Schedule
Quick links:
- Timetables: Saturday, Sunday
- Overview of rooms per days
- Mobile apps: many platforms
- What's on now: Live streaming
- 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 948 speakers, 875 events, and 67 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 2024 |
 FOSDEM Staff,  Richard "RichiH" Hartmann
|
Saturday | 09:30 - 09:55 | Janson |
| Where have the women of tech history gone? |
 Laura Durieux
|
Saturday | 10:00 - 10:50 | Janson |
| Outreachy: 1000 interns |
 Karen Sandler,  Anna e só,  Omotola Eunice OMOTAYO,  Sage Sharp
|
Saturday | 11:00 - 11:50 | Janson |
| FOSDEM 2024 Highlights |
FOSDEM Staff, Richard "RichiH" Hartmann
|
Sunday | 17:00 - 17:50 | Janson |
| Closing FOSDEM 2024 |
FOSDEM Staff, Richard "RichiH" 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:
- AI and Machine Learning devroom
- APIs & friends devroom
- Collaboration and Content Management devroom
- Community devroom
- Confidential Computing devroom
- Containers devroom
- DNS devroom
- Debuggers and analysis tools devroom
- Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom
- Designing Futures of FOSS Content Management with the Open Website Alliance devroom
- Distributions devroom
- Embedded, Mobile and Automotive devroom
- Emulator devroom
- Energy: Reimagining this Ecosystem through Open Source devroom
- Erlang, Elixir, Gleam and Friends devroom
- FOSS Educational Programming Languages devroom
- FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom
- Free Java devroom
- GCC devroom
- Go devroom
- Graphics devroom
- HPC, Big Data & Data Science devroom
- Identity and Access Management devroom
- JavaScript devroom
- Kernel devroom
- LLVM devroom
- Legal and Policy Issues devroom
- Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI devroom
- Matrix devroom
- Microkernel and Component-based OS devroom
- Modern Email devroom
- Monitoring & Observability devroom
- Mozilla devroom
- Network devroom
- Nix and NixOS devroom
- Open Hardware and CAD/CAM devroom
- Open Media devroom
- Open Research devroom
- Open Source Design devroom
- Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader devroom
- Open Source In The European Legislative Landscape devroom
- Perl and Raku devroom
- PostgreSQL devroom
- Public Code and Digital Public Goods devroom
- Python Devroom devroom
- RISC-V devroom
- Railways and Open Transport devroom
- Real Time Communications (RTC) devroom
- Retrocomputing devroom
- Ruby devroom
- Rust devroom
- Software Bill of Materials devroom
- Software Defined Storage devroom
- Software-Defined Radio and Amateur Radio devroom
- Testing and Continuous delivery devroom
- Tool the docs devroom
- Translations devroom
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 37 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.
Junior
Anyone aged 7 to 17 can visit the workshops of FOSDEM junior. Registration is required using the link on the individual web page for each workshop.
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: