Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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The Great Migration


Windows 10 is now end of life!

... but not dead. Yet.

The prospect of that alone should be enough to motivate change to Linux desktops - but various governments are providing a lot more reasons to move, such as...

  • tariffs (on goods and possibly services)
  • unreliability (in trade and defence partnerships)
  • increased need for data sovereignty ....to name a few.

I've been part of migration projects most of my career, so in this talk I'll present some of the big picture items to consider when you are promoting the idea of migrations to Linux - such as politics, cost and practicality.

Thankfully the growing movement to cloud based applications has reduced Windows dependencies, so it is now easier than ever to migrate to a Linux based desktop solution.

I'll introduce you to someone called Horace and help you to get him to YES.

Speakers

Patrick Fitzgerald

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