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25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Wednesday, August 27
 

07:30 CEST

Coat & Bag Check
Wednesday August 27, 2025 07:30 - 18:00 CEST
RAI Amsterdam
Wednesday August 27, 2025 07:30 - 18:00 CEST
RAI Amsterdam Europaplein 24, 1078 GZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

08:00 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Wednesday August 27, 2025 08:00 - 16:00 CEST
Diamond Lounge
Wednesday August 27, 2025 08:00 - 16:00 CEST
Diamond Lounge
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

08:00 CEST

Hacker Space
Wednesday August 27, 2025 08:00 - 17:00 CEST
RAI Amsterdam
Discover a space, where you can collaborate, create, and explore new ideas with fellow attendees. Whether you’re here to learn or build, our space is open for everyone to enjoy throughout the conference!
Wednesday August 27, 2025 08:00 - 17:00 CEST
RAI Amsterdam Europaplein 24, 1078 GZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

08:00 CEST

Zen Zone
Wednesday August 27, 2025 08:00 - 17:00 CEST
D406 (Elicium Level 4)
All attendees may feel free to use the Zen Zone as needed. It is a physical space where attendees can go if for any reason they can’t interact with other attendees at that time where conversation and interaction are not allowed.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 08:00 - 17:00 CEST
D406 (Elicium Level 4)
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

08:00 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Wednesday August 27, 2025 08:00 - 17:30 CEST
Diamond Lounge
Wednesday August 27, 2025 08:00 - 17:30 CEST
Diamond Lounge
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

09:00 CEST

Do It Faster: How We Supercharged Linux To Work With Blazing Fast ADCs for IIO - Trevor Gamblin, BayLibre
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
Elicium 1
What does it take to support high-performance ADCs and DACs in the kernel? To get the most out of these devices, we need to make some significant overhauls to PWM and SPI subsystems, including adding pivotal new features such as SPI offload and PWM waveform to the upstream Linux kernel. This has ultimately led to adding support for dozens of ADC/DAC devices in the IIO subsystem and expanded the capabilities of those already there, allowing them to operate up to millions of samples per second without jitter. We'll give a high-level overview of how this project came about, the target hardware configurations, test equipment used, and methods to make it all happen, along with the challenges we overcame in the process. A "lessons learned" approach to this review and some possibilities for future work will round out the talk.
Speakers
avatar for Trevor Gamblin

Trevor Gamblin

Embedded Linux Developer, BayLibre
Trevor Gamblin is an embedded Linux developer at BayLibre. He is a contributor to many projects but is especially focused on the Yocto Project, the Linux kernel, and all things Python. He has a background in wireless communication systems and physics.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
Elicium 1
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:00 CEST

Linux Power Management Features & Their Interactions, Part 2 - Théo Lebrun, Bootlin
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
Elicium 2
Over time, many features have been introduced into the Linux kernel to tackle various Power Management related needs. Most features rely upon the device model to provide its features, making each feature in isolation have rather understandable behavior and straight forward APIs. Complexity can creep in however when those various features interact with each other.

Breadths is so wide that it takes two talk to cover features. This is a continuation talk expanding on last year's.

Topics targeted are system-wide suspend wakeup sources, device & generic power domains, the concept of latency tolerance (QoS), async PM and others.
Speakers
avatar for Théo Lebrun

Théo Lebrun

Embedded Linux engineer & trainer, Bootlin
Théo joined Bootlin as an intern, studying the potential applications for the PipeWire ecosystem to embedded topics. He then went onto kernel work: deep suspend-to-RAM support for a TI automotive SoC and upstreaming of base platform support for Mobileye hardware. Théo also acts... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
Elicium 2
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:00 CEST

Software ISP FOSS Support for MIPI Cameras - Hans de Goede, Red Hat & Bryan O'Donoghue, Linaro
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
D201
Many recent Windows (on ARM and x86) laptops have replaced the standard UVC USB camera module with a raw MIPI camera-sensor using a CSI receiver and ISP in the CPU to process the raw data into an image (and on smartphones this has been the norm for ages).

Supporting these cameras under Linux is an ongoing challenge. At FOSDEM 2024 a solution using a software ISP running on the CPU was presented as a solution to get these cameras to work with a fully opensource stack.

This talk will look at where support for MIPI cameras using the software ISP is at now, 1.5 years later, mainly focusing on the ubiquitous x86 laptops using cameras connected to Intel's IPU6.

Depending on ongoing work this will include a demo of recent developments such as running the software ISP on the GPU and the first FOSS color-corrected images from an IPU6 attached sensor with the color calibration done using all FOSS tools.
Speakers
avatar for Hans de Goede

Hans de Goede

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Hans de Goede is a FOSS developer and enthusiast with 20 years of experience. He is a maintainer for the kernel’s x86 platform drivers subsystem.
avatar for Bryan O'Donoghue

Bryan O'Donoghue

Software Engineer, Linaro
Embedded developer, Dublin/Europe
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
D201
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:00 CEST

Optimizing Zephyr for Peak Performance - Jacob Beningo, Beningo Embedded Group
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
D203
The Zephyr Project is a leading open-source RTOS for resource-constrained, real-time applications. Its modularity, vendor neutrality, and rich ecosystem make it a powerful choice for embedded developers. However, achieving peak performance requires a deep understanding of Zephyr’s internals and optimization strategies.

This session explores techniques to optimize Zephyr applications for efficiency, low latency, and real-time predictability. Attendees will learn how scheduling, memory management, and interrupt handling impact performance and how to fine-tune these elements for specific workloads. We’ll cover configuring Zephyr for high-performance execution, reducing runtime overhead, and debugging bottlenecks.

Key topics include:

• Zephyr’s scheduling model and task prioritization

• Optimizing interrupts and reducing latency

• Fine-tuning memory management and resource allocation

• Profiling and debugging performance issues

• Advanced optimizations for power efficiency and I/O

Whether you’re developing for IoT, industrial automation, or real-time control, this session will equip you with practical strategies to maximize Zephyr’s performance and reliability.
Speakers
avatar for Jacob Beningo

Jacob Beningo

CEO / Founder, Beningo Embedded Group
Jacob Beningo helps embedded teams modernize software architecture, streamline development, and adopt best practices for high-quality, real-time systems. As founder of Beningo Embedded Group, he provides expert training and guided learning to improve code quality, accelerate development... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
D203
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

09:00 CEST

Zephyr Workbench: Open Source Zephyr Extension for VSCode - Roy Jamil, AC6
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
D202
Zephyr Workbench is an open source Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extension. The purpose is to provide a "few-clicks" platform to manage Zephyr components. It is designed to simplify and accelerate the workflow for building Zephyr applications by automating the setup process (especially on Windows), importing Zephyr SDK, and managing West workspaces, thereby dramatically reducing the barrier to entry for developers of all levels. Whether you’re launching your first Zephyr project or working on a sophisticated multi-board application, this extension provides intuitive configuration wizards and seamless integration with built'in debugging tools.

Furthermore, Zephyr Workbench ensures reproducible builds and rapid turnaround times while effectively managing the projects. Its integrated one-click flashing and debugging feature that supports most West runners, including OpenOCD, J-Link, PyOCD, STLink, and Linkserver. The tool also offers a visual interface that executes West commands, streamlining the process of managing Zephyr projects from creation to deployment, while also providing easy access to memory reports and configuration tools, SPDX and more.
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 →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

09:00 CEST

Keynote Sessions to be Announced
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 10:30 CEST
Auditorium
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 10:30 CEST
Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

09:50 CEST

Getting Strange New Displays and Sensors Running on Zephyr for Open Health Devices - Ashwin Whitchurch, Protocentral Electronics 
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:00 CEST
D202
This talk, based on my presentation at other Open source summit events would focus solely on the use of Zephyr for experimenting with new displays of different sizes and experience with the Zephyr display system. Talk would also cover some new sensor drivers that needed to be written. Highlight would be lessons learned and mistakes made and the hard learnt best practices.

This would draw on our previous experiences in building open source Health hardware and scaling from small wearable device to full fledged patient monitoring and handheld devices and all of them running Zephyr. Emphasis is on the single basic codebase across three different chip vendors.

We will also touch on a bit about Open Source health devices and their significance to the open source community as well as the community at large.
Speakers
avatar for Ashwin Whitchurch

Ashwin Whitchurch

CEO, Protocentral Electronics 
Ashwin is a part of a company called Protocentral Electronics, which is focused on developing open-source hardware for healthcare applications. He is a software and hardware engineer by education and profession, with Masters degrees in both subjects.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:00 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

09:50 CEST

A Journey To the Secure World of OPTEE From the Non-secure World of Linux - Manorit Chawdhry & Keerthy Jagadeesh, Texas Instruments
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
Elicium 2
OP-TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) that serves as a companion to a non-secure Linux kernel running on an Arm processor. It operates on the secure side of ARM TrustZone and is one of several open-source operating systems compatible with it.

In this talk, we will explore

- Basics of TrustZone and basic introduction of OP-TEE

- Different types of trusted applications(TA) that OP-TEE provides

- Example usecases of TAs and which one to use for different usecases.

- Interaction of TAs ( and optee in general ) with the Linux

The talk will explain all this using an example application that allows writing and reading to/from the one-time programmable(OTP) efuses on Texas Instruments K3 platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Manorit Chawdhry

Manorit Chawdhry

Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
Manorit Chawdhry is a software engineer working at Texas Instruments in the Linux Core Product Development Team for Jacinto Processors. He primarily focuses on security for K3 devices and bootloaders.
avatar for Keerthy Jagadeesh

Keerthy Jagadeesh

Software Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments
Keerthy Jagadeesh is an ardent Linux developer team of the Texas Instruments and has been an active Linux contributor for the past 10+ years. He has worked on thermal management for TI SoCs, PMIC drivers, low power modes for AM437x SoCs. Maintains TI THERMAL DRIVER & maintains TI... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
Elicium 2
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:50 CEST

From Raw To Refined: The Evolution of Raw Flash Support in Linux - Miquèl Raynal, Bootlin
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
Elicium 1
The Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem has come a long way from its early days of rudimentary flash support. As embedded systems have evolved, so too has Linux’s ability to manage and interface with raw flash memory devices — from parallel NAND and NOR to modern SPI-based variants.

While SPI NOR initially led the charge, the past few years have seen SPI NAND support in Linux grow rapidly, gaining robustness, better performance, and broader compatibility. But the story doesn't end there. Improvements across the MTD stack continue to shape how developers design with raw flash.

This talk takes a tour through the evolution of raw flash support in Linux: how we got here, what’s new, and what it means for future designs. Whether you’re maintaining legacy NAND systems or eyeing SPI NAND for your next embedded project, we’ll explore the practical impact of recent changes and what to expect next. Raw flashes might not be dead just yet — they’ve just gotten smarter.
Speakers
avatar for Miquèl Raynal

Miquèl Raynal

Embedded Linux and kernel engineer, Bootlin
Miquèl Raynal joined Bootlin in 2017 as an embedded Linux engineer. He is the
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
Elicium 1
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:50 CEST

Powering Up: Lab Automation With Labgrid and CI - Tim Orling, Konsulko Group & Trevor Gamblin, BayLibre
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
D201
How do you automate your day-to-day embedded software development workflow - if you do? In today's fast-moving world, automation is all-but-essential. In addition to development speed and efficiency, we need it to be confident that our changes are not breaking anything and to continuously keep up with upstream changes and security fixes. Toward this objective, we will explain how to get started with a GitLab runner for continuous integration, and combining it with Labgrid and pytest for automating testing on hardware at your desk. Our target device will be a BeaglePlay booting a Debian OS with the goal of a tight development loop for kernel drivers and devicetrees. We will also discuss how to incorporate that into a more "product" focused testing loop with the help of the Yocto Project. Most importantly, we'll explain why this is such a power-up for the developer by sharing our own experiences and how they've been improved by adopting the workflow we've described. After automating your personal development workflow, we’ll explore community initiatives like KernelCI that are using similar tools for automated builds & tests at scale.
Speakers
avatar for Tim Orling

Tim Orling

Principal Software Engineer, Konsulko Group
Tim Orling is a Principal Software Engineer at Konsulko Group. Tim was elected to the OpenEmbedded Board in 2022 and the OE TSC in 2023. He has spent many years as a volunteer developer for OE and the Yocto Project. He has been an open source software and hardware enthusiast for many... Read More →
avatar for Trevor Gamblin

Trevor Gamblin

Embedded Linux Developer, BayLibre
Trevor Gamblin is an embedded Linux developer at BayLibre. He is a contributor to many projects but is especially focused on the Yocto Project, the Linux kernel, and all things Python. He has a background in wireless communication systems and physics.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
D201
  Embedded Linux Conference

09:50 CEST

Zephyr RTOS: Under 1KB of RAM - Parthiban N & Karthikeyan Krishnasamy, Linumiz
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
D203
On a well-supported hardware platform/SoC, the typical RAM required to run simple applications like hello_world or blinky is around 1.5 KB with the default configurations. SoCs with RAM under 8 KB are common in single-purpose application use cases. With the recent announcement of the world’s smallest microcontroller from TI [1], featuring just 1 KB of SRAM, this coincidentally overlapped with our initial efforts to get the MSPM0 family series into the Zephyr RTOS upstream.

As of today, the smallest RAM where Zephyr can run is 2 KB, supporting UART and GPIO, which utilizes over 90% of the RAM. We often encounter the "FLASH/RAM overflowed by N bytes" error when attempting to get Zephyr working under 1 KB of RAM.

In this talk, we will share the challenges faced while running a useful use case application under 1 KB using Zephyr. Achieving this was made possible thanks to the small footprint of the kernel (i.e., 128 bytes). We will discuss what goes beyond GCC’s -Os and -Oz flags and how we managed to get true multitasking with I2C, SPI, and ADCs running, all while keeping current consumption under 2 µA.

[1]: https://bit.ly/42uSCC6
Speakers
avatar for Karthikeyan Krishnasamy

Karthikeyan Krishnasamy

Embedded Software Engineer, Linumiz
Karthikeyan, who has experience in embedded software development over 3 years, works at Linumiz and is principally responsible for board support and driver development for custom boards using Linux and Zephyr RTOS. He is contributor of Zephyr RTOS.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
D203
  Zephyr Developer Summit

10:00 CEST

MQTT-SN in Zephyr: Lightweight Messaging for Constrained Devices - Steffen Görtz, sevenlab engineering GmbH
Wednesday August 27, 2025 10:00 - 10:10 CEST
D202
MQTT-SN (MQTT for Sensor Networks) is a lightweight variant of the popular MQTT protocol, designed specifically for constrained devices and wireless sensor networks. It replaces the TCP transport with UDP (or other lightweight transports) and introduces features like topic aliasing and gateway-based architectures to reduce overhead.

