OSPE Forum 2026

OSPE Forum 2026

09:00 CEST

Welcome Coffee Grand Salon Foyer Registration & Badge Pick-Up Grand Salon Foyer

10:00 CEST

Welcome from Linux Foundation Europe - Thierry Carrez, General Manager, LF Europe Grand Salon

10:20 CEST

Let's Talk About Stacks, Baby! - Jutta Horstmann, Heinlein Group Grand Salon

10:55 CEST

Open Source Policy to Practice: A Public Sector View - Gina Plat, Open Source Program Office BZK Grand Salon

11:15 CEST

Coffee Break Grand Salon Foyer

11:30 CEST

Open Technology Cybersecurity as a Global Collaboration Challenge - Christopher "CRob" Robinson & Madalin Neag, OpenSSF Grand Salon

12:00 CEST

European Commission's Session on CADA - Manuel Mateo Goyet, European Commission Grand Salon

12:20 CEST

Lunch (Provided to Attendees Onsite) Grand Salon Foyer

13:20 CEST

The EU Digital Sovereignty Package is Here - Astor Nummelin Carlberg, SUSE; Sebastian Raible, APELL; Paula Grzegorzewska, LF Europe; James Lovegrove, Red Hat & Additional Speaker to be Announced Grand Salon

13:50 CEST

Bridging the Full-Stack Skills Gap To Secure Europe’s Digitally Independent Future - Hilary Carter & Glenn ten Cate, The Linux Foundation; Sachiko Muto, OpenForum Europe/RISE Grand Salon

14:10 CEST

Open Source as a Competition Tool - Mirko Boehm, Linux Foundation Europe Grand Salon

14:30 CEST

How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the SBOM: An Honest Attempt to Understand Open Source Policy in the Shadow of Claude Mythos20 - Mathias Schindler, GitHub Grand Salon

14:50 CEST

Coffee Break Grand Salon Foyer

15:00 CEST

European Open Source Is Global - Timo Perala, Nokia Grand Salon

15:20 CEST

LF Energy: A Model for Innovation and Digital Sovereignty in Critical Infrastructure - Lucian Balea, RTE & Marco Möller, Pionix GmbH Grand Salon

15:50 CEST

Open Source and Europe's Telecom Industry: New Trends and Opportunities - Nick Gates & Ola Adach, OpenForum Europe Grand Salon

16:20 CEST

Building the Open Source Governance Infrastructure: Why We Founded NeoNephos for IPCEI-CIS - Sebastian Wolf, SAP & Vasu Chandrasekhara, Independent Grand Salon

16:40 CEST

Closing Remarks from Linux Foundation Europe Grand Salon

16:50 CEST

Attendee Reception Lounge Bar