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Tuesday, October 6
 

7:30am CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Tuesday October 6, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

Tuesday October 6, 2026 7:30am - 5:00pm CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events

9:15am CEST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Thierry Carrez, General Manager of OIF & LF Europe
Tuesday October 6, 2026 9:15am - 9:25am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

Speakers
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Thierry Carrez

General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

Tuesday October 6, 2026 9:15am - 9:25am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)
  Keynote Sessions

9:30am CEST

Keynote: Presenting the Europe Spotlight Report - Mirko Boehm, Sr. Director for Community Development & Paula Grzegorzewska, Sr. Manager, Strategic Partnerships, LF Europe
Tuesday October 6, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

Speakers
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Mirko Boehm

Senior Director for Community Development, Linux Foundation Europe
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Paula Grzegorzewska

Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Linux Foundation Europe
Paula has spent the past seven years working on strategies that bridge open technologies and digital policy. Her expertise revolves around digital policy and open source software, as well as digital transformation of European public services. Previously, she was a Strategic Partnerships... Read More →
Tuesday October 6, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)
  Keynote Sessions

10:00am CEST

Keynote to be Announced
Tuesday October 6, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

Tuesday October 6, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)
  Keynote Sessions

10:25am CEST

Keynote: From Open Source Visibility to Open Source Strategy: Five Years of Building BOSS - Karel Rietveld, Open Source Program Office Lead, Netherlands Tax Administration
Tuesday October 6, 2026 10:25am - 10:50am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)
Many organizations discuss open source policy, OSPOs or software supply-chain security. This session shares a practical example of how one public-sector organization developed these capabilities over time.The session shows how work started with something simple: creating insight into existing open source usage. From that foundation came assessment processes, SBOMs, licensing guidance, supply-chain...
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Karel Rietveld

Open Source Program Office Lead, Netherlands Tax Administration
Working within the Chief Technology Office in building an Open Source Program Office for the Netherlands Tax administration
Tuesday October 6, 2026 10:25am - 10:50am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)
  Keynote Sessions

10:50am CEST

Coffee Break
Tuesday October 6, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 1A (Floor 1)

Tuesday October 6, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 1A (Floor 1)
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events

11:15am CEST

How To Be a Good Citizen Contributor To Open Source in the Age of Regulation - Roman Zhukov, Red Hat & George Kunz, Ericsson
Tuesday October 6, 2026 11:15am - 11:40am CEST
Panorama Hall
Every Linux Foundation member relies on community-maintained open source, but regulations like the EU CRA now mandate upstream contributions. This "enforced collaboration" has led some companies to shove pull requests and demand immediate response from the community, often lacking awareness of the diverse open source governance and contributing norms. Co-presented by open source leaders from Red...
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Georg Kunz

Director Open Source Software, Ericsson
Georg is a director in Ericsson's Open Source Program Office. He is a passionate advocate for open source software and a long term contributor to a wide range of open source projects. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Council and the Governing Board of the Open Source... Read More →
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Roman Zhukov

Security Community Lead, Red Hat
Roman is a cybersecurity expert and leader with 20+ years of experience securing complex systems and products. As Principal Architect at Red Hat, he drives open-source security strategy and cross-industry collaboration to build trusted software ecosystems. Formerly, he led Product... Read More →
Tuesday October 6, 2026 11:15am - 11:40am CEST
Panorama Hall
  Breakout Sessions

11:45am CEST

Zephyr at 10: The Open RTOS Powering Europe's IoT - Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation
Tuesday October 6, 2026 11:45am - 12:10pm CEST
Panorama Hall
Did you know that 62% of European survey respondents use Zephyr in commercial products, such as sensors and monitoring equipment? Europe also has strong evaluation pipelines for those considering Zephyr. These are just two Europe-specific insights on a growing, real-time operating system for connected and resource-constrained devices, spanning IoT, industrial systems, automotive platforms, and...
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Hilary Carter

SVP Research, The Linux Foundation
Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →
Tuesday October 6, 2026 11:45am - 12:10pm CEST
Panorama Hall
  Breakout Sessions

12:15pm CEST

Sovereignty Requires Open: Building Europe's Shared Geospatial Commons - Albi Wiedersberg, Overture Maps Foundation
Tuesday October 6, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm CEST
Panorama Hall
European organizations face a strategic challenge between proprietary vendor lock-in and isolated, redundant infrastructure builds. True digital sovereignty isn't achieved through isolation, which forces public and private entities to waste up to 90% of their engineering resources on baseline data preparation. European sovereignty requires open data, shared reference standards, and neutral...
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Albi Wiedersberg

