systems usually means bolting heavy DDS serialization and a bridge process onto microcontrollers. Zenbedded fixes this. It is a monolithic Zephyr, Zenoh, and ROS 2 framework built specifically for ros2_control. We put the transport, the RTOS client library, and the host-side hardware_interface plugin into one tight repository.
On the wire, we use a multi-tier transport that moves along a spectrum. You can choose between fully ROS-observable but slightly slower, or fully binary-encoded and fast, depending on what your control loop actually needs.
You'll leave with a pattern for running ros2_control on Zephyr-class hardware and a feel for working with ROS and ros2_control. We'll demo the stack balancing a real inverted pendulum on an ESP32, where latency is the difference between upright and toppled.
Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

11:15 CEST

Lightning Talk: One Line of YAML Leaks Your Secrets: The Pwn-Request Pattern - Arpit Jain, Self Employed
Friday October 9, 2026 11:15 - 11:25 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
A pull_request_target trigger plus ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }} in a checkout step. That combination lets any external contributor run arbitrary code with your repository's secrets and write token. This is the "pwn request" pattern, and it's in production workflows across some of the most popular open-source projects on GitHub.

I'll use a real finding (a CRITICAL-severity pwn request I discovered and privately disclosed in an Apache project) to explain how the attack works: what pull_request_target does differently from pull_request, why adding permissions: read-all doesn't protect you, and why the attacker needs nothing beyond opening a pull request.

Then I'll show the three mitigations that work: splitting into unprivileged build and privileged post-processing steps, using persist-credentials: false, and gating on the head repo matching the base.
Speakers
avatar for Arpit Jain

Arpit Jain

Security Researcher, Self Employed
Supply-chain security researcher focused on CI/CD pipeline vulnerabilities. Audits GitHub Actions workflows across CNCF, sigstore/SLSA, OpenSSF, and US federal government orgs (cisagov, GSA) for exploitable patterns: pwn requests, unpinned actions, token-scope misconfigurations. Has... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:15 - 11:25 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration

11:35 CEST

Lightning Talk: Prove It: Is Your Kubernetes App Cloud Native? - Martin Matyáš, Tieto
Friday October 9, 2026 11:35 - 11:45 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
Everyone claims their app is cloud-native. But how to prove it?

CNTi Testsuite, an open-source Linux Foundation project, provides automated tests that validate cloud-native best practices such as security, scalability, and upgradability. While designed for telecom CNFs, it works for any Kubernetes application.

In this lightning talk, I’ll show how you can run CNTi Testsuite in minutes to objectively measure cloud-native maturity and uncover hidden gaps in Kubernetes workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Martin Matyáš

Martin Matyáš

Lead Cloud Engineer, Tieto
Lead cloud engineer with 20+ years of experience in application development and testing mostly in telecom industry. Worked on various aspects of Telecom software, from platforms, applications, test tools, continuous integration. Active member and maintainer of LFN's CNTi communit... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:35 - 11:45 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud & Orchestration

11:55 CEST

Minimal Viable AI Platform - Max Körbächer, Liquid Reply
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
Creating your own AI platform sounds like a job for a funded team and a matching cloud bill. Surprisingly, it isn't. I want to show how a handful of open source tools combine into a minimal viable AI platform that runs on one machine from a single Docker Compose file.
Five layers are all needed for a valuable platform: LiteLLM as the gateway (one API for any model, with keys and cost tracking), Open WebUI as the chat interface, n8n for automation and agents that take real actions, Ollama for private local models, and Langfuse for request tracing.
Then we look at how to grow it (RAG, authentication, scaling) without adding a pile of disconnected tools. This setup can be advanced for every demand.
The setup is indeed not perfect, but it is a valid starting point for organizations of any size.
No enterprise budget needed, just you, some OSS tools and a little bit of interest.
Speakers
avatar for Max Körbächer

Max Körbächer

Chief Technology Advisor & CEO, Liquid Reply
Max Körbächer is the Founder and Chief Technology Advisor at Liquid Reply, a CNCF Ambassador and Governing Board Member, LF Europe Advisory Board member and the author of the book Platform Engineering for Architects. Max specializes in translating the crushing complexity of cloud... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

11:55 CEST

Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together - Miranda Heath, Software Stewardship Lab
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
I'm a psychologist and researcher at the [Software Stewardship Lab](https://stewardshiplab.org/). Moved by the extent of burnout among Open Source developers, I have written what I believe to be the most comprehensive report to date on burnout in Open Source. This entailed a review of the academic literature, a qualitative analysis of online discussion in the OSS community, and interviews with OSS maintainers.