This talk introduces MQTT-SN, explains its motivation, and explores how it fits into the IoT protocol landscape. We will also discuss the current state of MQTT-SN support in Zephyr, including security aspects such as DTLS, and how developers can use it in real-world applications.
Speakers
avatar for Steffen Görtz

Steffen Görtz

Software Engineer, sevenlab engineering GmbH
Hacker in Residence
Wednesday August 27, 2025 10:00 - 10:10 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

10:10 CEST

Is the Zephyr Device Tree Too Complicated? - Tim Guite, Magpie Embedded
Wednesday August 27, 2025 10:10 - 10:20 CEST
D202
The device tree is one of the defining characteristics of the Zephyr project. Using concepts borrowed from Linux, along with its best buddy Kconfig, it allows us to leverage the ecosystem to avoid endlessly rewriting the same drivers. It is also one of the most challenging aspects of Zephyr for developers to get their head around as they venture into the woods beyond the “Getting Started” guide. Device trees can contain repeated, redundant information and parameters which are difficult to trace back to their source. On the other hand, the device tree caters to an incredibly wide range of users who might be setting up a single accelerometer or specifying the peripheral mapping for a multi-core SoC. So, is the device tree too complicated, is it just right, or are there other ways to tackle this problem?
Speakers
avatar for Tim Guite

Tim Guite

Embedded Systems Engineer, Magpie Embedded
Tim Guite is an embedded systems engineer with over 7 years of industry experience in medical devices, scientific research and biotechnology. He is a big fan of the increasing use of open source tooling in the embedded space. While he possesses a wide range of knowledge, Tim acknowledges... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 10:10 - 10:20 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

10:30 CEST

Coffee Break
Wednesday August 27, 2025 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Wednesday August 27, 2025 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

11:00 CEST

The Security Guardian: Using OpenSearch for Real-Time Threat Detection - Meha Bhalodiya, Red Hat
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Emerald Room
Imagine this: your systems are humming along smoothly when, without warning, an unseen adversary slips through the cracks. A small vulnerability leads to a large-scale security breach. Could it have been prevented? Absolutely—with the right tools and strategy.

In this session, I’ll embark on an interactive journey into how OpenSearch becomes the vigilant guardian of your infrastructure. Starting with real-world scenarios, we'll explore how to harness OpenSearch’s powerful features to detect anomalies, correlate logs, and respond to threats in real-time.

You’ll see how simple queries can expose hidden patterns, dashboards can visualize attack vectors, and machine learning models can predict threats before they occur. But it’s not just about the tools—we’ll dive into best practices for deploying OpenSearch in complex environments and ensuring it scales with your security needs.

Join me to learn how OpenSearch transforms security operations, turning chaos into clarity and ensuring you stay one step ahead of cyber threats.
Speakers
avatar for Meha Bhalodiya

Meha Bhalodiya

Software Quality Engineer, Red Hat
A Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat, where I work with the OpenShift Container Platform team.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Emerald Room
  Cloud & Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:00 CEST

Automotive Grade Linux - Evolution and Lessons Learned From 10 Years of Community Management - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
D201
Walt joined the Automotive Grade Linux Project in 2014 as the Community Manager. The community span the world with a variety of cultural and technical backgrounds. During those ten years we have experienced drastic changes on both the technical and business sides of the project as well as a global pandemic. Walt will share his lessons learned from last ten years and how we plan to continue to support the community for the next ten years.
Speakers
avatar for Walt Miner

Walt Miner

Senior Director, AGL Community and Project Manager, The Linux Foundation
Walt Miner is the Senior Director of Community at The Linux Foundation and has served as Community Manager for Automotive Grade Linux since 2014. Walt has spoken at numerous conferences throughout the worlds and brings over 30 years of embedded software development and management... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
D201
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:00 CEST

Modernizing Resource Management in Embedded Systems Using eBPF - Michał Wilczyński, Samsung Electronics
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Elicium 2
Embedded systems must carefully balance limited resources. This presentation shows how we used eBPF to improve resource management in TizenOS through two solutions: a new low-memory detection system and a dynamic cache tuner. Our eBPF-based low-memory detector significantly reduced false alarms while identifying problems earlier than traditional approaches. The cache tuner successfully improved I/O performance during disk-heavy workloads while automatically reducing memory pressure. Both solutions use eBPF to collect data with minimal overhead. Ill share implementation details, code examples, and test results to help others apply similar approaches to their embedded systems, contributing reusable patterns that can strengthen resource management across the embedded Linux ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for Michał Wilczyński

Michał Wilczyński

Linux Kernel Enginner, Samsung Electronics
Michał Wilczyński is a Linux Kernel Engineer at Samsung, working on Tizen OS—where he gets to hack on the heart of smart devices. Before that, he spent time at Intel building networking drivers for the Linux kernel, and earlier in his career, he worked at Nokia and F5 Networks... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Elicium 2
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:00 CEST

Unified Boot Time Measurement: A Precise, Scalable Framework for Multi-Processor Systems - Vishnu Pratap Singh & Soumya Tripathy, Texas Instruments
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Elicium 1
This session introduces a unified boot time measurement framework that overcomes these limitations. Inspired by U-Boot’s bootstage mechanism, it leverages hardware timers to generate synchronized timestamps across heterogeneous subsystems. Instead of relying on fragmented logs, the framework writes boot markers to a reserved DDR memory region, enabling a Linux utility to extract and analyze the complete boot timeline via the devmem interface. This approach ensures end-to-end visibility, enabling developers to pinpoint inefficiencies, optimize boot sequences, and improve system responsiveness.

With the increasing complexity of embedded devices—ranging from IoT and industrial automation to automotive and networking—achieving fast and predictable boot times is more important than ever. This talk provides a vendor-agnostic, software-based approach to measuring and optimizing boot performance, benefiting developers working on custom Linux BSPs, embedded RTOS systems, and real-time applications.
Speakers
avatar for Soumya Tripathy

Soumya Tripathy

Software Enngineer, Texas Instruments
Working as embedded software engineer at Texas Instruments since 2 years with expertise in bootloader, flash controllers and display. I had previous experience with Robert Bosch for 3 years working in industrial communication and factory automation products.
avatar for Vishnu Pratap Singh

Vishnu Pratap Singh

Software Engineering Lead, Texas Instruments
Vishnu Pratap Singh is an embedded systems expert and engineering leader with 18+ years of experience in Linux development, BSP, and Linux based product engineering for communication devices, Satellite terminals, smart devices, IoT, and pro-audio. He is currently driving pro-audio... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Elicium 1
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:00 CEST

The Secret Lives of OSS Designers: Understanding Designers Contributing To OSS - Eriol Fox, Superbloom
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G001-002
In October 2023 Superbloom.design published findings from 10-16 week diary studies reported by designers actively working on OSS contributions. The diary studies aim was to investigate some of the key questions relating to design in OSS and fill some of the larger systemic “gaps” of information from non-code contributors’ experiences in OSS. There is existing research about designers in open source, but it has focused on analysis of data on issue trackers or interviews with designers.

This session will cover an overview of the study, some of the key learnings and recommendations from Superbloom Designers on how to improve and progress design in OSS.
Speakers
avatar for Eriol Fox

Eriol Fox

Senior Designer and Researcher, Superbloom
Eriol has been working as a designer for 10+ years working in for-profits and then NGO's and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at Superbloom design, research... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G001-002
  Equity + Inclusion + Accessibility

11:00 CEST

Modern Application Debugging: An Introduction To OpenTelemetry - Joshua Lee, Altinity
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G109
In this talk, Joshua will share his insights and experiences with OpenTelemetry, an open-source project that offers protocols, APIs, and SDKs for collecting metrics, traces, and logs from applications and services. He will cover the comprehensive toolkit provided by the OpenTelemetry community, including language SDKs, the Collector, and the OTLP formats for metrics, traces, and logs.

He will demonstrate how to instrument and monitor a microservices application running on a Kubernetes cluster, utilizing the full potential of OpenTelemetry. Attendees will learn how to use powerful open-source tools like Jaeger and Prometheus to effectively analyze telemetry signals from their applications.

By the end of this session, attendees will have a solid understanding of how to implement OpenTelemetry in their projects, enhancing their debugging and observability practices. Join us as we delve into the world of OpenTelemetry, unlocking the capabilities of this powerful technology for your development needs.
Speakers
avatar for Joshua Lee

Joshua Lee

Developer Advocate, Altinity
Joshua is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience, specializing in a broad range of topics including operations, observability, agile methodologies, and accessibility. Currently, Joshua serves as a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he creates educational... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G109
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:00 CEST

Europe’s Open Source Motivations and Mandate: Findings From the 2025 World of Open Source Survey - Anna Hermansen, Mirko Boehm, Cailean Osborne & Adrienn Lawson, The Linux Foundation
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Auditorium
Each year, LF Research fields a survey in the Linux Foundation community investigating the major open source trends, obstacles, and priorities around the world. These survey findings are key annual markers of progress and opportunity in this area and are crucial for policy, business, non-profit, and academic audiences alike to set their strategy for the coming year. This panel will focus on the findings from Europe, presenting the key findings from the survey. The panelists will discuss the relevance and context of these findings given their work in Europe and focus on priority topics such as AI, security, and the public sector. LF Research panelists will present the most salient quantitative insights and how they relate to other research coming out this year. Mirko Boehm and Cailean Osborne from LF Europe will share qualitative insights from expert interviews in the context of their work in AI and cybersecurity regulation. A community expert will also join the panel to discuss the findings in light of their work in open source in Europe.
Speakers
avatar for Cailean Osborne

Cailean Osborne

Senior Researcher, Linux Foundation
Cailean is a Senior Researcher at the Linux Foundation, who has a PhD in Social Data Science from the University of Oxford and 7+ years experience in (open source) AI research, policy, and business development. Previously, Cailean worked as the International Policy Lead at the UK... Read More →
avatar for Anna Hermansen

Anna Hermansen

Researcher and Ecosystem Manager, The Linux Foundation
Anna is the Ecosystem Manager for LF Research where she supports end-to-end management of the department's research projects. She has conducted qualitative and systematic review research on the integration of technologies to better support health data sharing. Her interests lie at... Read More →
avatar for Mirko Boehm

Mirko Boehm

Community Development, Linux Foundation Europe, The Linux Foundation
Mirko Boehm is a free and open source software contributor, community manager, licensing expert and researcher, with contributions to major open source projects like the KDE Desktop, the Open Invention Network, the Open Source Initiative and others. He is a visiting lecturer and researcher... Read More →
avatar for Adrienn Lawson

Adrienn Lawson

Director of Quantitative Research, Linux Foundation
ADRIENN LAWSON serves as Director of Quantitative Research at the Linux Foundation, where she leads data-driven initiatives to understand open source ecosystems. With expertise in social data science from the University of Oxford and a background spanning academic and governmental... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Auditorium
  Open Source Leadership
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:00 CEST

Europe-China Open Source: Digital Sovereignty & Sustained Collaboration - Yehui Wang, Huawei & Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar, Bitergia
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G105
In an era of geopolitical shifts, countries seek technological independence, with open source as a key strategy. While US/European developer density is well-known, their interconnections with China’s ecosystem remain under explored. This talk aims at providing an overview based on quantitative data of the evolution of the European and Chinese ecosystems. And give indicators of commonalities across both industries through potentially shared interests.

According to 2024 global open source data released by China's OpenAtom Foundation:

• Europe leads with 3M+ active developers (17.8% YoY growth), while China follows with 2.2M+ (24.05% growth).

• Europe dominates mature domains like OS (3.49M annual contributions) and front-end (9.59M), while China excels in emerging fields such as AI (+29.94% ) and semiconductors (+121.64%).

This is growing a non-exclusive and possibly complementary ecosystem of body of knowledge, tools, and processes where different parties can take advantage of.

This talk will share some thoughts on possible collaboration pathways including: technical synergies (trusted AI and compliance), policy alignments, and community coordination by lowering the barriers.
Speakers
avatar for Yehui Wang

Yehui Wang

Open Source Data Analyst and Governance Expert, Huawei
Yehui Wang currently serves as an open source governance expert at Huawei Open Source Management Center. He also holds a position as a board member in the CHAOSS community and is a co-founder of the OSS-Compass community.
avatar for Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar

Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar

CEO, Bitergia
Daniel Izquierdo is a researcher and co-founder of Bitergia and currently holding the position of CEO, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Daniel earned a PhD in... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G105
  OpenGovCon

11:00 CEST

The SBOM Era: Leaving No Open Source Project Behind With Osskb.org - Agustin Benito Bethencourt, Toscalix Consulting & Jeronimo Ortiz, SCANOSS
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G104
Creating complete, machine-readable SBOMs in standardized formats can be a significant burden for many open source projects, especially for resource-constrained, large integration efforts, projects dealing with complex dependencies, etc. Detection of undeclared dependencies and unwanted snippets is one of their main challenges.

This talk introduces osskb.org, a free of charge service by the Software Transparency Foundation (STF) designed to make accurate open source scanning accessible to all. Integrated as a back-end already by popular open source tools like FOSSology, ORT, FOSSLight, scanoos.py, or Theia, OSSKB.org detects open source files and code snippets against one of the largest open source knowledge bases, providing license information and without compromising user privacy.

The session will address key questions about STF's mission, governance and shareholders, it will walk attendees through the open source technologies behind osskb.org, and will demo how OSSKB.org works integrated with popular compliance tools and with pipelines.
Speakers
avatar for Agustin Benito Bethencourt

Agustin Benito Bethencourt

Independent consultant, Toscalix Consulting
Agustín has guided projects, and organizations throughout the life cycle of OSS based products and services in different markets. He now works as an independent consultant, focused on helping organizations in two ways: applying advanced data analytics to production environments to... Read More →
avatar for Jeronimo Ortiz

Jeronimo Ortiz

DevSecOps, SCANOSS
DevSecOps working at SCANOSS, passionate about helping organizations embrace DevOps culture and streamline processes
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G104
  Operations Management

11:00 CEST

Trainings on Open Source: How To Build a Comprehensive Training Program About Open Source? - Gergely Csatari, Nokia
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G107
Creating trainings on open source is a critical task of an OSPO. Open source is simultaneously a niche and an extensive topic with several aspects worth discussing. A training program should focus on the correct topics and should even provide different content for the different actors. In this session, Elefteria and Gergely from the Nokia OSPO will explain how the Nokia OSPO plans to renew the Nokia training program, what kind of user groups the different trainings address and how the trainings are organized. Lastly, this session is a great opportunity for the community to share their experiences when it comes to the creation of effective and really educational training programs inside their organisations and share tips, thus strengthening the collaboration between different stakeholders.Creating trainings on open source is a critical task of an OSPO. Open source is simultaneously a niche and an extensive topic with several aspects worth discussing. A training program should focus on the correct topics and should even provide different content for the different actors. In this session, Elefteria and Gergely from the Nokia OSPO will explain how the Nokia OSPO plans to renew the Nokia training program, what kind of user groups the different trainings address and how the trainings are organized. Lastly, this session is a great opportunity for the community to share their experiences when it comes to the creation of effective and really educational training programs inside their organisations and share tips, thus strengthening the collaboration between different stakeholders.
Speakers
avatar for Gergely Csatari

Gergely Csatari

Senior Open Source Specialist, Nokia
Working in the telecom industry in the last two decades it was possible for Gergely to see the evolution from vendor specific hardware to virtualisation and cloud and a to cloud native. Currently Gergely is part of the OSPO team of Nokia CTO which is reponsible for open source. In... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G107
  OSPOCon

11:00 CEST

Insights Into the Safe Open Source Vehicle Core Project for SDV - Philipp Ahmann, Etas GmbH (BOSCH)
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
D204
The Safe Open Vehicle Core (S-Core) project represents a collaborative code-first initiative between automotive OEMs and Tier suppliers developing a safety-certifiable middleware stack for high-performance control units in software-defined vehicles.

Since its foundation, the project has focused on documentation, software and testing heavily leveraging automated CI tooling and a docs-as-code approach that utilizes open-source tools including sphinx-needs, Bazel, and PlantUML. This presentation outlines achievements by 30+ contributors from 8+ companies and highlights currently available components.

S-Core aims for compatibility with POSIX-based OSes like Automotive Grade Linux or Zephyr. Complementary to the ELISA project, it focuses on achieving ISO 26262, ASPICE, and ISO 21434 compliance for upper layers beyond the operating system.

The talk details S-Core's roadmap and current achievements, identifies reusable tools for other projects, explains contribution processes for missing stack components, and provides information on its safety certification approach. It concludes with an outlook towards development plans for remaining 2025 and upcoming 2026.
Speakers
avatar for Philipp Ahmann

Philipp Ahmann

Automotive OSS Process Lead, Etas GmbH (BOSCH)
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... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
D204
  Safety-critical Software

11:00 CEST

OSS Documentation Workshop - Erin McKean, Google & Daniel Beck, Independent
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G106
Are you an open source maintainer who wants to create better docs for your project? In this talk you'll learn about some new tools for docs maintainers (a Docs Advisor working guide and a set of Docs Archetypes) and some pro tips on how to use them:  

* the types of technical documentation and docs projects -- how to decide what is a fit for your organization or project
* how to get basic info about your users and the kinds of documentation they need
* how to determine when a project is a bad fit for your needs
* how to onboard technical writers to your project
* how to choose and measure criteria for the success of your docs project
* how to keep your docs momentum going!

Materials for these new tools are based on the real experiences of the more than 70 projects who have participated in Google Season of Docs, and are currently available at github.com/google/opendocs.
Speakers
avatar for Erin McKean

Erin McKean

Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Google
Erin McKean is a developer relations engineer 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. In addition to writing code, blog posts, and documentation, she’s also the author of the Weird... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Beck

Daniel Beck

Technical Writer, Self-employed
Daniel is a documentation consultant who helps software engineering teams make tools, processes, and content that reach developer audiences. He's a longtime contributor and maintainer of open source software and documentation, including as a current maintainer of Baseline, a browser... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G106
  Technical Documentation
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:00 CEST

Beyond Code: How the LKMP Helped Me Grow as a Developer and Community Member - Luis Felipe Hernandez, Independent
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
TBA
The Linux Kernel Mentorship Program (LKMP) was more than just a chance to contribute to open source—it was a turning point in my career and technical growth.

Join me as I share how this experience helped me land my current role, give back to the Linux community, and inspired me to take a more active role in my local community—organizing events, mentoring, and sharing knowledge.
Speakers
avatar for Luis Felipe Hernandez

Luis Felipe Hernandez

Senior Software Engineer, Independent
Luis Felipe Hernandez is a Senior Software Engineer currently residing in Orlando, FL. Outside of work he is a Linux Kernel Mentee and aspiring Open Source developer.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
TBA
  Wildcard
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:00 CEST

From Code To Current: Reducing Energy Consumption in Zephyr - Fabian Pflug, On behalf of myself
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
D203
When designing battery-powered sensor devices, optimizing the power consumption of all components is crucial. While many sensors offer low-power modes, the generic sensor interface in Zephyr may not always utilize these modes efficiently.

In this talk, I will provide an in-depth look at how Zephyr’s Power Management Subsystem works, how to integrate it into your device drivers, and how it can be used to further reduce power consumption.

Using examples such as a battery level sensor and I2C sensors, I will demonstrate various strategies to manage and minimize a sensor's energy usage. There are multiple approaches to integrating power management within the Zephyr operating system, and I will discuss how sensor characteristics influence which method results in longer battery life. Achieving optimal energy efficiency requires careful consideration of several parameters.

Additionally I will compare different MCU's and their influence on Power consumption and how Zepyhr enables a quick and easy way to switch and compare results on different platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Fabian Pflug

Fabian Pflug

Embedded Software Developer, On behalf of myself
Starting with optimizing power consumption in high performance systems, and training AI models for medical data Fabian Pflug has long since shifted to working with embedded systems. As a Zephyr contributor and embedded software developer for years he knows some of the caveats that... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
D203
  Zephyr Developer Summit

11:00 CEST

Zephyr as a Data Source: Tools and Practices - Dmitrii Golovanov, Intel Corporation
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
D202
Zephyr Twister tool allows to apply data-driven approach in firmware development - with extended test data collection as input for trends visualization, performance impact and root cause analysis, anomaly detection, ML/LLM applications, etc.

This session provides an overview of the recently added Twister features for extended data collection as well as several use cases including Zephyr benchmarks, memory footprint, and test coverage analysis.

It should be interesting and insightful for a wide range of Zephyr practitioners: for vendors dealing with huge amount of test data from their CI pipelines as well as for individual contributors.
Speakers
avatar for Dmitrii Golovanov

Dmitrii Golovanov

OS Development Engineer, Intel Corporation
Software Engineer with 30+ years of experience at telecom, networks, and fintech: middleware, data pipelines, ML applications, RTOS, telemetry, QoS.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

11:55 CEST

Deploy AI in 20MB: Lightweight Containers for Open Source Developers - Miley Fu, Second State
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Emerald Room
Containerization has enabled powerful deployment workflows—but traditional Linux containers can be heavyweight, especially for LLMs or AI workloads on resource-restraint environments.

This session introduces WebAssembly as an alternative for deploying small, single-purpose AI functions. We’ll demonstrate how to build a simple AI service in Rust, compile it to Wasm, and compare the runtime footprint and deployment model with a traditional Python or Linux container-based equivalent. The focus will be on practical constraints: image size, memory use, startup time, and runtime isolation. We’ll also walk through running them (along open source LLMs) in sandboxed environments, even without root access, and why this matters for cross-platform efficient and secure deployment. The session is geared toward beginners who may already be familiar with Docker but are looking for faster, more portable alternatives to run open source LLMs in real-world environments.

Ideal for devs exploring open-source AI tooling, local-first agents, or edge inferencing.
Speakers
avatar for Miley Fu

Miley Fu

Founding Member, Second State
Miley is the co-chair and keynote speaker for KubeCon+Open Source Summit and AI Dev 2024. With over 6 years of experience working on WasmEdge runtime in CNCF sandbox as a founding member, she talks at KubeCon, KCD Shenzhen, CloudDay Italy, DevRelCon, Open Source Summit Japan, AWS... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Emerald Room
  Cloud & Containers

11:55 CEST

How To Support Multiple Display Controllers With Different Interfaces on One SoC - Devarsh Thakkar, Texas Instruments & Aradhya Bhatia, Intel Corporation
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Elicium 1
Modern SoCs often integrate multiple display controllers to support advanced use-cases such as multi-display setups, content mirroring, or screen extension. These controllers typically support heterogeneous interfaces like DSI, HDMI, OLDI, or (e)DP to accommodate a wide range of panels and bridge devices. Taking TI’s AM62P SoC as an example-which includes two display controllers, a GPU, and multiple interfaces such as DSI, DPI/HDMI, and OLDI-this talk will cover the design considerations involved in enabling Linux DRM driver support for such systems. It will explore two key approaches for supporting multiple controllers: integrating both under a single DRM card versus exposing them as 2x separate DRM cards, along with their pros and cons. The talk will also highlight the architectural changes made to support dual OLDI bridges multiplexed between controllers, allowing either configurations–dual-link (from a single controller) or 2x single-link (from separate controllers). Finally, it will discuss the challenges with DSI bridge integration, particularly around crtc-encoder-bridge operation sequences, and how bridge APIs can be used to support custom sequences for bridge operations.
Speakers
avatar for Devarsh Thakkar

Devarsh Thakkar

Software Engineering Manager, Texas Instruments
Devarsh Thakkar works as an Embedded Linux developer at Texas Instruments. He has 12+ years of experience in software development ranging from open-source bootloaders to the Linux kernel, middleware frameworks and applications. His expertise lies in Audio/Video related multimedia... Read More →
avatar for Aradhya Bhatia

Aradhya Bhatia

GPU Software Development Engineer, Intel Corporation
Aradhya Bhatia is a Linux Kernel Engineer, and he has been working in the open-source space for about 4 years. His primary experience in the kernel lies within the DRM subsystem, focusing on kernel-mode-setting, where he has integrated various display hardware—such as bridges... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Elicium 1
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:55 CEST

Thread: A Wireless IoT Networking Protocol That's Built on Open Source - Esko Dijk, IoTconsultancy.nl / Thread Group, Inc. & Saurabh Kumar, Samsung Research America
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Elicium 2
This talk will first introduce the audience to the Thread networking protocol: specifically designed to support Internet of Things (IoT) devices in homes and smart buildings. Thread standardizes wireless IPv6 communication between low-power, low-cost IoT devices, while also supporting end-to-end IP connectivity with other devices at home or on the Internet.

After the introduction we dive into more detail on OpenThread (https://openthread.io/), an open-source implementation of the Thread standard. Different OpenThread components are highlighted, and we’ll show what role each of these components plays: it may be from development of Thread-based consumer products, or testing new features for the Thread standard, to development of SDKs that Thread radio vendors offer. One specific component to highlight is the OpenThread Border Router, an embedded Linux based IoT device that orchestrates communication between Thread devices and other IPv6/IPv4 hosts.

We hope to show the open source community that OpenThread offers interesting opportunities to venture into IoT: covering a range of developer skillsets, platforms and languages.
Speakers
avatar for Saurabh Kumar

Saurabh Kumar

Open Source Leader, Samsung Research America
Saurabh Kumar has worked on Smart Home technologies since 2013 as part of the Samsung SmartThings Hub Firmware team. Since 2019, he’s contributed to open standards like Matter and Thread. Currently, he leads open source efforts in the Smart Home space. He holds a Bachelor’s degree... Read More →
avatar for Esko Dijk

Esko Dijk

Connectivity architect, IoTconsultancy.nl / Thread Group, Inc.
Esko Dijk started working on the IPv6-based Internet of Things in 2010, contributing to IETF standards, while employed at Philips Research. After two years at Signify (wireless mesh networks for lighting) he started his current role in 2018: as a systems architect, specification designer... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Elicium 2
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:55 CEST

U-Boot in the Fast Lane: Developing a Safety Test Framework for Automotive Applications - Neha Francis, Texas Instruments
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
D201
This session presents a proposal for a Safety Test framework in U-Boot. We use the ongoing integration effort of a Built-In Self Test (BIST) driver as an example and dive into the challenges we face during upstreaming it. In systems with heterogeneous SoCs such as the Texas Instruments (TI) K3 family, U-Boot may be required to bootstrap not just Linux running cores but also other MCUs running safe operating systems. Running safety tests on these cores would mean drivers execute safety diagnostics both triggering HW tests e.g. BIST, POST, JTAG etc. as well as SW e.g. STLs and SDLs prior to booting the MCU. At present, lack of a clear, dedicated subsystem leads to categorizing safety-related drivers under misc/. While this is a convenient approach, it may not be scalable as safety use-cases and applications increase.

The need of such a framework would be inevitable following the increase in safety-driven automotive systems. It could become a useful precursor to enabling ELISA systems and starting safe RTOSes. It would also benefit systems using Linux ecosystems such as RedHat's In-Vehicle Operating System (RHIVOS). A Safety Test uclass framework would be proposed in this session.
Speakers
avatar for Neha Francis

Neha Francis

Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
Neha Malcom Francis is a Software Engineer working in Texas Instruments in the Linux Core Product Development Team for Jacinto Processors. Neha mainly works on U-Boot development along with assisting customer requirements.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
D201
  Embedded Linux Conference

11:55 CEST

The Hidden Heroes: How Non-Technical Contributors Find Their Place in Open Source Communities - Miaolai Zhou & Lahari Chowtoori, AWS
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G001-002
In the open source world, while code contributions often take the spotlight, the ecosystem thrives on the crucial work of non-technical contributors. Through interviews with over 10 seasoned open source professionals in documentation, program management, and community building, we explore the vital role of non-technical contributors in open source ecosystems. Our talk delves into their emotional and professional journeys, from navigating code-centric communities to becoming essential project pillars.

We'll share authentic stories about overcoming imposter syndrome, achieving breakthroughs, and maintaining engagement despite challenges. The discussion examines how community dynamics and project structures influence non-technical contributors' experiences and success.