Vice President of Product Management, Overture Maps Foundation
Albi Wiedersberg is the Vice President of Product Management at Overture Maps Foundation. With over 15 years of experience in product and technology leadership, he is dedicated to building high-quality, open, and interoperable map and location data as a shared resource for innovation... Read More →
Tuesday October 6, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm CEST
Panorama Hall
  Breakout Sessions

12:45pm CEST

AI Slop Vs. Open Source: Why the Next Contribution Crisis Is Already Here - Philippe Ensarguet, Orange
Tuesday October 6, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm CEST
Panorama Hall
Open source was never just about code, it was about care, context, and trust. But AI-generated contributions are flooding projects with plausible-looking noise: slop PRs, hallucinated bug reports, vibe-coded patches no one understands. We are having multiple testimonials of examples where maintainers are overwhelmed. This talk argues we must redefine "contribution" beyond lines of code. In the age...
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Philippe Ensarguet

VP Cloud & Software Engineering, Fellow, Orange
Philippe is an Orange Fellow, VP Cloud and Software Engineering, and 2021 award-winning CTO championing at the crossroads of AI, Cloud Native, and platform innovation, currently driving telco-to-techco transformation and Telco cloud. A three-time CTO with 25+ years' experience, he... Read More →
Tuesday October 6, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm CEST
Panorama Hall
  Breakout Sessions

1:15pm CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite to Registered Attendees)
Tuesday October 6, 2026 1:15pm - 2:30pm CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 1A (Floor 1)

Tuesday October 6, 2026 1:15pm - 2:30pm CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 1A (Floor 1)
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events

2:30pm CEST

Sovereign Deployments, Global Commons - Building Digital Sovereignty Without Fragmenting Open Source - Jan Melen, Ericsson Software Technology; Sebastian Wolf, SAP SE; Timo Perala, Nokia
Tuesday October 6, 2026 2:30pm - 2:55pm CEST
Panorama Hall
Europe's goal on digital sovereignty is reshaping how governments, industry, and open source communities think about software, security, and trust. Regulations such as the Cyber Resilience Act and Sovereign Tech Funds are creating legitimate expectations around resilience, accountability, and secure software supply chains. At the same time, open source has been built through global collaboration,...
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Speakers
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Jan Melen

General Manager, Ericsson Software Technology
Jan Melén is an expert in networking, open-source software, and cloud technologies, with a career spanning over two decades. He is a staunch advocate for Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) adoption within Ericsson and the broader community he engages with.

Since 2019, Jan has led a team dedicated to CNCF open-source projects, contributing to Ericsson's K8s distribution, and fostering an "upstream-first" culture. He oversees Ericsson’s open-source contributions and collaboration with CNCF... Read More →
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Timo Perala

Head of Open Source Service & Network Automation, Nokia
Timo has over 25 years of experience in network systems, systems architecture research, new business incubation, to mobile network and operations systems standardization. In his current role Timo is with Nokia OSPO, responisble for Automation related open source projects and Regulatory... Read More →
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Sebastian Wolf

Director of the SAP Open Source Program Office, SAP SE
Software engineer by trade, 20+ years at SAP in various software engineering roles, 5+ years working on open source projects in my spare time. Currently leading the SAP Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
Tuesday October 6, 2026 2:30pm - 2:55pm CEST
Panorama Hall
  Breakout Sessions
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3:00pm CEST

How Sylva Project Is Boosting Digital Sovereignty ? - Guillaume Nevicato, Orange & Carlo Cavazzoni, TIM S.p.A.
Tuesday October 6, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm CEST
Panorama Hall
Sylva from LF Europe aims to strengthen digital sovereignty by reducing vendor lock-in, improving transparency, enabling interoperability, and helping build a European ecosystem for cloud and edge infrastructure. In this perspective Sylva can contribute to digital Sovereignty and and fully aligned with EU Digital Package. This package includes measures on platform regulation, data sharing, AI,...
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Carlo Cavazzoni

Program Manager, TIM
Carlo Cavazzoni is Program Manager in the Open Cloud Enablement department of TIM. He has a long experience in transport, IP, and SDN control and for the last eight years, he has been coordinating the design and experimental evaluation of innovative Telco and IT Cloud Infrastructures... Read More →
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Guillaume Nevicato

Telco Cloud Platform Product Manager, Orange Group
Orange, Telco Cloud Product Manager & Sylva Cochair
Guillaume Nevicato is a passionate cloud-native advocate since ten years.
As Product Manager for Orange Telco Cloud, he leads the offer deployment across 21 Orange affiliates covering both fixed and mobile network functions.

