Programme 2025
November 7-8th
A 2-day festival on Friday, 7th November and Saturday, 8th November 2025
Please note that the programme is subject to change and will be continuously updated until the conference opens.
All times are expressed in Central European Time (CET) UTC+01:00.
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Day 1Friday,07th November 2025
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08:30
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09:00
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09:15
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09:30
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10:00
European SFS Award 2025
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsFree Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan assign the “European SFS Award”
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10:15
SFS Award 2025
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsLinux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan assigns the “South Tyrol Free Software Award”
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10:30
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11:00
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11:00
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11:00
Why you cannot “apt install” an LLM (yet)
Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 35 minsHow Debian is rethinking its guidelines for AI
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11:00
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11:40
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11:40
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11:40
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11:40
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12:00
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12:00
Computational Thinking: What’s Inside the Mind of a Programmer?
Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 minsThe Cognitive Sciences of Programming
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12:00
European Cybersecurity Regulations Who’s who
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 minsCan Open Source Software contribute to direct and indirect compliance?
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12:20
Running on Non-Free Software
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FSFE – Free Software Foundation EuropeA Cyborg's Look at Medical Device Freedom
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12:20
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12:20
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12:20
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12:40
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12:40
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12:40
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12:40
Killing with Keyboards
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 minsHow Your Digital Footprint Can Be Weaponized
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13:00
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13:00
Smart devices in the AI age: why only open source, collective action and public funding can make us sovereign and prevent dystopy
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: OW2Plea for an extended "social economy" paradigm as a new social contract
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13:00
You can’t write “AI” without an “I”
Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 minsControl, clarity, and responsibility in the age of copilots
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13:00
Router Freedom in Italy: latest development
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FSFE – Free Software Foundation Europe -
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Your Mind, Quantified
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsUsing Machine Learning and Self-Tracking to Deepen Self-Awareness
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13:20
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13:20
The AI Shift: Rethinking the Developer’s Role in a Machine-Driven World
Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 minsWhat AI means for junior and senior developers – risks, opportunities, roles, and the road ahead
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13:20
Open Hardware PowerPC Powerboard Tyche Desktop
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 minsThe PowerPC Open Hardware Desktop, first step before the laptop version
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13:40
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13:40
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13:40
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13:40
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14:00
Open Source Technologies for Forest Biodiversity Monitoring
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsThe Track4BIO Case
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14:00
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14:00
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14:00
FUSS: 20 years of Free Software in education
Where: Auditoriurm (A2) Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FUSSSustainability, digital sovereignty, and creation of public value for schools
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14:20
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14:20
Translate FOSS licenses into code
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsMachine readable Open Source licenses to develop a license incompatibility calculator
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14:20
Timestamping with opentimestamps
Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 minsThis talk is about timestamping, blockchain, opentimestamps and proofmode
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14:20
What is the Fediverse? Defining values and key challenges
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FediForum -
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How to make migrations to FOSS successful on the long term
Where: Auditoriurm (A2) Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FUSSSupporting the decision makers, who are under attack from the Big Tech
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14:40
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14:40
Why Interoperability is Key for Software Freedom
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FSFE – Free Software Foundation Europe -
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14:40
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14:40
Open Education: an opportunity to work together on knowledge sharing and cultural change for the public good
Where: Auditoriurm (A2) Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FUSS -
15:00
Peer-to-Peer Data Sharing Revolution: Implementing MCP for Decentralized Agricultural Networks
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsInnovative Approaches to Agricultural Data Sharing
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15:00
Open Source as a Compliance Enabler: How the ORC Working Group Helps Industry Meet the CRA
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsTackling the Cyber Resilience Act through Open Collaboration
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15:00
Make it proper, build it open!
Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 minsHow we build Uyuni with the Open Build Service
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15:00
Fediverse: Beyond text in the stream
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FediForum, FSFE – Free Software Foundation EuropeAn expedition into the Fediverse to discover uncharted services
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15:00
Progress creating an opensource IT stack for schools in The Netherlands
Where: Auditoriurm (A2) Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FUSS -
15:20
Cloudless IoT
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsThis is how I'm realizing Home and Industrial automation avoiding the Cloud.
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15:20
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15:20
AI Coding & Cybersecurity
Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 minsWhy AI coding tools aren’t ready for production yet
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15:20
Hiraeth and Hashtags: Building a Bilingual Community on the Fediverse
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FediForum -
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Schools Free from GAFAM!
Where: Auditoriurm (A2) Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FUSSOpen is better, not just an alternative — that's what teachers have taught us
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15:40
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15:40
The CRA: an Open Source Sustainability law?
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsHow the CRA will help strenghten the sustainability of Open Source projects.
