OC for Automotive at OCX26

The Open Community for Automotive at OCX26 focused on how open source collaboration is transforming the software-defined vehicle ecosystem and enabling a full middleware platform for series vehicle production.

 

Across three days, the track moved from orchestration and operating system design to safety, cybersecurity, and real-world deployment. The discussions stayed grounded in implementation, following the mantra of “code-first”. The question was not what SDV could become, but how current systems are being built, integrated, and maintained in a sustainable manner.

Key topics from the event

A few patterns came up consistently:

  • The challenge is no longer building components, but integrating them into working systems, that are usable in a mixed criticality system 
  • Cybersecurity and safety are key concerns and need to be addressed and supported by processes and toolchains
  • Orchestration is confirmed as a central topic of interest and highlights the synergies with the cloud native domain 
  • Open source is becoming the default for non-differentiating layers, but requires clear governance and good citizens

 

Alongside the main sessions, the track also included hands-on workshops that focused on interacting with the experts and round tables to gather the needs of the community at large.

The Eclipse Trustable Software Meetup brought together practitioners to examine how software risk can be assessed and improved in complex systems, including its overlap with cybersecurity, compliance, and the CRA. The participants discussed how the Trutable SW Framework can be adopted in an automotive organisation framework. 

In parallel, the SDV enablement for commercial vehicle use cases workshop explored how open-source approaches translate into measurable impact across fleet management, safety, and operational efficiency. These sessions moved from architecture discussions to practical architecture set up, giving space for deeper technical exchange and concrete use cases beyond the main stage.

Below is a detailed breakdown of the OCA agenda, with links to the recordings. Make sure to check them out! 

 

Day 1 at Open Community for Automotive: Highlights

  • Fifty shades of SDV: A blueprint-driven roadmap for orchestration adoption with Nai Dai (watch the recording)
  • How is OS integrity achieved in the Red Hat in-vehicle operating system? with Pierre-Yves Chibon and Leonardo Rossetti (watch the recording)
  • Challenges for the cybersecurity of operating systems in the SDV with Michael Schneider (watch the recording)

 

Day 2 at Open Community for Automotive: Highlights

  • Open source basics for automotive with Harald Mackamul and Andy Riexinger (watch the recording)
  • Towards an open source, functionally safe software stack for the Software Defined Vehicle with Dr Oliver Pajonk (watch the recording)
  • Open roads ahead: Collaborating on an SDV reference implementation for commercial vehicles with Carlton Bale and Priya Gurunathan (watch the recording)

 

Day 3 at Open Community for Automotive: Highlights

  • openDuT: The Open-Source Revolution for Distributed ECU Testing with Michael Plichta and Pascal Hirmer (watch the recording)
  • Capella & SysON: The MBSE Force Awakens with Etienne Juliot (watch the recording)
  • You are the jam: real traffic data in a simulated world with Michael Behrisch and Robert Hilbrich (watch the recording)

 

My takeaway

I’m personally proud of the Automotive community and of how open and constructive the interactions were. No presenter left the stage without multiple technical questions. This is a turning point for open source in the SDV domain, as most of the needed building blocks already exist, but turning them into series-ready platforms requires alignment across multiple layers, most importantly on the process side. As we move towards adoption in a series setting, the safety and cybersecurity aspects take a central role, and need to follow a process as well as be supported by a set of tools. The Eclipse TSF and the Eclipse SCORE process development are clear signs of this evolution. 

I’m excited to see our community expanding towards commercial vehicle use cases and looking into its specific needs. The sessions explored the synergy with the cloud native domain, highlighting the need to reach outside the automotive silo to exploit development speed and quality. 

I’m thankful to the OCA Program Committee for their hard work in getting the excellent program together under the guidance of Andreas Riexinger. 

I’m indeed looking forward to next year's OCA!   

If you missed one of the sessions from the Open Community for Automotive, you can now see them on our YouTube channel.