Conferences / FOSDEM
FOSDEM 2026
Jan 31, 2026 – Feb 1, 2026 · Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch campus, Brussels, Belgium
- Conference
- FOSDEM Database
- Dates
- Jan 31, 2026 – Feb 1, 2026
- Venue
- Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch campus
- Place
- Brussels, Belgium
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 8,000Archived 2026 about page: 'Today, it hosts over 8000 developers annually at the ULB Solbosch campus'. Generic annual figure, not a counted headcount for this edition.
- Website
- archive.fosdem.org
- Recorded
- 17 sponsors · 86 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Talks: data-related developer rooms only (FOSDEM has ~1079 schedule entries this year). Included rooms: Databases; HPC, Big Data & Data Science; AI Plumbers. Plus main-track talks "Zero-Downtime Upgrades: PostgreSQL and OS/glibc at Global Scale" and "Building the next generation of open source contributors – Lessons from 30 years of Postgres". Devroom welcome sessions and speaker-less discussion slots omitted. Affiliations come from the FOSDEM speaker bio on the archived schedule (null when the bio is empty or names no employer; some bios carry over from earlier editions). 64 talks, 86 speaker rows, 59 with affiliation. Videos are video.fosdem.org recordings and slides are the attachments/links on each event page, taken from the schedule XML. No separate PostgreSQL or MySQL devroom in 2026; database talks were in the Databases devroom.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free admission (no registration) | €0 | — | About page: 'Participation and attendance is totally free' | archive.fosdem.org |
Sponsors 17
Other 15
- Arm · Main sponsor
- CNCF & OpenInfra · Main sponsor
- Codethink · Main sponsor
- Colt · Main sponsor
- Dstny · Main sponsor
- Eclipse Foundation · Main sponsor
- Element · Main sponsor
- Grafana Labs · Main sponsor
- LMAX Group · Main sponsor
- Mozilla · Main sponsor
- Percona · Main sponsor
- SAP · Main sponsor
- Université Libre de Bruxelles · Main sponsor
- UpCloud · Main sponsor
- Zabbix · Main sponsor
Speakers and talks 86
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alessandro Pilotti | Cloudbase Solutions | Speaker | Accelerating complex Bioinformatics AI pipelines with Kubernetes | SlidesVideo |
| Alexander Sosna | GitLab | Speaker | Zero-Downtime Upgrades: PostgreSQL and OS/glibc at Global Scale | SlidesVideo |
| Aliaksandr Valialkin | VictoriaMetrics | Speaker | Working with Filesystem in Time Series Database | SlidesVideo |
| Anastasia Mallikopoulou | — | Speaker | Beyond TinyML: Balance inference accuracy and latency on MCUs | SlidesVideo |
| Anastassios Nanos | — | Speaker | Beyond TinyML: Balance inference accuracy and latency on MCUs | SlidesVideo |
| Arnaud Adant | Jump Trading | Speaker | Replicating Transactional Databases to ClickHouse : Transaction Log Analysis and Time Travel | SlidesVideo |
| Ben Dicken | PlanetScale | Speaker | PostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives | Video |
| Boris Martin | University of Liège | Speaker | Scaling Gmsh-based FEM on LUMI: Efficiently Handling Thousands of Partitions | Video |
| Charalampos Mainas | — | Speaker | Beyond TinyML: Balance inference accuracy and latency on MCUs | SlidesVideo |
| Charly Batista | EDB | Speaker | Cracking Down the Code: What Really Happens When You Run a SELECT? | Video |
| Claire Giordano | Microsoft | Speaker | Building the next generation of open source contributors – Lessons from 30 years of Postgres | SlidesVideo |
| Crozet Sébastien | — | Speaker | Single-source cross-platform GPU LLM inference with Slang and Rust | Video |
| Danfeng Zhang | University of Warsaw | Speaker | All in RISC-V, RISC-V All in AI: Solving Real AI Compute Challenges with DeepComputing & Tenstorrent | Video |
| Daniël van Eeden | PingCAP | Speaker | "Drop-in Replacement": Defining Compatibility for Postgres and MySQL Derivatives | SlidesVideo |
| Daniele Mingolla | OpenNebula | Speaker | OneAI: An Open-Source Framework for Managing AI Models at Scale | SlidesVideo |
