OSS + ELC EU 2026: Full Schedule

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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09:00 CEST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe & Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS

Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:00 - 09:45 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director, FINOS

Thierry Carrez

General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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09:50 CEST

Keynote: Technical Documentation for Everyone (And Their AI Agents, Too) - Erin McKean, Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Google Open Source Programs Office, Google

Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:50 - 10:00 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

In this session, you'll learn about the history and future of the Docsy technical documentation project, why you should care about documentation EVEN MORE in the age of AI, and how everyone can and should contribute to open source documentation.

Speakers

Erin McKean

Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Google Open Source Programs Office, Google

Erin McKean helps Googlers create, share, and contribute to open source projects in Google's Open Source Programs Office. She is also the founder of the not-for-profit Wordnik.com, the world’s biggest online dictionary. Before founding Wordnik, she was the editor-in-chief of American... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:50 - 10:00 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

10:05 CEST

Keynote: Open Standards for Trusted Agentic Workloads - Laura Tacho, Senior Principal Technologist, Developer Experience, AWS

Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:05 - 10:15 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Agentic workloads must securely connect to tools, data, and other agents while operating within consistent authorization and security boundaries. Open standards make this possible. We'll discuss how technologies like MCP and Cedar create an "agent trust stack" for interoperable and scalable agentic systems so that developers have the freedom to compose and extend their agentic architectures securely, wherever they want to build.

Speakers

Laura Tacho

Senior Principal Technologist, Developer Experience, AWS

Laura Tacho is a subject matter expert in measuring the efficiency of engineering organizations. Currently, she is a Senior Principal Technologist at AWS focusing on developer experience and AI-native development. Laura was previously the CTO of DX, where she led the company’s... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:05 - 10:15 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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10:15 CEST

Keynote: Open Source at a Crossroads: Geopolitics, Sovereignty, and the Fight to Stay Open - Nithya Ruff, Chair, Linux Foundation Board & Johan Linaker, Senior Researcher, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden & Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lund University

Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Open source was built on one belief: code has no passport. Nation-states are testing whether that holds.
The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act burdens the ecosystem it depends on. US export controls threaten to erase the line between open and proprietary code — a protection open source has relied on for decades. China has made open source AI a national strategy pillar, building a parallel ecosystem resilient to Western sanctions. The 2024 removal of Russian Linux kernel maintainers showed that open source is no longer above the law of nations.

None of these actors set out to break the commons. But their decisions often made without open source expertise create tensions governance was never designed to handle: sovereignty-through-openness vs. sovereignty-through-restriction; what “open source first” means for companies that relicensed; what neutrality means when contributors face conflicting national laws; and whether open source AI becomes a geopolitical battleground or shared resource.

Engage policymakers before they damage the ecosystem, build governance for a fragmented world, and recommit to the principle that openness is not a vulnerability — it is the source of our strength.

Speakers

Nithya Ruff

Chair, Linux Foundation Board, Technology Executive, The Linux Foundation

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 →

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 →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

09:00 CEST

Welcome Back - Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Thierry Carrez

General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

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

Keynote Sessions

09:05 CEST

Keynote: Tarek Becker, CTO of BTP Fabric, SAP

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:20 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Tarek Becker

CTO of BTP Fabric, SAP

Tarek Becker is CTO of Business AI Platform (BAIP) Fabric at SAP, where he drives platform architecture and execution alignment for SAP’s AI-native application platform. He is an experienced software architect with a strong focus on large-scale cloud platforms, distributed systems... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:05 - 09:20 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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09:25 CEST

Keynote: From AI Runtime to System Agents: Reimagining Linux for the AI Era with openKylin - Qingbo Wu, openKylin Advisory Committee Member & Technical Committee Chair

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

As on-device foundation models, AI PCs and agentic applications converge, AI is evolving from an application-layer capability into a foundational service increasingly embedded within the operating system. For Linux distributions, the challenge is no longer simply hosting models, but providing reusable AI infrastructure that bridges model capabilities with real system functions.

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

Speakers

Qingbo Wu

Member, openKylin Advisory Committee & Chair, openKylin Technical Committee, KylinSoft Corporation

Systems software and operating systems scientist with a strong track record in foundational software and open collaboration.A senior academic leader and doctoral supervisor in systems software, working across operating systems, Linux and foundational software. His work spans system... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

09:40 CEST

Keynote to be Announced

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:40 - 09:45 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:40 - 09:45 CEST
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09:45 CEST

Keynote: Red Hat Hardened Images: Zero CVEs, Zero Cost - N. Harrison Ripps, Director of Engineering, Red Hat

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:45 - 09:50 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

The volume of CVEs has become impossible to manage by hand. Nearly 50,000 were tracked last year — 130 a day — and no team can triage, backport, and patch at that pace without dropping something critical.

