The ELISA Project hosts in-person workshops on a regular basis to gather the project members, contributors, and other partners in the ecosystem to further collaboration, accelerate project progress, and plan for future goals. The next workshop will be co-hosted with Canonical on June 9-11 in London. We strongly encourage in-person participation for the best collaboration; a virtual component may be added if there is sufficient interest.
Location: Canonical’s London Office
Date/Time: 1/2 day in the afternoon on June 9, full day on June 10, and 1/2 day in the morning on June 11
Meals: Group dinner provided offsite on June 9, lunch provided onsite on June 10
Accommodation: Search for hotels around the Tower Bridge. Recommended hotels include Hilton Tower Bridge, La Lit, Premier Inn, Dixon, which are all within walking distance. (please note that ELISA/Linux Foundation didn’t contract rooms at these properties and cannot guarantee rates, availability, or service. These hotels are recommended only because it’s located near the event venue.)
Cost: Free to attend, made possible by the generous support of ELISA Members and our co-host, Canonical
CFP: Please use this form to propose topics. CFP closes on April 30, 2026.
Registration (required): Free to attend. Please use this form to register for the workshop. In-person registration will be capped at 35.
Draft Schedule (all times in local BST)
Note: schedule subject to change without prior notice
June 9, 2026
12:30 Check-in and Registration
13:00 Welcome from ELISA Leadership and Co-host Canonical
Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Philipp Ahmann, ELISA TSC Chair; Teemu Kärkkäinen & Jaume Rafols Borrell, Canonical
13:30 Ask Me Anything
Gabriele Paoloni, ELISA Governing Board Chair; Philipp Ahmann, ELISA TSC Chair
14:15 Certifying Linux for Safety-Critical Systems: A Cybersecurity Compliance Case Study
Mikel Azkarate-askatsua, Canonical
14:45 Longterm latency monitoring of Linux with PREEMPT_RT
Jan Altenberg, OSADL
15:30 Break and Hallway Track
16:00 SafetyGuard – Watchdog Software
Sathishkumar Duraisamy, SDuraiEngineer; Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
16:30 Development status of AGL SoDeV
Yuichi Kusakabe, Honda Motor Co., Ltd
17:00 Functional safety with Xen, Zephyr and Linux for avionics, automotive and industrial
Matthew Weber, The Boeing Company; Ayan Kumar Halder, AMD
17:55 Day 1 Wrap-up
18:00 Day 1 ends
19:00 Dinner Offsite (location coming soon)
June 10, 2026
8:30 Coffee and Welcome Back
9:00 Improving kernel test coverage with stress-ng
Colin King, stress-ng Maintainer
9:30 Taming the Violation Tsunami: Using AI to Tailor Static Code Analysis for Safe Linux
Eli Gurvitz, NVIDIA
10:15 Tentative: Discussion of Usage of AI tooling in safety for verification and testing
Olivier Charrier, Wind River
11:00: Break and Hallway Track
11:15 SPDX modeling for a safety-case – feedback on role and assumption
Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis; Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
11:45 From Best Practices to Evidence: How Software Heritage and SWHID Support Trustworthy Open Source
Wendi Urribarri, Woven by Toyota
12:30: Lunch
13:30 Lightening Talks
13:30 BASIL
Luigi Pellecchia, Red Hat
13:45 Railways SIG
Henrik Brändle, Insitute for Rail Vehicles, RWTH Aachen University
14:00 The Linux System – More than a kernel
Isaac Trefz, Eletrobit
14:15 Eclipse S-CORE and AoUs to the Operating System
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
14:30 A PoC Based Framework to Evaluate Linux VMA Criticalities in Safety-Critical Systems
Alessandro Carminati, NVIDIA
15:15: Break and Hallway Track
15:30 What do we expect from a Safety Manual?
Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis
16:15: What overall approach to enable Linux in safety applications can we recommend?
Paul Albertella, Codethink; Igor Stoppa, NVIDIA
17:00 Defining Linux Kernel Requirements and Test Specifications out of the Kernel Tree
Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat; Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Chuck Wolber, The Boeing Company
18:00 Day 1 wrap-up
18:05 Day 2 ends
June 11, 2026
8:30 Coffee and Welcome Back
9:00 Update on NVIDIA’s approach to ASIL B Qualified Linux
Igor Stoppa, NVIDIA
10:00 Comparing ELISA Lighthouse OSS SIG Checklist with Existing OSS Best-Practice Frameworks
Wendi Urribarri, Woven by Toyota
11:00 Break and Hallway Track
11:30 Why do we need a process at all in OSS?!
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
12:15 Workshop Wrap-up and Next Steps
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
17:30 Zephyr Project Meetup (separate registration required)
If you’re staying longer, we invite you to join the Zephyr Project Meetup up in London, an in-person event for anyone interested in open source and embedded systems. It features talks on real-world Zephyr use cases, subsystems, and new features, along with opportunities to connect with the community and expand your network. Seats are limited, so early registration is recommended.