OCX 2026 brings together multiple tracks covering open source development, governance, AI, and industry applications. This guide highlights selected sessions from each track to help you navigate the agenda and identify those most relevant to your work.
Main track
It focuses on core programming languages, applications, and challenges in open source projects, including Java, sustainability, governance, and enterprise adoption. It brings together maintainers, engineers, and organisations working across different stages of open source ecosystems.
How configuration-as-code eliminates invisible work for open source maintainers
Speaker: Lukas Pühringer, Security Software Engineer, Eclipse Foundation
The session examines repository governance and security management through Configuration-as-Code. Introduces Otterdog, an open source tool that automates policy enforcement across GitHub repositories. Covers how policies such as multi-factor authentication and branch protection can be defined and applied consistently using pull request workflows. The approach introduces auditability and reduces manual administrative effort.
Your open source project can pay your bills: Here’s how
Speakers: Jessica Schneider, Chief Business Development Officer, ekxide IO GmbH; Christian Eltzschig, Co-CEO, ekxide IO GmbH
It addresses funding and sustainability for open source projects. Outlines practical approaches to building business models around open source software, based on experience from Eclipse iceoryx. Includes common challenges faced by maintainers and approaches to aligning development work with revenue generation.
How Bloomberg uses Eclipse Temurin to power our enterprise Java software
Speaker: Daniel Scanteianu, Software Engineer, Bloomberg
This talk details how Bloomberg integrates Eclipse Temurin within its infrastructure. Covers deployment across developer environments and data centres, and outlines the organisation’s involvement in the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group. Provides insight into operating open source Java infrastructure at scale.
OC for Tooling
This track focuses on developer tooling, collaborative environments, and AI integration in development workflows. Highlights how tooling is evolving to support distributed teams and AI-assisted development.
Eclipse Platform and IDE in the age of AI
Format: Birds of a Feather
It explores the future of the Eclipse IDE and Platform in the context of AI. Covers integration challenges, contributor sustainability, and the role of AI as a core platform capability. Includes discussion on long-term ecosystem evolution and adoption.
AI in action: The ultimate live demo with Theia AI
Speaker: Jonas Helming, Principal Software Architect and CEO, EclipseSource GmbH
This session presents live demonstrations of Theia AI and the AI-native Theia IDE. It shows how AI agents can be created, orchestrated, and integrated into development workflows. It covers context engineering and the use of open standards such as the Model Context Protocol to connect external systems.
Cross-platform collaborative coding: From web apps to AI agents
Speakers: Dr. Miro Spönemann, CEO, TypeFox; Jan Bicker, Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, TypeFox
This talk focuses on real-time collaboration across IDEs and browser-based applications using Eclipse Theia and Eclipse Open Collaboration Tools. It introduces shared workspaces where developers, domain experts, and AI agents can interact. It also presents the OCT Agent and its integration with large language model systems.
OC for AI
This track examines practical and research-driven aspects of AI systems, with a focus on transparency, deployment, and integration into domain-specific environments.
Understanding machine decisions
Speaker: Haishi Bai, Principal Architect, Microsoft
The session focuses on interpretability in autonomous systems. It introduces approaches for understanding how machine decisions are made and presents the BACON project, which aims to improve transparency in agent reasoning processes.
10 practical learnings from building domain-specific AI solutions
Speaker: Maximilian Kögel, CEO, EclipseSource
This talk presents lessons from deploying AI systems in production environments. It covers architectural decisions, evaluation strategies, model drift, observability, and deployment techniques such as feature flags and shadow traffic. It focus remains on practical implementation details across the AI lifecycle.
Building AI assistants for DSLs: Experiences and findings from Langium AI
Speaker: Benjamin Wilson, Software Engineer, TypeFox
It examines the challenges of building AI assistants for domain-specific languages. The talk presents Langium AI and discusses evaluation techniques, synthetic data generation, and workflows for supporting DSLs with limited training data.
OC for Automotive
It focuses on software-defined vehicles and the systems required to build, integrate, and operate them. Addresses orchestration, diagnostics, and real-world deployment scenarios.
SDV enablement for commercial vehicle use cases
Format: Workshop
Speaker: Daniel Krippner, Open Source Technologist, ETAS GmbH
The workshop explores SDV use cases in commercial vehicle environments. It focuses on identifying scenarios related to fleet management, safety, and system evolution, and contributes to the development of SDV blueprints.
Fifty shades of SDV: A blueprint-driven roadmap for orchestration adoption
Speaker: Naci Dai, CEO, Eteration
This session examines orchestration challenges in software-defined vehicles. It presents a blueprint-driven approach for integrating multiple orchestration projects into cohesive systems, using an over-the-air update example to demonstrate implementation.
Diagnostics reimagined: How Eclipse OpenSOVD powers open collaboration and standard evolution
Speakers: Thilo Schmitt, Senior SDV Architect, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation; Alexander Mohr, Senior Software Engineer, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
It focuses on diagnostic systems in SDV environments. Presents Eclipse OpenSOVD and its implementation of the SOVD standard, including optimisation techniques and approaches to balancing standardisation with OEM-specific requirements.
OC for Compliance
This track focuses on regulatory requirements, software governance, and the integration of compliance into development processes. It addresses the intersection of legal, technical, and operational responsibilities.
Are you ready for the CRA? Learn how the EU regulation will affect open source
Format: Workshop
Speaker: Olle E Johansson, Eclipse Foundation, Member of the ORC Steering Committee
This workshop provides a structured introduction to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. It covers scope, obligations, and practical steps for open source projects and organisations. The session also addresses roles such as manufacturers and open source stewards, and outlines compliance requirements, including vulnerability handling and documentation.
Taming the SBOM chaos – A legal compass for the CRA and open source compliance
Speaker: Hendrik Schöttle, Rechtsanwalt and Partner, Osborne Clarke
The talk examines Software Bills of Materials from legal, security, and compliance perspectives. It covers contractual obligations, licence requirements, and regulatory expectations, and presents how SBOM processes can support audit readiness and governance.
CRA, NIS2, DORA: What senior Java engineers must deliver before 2027
Speakers: Ixchel Ruiz, Senior Software Developer, Karakun AG; Markus Schlichting, CEO, Karakun AG
This session focuses on SBOM implementation in Java ecosystems. It covers dependency management, build integration, and tooling such as CycloneDX and Dependency-Track. The session also outlines governance requirements and workflows needed to meet regulatory expectations.
OC for Research
This track focuses on long-term sustainability, policy, and collaboration in open source ecosystems. It brings together research initiatives, community strategies, and institutional perspectives.
Format: Workshop
It explores how European research initiatives are building open source infrastructure across cloud, edge, and IoT domains. It includes perspectives from project leaders and policymakers on interoperability, standards, and strategic autonomy.
Collaborative AI: The open source path
Format: Workshop
Speakers: Massimo Tisi, Professor, IMT Atlantique; Sebastian Scholze, Senior Researcher, ATB; Jose Manuel Flores Barranco, Energy and Industry 5.0 Division Researcher, IDENER.AI
This workshop brings together research initiatives to explore open source approaches in AI. It focuses on collaboration between projects and alignment of research efforts within the open source ecosystem.
Live Traffic, Zero Drama: Open-Source Twins for Smarter Cities
Speakers: Robert Hilbrich and Michael Behrisch, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Attend this session to learn how a live, real-time digital twin can be built using Eclipse SUMO and how environmental traffic management can benefit from open, real-time modelling.
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