ELISA

Open Source Summit: Amsterdam, Netherlands 2025
2025-08-25 - 2025-08-27
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open source code and community contributors.
Why Attend

Connect with the people shaping open source
Learn from maintainers, architects, and industry leaders
Discover new technologies and real-world solutions
Collaborate on ideas that move projects forward
Grow your skills, your network, and your career

ELISA Project at the Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2025
We are excited to announce that the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) Project will be participating in the upcoming Open Source Summit Europe, taking place August 25-27, 2025 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
As a proud Bronze Sponsor of this year’s event, ELISA will also be part of the Safety-Critical Software Summit, one of the focused tracks within Open Source Summit Europe
This is a key opportunity to connect with developers, system architects, functional safety experts, and open source contributors working at the intersection of Linux and safety-critical systems.
What to Expect from ELISA Project at Open Source Summit Europe?
Yes, we have a booth and we would love to see you there!
Stop by Booth #29 to:

Learn more about ELISA’s mission and progress
See how Linux can support safety-critical systems across industries
Explore tools, processes, and working group initiatives
Check out live demos
Meet with project members, contributors and users
Pick up your favourite ELISA branded giveaways

And if you have been following ELISA for a while, you may have noticed we have refreshed our logo!
Come by the booth to grab special edition stickers and updated designs featuring the new logo. Quantities are limited, so be sure to stop by early!
Whether you are in automotive, industrial, medical, or another safety-focused domain, this is a great opportunity to ask questions and see how ELISA might support your work.
ELISA Talks and Sessions
The ELISA Project will also be featured in the Safety Critical Software track sessions. You can find the full schedule information here.
This track explores the intersection of open source and safety standards, covering best practices for regulatory compliance, security updates, and safety engineering. Sessions will delve into requirements traceability, quality assessments, safety analysis methodologies, and technical development for safety-critical systems.
Join the ELISA Community
If you are interested in functional safety or contributing to the project, we would love to have you involved. Learn more.
Join the community discussion here in the ELISA Project discord server.
👋 See You in Amsterdam
The ELISA Project is proud to be part of Open Source Summit Europe 2025 and the growing conversation around safety-critical open source systems. From booth activities to in-depth technical talks, this is a great opportunity to learn, connect, and collaborate.
Don’t forget to stop by Booth #29, attend our talks at the Safety-Critical Software Summit, and meet the people behind the project.
We look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam!

Opportunity Open Source Conference 2025
2025-09-05 - 2025-09-07
Join the open source community at IIT Kanpur from September 5-7, 2025 for a gathering that brings together developers, enthusiasts, industry experts, and academics to explore the latest trends, tools, and projects in open source.
The Open Source Conference (OOSC 3.0), is a premier event dedicated to fostering innovation, collaboration, and learning in the open-source community. This gathering brings together developers, enthusiasts, industry experts, and academics to explore the latest trends, tools, and projects in open source.
Be a part of the vibrant open-source community this year, at IIT Kanpur. Whether you are a developer, student, researcher, or enthusiast, the OOSC offers something for everyone. Join us to learn, innovate, and contribute to the open-source movement.
Share your expertise, projects, and experiences with the community.
Learn more about the event and register here.

eLSA Symposium - Göttingen, Germany - September 25-26, 2025
2025-09-25 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The eLSA Symposium has been initiated 2025 to support enabling the utilization of open source software in (highly) regulated context, mainly functional safety and security. The idea is to bring together academia with peers from industry from different domains. The symposium is for everybody, who

utilizes open-source software in safe and secure embedded systems
wonders how to utilize and maintain open-source software in regulated context
works on methods and tools used to qualify open-source software

Learn more about eLSA Symposium here.
At this symposium, our ELISA Project ambassador Philipp Ahmann (ETAS GmbH) will be presenting a talk on “Code, Compliance, and Confusion: Open Source in Safety-Critical Products“.
About the talk:
The integration of Open Source Software (OSS) in functionally safe systems represents a critical intersection of innovation and compliance requirements across multiple industries. This talk examines two complementary aspects of this evolving landscape: the current state of OSS in functional safety applications and the persistent barriers hindering wider adoption.
2024 has marked significant acceleration in the visibility and adoption of OSS in safety-critical environments, with diverse projects demonstrating varying levels of maturity. Foundation-backed initiatives like the ELISA project within the Linux Foundation are establishing frameworks for Linux in safety applications, while specialized operating systems such as Zephyr and Xen continue to gain traction. The Eclipse Foundation’s Safe Open Vehicle Core (S-Core) project represents another significant advancement, aiming to create a common certifiable automotive middleware stack that addresses critical safety requirements. The ecosystem now spans from microkernel solutions like L4Re and seL4 to full-featured platforms, with Linux serving as a prime example of the opportunities and challenges in this space. Infrastructure improvements like the SPDX safety profile address critical aspects of safety documentation in Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), while safety-certified components like the Ferrocene Rust compiler create new possibilities for language-level safety guarantees.
Despite this progress, substantial barriers impede broader OSS adoption in functionally safe systems. A particularly persistent challenge remains the confusion around terminology and approaches – exemplified by the distinctions between “safety Linux” versus “safe Linux” that illustrate broader issues in how safety responsibility is allocated between OSS components and system-level mitigations. By examining architectural concepts currently implemented in production systems or under development, this presentation cuts through marketing rhetoric to provide clear distinctions between approaches across various open source technologies.
The author will address uncertainty around certification pathways, challenges in establishing sufficient evidence for safety arguments, fragmented governance models, and incomplete understanding of OSS development processes among safety assessors.
Attendees will gain practical insights for evaluating safety approaches in OSS-based systems, including key questions to ask when assessing different safety concepts across industries, with particular emphasis on applications where both manufacturers and suppliers are seeking to implement open source software in safety-critical production systems.
Key take-aways for the audience:
(Software) Architectural concepts used in the usage of OSS in safety-critical systems.
State of various project in their way to address functional safety.
Approaches towards safe usage and certification by OSS projects.
Understanding the marketing elements and tricks used to promote safe OSS.
Better understanding about the OSS safety landscape.
Learn more and register for this event.

