OSS + ELC EU 2026

OSS + ELC EU 2026

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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Patrick Pfurtscheller

Boehringer Ingelheim

System Engineer

https://github.com/PfurtschellerP

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07:30 CEST

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

08:00 CEST

09:00 CEST

Observability Summit [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required] Prague Congress Centre ValkeyConf 2026 [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required] Prague Congress Centre

08:00 CEST

09:00 CEST

OpenSSF Community Day [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required] Prague Congress Centre

13:30 CEST

Real-Time Linux User Forum [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required] Prague Congress Centre

07:30 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0) Solutions Showcase Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers Welcome Coffee TBA

08:00 CEST

Hacker Space Terrace 2B (Floor 2) Zen Zone TBA

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 Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:05 CEST

Embedded Linux Kernel Testing With Pytest - Fabrizio Castro & Chris Paterson, Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH South Hall 3 A (Floor 3) Triaging CVEs for the Linux Kernel - Christoph Steiger & Negar Masoudifar, Siemens AG South Hall 3 B (Floor 3)

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) Community Awards South Hall 2 B (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

11:20 CEST

Evolving the YAML Family (without Breaking the World) - Ingy döt Net, YAML LLC Small Hall (Floor 0) What Is Linux Doing With My RAM? - Vlastimil Babka, SUSE Labs Panorama Hall (Floor 1) Open Source Security as the Foundation of European Sovereignty - Madalin Neag & Mirko Boehm, The Linux Foundation Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

11:40 CEST

How Open Source Communities and OSPOs Are Responding To AI Assisted Contributions - Norio Kobota & Alin Jerpelea, Sony Conference Hall (Floor 4)

12:00 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees) TBA

13:30 CEST

Journey of a Massive Internal Kernel Rework - Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin South Hall 3 C (Floor 3) Off the Laptop, Into Production: An Open Source Stack for AI Agents on Kubernetes - Brian Hammons & Nirmal Mehta, Amazon Web Services Forum Hall (Floor 2) Making the Kernel Chat: How To Get Debug Output - Richard Weinberger, sigma star gmbh Terrace 2A (Floor 2) Presentation From the European Commission Open Source Observatory (OSOR) - Éléonore Daxhelet, OpenForum Europe Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

13:50 CEST

The Japan-Type OSS Model: Native Species, Seeding Strategy, and Rules as Code - Kazuki Imamura, IPA: Innovation Platform Agency, Japan Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

14:25 CEST

Kata at Scale: The Hidden Cost of Running VMs Behind Every Container - Kavitha Daula & Ann Wallace, Edera Small Hall (Floor 0) You're Measuring Memory Wrong: The Right Ways With DAMON - SeongJae (SJ) Park, Crusoe Panorama Hall (Floor 1) Open Source as a Government Goal: Berlin’s Strategy for Digital Sovereignty – Lessons Learned - Marcel Scholze, PwC Germany & Florian Ebel, Senatskanzlei Berlin Conference Hall (Floor 4) Panel: Having an SBOM Is Not Enough. Introducing the OpenChain SBOM Document Quality Guide - Yoshiyuki Ito & Tsukasa Yobo, Renesas Electronics; Kiyoshi Owada, Socionext Inc.; Yumi Tomita, Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.; Takashi Ninjouji, Honda Motor Co.,... Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

14:45 CEST

Strategic Approach To Demonstrating the Value of OSS Efforts - Dawn Foster, Fast Wonder Conference Hall (Floor 4)

