The EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026

Conference Details

Date: 30 January 2026

Time: To be announced

Duration: 09:00

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Cost: Register online for more information.

Organiser: OpenForum Europe

Conference Website

Conference Description

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 focus on one clear proposition: open source delivers digital sovereignty.

This year’s programme will address the full spectrum of policy and implementation challenges currently shaping the digital agenda:

• The automotive sector’s shift to collaborative software development;
• Open source security, in the context of the CRA and the European Sovereign Tech Fund;
• The evolving cloud market: from lock-in and interoperability to public sector procurement and the EuroStack;
• The need for trusted, open infrastructure for AI, digital identity, and essential public services;
• The role of public sector OSPOs as engines of institutional capability;
• The case for a Fourth European Standardisation Organisation (ESO) to support open development;
• Opportunities for open source to support chip-level innovation — from CUDA alternatives to RISC-V.

The EU Open Source Policy Summit is set for 30 January 2026 in Brussels and will be accessible online.