Yocto Project Summit 2025.12

Alex Lennon has been working with embedded Linux and OpenEmbedded for at least 15 years (possibly longer, but his memory is shot). He's the founder of Dynamic Devices Ltd and delivered a keynote at Yocto Project Summit 2022.

Over the past few months, Alex has been experimenting with AI-assisted development workflows for Yocto projects, learning what works, what doesn't, and where the real productivity gains lie. His recent work includes automated hardware testing, remote target debugging, and power optimization workflows - all enhanced by AI collaboration.

Alex believes the embedded community needs to figure out AI integration together, sharing both the successes and the failures to develop practical best practices.

Anders is a Senior Specialist in Linux Build Packaging and Integration working at Ericsson Software Technology providing expertise in Yocto for the Ericsson Yocto users.

Anna-Lena Marx is TechLead for Embedded Linux at inovex. With degrees in Embedded Systems (M.Sc.), Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering, she specializes in creating robust systems with Yocto, focusing on lifecycle strategies to help companies navigate long-term product compliance.

Benjamin holds a PhD in electrical engineering and is with Hitachi Energy in the role of "Team Lead and Project Manager Linux". He held various positions in diverse industries as firmware developer for Linux and other systems as well as design engineer for a fabless semiconductor company.

Colin McAllister is a software engineer at Garmin, where he focuses on advancing the security, core infrastructure, and development tooling that power Garmin Marine’s diverse range of Embedded Linux products. His passion for embedded Linux began in 2017 while working on a telematics project in college, sparking a deep interest in building reliable and efficient systems. Colin has contributed to the Yocto Project, along with various third-party meta-layers, SWUpdate, U-Boot, and BusyBox.

Daniel is a senior specialist at Ericsson. Currently, he focuses on embedded Linux with Yocto, working on both internal and commercial distributions. He works on the Ericsson Linux distribution team, productifying Yocto and ensuring supply chain security to safeguard critical infrastructure.

(Pull this from one of the previous summits)

Esa Jääskelä is an embedded systems engineer with a focus on Linux, Yocto, and programming. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering and has worked in embedded Linux development since 2016. Passionate about cybersecurity, Esa explores system hardening and shares technical insights on his blog at ejaaskel.dev.

I have 20 years of embedded software experience, using the Yocto Project for the last 4 years. I specialize in drivers, Board Support Packages (BSPs), board bring up and operating system configuration.

Jérôme is VP Technologies at Savoir-faire Linux, where he helps teams build dependable and innovative systems. Active in open-source software since the late 1990s, he has contributed to projects spanning critical and embedded industries, from aerospace and defense to multimedia and robotics. He holds a master’s degree in software engineering and has spent over 25 years designing systems where safety, security, and long-term maintainability matter.

Josef has been active for more than 15 years as a "Complete"-Stack developer for industrial controls by now. He's done everything from debugging hardware to writing drivers, from application development to web front ends.

A passion for showing, telling, and teaching people in both entertaining and engaging ways led Josef to Mender.io. Here, he tries to make the world better and more secure by enabling OTA updates for as many devices as possible.

Josef has been awarded Ambassador status and is serving as Community Manager for the Yocto Project.

Khem Raj, is a seasoned OpenSource developer. He has been involved in OpenSource for many years.
He is a Fellow at Comcast, helping several open source initiatives within the company: He is guiding the company's adoption of open source software, and becoming an active contributor to the open source components that are used in the RDK settop software stack. He has migrated RDK to an OE/Yocto-based framework for build system and embedded Linux distribution generation. He is also actively working on making the RDK community adopt the RDK framework for future TVs and CPE devices including broadband gateways and Wireless Access points. He is a Yocto Project advisory board member, and has served on the technical steering Committee for the OpenEmbedded project and Yocto Project. He is core maintainer for several key pieces in OpenEmbedded and yocto project, including core metadata, toolchains, and SDKs.

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.

Marta Rybczynska has a network security background, with 20 years of experience in Open Source.
She has worked with embedded operating systems like Linux and various real-time OSes, and with
system libraries and frameworks up to user interfaces. She has been involved in various Open Source
projects, and is currently co-maintaining the meta-security layer and a member of the Yocto Project Security Team and OpenEmbedded TSC. Marta has experience speaking at technical conferences, including Open Source Summit or FOSDEM.

Mathieu is a senior free software consultant and has a wide knowledge of Linux system, from low layers such as Kernel space to higher layers like containers / virtualization. He has valuable experience in Linux system security for both embedded systems and servers.

Mathieu is one of the main contributors of the SEAPATH open-source project supported by the LFEnergy foundation.

Born and raised near Nuremberg in Bavaria Germany. In 2010 I started a training as electronics technician at the german railway. There my interest in Linux and open source started. I went to a technical college for two years starting from 2015 focusing on software development. From 2017 till 2021 I studied electrical engineering besides my fulltime job. Worked then in different embedded software companys. In 2021 I joined Elektrobit as a senior software developer working on Linux network, driver and Yocto topics. Besides my day job I am currently studying computer science at the university of Hagen.

Michael Opdenacker is a consultant and trainer specialized in embedded Linux, working at Root Commit (https://rootcommit.com). He helps customers with their 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/).

He previously founded Bootlin, a well known contributor to embedded Linux and its Open Source projects.

Michael is a contributor to OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project, and spoke about Yocto and Embedded Linux at multiple Yocto events and at international conferences. Most of his recent talks are about Yocto!

Mikko is a Senior Engineering at Linaro and maintainer of genericarm64 in OE-Core

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.

Paul Barker is an Embedded Linux & Open Source Specialist, working as a consultant via his company Beta Five Ltd.

He has been using and contributing to OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project since 2013 and he is always keen to share what he has learned over the years.

Pierre has been supporting equipment manufacturers with Witekio for 20 years, starting as an embedded software developer. He is now leading The Embedded Kit, a software product brand which aims at giving OEMs all the tools and knowledge they need to build, connect, test, and secure their embedded systems without vendor lock-in.

Rob Woolley is a Senior Principal Technologist at Wind River in the Office of the CTO, where he focuses on integrating emerging technologies into safety-critical and cloud-native platforms. He is the maintainer of the Robot Operating System (ROS) on OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project. He is also a member of the Zephyr RTOS Technical Steering Committee and an active contributor to ELISA Space Grade Linux and SpaceROS. Rob also works commercially with Wind River's VxWorks RTOS and safety hypervisor. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

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