OSS + ELC EU 2026: Full Schedule

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

Welcome & Opening Remarks - Welcome & Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, Chief Executive Officer, The Linux Foundation, Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe & Ramón Roche, Executive Director, Dronecode Foundation

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

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Thierry Carrez

General Manager, OIF & LF Europe

Ramon Roche

Executive Director - Dronecode Foundation, The Linux Foundation

Jim Zemlin

Chief Executive Officer, The Linux Foundation

Jim Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing, and open source software. Today, as Chief Executive Officer of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through... Read More →

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

Keynote Sessions

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

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

Keynote Sessions

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, 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 →

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, OIF & LF 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

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

Keynote Sessions

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

openKylin Advisory Committee Member and Technical Committee Chair

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
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

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)

Keynote Sessions

09:50 CEST

Keynote to be Announced

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

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Thursday October 8, 2026 09:50 - 09:55 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

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

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, OIF & LF Europe

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

Keynote Sessions

09:15 CEST

Keynote: Open Source in the Era of Agents - Ryan Waite, Director, Open Source Ecosystems and Incubations, Microsoft

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

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

The era of agentic AI is here, and open source is building the infrastructure to make these innovations possible. We'll highlight how cross-industry collaboration on today's AI-native stack makes it possible to create, secure, and understand today's infrastructure. From hardware-aware scheduling to geo-specific workload isolation, learn how open source preserves local choices while opening up global opportunities

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)

Keynote Sessions

09:25 CEST

Keynotes to be Announced

Friday October 9, 2026 09:25 - 09:50 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Friday October 9, 2026 09:25 - 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

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

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Dirk Hohndel

Head of Ericsson Software Technology

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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