ELISA Seminar - Software Hash ID: you will not be able to live without it
2025-10-15 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend.
Title: Software Hash ID: you will not be able to live without it
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 7:00-8:00 Pacific / 14:00-15:00 UTC / 16:00-17:00 CET
Speaker: Thomas Aynaud, Chief Technology Officer at Software Heritage
How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. And please add the webinar joining details to your calendar from the confirmation email you will receive upon registering
Description:

The Software Hash Identifier (SWHID[1]) is an intrinsic identifier for software source code and artifacts that became an international standard in April 2025 (ISO/IEC 18670:2025[2]). As an open standard, SWHID is developed under open governance and was originally championed by Software Heritage[3], which remains its largest and most prominent use case.
Intrinsic identifiers like SWHID will play a foundational role in activities where provenance, reproducibility, auditing, and SBOMs are essential—such as in industries with complex supply chains, safety-critical systems, highly regulated sectors, and security-sensitive environments.
With recent legislation worldwide making SBOMs mandatory or strongly encouraged, their creation and maintenance have become increasingly challenging, especially for organizations managing complex supply chains. SWHID offers a significant simplification, which explains the growing interest and early adoption.
In this talk, Thomas Aynaud will present Software Heritage missions and data model, introduce the concept of intrinsic identifiers, explain the SWHID specification, and present its open standard governance model. He will share how open source projects and companies can adopt and benefit from SWHID through real-world use cases. The session will conclude with a summary of the key advantages of SWHID and an update on Software Heritage’s plans to support its development and adoption in the coming months.

[1] https://www.swhid.org/
[2] https://www.iso.org/standard/89985.html
[3] https://www.softwareheritage.org/

The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit
2025-10-28
The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit is an annual gathering for Linux Foundation Europe members, along with invited speakers, sponsors and media.
This event cultivates collaboration, open innovation, and partnerships among those in the private public sectors working to drive digital transformation through open collaboration. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance a Europe-wide open source strategy and mobilise resources in their organisations to collaboratively influence the largest shared technology investment of our time.
The event will feature prominent speakers from the private and public sectors and existing and upcoming Linux Foundation projects, as well as offer an opportunity for members of LF Europe to share their organisational priorities and put forward collaboration opportunities to the Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board and membership at large.
Learn more and register for the event here.
The next day, the LF Europe Roadshow opens its doors to a wider audience of developers, policymakers, and community leaders. It will bring together developers, community leaders, industry, and policymakers for a full day of exchange. The program is built around two parallel tracks that reflect the most pressing themes for open source today.
The week concludes in Brussels with the European Open Source Security Forum, co-hosted by OpenSSF and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). This invite-only event will unite policymakers, security experts, and open source leaders to advance impactful security initiatives and policy efforts. The program will include:

Keynotes from European policymakers
Panels on regulation, CRA readiness, and emerging technologies such as quantum security
Targeted discussions on cybersecurity skills and future EU policy frameworks

This Forum provides a unique platform to align Europe’s policy direction with open source security priorities, ensuring that community voices are represented at the highest levels.
ELISA Project at the Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit

We are excited to share that at the upcoming Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit, ELISA Project Ambassador Philipp Ahmann (ETAS) will present “Driving Automotive with Open Source: From Compliance to Collaboration.”
Philipp will explore how automakers and suppliers can align safety and security requirements with open collaboration covering practical processes, tooling, and community models that turn compliance evidence into shared engineering momentum.
If you are attending, add this session to your agenda and connect with the ELISA Project to learn how our working groups help make Linux fit for safety-critical use. Learn more.
Philipp will also participate in a Panel Discussion: Open Source Enabling Industrial Innovation with Paul Brooks, Rockwell Automation; Christophe Villemer, Savoir-faire Linux; Renzo Cherin, Lloyds Banking Group moderated by Paula Grzegorzewska, Linux Foundation.
This session will bring together representatives from diverse vertical industries, including manufacturing, energy, finance, and beyond, to explore how open source is enabling them to achieve their strategic goals. Each panelist will begin with a 15-minute presentation highlighting experience in their specific sector. Then, we will host a 30min panel discussion which will examine the role of open source technologies and joint collaboration in fostering innovation, effectiveness, and long-term growth. Learn more.

