Events

In 2025, the PrivacyCamp25 will host you online and at La Tricoterie, Brussels on 30 September to explore Resilience and Resistance in Times of Deregulation and Authoritarianism. The final programme ahead of this year’s #PrivacyCamp25 is live! Are you curious about what each session is about and who are those organising, speaking or facilitating sessions? Registrations for...

Cloud and data sovereignty are the themes of the second edition of Interoperability Day. During the seminar, visitors will learn more about initiatives, solutions, and (upcoming) regulations regarding cloud and data sovereignty in the Netherlands.  Solutions and legislation are emerging or already in place, but they're not always well-known. The Standardisation Forum would like to...

Marking the seventh instalment of our cyclical events, Capital Series Denmark will bring Brussels-level discussions of open source policy directly to Copenhagen. This event will provide a unique opportunity for the local open source community to directly engage with EU and national policymakers to better understand policies that impact the Danish market.  Capital Series events...

 The event will take advantage of the autumn holidays to occupy the lecture halls of the Palais Universitaire de Strasbourg: a unique place to promote the transmission of knowledge between those who work to build a digital world of general interest! The emancipation enabled by digital technology requires a certain number of conditions: free expression,...

The Digital Commons Policy Summit 2025 – Digital Commons and the Open Internet Stack for a Competitive Europe will take place on the 20th and 21st November in Brussels. 

The event will discuss how public AI models and applications can be developed in the European Union, as a core component of the AI Continent Action Plan.

Every year, at the end of January and the beginning of February, thousands of people from Europe and around the world gather in Brussels to discuss open source and open technologies. The main attraction is FOSDEM, Europe’s largest open source conference, which has inspired a range of side events, social activities, and workshops. For those interested...

Join the Simpl Annual Community Event 2026 Join Europe’s data innovation community on 29 January 2026 in Brussels for Simpl’s flagship event, where interoperability moves from principle to practice. Under the theme “Connect and Grow Together”, participants will take stock of the latest updates and help shape Simpl’s next phase. The event will showcase how Simpl supports and...

The home of open source giants and emerging talent, the European Open Source Awards is one of a kind celebration of the leading innovators and contributors in European open source.

Digital Sovereignty Runs on Open Source Europe is confronting fundamental questions about its digital sovereignty — a concept that now encapsulates the full range of its strategic challenges: competitiveness, market concentration and dependency, and systemic resilience. The 2026 edition of the EU Open Source Policy Summit will bring together leaders from the public and private sectors to...

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. FOSDEM takes place at the ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium, Europe, Earth. If you aren't...

As part of FOSDEM 2026, which will take place on the 31 January & 1 February 2026, we will be organising a devroom on Open Source & EU Policy. The devroom will take place on Sunday 1st February 2026 and it will cover the full day. The devroom is organised by APELL, Eclipse Foundation, Linux Foundation, Mozilla, OFE, OpenSSF, and the Open Source Initiative....