2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the Eclipse Foundation. It also represents a brand-new start for our annual flagship conference. Its new name, Open Community Experience (OCX), emphasises our community's place in the broader open source ecosystem. The event will take place in Mainz, Germany, on October 22-24, 2024.
OCX, as EclipseCon before, features several distinct tracks. One of them is dedicated to Embedded, IoT, and Edge Computing topics. If you look at the conference’s agenda, you will find them by activating the “OCX Tracks” filter. Click this link to access a pre-filtered version of the agenda. Not sure about which sessions to catch? See below the top five sessions I hope to attend. Of course, there are many other great ones, so please browse the full agenda.
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How IoT can save a life - A real-world example
October 23, 2024 11:30 AM-12:15 PM CET
Can we adopt Eclipse IoT projects on Android Embedded Devices?
October 23, 2024 1:30 PM-2:15 PM CET
Bringing Memory Safety to Time-Critical Embedded Systems for Automotive and Industrial Systems
October 23, 2024 2:15 PM-3:00 PM CET
Rust has made memory safety fashionable, but just using the trendy programming language by itself is not enough. This presentation advocates for a more comprehensive approach, which I like.
Thingweb's Next Chapter: How we are scaling our Project for better IoT and Digital Twin Applications
October 24, 2024 1:45 PM-2:30 PM CET
The W3C’s Web of Things (WoT) standard has been gaining considerable market momentum lately. Eclipse ThingWeb is a first-class implementation of several WoT aspects, suitable for IoT and digital twin projects.
Magic industrial data acquisition with Apache PLC4X, TsFile and IoTDB
October 24, 2024 3:15 PM-4:00 PM CET
If you care about Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), you probably know Eclipse 4diac is a great way to build the innovative PLCs of today and tomorrow. But what about the legacy PLCs that still drive most businesses? Apache PLC4X is a great tool to keep them around and integrate them with modern infrastructure.
I cannot end this post without a shameless plug for my own sessions. One is on Eclipse ThreadX, the only open source Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) certified for safety-critical applications. Think planes, trains, and automobiles (not the movie!), and you will understand what I mean. The other one will excite fans of Eclipse open specifications. It is now possible for these specifications to become ISO/IEC international standards, and my colleague Javier Valiño and I will tell you all about what this means and how you (yes, you!) can do it.
Eclipse ThreadX: A Star is (Re)born — October 22, 2024 9:00 AM-9:45 PM CET
You Too Can Be a Standards Expert! — October 22, 2024 4:45 PM-5:30 PM CETIf you poke around the OCX website, you will also see references to several co-located events. Open Community for Java will offer a wealth of content targeted at Jakarta EE and Adoptium community members. Our growing Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) community will gather at Open Community for Automotive. We even have one-day events for fans of OSGi and dataspaces. Naturally, fans of the Eclipse IDE will not be forgotten. EclipseCon is now a co-located event focused on modelling and developer tools.
With plenty of good presentations on many topics, you’ll be happy to learn that your OCX conference pass provides access to all the co-located events. So feel free to mix-and-match sessions as you please! If you’re curious about the latest and greatest across the whole device-to-edge-to-cloud continuum, like I am, you should not miss OCX.