ELISA Project at the Open Source Summit: Seoul, South Korea 2025
2025-11-04 - 2025-11-05
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
A Cross-Domain Home for the Entire Open Source Ecosystem
Open Source Summit is not a single-focus, niche event—it’s the big tent that unites the full spectrum of open source technologies and communities. Whether you work in cloud infrastructure, Linux kernel development, AI/ML, embedded systems, DevOps, security, or safety-critical systems, Open Source Summit offers a shared space to exchange ideas, make connections, and learn across domains. It’s where technologists who don’t typically land in the same room get a chance to collaborate.
At the same time, Open Source Summit brings in the leaders and practitioners who support the ecosystem from non-technical angles: open source program office (OSPO) staff, legal experts, policy advocates, standards organizations, equity champions, community managers, and foundation leaders. Together, they help shape the frameworks, culture, and strategy that make open source work.
A Strategic Gathering for Open Source’s Future
This event serves as a strategic checkpoint for the open source movement. It’s where conversations happen about not only what’s being built—but how and why. From sustainability and funding models to licensing, AI alignment, security, and governance, Open Source Summit brings clarity and direction to a fast-changing open source landscape.
Whether you’re deep in code or focused on enabling the communities and structures that support it, this is where your work gains momentum and impact.
ELISA Project will be part of the Safety Critical Software Track. This track explores the intersection of open source and safety standards, covering best practices for regulatory compliance, security updates, and safety engineering. Sessions will delve into requirements traceability, quality assessments, safety analysis methodologies, and technical development for safety-critical systems.
Safety Critical Software Track Sessions:
Driving Safety Forward: Lessons Learned From Deploying OSS in Real-world Automotive – Jaylin Yu, EMQ
Wednesday November 5, 2025 13:35 – 14:05 KST
While OSS in Automotive is seen as the holy grail to solve SDV complexity challenges with faster time to market and higher performance, it still lacks practical real-world examples and showcases that address OSS usage in compliance with the stringent safety and security demands of Automotive. In this talk, the author shares his real-world story of bringing OSS into mass production vehicles. This includes the impact of a healthy open-source community and how academic research helped solve security gaps, leading to increased system stability. This also embraces the impact of the software supply chain, providing a proven approach, refined through failures, helping to lower dependency risk for MQTT-based remote vehicle diagnostics.The session is rounded out by highlighting the link between system utilities and safety functions, covering time synchronization, dependency management, and data integrity within a Linux system, which impact the selection of a file system, and what happens when a customer suddenly requires STR. The audience will leave the session with a holistic impression of what to consider when creating a secure, safe, OSS-based SDV automotive system. Add this session to your schedule.
DO-330 Qualification of Enhanced LLVM Structural Coverage Tool – Minji Park & Seojin Kim, The Boeing Company
Wednesday November 5, 2025 14:15 – 14:45 KST
Structural coverage identifies parts of the code that were not exercised during testing, which is crucial for the reliability of safety-critical applications. The tools used in this verification process must be qualified for confident use.This talk introduces ongoing efforts at Boeing to qualify an enhanced LLVM structural coverage tool, an open-source solution, to comply with RTCA DO-330 standards. Our goal is to utilize this tool to generate coverage data and fulfill the code coverage requirements outlined in RTCA DO-178C for safety-critical avionics software.This talk is connected to the session, “Measuring Code Coverage of the Linux Kernel in Accordance with RTCA DO-178C Considerations,” presented at the 2024 Embedded Open Source Summit North America.The talk will provide an overview of the DO-330 requirements and outline our qualification steps, including validation and verification activities. These efforts are aimed at ensuring that the data generated by the tool is considered reliable evidence for DO-178C objectives. In addition, we will discuss the challenges faced during the qualification of this open-source tool and the approaches we have taken to overcome them. Add this session to your schedule.
Introduction and Consideration of Temporal Partitioning in Avionics With Open Source Eco-System – Haesun Kim & Gihwan Kwon, The Boeing Company
Wednesday November 5, 2025 14:55 – 15:25 KST
The ARINC 653 standard is crucial for the development of integrated modular avionics (IMA) systems, providing a framework for partitioning and managing resources in safety-critical applications. This presentation explores the requirements of ARINC 653 and the considerations necessary for implementing it within an open-source environment through an operating system. We discuss the motivation for adopting ARINC 653 in IMA systems and highlight how it extends beyond a traditional POSIX environment by offering enhanced capabilities for resource management and fault tolerance, which are essential for the rigorous demands of avionics systems. Add this session to your schedule.
Smarter Code, Sneakier Risks: Supply Chain Security in the Age of AI – Lavakush Biyani, Harness
Wednesday November 5, 2025 15:55 – 16:25 KST
AI-powered code assistance tools are reshaping how we develop software, but they also introduce new and unexpected security risks. While helpful, these tools can unintentionally introduce vulnerabilities by suggesting insecure, misleading, or unverified dependencies due to incomplete or inaccurate context. This creates new risks in the software supply chain.In this talk, we will explore real-world examples of AI-generated code leading to security issues and demonstrate how to detect these threats by analyzing code changes, generating AI Bills of Materials (AIBOMs), tracking unexpected dependencies, and monitoring builds for unusual behavior. We will also cover how to identify subtle risks such as dependency confusion by tracking package versions and changes over time.I will also cover how to add these checks into CI/CD pipelines without slowing down the development cycle, giving DevSecOps teams and developers practical ways to stay secure in an AI-driven world. Add this session to your schedule.
Detecting Double Free With BPF – Bojun Seo, LG Electronics
Wednesday November 5, 2025 16:35 – 17:05 KST
Double free vulnerabilities remain a critical security and safety issue in C and C++ programs. These errors, where memory is freed multiple times, can lead to crashes or exploitable security flaws. Developers usually rely on static and dynamic analysis tools, which effectively catch most issues during testing. However, detecting double frees in production environments, particularly in embedded systems, is challenging. The reason is that conventional debugging tools often alter the memory footprint and introduce significant overhead, frequently failing to reproduce the issue due to these changes, so-called Heisenbug. This talk introduces a novel double free detection tool leveraging BPF(Berkeley Packet Filter). By collecting data in a separate process, this tool preserves the target process’s memory footprint, minimizing interference. With significantly lower overhead compared to traditional debugging tools, it enhances the reliability of detecting double frees in production, especially in performance-sensitive embedded systems. I will demonstrate how BPF’s lightweight tracing capabilities improve memory safety, offering an effective solution for real-world double free detection. Add this session to your schedule.
Telco Supply Chain Security: Implementing ISO 18974 & SBOM – Haksung Jang, SK Telecom
Wednesday November 5, 2025 17:15 – 17:45 KST
As the digital transformation of the Telco industry accelerates, the use of open source is surging. However, this has also led to unprecedented complexity and security risks in the software supply chain. This session presents a core strategy to address these challenges: supply chain management centered on the latest international standard, ISO/IEC 18974 (Open Source Security Assurance), and SBOM (Software Bill of Materials). Based on SK Telecom OSPO’s real-world adoption case and the activities of the OpenChain Korea Work Group, we will share the practical process of establishing an open source security governance framework tailored for the Telco environment. Attendees will gain actionable guidance and lessons learned for policy-making, automated SBOM generation and verification, and collaboration with supply chain partners, moving beyond mere theory. Add this session to your schedule.

To learn more about the event and register, check here.

ELISA Seminar - Introduction to Requirements Engineering
2025-11-05 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend.
Title: Introduction to Requirements Engineering
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 7:00-8:00 Pacific / 15:00-16:00 UTC / 16:00-17:00 CET
Speaker: Pete Brink, Principal Consultant – Software Intensive Systems at UL Solutions
How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. And please add the webinar joining details to your calendar from the confirmation email you will receive upon registering
Description:
This talk provides an introduction to the fundamentals of requirements engineering, covering the following topics:

What are requirements for?
What is a basic process for creating them?
What are some techniques to specify them?
How to evaluate individual requirements or groups of requirements?
Suggestions on how to write requirements. – Challenges with writing and maintaining requirements

ELISA Workshop Munich 2025
2025-11-18 12:00 - 2025-11-20 13:00 (Europe/Berlin)
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 Red Hat on November 18-20 in Munich. We strongly encourage in-person participation for the best collaboration; a virtual component may be added if there is sufficient interest.

