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Engineering

This track will moderated by a journalist

This track brings together topics from development and operations, focusing on modern engineering practices in Free Software.

On Friday, the spotlight is on developers: talks will cover programming languages, development tools, frameworks and collaborative workflows in FOSS projects.

On Saturday, the focus shifts to DevOps: automation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and containerisation – with a practical look at how to streamline deployment and system operations.

Venue: Seminar 3
Venue for Saturday: Seminar 1

Engineering track 2025

- Day 1
  
  Friday,07th November 2025
- 11:00
  Engineering
  
  Why you cannot “apt install” an LLM (yet)
  
  How Debian is rethinking its guidelines for AI
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 35 mins
  - Andrea Pappacoda
    
    Debian
- 11:40
  Engineering
  
  Making Sense of Sensors: Semantic Access to Time Series Data
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Manuela Corte Pause
    
    Ontopic
- 12:00
  Engineering
  
  Computational Thinking: What’s Inside the Mind of a Programmer?
  
  The Cognitive Sciences of Programming
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Giulia Paludo
    
    DISI - University of Trento
- 12:20
  Engineering
  
  From MongoDB to Postgres: Building an Open Source Standard for Document Databases
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Peter Farkas
    
    FerretDB
- 12:40
  Engineering
  
  App4Cam – Running on innovative camera traps in the field
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Daniel Waxweiler
    
    Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology (LIST)
- 13:00
  Engineering
  
  You can’t write “AI” without an “I”
  
  Control, clarity, and responsibility in the age of copilots
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Luca Rainone
    
    Indipendent
- 13:20
  Engineering
  
  The AI Shift: Rethinking the Developer’s Role in a Machine-Driven World
  
  What AI means for junior and senior developers – risks, opportunities, roles, and the road ahead
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Davide Montesin
    
    Catch Solve
- 13:40
  Engineering
  
  The Unbearable Weight of FOSS Maintenance in Android Space
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Aayush Gupta
    
    Independent
- 14:00
  Engineering
  
  Empowering the End User to be More Sustainable in Web Applications
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Eduardo Guerra
    
    Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- 14:20
  Engineering
  
  Timestamping with opentimestamps
  
  This talk is about timestamping, blockchain, opentimestamps and proofmode
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Timothy M. Redaelli
    
    Red Hat
- 14:40
  Engineering
  
  The Comfort Trap: Getting Too Used to AI
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Sofia Etingof
    
    Selfemployment
  - Juri Solovjov
    
    IBM Middleware Czechia
- 15:00
  Engineering
  
  Make it proper, build it open!
  
  How we build Uyuni with the Open Build Service
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Marina Latini
    
    SUSE
- 15:20
  Engineering
  
  AI Coding & Cybersecurity
  
  Why AI coding tools aren’t ready for production yet
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Michele Magri
    
    sys.white
- 15:40
  Engineering
  
  How I learnt Golang with Ebitengine
  
  Java OOP practitioner vs. structured 2D game programming
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Luca Guadagnini
    
    CherryChain s.r.l.
- 16:00
  
  Engineering
  
  Panel (Engineering)
  
  Coming soon!
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 35 mins
- 16:40
  Engineering
  
  OPC UA in Industrial Automation
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Max Kofler
    
    Danfoss
- 17:00
  Engineering
  
  Dicio voice assistant
  
  Libre, multilanguage and offline assistant for Android
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Fabio Giovanazzi
    
    NewPipe and MindsHub
- 17:20
  Engineering
  
  Towards Understanding Visualization Impedance Mismatch
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Andrea Janes
    
    Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  - Luca Vannuccini
    
    Free University of Bozen Bolzano
- 17:40
  Engineering
  
  Free Open Source Software Maintainers and LLMs: It’s complicated
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Daniele Gobbetti
    
    Freelance
- 18:00
  Engineering
  
  Community-Building for AI Coding Assistants: Lessons from Open Source & Beyond
  
  Where: Seminar 3 Duration: 15 mins
  - Vibor Cipan
    
    Zencoder
- Day 2
  
  Saturday,08th November 2025
- 09:20
  Engineering
  
  Presence and continuity – on AI driven automation and decision making
  
  Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 35 mins
  - Charles-H. Schulz
    
    Vates - Xen Project
- 10:00
  Engineering
  
  FinOps: Cloud Billing and Usage with ClickHouse
  
  Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 mins
  - Denys Kondratenko
    
    Altinity
- 10:20
  Engineering
  
  A carrier approach to efficient CPE management
  
  How an ACS can simplify appliances delivery and monitoring
  Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 mins
  - Marco Marinello
    
    Qnets, Internet that just works.
- 10:40
  Engineering
  
  Performance and Energy Efficiency in Docker
  
  An Open-Source Pipeline to Measure and Improve Software Consumption
  Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 mins
  - Alessandro Aneggi
    
    University of Bolzano
- 11:00
  Engineering
  
  Sovereign Cloud and Open Source: The Future of Cloud Computing
  
  Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 mins
  - Francisco Picolini
    
    OpenNebula
- 11:20
  Engineering
  
  Zap the Flakes!
  
  Leveraging AI to Combat Flaky Tests with CANNIER
  Where: Seminar 1 Duration: 15 mins
  - Daniel Hiller
    
    Red Hat GmbH

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