Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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The regular FOSDEM lightning talk track isn't chaotic enough, so this year we're doubling down on Lightning Lightning Talks (now with added lightning!).

Thought of a last minute topic you want to share? Got your interesting talk rejected? Has something exciting happened in the last few weeks you want to talk about?

This is the first of two sessions for participants to speak about subjects which are interesting, amusing, or just something the FOSDEM audience would appreciate.

Selected speakers line up and present in one continuous automated stream, with an SLO of 99% talk uptime.

Presenters who attempt to speak for longer than 256 seconds risk being swept off the stage by our Lightning Lightning Talk Cleanup Crew.

Featuring:

  • Rémi Duraffort (The use of technology by emergency services)
  • Bogomil Shopov - Бого - (./make art: A Creative Commons Theater Experiment)
  • Maanav Nagda (Scrcpy: Your new everything)
  • Alexey Dubovskoy (Cooklang Federation)
  • Josephine Pfeiffer (my mainframe runs arch btw)
  • Massimiliano Giovagnoli (xcover: Cross-language test coverage with eBPF)
  • Carles Onielfa (IsThatSlop? Community-powered AI Content detection)
  • Raphael Odini & Alex Bourreau (Open Prices: an open crowdsourced price database)
  • Benjamin Alan Jamie (Everyone benefits from translations; if you make them useful)
  • alberto (SoCmel1, an SDR SoC. Litex and RiscV on a Gowin FPGA)
  • Anton Borisov (How Bóbr Broke My Postgres Search: ARM vs x86 in 256 Seconds)

Speakers

Photo of Bogomil Shopov - Бого Bogomil Shopov - Бого
Photo of Benjamin Alan Jamie Benjamin Alan Jamie
Rémi Duraffort
Photo of Raphael Odini Raphael Odini
Photo of Alexey Dubovskoy Alexey Dubovskoy
Photo of Anton Borisov Anton Borisov
Photo of Josephine Pfeiffer Josephine Pfeiffer
Photo of Maanav Nagda Maanav Nagda
Massimiliano Giovagnoli
Photo of Carles Onielfa Carles Onielfa
Alex Bourreau
Photo of alberto alberto

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