CERN Open Source Community Event 2026
Topics included open chips and open FOSS EDA/CAD tools used to design them, with the status update of the open-source ecosystem that supports this work. The impact of AI on free and open-source software communities was also discussed. Updates on recent activities and future plans from the CERN Open Source Program Office (OSPO) were presented. Feedback, ideas, concerns, and suggestions from participants were shared during the discussions.
Community projects and experiences were highlighted through a series of lightning talks. Open-source work from different groups was showcased, creating opportunities for knowledge exchange and new collaborations. The event provided a forum for discussion, community engagement, and the sharing of ideas across the open-source ecosystem.
Agenda November 13, 2026, at CERN
<https://indico.cern.ch/event/1709015/overview>
<https://indico.cern.ch/event/1709015/overview>
14:05-14:25 René Scholz: IHP openPDK, openADK and open-silicon MPW Offerings
14:35-14:55 Frank Gürkaynak: Open-source EDA for chip design: where are we now, what is next?
15:05-15:25 Mathias Schindler: Standing on the shoulders of giants. In winter. During a storm. With sharks.
15:35-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:20 Lucas Nussbaum: AI-assisted software engineering and Free Software communities:
Tool of liberation or existential threat?
16:35-16:40 Elena de la Fuente Garcia: “Wakis”: An open-source 3D time-domain electromagnetic solver for beam-coupling impedance simulations
16:40-16:45 Benoit Denkinger: SoCMake: a unified build tool for SoC hardware and software
16:45-16:50 Anastasiia Petrovych: PQuantML: A Tool for End-to-End Hardware-aware Model Compression
16:50-16:55 Dimitrios Danopoulos: AIE4ML: An AI Compiler for Low-Latency Neural Network Inference on AMD Versal AI Engines
16:55-17:00 Sanjiban Sengupta: SOFIE: Optimized and portable ML Inference across heterogeneous architectures
17:00-17:20 OSPO 2026 and 2027
17:20-17:30 Feedback and discussion
17:30-18:20 Feedback, discussions, networking: food and drinks for everyone!
