Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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Pierre Pronchery

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Entrepreneur, IT-Security Consultant, Open Source enthusiast, FreeBSD & NetBSD developer, OSDev hobbyist

Pierre Pronchery is a NetBSD developer since 2012, and currently serving on the Board of Directors for the NetBSD Foundation. He regularly contributes to different sides of the project, from kernel patches to software packaging in pkgsrc, or contributing to public events. His passion for Operating System development took shape with the DeforaOS Project since 2001, which led him to research the Future Internet as well. As founder and CEO of Defora Networks GmbH in Germany, he performs IT-Security consulting and development services around all of these projects, most notably with the FreeBSD Foundation since 2023.


Events

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smolBSD: boots faster than its shadow!
Saturday K.3.201 BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS 15:50 16:15