Programme 2026

Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan assign the “European SFS Award”

Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan assigns the “South Tyrol Free Software Award”

How Linaro built and deployed a multi-tier, confidential, hybrid on-prem and cloud-hosted LLM infrastructure.

We sell the best robots on the market — and they aren’t European yet. That’s not a contradiction in a sovereignty talk. It’s the reason for it.

Lessons on the Need and Value of FOSS from the CRA Standardization Process

Leading the software-defined revolution to break vendor lock-in and build the collaborative automation of tomorrow.

A practical guide to scope, obligations, and the path to compliance

Connecting Europe's Sovereign Tech Ecosystem

Using Free Software and STAC to make large raster datasets findable, interoperable, reusable, and digitally sovereign

Reflecting on the barriers for an open and inclusive future

Build an EU-aligned AI Sovereignty Runtime with FOSS, policy-as-code, audit logs, and private agents

Building Multi-Dimensional Data Cubes from Geo-spatial Temporal Data

How 'open' is a commercial open hardware product in reality?

Free hardware and software are the building blocks of our society and should be in our hands

The OSPO’s Role in Achieving Digital Sovereignty through FOSS AI

A minimal open-source prototype using open data and open models

Understanding open source hardware licensing

Why control over your software supply chain is becoming the core challenge of compliance

Opportunity to talk about Nextcloud and meet the developers

Open standards, lineage, and lakehouse architectures for modern AI systems

An early-stage prototype to fix the standardization governance issue

Secure AI Agents with FOSS, the EU AI Act, and Local-First Infrastructure

A Research-Based Case for Why AI Without Openness Ends Badly for Everyone

Access to hardware features and functionalities in accordance with EU interoperability regulation

A basic introduction to one of the most popular Open Source game engine, while creating a short platformer game.

Provenance, attribution and return paths: what is actually implementable

From technical pioneers to mainstream users: what changes for projects, organisations and policy

Why a decades-old standard plays a key role in your digital independence

Digital cash, made socially responsible

Intellectual property beyond death, insolvency, and organisational liquidation

A European initiative backed and funded by the French Economic Developement bank "Caisse des Dépôts"

What if Big Tech doesn't support your language?

Turning Open Source Sovereignty from Strategy into Practice

The Patent Law Dimension of Open Source Hardware

How to handle AI agents contributing to your open source projects

What Devs Should Know

Public Money, Public Code in Action

The tech bros’ world views

Introduction to integrating p2panda into GTK apps

The famous NGI programme is over: but now comes Open Internet Stack!

hosting webinar for the italian public administation done right

Verifying True Open Source AI for Production

Open data, decentralized and distributed access, federated trust: how CodeSupply rethinks software supply chains metadata

Who legally owns your (vibe)code?

A tool-driven approach to tracking compliance, catching library conflicts, and choosing the right outbound license.

hosting webinar for the italian public administation done right

Human Sovereignty under the GDPR and the AI Act

A Practical Evaluation of the Uyuni MCP Server

Does AI-translated Software really create its own IP?

How FOSS helps you survive the EU regulatory stack

AI as an Adaptive Data Analyst

Where are we after two years of enforcement?

A Practical Guide to Nextcloud App Development

Never too late to reduce e-waste, close Windows, and open the door to Free Software

Rebuilding that one feature you actually need

An Invitation to PyLadies South-Tyrol

Digital independence is a luxury precisely for those who need it most.

Interoperability, Security, Digital Sovereignty, and Technological Independence

A South Tyrolean approach

How careful AI tooling policies in FOSS projects are bringing in the next (huge) wave of developers

Building Digital Independence Through Practice

Wok is an opinionated CLI for managing projects, built to type less and navigate through projects fast

Towards Open Tools and Digital Sovereignty in the Documentation of Tinplate Toy Collections

Lessons from Romansh, Ladin and Friulian

The FUSS Project Contribution

Local-First sync and collaboration in GNOME apps, built on p2panda

A domain specific programming language for testing distributed systems

Integrating Advanced Modeling and Generative AI in Intensive Care and Oncology

Continuity from the community: interoperability, security, digital sovereignty, and technological independence

Lessons from building a community-driven Free Software education campaign: from early ideas to school workshops, co-creation sessions, and the challenges of growing volunteer-led initiatives

PostgreSQL foreign data wrappers to the rescue !

What We Learned From Building a Real Alternative to Big Tech

It's an open problem that may naturally have an Open Source Solution.

Tales of a voxel game

The Cognitive Science and Neuroscience Behind Algorithmic Dependency and AI Automation

Let's talk about volunteer engagement!

An Invitation to PyLadies South-Tyrol

The Hard Problem Behind Deepfake Detection

From personal project to community resource

Building Sovereign Knowledge Libraries with Free Software

A handson for the Fediverse

Evaluating AI: the criteria for vendor selection

A lot of progress in the past 12 months and a big announcement to make.

Enable young people to demonstrate their knowledge of Linux and open source.

Survival tips from a Linux user in a Microsoft dominated industry

A Student-Led Journey into Free Software

Moving from fragmented course containers to secure perimeters of data ownership

Gathering of the FSFE Italian Community

Monitoring Italian Public Agencies Digital Sovereignty Status trough observation of Email System DNS Record

Tactile Maps Designed for Blind and Partially Sighted People

A practical journey from Docker Compose to Kubernetes-inspired failure recovery.

Neuralforming: open civic tech that turns classrooms into AI governance labs

Real cases

An intro to platform engineering and CNCF

How programming changes the way we think and learn

How to create documents which can be exchanged without issues

Many people join the Fediverse, but relatively few successfully move their communities there.

From Bare Metal to Cloud

When the concept of a ‘trace’ becomes a link between Computer Science and Digital Art

An informal BoF to exchange ideas, experiences and practical approaches to a more independent digital ecosystem