Drawing from these insights, we'll present practical strategies for project maintainers and community leaders to create welcoming spaces, develop inclusive contribution pathways, and foster long-term engagement with non-technical contributors. Whether you're leading an open source project or considering non-technical contributions, you'll gain actionable knowledge for building more inclusive and sustainable communities.
Speakers
avatar for Miaolai Zhou

Miaolai Zhou

Program Manager, AWS
Mila is a passionate program manager at AWS, spearheading funding programs that provide vital resources to open source projects. Her unwavering commitment to empowering and supporting these communities fosters sustainability, drives innovation, and enables collaboration. She actively... Read More →
avatar for Lahari Chowtoori

Lahari Chowtoori

Technical Program Manager, AWS
Lahari Chowtoori is an AI enthusiast and Technical Program Manager at AWS, focusing on open source, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. With a background in Data Science and Machine Learning, she is passionate about democratizing AI knowledge and fostering community collaboration.She... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G001-002
  Equity + Inclusion + Accessibility

11:55 CEST

When Foundation Models Go Open: Unlocking the Promise From Infrastructure To Impact in Health - Elham Dolatabadi, York University
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G109
As foundation models become increasingly central to health applications, the open-source community plays a vital role, not only in democratizing access to data and models, but also in driving safe, reproducible, and equitable innovation. In this talk, I will explore the rapidly growing ecosystem of open-source foundation models, with a particular focus on healthcare, where governance, fairness, and privacy are essential.

I will share lessons learned from our team's experience developing and releasing several open-source resources, including datasets, training pipelines, and evaluation frameworks designed to support advanced AI and multimodal learning in health. These tools enable rapid prototyping, benchmarking, and reproducible experimentation across vision-language and other multimodal health tasks.

This session offers a hands-on perspective for researchers and developers looking to engage with open foundation model efforts. Whether you're releasing models, curating datasets, or contributing to tooling, you'll gain insights into best practices for documentation, data quality assurance, and aligning model development with ethical and privacy principles in health AI.
Speakers
avatar for Elham Dolatabadi

Elham Dolatabadi

Assistant Professor/Scientist, York University
Elham Dolatabadi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and early-career researcher at York University. She as an emerging leader in machine learning (ML) for health, an affiliated faculty member at the Vector Institute. Her contributions to date have advanced the development of advanced... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G109
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:55 CEST

Panel DIscussion: NeoNephos: Building an Open Source Foundation for Europe's Digital Future - Ihor Dvoretskyi, Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Additional Panelists to be Announced
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Auditorium
In this panel discussion, founding members and leaders of the NeoNephos Foundation will share how their organizations drive open innovation through collaborative, vendor-neutral open source development. As a newly formed initiative announced at KubeCon London 2025, NeoNephos (neonephos.org) aims to support the creation of a resilient, interoperable cloud-edge continuum for Europe and beyond.

Panelists will share the story behind the launch of NeoNephos, what inspired its creation, and how it brings together industry, public sector, and open source communities to solve shared challenges. They will reflect on what it means to build a foundation from the ground up, the values driving the initiative, and how NeoNephos plans to support collaboration at the intersection of cloud, edge, and European digital sovereignty. The discussion will also highlight key projects hosted by the foundation—such as Project Gardener—and explore how panelists’ organizations contribute to and leverage these solutions to drive innovation within their ecosystems.
Speakers
avatar for Ihor Dvoretskyi

Ihor Dvoretskyi

Senior Developer Advocate, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Ihor Dvoretskyi is a Senior Developer Advocate at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, known for his contributions to Kubernetes.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Auditorium
  Open Source Leadership

11:55 CEST

Panel Discussion: Open Source in the Dutch (Semi) Public Sector: Strategies, Challenges & Digital Sovereignty - Jonas van den Bogaard, Alliander N.V.; Boris van Hoytema, Ministry of Interior Affairs and Kindom Relations, Marlena van Ooijen, Logius; Leon R
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G105
As open source grows in importance, more (semi)public organizations recognize its value. However, (semi)public organizations face unique challenges in adoption.

For organizations new to open source, developing a strategic approach and ensuring internal readiness can seem overwhelming. From engineering and technical teams to legal, finance, marketing, and executive leadership, aligning stakeholders on responsible and open source participation is critical—but not always straightforward. Many organizations address this by establishing an OSPO to create policies, provide training, and share best practices for open source adoption and contribution.

This panel brings together Open Source leaders from the Dutch (semi)public sector to discuss strategies for managing open source and fostering open source readiness. Panelists will share insights from their own open source journeys, offer practical guidance, and explore best practices for building open source engagement. The discussion will also highlight the role of open source in advancing Digital Sovereignty, ensuring organizations maintain control over their digital infrastructure while leveraging the power of open collaboration.
Speakers
avatar for Leon Roeleveld

Leon Roeleveld

OSPO , UWV
Dutch OSPO
avatar for Jonas van den Bogaard

Jonas van den Bogaard

Digital Strategy Lead & 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 →
avatar for Boris van Hoytema

Boris van Hoytema

OSPO, Ministry of Interior Affairs and Kindom Relations, Ministry of Housing and Spacial Planning
To take away barriers and impediements to open source. And to maintain contact with OSPO's, governments, companies and developers.
avatar for Marlena van Ooijen

Marlena van Ooijen

CIO advisor, Logius
Innovative CIO advisor, passionate about open source and responsible AI. I help my organization to unlock the power of a open source way of working, values that seamlessly align with my own beliefs. My focus is on collaboration, sharing knowledge and openness.
LR
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G105
  OpenGovCon

11:55 CEST

Zero Trust Maturity Assessment With OSCAL - Donald Hunter, Red Hat
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G104
When implementing Zero Trust there is no one size fits all solution. The complexity of understanding the principles of Zero Trust and mapping them to a given technology stack have inhibited widespread adoption. Reasoning about system properties against any framework or criteria, and the corresponding adoption paths to achieve increasing maturity is always a challenge, especially for organisations relying on open source technologies.

By leveraging the Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) controls and processes along with existing Red Hat compliance frameworks we aim to simplify Zero Trust compliance and maturity assessment while signposting the steps to improving Zero Trust maturity.

Attendees will walk away with an understanding of Zero Trust, how automated compliance can benefit their measurement and implementation of Zero Trust objectives, and open source efforts to streamline the assessment process.
Speakers
avatar for Donald Hunter

Donald Hunter

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Donald is the Security team lead in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat where he focuses on emerging technologies in Security. Donald is a veteran in the network industry with over 20 years at Cisco before joining Red Hat. Donald’s recent focus has been on AI trust and security, Zero... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G104
  Operations Management
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:55 CEST

OpenDevRel: Tales of Developer Relations in Open Source - Dotan Horovits, OpenSearch
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G107
We all know DevRel (Developer Relations): our company brings a novel approach to the industry, a new and better way of doing things, and we need someone to evangelize this concept, this approach, and then our product. But what if your company has an open source play? Clearly DevRel has a major stake in that, but how exactly does it work?

In this talk, Horovits will share his DevRel experience around OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, OpenSearch and other prominent projects. Bringing his rich experience from the vendor side, the dev community leader side, and the open source foundation side as a CNCF Ambassador (the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), Horovits will offer some best practices and guidelines running an effective DevRel program for open source.

Whether you found your own open source project, or whether there’s an established OSS project your company wishes to get involved in, this talk will give you fruit for thought.
Speakers
avatar for Dotan Horovits

Dotan Horovits

Sr. Developer Advocate, OpenSearch
Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as a CNCF Ambassador, and host of the popular OpenObservability Talks podcast.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G107
  OSPOCon

11:55 CEST

AutoSD: A Linux Development and Prototyping Framework for the Automotive Community - Alessandro Carminati & Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
D204
In the landscape of automotive software, the need for customizable, reliable, and secure operating systems is a commonly shared need. AutoSD, promoted by the CentOS Automotive Special Interest Group, serves as an upstream distribution for the automotive ecosystem and is also a public preview of the Red Hat's In-Vehicle Operating System.

Built upon CentOS Stream, AutoSD introduces automotive-specific enhancements, including a real-time Linux kernel, OSTree-based immutability, and support for mixed-criticality workloads through containerization. This session provides an introduction to AutoSD, highlighting its architecture, key feature and the contribution/development workflow.

Attendees will learn how to enable new HW SoCs on AutoSD, how to prototype for their specific applications, and the process to propose changes into the AutoSD master branch. The session will also explore how AutoSD can serve as a reference framework for open source communities such as ELISA, Eclipse SDV, and others, fostering collaboration and alignment across the broader automotive software ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for Alessandro Carminati

Alessandro Carminati

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
As a Linux Kernel Engineer within the RedHat Automotive Team, I specialize in both upstream contributions and downstream efforts, focusing on enhancing Linux kernel functionality for automotive.
avatar for Gabriele Paoloni

Gabriele Paoloni

Sr SW Principal Engineer, Red Hat
Gabriele Paoloni is an Open Source Community Technical Leader at Red Hat.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
D204
  Safety-critical Software
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:55 CEST

Fixing the Watchdog: How Open Documentation Empowers Community-Driven Hardware Support - Andrew Halaney, Netflix & Eric Chanudet, Red Hat, Inc
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G106
Hardware documentation varies widely in quality and accessibility — ranging from treasured to frustratingly opaque. In this talk, we’ll introduce a framework for classifying types of hardware documentation and discuss their impact on enabling community-driven innovation.

We’ll showcase a real-world example of valuable documentation by exploring how Texas Instruments’ open documentation for the J784S4EVM empowered us to debug and fix its watchdog system. This process involved navigating multiple subsystems within the SoC, leveraging publicly available resources every step of the way.

Attendees will gain insight into how open documentation accelerates debugging, fosters collaboration, and enables independent hardware support. Beyond this case study, we hope to inspire vendors to embrace open documentation practices and encourage community members to prioritize documentation quality when selecting hardware.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/hqifchzwvzyexlcq6vfhlnrp3sixkgk23vau6o46k6einn5vee@gj5a53ee2gsi/T/#m7ecce818686b775105367e19e9548970c26c4427

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240911-j784s4-esm-enable-v2-0-957f56b588d9@redhat.com/
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Halaney

Andrew Halaney

Software Engineer, Netflix
Andrew is a software at Netflix, supporting Netflix's base OS as well as its kubernetes dataplane. He has experience in Linux systems, ranging from bring up for automotive infotainment systems to cloud servers running container workloads. He's upstreamed support for various hardware... Read More →
avatar for Eric Chanudet

Eric Chanudet

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc
I joined the Red Hat Automotive Kernel team in 2021 and worked on improving boot time to match the requirement of the Red Hat In Vehicle OS kernel as well as helped enable and support arm64 platforms for it.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G106
  Technical Documentation

11:55 CEST

Applying DevRel Foundation Resources To Application Security - Jayson DeLancey, Semgrep
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
TBA
The Developer Relations Foundation is a new part of the Linux Foundation to advance the professional practices of Developer Relations. As a Manager of the Resources Working Group we're on a mission to collect open-data resources like Personas, Events, and Tools that any practicing Developer Relations role can use to accomplish their outreach and community goals.

This session will share how we kick-started the working group and then examples of using these resources for my own role on the free open-source tool Semgrep for engaging with developer communities to make software more secure.
Speakers
avatar for Jayson DeLancey

Jayson DeLancey

Head of Developer Relations, Semgrep
Jayson is a manager for the Resources Working Group of the Developer Relations Foundation and is Head of Developer Relations for Semgrep, an open-source static code analysis tool.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
TBA
  Wildcard

11:55 CEST

Demystifying Memory: A Practical Tutorial on Managing & Optimizing Memory in Zephyr - Marko Sagadin, IRNAS
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
D202
This talk provides an in-depth, tutorial-style exploration of memory optimisation within Zephyr RTOS, using Nordic's nRF5340 SOC and nRF7002 WiFi chip in various case studies. By focusing on practical, real-world challenges, the presentation aims to empower developers with actionable strategies for optimizing memory usage in resource-constrained embedded systems.

We begin by clarifying fundamental memory concepts such as flash and RAM, heap memory versus stack memory and differences between static and dynamic allocation. We also going to look at how Zephyr allocates and manages it's memory memory. This foundational overview sets the stage for understanding which parts of the codebase are placed into which memory and what are possible choices of memory optimization.

The presentation then delves into our hands-on experience with the nRF5340, highlighting the increased memory demands posed by the Wi-Fi stack and discussing how to mitigate these challenges. We share specific configuration tweaks, code-level optimizations, and introduce essential memory analysis tools.
Speakers
avatar for Marko Sagadin

Marko Sagadin

Embedded Systems Engineer, IRNAS
Electrical engineer (by education) turned into an embedded engineer. In the past 6 years at IRNAS, Marko has worked on a number of different projects ranging from animal conservation, consumer IoT devices and medical devices. He has dealt with low-power design, wireless radio protocols... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

11:55 CEST

Zbus - New Features and Roadmap - Rodrigo Peixoto, Edge-UFAL/Citrinio
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
D203
This session presents the new features of ZBus since the last event. It also discusses the bus roadmap.
Speakers
avatar for Rodrigo Peixoto

Rodrigo Peixoto

Embedded Software Engineer, Edge-UFAL/Citrinio
Embedded Systems enthusiast and passionate surfer. Rodrigo has been the R&D Lead Embedded Systems Engineer at Edge Innovation Center since 2015. Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas since 2011. Co-founder at Citrinio. Zephyr bus maintainer (ZBus subsystem).
Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
D203
  Zephyr Developer Summit

12:35 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)
Wednesday August 27, 2025 12:35 - 14:10 CEST
Wednesday August 27, 2025 12:35 - 14:10 CEST
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

13:00 CEST

Zbus 2030: Community-Driven Directions for Zbus - Rodrigo Peixoto, Edge-UFAL/Citrinio
Wednesday August 27, 2025 13:00 - 13:45 CEST
D202
We invite you to join us in shaping the future of ZBus! Your ideas and perspectives are invaluable, and we genuinely want to hear them. Join us for a community-driven discussion about our strategic directions, and let’s work together to create something great.
Speakers
avatar for Rodrigo Peixoto

Rodrigo Peixoto

Embedded Software Engineer, Edge-UFAL/Citrinio
Embedded Systems enthusiast and passionate surfer. Rodrigo has been the R&D Lead Embedded Systems Engineer at Edge Innovation Center since 2015. Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas since 2011. Co-founder at Citrinio. Zephyr bus maintainer (ZBus subsystem).
Wednesday August 27, 2025 13:00 - 13:45 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

14:10 CEST

Another Cluster Bites the Dust... and That’s Just Fine! - Davide Bianchi & Graziano Casto, Mia-Platform
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
Emerald Room
Why keep your cluster alive when you’re not using it? Let it bite the dust, every night, and that’s just fine. With Crossplane and kube-green, you can unlock ephemeral environments that spin up when you code and shut down when you rest. Imagine a development setup that dynamically provisions complex infrastructure for testing, then automatically scales down during off-hours – like nights and weekends.

