Schedule
Quick links:
- Timetables: Saturday, Sunday
- Overview of rooms per days
- Mobile apps: many platforms
- What's on now: Live streaming
- Programme Schedule amendments
- Printable PDF: A4 A3
Every year, FOSDEM hosts a wide variety of activities. This page gives an overview with links to further information about scheduled events. All times CET (UTC+1).
FOSDEM is a rather busy conference. This edition features 894 speakers, 855 events, and 70 tracks. We do our best to provide you with as much information and navigation options about the schedule as we can.
Activities take place in 30 rooms. An overview of the room occupation by track is available, too.
There are essentially the following categories of sessions and activities: keynotes, main tracks, developer rooms, lightning talks, stands and BOFs.
For a complete (but crowded) overview, there is also a
page that lists all events.
A list of all speakers is available, too.
During the event, the live streaming page is also updated every few minutes to show you what is currently scheduled in each room.
Keynotes
Like almost every other conference, FOSDEM invites speakers to gently start the day with talks concerning slightly less technical, but nevertheless interesting topics from the Open Source realm. The closing keynote at the end of the conference helps everyone digest the vast amount of insightful information collected over the weekend.
For this edition, the keynotes are as follows:
| Title | Speaker(s) | Day | When | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome to FOSDEM 2026 |
 FOSDEM Staff
|
Saturday | 09:30 - 09:50 | Janson |
| FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI |
 Michiel Leenaars
|
Saturday | 10:00 - 10:50 | Janson |
| Free as in Burned Out: Who Really Pays for Open Source? |
 Marga Manterola
|
Sunday | 09:00 - 09:50 | Janson |
| Open Source Security in spite of AI |
 Daniel Stenberg
|
Sunday | 17:00 - 17:50 | Janson |
| Closing FOSDEM 2026 |
Sunday | 17:50 - 18:15 | Janson |
Main tracks
The main tracks
consist of series of talks that are organised by topic,
where the FOSDEM program committee selects suggestions and actively invites
speakers on those topics.
For this edition the main tracks are:
| Track | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Main Track | Janson, K.1.105 (La Fontaine) | K.1.105 (La Fontaine), Janson |
Developer rooms
The vast majority of events (talks, hacking sessions, open discussions) are
held in so-called developer rooms
(devrooms
), which are
organized and managed by open source projects themselves, or even
associations between several such projects on a common topic in order to
foster collaboration.
Here is the list of the devrooms that are present at this edition of FOSDEM, in alphabetical order:
- AI Plumbers
- Audio, Video & Graphics Creation
- Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- Browser and web platform
- BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS
- Building Europe’s Public Digital Infrastructure
- Collaboration and content management
- Community
- Confidential Computing
- Containers
- CRA in practice
- Databases
- Decentralised Communication
- Decentralized Internet and Privacy
- Declarative and Minimalistic Computing
- Distributions
- DNS
- eBPF
- Educational
- Embedded, Mobile and Automotive
- Energy
- FOSS on Mobile
- FPGA and VLSI
- Funding the FOSS Ecosystem
- Gaming and VR devroom
- GCC (GNU Toolchain)
- Geospatial
- Go
- Graphics
- HPC, Big Data & Data Science
- Identity and Access Management
- Kernel
- Legal & Policy
- LLVM
- Local-First, sync engines, CRDTs
- Microkernel and Component-Based OS
- Modern Email
- Music Production
- Network
- Nix and NixOS
- Open Hardware and CAD/CAM
- Open Media devroom
- Open Research
- Open Source Design
- Open Source Digital Forensics
- Open Source & EU Policy
- Package Management
- Plan 9
- Python
- Railways and Open Transport
- Retrocomputing
- RISC-V
- Robotics and Simulation
- Rust
- SBOMS and supply chains
- Search
- Security
- Social Web
- Software Defined Radio(SDR)/Digital Signal Processing(DSP)
- Software Defined Storage
- Software Performance
- Testing and Continuous Delivery
- Tool the Docs
- Translations
- Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure
Lightning talks
The lightning talk is a very popular format, used at many conferences, where speakers have a mere 15 minutes at their disposal to showcase an open source project, an idea, or a concept thereof.
While that brief lapse of time may seem awkward, it almost always leads the presenters to concentrate on the absolute essence and what is really important, which is why it is often a much appreciated approach, as is the wide variety of the topics.
Lightning talks have not been scheduled yet.
Stands
Stands offer a unique chance to get in touch with developers or project members, and discover at a glance what they do.
A list of projects that will be present with a stand can be found on the FOSDEM stands page.
BOFs
BOF stands for Birds Of a Feather who, as the saying goes, flock together. FOSDEM has three meeting rooms that may be booked in 30 or 60 minute blocks for discussions. All the meetings are public so anyone who is interested can attend if there is enough space.
FOSDEM Junior
FOSDEM Junior is a collaboration between FOSDEM, Code Club, CoderDojo, developers, and volunteers to organize workshops and activities for children from age 7 to 17 during the FOSDEM weekend. These activities are for children to learn and get inspired about technology. Last year's activities included microcontrollers, embroidery, plotting, game development, mobile application development, Raspberry Pi's, and Java development.
Further details are available on the FOSDEM Junior page.
The FOSDEM Fringe
The FOSDEM Fringe consists of independent events involving free and open source software taking place in the days around the FOSDEM weekend. Why not extend your trip?
Further details are available on the FOSDEM Fringe page.
Mobile Apps
People have submitted a variety of apps for mobile devices that display the FOSDEM schedule.
Raw schedule data
The schedule data is available in: