Schedule
Quick links:
- Timetables: Saturday, Sunday
- Overview of rooms per days
- Mobile apps: many platforms
- What's on now: Live streaming
- Booklet: Info
- Programme Schedule amendments
- 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. All times CET (UTC+1).
FOSDEM is a rather busy conference. This edition features 787 speakers, 781 events, and 63 tracks. We do our best to provide you with as much information and navigation options about the schedule as we can.
Activities take place in 35 rooms. An overview of the room occupation by track is available, too.
There are essentially the following categories of sessions and activities: keynotes, main tracks, developer rooms, lightning talks, stands and BOFs.
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 2023 |
 FOSDEM Staff,  Richard Hartmann
|
Saturday | 09:30 - 09:55 | Janson |
| Celebrating 25 years of Open Source Past, Present, and Future |
 Nick Vidal
|
Saturday | 10:00 - 10:50 | Janson |
| Open Source Software at NASA |
 Steve Crawford
|
Sunday | 17:00 - 17:50 | Janson |
| Closing FOSDEM 2023 |
FOSDEM Staff, Richard Hartmann
|
Sunday | 17:50 - 18:15 | 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:
| Track | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Main Track - Janson | Janson | Janson |
| Main Track - K Building | K.1.105 (La Fontaine) | K.1.105 (La Fontaine) |
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:
- BSD
- Binary Tools
- Collaboration and Content Management
- Community
- Confidential Computing
- Containers
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
- DNS
- Declarative and Minimalistic Computing
- Distributions
- Embedded, Mobile and Automotive
- Emulator Development
- Energy
- Erlang, Elixir and Friends
- FOSS Educational Programming Languages
- FOSS on Mobile Devices
- Fast and Streaming Data
- Friends of OpenJDK
- Go
- Graph Systems and Algorithms
- HPC, Big Data and Data Science
- Haskell
- Image-based Linux and Secure Measured Boot
- JavaScript
- Kernel
- Kotlin
- LLVM
- Legal and Policy Issues
- LibreOffice Technology Development Platform
- MariaDB, MySQL and Friends
- Matrix
- Microkernel and Component-based OS
- Monitoring and Observability
- Mozilla
- Network
- Nix and NixOS
- Open Media
- Open Research Tools and Technology
- Open Source Design
- Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader
- PostgreSQL
- Public Code and Digital Public Goods
- Python
- RISC-V
- Railways and Open Transport
- Real Time Communications
- Rust
- Security
- Software Bill of Materials
- Software Defined Storage
- Sovereign Cloud
- Test
- Testing and Automation
- Translations
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 36 lightning talks in the schedule.
Stands
Stands 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.
BOFs
BOF stands for Birds Of a Feather who, as the saying goes, flock together. FOSDEM has three meeting rooms that may be booked in 30 or 60 minute blocks for discussions. All the meetings are public so anyone who is interested can attend if there is enough space. Slots in Track C may be reserved in advance through fosdem.org/submit selecting that track. Mention any time preferences in the Submission Notes. Use the signup sheets on the wall near the Infodesk in building H during the event to book slots in tracks A and B.
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: