OSS + ELC EU 2026

OSS + ELC EU 2026

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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Myrfa Yumiaji Ferra

LIRIS - CNRS - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Data Scientist

Lyon

https://liris.cnrs.fr

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MSc in Computer Science, Information Systems, Telecommunications, and Networks (INSA Lyon).Currently pursuing a full-time International Master 2 in Data and Intelligence for Smart Services (M2 DISS) at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL)Intern at the LIRIS laboratory, a research unit (UMR 5205) supported by the CNRS, France’s National Centre for Scientific Research.

07:30 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0) Welcome Coffee TBA

08:00 CEST

Hacker Space Terrace 2 B (Floor 2)

09:00 CEST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe & Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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 Congress Hall (Floor 2)

10:05 CEST

Keynote: Open Standards for Trusted Agentic Workloads - Laura Tacho, Senior Principal Technologist, Developer Experience, AWS Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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 Univers... Congress Hall (Floor 2)

10:35 CEST

Coffee Break TBA

10:45 CEST

Sponsor Activity - The Great openKylin Lobster Lucky Draw TBA

11:40 CEST

ORBIT Launchpad: Building the Due Diligence Bridge Between Manufacturers and Open Source - Nicole Bates-Callaghan, Microsoft & Sarah Evans, Dell Technologies Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

12:00 CEST

Women & Non-Binary Lunch Congress Hall Foyer 4 B (Floor 4)

14:25 CEST

Practical End-to-End Traceability for Zephyr’s Path To Safety Certification - Tobias Kästner & Andreas Kurz, inovex GmbH South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)

15:05 CEST

Ask the Expert Sessions Congress Hall Foyer 4 B (Floor 4) Coffee Break TBA

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 Conference Hall (Floor 4)

16:30 CEST

CRA Readiness With SPDX 3 SBOMs in Zephyr - Benjamin Cabé, The Linux Foundation South Hall 2 B (Floor 2)

17:25 CEST

Panel Discussion: Open Source in a Software-Defined World - Sven Jeroschewski, Robert Bosch GmbH; Ana Jiménez Santamaría, Linux Foundation; Cornelius Schumacher, DB Systel GmbH; Agustin Benito Bethencourt, Independent; Emily Omier, Emily Omier Consul... Conference Hall (Floor 4)

18:30 CEST

Attendee Reception Žofín Palace

08:00 CEST

Hacker Space Terrace 2 B (Floor 2) Solutions Showcase Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers Welcome Coffee TBA Zen Zone Room 4.3 (Floor 4)

09:00 CEST

Welcome Back - Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:05 CEST

Keynote: Tarek Becker, CTO of BTP Fabric, SAP Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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 Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:45 CEST

Keynote: Red Hat Hardened Images: Zero CVEs, Zero Cost - N. Harrison Ripps, Director of Engineering, Red Hat Congress Hall (Floor 2)

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 Congress Hall (Floor 2)

10:50 CEST

Technical Writing in the Age of AI - Jiri Herrmann, Red Hat Czech Club H (Floor 1)

11:40 CEST

Building Real-Time, Data-Aware Intelligence With Postgres & Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Yogesh Jain, EnterpriseDB Forum Hall (Floor 2)

12:20 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees) TBA

13:50 CEST

Sponsored Session: Building Secure and Compliant Critical Infrastructure with Open Source - Benjamin Weber, Hitachi Energy & Bernhard Denner, Hitachi Rail Club A (Floor 1)

14:40 CEST

A Fork Load of Maintenance - Forking a Key Dependency - Tom Sadler, BBC South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

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 South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

16:40 CEST

OpenGrid: An Open-Source Electric Grid Modeling Ecosystem - Alice Yake, David Paolella, James Hewett & Ryan Attig, Breakthrough Energy Club A (Floor 1)

17:20 CEST

Embedded Linux Conference Tech Showcase Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers

08:00 CEST

Solutions Showcase Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers

09:00 CEST

Welcome Back - Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:15 CEST

Keynote: From Open Source to Agentic Systems: Building the AI Native Era - Ryan Waite, Director, Open Source Ecosystems and Incubations, Microsoft Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:55 CEST

Keynote: Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Head of Ericsson Software Technology, Ericsson Congress Hall (Floor 2)

10:35 CEST

Ask the Expert Sessions Congress Hall Foyer 4 B (Floor 4) Coffee Break TBA

11:05 CEST

From Using To Leading: How a Grid Operator Leverages Open Source Strategically - Jonas van den Bogaard, Alliander South Hall 1 A (Floor 1) Safety Critical Software BoF - Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH & Olivier Charrier, Wind River Club A (Floor 1)

11:55 CEST

Building Trust in the AI Era: Agent-to-Agent Communication With DIDs and VCs - Alexander Shcherbakov, DSR Corporation Club H (Floor 1) A Safety BOM Is a Contract: Producing and Consuming the SPDX Functional Safety Profile - Tobias Kästner, inovex GmbH & Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis Club A (Floor 1)

12:35 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees) TBA

14:00 CEST

Corporations, Communities, Foundations -- And The Government? - Powen Shiah, Sovereign Tech Agency Terrace 2 A (Floor 2) Sustainable Communities - Risks and Remedies - Ildiko Vancsa, OpenInfra Foundation Conference Hall (Floor 4) Let's Perform a Hazard Assessment! - Chuck Wolber, The Boeing Company & Pete Brink, Underwriter Laboratories (UL) Club A (Floor 1)

14:50 CEST

Panel: Found It. Filed It. Forgotten? The Open Source Fix Problem in AI Era - Rao Lakkakula, Microsoft; Bob Callaway, Google; Stormy Peters, AWS Club H (Floor 1) X-Road: The Open Source Project That Runs Countries (And What It Can Teach Your Project) - Gbemisola Mary Oladetoun, Fleetfox Conference Hall (Floor 4)

15:40 CEST

Who Watches the Watcher? Hardening eBPF in Production Security Deployments - Hanshal Mehta, Independent Panorama Hall (Floor 1) Feasibility of an Open-Source Linux Platform for Autonomous Train Operation - Daniel Weingaertner & Sebastian Hetze, Red Hat Club A (Floor 1)

16:30 CEST

State of the OSS Union: Assessing Your Stack’s Autonomy Under EU Law - Emiel Brok, SUSE / DOSBA Club H (Floor 1) Generative AI and FOSS - Not Just the How but Also the Why - Carol Chen, Red Hat Terrace 2 A (Floor 2)

16:50 CEST

Optimizing AI for Resource-Constrained Edge Devices - Pavel Macenauer, NXP Semiconductors South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)

17:20 CEST

ELC Closing Game South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)