15:05 CEST

Ask the Expert Sessions Congress Hall Foyer 4B

15:35 CEST

Embracing Service-Oriented Connectivity Across OpenStack and Kubernetes - Mitsuhiro Tanino & Rei Shimizu, LY Corporation Small Hall (Floor 0) Sponsored Session: Kubernetes Is the AI OS. Here's the Open Source Stack Running on Top of It - Jonathan Bryce, The Linux Foundation & Daniel Krook, CNCF South Hall 2 A (Floor 2) FreeBSD as a Linux Platform: LinuxKPI, Linuxulator, and the Case for Convergence - Moin Rahman, The FreeBSD Project Panorama Hall (Floor 1) Your Backup Data Doesn't Belong To You - Julien Castets, Plaklar Terrace 2A (Floor 2) 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) The EU Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Product Vendors Must Do - Timo Perala & Gergely Csatari, Nokia Chamber Hall (Floor 3)

16:30 CEST

A Day in the Life of a CVE Remediator - Shubham Kalloli & Cameron Scholes, Ericsson Software Technology Terrace 2A (Floor 2)

17:25 CEST

Teaching BIND9 New Tricks: A Rust Operator for Declarative DNS on Kubernetes - Erick Bourgeois, RBC Capital Markets Small Hall (Floor 0) Your Network Is Already a Compute Platform. Time To Treat It Like One - Eleni Grosdouli & Josh Halley, Cisco South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

18:30 CEST

Attendee Reception Žofín Palace

08:00 CEST

Hacker Space Terrace 2B (Floor 2) Solutions Showcase Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers Welcome Coffee TBA

09:00 CEST

Linux Security Summit [Additional Fee; Pre-Registration Required] Prague Congress Centre Welcome Back - Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:05 CEST

Redesigning a Modern Linux Userspace: Lessons From Going Libc-Free - Manjeet Singh, IBM South Hall 3 C (Floor 3) Keynote: Tarek Becker, CTO of BTP Fabric, SAP Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:40 CEST

Keynote to be Announced 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)

09:50 CEST

A/B Updates in a Secure Boot Environment - Michael Opdenacker, Root Commit South Hall 3 C (Floor 3) Keynote to be Announced 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)

10:20 CEST

Coffee Break TBA

10:50 CEST

From Fragile To Self-Healing: Operationalizing Etcd at Scale - Shreyas Rao & Ishan Tyagi, SAP Labs Small Hall (Floor 0) K8s Dungeon Crawl: Learning Kubernetes Controllers and Webhooks Through a Roguelike Project - Kim Schaefer, Game Plan Tech Terrace 2A (Floor 2) Community Update - Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

11:40 CEST

Own Your Stack: Sovereign Kubernetes From Bare Metal To Fleet - Sunnatillo Samadov, Ericsson & Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc. Small Hall (Floor 0) Establishing a Documentation Process in an Open Source Community - V. Thulisile Sibanda, AsyncAPI Initiative Club H (Floor 1)

12:00 CEST

How To Talk To Your Lawyer About Open Source - Jimmy Ahlberg & Georg Kunz, Ericsson South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

12:20 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees) TBA

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 Small Hall (Floor 0) The Evolving OSPO: Driving Technology Governance and Strategic Value in the AI Era - Hiroshi Ota, LY Corporation & Meixia Wang, The Linux Foundation South Hall 1 A (Floor 1) Flying a Drone Onto a High Voltage Power Line - Mads Bornebusch, Heimdall Power South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

14:40 CEST

Ship Less: Scoping Open Source Contributions That Actually Merge - Yurii Bliuchak, Apify Terrace 2A (Floor 2)

15:00 CEST

LibreCar: Android Auto on Mobile Linux - Petr Hodina, SolderChef South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)

15:20 CEST

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

15:50 CEST

KubePACS: From Systems Research To Open Source Spot Instance Provisioning on Kubernetes - Kyungyong Lee, Hanyang University Small Hall (Floor 0) Using the Linux Tracing Infrastructure and eBPF for Latency Analysis - Jan Altenberg, Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG South Hall 3 A (Floor 3) Open Standards for Measuring Carbon, Energy, and Water in Software and AI - Navveen Balani, Linux Foundation Forum Hall (Floor 2) Open Source Maintainers Vs. The CVE Tsunami - Madelyn Olson, AWS & Harkrishn Patro, Apple Club H (Floor 1)