I present 5 factors my research identified that contribute to developer burnout: difficulty getting paid, workload and time commitment, maintenance work as unrewarding, toxic community behaviour and hyper-responsibility. I discuss 3 structural changes we can make to address developer burnout: make it easier for OSS developers to get paid, distribute maintenance responsibilities, and strengthen developer community, solidarity and capacity for advocacy. Finally, I preview the findings of a follow-up study I am currently undertaking exploring the impact of the rise of AI coding on OSS developer burnout, including where it is exacerbating existing causes of burnout, and where it might help alleviate them.
Speakers
avatar for Miranda Heath

Miranda Heath

Director and Researcher, Software Stewardship Lab
Director and researcher at the Software Stewardship Lab, an applied research non-profit dedicated to ensuring the stability of the Open Source software ecosystem. I research burnout in Open Source, investigating the structural issues that put developers at risk of burnout and how... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

12:15 CEST

The Hard Limits of a (de)-centralized OSPO - Sebastian Grüner, E.ON Digital Technology & Benjamin Rilz, E.ON Digital Technology GmbH
Friday October 9, 2026 12:15 - 12:35 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
Starting up an OSPO is not an easy task - let alone for 300+ companies. That's the scale and problem space we face in the highly federated and distributed enterprise of E.ON.

One of Europe's biggest energy utility provider has it all: critical infrastructure, regulations, services for millions of customers, purpose built hardware, SaaS businesses, an unfathomable amount of suppliers and engineers all over the place.

So before we could even start with our own ideas about the OSPO management we needed to get a hold of the status quo at E.ON for any kind of engineering and business operations. Two years after starting the OSPO we're far from done doing that yet, but we already established quite a bunch of successful initiatives.

We'll present our idea of an Hub-and-Spoke-OSPO, targeted initiatives for distinct parts of the business, curing pain points, building recurring collaborations within the enterprise and how to become more visible as 2-person-OSPO with nearly 80.000 coworkers.
Speakers
avatar for Sebastian Grüner

Sebastian Grüner

Open Source Consulting Manager, E.ON Digital Technology
Leads the OSPO initiative at the IT subsidiary of E.ON, helping transform our grid for a carbon neutral future. Before that he worked 13 years as a journalist and editor covering Open Source - technology and software as well as the sociopolitical influence of the projects and their... Read More →
avatar for Benjamin Rilz

Benjamin Rilz

Junior Tech Consultant, E.ON Digital Technology GmbH
I work in the Open Source Program Office at E.ON Digital Technology GmbH, where I focus on connecting the Open Source ecosystems with practical business needs in the energy sector. I have already attended several Linux Foundation conferences, but I haven’t given a talk yet. In this... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 12:15 - 12:35 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

14:00 CEST

OpenChain in Central and Eastern Europe: Year One - Vladimir Slavov & Nikola Babadzhanov, Bosch
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:20 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
One year ago, we created the OpenChain Meridian 22 Work Group for Central and Eastern Europe. In this year, our community has grown to include members from Poland, Hungary, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and other countries. We promoted OpenChain and our WG formally at open source and security events in Serbia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria, and informally in other parts of Europe and the world. We work in close collaboration with other open source communities to organize free events across Europe.

This talk is a retrospective on this past year of expanding the OpenChain community in the region. We will showcase the interesting topics we focus on in our WG, and share the lessons we learned along the way. We would like to use the talk to promote the WG locally.

The first part of the talk will focus on the journey: how we launched the OpenChain Meridian 22 WG, our promotion activities, and the topics we have tackled so far.

The second second part, about the takeaways: what makes this region special, why we received attention mostly from security communities, and other such curiosities.

The last part will be an overview of the co-located event we are organizing with the community.
Speakers
avatar for Vladimir Slavov

Vladimir Slavov

Open Source Consultant, Bosch
Vladimir is a lawyer and a programmer. He works at Bosch's Open Source Program Office, focusing on open source management and compliance. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, an AWS Certified AI Practitioner, and an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. He co-chairs the... Read More →
avatar for Nikola Babadzhanov

Nikola Babadzhanov

Open Source Management Consultant, Bosch
Nikola Babadzhanov, a Bosch Open Source Consultant since 2022 and a member of the Bosch OSPO, focusing on software and Open Source management. He expertly applies his FinTech regulatory compliance experience to the unique challenges of Open Source compliance.

