Schedule
Quick links:
- Timetables: Saturday, Sunday
- Overview of rooms per days
- Mobile apps: many platforms
- What's on now: Live streaming
- Programme Schedule Amendments
- Booklet: Info, Saturday, Sunday
- Printable PDF: A4 A3
Every year, FOSDEM hosts a wide variety of activities. This page gives an overview with links to further information about scheduled events.
FOSDEM is a very busy conference. This edition features 730 speakers, 776 events, and 62 tracks. We do our best to provide you with as much information and navigation options about the schedule as we can. Check out our on-campus navigation tool.
Activities take place in
34
rooms spread across several buildings of
the Solbosch campus
of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).
An overview of the room
occupation by track is available, too.
There are essentially six different categories of sessions and activities: keynotes, main tracks, developer rooms, lightning talks, stands and certification exams.
For a complete (but crowded) overview, there is also a
page that lists all events.
A list of all speakers is available, too.
During the event, the live streaming page is also updated every few minutes to show you what is currently scheduled in each room.
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 2019 |
 FOSDEM Staff
|
Saturday | 09:30 - 09:55 | Janson |
| Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software |
 Bradley M. Kuhn,  Karen Sandler
|
Saturday | 10:00 - 10:50 | Janson |
| FLOSS, the Internet and the Future | Mitchell Baker | Saturday | 11:00 - 11:50 | Janson |
| Blockchain: The Ethical Considerations |
 Deb Nicholson
|
Saturday | 12:00 - 12:50 | Janson |
| The Cloud is Just Another Sun |
 Kyle Rankin
|
Sunday | 16:00 - 16:50 | Janson |
| 2019 - Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances |
 Jon 'maddog' Hall
|
Sunday | 17:00 - 17:50 | Janson |
| Closing FOSDEM 2019 |
FOSDEM Staff
|
Sunday | 17:55 - 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.
Stands
In the hallways of the different buildings, FOSDEM visitors will find the many stands set up by individual projects. These offer a unique chance to get in touch with developers or project members, and discover at a glance what they do.
A list of projects that will be present with a stand can be found on the FOSDEM stands page.
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 2019, in alphabetical order:
| Session | Room | Day | When |
|---|---|---|---|
LPI |
|||
| LPI Exam Session 1 | UB4.132 | Saturday | 13:00 - 15:00 |
| LPI Exam Session 2 | UB4.132 | Saturday | 15:30 - 17:30 |
| LPI Exam Session 3 | UB4.132 | Sunday | 09:30 - 11:30 |
LibreOffice |
|||
| LibreOffice Exam Session 1 | UB4.132 | Sunday | 12:00 - 13:00 |
| LibreOffice Exam Session 2 | UB4.132 | Sunday | 13:30 - 14:30 |
| LibreOffice Exam Session 3 | UB4.132 | Sunday | 15:00 - 16:00 |
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: