FOSDEM 2026 — Still Buzzing!
Just back from FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels — and the energy was incredible. 8,000+ open source minds, 65 beers, 1,013 talks… and enough hallway track conversations to fuel a year’s worth of ideas.
RISC-V & Open Silicon
This year, I had the chance to connect deeply with the teams from DeepComputing and the RISC-V International Foundation, and I must say: the momentum around open silicon and custom compute is real.
Seeing the energy in the RISC-V devroom and chatting about hardware/software co-design reminded me how far open innovation has come — and where it’s going.
Key Takeaways
- RISC-V is getting real traction for AI at the edge
- Hardware is getting more open — and that unlocks a new class of innovation
- Still amazed by how strong and welcoming the open source community is
Enterprise AI & Cloud Native
From Red Hat OpenShift AI to edge GPU orchestration, it was also great to swap stories from the field — especially how we’re applying these architectures at scale for enterprise-grade AI/ML workloads.
Topics that came up again and again:
- Multi-tenant GPU orchestration
- MLOps pipelines at enterprise scale
- Infrastructure as Code for AI workloads
- Kubernetes-native ML serving
Community Connections
Big thanks to everyone who made this weekend not just about code, but about community. Some of the people and organizations I connected with:
- Andrea Urbani, Yuning Liang, Carlo Avversari, Georg Link, PhD
- Tenstorrent, Grafana Labs, CNCF, Mozilla, Google, Arm
- OpenInfra Foundation, Codethink, Eclipse Foundation, Element
- Percona, SAP, Tanya Dadasheva, Kathy Giori, Gabriele Columbro
If we met, let’s keep the conversation going. If not — see you next year, or sooner in the next devroom!
FOSDEM 2026 at a Glance
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Event | FOSDEM 2026 |
| Date | January 31 – February 1, 2026 |
| Location | Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 🇧🇪 |
| Attendees | 8,000+ |
| Talks | 1,013 |
| Website | fosdem.org/2026 |
Topics Covered
#FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource #RISC_V #DeepComputing #Ansible #Kubernetes #OpenShiftAI #EdgeAI #InfraAsCode #FOSS #MLOps #CloudNative #CNCF
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