Microsoft at Open Source Summit Europe 2024: Driving collaboration and innovation

Open Source Summit North America in April 2024 was an amazing opportunity to connect, share, and learn with other open source enthusiasts. We’re excited to do it again at Open Source Summit Europe 2024 in Vienna, Austria. We hope to reconnect with many of you and forge new connections within the vibrant open source communities. 

Whether you’re attending in person or will be watching the content on-demand later, this blog will help you stay informed about Microsoft at Open Source Summit Europe and other events in Vienna. 

Join us at Open Source Summit Europe 2024 

Join Microsoft at Open Source Summit Europe 2024, from September 16 to 18, 2024. This event gathers open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share insights, address challenges, and gain knowledge—advancing open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable ecosystem. Open Source Summit features a series of events focused on the most critical technologies, topics, and issues in the open source community today. 

Attend Microsoft sessions 

Attend a Microsoft session at Open Source Summit Europe 2024 to learn more about Microsoft’s contributions to open source communities, gain valuable insights from industry experts, and stay up to date on the latest open source trends. Be sure to add these exciting sessions to your event schedule. 

Monday, September 16, 2024 

Session	Speakers	Time
The Open Source AI Definition is (Almost) Ready	Justin Colannino, Microsoft  Stefano Maffulli, Open Source Initiative	2:15 PM to 2:55 PM  CEST

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 

Session	Speakers	Time
Keynote: OSS Security Through Collaboration	Ryan Waite, Open Source Strategy and Incubations, Microsoft	9:50 AM to 10:05 AM CEST
Linux Sandboxing with Landlock	Mickaël Salaün, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft	11:55 AM to 12:35 PM CEST
Panel discussion: Do One Thing, and Do It Well: Special Purpose OSes Apply the Unix App Philosophy to the Whole OS	Danielle Tal, Microsoft Mauro Morales, Spectro Cloud Felipe Huici, Unikraft GmbH Richard Brown, SUSE Erik Nordmark, Zededa	2:55 PM to 3:35 PM CEST

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 

Session	Speakers	Time
Open Source Software Engineering Education	Stephen Walli, Principal Programmer Manager, Microsoft	3:10 PM to 3:50 PM CEST

Visit us at the Microsoft booth and experience exciting sessions and demos 

Come visit us at booth D3 to engage with fellow open source enthusiasts at Microsoft, experience live demos on the latest open source technologies, and discuss the future of open source. You can also catch exciting sessions in the booth to learn more about a wide range of open source topics, including the following and more: 

• .NET 9
• Flatcar Container Linux
• Headlamp
• Inspektor Gadget and eBPF observability
• Linux virtual machine networking performance in Azure
• PostgreSQL at Microsoft
• WebAssembly and Azure Kubernetes Service

Explore these other events with Microsoft

Join us at Linux Security Summit Europe 2024 

Microsoft will also be at Linux Security Summit Europe 2024 which is taking place on September 16 to 17, 2024 at the same venue as Open Source Summit Europe 2024—the Austria Center in Vienna. Linux Security Summit serves as a technical forum that brings together Linux developers, researchers, and end users. Its main objective is to encourage community initiatives to examine and address Linux security issues. 

Microsoft runs on trust, and security is top priority for us in everything that we do. Read the blog “Security above all else—expanding Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative” to learn more about the Secure Future Initiative and how we plan to honor our commitment and responsibility. Azure provides comprehensive, built-in security to help you secure your Linux and open source workloads from code to cloud.   

If you’re planning to be at Linux Security Summit 2024, join one of these engaging Microsoft sessions:

Session	Speakers	Date	Time
Systemd & TPMs	Lennart Poettering, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft	Monday, September 16, 2024	9:55 AM to   10:40 AM CEST
LVBS and Advanced Kernel Integrity	Thara Gopinath, Principal Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft	Tuesday, September 17, 2024	11:10 AM to 11:55 AM CEST
Verifying and Signing EBPF Programs with Inspektor Gadget	Francis Laniel, Software Engineer, Microsoft	Tuesday, September 17, 2024	12:00 PM to 12:30 PM CEST

Meet us at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2024 

We’ll also be at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2024, which is taking place on September 18 to 20, 2024, which is also going to be at the Austria Center in Vienna. The Linux Plumbers Conference is the premier event for developers working on the “plumbing” of Linux, including kernel subsystems, core libraries, and the windowing system. 

Today on Azure, Linux is widely adopted with over 60% of customer cores in Azure running Linux-based workloads. Customers can use their preferred Linux distribution on Azure, and we collaborate with Linux publishers to ensure delivery of high-quality images and timely support for new releases in Azure. The endorsed Linux distributions on Azure, which include Canonical Ubuntu, Debian, Flatcar, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Enterprise Linux, meet specific requirements for quality, update cadence, and support. 

Don’t miss one of the Microsoft sessions at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2024: 

Session	Speakers	Date	Time
Beneath the Surface: Analyzing Nested CVM Performance on KVM/QEMU and Linux Root Partition for Microsoft Hyper-V/Cloud-Hypervisor	Jinank Jain, Microsoft Mr. Muminul Islam,  Microsoft	Monday, September 20, 2024	12:00 PM to 12:20 PM CEST

We hope to see you in Vienna at one of these events! 

Learn more about Linux and open source at Microsoft 

• Open Source at Microsoft: Explore the open source projects, programs, and tools at Microsoft.
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