Location: Red Hat Munich Office, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 12, 85630 Grasbrunn, Germany
Date/Time: 1/2 day in the afternoon on November 18, full day on November 19, and 1/2 day in the morning on November 20
Meals: Lunch provided onsite each day; group dinner provided offsite on November 18
Accommodation: Search for hotels around the Berg am Laim station (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, Red Hat
CFP: closed
Registration (required): Please use this form to register for the workshop. We have reached the maximum capacity for in-person participation; you will be added to our waitlist and we will notify you if an in-person spot becomes available. Virtual participation can be accommodated up till the event start date.
Schedule (all times in local CET)
Note: schedule subject to change without prior notice

November 18, 2025
12:00 Check-in and Lunch
13:00 Welcome & Introductions
Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat; Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
13:30 Ask Me Anything – New Contributor Onboarding
Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat; Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
14:30 Break and Hallway Track
14:45 Research questions and publication directions of Aerospace WG
Martin Halle, Hamburg University of Technology – Institute of Aircraft Systems Engineering, Matthew Weber, Boeing
15:00 Towards Practical Program Verification for the Linux Kernel
Keisuke NISHIMURA, Inria
15:30 Towards a More Sustainable and Secure Software Tooling in Free/Libre Open Source Software Environments
Stefan Tatschner, Fraunhofer AISEC
16:00 Break and Hallway Track
16:15 Introducing SW Requirements in the Linux kernel development process: status and next steps
Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat; Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Chuck Wolber, Boeing
17:15 Exploring possibilities for integrating StrictDoc with ELISA’s requirements template approach for the Linux kernel
Tobias Deiminger, Linutronix; Stanislav Pankevich, Reflex Aerospace
17:45 Day 1 wrap-up
18:00 Day 1 ends
19:00 Dinner at Gashof Obermaier

November 19, 2025
8:30 Coffee and Welcome Back
9:00 Architectures for Linux in Railway Safety Applications
Florian Wühr, Red Hat; Daniel Weingaertner, Red Hat
10:15 Hypervisors are scary, so why use them for enabling Linux for Safety Applications!!
Aqib Javaid, Elektrobit
10:45: Break and Hallway Track
11:00 Open Functional Safety: Safety-Qualified Lifecycle with Sphinx
Christopher Zimmer, innotec GmbH
12:00 Lunch
13:00 AGL SDV SoDeV Insights
Naoto Yamaguchi, AISIN; Harunobu Kurokawa, Renesas
13:45 Best Practices in Open Source and Standards – Evaluation of Example Projects
Simone Weiss, Linutronix
14:45 Beyond the OS: What else is required for safe automotive applications?
Isaac Trefz, Elektrobit
15:15 :Break and Hallway Track
15:45 BASIL
Luigi Pellecchia, Red Hat
16:15 Continuous Compliance in Safety-Critical Open Source Projects
Rinat Shagisultanov, InfoMagnus
16:45 Industry Safety Level(s) vs. Aerospace Use Cases
Matthew Weber, Boeing
17:45 Day 2 wrap-up
18:00 Day 2 Ends

November 20, 2025
8:30 Coffee and Welcome back
9:00 Linux Virtual Address Space Safety
Alessandro Carminati, Red Hat
10:00 Behind the Scenes: Elisa Yocto meta-layer and the ELISA CI infrastructure
Sudip Mukherjee, Codethink
10:30 :Break and Hallway Track
11:00 The SPDX Safety Profile Release Candidate – towards standardised safety supply chain documentation
Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis
12:00 Drawing an open source safety-critical landscape
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
12:30 Workshop wrap-up
Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
13:00 Lunch and Farewell

Open Source Summit: Tokyo, Japan 2025
2025-12-08 08:00 - 2025-12-10 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Open Source Summit: Tokyo, Japan is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
Why Attend

Connect with the people shaping open source
Learn from maintainers, architects, and industry leaders
Discover new technologies and real-world solutions
Collaborate on ideas that move projects forward
Grow your skills, your network, and your career

ELISA project will be represented by our community members at the Safety Critical Track.
This track explores the intersection of open source and safety standards, covering best practices for regulatory compliance, security updates, and safety engineering. Sessions will delve into requirements traceability, quality assessments, safety analysis methodologies, and technical development for safety-critical systems. Learn more.

Safety Critical Track Highlights

Keynote: Space Grade Linux: Building a Safer, Open Source Future for Space Systems – Ramon Roche, General Manager, Dronecode Foundation – Wednesday December 10, 2025 09:10 – 09:25 JST

A Human-Centric Quality Assurance Process for Open Source Software Projects – Wendi Urribarri & Carlos Ramirez, Woven by Toyota – Wednesday December 10, 2025 11:10 – 11:50 JST
Comparison and Proposal of Vulnerability Management Approaches in Yocto-Based Linux for the CRA – Akihiko Takahashi, Fujitsu Limited – Wednesday December 10, 2025 12:00 – 12:40
JST
Driving Safety Forward: Lessons Learned From Deploying OSS in Real-world Automotive – Jaylin Yu, EMQ – Wednesday December 10, 2025 14:00 – 14:40 JST
Decoding Safe(ty) Linux Architectural Approaches for Critical Systems – Philipp Ahmann, Etas GmbH – Wednesday December 10, 2025 14:50 – 15:30 JST
LF Energy 101: How Open Source Is Powering the Digital Energy Transition – Darshan Chawda & Nao Nishijima, Hitachi -Wednesday December 10, 2025 16:40 – 17:20 JST

Learn more about the Safety Critical talks here.
Register for the event here.

Linux Plumbers Conference: Tokyo, Japan 2025
2025-12-11 - 2025-12-13
The Linux Plumbers Conference is the premier event for developers working at all levels of the plumbing layer and beyond.
Taking place on Thursday 11th, Friday 12th and Saturday 13th of December, this year we will be both in person and remote (hybrid). However to minimize technical issues, we’d appreciate most of the content presenters being in-person.
The in-person venue is the Toranomon Hills Forum, Tokyo, Japan.

LPC Microconference

A microconference contains several sessions based on the same general topic. Each session will be between 15 to 30 minutes in length and be discussion oriented.
Safe Systems with Linux MC
As Linux continues to be deployed in systems with varying criticality constraints, progress needs to be made in establishing consistent linkage between code, tests, and requirements, to improve overall efficiency and ability to support necessary analysis.
This MC addresses critical challenges in expectation management (aka requirements tracking), documentation, testing, and artifact sharing within the Linux kernel ecosystem. While tests are contributed for the code, traditionally the underlying requirement that the tests satisfies is likewise not documented in a structured manner. This has resulted in a large amount of “tribal knowledge” associated with subsystems, which results in technical debt when maintainers stop working on subsystems.
Taking in the feedback from last year’s “Safe Systems with Linux” miniconference 1, on how we can improve the documentation of the kernel’s design [1a] the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) community has focused on prototyping a template for capturing the requirements with volunteer linux kernel subsystem maintainers. The ELISA architecture team 2 has been meeting weekly and has developed a structured approach for documenting testable expectations with a template that allows embedding requirements directly with relevant code (as requested in the initial workshop) while maintaining machine readability and forming a base for improving testing with initiatives like KernelCI. The prototype format got initial review and feedback in December at the ELISA workshop at Goddard [3] and after incorporating that feedback in the workshop in Lund in May [4].
Initial pilots in the TRACING subsystem [5] have demonstrated the value of this approach, even resulting in the identification and fixing of previously unknown issues. [6,7]
Building on the last year’s discussions, the goal of this miniconference is to get wider feedback from additional maintainers and developers of different subsystems on the approach being proposed.
Potential Topics

