ELISA

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
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