Formerly the chair of a Bosch group on secure and compliant containers, Nikola is a dedicated OpenChain Ambassador, a committer on the Eclipse Apoapsis project, and an active member of the OpenChain SBOM, AI, and Tooling work groups... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:20 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

14:00 CEST

The Journey of Adding Hardware Support To Mainline - Sven Püschel, Pengutronix
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
Since v4.15 the kernel has support for the second version of the Raster Graphic Acceleration (RGA) IP core of Rockchip SoCs.
The newer RK3588 SoC additionally ships two RGA cores with version 3 and so I was tasked to extend the driver to support them.

7 months and 7 patch series versions later the driver was merged in Linux v7.2.

The talk walks through my journey to getting my first driver upstream. It shows where I had understood things the wrong way, where I've tried to do too much and where I've had to invest more work. Spiced up with some anecdotes about erroneous manuals, erratic hardware behavior and errors which only arise under load.

The talk is intended for beginners who are interested in doing mainline work. Besides showing the effort required and the frustrating moments, I want to encourage putting in the effort and showcase some of the nice solutions it has produced.
Speakers
avatar for Sven Püschel

Sven Püschel

Software Engineer, Pengutronix
Sven Püschel is an open-source developer working part-time at Pengutronix since 2024.
He supports customers to achieve their goals using popular open source software
and bringing the necessary additions for the customer use-case to upstream.
From adding Wayland protocols down to... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
South Hall 3 A (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

14:50 CEST

Panel: Found It. Filed It. Forgotten? The Open Source Fix Problem in AI Era - Rao Lakkakula, Microsoft; Amanda Casari, Google; Stormy Peters, AWS
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)
We have become highly effective at finding vulnerabilities, accelerated by AI-driven analysis. We can scan at scale, assign scores, and generate reports with unprecedented speed. The breakdown happens after discovery.

For many maintainers, security reports arrive as noise: limited context, unclear expectations, and little support to carry fixes through to completion. Backlogs grow, trust declines, and critical issues remain unresolved.

This panel brings together security and open source leaders from Microsoft, Google and AWS to confront an uncomfortable reality: discovery is the easy part. Remediation, especially in shared infrastructure maintained by a small number of overextended contributors, is where the system fails.

We will explore what actually helps maintainers move from report to resolution. What makes a report actionable? How do we reduce noise and avoid drive-by reporting? How do we support fixes through triage, patching, and downstream adoption without taking over projects?

If you are a struggling maintainer or an industry consumer who wants to support OSS you depend on without overloading it, this session is for you. The focus is simple: fixes that land.
Speakers
avatar for Rao Lakkakula

Rao Lakkakula

Partner Director, Microsoft
Rao Lakkakula is Director of Open Source Ecosystems at Microsoft. He brings over 25 years of experience in security and software development, with prior leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase, The Climate Corporation, Amazon, and several startups. Rao serves on the Linux Foundation Research... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Casari

Amanda Casari

Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Google
amanda casari is a researcher and engineer in the Open Source Programs Office at Google, where she is co-leading research and engineering to better understand risk and resilience in open source ecosystems. She was named an External Faculty member of the Vermont Complex Systems Center... Read More →
avatar for Stormy Peters

Stormy Peters

Head of Strategy & Marketing, AWS
Stormy Peters is Head of Open Source Strategy & Marketing at AWS.
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
Club H (Floor 1)
  Digital Trust

14:50 CEST

Linkable Loadable Extensions and the Extension Developer Kit - Lauren Murphy, Intel
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
The Linkable Loadable Extensions (LLEXT) subsystem supports loading and linking ELF files at runtime, enabling developers to add sandboxed plugin-like functionality to Zephyr applications. This session offers a discussion of how LLEXT works and how it can work for you, as well as an overview of the Extension Developer Kit (EDK). The EDK allows users to build extensions without building the main binary, enabling teams working on complex firmware to neatly divide efforts between individual loadable modules and the main binary.
Speakers
avatar for Lauren Murphy

Lauren Murphy

OS Development Engineer, Intel
Lauren Murphy has been a software engineer on the Intel team of Zephyr contributors since 2021. As a LLEXT contributor, she added support for ARC and x86, as well as Harvard architectures.
Friday October 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)
  Zephyr Developer Summit

15:40 CEST

Kids Programming in Turtlegrove - Making Beautiful Things Together - Pascal van Dam, pascalvandam.com
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
In 1967, Seymour Papert, Wally Feurzeig, and Cynthia Solomon built a language based on studies of Piaget whose radical premise still hasn't been fully cashed in: children should program the computer, not be programmed by it. Logo gave them a turtle an "object to think with" and a place to live in mathematics by walking it, drawing it, and making it their own.