In this talk, we’ll show you how Platform Engineering can orchestrate this smart, on-demand model, so developers can focus on building applications, not babysitting clusters. You’ll see the integration in action, explore the impact on cost, efficiency, and sustainability, and discover how to shift from static uptime to dynamic, eco-friendly infrastructure. Save money, reduce emissions, and let your clusters rest – because we will rock you, but not all night long.
Speakers
avatar for Davide Bianchi

Davide Bianchi

Principal Engineer, Mia-Platform
Principal Engineer at Mia-Platform. Passionate about Open Source and Green Software in the Cloud Native world.
avatar for Graziano Casto

Graziano Casto

DevRel Engineer, Mia-Platform
Graziano is a software engineer and passionate about agile development and product management. Formerly a developer of distributed systems in enterprise environments and a product manager, he focuses on sharing the myriad beauties of the cloud-native world. Active in international... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
Emerald Room
  Cloud & Containers

14:10 CEST

Advancing AI Application Development on RISC-V Platforms - Yuning Liang, DeepComputing
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
Elicium 1
RISC-V has made significant strides as an open instruction set architecture for embedded, edge, and server-class systems. However, enabling modern AI workloads: such as speech-to-text, LLM inference, and multimodal generation on RISC-V remains a major technical challenge, particularly in resource-constrained environments.

In this session, we share our ongoing efforts to enable real-world AI applications on RISC-V platforms based on a 64-bit 8-core RISC-V AI SoC. We explore the porting, optimization, and runtime behavior of popular open-source AI workloads like Whisper, VLC with Speech-to-Text, webLLM, and text-to-image generation, running entirely on RISC-V hardware.

We will also discuss the implications of DSP instruction emulation for RISC-V vector standard RVV 1.0, as well as the use of Vector DSP and Vulkan and OpenCL backends, and how developers can contribute to or replicate these experiments. Our goal is to provide a transparent, reproducible pathway for the open-source community to extend AI capabilities on emerging RISC-V platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Yuning Liang

Yuning Liang

Founder & CEO, DeepComputing
Yuning has a strong background in embedded systems, platform APIs, and AI. He founded Xcalibyte, DeepComputing, and Synergic, and invested in BravoMonster RC Cars. In 2024, he received the "RISC-V Community Contributor Award" and was recognized as an "Ubuntu Summit Contributor." A... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
Elicium 1
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:10 CEST

Easily Generating Debian-Based Embedded Systems - Clara Kowalsky & Felix Mößbauer, Siemens AG
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
Elicium 2
Debian ensures long-term stability and offers a wide range of packages that simplify software development. However, it lacks tools to efficiently create reproducible and customizable images as provided by Yocto. In this talk, we give an update on the open source build system Isar, which has been around since 2017 and combines the strengths of Debian and Yocto to create images for various x86, ARM64 and RISC-V boards.

Using the RPi4b as an example, we walk you through setting up the build environment, adding your application and flashing the image to the hardware. We illustrate new Isar features, such as the integration of the sstate cache. Furthermore, we give an outlook on enhancing your system with Secure Boot and Over-the-Air (OTA) firmware updates with swupdate, using the Isar layer from the LF Civil Infrastructure Platform project.
Speakers
avatar for Clara Kowalsky

Clara Kowalsky

Linux Software Engineer, Siemens AG
Clara Kowalsky is working as a consultant software engineer in the Linux Expert Center at Siemens AG. She contributes to multiple inner-source and open-source projects, especially in the area of real-time (e.g., Xenomai) and embedded Linux tooling. She gives internal trainings on... Read More →
avatar for Felix Mößbauer

Felix Mößbauer

Realtime Linux Expert, Siemens AG
Having a strong background in High Performance Computing, Felix is currently focusing on embedded Linux platforms for realtime applications. Hereby, he works across country and company boundaries to unify patterns that are recurring and mandatory for embedded products (like secure... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
Elicium 2
  Embedded Linux Conference

14:10 CEST

The Bootloader: An Underestimated Risk To Embedded Linux Security - Richard Weinberger, sigma star gmbh
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
D201
As regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) drive the adoption of stronger security measures, features such as verified and secure boot are becoming increasingly common. Within this context, the bootloader plays a crucial role in establishing the chain of trust for embedded Linux systems. This talk will explore security vulnerabilities in popular bootloaders that can undermine the effectiveness of verified boot. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of these risks and learn practical techniques to mitigate them, ultimately improving the security posture of embedded devices.
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.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
D201
  Embedded Linux Conference

14:10 CEST

Responsible Innovation in AI: How You Can Shape the Future - Emily Witko, Hugging Face
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G001-002
AI innovation isn't just technical—it's deeply human. In this talk, Emily Witko, a non-engineer leading AI talent strategy at Hugging Face, explores how diverse roles—from engineers, ethicists and policy experts to communicators and designers—play a crucial role in building ethical, inclusive AI. Through real-world case studies of AI gone wrong, they illustrate the risks of ignoring non-technical perspectives. Attendees will gain tools to challenge assumptions, advocate for accessibility, and bridge the technical-human divide. The future of responsible AI belongs to those who ask hard questions—and that includes you.
Speakers
avatar for Emily Witko

Emily Witko

Engagement Specialist, Hugging Face
Emily is a people-obsessed engagement specialist with master’s level DEIB training. In their current role at Hugging Face, they source, recruit, hire, develop, and retain top AI talent, with a dedicated focus on decentralized team happiness and growth. Emily thrives in people-centric... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G001-002
  Equity + Inclusion + Accessibility

14:10 CEST

Exploring the Power of eBPF for System Observability - Shaghayegh Tavakoli, IONOS & Zahra Dehghanpour, bol.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G102-103
This talk offers a gentle and practical introduction to eBPF as a powerful framework for Linux and network observability. We’ll walk through real scenarios—like tracing incoming packets, measuring syscall latency, and visualizing kernel behavior using tools like bpftrace and bcc.

While often seen as advanced, eBPF is surprisingly accessible. You don’t need deep kernel knowledge or C programming skills to start using it. Whether you're a developer, sysadmin, or just curious about how Linux works under the hood, this talk shows how eBPF can make observability approachable and even fun.

We'll focus on how eBPF helps answer complex performance and debugging questions in a modern, efficient, and safe way—turning opaque system behavior into actionable insights using just the command line and some well-crafted trace scripts.
Speakers
avatar for Zahra Dehghanpour

Zahra Dehghanpour

Platform Engineer, Bol.com
a platform engineer work at bol. with the interests of Linux and Kubernetes
avatar for Shaghayegh Tavakoli

Shaghayegh Tavakoli

Site Reliability Engineer, IONOS
Site Reliability Engineer with 6+ years of experience in scalable infrastructure and Kubernetes automation. Passionate about Linux, networking, and open source. I love exploring system internals, observability tools like eBPF, and building reliable, secure systems using Python, Ansible... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G102-103
  Linux
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:10 CEST

Why We Needed an Open Source AI Definition Now - Stefano Maffulli, Open Source Initiative
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G109
Why did we need to define Open Source AI, how did the OSI go about it, what conclusions did they reach, what's next, and how is the OSI's Open Source AI definition (OSAID) already helping to combat openwashing?

In this Session, OSI's executive director, Stefano Maffulli will present the process that led to the OSAID, and OSI EU Policy Analyst Jordan Maris will explain how the OSAID is vital to combatting openwashing in Europe and beyond.
Speakers
avatar for Stefano Maffulli

Stefano Maffulli

Executive Director, Open Source Initiative
Stefano is the Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative, he joined OSI in 2021 after decades of open source advocacy, both as a contributor and leader. He co-founded and led the Italian chapter of Free Software Foundation Europe from 2001 to 2007, structured the developer... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G109
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:10 CEST

Why Further Development on Publiccode.yml Is Neccessary - Tom Ootes, developer.overheid.nl
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G105
My story/message/ problem statement would be:

- A cultural change needs to take place. Instead of building software themselves, organizations should first explore the landscape (open standards/existing projects).

- However, not all OSS projects are yet findable in the public sector/with suppliers.

- Also, much metadata available in repositories is not platform-agnostic (thus embedded in Gitlab/Github)

- The agnostic standard that solves this: publiccode.yml. We need to apply this standard but also invest in it/contribute to it. Only then will it become more usable.

- "Infrastructure-as-code" projects within the government are increasingly available as open source. Organizations like Kadaster and Wigo4IT are about to open source this. To make the Dutch Digital Infrastructure more sovereign, it is crucial that these open source infrastructure components are also made findable.

- The publiccode.yml standard is already being used by FR/DE and Brussels, so it's logical to invest in this standard. We will have to make all our initiatives easily findable/searchable! The quality regarding metadata needs to improve.

Besides this i would like to emphasize that working OSS is just more fun.
Speakers
avatar for Tom Ootes

Tom Ootes

Developer Advocate, developer.overheid.nl
Has been working for the Dutch Government for in several roles. As a front-end dev for the Dutch Ministry of Health during covid building the Source Tracing Platform. Got interested in how developers co-operate within this government.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G105
  OpenGovCon

14:10 CEST

Proactive Protection: Using AI To Safeguard Your Code and Supply Chain From Vulnerabilities - Meha Bhalodiya & Ruchi Pakhle, Red Hat
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G104
Step into a world where your code and supply chain is not just defended but dynamically shielded against digital adversaries. "Proactive Protection: Unleashing AI for Digital Fortification" immerses you in a riveting exploration of cutting-edge security tactics. Through captivating narratives and interactive simulations, delve into AI's transformative role in anticipating and neutralizing vulnerabilities before they strike. Discover how predictive algorithms, automated response mechanisms, and real-time threat intelligence converge to create a proactive defense ecosystem that adapts and evolves with your digital assets.

By the session's end, arm yourself with actionable strategies to infuse AI-driven resilience into your codebase and supply chain, ensuring a fortified digital frontier against ever-evolving cyber threats.
Speakers
avatar for Ruchi Shrikant Pakhle

Ruchi Shrikant Pakhle

Software Engineer, Red Hat
Software Engineer @Red Hat | LFX Spring'22 @open-horizon | Open Source Developer @asyncapi | Python geek and AI developer in free time :D
avatar for Meha Bhalodiya

Meha Bhalodiya

Software Quality Engineer, Red Hat
A Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat, where I work with the OpenShift Container Platform team.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G104
  Operations Management

14:10 CEST

Open Source Unlocked: Smart Strategies for Maximising Efficiency & Impact - Avijit Biswas & Supriya Chitale, IKEA
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G107
In today’s fast-moving digital world, the pressure to innovate quickly and cost-effectively has never been greater. Open source holds incredible promise—not just as a technical solution, but as a strategic enabler of scalable, sustainable growth. Yet many organizations are still figuring out how to turn that promise into measurable impact.

At IKEA, we’ve reimagined how open source fits into our technology strategy. This talk will walk you through how we’ve reduced vendor lock-in, lowered costs, and improved flexibility by making smart, intentional choices about when and how to use open-source alternatives. It’s not just about cutting costs—it’s about creating value, building resilience, and staying in control of our digital future.

We’ll share real examples from our IT and AI journey, showing how open source can support both innovation and long-term sustainability—without compromising on quality or governance.

Key takeaways:

• How to align open-source adoption with strategic IT and AI goals

• Ways to drive cost-conscious product development at scale

• Lessons from reducing dependency on proprietary vendors

• Building resilient systems through proactive risk management
Speakers
avatar for Avijit Biswas

Avijit Biswas

Open Source SME, IKEA IT AB
I’m Avijit Biswas—known to most as Avi. I’m a passionate open-source professional and technology strategist with over 15 years of experience in digital transformation and secure software development. At IKEA, I co-lead initiatives like open-source strategy, secure software practices... Read More →
avatar for Supriya Chitale

Supriya Chitale

Open Source Program Office Manager, IKEA
Supriya Chitale is currently working at IKEA as Open Source Program Office Manager. She has 20 years experience in software industry with specialization in topics related to Open Source and InnerSource. She is a parent to a teenager and in her free time, she loves to travel and learn... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G107
  OSPOCon

14:10 CEST

Shifting Safety Techniques To a Statistical World - Imanol Allende, Codethink & Nicholas Mc Guire, OpenTech
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
D204
The current aim of the industry is to develop and deploy highly complex safety-related systems. However, these systems differ significantly from traditional deterministic ones. Modern systems demand high-performance and security while exhibiting inherent non-determinism, challenging conventional safety approaches.

As safety-related systems evolve toward unprecedented complexity, they increasingly exhibit emergent properties that cannot be adequately captured through Descartes' approach of "dividing each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it". This fundamental shift requires a transition from element-by-element analysis to holistic statistical modeling.

Consequently, we believe the future lies in statistical system analysis. Methods like Probabilistic Worst Case Execution Time and Statistical Path Coverage demonstrate how complex systems can be assured through statistical approaches.

This presentation identifies limitations of traditional techniques, explores opportunities offered by statistical approaches with examples, and analyzes requirements for these methods to be effectively applied in the functional safety domain.
Speakers
avatar for Imanol Allende

Imanol Allende

Software Safety Engineer, Codethink
Imanol Allende received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Siegen in 2022. Since 2014, he has been involved in various research projects involving safety-related systems based on Open Source software. He collaborated on the SIL2LinuxMP project, and is currently continuing... Read More →
avatar for Nicholas Mc Guire

Nicholas Mc Guire

CEO, OpenTech
After working at the Technical University of Vienna, Nicholas moved towards real-time embedded systems, initially maintaining RTLinux/GPL (2001-2005). Thus, safety related systems were an almost natural next step in 2003. Nicholas main topic is system safety since he founded OpenTech... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
D204
  Safety-critical Software
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:10 CEST

Run a Documentation Sprint for Your Project - Sarah Corleissen, Isovalent at Cisco
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G106
This talk covers how to run a documentation sprint for your project.

Docs sprints improve your project by giving contributors an opportunity to collaborate within a well-defined structure and limited time.

In this talk, we'll cover everything you need to set up a sprint, run it, and build on the results.