Progress on Linux Kernel Requirements Framework
Discussing the SPDX-based template for low-level requirements, lessons learned from initial pilots, and plans for wider adoption.
Technical Debt Reduction
How documented requirements capture understanding of original functionality, and can be leveraged for verification when code needs to be rewritten (ie. C to Rust), etc.
Requirements-Driven Testing
How documented requirements can drive test case development and validation. Connecting relevant test cases with specific requirements and code, should be able to yield more efficient testing.
Semantic Aspects of Kernel Requirements
Exploring how to properly document expected behaviors with consideration for design elements that impact or are impacted by these behaviors.
Practical Implementation Challenges
Addressing the balance between detailed requirements documentation and maintaining kernel development velocity.
Required tools for automation
Progress on tools to generate, validate, and track work products increasing dependability throughout the kernel development process.
Industry Adoption
How safety-critical industries are beginning to leverage these developments for certification and compliance purposes. How their safety engineers can participate in contributing formalized requirements to the kernel and providing linkage.
Requirements as an Education Tool
How linux kernel documentation can mine the requirements, and help new contributors understand kernel functionality and design intent and attract new upsteam developers

Session Highlights:

Aspects of Dependable Linux Systems – Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH)) – 12 Dec 2025, 10:00
NVIDIA Approach for Achieving ASIL B Qualified Linux: minimizing expectations from upstream kernel processes -Igor Stoppa (nvidia) -12 Dec 2025, 10:10am
Applying Program Verification to Linux Kernel Code: Challenges, Practices, and Automation – Keisuke Nishimura – 12 Dec 2025, 10:35
Defining and maintaining requirements in the Linux Kernel – Chuck Wolber, Gabriele Paoloni (Red Hat), Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation) – 12 Dec 2025, 11:00
KUnit Testing Insufficiencies – Matthew Whitehead (The Boeing Company) – 12 Dec 2025, 12:00
Exploring possibilities for integrating StrictDoc with ELISA’s requirements template approach for the Linux kernel – Tobias Deiminger (Linutronix GmbH) – 12 Dec 2025, 12:25
BASIL: Open Source Traceability for Safety-Critical Systems” – Luigi Pellecchia – 12 Dec 2025, 12:40
Tooling and Sharing Traceability Discussion – Luigi Pellecchia, Matthew Whitehead (The Boeing Company), Tobias Deiminger (Linutronix GmbH) – 12 Dec 2025, 12:55
Wrap up and next steps – Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH)) – 12 Dec 2025, 13:20

Learn more about the sessions here.

ELISA Project at FOSDEM 2026
2026-01-31 - 2026-02-01
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
The ELISA Project Ambassadors will be at FOSDEM 2026, actively participating across the event. They will be giving presentations, joining discussions, and meeting contributors and attendees in various developer rooms throughout the weekend. You can also connect with them at the Linux Foundation Europe stand, where they will be available to talk about ongoing work, community activities, and how to get involved with ELISA.
In addition, Philipp Ahmann, ELISA TSC Chair, Systems and Automotive WG Chair, and Sr. OSS Community Manager at ETAS GmbH (BOSCH), will be giving a talk at FOSDEM 2026. Philipp will also be at the Linux Foundation Europe stand throughout the weekend for anyone who would like to learn more about the ELISA Project, ask technical questions, or discuss collaboration opportunities.
From the TSC, Kate Stewart (VP, Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation) and Nicole Pappler (Senior Safety Expert & Founder at AlektoMetis.com) will also be at FOSDEM.

Session Highlight:
Code, Compliance, and Confusion: Open Source in Safety-Critical Products
Open source is increasingly finding its place in functionally safe, safety-critical systems but adoption remains complex. This talk explores the rapid progress of OSS in functional safety across Linux, Zephyr, Xen, and automotive middleware, while also addressing the real barriers holding it back, from certification uncertainty to misunderstood safety concepts. Learn more.
BoF/Unconference
BOF: Linux & Open Source Software for safety applications in Railways (Jan 31, 2026 11:00 am – 11:55 am)
Digitization requires efficient software development. Today, this is no longer financially viable without the massive reuse of existing components and thus without the use of open source software as a generic product, also in the context of safety applications. Therefore, ways and means must be found to make open source software usable on a large scale for the railway sector. Due to the cooperative nature of open source software and the low competitive differentiation in the use of such generic products, the collaboration of various stakeholders from the sector under the governance of a Foundation can useful and important. This BOF wants to explore, if there is a critical mass to start a foundational backed project initiative for better spread of awareness for OSS in Railways and which activities exist to expand this approach for the safety-critical parts.
Safety-Critical Linux: Challenges across industries (Sat, Jan 31 – 12:00pm – 12:55pm)
Linux is being used more often in safety-critical areas like cars, planes, medical devices, robots, and trains. But each industry faces similar challenges when trying to meet safety and certification requirements. This BoF is an open discussion about those real-world problems: timing and determinism, documentation, certification, tooling, and system design. Anyone interested in safety-critical Linux is welcome to join, share experiences, ask questions, and explore where collaboration could help. Learn more.

WG SIG Annual Updates 2026
2026-02-11 07:00 - 09:00, 2026-02-12 07:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join the ELISA Working Group and Special Interest Group Annual Updates on February 11 and 12, 10:00-12:00 EST / 7:00-9:00 PST / 16:00-18:00 CET / 15:00-17:00 UTC when each of the group leads will bring you up to speed on their group’s progress, roadmap, and how you can participate.
The updates will include the following topics:

Look back at major milestone and achievements in 2025
Current focus and activities
What’s coming up in 2026 and areas and opportunities for collaboration
Onboarding resources and how to get involved

The first day begins with a 15-minute overview of ELISA by the Technical Steering Committee Chair, Philipp Ahmann. Each Working Group update will be approximately 20 minutes long followed by a 5 minute Q&A. The second day ends with a 15-minute closing and final thoughts.
Session on February 11 will include updates from speakers/WG leads of the following Working Groups:

15:00-15:15 UTC: ELISA Project Overview (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
15:15-15:40 UTC: Open Source Engineering Process (Paul Albertella, Codethink)
15:40-16:05 UTC: Systems and Automotive (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
16:05-16:30 UTC: Safety Architecture (Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat)
16:30-16:55 UTC: Linux Features for Safety-Critical Systems (Alessandro Carminati, NVIDIA)

Session on February 12 will include updates from speakers/WG leads of the following the use-case focused Working Groups and SIGs

15:00-15:05 UTC: Welcome back (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
15:05-15:30 UTC: Aerospace (Matthew Weber, The Boeing Company)
15:30-15:55 UTC: Space Grade Linux (Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation)
15:55-16:20 UTC: BASIL & Tools WG evolution (Luigi Pellecchia, Red Hat)
16:20-16:45 UTC: Lighthouse SIG (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
16:45-17:00 UTC Closing and final thoughts (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)

How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the details about joining the sessions. And don’t forget to add the event to your calendar from the confirmation email.
Note: Session schedule is subject to change.