| Deleted User | — | Speaker | Inverted database indexes: The why, the what, and the how. | SlidesVideo |
| Dorin Geman | — | Speaker | Taming the LLM Zoo with Docker Model Runner: Inference with OCI Artifacts, llama.cpp, and vLLM | Video |
| Eric Curtin | — | Speaker | Taming the LLM Zoo with Docker Model Runner: Inference with OCI Artifacts, llama.cpp, and vLLM | Video |
| Erich Birngruber | — | Speaker | Zero‑Touch HPC Nodes: NetBox, Tofu and Packer for a Self‑Configuring SLURM Cluster | SlidesVideo |
| FelixCLC | — | Speaker | A Brief* overview of what makes modern accelerators interesting for HPC | Video |
| Franck Pachot | MongoDB | Speaker | LSM vs. B‑Tree: RocksDB and WiredTiger for Cloud‑Native Distributed Databases | SlidesVideo |
| Gábor Szárnyas | DuckDB Labs | Speaker | DuckDB in the Cloud: A Simple, Powerful SQL Engine for Your Lakehouse | SlidesVideo |
| Georgi Kodinov | — | Speaker | Contributing to MariaDB & Postgres | SlidesVideo |
| Ghasan Mohammad (hozan23) | — | Speaker | Federating Databases with Apache DataFusion: Open Query Planning and Arrow-Native Interoperability | SlidesVideo |
| Giacomo | — | Speaker | You do not need an ORM | SlidesVideo |
| Gianluca Guida | AI Nekko | Speaker | A practical introduction to the ET platform. | Video |
| Gosia Zagajewska | — | Speaker | From Infrastructure to Production: A Year of Self-Hosted LLMs | SlidesVideo |
| Greg Potter | — | Speaker | Delegating SQL Parsing to PostgreSQL | SlidesVideo |
| Guillermo Sanchez | DuckDB Labs | Speaker | DuckDB in the Cloud: A Simple, Powerful SQL Engine for Your Lakehouse | SlidesVideo |
| Harmen Stoppels | Stoppels Consulting | Speaker | Spack v1.0 and Beyond: Managing HPC Software Stacks | SlidesVideo |
| Helena Vela Beltran | Do IT Now | Speaker | Status update on EESSI, the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations | Video |
| Jade Abraham | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Speaker | Productive Parallel Programming with Chapel and Arkouda | SlidesVideo |
| Jakov Petrina Trnski | — | Speaker | Review of kernel and user-space Neural Processing Unit (NPU) chips support on Linux | SlidesVideo |
| Jan-Patrick Lehr | AMD | Speaker | ROCm™ on TheRock(s) | Video |
| Jeremy Bennett | Embecosm | Speaker | Bringing up bare metal ExecuTorch on RISC-V | SlidesVideo |
| Jimmy Angelakos | — | Speaker | "Drop-in Replacement": Defining Compatibility for Postgres and MySQL Derivatives | SlidesVideo |
| José Castillo Lema | Red Hat | Speaker | API Remoting for llama.cpp: Near-Native GPU Speed in macOS Containers | Video |
| Josh Lee | Altinity | Speaker | Magical Mystery Tour: A Roundup of Observability Datastores | SlidesVideo |
| Jules Merckx | Ghent University | Speaker | Accelerating scientific code on AI hardware with Reactant.jl | SlidesVideo |
| Julien Balian | — | Speaker | tract - an efficient rust neural network inference engine | SlidesVideo |
| Kevin Biju | ClickHouse | Speaker | Contributing to MariaDB & Postgres | SlidesVideo |
| Leon Schwarzäugl | — | Speaker | Zero‑Touch HPC Nodes: NetBox, Tofu and Packer for a Self‑Configuring SLURM Cluster | SlidesVideo |
| Ludovic Courtès | Inria | Speaker | Package management in the hands of users: dream and reality | SlidesVideo |
| Luiz Miguel | Intentee | Speaker | From Infrastructure to Production: A Year of Self-Hosted LLMs | SlidesVideo |
| Mahendra Paipuri | CNRS | Speaker | Track Energy & Emissions of User Jobs on HPC/AI Platforms using CEEMS | SlidesVideo |
| Martin Chang | — | Speaker | All in RISC-V, RISC-V All in AI: Solving Real AI Compute Challenges with DeepComputing & Tenstorrent | Video |
| Mateusz Charytoniuk | Intentee | Speaker | From Infrastructure to Production: A Year of Self-Hosted LLMs | SlidesVideo |
| Mathieu Poumeyrol | Sonos | Speaker | tract - an efficient rust neural network inference engine | SlidesVideo |
| Matt Graham | UCL | Speaker | Developing software tools for accelerated and differentiable scientific computing using JAX | Video |
| Matt Yonkovit ( The Yonk ) | EDB | Speaker | How to Prevent Your AI from Returning Garbage: It Starts and Ends with Data Engineering | Video |
| Matthew Topol | Columnar | Speaker | Apache Arrow, Hostage Negotiator: Revisiting the case for Client Protocol Redesign | Video |
| Matthias Crauwels | PlanetScale | Speaker | Data on Kubernetes / stateless storage | Video |
| Michiel De Backker | Twintag | Speaker | Federating Databases with Apache DataFusion: Open Query Planning and Arrow-Native Interoperability | SlidesVideo |
| Mikael Ronström | Hopsworks | Speaker | Real-Time AI Powered by RonDB | Video |
| Moritz Thüning | Tenstorrent | Speaker | TT-Boltz: Drug Discovery on Tenstorrent Hardware | Video |
| Mosè Giordano | UCL | Speaker | Accelerating scientific code on AI hardware with Reactant.jl | SlidesVideo |
| Nicoleta Lazar | Fresha | Speaker | Jack of all trades: query federation in modern OLAP databases | SlidesVideo |
| Pep Pla | — | Speaker | PostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives | Video |
| Peter Cawley | — | Speaker | Zero to matmul with the ET-SoC-1 | SlidesVideo |
| Petr Penzin | — | Speaker | WebNN and WebLLM on RISC-V: Closing the AI Acceleration Gap with RVV and Tenstorrent | Video |
| Pietra Ferreira | Embecosm | Speaker | Bringing up bare metal ExecuTorch on RISC-V | SlidesVideo |
| Piotr Tarasiewicz | NVIDIA | Speaker | Supercharging LLM serving with Dynamo | Video |
| Prasun Anand | — | Speaker | High Performance Jupyter Notebooks with Zasper | Video |
| Ramon Wirsch | — | Speaker | Closing the Loop: A Self-Learning Compiler for AI Accelerators | Video |
| Rohit Nayak | PlanetScale | Speaker | PostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives | Video |
| Roman Shaposhnik | Ainekko | Speaker | Running tinygrad and ggml on microcontroller NPUs | Video |
| Ruben Ortlam | — | Speaker | Vulkan API for Machine Learning? Competing with CUDA and ROCm in llama.cpp | Video |
| Sam Jewell | Grafana Labs | Speaker | Cube, dbt and Grafana: the OSS stack that blends Data Analytics with Observability data | SlidesVideo |
| samuel desseaux | Erythix | Speaker | Observability for AI Workloads on HPC: Beyond GPU Utilization Metrics | Video |
| Shane Slattery | Embecosm | Speaker | Bringing up bare metal ExecuTorch on RISC-V | SlidesVideo |
| Shlomi Noach | PlanetScale | Speaker | PostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives | Video |
| Sunny Bains | PingCAP | Speaker | Multi writer CDC Challenges | SlidesVideo |
| Tanya Dadasheva | Ainekko | Speaker | Lowering the barrier of entrance in AI-native system development | Video |
| Thomas Breuer | Forschungszentrum Jülich | Speaker | JUBE: An Environment for systematic benchmarking and scientific workflows | Video |
| Thor | Polar Signals | Speaker | From Disks to Distributed: Our Journey of Database Evolution in the Cloud | SlidesVideo |
| Tobias Burnus | BayLibre | Speaker | Using OpenMP's interop for calling GPU-vendor libs with GCC | SlidesVideo |
| Tobias Kremer | ECMWF | Speaker | Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Zarr: A Virtualized Approach to Zarr Stores from ECMWF's Fields Database | SlidesVideo |
| Tom Ebergen | DuckDB Labs | Speaker | DuckDB in the Cloud: A Simple, Powerful SQL Engine for Your Lakehouse | SlidesVideo |
| Tushar Sharma | Dalhousie University | Speaker | The Hidden Cost of Intelligence: The Energy Footprint of AI from Code to GPU Kernels | Video |
| Ümit Seren | Vienna BioCenter | Speaker | Zero‑Touch HPC Nodes: NetBox, Tofu and Packer for a Self‑Configuring SLURM Cluster | SlidesVideo |
| Vitor Oliveira | Huawei | Speaker | Server, Storage Engine, Protocol, Client: Suspects of a MySQL Performance Mystery | SlidesVideo |
| William Jones | — | Speaker | Bringing up bare metal ExecuTorch on RISC-V | SlidesVideo |
| Xavier Delaruelle | CEA | Speaker | Update on the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) | SlidesVideo |
| Xuan-Son Nguyen | — | Speaker | Multimodal support in llama.cpp - Achievements and Future Directions | Video |
| YASH PANCHAL | Percona | Speaker | One GPU, Many Models: What Works and What Segfaults | SlidesVideo |
| Yuning Liang | DeepComputing | Speaker | WebNN and WebLLM on RISC-V: Closing the AI Acceleration Gap with RVV and Tenstorrent | Video |