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 and Distributed CI with Radicle and Ambient Lars Wirzenius
10.00 - 10.30	The Once and Future COBOL James Lowden	Talking tech to legal: part 2 Jimmy Ahlberg Henrik Sandklef
10.30 - 11.00	The Once and Future COBOL James Lowden	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	Interoperability goes to court: a case for Software Freedom Lucas Lasota	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.	Running an open source project like a professional Magnus Glantz
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	How computers scribble Alvin
14.00 - 15.00	Open by Choice, Sovereign by Design Emiel Brok	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	Digital disruption in the public transport sector through open source community engagement Glenn Eriksson
16.30 - 17.00	T.B.D.	Digital sovereignty through open source – Europe’s strategic opportunity Johan Linåker
17.00	Closing foss-north 2026 Tobias Olausson