ELISA Seminar - From Requirements to Code: Managing End-to-End Traceability with BASIL
2026-03-11 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend.
Title: From Requirements to Code: Managing End-to-End Traceability with BASIL
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 7:00-8:00 Pacific / 14:00-15:00 UTC / 15:00-16:00 CET
Speaker: Luigi Pellecchia, Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. And please add the webinar joining details to your calendar from the confirmation email you will receive upon registering
Description:
This seminar explores BASIL, an open source requirements and traceability management tool under the ELISA Project. BASIL enables teams to connect specifications, requirements, test artifacts, documentation and source code using flexible traceability matrices while integrating seamlessly with existing test infrastructures. Luigi Pellecchia, BASIL Maintainer and member of the ELISA Project Technical Steering Committee, will present how BASIL improves collaboration and governance through role-based permissions, traceability-as-code, and AI-driven workflow guidance and more.

ELISA Seminar - Functional safety with Xen, Zephyr and Linux for avionics, automotive and industrial
2026-05-13 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend.
Title: Functional safety with Xen, Zephyr and Linux for avionics, automotive and industrial
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 7:00-8:00 Pacific / 14:00-15:00 UTC / 15:00-16:00 CET
Speaker: Ayan Kumar Halder, Sr. Member of Technical Staff, AMD; Matthew Weber, Associate Technical Fellow and Chief Software Architect Linux, Boeing
How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. And please add the webinar joining details to your calendar from the confirmation email you will receive upon registering
Description:
Open-source hypervisors and operating systems are increasingly being considered for safety-critical systems across avionics, automotive, and industrial domains. This talk presents the ongoing work to bring functional safety capabilities to the Xen hypervisor alongside Zephyr RTOS and Linux, targeting deployment in mixed-criticality systems. We begin with the big picture: a system-level design showing how Xen, Zephyr, and Linux can be composed to meet the needs of different safety domains — from avionics (DO-178C) to automotive (ISO 26262) and industrial (IEC 61508). We then dive deep into the concrete work items that have been upstreamed or published, including MISRA C fixes, safety- critical features in Xen such as MPU support, along with requirements, architecture specifications, test specifications, and tests. We conclude sharing how to collaborate with ELISA and Xen FuSa efforts to collaborate on an open safety case!
We will describe the various means of testing with some examples – domain based tests, fault injection tests, internal interface tests based on gdb, fuzzing, platform emulation for testing, unit tests based of ceedling and coverage measurement (branch, line, function, MCDC). All these tests are aimed at validating Xen as safety element out of context. We will also describe how we plan to reduce the code to be safety certified by introducing fine granular configurations describing the hardware features. Besides, we will describe how Xen enforces freedom from interference between different VMs based on capabilities and properties. Thus, we ensure that Xen can meet the safety guidelines set by ISO 26262, IEC 61508 and DO-178C.

Embedded Linux Conference & Open Source Summit - May 18-20, 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-20
Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) takes place alongside Open Source Summit, bringing together two of the most influential communities in open source.
Embedded Linux powers everything from automotive and industrial systems to healthcare devices and consumer electronics. For over two decades, ELC has been the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for developers and organizations building with Linux in embedded environments. It offers deep technical sessions, hands-on learning, and collaboration across kernel development, real-time systems, safety, security, and more.
Co-located with ELC, Open Source Summit is the leading gathering for open source developers, maintainers, and community leaders. It’s where the global open source community connects to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and drive innovation across technologies.
Together, these events provide a unique opportunity to:

Learn from experts building and maintaining critical open source technologies
Connect with developers, architects, and decision-makers across industries
Explore emerging trends in embedded systems, safety, security, and cloud-native technologies
Collaborate on real-world challenges and advance open source projects

The ELISA Project will participate in the Open Source Summit Safety Critical Software Track, contributing expertise on safety-critical systems and advancing the use of Linux in safety applications.
Join us to be part of the community shaping the future of embedded and open source innovation. Learn more about the ELC and Open Source Summit.
Read “What to expect from the ELISA Project at Open Source Summit 2026 – North America” to learn more about the safety critical software track sessions.

ELISA Workshop London 2026
2026-06-09 - 2026-06-11
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
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
5th floor, Canonical Group Ltd
3 More London Riverside, London SE1 2AQ
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 is limited to 35 participants. Once capacity is reached, additional in-person registrants will be placed on a waitlist. Virtual attendance remains available, with registration open until one day before the event start date.
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
15:45 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 at Browns Butlers Wharf

June 10, 2026
8:30 Coffee and Welcome Back
9:00 Introduction: AI based tooling used during a project development lifecycle and different market views
Olivier Charrier, Wind River
9:15 Taming the Violation Tsunami: Using AI to Tailor Static Code Analysis for Safe Linux
Eli Gurvitz, NVIDIA
10:00 Applying AI to safety-critical product development
Nicola Di Miscio, NVIDIA, Francesco Saracino, NVIDIA
10:45: Facilitated feedback and discussion and comparison of market’s views of AI based tooling
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
12:15: Lunch
13:15 Improving kernel test coverage with stress-ng
Colin King, stress-ng maintainer
14:00 Lightening Talks (demos & announcements)
14:00 BASIL
Luigi Pellecchia, Red Hat
14:15 Railways SIG
Henrik Brändle, Insitute for Rail Vehicles, RWTH Aachen University
14:30 What overall approach to enable Linux in safety applications can we recommend?
Paul Albertella, Codethink; Igor Stoppa, NVIDIA; Pete Brink, UL Solutions
15:15: Break and Hallway Track
15:30 What do we expect from a Safety Manual?
Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis
16:15: A PoC Based Framework to Evaluate Linux VMA Criticalities in Safety-Critical Systems
Alessandro Carminati, 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 NVIDIA Linux for Safety: A System Level View
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
11:15 Lightening Talk: Eclipse S-CORE and AoUs to the Operating System
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
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.

