Programme (2026)

ALASCA Summit 2026 – Schedule.

Pre-event programme

Monday, 2 November 2026

19:30

20:00

20:30

21:00

21:30

19:30 – 22:00

Informal get-together at Augustiner by the Frauenkirche

Let’s get together on the evening before the ALASCA Summit 2026 and get to know one another.

Pre Evening EventAugustinians at the Frauenkirche

Tuesday, 3 November 2026

08:30

09:00

09:30

10:00

10:30

11:00

11:30

12:00

12:30

13:00

13:30

08:30 – 09:15

Doors Open and Registration

Lobby

09:15 – 09:45

Welcome to the ALASCA Summit 2026

Marius Feldmann, Josephine Seifert (Moderation)

WelcomeGreat Hall

09:45 – 10:00

AI is threatening cybersecurity – is it threatening open source as well?

Platinum Keynote: secunet Security Networks AG

Kai Martius

KeynoteGreat Hall

10:00 – 10:15

Keynote Gold Sponsorship: UhuruTec

Matthias Haag

KeynoteGreat Hall

10:15 – 10:30

Keynote Gold Sponsorship Cloud&Heat Technologies

Jonas Schäfer

KeynoteGreat Hall

10:30 – 10:45

Keynote Gold Sponsorship: Yorizon

Kai Martius

KeynoteGreat Hall

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee Break

Catering Area

11:15 – 11:30

Seconlay – The GOAT IaaS of the Future

Georg Alexander Murzik

Lightning TalkGreat Hall

11:30 – 11:45

Implementing Sovereign Cloud Stack Standards in an Educational Setting

Liam Johanns, Phil Focke, Julius Schlicht

Lightning TalkGreat Hall

11:45 – 12:00

SCOMB – Sonic Community Build and Sonic-CLI

Rankan Sen

Lightning TalkGreat Hall

12:00 – 13:00

With C – as in Community. Breaking down technical silos united for a digitally sovereign Europe.

Julia Nitzschner (Moderation), Kai Martius, Sebastian Lindner, Anastasia Vöhringer, Christian Neu

Panel DiscussionGreat Hall

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

Catering Area

ALASCA Track

OpenInfra Track

14:00

14:30

15:00

15:30

16:00

16:30

17:00

14:00 – 14:30A

A Cloud-Native Data Centre

Matthias Haag

PresentationGreat Hall

14:00 – 14:30OI

Beyond the Horizon

Volker Arend

PresentationRoom: Open Infra Track

14:30 – 15:00A

Sovereignty Without Scale: The Hyperscaler Paradox

Eduard Thamm

PresentationGreat Hall

14:30 – 15:00OI

Automatic Eviction and Migration of VMs in OpenStack Clusters using Yaook

Stefan Hoffmann

PresentationRoom: Open Infra Track

15:00 – 15:30A

How Not to Lose Data – An Overview of DRBD and LINSTOR

Philipp Reisner

PresentationGreat Hall

15:00 – 15:30OI

The road to zero-trust: rethinking identity for a rewritten OpenStack Keystone

Artem Goncharov

PresentationRoom: Open Infra Track

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

Catering Area

16:00 – 16:30A

Plexsphere: The Sovereign Control Plane Between Your Ecosystem and Any Infrastructure

Christian Berendt

PresentationGreat Hall

16:00 – 16:15OI

Building a scalable alternative to hyperscale clouds

Christoph Streit

Lightning TalkRoom: Open Infra Track

16:15 – 16:30OI

From VMware to OpenStack: Rethinking Virtualisation

Michel Raabe

Lightning TalkRoom: Open Infra Track

16:30 – 17:00A

The edge of the cloud

Thomas Liske

PresentationGreat Hall

16:30 – 16:45OI

From Hackathon to Production – A Community Success Story

Michelle Fuchs, Martin Pilka

Lightning TalkRoom: Open Infra Track

16:45 – 17:00OI

Sovereign AI at Scale: Orchestrating and Sandboxing Untrusted LLM Agents

Satej Kumar Sahu

Lightning TalkRoom: Open Infra Track

17:00 – 17:30A

Next-Level Capacity Building – Becoming Experts in Open-Source, Digital Sovereign Environments

Friederike Zelke

PresentationGreat Hall

17:00 – 17:30OI

Sovereign AI: Running Model as a Service (MaaS) on top of OpenStack

Martin Pilka

PresentationRoom: Open Infra Track

17:30

18:00

18:30

19:00

19:30

20:00

20:30

21:00

21:30

17:30 – 22:00

Evening Event

It’s time to give our fuming heads a chance to calm down. Let’s grab some dinner and enjoy the evening!

Evening Event

Wednesday, 4 November 2026

08:30

09:00

09:30

08:45 – 09:00

Welcome back to Day 2 of the ALASCA Summit 2026

Josephine Seifert (Moderation)

WelcomeGreat Hall

09:00 – 09:30

From Self-Declaration to Verification: Measuring Cloud Sovereignty

Aleksey Ermoshin

PresentationGreat Hall

09:30 – 09:45

Software Delivery for Intermittently Connected, Unidirectional Kubernetes Using Space Networking Protocols

Marius Feldmann

Lightning TalkGreat Hall

09:45 – 10:00

Coffee Break

Catering Area

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

Workshop 3

Workshop 4

Workshop 5

Workshop 6

10:00

10:30

11:00

11:30

12:00

12:30

10:00 – 13:00WS6

How to Build SCS-Compatible, Production-Ready Cloud Environments

WorkshopRoom Tenor

10:00 – 13:00WS1

Improve Yaook Setup and Operator Code Reading

Stefan Hoffmann

WorkshopRoom Bass

10:00 – 13:00WS2

A Sovereign Edge Cloud Platform with OSISM

WorkshopRoom Funk

10:00 – 13:00WS3

Converged routers and firewalls

Thomas Liske

WorkshopRoom Jazz

10:00 – 13:00WS4

SBOM without Pain – Introduction and first steps

Matthias Büchse

WorkshopRoom Baritone

10:00 – 13:00WS5

Sovereign CI with Woodpecker

Daniel Gerber, Friedrich Zahn

WorkshopRoom Soul

13:00

13:30

14:00

14:30

15:00

15:30

16:00

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

Lobby

14:00 – 14:15

ALASCA Arko: Support for Proxmox

Ivan Vnučko, Tobias Neubauer

Lightning TalkGreat Hall

14:15 – 14:30

Multi-Cloud in Practice: An Open-Source Solution for Automated Cloud Switching

Johannes Schnatterer

Lightning TalkGreat Hall

14:30 – 14:45

From Sovereign Cloud to Sovereign Workplace: An Automated Linux Workplace Based on SCS

Holger Dyroff

Lightning TalkGreat Hall

14:45 – 15:00

The biggest digital sovereignty successes to date

Daniel Gerber

Lightning TalkGreat Hall

15:00 – 16:00

Q&A session: Title to be confirmed.

Kurt Garloff, Friederike Zelke, Jan Klare, Ronny Reinhardt

Q&A sessionGreat Hall

16:00 – 16:10

A round-up of the ALASCA Summit 2026

Marius Feldmann, Josephine Seifert (Moderation)

WelcomeGreat Hall