AI Leaders Roundtable: Open Telco AI
2026-03-04
AI Leaders Roundtable: Open Telco AI, Roundtable
Date: 4 March 2026 || Mode: In-Person || Location: Barcelona, Spain

FOSSASIA Summit
2026-03-08 - 2026-03-10
FOSSASIA Summit
Date: 8th – 10th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Bankok, Thailand
FOSSASIA Summit brings together people who build and maintain real systems. The 2026 edition features 200+ international speakers covering AI, security, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Web3 and distributed systems, data engineering, web and mobile development, and open hardware.
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Confirmed speakers and contributors include:

Engineers from ExpressVPN, Google, AWS, TikTok, Huawei, Fujitsu, Microsoft, and Netflix
Roger Dingledine, Co-founder of the Tor Project
Mitch Altman, hacker and inventor
JB Kempf, President of VideoLAN (VLC)
Peter Membrey, creator of Lightway
Rebecca Rumbul, Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation
Xiong Wei, Executive Director of openEuler
Joe Conway, PostgreSQL contributor and AWS PostgreSQL team lead
Maintainers and contributors from Kubernetes, Grafana, and the Apache Software Foundation
Active contributors from the Wikimedia ecosystem
Researchers connected to arXiv and leading universities
Members of the Raspberry Pi community

The Summit is made possible by our Platinum Sponsors ExpressVPN, openKylin, TikTok and openEuler, with the support of ARM, Google, Grafana, EarnIn, and Solanica.

FOSSASIA Hackathon powered by ExpressVPN
2026-03-10
FOSSASIA Hackathon powered by ExpressVPN
Date: 10th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Bankok, Thailand
Secure by Design – Digital Safety for Young Users
10 March 2026 | Bangkok
Build practical solutions around privacy, safety, and trust-by-design. Collaborate with mentors and industry experts to prototype real-world approaches to digital protection for young users.
Prizes

Grand Prize: THB 29,999 (~1,000 USD)
Best Privacy by Design: THB 15,555 (~500 USD)
Best Open Source Hack: THB 8,888 (~290 USD)

Sign up for the Hackathon
Seats are limited.

PGDay Bangkok (FOSSASIA PostgreSQL Day)
2026-03-10
10 March 2026
A dedicated day for the PostgreSQL community.
Meet maintainers and experienced practitioners for in-depth sessions on:

Performance tuning
High availability and disaster recovery
Operations and scaling
PostgreSQL internals

Supported by AWS, Fujitsu, Microsoft, and Navicat.
View the full schedule

OpenUK & OpenHQ Rwanda Meetup
2026-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
​Event format: Fireside Chat
​Speaker: Amanda Brock
Interviewer: Didas Mbarushimana
​Date: 11 March 2026
​Time: 6:00 PM
​Location: Digital Transformation Center Rwanda
​The session will be a fireside chat, followed by an open Q&A with the audience.
​Capacity: 50 attendees

QCon London 2026
2026-03-16 - 2026-03-19
QCon London 2026
Date: 16th – 19th March || Mode: In-person || Location: The QEII Centre, London, UK

FOSS Backstage 2026
2026-03-16 - 2026-03-17
FOSS Backstage
Date: 16th – 17th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Berlin, Germany

Monki Gras 2026
2026-03-19 - 2026-03-20
Monkigras
Date: 19th – 20th March || Mode: In-person || Location: London, UK

Cloud Native Telco Day
2026-03-23
Cloud Native Telco Day
Date: 23rd March || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CiliumCon Europe
2026-03-23
CiliumCon Europe
Date: 23rd March || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Open Source Security Con Europe
2026-03-23
Open Source SecurityCon Europe
Date: 23rd March || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Platform Engineering Day Europe
2026-03-23
Platform Engineering Day Europe
Date: 23rd March || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

KubeAuto Day Europe 2026
2026-03-23
KubeAuto Day Europe 2026
Date: March 23, 2026 || Mode: In-Person || Location: Amstel Boathouse, Amsterdam

fluxCon Europe
2026-03-23
fluxCon Europe
Date: 23rd March || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kubecon Europe 2026
2026-03-23 - 2026-03-26
KubeCon/CloudNativeCon EU
Date: 23rd – 26th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CHERI Blossoms Conference 2026
2026-03-25 - 2026-03-27
Pre-Conference Tutorial: 25 March 2026
Main Conference Date: 26 – 27 March 2026
Mode: In-Person
Location: Department of Computer Science and Technology – William Gates Building, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

PyTorch Conference Europe 2026
2026-04-07 - 2026-04-08
PyTorch Conference Europe 2026
Date: 7-8 April 2026 || Mode: In-person || Location: Paris, France

Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop 2026
2026-04-15 - 2026-04-17
Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop 2026
Date: 15th – 17th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Berlin, Germany

CityJS London
2026-04-15 - 2026-04-16
CityJS London
Date: 15th – 17th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Kensington Town Hall, London

OpenSearchCon Europe
2026-04-16 - 2026-04-17
OpenSearchCon Europe
Date: 16th – 17th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Prague, Czechia

OggCamp 2026
2026-04-25 - 2026-04-26 | The Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville St, Manchester, M1 3BB, United Kingdom
OggCamp 2026
Date: 25th – 26th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Manchester, UK

Kube Crash Spring 2026
2026-04-30
30 April, Kube Crash spring 2026, “AI + Open Source: The New Software Supply Chain”
Amanda Brock will be speaking at Kube Crash Spring 2026 “AI + Open Source: The New Software Supply Chain“

Red Hat Summit
2026-05-11 - 2026-05-14
Red Hat Summit
Date: 11th – 14th May || Mode: In-person || Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

PyCon US
2026-05-13 - 2026-05-19
PyCon US
Date: 13th – 19th May || Mode: In-person || Location: Long Beach, California, USA

CIO ForwardTech London 2026
2026-05-14
CIO ForwardTech London – Keynote Address Open Source
CIO ForwardTech brings together IT leaders to explore the trends shaping today’s technology markets and the innovations on the horizon. As a partner, you can connect with IT leaders actively seeking future-ready solutions—through speaking opportunities, exhibition booths, and 1-to-1 meetings.

Embedded Linux Conference North America
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-20
Embedded Linux Conference North America
Date: 18th – 20th May || Mode: In-person || Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Open Source Summit North America
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-20
Open Source Summit North America
Date: 18th – 20th May || Mode: In-person || Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

OpenSSF Community Day North America 2026
2026-05-21
OpenSSF Community Day North America 2026
Date: 21st May || Mode: In-person || Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Data Fest 2026
2026-05-27 - 2026-05-28
27 – 28 May 2026 || In Person || Edinburgh
https://datafest.global/

State of Open Con 26 on the Road: Edinburgh
2026-06-05
Date: 5th June
Location: To be announced soon
City: Edinburgh
Registration coming soon
