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FOSDEM 2026

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FOSDEM 2026 ran Jan 31, 2026 – Feb 1, 2026 at ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium. It is an Open Source conference that expected about 8,000 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 44 speakers, 17 sponsors and 16 sessions. The next edition, FOSDEM 2027, is Jan 30–31, 2027 in Brussels.

Lineup updated Sep 27, 2026 · dates verified May 6, 2026

FOSDEM 2026 is a large, free-to-attend event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate on open source software. The event features over 1013 lectures, 65 devrooms, lightning talks, and draws more than 8000 hackers from around the world. Attendees benefit from a full weekend of engaging talks, discussions, and networking opportunities with…

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44Speakers
17Sponsors
16Sessions
17Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at FOSDEM, in alphabetical order.

1peter10
6543
Abderrahim Kitouni
Abel Samot
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
Abraxas3d
Achim Friedland
Adam Harvey
Adam Ivora
Adam Litke
Adam Pioterek
Aditya Singh
Adolfo García Veytia
Adrian Reber
Affe Null
Afonso Oliveira
Ahmad Fatoum
Akashdeep Dhar
Aki
A. Salt
Daniel Morin
Daniel Stenberg

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

ArmMain
CNCF & OpenInfraMain
CodethinkMain
ColtMain
DstnyMain
Eclipse FoundationMain
ElementMain
GoogleCornerstone
Grafana LabsMain
LMAX GroupMain
MozillaMain
PerconaMain
Red HatCornerstone
SAPMain
Université Libre de BruxellesMain
UpCloudMain
ZabbixMain

Agenda

Selected from 16 sessions.

  • Saturday 09:30 - 09:50

    Welcome to FOSDEM 2026

    Keynotes
  • Saturday 10:00 - 10:50

    FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI

    Keynotes
  • Saturday 10:30

    Upstreaming Progress: Video Capture and Camera Support for Recent Rockchip SoCs

    Open Media devroom
  • Saturday 10:50

    Latency reduction in Video streaming with Linux’s camera and encoder APIs

    Open Media devroom
  • Saturday 11:10

    WebRTC support in WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit with GStreamer: Current status and plans

    Open Media devroom
  • Saturday 11:35

    Innovations with YAML/CABAC in H.264/AVC software decoding

    Open Media devroom
  • Saturday 11:55

    Bridging the gap between browser and backend media processing

    Open Media devroom
  • Saturday 12:20

    Update on FFmpeg, VLC, related libraries and Kyber

    Open Media devroom
  • Saturday 12:40

    Decentralized Public Broadcast with Streamplace

    Open Media devroom

Quick answers

When is FOSDEM 2026?
FOSDEM 2026 ran Jan 31, 2026 – Feb 1, 2026 at ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium. The next edition, FOSDEM 2027, is Jan 30–31, 2027 in Brussels.
Where is FOSDEM 2026 held?
FOSDEM 2026 was held at ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium.
Who is speaking at FOSDEM 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 44 speakers, including 1peter10, 6543 and Abderrahim Kitouni.
Who sponsors FOSDEM 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 17 sponsors, including Arm, CNCF & OpenInfra, Codethink, Colt and Dstny.
Company intelligence

An audience of 17 companies, parsed from the program.

Seventeen companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
17Sponsoringsponsor only
0Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority
  • Other roles44100%

Of 44 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1ArmSponsor · Main-
2CNCF & OpenInfraSponsor · Main-
3CodethinkSponsor · Main-
4ColtSponsor · Main-
5DstnySponsor · Main-
6Eclipse FoundationSponsor · Main-
7ElementSponsor · Main-
8GoogleSponsor · Cornerstone-
9Grafana LabsSponsor · Main-
10LMAX GroupSponsor · Main-
11MozillaSponsor · Main-
12PerconaSponsor · Main-
13Red HatSponsor · Cornerstone-
14SAPSponsor · Main-
Sponsors by tier
cornerstone2
12% of 17
main15
88% of 17
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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