17:20 CEST

Embedded Linux Conference Tech Showcase Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers LFX Mentorship Showcase Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers Tux Trek Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers

08:00 CEST

Hacker Space Terrace 2B (Floor 2) Solutions Showcase Solutions Showcase, Floor 2 & 3 Foyers

09:00 CEST

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

09:05 CEST

Keynote to be Announced

09:15 CEST

Keynote: Open Source in the Era of Agents - Ryan Waite, Director, Open Source Ecosystems and Incubations, Microsoft Congress Hall (Floor 2)

09:25 CEST

Keynotes to be Announced 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 Congress Hall (Floor 2)

10:35 CEST

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

11:05 CEST

From Vendor Bring-up To Community Upstreaming: What We Learned From SpacemiT K3 - Troy Mitchell, SpacemiT South Hall 3 A (Floor 3) An Native API for Linux Systems With Systemd + Varlink - Lennart Poettering, Amutable Panorama Hall (Floor 1)

11:15 CEST

Lightning Talk: One Line of YAML Leaks Your Secrets: The Pwn-Request Pattern - Arpit Jain, Self Employed Small Hall (Floor 0)

11:25 CEST

Lightning Talk: Beyond Immutable Machines: Introducing Cluster API In-Place Updates - Lennart Jern, Ericsson Software Technology Small Hall (Floor 0)

11:35 CEST

Lightning Talk: Prove It: Is Your Kubernetes App Cloud Native? - Martin Matyáš, Tieto Small Hall (Floor 0)

11:55 CEST

Your Agent Did What? Forensic Observability for Systems That Don’t Leave Obvious Footprints - Adriana Villela, Dynatrace & Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0 Small Hall (Floor 0) Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together - Miranda Heath, Software Stewardship Lab Conference Hall (Floor 4)

12:15 CEST

The Hard Limits of a (de)-centralized OSPO - Sebastian Grüner, E.ON Digital Technology & Benjamin Rilz, E.ON Digital Technology GmbH South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

12:35 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees) TBA

14:00 CEST

Why We Fixed It Upstream: A Telco Perspective - Kashif Khan, Ericsson & Jan Melen, Ericsson Software Technology Club H (Floor 1) The Journey of Adding Hardware Support To Mainline - Sven Püschel, Pengutronix South Hall 3 A (Floor 3) Sustainable Communities - Risks and Remedies - Ildiko Vancsa, OpenInfra Foundation Conference Hall (Floor 4)

14:20 CEST

PX4 on Open Silicon: Flight Control and AI Workloads on Multi-Core RISC-V - Afonso Oliveira, AiNekko South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

14:50 CEST

RDMA on the Edge - Michael Jost, ETH Zurich South Hall 3 C (Floor 3) Landscape of the Quantum Open Source Ecosystem - Mathys Rennela, Unitary Foundation Terrace 2A (Floor 2)

15:40 CEST

Who Watches the Watcher? Hardening eBPF in Production Security Deployments - Hanshal Mehta, Independent Panorama Hall (Floor 1) One Scan To Rule Them All: Towards Shared Open Data Infrastructure - Philippe Ombredanne, AboutCode & Stephen Augustus, Bloomberg South Hall 1 A (Floor 1)

16:00 CEST

Infected Drones: How Compromised Autonomous Systems Pwn Ground Control Stations - Nick Aleks, ASEC South Hall 1 B (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) A Surprisingly Hard Question: How Much Memory Does My System Use? - Richard Weinberger, sigma star gmbh Panorama Hall (Floor 1)

16:50 CEST

Self-Defending Swarms: MAVLink Signing Meets Peer-Consensus Exclusion Onboard PX4 - Yogesh Sardana, Airtel South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

17:20 CEST

ELC Closing Game South Hall 3 C (Floor 3)