LF Member European Forum 2026

LF Member European Forum 2026

7:30am CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

9:15am CEST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Thierry Carrez, General Manager of OIF & LF Europe Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

9:30am CEST

Keynote: Presenting the Europe Spotlight Report - Mirko Boehm, Sr. Director for Community Development & Paula Grzegorzewska, Sr. Manager, Strategic Partnerships, LF Europe Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

10:00am CEST

Keynote to be Announced Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

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 Congress Hall Foyer 0A (Floor 0)

10:50am CEST

Coffee Break Congress Hall Foyer 1A (Floor 1)

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 Panorama Hall

11:45am CEST

Zephyr at 10: The Open RTOS Powering Europe's IoT - Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation Panorama Hall

12:15pm CEST

Sovereignty Requires Open: Building Europe's Shared Geospatial Commons - Albi Wiedersberg, Overture Maps Foundation Panorama Hall

12:45pm CEST

AI Slop Vs. Open Source: Why the Next Contribution Crisis Is Already Here - Philippe Ensarguet, Orange Panorama Hall

1:15pm CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite to Registered Attendees) Congress Hall Foyer 1A (Floor 1)

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 Panorama Hall

3:00pm CEST

How Sylva Project Is Boosting Digital Sovereignty ? - Guillaume Nevicato, Orange & Carlo Cavazzoni, TIM S.p.A. Panorama Hall

3:55pm CEST

Coffee Break Congress Hall Foyer 1A (Floor 1)

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. Panorama Hall

4:45pm CEST

Transparency Upstream, Evidence Downstream: Manufacturers and Open Source Under the CRA - William Janssen, TrustEngine Panorama Hall

5:15pm CEST

Digital Sovereignty for Businesses: The Case for FLOSS - Christian Grothoff, Taler Systems SA Panorama Hall

6:00pm CEST

Attendee Reception Alma Prague