The ELISA Project continues to grow as the open source ecosystem increasingly recognizes the importance of safety-critical systems, embedded Linux, requirements traceability, and collaborative safety engineering. Across industries such as automotive, aerospace, industrial, medical, rail, and energy, Linux is playing a larger role in systems where dependability, transparency, and long-term maintainability matter.
As this momentum builds, ELISA is expanding its presence across key open source events in 2026, creating more opportunities for contributors, maintainers, safety experts, developers, and industry leaders to collaborate.
Whether you are already involved in safety-critical Linux or are just beginning to explore how open source can support safety engineering, these upcoming events are great opportunities to learn, contribute, and connect with the ELISA community.
ELISA Workshop London 2026
The next ELISA Workshop will take place June 9–11, 2026, in London, co-hosted with Canonical. The workshop will gather ELISA members, contributors, and ecosystem partners for in-person collaboration, technical discussions, and planning around the project’s next steps. Register for the workshop here.
The London workshop agenda reflects the growing breadth of ELISA’s work. Sessions will explore safety-critical Linux, cybersecurity compliance, PREEMPT_RT latency monitoring, AI-based tooling for safety-critical development, SPDX modeling for safety cases, Software Heritage identifiers, kernel test coverage, safety manuals, Linux kernel requirements, and industry approaches to qualified Linux.
This workshop is an important opportunity for the community to collaborate directly, share progress, discuss challenges, and help define what comes next for safety-critical Linux.
Don’t miss it: registration is required, and seats are limited for in-person attendance.
Open Source Summit 2026 – Mumbai, India
ELISA’s work also connects naturally with the broader conversations happening at Open Source Summit 2026 – Mumbai, India, taking place June 16–17, 2026.
Open Source Summit is a key gathering place for developers, maintainers, technologists, community leaders, OSPO teams, legal experts, policy advocates, standards organizations, and open source ecosystem leaders. It is where the full spectrum of open source communities come together, from Linux and embedded systems to AI, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, security, and safety-critical systems.
The Mumbai event will include tracks such as Embedded, Linux, Linux for Emerging Countries, Open AI & Data, OSS Enabling & Management, Security-adjacent ecosystem topics, Zephyr, and more. For the ELISA community, this is a valuable opportunity to connect safety-critical systems work with adjacent open source domains including embedded Linux, long-term maintenance, security, and ecosystem sustainability.
Open Source Summit 2026 – Seoul, Korea
The momentum continues at Open Source Summit 2026 – Seoul, Korea, taking place August 11–12, 2026.
Like other Open Source Summit events, the Seoul gathering will bring together the technical and non-technical leaders shaping open source. It will provide another important forum for conversations around open source collaboration, governance, safety, security, sustainability, and the role of Linux across industries.
The schedule is expected to go live on June 11, 2026, making this a good time for the ELISA community to watch for relevant sessions, plan participation, and encourage colleagues across the safety-critical and embedded systems ecosystem to attend.
Open Source Summit Europe 2026: Submit Your CFP
ELISA is also encouraging community members to submit proposals for Embedded Linux Conference & Open Source Summit Europe 2026, taking place October 7–9, 2026.
This is a major opportunity to share real-world work, lessons learned, and technical progress related to safety-critical and embedded Linux systems. Suggested submission topics include:
Safety-critical software, open source and safety standards, working with regulatory authorities, security updates for safety-critical systems, safety engineering in open source projects, development data and quality assessment, requirements traceability and testability, safety analysis methodologies, safety-relevant technical features, and case studies from aerospace, automotive, industrial, medical, energy, and other safety-critical domains.
Important dates:
CFP closes: Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at 23:59 CEST
CFP notifications: Friday, July 24, 2026
Schedule announcement: Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Event dates: Wednesday, October 7 – Friday, October 9, 2026
Whether you are working on kernel requirements, safety cases, testing, tooling, compliance, documentation, traceability, or real-world deployment, your experience can help move the ecosystem forward.
ELISA at Linux Plumbers Conference 2026: Safe Systems with Linux Microconference
ELISA will also be part of the Safe Systems with Linux Microconference at Linux Plumbers Conference 2026, taking place October 5–7, 2026, at the Prague Congress Centre in Prague, Czechia, with hybrid participation available.
As Linux is increasingly used in systems with varying levels of criticality, the need for traceability between requirements, code, tests, and supporting artifacts is becoming more urgent. The Safe Systems with Linux Microconference will focus on how the Linux kernel ecosystem can better support structured requirements, documentation, testing, and artifact sharing while preserving the flexibility and speed of upstream development.
This year’s discussion will build on prior work around expressing requirements and traceability as sidecar data structures. Topics will include requirements-driven testing, semantic aspects of kernel requirements, the Linux Kernel Requirements Framework, automation tooling, technical debt reduction, kernel quality initiatives, industry adoption, and the role of requirements in education and onboarding.
The microconference is an excellent place for kernel developers, maintainers, safety architects, tooling experts, and industry stakeholders to collaborate on practical approaches for dependable, safety-relevant systems with Linux.
Why This Matters
The ELISA Project is growing because the need is growing.
Industries want to use Linux and open source software in systems where reliability, accountability, and safety evidence matter. At the same time, open source communities need approaches that respect upstream development practices rather than forcing traditional safety processes into workflows where they do not fit.
ELISA helps bridge that gap.
By bringing together experts from across organizations and industries, ELISA supports shared methods, common terminology, reusable evidence, stronger tooling, and open collaboration around safety-critical Linux. The project’s involvement in workshops, Open Source Summit events, and safety-focused sessions reflects a broader shift: safety-critical open source is no longer a niche conversation. It is becoming a central part of the open source ecosystem.
Get Involved
Now is the time to participate.
Attend the ELISA Workshop in London. Join the conversations at Open Source Summit India, Korea, and Europe. Submit a CFP for Open Source Summit Europe. Take part in the Safe Systems with Linux Microconference at Linux Plumbers Conference. Share your use cases, your challenges, your tools, and your lessons learned.
The future of safety-critical systems with Linux will be built through collaboration, and ELISA is helping create the space for that work to happen.