OpenEmbedded Workshop 2026

Bruce has been working professionally with Linux since 2000, and a user since
1995. He currently works as a Principal Systems Engineer for AMD, spending
time as maintainer for the Yocto project reference kernel, meta-virtualization
and meta-cloud-service slayers. Although most of Bruce's effort is spent in the
kernel and virtualization, his experience ranges from build systems and shell
scripting, to userspace and graphics toolkits. Bruce has spoken at ELC in the
past, at internal conferences/showcases and technology presentations to smaller
audiences.

Lenka is an embedded software developer with a long history in the automotive and avionics industries. She has worked as a software specialist and requirements engineer for STMicroelectronics, Skoda Auto, and Hood GmbH. She teaches and runs several research projects at Technical University in Liberec and at Czech Technical University. Her main research focus is Embedded Linux, Zephyr OS, and other embedded operating systems. She lectures Embedded Linux development courses for the Linux Foundation Education and maintains the content of Yocto trainings at LF. She helped to start the Linux4Space.org project at TUL.

Leon Anavi is an open source enthusiast and a senior software engineer at Konsulko Group. He is an active contributor to various Yocto/OpenEmbedded meta layers, Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) and many other open source projects. His professional experience includes web and mobile application development for various platforms as well as porting and maintaining embedded Linux distributions to Raspberry Pi and devices with x86-64, i.MX6, i.MX8, NVIDIA Tegra, RISC-V, Amlogic, Rockchip and Allwinner (aka sunxi) SoC. Leon holds a masters in Information Technology from the Technical University Sofia. His previous speaking experience includes talks about open source software and hardware during virtual and in-person events in San Francisco, San Diego, Portland (OR), Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Brussels, Lyon, Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Cambridge, Bratislava, Prague, Sofia and his hometown Plovdiv.

U-Boot, Linux, OE contributor.

Marta Rybczynska has network security background, 20 years of experience in Open Source including 15 in embedded development. She has been working with embedded operating systems like Linux and various real-time ones, system libraries and frameworks up to user interfaces. Her specialties are architecture-specific parts of the Linux kernel. In the past, Marta served as Vice-President and treasurer for KDE e.V. She is involved in various Open Source projects, and also contributing kernel-related guest articles for LWN.net. She's a member of the security team of the Yocto Project and a co-maintainer of meta-security.

She has experience with presentations on both scientific and free software conferences, including LinuxCon, Open Source Summit, Embedded Linux Conference, Akademy and FOSDEM.

Michael Opdenacker is a consultant and trainer specializing in embedded Linux, working at Root Commit (https://rootcommit.com). He helps customers with their OpenEmbedded/Yocto-based projects and makes it easier for them to climb the learning curve (check out his free learning materials at https://rootcommit.com/training/yocto/).

Michael is also a contributor to OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project, and has spoken about Yocto and embedded Linux at multiple Yocto events and at international conferences. Most of his recent talks are about his favorite build system!

Mike has been working with embedded Linux for audio-visual systems for over twenty-five years with a focus on build systems, low-level software and networking.

I have been a Unix and Linux consultant for over 30 years, starting out life with the large servers for the finance and aviation industries. The systems I worked on became smaller and smaller until about 15 years ago I ended up in the world of Embedded Linux, creating smart traffic systems.

Since then, I have stayed with Embedded Linux creating solutions for a variety of industries including medical and automotive.

I also share my experiences by teaching some of the Embedded Linux courses and regularly partake in the DevHeads discord channel.

Ramón Roche is the General Manager of the Dronecode Foundation at the Linux Foundation, where he leads the global open-source communities behind PX4, Pixhawk, MAVLink, and QGroundControl. With over 13 years in robotics, he remains an active individual contributor while coordinating efforts across industry, academia, and open source. He co-leads the Space Grade Linux SIG under the ELISA Project and the ROS Aerial Robotics Interest Group, working with NASA, Wind River, Boeing, Sony, and others to bring reliable Linux to space systems. When not debugging builds or wrangling CI pipelines, he organizes the PX4 Developer Summit and can be found on GitHub and social media as @mrpollo.

Vyacheslav is an independent contractor / consultant, and founder of a small consultancy called OSS Keepers. Being an active contributor to various open source projects like Linux Kernel, Yocto Project, Trusted Firmware A, and others, he helps companies in the Embedded field with their projects.

He specializes in the Yocto Project, Linux Device Drivers, board bring-up, secure boot and different update workflows. His main programming languages are C, C++ in different standards, Python, and Golang.