Open Source Summit 2026 - Mumbai, India
2026-06-16 - 2026-06-17
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers and contributors. It’s where maintainers, technologists, and community leaders come together to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push open source projects forward. It’s the home for code, community, and the people driving the future of open source.
Open Source Summit is not a single-focus, niche event—it’s the big tent that unites the full spectrum of open source technologies and communities. Whether you work in cloud infrastructure, Linux kernel development, AI/ML, embedded systems, DevOps, security, or safety-critical systems, Open Source Summit offers a shared space to exchange ideas, make connections, and learn across domains. It’s where technologists who don’t typically land in the same room get a chance to collaborate.
At the same time, Open Source Summit brings in the leaders and practitioners who support the ecosystem from non-technical angles: open source program office (OSPO) staff, legal experts, policy advocates, standards organizations, equity champions, community managers, and foundation leaders. Together, they help shape the frameworks, culture, and strategy that make open source work.
This event serves as a strategic checkpoint for the open source movement. It’s where conversations happen about not only what’s being built—but how and why. From sustainability and funding models to licensing, AI alignment, security, and governance, Open Source Summit brings clarity and direction to a fast-changing open source landscape.
Whether you’re deep in code or focused on enabling the communities and structures that support it, this is where your work gains momentum and impact.
Featured Tracks
Attendees can dive into a wide range of focused tracks, including:

CI/CD
Cloud & Orchestration
Embedded
Linux for Emerging Countries
Linux
Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers
Open AI & Data
Open Source 101 (LF Education)
OSS Enabling & Management
Packages, Images, & Containers
Zephyr

Spotlight Tracks
Embedded:
The Embedded Track at Open Source Summit focuses on the software powering today’s connected devices, from edge systems and IoT to automotive and industrial platforms. Bringing together developers, maintainers, and architects, this track covers embedded Linux, real-time systems, firmware, security, device management, and hardware–software integration. Sessions highlight practical development techniques, performance optimization, upstream collaboration, and long-term maintenance strategies, offering attendees insights into building reliable, secure, and scalable embedded systems with open source.
Linux for emerging countries:
Deep-dive into how open source technologies, particularly Linux, serve as a foundation for digital growth, innovation, and self-reliance in developing economies. With its low cost, flexibility, and community-driven model, Linux enables governments, educational institutions, startups, and enterprises to build secure and scalable technology infrastructures without the financial and licensing barriers of proprietary systems. This conference track highlights the expanding adoption of Linux across emerging markets, showcases solutions built on Linux that address local and global challenges, and examines how free and open source software fosters skills development, entrepreneurship, and sustainable economic progress. Sessions will feature real-world success stories, policy perspectives, and community initiatives that demonstrate how open collaboration can accelerate technological advancement and create inclusive opportunities worldwide, and also discuss the challenges open-source technologies like Linux face in emerging countries.
Linux:
This track is for maintainers, developers and project leads in the Linux community to gather for updates, education, collaboration, and problem-solving to further the Linux ecosystem.
Learn more about the event and register here.

ELISA Seminar - AvioNix: Infrastructure as Code for Linux in Avionics
2026-06-23 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend.
Title: AvioNix: Infrastructure as Code for Linux in Avionics
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 7:00-8:00 Pacific / 14:00-15:00 UTC / 16:00 – 17:00 CET
Speaker: Wanja Zaeske, Research Scientist, German Aerospace Center; Erin Vanderveen, Sr. Specialist Functional Engineer, Tweag by Modus Create
How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. And please add the webinar joining details to your calendar from the confirmation email you will receive upon registering
Description:
Efforts to bring Linux into safety-critical applications in the aviation domain must tackle the problem of pluralistic software release and distribution methods. The diversity of open source, compared to COTS walled-garden safety-critical operating systems, brings unique challenges, such as avoiding lengthy “getting started” sections, resolving “works on my machine” issues for users, and maintaining robust SBOM tracking.
Nix promises to solve these issues. This seminar provides a brief overview of Nix as technology, NixOS as a Linux distribution based on it, and the practical use of ELISA Aerospace-WG’s AvioNix demonstrator.

ELISA Seminar - WHAT-WHY-HOW: A practical model for understanding software requirements
2026-07-23 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend.
Title: WHAT-WHY-HOW: A practical model for understanding software requirements
Date: Thursday, July 23, 2026, 7:00-8:00 Pacific / 14:00-15:00 UTC / 16:00 – 17:00 CET
Speaker:

Stanislav Pankevich, Lead Software Engineer at Reflex Aerospace GmbH
How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. And please add the webinar joining details to your calendar from the confirmation email you will receive upon registering

Description:
Software engineering discussions often blur intent, requirements, design, and implementation, reducing clarity and weakening traceability. This webinar introduces a simple but rigorous model, “What-Why-How”, for separating these concerns across the development lifecycle.
Starting from core systems engineering concepts such as users, needs, problems, solutions, systems, and environments, the session frames development as a progression from the problem space to requirements (contract) and then to the solution space. It explains how WHY (user needs), WHAT (formal requirements), HOW (design and implementation), and interface (system boundary) relate, and why mixing them leads to ambiguity.
One key property of the WHAT-WHY-HOW model is its recursive structure: at each level of abstraction, the WHAT-WHY of the next level becomes the HOW of the previous one. Recognizing this recursion helps maintain conceptual clarity, particularly in large, multi-tier projects involving multiple stakeholders and suppliers.
Through practical examples and heuristics, the webinar shows how to distinguish requirements from design, avoid mixed statements in technical writing, define minimal traceable requirements (identifier, statement, rationale), and apply the model consistently across documentation, code, testing, and reviews.
The approach is lightweight and broadly applicable, from system architecture to everyday engineering work. The session is suitable both as an introduction and as a refresher for engineers working with requirements and software systems.