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15:40
How I learnt Golang with Ebitengine
Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 minsJava OOP practitioner vs. structured 2D game programming
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15:40
Decentralised Social Media Initiatives within European Public Service Media
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FediForum -
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16:00
SIGRE: A FOSS-First Approach to Smart Cities – Lightweight, Modular, Sovereign
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsSimplified Approach
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16:00
Why Free Software needs secured long-term funding
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FSFE – Free Software Foundation Europe -
16:00
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16:00
Growing the open social web: case studies from Newsmast
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FediForum -
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Educational games meet free software: “Pronto? Sig. Muschio!”
Where: Auditoriurm (A2) Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FUSS -
16:20
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16:20
More Lessons from the EU’s Next Generation Internet Initiatives
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FSFE – Free Software Foundation EuropeHow the past year of upheaval has impacted perspectives of NGI participants
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16:20
From Open Source to Open Spaces
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FediForumThe Fediverse and the Future of Public Digital Infrastructure
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16:20
The career copilot: a human-first, open-source ecosystem for lifelong skill certification
Where: Auditoriurm (A2) Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FUSS -
16:40
Questionable South Tyrolean Cultural Open Data?
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsHistorical Data sets, Networks, and the Unknown
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16:40
Navigating the AI Jungle
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsThe OSPO's New Mandate for AI Governance
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16:40
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16:40
Interoperability of Events in the Fediverse: status quo and vision
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FediForum -
16:40
Knowledge Scout: From Talks and Slides to Smart Summaries
Where: Auditoriurm (A2) Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FUSSWhat if we could turn SFSCON talks into a story anyone can understand?
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17:00
Project USAGE
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsopen data and solutions to support environmental policies implementation in cities
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17:00
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17:00
Dicio voice assistant
Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 minsLibre, multilanguage and offline assistant for Android
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17:00
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17:00
South Tyrol Cloud for Citizens
Where: Auditoriurm (A2) Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FUSSA model proposal for South Tyrol and other European regions, a pathway to digital sovereignty and social inclusion
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17:20
AI-Powered Data Validation: Defending Open Data with Intelligence
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsHow Catch Solve, with support from AtomHR, is transforming data and image validation across APIs and data systems with an open-source approach
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17:20
Ethical and Legal AI Compliance in the Age of FOSS
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsAligning transparency, accountability and digital sovereignty
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17:20
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17:20
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17:40
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17:40
Ethics, Between AI and Free Software
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsData, Dignity, and Digital Sovereignty
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17:40
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17:40
Seizing the means of communication
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FediForuma plan for community-owned social media
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18:00
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18:00
Responsible by Design
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsBuilding Ethical AI with Free Software Principles
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18:00
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18:00
From the Fediverse to the Open Social Web
Where: Seminar 4 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FediForumtowards the digital freedom to subscribe, communicate and interact across the entire web
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18:20
The “End Of 10” Has Ended: How Successful Were We?
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsReflecting on the Global Cross-Community Initiative to Bring Linux to Windows Users
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18:40
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Day 2Saturday,08th November 2025
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08:30
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09:20
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09:20
Does EU regulation care about ethics?
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 35 minsEuropean Regulation with Open Source in focus: is it all bad? And how did it come about?
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10:00
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10:00
Beyond Code: Expanding the Open Source Ethos to Build a Fairer Economy and Stronger Democracy
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: OW2A cultural call to action — with real-world examples — to bring open values beyond software and into the foundations of business and society.
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10:20
A carrier approach to efficient CPE management
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsHow an ACS can simplify appliances delivery and monitoring
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10:20
From Code to Market: Strategic Business Models and OSPO Implementation in the Open Source Ecosystem
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: OW2 -
10:40
Performance and Energy Efficiency in Docker
Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 minsAn Open-Source Pipeline to Measure and Improve Software Consumption
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10:40
Procurement Update
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FSFE – Free Software Foundation EuropeHow to use public tenders strategically to prevent openwashing while fostering Free Software
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11:00
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11:00
Ethical AI for Emotional Micro-Moments
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsWhy We Need Open Source Approaches for Transparent and Fair Marketing
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11:20
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11:20
Ethical AI in Marketing: Open Source Automation That Respects Human Behavior
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsBuilding Customer Trust Through Transparent Algorithms and Behavioral Science
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11:40
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12:00
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12:20
Why open source communities do(n’t) work (anymore)
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsLessons learned over the past 21 years
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12:40
Making a sport management game in Godot
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 mins99 Managers Futsal Edition
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13:00
Arc-Team and the OpArc Project
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsOver two decades of experience in Open Source and Archaeology
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13:20
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13:40
I Love Free Software Day
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 mins Supported by: FSFE – Free Software Foundation EuropeEmbracing the power of a thank you
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14:00
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14:20
From SaaS to OSS: How We Built Semaphore Community Edition
Where: Seminar 2 Duration: 15 minsLessons learned in open sourcing our CI/CD platform
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14:40
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15:00
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15:20
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