This talk is based on real-world experience running docs sprints for open source projects, including Kubernetes.
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Corleissen

Sarah Corleissen

Head of Documentation, Isovalent at Cisco
Sarah is a former chair of Kubernetes SIG Docs and current contributor to the Cilium project. In addition to contributing to several OSS projects, she has worked on documentation at Isovalent at Cisco, Stripe, and the Linux Foundation, and spoken at conferences including FOSDEM, KubeCon... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G106
  Technical Documentation
  • Audience Experience Level Any

14:10 CEST

Building a Solarpunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future - Mike Gifford, CivicActions
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
TBA
We’re in a climate crisis—and the web isn’t off the hook. From energy-hungry AI to bloated, resource-intensive websites, our industry’s digital footprint is growing fast.

This talk explores how we can flip the script using open source tools to measure and reduce the carbon impact of our work. We’ll dive into practical ways to assess emissions, spotlight FOSS projects leading the way, and share actionable steps every open source project can take to help cut down energy use.

Together, we can build toward a solarpunk future—one where technology empowers a healthier planet and better lives for everyone.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Gifford

Mike Gifford

Open Standards and Practices Lead, CivicActions
Mike Gifford is an open standards and practices lead at CivicActions and a thought leader on digital accessibility in the public sector. He is also a W3C Invited Expert and recognized authoring tool accessibility expert.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
TBA
  Wildcard

14:10 CEST

MIDI2 in the Real World With Zephyr - Titouan Christophe, Mind
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
D202
Since the 1980s, the MIDI (Musical Instruments Digital Interface) protocol has been the leading standard for connecting digital instruments and controllers in live performances and digital audio workstations. In the last 5 years, a brand new revision of this protocol has been released, supporting multiple transports that adapt it to the modern world of high-speed bidirectional communications.

In this talk, we will first look at an overview of the MIDI2 protocol, what it improves on the former MIDI (1) version, how to define its topology, and what kind of data it conveys. We will then dive into practical considerations for developing a custom MIDI2 device, using Zephyr as an example development platform considering:

- USB-MIDI2.0

- Network MIDI2 (UDP based)

- Universal MIDI Packet (UMP) Endpoints discovery and dynamic configuration

- (Possibly) MIDI Capability Inquiry (MIDI-CI)
Speakers
avatar for Titouan Christophe

Titouan Christophe

Embedded Software Developer, Mind
Titouan is an embedded and backend developer who worked in remote railway vehicle monitoring and automated visual quality control for the manufacturing industry. He's been using FLOSS and contributing occasionally.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

14:10 CEST

The Native Simulator and Zephyr - Alberto Escolar, Nordic Semiconductor
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
D203
The native simulator is an evolution of Zephyr's native_posix and the POSIX architecture.

It is a basic part of Zephyr's test and debug infrastructure which allows you to build, run and debug your code directly in your host, instrumenting it however you want.

In this talk we will cover:

* An introduction to the native simulator in Zephyr.

* Why does it exist: What one can do with it, and how we use it in Zephyr.

* The native simulator based targets we have in Zephyr.

* How does it work: A brief description of its architecture and what it supports.

* What the average user needs to know ("I just want to run my tests on it, what are the gotchas").

* What a power user needs to know ("I want to write my own driver to interact with a host peripheral, how?").
Speakers
avatar for Alberto Escolar

Alberto Escolar

Principal Engineer, Nordic Semiconductor
Zephyr RTOS Maintainer since 2017, and author of the native simulator, POSIX architecture, and Babblesim.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
D203
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:05 CEST

Why and How We Updated Our License Policy for Use of Open Source - Nico Rikken, Alliander & Jonas van den Bogaard, Alliander N.V.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:35 CEST
G107
As open source becomes increasingly important, more organizations are recognizing its value. However, organizations like Alliander, a Dutch Grid Operator, which are not primarily software companies, face unique challenges in its adoption.

One of the first policies we created as an OSPO was the license policy for the use of open source. It quickly became the most viewed page of our OSPO guidance. As our understanding of open source in the enterprise grew, we encountered more licenses and edge cases that needed to be addressed. Consequently, our policy expanded to the point where it became unwieldy for our colleagues to use. We took the time to restructure our license policy to accommodate more situations while making it easier to understand for those new to open source licensing.

In this presentation, we will discuss how the Alliander OSPO developed a licensing policy that evolved in complexity over time. We will cover the issues we needed to address, the process of updating our policy, and the details of the updated policy itself. Our story underscores the value an OSPO can gain from close collaboration with senior developers, software asset management, and the legal department.
Speakers
avatar for Nico Rikken

Nico Rikken

Open Source Advocate, Alliander
Nico Rikken has a track record in maximizing the potential of Free and Open Source Software in the energy sector and in the Netherlands. As Open Source Ambassador at grid operator Alliander he helps make open source project participation successful and ensure control over the company... Read More →
avatar for Jonas van den Bogaard

Jonas van den Bogaard

Digital Strategy Lead & 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 →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:35 CEST
G107
  OSPOCon
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:05 CEST

NeoNephos' OpenMFP and Platform Mesh: Building Composable Enterprise Architectures - Bastian Echterhölter & Mirza Kopic, SAP SE
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
Emerald Room
OpenMFP addresses the critical challenge of fragmented user experiences in enterprise environments by establishing a unified architectural framework for micro frontend composition. The platform creates seamless digital UX by standardizing how distributed UI components integrate while preserving team autonomy and eliminating redundancies of core functionalities.

Platform Mesh establishes interoperability between multiple providers by building upon the Kubernetes API and resource model. Developers and admins can discover, access, and order services from various sources through their beloved kubectl.

The architectural implementation leverages a GraphQL layer that orchestrates resources through the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM), secured by a fine grained authorization approach (ReBAC) with OpenFGA.

These complementary technologies power diverse applications: Internal Developer Platforms, enterprise marketplaces and self-service portals. We'll demonstrate how NeoNephos projects reduce cognitive load, accelerate development, and support European cloud sovereignty. The talk shows how open source solutions are reshaping enterprise platform patterns through composable architecture.
Speakers
avatar for Bastian Echterhölter

Bastian Echterhölter

Principal Software Engineer and Lead Architect, SAP SE
Bastian is a Principal Software Engineer and Lead Architect the OpenMFP NeoNephos project, bringing 18 years of professional experience across consulting and product development. His work centers on cloud native technologies, DevOps practices, and enhancing Developer Experience, with... Read More →
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Mirza Kopic

Principal Software Engineer and Lead Architect, SAP SE
Mirza Kopic is a Principal Engineer and Lead Architect with ApeiroRA Platform Mesh project. Previously Mirza has worked in many different roles, including managing global analytics teams, working with Machine Learning teams and leading diverse projects in the that involve kubernetes... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
Emerald Room
  Cloud & Containers
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:05 CEST

Feasibility and Architecture of a Dual-Board Embedded System: Yocto & Zephyr Integration - Andrea Ricchi & Dario Binacchi, Amarula Solutions
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
Elicium 1
In this presentation, we provide an in-depth look at our experience conducting an industrial feasibility study focused on a dual-board embedded system designed for communication over CAN bus. The system architecture consists of two boards, each with distinct operating environments. The primary board runs a Linux-based system that leverages Flutter for a responsive graphical user interface, while the secondary board operates on Zephyr RTOS, utilizing LVGL to deliver lightweight graphical functionality.

We walk through the complete development lifecycle of this system, beginning with hardware selection and bring-up, progressing through board support package (BSP) development, device tree configuration, and peripheral driver integration. We also discuss the differences in system architecture between Linux and Zephyr. We then analyze Flutter and LVGL, evaluating their suitability for embedded UI development, performance trade-offs, and integration strategies.

Attendees will gain practical insights into designing and evaluating industrial embedded systems while overcoming the challenges of multi-platform development and integration.
Speakers
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Dario Binacchi

Embedded Linux and kernel engineer, Amarula Solutions
With a thesis on DSP I graduated in Software Engineering in 2000, but above all I started my career in the embedded world, first on bare-metal systems and then on architectures with Linux operating systems.
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Andrea Ricchi

Embedded Software Engineer, Amarula Solutions
I am a software developer passionate about all the branches of technology; constantly approaching new technologies and new programming languages to improve my point of view about the great world of computer science.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
Elicium 1
  Embedded Linux Conference

15:05 CEST

How and Why Do the Bad Guys Attack Embedded Products? - Marta Rybczynska, Ygreky
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
D201
Unlike traditional IT systems, embedded devices are often physically accessible to attackers. This key difference shapes both the threats and the methods used to exploit them.

In this talk, Marta will explore the attacker's mindset and approach: what they see, how they think, and where they strike - using real-world examples from recent years. She will walk through physical interfaces, software stacks, and the often-overlooked organizational and social "features" that open the door to compromise.

Participants will learn how to map the attack surface of their own products and build a so-called "threat model" of their.

To wrap up, Marta will share practical recommendations to avoid the most common pitfalls - and reflect on what has (and hasn’t) changed since Jake Edge’s observations at ELC 2009.
Speakers
avatar for Marta Rybczynska

Marta Rybczynska

Technical Program Manager, Security Team, Eclipse Foundation/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. She has been involved in various Open... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
D201
  Embedded Linux Conference

15:05 CEST

Setting up Real-time Ethernet and TSN With Linux: A 10-step Guide - Jan Altenberg, Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
Elicium 2
The Ethernet real-time evolution, partly driven by TSN standards, may represent an important step for building an open ecosystem for fieldbus communication. With more TSN capable hardware supported by Free and Open Source Software, this ecosystem seems to be almost complete – but still not very much in use. One reason may be the lack of support and the complexity of choosing and configuring the software. This presentation addresses this gap and presents a guide of how to set up real-time Ethernet communication on a Linux system. It includes a list of software components, configuration details of the network devices, routing of critical traffic and timely processing by the Linux kernel.
Speakers
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Jan Altenberg

Director, Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG
Jan Altenberg has more than 20 years of experience in developing and maintaining Embedded Linux systems. Since October 2021 Jan works as Senior Open Source Consultant and Embedded Systems Integrator at the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG and since 2024, he also serves... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
Elicium 2
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

15:05 CEST

Understanding the Need for Systemic Change in Open Source Through Intersectionality - Imma Valls, Grafana Labs
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G001-002
While open-source communities strive for innovation, achieving genuine diversity and inclusion requires a fundamental understanding of systemic inequalities.

This talk centers on the lived experiences of women navigating open-source spaces. We will reveal the persistent challenges related to safety, lack of representation, and the critical importance of considering intersecting identities. By applying an intersectionality lens, we can gain a clearer understanding of the systemic changes required to dismantle the barriers.

This session will then focus on the power of sponsorship and fostering allyship as key strategies for enacting this change. We will highlight existing initiatives and brainstorm solutions to build a more welcoming and equitable community where everyone feels empowered to contribute.

Join us to explore how understanding the need for systemic change through intersectionality and how actively fostering allyship and sponsorship can pave the way for a truly diverse and inclusive open-source future.
Speakers
avatar for Imma Valls

Imma Valls

Staff Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs
Imma is a Developer Advocate who loves automating stuff and anything that helps get apps from development to production.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G001-002
  Equity + Inclusion + Accessibility

15:05 CEST

Strategies for Rate Limiting Network Packet Ingress - Schuyler Patton & Daolin Qiu, Texas Instruments
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G102-103
A major concern of a network connected application on an embedded platform is reducing any impact from high network traffic that is unrelated to the running application. Typically, this is called network broadcast storms and network attacks. Rate limiting packet ingress is a key strategy in preventing high processor bandwidth consumption caused by a network storm. In general, rate limiting packet ingress implies intentionally dropping packets. In order to setup ingress rate limiting, several different options are possible. These options include evaluating the tc Linux utility (e.g. tc qdisc), eBPF, or simply adjusting the Ethernet PHY link speed. A demonstration of these three options in action and how they can be used to prevent high-rate ingress traffic from causing negative processor impact will be showcased. A comparison of the impact from using tc and eBPF will also be discussed. The overall goal is to use these options to drop ingress packets in order to minimize ARM microprocessor bandwidth.
Speakers
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Schuyler Patton

Systems and Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments
Schuyler Patton, a Member Group Technical Staff at Texas Instruments (TI), has extensive experience working on embedded Linux systems using ARM based Micro-processor devices (MPU). He has developed expertise in various end equipment system designs that require networking and various... Read More →
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Daolin Qiu

Systems and Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments
Daolin Qiu is an embedded systems application engineer at Texas Instruments (TI). Her focus areas are real-time networking and control applications using embedded Linux. She also provides technical support on low level Ethernet issues for TI customers using embedded Linux. She received... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G102-103
  Linux

15:05 CEST

Digital Commons: Technological Building Blocks for European Digital Sovereignty - Nick Gates, OpenForum Europe & Mirko Boehm, The Linux Foundation
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
Auditorium
European digital sovereignty has become one of the dominant narratives for the development of European public digital infrastructure. This panel will make the case that a Digital Commons approach provides scalable, open source alternatives that enhance choice and technical control, while providing viable options for policymakers implementing digital sovereignty initiatives.

In the session, technical experts will share examples of how initiatives like the proposed Open Internet Stack and EuroStack are creating amplification opportunities for developers. The session will explore proposed Technological Building Blocks – such as network infrastructure and identity frameworks – and show how Digital Commons mapped to these Building Blocks can be integrated into workflows.

In doing so, the session will show that Digital Commons projects enable true interoperability through open design, access, community governance, and APIs – essential elements for resilient and maintainable infrastructure. Participants will gain insights into leveraging these tools, understand patterns, and learn about European Commission funding mechanisms supporting open, sovereign infrastructure development.
Speakers
avatar for Nick Gates

Nick Gates

Senior Policy Advisor, OpenForum Europe
Nick Gates is a Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe, where he leads OFE’s work on the NGI Commons initiative and manages projects related to open source research and policy. Nick has significant experience in digital government, particularly around open source, public financial management... Read More →
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Mirko Boehm

Community Development, Linux Foundation Europe, The Linux Foundation
Mirko Boehm is a free and open source software contributor, community manager, licensing expert and researcher, with contributions to major open source projects like the KDE Desktop, the Open Invention Network, the Open Source Initiative and others. He is a visiting lecturer and researcher... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
Auditorium
  Open Source Leadership

15:05 CEST

Freedom, Diversity, and Sovereignty: The Power of Open Source in Europe’s Digital Future - John Samuel, Seventh State
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G105
As the world grows increasingly fragmented, Europe stands at a digital crossroads. The loss of digital independence threatens its cultural, intellectual, and economic values. Post-Brexit, freedom of movement has been constrained—now, Europe risks a similar fate in the digital realm. Dependence on proprietary, foreign technologies undermines Europe’s digital sovereignty and its ability to shape its future.

