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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.

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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
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.
2024/2025 have 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 talk 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. Learn more.

BoF/Unconference
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, Red Hat)

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.

Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) - North America 2026
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-20
Embedded Linux powers everything from automotive and industrial systems to healthcare devices and consumer electronics. As the most widely used open source operating system for embedded computing, Linux is at the heart of innovation across industries.
Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) is the premier technical forum for the embedded Linux community, gathering developers, maintainers, and industry experts for deep technical collaboration, hands-on learning, and knowledge sharing to advance the future of embedded systems.
Who can attend:

Developers & Engineers – Embedded Systems, Kernel & Operating Systems, Device Drivers, IoT, Real-Time & Safety-Critical Systems, Toolchains, and Applications
Architects & Technical Leads – System, Hardware/Software Integration, Platform, and Product Architects shaping embedded solutions
Operations & Deployment – DevOps, QA & Test Engineers, System Administrators, and those managing large-scale or resource-constrained deployments
Community & Leadership – Technical Managers, Project Maintainers, Open Source Program Offices, Community Leaders, and Executive Decision Makers driving embedded strategy
Academic, Media & Other – Professors, Researchers, Students, Analysts, Media, Product Managers, and Business Development professionals exploring embedded Linux and IoT

Why attend LPC?

Learn from Experts: Gain deep technical knowledge from the engineers and maintainers building embedded Linux and related technologies.
Collaborate with Peers: Connect with a diverse community of developers, architects, and product managers solving real-world challenges.
Stay Ahead of the Curve: Discover emerging trends in areas such as real-time Linux, safety and security, power management, AI/ML, and more.

Whether you are a longtime embedded developer, a product architect exploring Linux-based solutions, or a newcomer interested in contributing to the ecosystem, ELC is the place to learn, network, and shape the future of embedded systems.
Dates to remember:

CFP Closes: Monday, February 9 at 1:59 AM CST (UTC-6) / Sunday, February 8 at 11:59 PM PST (UTC -8)
CFP Notifications: Monday, March 9
Schedule Announcement: Tuesday, March 12
Event Dates: Monday, May 18 – Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Submit your talk proposal here.
Learn more about the event here.

Open Source Summit - May 18-20, 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-20
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.
Why Attend

Connect with the people shaping open source
Learn from maintainers, developers and community leaders
Discover emerging technologies and practical solutions you can use right away
Collaborate on ideas and code that move projects forward
Grow your skills, your network, and your career

Dates to remember

CFP Closes: Monday, February 9 at 1:59 AM CST (UTC-6) / Sunday, February 8 at 11:59 PM PST (UTC-8)
CFP Notifications: Monday, March 9
Schedule Announcement: Tuesday, March 12
Event Dates: Monday, May 18 – Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Learn more about CFP submission
Register for the event here