Open Source Summit 2026 - Seoul, Korea
2026-08-11 - 2026-08-12
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers and contributors. It’s where maintainers, technologists, and community leaders come together to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push open source projects forward. It’s the home for code, community, and the people driving the future of open source.
Open Source Summit is not a single-focus, niche event—it’s the big tent that unites the full spectrum of open source technologies and communities. Whether you work in cloud infrastructure, Linux kernel development, AI/ML, embedded systems, DevOps, security, or safety-critical systems, Open Source Summit offers a shared space to exchange ideas, make connections, and learn across domains. It’s where technologists who don’t typically land in the same room get a chance to collaborate.
At the same time, Open Source Summit brings in the leaders and practitioners who support the ecosystem from non-technical angles: open source program office (OSPO) staff, legal experts, policy advocates, standards organizations, equity champions, community managers, and foundation leaders. Together, they help shape the frameworks, culture, and strategy that make open source work.
This event serves as a strategic checkpoint for the open source movement. It’s where conversations happen about not only what’s being built—but how and why. From sustainability and funding models to licensing, AI alignment, security, and governance, Open Source Summit brings clarity and direction to a fast-changing open source landscape.
Whether you’re deep in code or focused on enabling the communities and structures that support it, this is where your work gains momentum and impact.
ELISA Project will be part of the Safety Critical Software Track. This track explores the intersection of open source and safety standards, covering best practices for regulatory compliance, security updates, and safety engineering. Sessions will delve into requirements traceability, quality assessments, safety analysis methodologies, and technical development for safety-critical systems.
Don’t forget to add these sessions to your schedule!
Tuesday August 11, 2026 11:00 – 11:30 KST – Sponsored Session: A New Security Standard for the AI Era: Zero-CVE and Real-Time Threat Response – SeungEll Lee, Red Hat
As Generative AI and Agentic AI continue to evolve, cyberattacks have become increasingly automated. With hundreds of new CVEs disclosed every day and AI-powered attacks are automated in zero-hour, traditional security and patch management approaches have reached their limits.
This session explores how organizations can build a lightweight hardened infrastructure and a trusted Zero-CVE environment with Red Hat AI on a proven platform that leverages the strengths of the open source ecosystem. It also examines the need for autonomous defense systems and approaches to implementing them, enabling real-time threat response while maintaining infrastructure stability through controlled AI-driven automation.
Wednesday August 12, 2026 15:55 – 16:25 KST – Case Studies of Existing Use of Linux in Safety-critical Domains – Nikita Verma, Individual & Harshita Varma, Independent
The automotive transition to Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) relies on mixed-criticality architectures, consolidating open-source infotainment (Automotive Grade Linux) alongside safety-critical Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS). This virtualization boundary—often KVM/Xen—is assumed to be a secure airgap. However, guest-to-host communication requires hardware abstraction, primarily via the VirtIO standard.
This 40-minute session conducts a hardcore technical teardown of the virtqueue shared-memory mechanism, exposing how legacy C-based VirtIO backends (vhost-net) introduce critical vulnerabilities into the automotive supply chain.
We will dissect a hypervisor escape utilizing custom fuzzing. By crafting malformed descriptor chains to bypass frontend validation, a compromised guest can force the host’s backend into out-of-bounds memory corruption, effectively bridging the airgap into the control plane.
Finally, we will architect the open-source defense: migrating to memory-safe rust-vmm virtualization components to mathematically eliminate buffer overflows, and deploying zero-overhead eBPF probes for kernel-level I/O anomaly detection.
Wednesday August 12, 2026 16:35 – 17:05 KST – Using AI To Bridge the Gap Between Safety Standards and Open Source Development – Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation
Popular open source operating systems like the Linux Kernel and Zephyr RTOS accept up to 9 commits per hour. Safety standards, like 61508, 26262, and others were developed without this rate of change in mind. Safety standards also expect the requirements to be explicit, which is not part of OS development processes. By using AI tools, we’re able to accelerate the analysis of OS code to derive the requirements and traceability to tests. By storing this info in tools that can import and export System Package Data eXchange (SPDX) 3.0+, we’re able to capture the requirements in a way that can be leveraged for wider system analysis necessary for safety. Associating integrity methods with the requirements and code snippets, also enables monitoring. Combining requirements traceability with precise build SBOM metadata, gives us a framework to keep a component compliant to a safety profile after a security fix.
This talk will provide a view on the latest experiments occurring with the Linux Kernel in the ELISA project, as well as in the Zephyr Safety Working group, and SPDX Functional Safety working group to extend SPDX to meet the needs of establishing these frameworks.
Learn more about the event and register here.

ELISA Project at Linux Plumbers Conference 2026: Safe Systems with Linux MC
2026-10-05 - 2026-10-07
The ELISA Project will be part of the Safe Systems with Linux Microconference at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2026, taking place October 5–7 at the Prague Congress Centre in Prague, Czechia, with hybrid participation available.
As Linux continues to be used in systems with varying levels of criticality, the need for clear traceability between requirements, code, and tests is becoming increasingly important. The Safe Systems with Linux MC will focus on how the Linux kernel ecosystem can better support structured requirements, documentation, testing, and artifact sharing while preserving the speed and flexibility of upstream development.
Building on discussions from previous years, this year’s microconference will explore approaches for expressing requirements and traceability as sidecar data structures. This makes the information more machine-readable, maintainable, and scalable without requiring kernel design documentation to live directly in the code.
Topics will include technical debt reduction, requirements-driven testing, semantic aspects of kernel requirements, progress on the Linux Kernel Requirements Framework, practical implementation challenges, automation tooling, connections with kernel quality initiatives, industry adoption, and the role of requirements as an education and onboarding tool.
The session aims to bring together kernel maintainers, developers, safety architects, tooling experts, and industry stakeholders to discuss how structured requirements and traceability practices can complement existing Linux kernel development workflows and support the creation of dependable, safety-relevant systems with Linux. Learn more.

Embedded Linux Conference & Open Source Summit Europe 2026
2026-10-07 - 2026-10-09
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers and contributors. It’s where maintainers, technologists, and community leaders come together to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push open source projects forward. It’s the home for code, community, and the people driving the future of open source.
The ELISA Project encourages submissions for Open Source Summit Europe 2026 across a broad range of topics related to safety-critical and embedded Linux systems.
Suggested topics for Open Source Summit Europe 2026 include safety-critical software, the interaction between open source software and safety standards, best practices for working with regulatory authorities, security updates for safety-critical systems, safety engineering in open source projects, quality assessments based on development data, requirements traceability and testability, development of safety-relevant technical features, safety analysis methodologies, and real-world case studies showcasing Linux in safety-critical domains such as aerospace, automotive, industrial, medical, and energy systems.
Learn more about the suggested tracks and suggested topics here.
Important dates to remember:

CFP Closes: Wednesday, 24 June at 23:59 CEST (UTC +2) / 14:59 PDT (UTC -7)
CFP Notifications: Friday, 24 July
Schedule Announcement: Wednesday, 29 July
Event Dates: Wednesday, 7 October – Friday, 9 October

Learn more about the Open Source Summit Europe conference here.
