On 3 and 4 November, the 2nd ALASCA Summit took place at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden under the motto "Not from Alaska. From Europe. For Europe's Cloud Future". 2 days filled with technical presentations, hands-on workshops, networking and good food once again made our summit a successful community event for open source enthusiasts in the field of cloud infrastructure.
We are delighted that the 200 or so participants this year included many new faces in addition to our "usual suspects" - so the event is enjoying healthy growth. By comparison, the first ALASCA Summit in 2024 had just under 120 participants.
But not only the number of participants has increased: If we look back on the year since the last summit, we see that the open source projects based at ALASCA have doubled from three to six; the number of members has also grown and cooperation with other organisations and initiatives has intensified. We are very happy about our growing community!
Ultimately, the success of the ALASCA Summit 2025 is also a community achievement that we are very proud of. We would therefore like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors once again for their generous support - as a non-profit organisation, we could not organise such an event without your contribution. Thank you very much!
ALASCA Summit 2025 Sponsors
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A big thank you also goes to all those involved who contributed in various ways to making the ALASCA Summit 2025 exactly as we had imagined it: A colourful event with a great community, interesting insights into open source technologies, in-depth discussions on the topics of cloud and digital sovereignty, and a lively get-together - be it in the foyer with food and drink, during the hands-on workshops or at the two cheerful evening events.
We hope you enjoy reading our ALASCA Summit recap - and in the meantime, we're already busy planning the ALASCA Summit 2026.
Pre-Eventing Event
Having a large community travelling to our Summit from all over Germany and beyond is wonderful - until you are faced with the task of finding a restaurant for a pre-event get-together that allows a reservation for a relatively large but still undetermined number of guests ;-).
But there was nothing we couldn't solve - and so on Sunday evening, around 60 of our Summit guests gathered at the Augustiner in the beautiful Frauenkirche. In this special setting, we spent a relaxed evening together with delicious food and new and old contacts.
ALASCA Summit Day 1
The doors to the 2nd ALASCA Summit opened at 08:30 on Monday morning and the halls of the Deutsches Hygiene Museum were filled with open source enthusiasts from all over. After a short opening by ALASCA's CEO Marius Feldmann, the programme for the first day began. Josephine Seifert - Vice Chair and Lead of our Technical Steering Committee - moderated the community through a series of technical deep dives on SCS standards, the network operating system SONiC, multi-provider cloud, a cloud-based platform for applications in space and SCS ClusterStacks.
In addition, there was an exciting panel with representatives from business and politics, such as Dr Sebastian Lindner, Head of the Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence Policy Unit, on the topic of "Continuity on the Path to Digital Sovereignty - European Initiatives in Focus 2.0", as well as crisp lightning talks. Among other things, the latter provided us with an overview of the development of ALASCA's funding project FOCISas well as a presentation of the biggest digital sovereignty fails - including public voting! - of recent years.
The evening was rounded off with an evening event consisting of a few rounds of Jeopardy followed by a trip to Dresden Neustadt (for the hard core).
ALASCA Summit Day 2
The second day of the ALASCA Summit focussed on practical experience. In the three-hour workshops, participants had time to familiarise themselves extensively with various open source projects and get to know them in practice. There was a choice of workshops on the following topics SCS standards, SONiC and the ALASCA projects Krake, Yaookand Tarook.
The second part of the day featured keynote speeches by the Centre for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS) and the Saxon State Chancelleryfollowed by a Q&A session with the audience. After this session, we gradually approached the end of the ALASCA Summit 2025 - as part of a World Café, the participants had the opportunity in small groups to share their valuable thoughts and ideas on the association's technical projects and general development, potential collaboration with other initiatives and how the association deals with the issue of sovereignty washing.
And with that, the ALASCA Summit 2025 was already over - and while we are still letting the impressions sink in, we are also getting ready to plan the ALASCA Summit 2026, which is sure to be just as great!
Feedback
With the ALASCA Summits, we want to organise a worthwhile event for you as a community - and therefore rely on your feedback!
Whether praise, criticism or ideas - let us know your thoughts: Either informally via Mail or via the feedback form of our Event app. We look forward to hearing your opinions and will take them into account as much as possible in future planning.
ALASCA Summit 2026 - Stay Tuned!
After the Summit is before the Summit - and while we are still in the middle of the follow-up preparations, one thing is certain: the ALASCA Summit 2026 is coming! We will communicate a save-the-date as soon as possible.
We are already looking forward to getting together with you again next year and will of course keep you up to date on all developments. All information about the next summit will be published on our LinkedInwhich Website and the ALASCA Summit distributor communicate. Stay tuned!