Half a century later, most kids meet software as something to consume, not construct. This talk argues that Papert's constructionism and the free-software ethos are the same idea one generation apart, both are about the freedom to understand and reshape your own tools and that open source is exactly how we finally deliver Logo's promise at scale.

I'll show TurtleGrove: a UCBLogo compatible interpreter we created that runs in any browser, with a Rust core and a vanilla-JS frontend, fully open source and self-hostable.

In the OpenSource mindset children can even show-and-share their code with other children. Working on their own canvas or creating art together. Children learn the best, when learning together. We use this also in the Living OpenSource project to introduce kids in African countries into programming.
Speakers
avatar for Pascal van Dam

Pascal van Dam

Trainer & Architect, pascalvandam.com
Pascal has been working with Linux and Opensource since the early days of 1991. He's having almost 30 years of experience in of UNIX and Linux. He has been delivering courses since 1997.

Next to being a trainer Pascal is the hired Linux/K8S architect for ATOS.

Pascal has a fond... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

16:30 CEST

Updates on Sbom-cve-check: An Open-source CVE Analysis Tool for Embedded Systems - Benjamin Robin, Bootlin
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 16:50 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
With embedded devices now everywhere, from home appliances to industrial systems, it is vital to regularly scan them so that any known vulnerability (CVE) in software components can be identified and addressed before they become security risks.

Regularly monitoring these CVEs will be mandatory in various cases to comply with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which pushes the industry towards more accountable and proactive security in embedded systems.

Released in December 2025, sbom-cve-check is an open-source automated vulnerability analysis tool. It operates directly on a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), without requiring access to the original build environment. SBOMs can be generated from build systems such as Yocto, enabling post-build security analysis even when the build infrastructure is unavailable.

This talk will present sbom-cve-check, highlight its major improvements over the past six months, and explain how it is now fully integrated into Yocto, replacing the built-in cve-check class.

sbom-cve-check is provided under the GPLv2 license, and contributions are, of course, welcome :)
Speakers
avatar for Benjamin Robin

Benjamin Robin

Embedded software engineer, Bootlin
Benjamin Robin is an embedded Linux engineer with 14 years of experience. He joined Bootlin in 2025. Before joining Bootlin, he held roles as both an embedded software engineer and an embedded Linux engineer. Over the years, he gained extensive experience across a wide range of industries... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 16:50 CEST
South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)
  Embedded Linux Conference

16:30 CEST

Generative AI and FOSS - Not Just the How but Also the Why - Carol Chen, Red Hat
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
I've given several talks & workshops on various GenAI tools in the past couple of years. Generally the goals of the presentations are to demonstrate the how - how to fine tune a model, how to prepare data for RAG systems, how to use this framework or optimize that pipeline - I find that a lot of the discussions which happen during and after the workshop are around the why.

Why is structured data important? Why do we care about open source and open weights in models? Why does context size matter? Why can't I run/reproduce the same AI set up on my laptop? Why do I even have to use GenAI??

These and many more questions have popped up and quickly drowned in the rush to keep up with the next new AI tool or agent. I'd like to provide a space for everyone, especially those new to GenAI and/or open source, to pose these questions and discuss them without worring about missing out. Whether you are a skeptic or have your fully agentic workflow set up, we might share similar concerns and doubts. Bring your ideas and opinions!

During the BoF, I will also share various open source resources that may be relevant and useful in answering your questions and better prepare you on the AI journey.
Speakers
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Carol Chen

Principal AI Community Architect, Red Hat
Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, having led several upstream communities including InstructLab, Ansible and ManageIQ. She has been actively involved in open source communities while working for Jolla and Nokia previously. In addition, she also has experiences in software... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Terrace 2A (Floor 2)
  Open Source 101

16:30 CEST

Running OSPOs at Scale: Hard-Won Lessons From Germany Industry - Thomas Steenbergen, OSSYN & Helio Chissini de Castro, Cariad
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
Most organizations know they should manage open source strategically and efficiently. Few know how to actually do it when you're moving fast, resources are tight, and a supply chain incident can land on the front page.

Over the past several years, we've helped build and run Open Source Program Offices across multiple large German automotive and technology organizations. This session distills what actually worked - and what didn't.

