Speakers 2026

Ahmad Fatoum

• barebox and the Last Nasal Demon Riders
• Runtime Access Control in the Bootloader

Alice Ziuziakowska

• Bringing up Linux on a memory-safe CHERI RISC-V system

Ann Cheng

• Arm SystemReady Workshop: Open Platforms and Firmware Development

Arthur Heymans

• NORbert: Open source SPI flash emulation
• [Open Mic] UEFI runtime was a bad idea. How to engineer around it in rust in a novel way
• Rewriting firmware tools in rust, lowering the barrier with web tools

Bejean Mosher

• Shipping the Hypervisor in Firmware: A Static-Partitioning Payload for Slim Bootloader

Ben Stoltz

• Hands-on workshop: turning manual Hubris debugging into formal, shareable tests
• Fear of Flashing: Building confidence in firmware through automated testing

Benjamin Doron

• [Open Mic] Payload MM: Fixing A coreboot Secure Boot Vulnerability With A New SMM Design

Borhan Tuğsan Balcı

• Minimalist UEFI Implementation for Virtual Machines

Christian Grönke

• go-tcg-storage: State of the Project and the Future
• A whole new world - Running a PBA on 'bare-metal UEFI' with TamaGo

Christian Walter

• A whole new world - Running a PBA on 'bare-metal UEFI' with TamaGo

Dong Wei

• Arm SystemReady Workshop: Open Platforms and Firmware Development
• State of the UEFI: Open Firmware Standards Across Modern Computing Platforms

Elyes Zekri

• OpenBMC at Cloud Scale: Scaleway’s Journey to Firmware Autonomy

Erwan Velu

• Open Firmware Beyond the Hyperscalers: Outcomes from the PremDay User Group

fukami

• [Open Mic] Open Source Firmware and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

Gauthier CARPENTIER

• OpenBMC at Cloud Scale: Scaleway’s Journey to Firmware Autonomy

Giovanni Zantedeschi

• Automated Bare-Metal Remediation: Closing the Zero-Trust Loop with Staged Firmware Sanitization

Jia, Chunhui

• Agentic AI Software Debugging in OpenBMC: Extracting Ground Truth from Binaries to Eliminate Hallucinations

Jiji Freya Daniel Maslowski

• Boot Chains and Build Systems

Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz

• TrustZone Bring-Up on Qualcomm QCM6490: Open Firmware from EL3 to Linux EL2 with a Buildroot Developer Workflow

Keith Gariepy

• [Open Mic] Don’t Trust the Claim: Reproducible Firmware Evidence with WedgeBench

Marco Felsch

• Setting Boundaries: Securing overlooked OP-TEE attack vectors

Marvin Drees

• Running baremetal Go in the AST2700 for simpler server management

Mate Kukri

• Teaching an Old SoC New Tricks: Native raminit for Bay Trail

Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor

• Introduction to GNU poke

Oscar

• Social Event - Canal Cruise

Paul Underhill

• Automation of Firmware Analysis and Government Standard Reporting

Sahaj Sarup

• Memory-Mapped FPGA Peripherals on Zephyr: FMC and QSPI Approaches

Sam Cook

• The Switch Has No CPU: Running an Entire Fabric Switch on Its BMC

Simon Glass

• Beyond EFI - what is next for firmware and booting?

Tomas Pilar

• [Open Mic] Typical arm SoC firmware stack