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

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

Speakers

N. Harrison Ripps

Director of Engineering, Red Hat

N. Harrison Ripps is a Director of Engineering at Red Hat, working with the Project Hummingbird / Hardened Images team. Harrison is a veteran engineering leader who specializes in running small teams that make an outsized impact. Since joining Red Hat, Harrison has led product teams... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:45 - 09:50 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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09:50 CEST

Keynote: Scaling with openEuler in AI Era - Xinwei Hu, Chairman of the openEuler Technical Committee, openEuler

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 09:55 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Xinwei Hu

Chairman of openEuler Technical Committee, openEuler of OpenAtom Foundation

Xinwei Hu is a seasoned technologist and software architect with extensive expertise in operating systems, open-source technologies, and system performance optimization. With strong hands-on experience in OS development and cross-core performance interference mitigation, he has driven... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 09:55 CEST
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10:00 CEST

Keynote: Scaling the Shield - Turning AI-Driven Vulnerabilities into a Massive Defensive Advantage - Jamie Thomas, Chief Client Innovation Officer | Enterprise Security, IBM

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Open source has been the single greatest accelerator of productivity in modern software development. As AI reshapes how software is built, and attacked, the priority is clear: we must use AI to reduce friction for maintainers, not create more work. Today, maintainers face a surge of AI-generated vulnerability reports that risks overwhelming the very people who sustain the global software supply chain. This keynote examines how the open source community (OpenSSF in particular) is turning AI from a source of noise into a force multiplier for defenders.

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

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

Speakers

Jamie Thomas

Chief Client Innovation Officer | Enterprise Security, IBM

Jamie Thomas is IBM’s Chief Client Innovation Officer and the IBM Enterprise
Security Executive. She oversees the delivery of advanced service solutions, offering
clients worldwide predictive and preventive technical IT support for both IBM and
multi-vendor infrastructures. She le... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:00 - 10:15 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

09:00 CEST

Welcome Back - Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe

Friday October 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Thierry Carrez

General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

Friday October 9, 2026 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

09:05 CEST

Keynote to be Announced

Friday October 9, 2026 09:05 - 09:15 CEST

Keynote Sessions

09:15 CEST

Keynote: From Open Source to Agentic Systems: Building the AI Native Era - Ryan Waite, Director, Open Source Ecosystems and Incubations, Microsoft

Friday October 9, 2026 09:15 - 09:25 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Open source underpins today’s cloud native and AI systems, from Linux and Kubernetes to emerging agentic frameworks. In this keynote Microsoft explores how open standards, collaborative governance, and shared security investments are shaping the agentic future of cloud computing. We’ll also cover how we’re applying lessons learned from the cloud native ecosystem to power the infrastructure of the AI native era, through collaboration on open source projects and interfaces.

Speakers

Ryan Waite

Director, Open Source Ecosystems and Incubations, Microsoft

Ryan Waite leads open-source strategy for Microsoft as well as the Azure Open-Source Incubations team. He’s run engineering teams focused on high-performance computing, big data analytics, fraud detection, and mobile computing at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Cray, the Supercomputing... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 09:15 - 09:25 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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09:25 CEST

Keynote: Munich After LiMux: More Open Source than Ever - Dr. Laura Dornheim, Chief Digital Officer, City of Munich

Friday October 9, 2026 09:25 - 09:40 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Dr. Laura Dornheim

Chief Digital Officer, City of Munich

Dr. Laura Dornheim is head of IT departement and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of the City of Munich. She holds a degree in Business Informatics and a PhD in Gender Studies. With more than 20 years of experience in the digital sector, she joined the public sector in 2022 and has since... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 09:25 - 09:40 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

09:40 CEST

Keynote: From a Thousand Private Agents to One Open Garden - Juliette van der Laarse, Founding Director, AI Flower Foundation

Friday October 9, 2026 09:40 - 09:50 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Thousands of companies are currently solving the same problem in parallel: each writing their own code-writing agents, their own review prompts, their own quality gates, all privately deriving the same thing from the same public standards. But excellent engineering is not a competitive differentiator. It is infrastructure. Why would we all reinvent the same wheel? We did not each write our own kernel, we should not each write our own 'code writing' agents. Let's instead unify our efforts.

This talk introduces the AI Flower, a public capability architecture that codifies roughly 150 IT activities, defines excellence for each one grounded in industry standards, and maps their dependencies and risks into a living, regenerable knowledge graph: an open, tool-agnostic base for AI constitutions, agent skills, and quality gates that any engineer, team, educator, or company can build on.

The framework is deliberately concrete, so every claim in it can be challenged. That is the point. I will share what exists, what still needs validation, the foundation being established to govern it, and how you can contribute, because defining excellent engineering in the AI era is work that belongs to all of us, in the open.

Speakers

Juliette van der Laarse

Senior Engineering Manager · Creator of the AI Flower

Juliette van der Laarse is an engineering leader, systems thinker, and O'Reilly author specializing in capability architecture and engineering enablement. She is a Senior Engineering Manager at the largest online retail and e-commerce platform in the Netherlands and Belgium. Previously... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 09:40 - 09:50 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

09:55 CEST

Keynote: Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Head of Ericsson Software Technology, Ericsson

Friday October 9, 2026 09:55 - 10:25 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Dirk Hohndel

Head of Ericsson Software Technology, Ericsson

Dirk is the Head of Ericsson Software Technology, leading a team of engineers working on upstream open source contributions. He brings nearly four decades of software and open source leadership, most recently as head of Verizon's Open Source Office, focused on open source governance... Read More →

Linus Torvalds

Creator, Linux & Git

Linus was born on December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, Finland. He enrolled at the University of Helsinki in 1988, graduating with a master’s degree in computer science. His M.Sc. thesis was titled “Linux: A Portable Operating System” and was the genesis for what would become the... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 09:55 - 10:25 CEST
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