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Keynotes

Like almost every other conference, FOSDEM invites speakers to gently start the day with talks concerning slightly less technical, but nevertheless interesting topics from the Open Source realm. The closing keynote at the end of the conference helps everyone digest the vast amount of insightful information collected over the weekend.

For this edition, the keynotes are as follows:

Title	Speaker(s)	Day	When	Room
Welcome to FOSDEM 2018	FOSDEM Staff	Saturday	09:30 - 09:55	Janson
Consensus as a Service Twenty Years of OSI Stewardship	Simon Phipps, Italo Vignoli	Saturday	10:00 - 10:50	Janson
Next Generation Internet Initiative An opportunity to fix the internet	Rob van Kranenburg, Michiel Leenaars, Marietje Schaake, Georgios Tselentis	Saturday	11:00 - 11:50	Janson
Exploiting modern microarchitectures Meltdown, Spectre, and other hardware attacks	Jon Masters	Sunday	17:00 - 17:50	Janson
Closing FOSDEM 2018	FOSDEM Staff	Sunday	17:50 - 18:00	Janson

Main tracks

The main tracks consist of series of talks that are organised by topic, where the FOSDEM program committee selects suggestions and actively invites speakers on those topics.

For this edition the main tracks are:

Developer rooms

The vast majority of events (talks, hacking sessions, open discussions) are held in so-called developer rooms (devrooms), which are organized and managed by open source projects themselves, or even associations between several such projects on a common topic in order to foster collaboration.

Here is the list of the devrooms that are present at this edition of FOSDEM, in alphabetical order:

Lightning talks

The lightning talk is a very popular format, used at many conferences, where speakers have a mere 15 minutes at their disposal to showcase an open source project, an idea, or a concept thereof.

While that brief lapse of time may seem awkward, it almost always leads the presenters to concentrate on the absolute essence and what is really important, which is why it is often a much appreciated approach, as is the wide variety of the topics.

There are currently 42 lightning talks in the schedule.

Certification Exams

Several certification organizations provide FOSDEM visitors with the opportunity of taking certification exams during the conference.

Further details are available on the certification page.

The following types of exams are available at FOSDEM 2018, in alphabetical order:

The FOSDEM Fringe

The FOSDEM Fringe consists of independent events involving free and open source software taking place in the days around the FOSDEM weekend. Why not extend your trip?

Further details are available on the FOSDEM Fringe page.

Mobile Apps

People have submitted a variety of apps for mobile devices that display the FOSDEM schedule.

Raw schedule data

The schedule data is available in:

• Pentabarf XML
• iCal
• xCal