Guillaume is also an active contributor to open-source communities as Co-Chair of the Sylva project since 2023 and is a member of the advisory board for Linux Foundation Europe... Read More →
Tuesday October 6, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm CEST
Panorama Hall
  Breakout Sessions

3:55pm CEST

Coffee Break
Tuesday October 6, 2026 3:55pm - 4:15pm CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 1A (Floor 1)

Tuesday October 6, 2026 3:55pm - 4:15pm CEST
Congress Hall Foyer 1A (Floor 1)
  Registration / Breaks / Special Events

4:15pm CEST

Open Source Collaboration Across Projects To Build Platforms - Using SCS as Example - Kurt Garloff, S7n Cloud Services GmbH & Felix Kronlage-Dammers, Open Source Business Alliance e.V.
Tuesday October 6, 2026 4:15pm - 4:40pm CEST
Panorama Hall
Open Source Software (OSS) has been very successful in bringing together contributors, crossing organizational, cultural, regional borders. Clouds combine a lot of technology into cohesive platforms and are thus harder. Big Tech uses a lot of OSS, but ultimately combines it into highly proprietary platforms built to lock-in customers into vendor-specific APIs and service sets. To compete...
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Speakers
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Kurt Garloff

CEO, S7n Cloud Services GmbH
Trained as a physicist in Dortmund and Eindhoven, Kurt always wanted to understand how things work. In IT, this meant using and contributing to Open Source. He initially applied this to the Linux Kernel. The fascination for technology was complemented by the thrill to work with and... Read More →
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Felix Kronlage-Dammers

Member of the extended Board of Directors, Open Source Business Alliance e.V.
Felix has been building open source IT Infrastructure since the late 90s. Between then and now Felix was involved in various open source development communities. His interests range from monitoring/observability over infrastructure-as-code to building and scaling communities and companies... Read More →
Tuesday October 6, 2026 4:15pm - 4:40pm CEST
Panorama Hall
  Breakout Sessions

4:45pm CEST

Transparency Upstream, Evidence Downstream: Manufacturers and Open Source Under the CRA - William Janssen, TrustEngine
Tuesday October 6, 2026 4:45pm - 5:10pm CEST
Panorama Hall
The Cyber Resilience Act settled the legal side of the open source relationship: product responsibility stays with the manufacturer, stewards carry a light-touch regime, maintainers shielded from manufacturer-grade duties. The operational side is far less settled. Manufacturers must consume and interpret upstream security signals, but what that takes is rarely described from the manufacturer's...
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William Janssen

CTO & Head of Engineering, TrustEngine
William Janssen is CTO and Head of Engineering, and author of a Dutch-language book on the EU Cyber Resilience Act. He spent his career building and maintaining software products, from patient portals in healthcare to a PaaS platform, and knows what shipped software costs to support... Read More →
Tuesday October 6, 2026 4:45pm - 5:10pm CEST
Panorama Hall
  Breakout Sessions

5:15pm CEST

Digital Sovereignty for Businesses: The Case for FLOSS - Christian Grothoff, Taler Systems SA
Tuesday October 6, 2026 5:15pm - 5:40pm CEST
Panorama Hall
Digital sovereignty has become a strategic concern for businesses of all sizes. Dependence on a small number of technology providers can create operational, economic, and cybersecurity risks. This talk examines digital sovereignty from a business perspective and argues that FLOSS is not merely a technical or ideological choice, but a practical tool for resilience, competition, and strategic...
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Christian Grothoff

Prof., Taler Systems SA
Christian Grothoff is professor for computer network security at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, researching future Internet architectures. He is a GNU maintainer and co-founder of Taler Systems SA and Anastasis SARL.
Tuesday October 6, 2026 5:15pm - 5:40pm CEST
Panorama Hall
  Breakout Sessions

6:00pm CEST

Attendee Reception
Tuesday October 6, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm CEST
Alma Prague
After the final session, join us for a special evening at Alma Prague. This gathering of Linux Foundation Europe members will include great food, drinks, and company. It’s the perfect setting to share ideas and continue conversations with fellow members.Alma Prague is about a 20-minute transit ride from the Prague Congress Centre. Limited transportation will be provided for...
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Tuesday October 6, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm CEST
Alma Prague V Jirchářích 150/8, Nové Město 110 00, 1 Praha 1, Czechia
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