This talk explores why Europe must invest in open-source software to preserve its freedoms, diversity, and identity in an evolving digital ecosystem. Open-source is more than technology—it’s a path to autonomy, reduced corporate dependency, and dynamic local markets that drive innovation. As software reshapes our lives, open-source ensures Europe’s digital landscape remains as diverse as the continent itself.

We’ll examine how open-source can counter AI’s global, generic biases by fostering systems that reflect Europe’s rich cultural tapestry. By embracing open-source, Europe can protect its digital future and core freedoms of movement, trade, and expression that define its identity. What does Europe stand to lose if it fails to invest in open-source technologies?
Speakers
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John Samuel

Founder and Business Leader, Seventh State
John Samuel is a technologist and founder of Seventh State, a UK-based boutique consultancy specializing in Open Source. With clients like Bloomberg, Orange, Paychex, and Siemens, he has a long-standing passion for technology, dating back to the 80s. He enjoys dismantling and reassembling... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G105
  OpenGovCon

15:05 CEST

Navigating Uncertainty: Operational Risk Management in the Open-Source Sector - Eleni Katsoula, Collabora
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G104
As a consultancy working at the heart of the open-source ecosystem, Collabora operates in a landscape defined by constant change—technologically, economically, and organizationally. In this talk, we’ll explore how you can build operational resilience through intentional risk management, agile resource planning, and a deep understanding of the unique dynamics of working in this field.

We’ll look at how to balance the unpredictability of client pipelines, evolving upstream projects, and distributed collaboration with the need for sustainable business practices and delivery reliability. Drawing on principles of adaptive planning and lightweight risk frameworks, this session will offer practical approaches to identifying vulnerabilities, allocating resources effectively, and maintaining agility without losing focus.

Whether confronting fluctuating demand, evolving stakeholder landscapes, or macroeconomic uncertainty, open-source consultancies must rely on principles rather than predictions. This talk frames operational resilience as an emergent property of adaptive systems—rooted in flexibility, decentralization, and continuous feedback.
Speakers
avatar for Eleni Katsoula

Eleni Katsoula

Engineering Operations Manager, Collabora
I am a multilingual, internationally experienced executive & consultant, specializing in Business Operations, IT Management & Strategic Planning. With a strong background in engineering operations, business analytics, and financial planning, I help companies streamline processes... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G104
  Operations Management

15:05 CEST

Engineering Trust: Formulating Continuous Compliance for Open Source - Paul Albertella & Kaspar Matas, Codethink
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
D204
Requirements are broken. High-level requirements are a wish list; stakeholders just make a list of features. Low-level requirements are a narrative; developers just describe what is implemented.

Formal process models see the dynamic nature of FOSS projects as a problem, but this can be a key part of their value. However, because requirements are broken, the intent and expectations that inform the software are often lost in the noise.

The Eclipse Trustable Software Framework (TSF) is a lightweight continuous compliance framework, designed as and for FOSS. It lets you organise and evidence your own objectives, not just those demanded by standards. As an open project, with only git as a prerequisite, it is also workflow-agnostic.

Its unique outcome is an automated, transparent and traceable body of evidence, quantified by a confidence score. This informs project decisions, such as where to focus future efforts, and enables consumers to evaluate their trust in the software.

We provide an overview of the TSF and examples of how it is applied. We then show how the model and methodology can be mapped to functional safety standards, to support certification and ongoing assessment.
Speakers
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Paul Albertella

Consultant, Codethink
I'm passionate about software engineering processes and the role that open source software and communities are playing in their evolution. My current focus is on the Trustable Software Framework in relation to safety and the use of Linux and open source tools in the Automotive industry... Read More →
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Kaspar Matas

Software Engineer, Codethink
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester researching FPGAs.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
D204
  Safety-critical Software

15:05 CEST

Documentation That Runs: Bridging Code, Prose, and Interactivity - Kailan Blanks, Fastly
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G106
Some developers like to study documentation, while others dive straight into their editor to start hacking on code — but what if documentation was the code? With today’s technologies it is more feasible than ever to blur the line between learning and building, by embedding live, editable examples directly into docs. Join me as I explore examples of interactive documentation from across the open source ecosystem and unpack five years' worth of lessons from building interactive docs for a developer platform.
Speakers
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Kailan Blanks

Senior Software Engineer, Fastly
As part of the Developer Experience team at Fastly, Kailan is responsible for customer-facing tooling and content. As part of his work, he maintains the Fastly Developer Hub and various open-source projects for Fastly’s serverless compute environment. Outside of work hours, he builds... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G106
  Technical Documentation

15:05 CEST

Why Quantum Safe Encryption Is the Next Y2K, and How To Be Prepared - Joe Winchester, IBM
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
TBA
Client server computing relies on encryption algorithms to ensure that data sent across networks cannot be read, or faked, by untrusted parties. This is the rock on which financial computing works in a business to customer environment, as well as how data at rest is protected from malicious prying eyes reading our personal data.

This talk will cover the basics of how Diffe-Hellman encryption works, how symmetric and asymetric keys operate, as well as how all of this will soon become unsafe because of quantum computing. As well as showing the audience the basics (no maths degree required) this talk will show how quantum safe encryption is able to address this, and how folks can get wise and get started.
Speakers
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Joe Winchester

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
I work on open source projects around software tooling platforms. My current project is Zowe, which is part of the Linux Foundation and Open Mainframe Project where I am part of the leadership committee and an ambassador. Prior to Zowe I worked on Eclipse tooling and before that Java... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
TBA
  Wildcard

15:05 CEST

A Slice of Zephyr Pi! - Chris Boross, Raspberry Pi
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
D203
Since the first Raspberry Pi boards were released in 2012, they have been used by hobbyists, educators and professionals all over the world, and pushed to their limits in space, on deserts and in the deep sea. With the introduction of the RP2040 and RP2350 microcontrollers over the past few years, Raspberry Pi entered the world of deeply embedded systems with some fresh ideas. The Zephyr community quickly set to work supporting this new hardware – and it hasn’t stopped since!

This talk will cover the current state of Zephyr support for Raspberry Pi microcontrollers, how we got here and how developers can contribute to further improvements. This includes working on building blocks of the open source embedded ecosystem such as OpenOCD. We will look at support for Rust and RISC-V, as well as the Programmable I/O (PIO) which is unique to Raspberry Pi. Finally, we will show a survey of open source applications and hardware built with the combination of Zephyr and Raspberry Pi, with some tips for using them in your own projects.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Boross

Chris Boross

Raspberry Pi Silicon and Compute Hardware, Raspberry Pi
Chris Boross supports customers around the world in their use of Raspberry Pi Silicon and Compute Hardware. 
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
D203
  Zephyr Developer Summit

15:05 CEST

Building a Zephyr-Native Audio Framework With Sound Open Firmware - Iuliana Prodan, NXP Semiconductors
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
D202
In this session, we will explore the audio stack and frameworks available in Zephyr, with a particular focus on Sound Open Firmware (SOF) - an open-source audio digital signal processing (DSP) firmware and SDK that provides essential infrastructure and tools for audio and signal processing development.

With the release of SOF 2.0, the project has integrated Zephyr RTOS, simplifying and improving its codebase. However, SOF remains tightly coupled to a Linux host OS driver, making it primarily suited for MPUs.

This talk will dive into decoupling SOF from Linux to enable standalone operation on MCUs, making it the go-to audio framework for Zephyr.

Key topics will include:

• Replacing Linux-based host communication

• Modifying SOF firmware to run without Linux-driven configuration

• Leveraging Zephyr drivers for hardware control

Join us to discuss the next steps in making SOF a truly Zephyr-native audio framework.
Speakers
avatar for Luliana Prodan

Luliana Prodan

Software Engineer, NXP Semiconductors
Software Engineer at NXP, specializing in Sound Open Firmware, Zephyr, and Linux.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

15:45 CEST

Coffee Break
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:45 - 16:20 CEST
Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:45 - 16:20 CEST
  Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

16:20 CEST

Lightning Talk: How Zephyr Shaped My Journey as a Trainee in Embedded Software Development - Verena Schweinstetter, ZEISS
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 16:30 CEST
D202
The community spirit of open-source projects is extraordinarily captivating, and it was this very spirit that I experienced firsthand within my trainee program. During this time, I had the invaluable opportunity to immerse myself in various aspects of the Zephyr Project across different job stations.

In this session, I’ll share my journey of becoming part of the Zephyr Project community, highlighting:

• Navigating the Learning Curve: Insights from porting existing applications to Zephyr.

• Establishing a Repository Structure: Challenges and solutions in organizing code effectively.

• Exploring the Toolchain: Meeting the needs of embedded software development.

• Contributing My First Pull Request: The thrill and lessons from my first pull request.

By the end of this session, you’ll walk away with practical tips to kickstart your own journey with Zephyr and feel inspired by the empowering experience of being part of the Zephyr Project community!
Speakers
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Verena Abt

Embedded Developer, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
Verena is a young professional at Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, where she has been working since April 2025. Prior to that, she successfully completed the ZEISS Global Graduate Program, specializing in embedded software development. During her time in the program, she became deeply involved... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 16:30 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:20 CEST

Integrating EPSS and CVSS in Open Policy Agent To Quarantine Real-world Vulnerabilities - Nigel Douglas, Cloudsmith
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
Emerald Room
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) and EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) are both valuable tools for vulnerability management, but they serve different purposes. CVSS assesses the inherent severity of a vulnerability, whereas EPSS estimates the likelihood of that vulnerability being exploited in the wild. At Cloudsmith, we integrate open source projects like EPSS and the Trivy scanner for CVSS analysis into Open Policy Agent (OPA) to strengthen supply chain enforcement.

In this session, we’ll examine four recent CVEs that highlight the contrast between these two approaches—cases where vulnerabilities score highly under CVSS but have a low EPSS probability, and others with high EPSS scores (indicating strong exploit potential) that had not yet been published in the NIST CVE database at the time of artifact scanning. These examples underscore the importance of leveraging both CVSS and EPSS in a comprehensive vulnerability management strategy.

We’ll also explore how open-source tools like OPA can be used to enforce these security controls effectively within the software supply chain.
Speakers
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Nigel Douglas

Head of Developer Relations, Cloudsmith
Nigel Douglas is the Head of Developer Relations at Cloudsmith. He champions Cloudsmith’s developer ecosystem by creating compelling educational content, engaging with developer communities, and promoting Cloudsmith as the go-to solution for artifact management and supply chain... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
Emerald Room
  Cloud & Containers

16:20 CEST

Enhancing Interrupt Controller Reliability: Implementing Error Detection Correction in Linux - Priyadarsini G, Samsung Semiconductor India Research, Bangalore
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
Elicium 1
Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) is critical for ensuring data integrity and system reliability, particularly in modern high-performance computing architectures. ARM’s Generic Interrupt Controller is widely used in multi-core processors design, where fault tolerance is essential for maintaining system stability. With the rising risk of transient and permanent faults due to hardware aging, radiation effects, and environmental interference, integrating EDAC mechanisms into interrupt controller is essential for preventing data corruption and unexpected system failures.

This work presents the first implementation of EDAC for ARM GIC-600 interrupt controller in Linux kernel, extending EDAC subsystem with new patches and drivers to integrate ARM’s error-reporting capabilities. The talk explores the necessity of EDAC in mitigating errors in interrupt controller and includes sample code snippets demonstrating how to extend the Linux EDAC framework to support error logging and correction.

Furthermore, we present performance benchmarks and case studies evaluating the effectiveness of EDAC in interrupt controller, highlighting trade-offs between error resilience and system overhead.
Speakers
avatar for Priyadarsini G

Priyadarsini G

Associate Staff Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor India Research, Bangalore
Priyadarsini is an accomplished Embedded Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience in embedded systems domain. With a passion for technology and a flair for innovation, she has consistently delivered exceptional solutions in the domain of embedded systems. She is well-versed... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
Elicium 1
  Embedded Linux Conference

16:20 CEST

Software Defined Hardware on Heterogeneous SoCs Using OpenAMP - Peter Fecher, PHYTEC Messtechnik GmbH
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
Elicium 2
The growing complexity of modern embedded systems requires innovative approaches to make hardware more flexible and efficient to use. A concept for the software-controlled emulation of interfaces using technologies like Bit-banging, NXPs FlexIO or similar will be presented. The presented approach utilizes the integrated coprocessor of a heterogeneous SoC to achieve maximum efficiency and fulfil the corresponding real-time requirements.

With Zephyr RTOS and OpenAMP, seamless inter-processor communication is realized, allowing easy and modular integration into Linux. The prototype developed shows how software-defined approaches can improve flexibility of hardware adaptation in embedded systems.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Fecher

Peter Fecher

Embedded Software Developer, PHYTEC Messtechnik GmbH
Peter Fecher just finished his bachelors degree in Computer Engineering. He has been working at PHYTEC for 3 years now, specialising on microcontrollers and IoT systems.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
Elicium 2
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:20 CEST

Yocto or Debian for Your Embedded System? Yes. - Alan Martinovic, Northern.tech
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
D201
Many embedded products start with a stock Debian image. It’s quick to get started and familiar from laptop installations, but what works for prototyping becomes a liability as the product matures. A stock installation created directly on the device—by clicking through menus and tweaking settings at runtime—gets frozen into a fragile “golden image” that breaks as soon as you need reproducibility or more than a few people work on the device.

On the other hand, Yocto gives you full control—down to the exact version of systemd or how 'ls' gets built... even when you don't want to. It’s powerful, but comes with a steep learning curve, long build times, and complexity that feels overwhelming in the early stages of development.

This talk is about a third approach. By reusing prebuilt Debian packages, you can assemble a custom OS without relying on the golden image or Yocto. We’ll look at how this model works and show hands-on examples of building minimal images with several tools and how it compares to the other two approaches.
Speakers
avatar for Alan Martinovic

Alan Martinovic

Senior Customer Engineer, Northern.tech
I've been working with embedded Linux for over 10 years, covering everything from low-level systems to full product experiences and customer-facing work. These days, I help teams handle device lifecycle challenges and roll out OTA updates. Along the way, I've worked with a bunch of... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
D201
  Embedded Linux Conference

16:20 CEST

Adding the W3C’s New ARRM To Improve Your Project’s Accessibility - Mike Gifford, CivicActions
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G001-002
The W3C recently released a draft of the Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM) framework—a practical tool for open source teams to better define and share accessibility responsibilities across roles. In this session, we’ll explore how ARRM can help open source maintainers, designers, developers, content contributors, and community leaders collaborate more effectively on accessibility goals.

