Conference Schedule

This is the provisional program for foss-north 2026.
All sessions include time for Q&A and to mingle.

[ April 27 | April 28 ]

April 27

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Time RunAn Scania
8.30 - 9.00
Registration / Mingle
9.00 - 10.00
Opening Words
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Distributed CI with Radicle and Ambient
Lars Wirzenius
10.00 - 10.30
The GNU Algol 68 Project
Jose E. Marchesi
Talking tech to legal: part 2
Jimmy Ahlberg
10.30 - 11.00
Litterbox: Somewhat Isolated Development Environments
Gerhard de Clercq
11.00 - 11.30
SBOM today: What is the state of SBOMs?
Olle E. Johansson
Disobey: FOSS tools to fight back and their adoption.
Bogomil Shopov
11.30 - 12.00
Hybrid Multi Factor Authentication: Balancing On‑Premise Control and Cloud Integration with privacyIDEA
Jelina Unger
12.00 - 13.00
Lunch
13.00 - 14.00
The Once and Future COBOL
James Lowden
Using FOSS to Protect Embedded Systems Data in Transit
Bassem Nomany
14:00 - 14.30
Signing distribution artifacts with Signstar
David Runge
What did AI just do? Making LLMs Observable with OpenTelemetry
Ishan Jain
14.30 - 15.00
Multi-Cloud Without the Myth: What Actually Works in Practice
Francisco Picolini
License Compliance 101
Henrik Sandklef
15.00 - 15.30
Coffee break
15.30 - 16.30
PostgreSQL Don'ts and Dos.
Magnus Hagander
Modern Email
Jeremiah Foster
16.30 - 17.00
CryptPad: End to End encrypted collaboration can be easy to use
Ludovic Dubost
Building a pair-programming app in public with Rust
Costa Alexoglou

April 28

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Time RunAn Scania
8.30 - 9.00
Registration / Mingle
9.00 - 10.00
The state of AI, slop and security
Daniel Stenberg
10.00 - 11.00
Cloud Sovereignty Is Not a Feature… It’s an Architecture
Francisco Picolini
Building Open Source Embedded UIs with Qt & Slint
Alexandra Betouni
11.00 - 11.30
T.B.D.
T.B.D.
11.30 - 12.00
Europe is breaking up with MS Office: Here's What's Actually Working
Eeshaan Sawant
12.00 - 13.00
Lunch
13.00 - 13.30
Open source tools for the power sector
Gry M. Tveten
The Duke and the Beastie - Improving OpenJDK support for FreeBSD
Harald Eilertsen
13.30 - 14.00
T.B.D.
14.00 - 15.00
T.B.D.
Running a FOSS associative ISP
Evilham
15.00 - 15.30
Coffee break
15.30 - 16.30
Dirty Tricks: Using nginx and Lua to thwart bots and skript kiddies
Eirik Øverby
T.B.D.
16.30 - 17.00
T.B.D.
T.B.D.
17.00
Closing foss-north 2026
Tobias Olausson