We'll share concrete lessons on: getting buy-in from C-level to developer teams; surviving and learning from supply chain security incidents; scaling compliance without drowning engineers in process; using AI to cut OSPO workflow overhead; and growing open source contribution and compliance culture.

Along the way, we'll show how we used OSS Review Toolkit (ORT), a Linux Foundation project, as the automation backbone - and what we learned making it work in large, regulated industries.

You'll leave with a clearer picture of what it takes to scale open-sourcing and compliance in a regulated industry, and the mistakes worth skipping.
Speakers
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Thomas Steenbergen

Principal Consultant / ORT co-founder and maintainer, OSSYN
Thomas Steenbergen specializes in strategic open source management, helping organizations align their practices with business goals. An expert in open source adoption, community building, and compliance (including SBOMs), he is freelance consultant currently working for OSPOs of CARIAD... Read More →
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Helio Chissini de Castro

Software Tooling Lead, Cariad
Helio Chissini de Castro has 25 years of open source experience in multiple areas, from contributions to community management and entire project design. His entire professional life was around bring open source to the most possible areas. On recent years, Helio has an ongoing effort... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Operations Management & OSPOs

16:30 CEST

Voluntary Transparency, Involuntary Security: A Maintainer's Guide To CRA Readiness - Roman Zhukov, Red Hat
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
The enforcement window for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is arriving, triggering corporate compliance panic. While individual open-source developers and volunteer maintainers have zero obligations under the CRA, their downstream commercial adopters face mandatory due diligence requirements. How do Maintainers survive being bombarded with manual security questionnaires and subtle attempts to shift regulatory liability upstream?

The co-chair of the OpenSSF Global Cyber Policy Working Group and co-creator of the CRA Readiness Guide for Maintainers will walk you through converting the OpenSSF voluntary checklist into automated repository-level defenses. Attendees will see how to deploy the open-source OSPS Baseline Scanner GitHub Action to perform security gap analysis, expose standardized project postures via machine-readable security-insights.yaml files, and anchor liability disclaimers into repositories to push due-diligence burdens back downstream.
Speakers
avatar for Roman Zhukov

Roman Zhukov

Security Community Lead, Red Hat
Roman is a cybersecurity expert with 20+ years of experience securing complex systems and products. As Principal Architect at Red Hat, he drives open-source security strategy and cross-industry collaboration to build trusted software ecosystems. Formerly, he led Product Security... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Conference Hall (Floor 4)
  OSS Enabling & Management, Project Leadership

16:30 CEST

Safety Critical Software BoF - Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH & Olivier Charrier, Wind River
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)
Interest in safety critical open source software is high, yet opportunities to connect and openly discuss challenges remain limited. This BoF creates a focused forum for practitioners and newcomers to exchange experiences, ask questions, and gain visibility into existing projects and initiatives.

It also highlights the role of initiatives such as the Linux Foundation ELISA project as a central interface within the ecosystem, helping to connect efforts across communities, share practices, and make ongoing work more discoverable. The project brings together horizontal working groups covering features, processes, architecture, and tooling, while also addressing vertical domains such as automotive, aerospace, space, railways, and medical. This reflects the growing relevance of Linux and open source in safety critical systems.

By enabling direct interaction and cross project exchange, the session supports alignment, reduces duplication, and fosters collaboration in an evolving safety critical OSS landscape.

Participants at all levels of experience are encouraged to join, contribute their perspective, and engage with the community.
Speakers
avatar for Philipp Ahmann

Philipp Ahmann

Automotive OSS Process Lead, ETAS GmbH
Philipp Ahmann is a Senior OSS Community Manager at ETAS (a Bosch subsidiary), specializing in safety-critical automotive open source software. With 15+ years' experience in Linux automotive platforms, he has held roles from software engineer to project & line manager.
He currently holds the position of the technical steering committee chair for the Linux Foundation ELISA project to Enable Linux in Safety Applications. Additionally, he is member of the Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board... Read More →
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Olivier Charrier

Principal Technologist - Functional Safety, Wind River
Olivier Charrier obtained a Master’s degree in Software Engineering (DESS) from Bordeaux University in 1989.
After working for Alsys/Aonix on Ada development environment for embedded systems, Olivier joined Wind River in June 2001 where his focus is to help Wind River's customers define, implement and certify Safety Critical Systems for multiple market segments including Avionics, Automotive... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Club A (Floor 1)
  Safety-Critical Software
 

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