Whether you’re maintaining a solo project or coordinating a large contributor base, ARRM offers a roadmap to embed accessibility into your workflows and culture—without burning out a single “accessibility lead.” Learn how adopting ARRM can help your project move from one-time audits to continuous improvement, and why accessibility is a shared responsibility—not just a technical checklist.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/planning/arrm/
Speakers
avatar for Mike Gifford

Mike Gifford

Open Standards and Practices Lead, CivicActions
Mike Gifford is an open standards and practices lead at CivicActions and a thought leader on digital accessibility in the public sector. He is also a W3C Invited Expert and recognized authoring tool accessibility expert.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G001-002
  Equity + Inclusion + Accessibility
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:20 CEST

Civil Infrastructure Platform: State of Industrial Grade Linux - Yoshitake Kobayashi & Dinesh Kumar, Toshiba Corporation
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G102-103
The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project continues to advance Industrial Grade Linux for mission-critical systems requiring long-term reliability, security, and regulatory alignment. This talk will provide the latest updates across CIP’s core activities. We’ll begin with progress on the next Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) CIP kernel based on Linux 6.12, designed to offer a robust foundation for products with extended life cycles.

Then, we’ll cover CIP Security Working Group activities, including alignment with IEC 62443-4. Following successful 4-1 process conformance in 2024, efforts now focus on meeting the technical requirements of 4-2. These activities not only support industry best practices but also lay groundwork for compliance with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). We will also share updates from the Software Update Working Group, which is integrating The Update Framework (TUF) to ensure secure and reliable updates for embedded systems. Finally, we will highlight contribution trends and point to resources for developers and companies looking to engage with CIP and help shape secure, sustainable Linux-based critical infrastructure.
Speakers
avatar for Dinesh Kumar

Dinesh Kumar

Engineering Manager, Toshiba Corporation
avatar for Yoshitake Kobayashi

Yoshitake Kobayashi

Senior Manager, Toshiba Corporation
Yoshitake Kobayashi leads open source initiatives at Toshiba Corporation, where his team develops and maintains a Linux distribution used across a range of Toshiba products. His research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, and dynamically reconfigurable systems... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G102-103
  Linux

16:20 CEST

Demystifying Containers and Container Images - Dan Čermák, SUSE
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G109
Containers have become a cornerstone of modern IT infrastructure, yet, despite their widespread adoption, many technical fundamentals behind the container ecosystem are not widely known and lead to confusion and open questions like:

- Are containers just lightweight virtual machines?

- What are the layers of a container image?

- Are containers inherently more secure than workloads running on bare metal?

This session aims to demystify the underlying concepts behind containers and container images. We will trace the historical and technical evolution, beginning with foundational features like namespaces and cgroups, and how they are employed by container engines like Docker and Podman. Then we will provide an overview of how container images are constructed and how containers are launched from container images by Docker and Podman.

Whether you are new to containerization or looking to solidify your foundational knowledge, this talk will provide you with the necessary groundwork to successfully navigate the containerization landscape.
Speakers
avatar for Dan Čermák

Dan Čermák

Senior Full Stack Web Developer, SUSE
Dan is working as a Senior Web developer, building container images, creating developer tools and sometimes works on QA at SUSE, which he joined after working as an embedded firmware developer. Originally he started out as a theoretical astrophysicist, but after becoming a contributor... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G109
  Open Source 101

16:20 CEST

Towards Quality SBOMs: The OpenChain Telco SBOM Guide - Marc-Etienne Vargenau, Nokia
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G105
OpenChain is the international standard for open source license compliance programs ; it has been created by a joined effort of the community. The OpenChain project has several work groups. The Telco work group was formed to create a recommendation for an SBOM format to be exchanged between telecommunication companies, their suppliers and customers.

The result is the "OpenChain Telco SBOM Guide" that describes what a quality SBOM should contain and how and when it should be distributed. It includes industry standard requirements like "NTIA SBOM Minimum elements" and PURL. Although developed by telcos, it is generic and can be used by other industries.

The OpenChain Telco SBOM Guide is used by Nokia as a basis for its SBOM format. The talk will discuss lessons learned from implementing the Guide at Nokia. Putting the Guide in practice has led the community to provide a minor release 1.1.

Nokia provided an open source tool to validate SBOMs against the Guide. It allows to recursively validate linked SBOMs. It is available under Apache-2.0 license.
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Marc-Etienne VARGENAU

Senior Specialist Open Source, Nokia
Marc-Etienne Vargenau is a member of the Open Source team at Nokia. He has worked as an Open Source developer for many years. Among other projects, he contributed to FusionForge (https://fusionforge.org/) and PhpWiki (https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/). He is contributing... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G105
  OpenGovCon

16:20 CEST

Keeping Your Software Supply Chain Healthy - Daniel Rabinovitz, GitLab
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G104
Heading to your annual checkup, you're anxious. Your abandoned gym routine and poor eating habits have left you with elevated sodium levels and unwanted weight gain. Last year's choices could have yielded better health outcomes, but now you face the consequences. Your organization faces similar health risks in its digital ecosystem. During your transformation, have you thoroughly examined your SDLC? Are your systems truly resistant to sophisticated attacks? Could unauthorized licenses be silently compromising your products from within? Effective protection mechanisms exist to safeguard your software supply chain throughout this critical transition.

Join Dan as he covers how to address software supply chain security to keep your organization healthy. Topics covered will include:

- Taking your software supply chain's vital signs with comprehensive security audits

- Diagnosing AI-related vulnerabilities before they become chronic conditions

- Cutting out harmful dependencies while strengthening your codebase's immune system

- Developing a healthy dependency management lifestyle for long-term organizational wellness

Don't let poor digital health decisions compromise your business.
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Daniel Rabinovitz

Senior Solutions Architect, GitLab
Dan is a Senior Solutions Architect at GitLab with 20+ years of experience in technical pre-sales. He's worked with Fortune 50 clients across financial services, insurance, and media sectors, including AIG, Citibank, and Verizon. Previously at Digital.ai, Sauce Labs, and IBM, Dan... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G104
  Operations Management

16:20 CEST

Team Topologies and the Value Paths for OSPOs & ISPOs - Clare Dillon, CURIOSS
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G107
In 2019 Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais’s published Team Topologies, which became a widely influential book in the software and DevOps communities, praised for its practical framework on organizing teams for fast flow and effectiveness. The book defines four fundamental team types (including enabling and platform teams). Team Topologies' popularity drove investment in enabling and platform teams, as organizations attempted to reduce cognitive load and support stream-aligned teams through better internal tooling and collaboration structures. Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) and InnerSource Program Offices (ISPOs) are organizational units that enable open collaboration practices. In this talk, Clare will use the Team Topologies framework as a lens to understand how these program offices fit into an organization’s structure. This talk will explore how Team Topologies can provide a foundation for crafting a clear and compelling value proposition for OSPOs and ISPOs. It helps translate the often intangible or misunderstood work of these program offices into well-defined roles, interactions, and outcomes that resonate with business, engineering, and leadership audiences.
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Clare Dillon

CURIOSS Community Lead, CURIOSS
Clare Dillon is community lead for CURIOSS, a community for university & research institution OSPOs. Clare is also a researcher with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and a member of Lero's OSPO team. From 2021-2023, Clare served as the inaugural ED... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G107
  OSPOCon
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:20 CEST

MISRA C and C++ in OSS: Yes, We Can! - Roberto Bagnara, BUGSENG / University of Parma
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
D204
Building software systems that embody industry best practices for safety and security cannot be done in unrestricted C or C++. While C and C++ have many strong points, their rooting the the C of the 1970's are the origin of their weakness: they have many aspects that are not fully defined, obscure corners that can easily mislead programmers, and C comes without any sort of run-time error detection. As open-source software is being adopted in safety- and security-critical systems, compliance with the relevant industry standards is becoming a priority. The MISRA C and MISRA C++ coding standard define subsets of C and C++ that have been adopted across all industry sectors that develop software in critical contexts. In this tutorial, we introduce MISRA C/C++, their key role in the development of critical systems' software and their relevance to industry safety and security standards. The presentation is specifically designed for open-source practitioners and will leverage our experience in bringing the MISRA coding standards in open-source projects (most prominently, Xen and Zephyr).
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Roberto Bagnara

Functional Safety Expert / Professor, BUGSENG / University of Parma
Roberto Bagnara is professor of Computer Science at the University of Parma and Software Verification Expert and Evangelist at BUGSENG. He coauthored more than 40 papers, in international journals and conference proceedings, on programming languages, static analysis and other techniques... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
D204
  Safety-critical Software

16:20 CEST

User Research in the Open-source Project: The Good Docs Project Case - Lana Novikova, JetBrains
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G106
This talk explores how The Good Docs Project integrated user research methodologies into an open-source environment to better understand our users and improve documentation templates and suite we provide. I'll share our journey of creating a UX research kit tailored for open-source projects, conducting user interviews, and analyzing qualitative data - all while navigating the unique challenges of distributed collaboration and volunteer contributors. This case study offers practical insights for other open-source communities looking to implement user-centered design approaches.
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Lana Novikova

Product manager, JetBrains
Hello there! I’m Lana, a dedicated technical writer, docops enthusiast, and a specialist in knowledge management.
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G106
  Technical Documentation
  • Audience Experience Level Any

16:20 CEST

From Radar Echoes To Real-Time Recognition: Deep Learning on Another Planet an Open Source Workflow - Viktor Somogyi, Netwerk / HUN-REN / ESA
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
TBA
What happens when you combine real radar images of Venus, a bunch of volcanoes, and deep learning? In this talk, I’ll walk you through a fully open-source machine learning pipeline that turns extraterrestrial data into structured scientific insights. Our goal is to automatically recognize geological formations like craters, ridges, or volcanoes on radar imagery — a bit like Google Maps, but for another planet.

The workflow starts with hand-labeled GeoJSON data in QGIS, then moves through preprocessing, training, and testing using PyTorch, scikit-learn, and AWS SageMaker — all running on Linux-based cloud infrastructure. This ESA (European Space Agency) funded scientific project is coordinated by the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN), and every part of it is powered by open tools and services.

If you're curious about how Linux, Python, and AWS can work together to map alien surfaces, this session will take you there — without leaving Earth.
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Viktor Somogyi

Lead Developer | Machine Learning Specialist // External Researcher AI & Data Science Division, Netwerk / HUN-REN / ESA
Viktor Somogyi is a Machine Learning Specialist and Lead Developer at Netwerk Media, with over a decade of experience in AI-driven software projects. He currently works as an external researcher on a European Space Agency–funded planetary science project led by HUN-REN, using deep... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
TBA
  Wildcard

16:20 CEST

Zephyr & Linux Devicetree, Similarities and Differences – Practical Guide To Boards, Shields and Con - Stephan Linz, Navimatix GmbH & Tobias Kästner, inovex GmbH
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
D203
With the introduction of Devicetree translation into the Zephyr build process, not only was a proven hardware description language integrated as the state of the art, but also the door to a new art of metaprogramming was opened for the first time for deep embedded programming.

After a short introduction, this talk will take a practical look at the terms commonly used in Zephyr, such as boards, shields and connectors, explain their differences to familiar build and runtime processes from the Linux world and show the limits of the abstractions that can currently be realized with Zephyr. Simple examples for daily work will be presented, but also terms such as Nexus or Shield Stack will be defined in more detail.
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Tobias Kästner

Solution Architect Medical IoT, inovex GmbH
A physicist by training, Tobias Kaestner has always been fascinated by the intersection of the physical with the digital world. His professional career started as a SW team lead in a medical device start-up and since then he has served a couple of roles for 15+ years in this industry... Read More →
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Stephan Linz

FOSS Technology Expert, Zephyr & Linux Devicetree, Similarities and Differences – Practical Guide To Boards, Shields and Con - Stephan Linz,
With 25 years of hardware-related software development using only freely available technologies for scientific instrumentation, industry, medical devices, automotive, I have seen many frameworks and tools for Linux and deeply embedded systems. Since 2016, this has also included Zephyr... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
D203
  Zephyr Developer Summit

16:30 CEST

Lightning Talk: Zephyr in Education - Vixay Phimmasane, Institute of Embedded Systems, Zurich University of Applied Sciences & Flavio Felder, ZHAW InES
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:30 - 16:40 CEST
D202
The Institute of Embedded Systems at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences uses Zephyr for several lab exercises for BSc, MSc and students in further education.

These labs include topics like embedded security, bootloaders, and general operating system concepts.

In this lightning talk, we will showcase these labs and discuss the challenge of providing a uniform Zephyr development environment that can be set up quickly and reliably.
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Flavio Felder

Research Assistant, ZHAW InES
Born and raised in Switzerland, I started my journey with a four-year apprenticeship as an electronic technician, followed by earning a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Now, I work full-time as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Embedded Systems at the Zurich University... Read More →
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Vixay Phimmasane

Research Associate, Institute of Embedded Systems
Vixay Phimmasane obtained his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 2021
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:30 - 16:40 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

16:40 CEST

Lightning Talk: Protecting Zephyr Against Memory Safety Vulnerabilities With the New CHERI Hardware Architecture - Jennifer Jackson, University of Birmingham
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 CEST
D202
There is currently an urgent need for companies to reduce and eventually eliminate software-based memory safety vulnerabilities from their product lines. This requirement begins with the underlying operating systems and extends to the applications that depend on them.

This talk will advocate that now is the right time for the Zephyr operating system to embrace an emerging new hardware architecture extension called CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) to protect its software and applications against memory vulnerabilities from being exploited.

The CHERI technology has a development history spanning nearly 15 years and is backed by the recent formation of the CHERI Alliance - a consortium of businesses (including ARM, Google and Microsoft), academic institutions, and government organisations.

The talk will provide a summary of the CHERI technology, the latest developments, and the work being done to provide CHERI-RISC-V architecture support for Zephyr.
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Jennifer Jackson

Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
Jennifer Jackson is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and has been working on projects involving CHERI-based hardware since 2021. She has a PhD from the University of Warwick and has worked both within academia and industry. Her background is in electronic engineering... Read More →
Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 CEST
D202
  Zephyr Developer Summit

17:00 CEST

Annual ELC Closing Game: 20th Anniversary Edition
Wednesday August 27, 2025 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
Auditorium
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