Conference Schedule
Main Conference Wednesday, 21 Jan 2026
Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.
09:10AM–10:10AM
Breaking to Build: What Security Teaches Us About Openness
Kylie McDevitt
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 10:10 a.m.
10:10AM–10:45AM
Morning Tea (catered)
UCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
ends 10:45 a.m.
10:45AM–11:30AM
Encouraging democratic participation with software
Vanessa Teague
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 11:30 a.m.
Automated testing of circuit boards with Testomatic
Jonathan Oxer
Room A (2B07)
ends 11:30 a.m.
Penguin Nurse: An Open Source Approach to Health Tracking
Brian May
Room B (2B11)
ends 11:30 a.m.
Practical PKI: A hands-on X.509 workshop
Fraser Tweedale
Tutorial Room A (2B04)
ends 12:25 p.m.
Observability with OpenTelemetry and Elastic
Grant Patterson
Tutorial Room B (2B03)
ends 12:25 p.m.
11:30AM–11:40AM
Room changeover
Room B (2B11), Room A (2B07), Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 11:40 a.m.
11:40AM–12:25PM
Neighbourhood-First Software: How we roll-out the open web without expecting everyone to self-host
Jade Ambrose
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 12:25 p.m.
Own Your Online World: Protecting Privacy and Rights with Confidence
Gyle dela Cruz
Room A (2B07)
ends 12:25 p.m.
Using open source strategies to enable medical data exchange at scale
Christopher Skene
Room B (2B11)
ends 12:25 p.m.
12:25PM–01:30PM
Lunch (catered)
UCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
ends 1:30 p.m.
01:30PM–02:15PM
Chaos theory and the limits of predictability
Jacinta Richardson
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 2:15 p.m.
The unreasonable cost of open source contribution
Rob Norris
Room A (2B07)
ends 2:15 p.m.
A future of more equitable connected data systems with self-sovereignty and consent
Jess Moore
Room B (2B11)
ends 2:15 p.m.
Running Agentic AI Offline on your Linux Machine
Sophie Allen, Alexar Pendashteh
Tutorial Room A (2B04)
ends 3:10 p.m.
Seeing Stars - Advanced Siril
Peter Lieverdink
Tutorial Room B (2B03)
ends 3:10 p.m.
02:15PM–02:25PM
Room changeover
Room B (2B11), Room A (2B07), Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 2:25 p.m.
02:25PM–03:10PM
Roll for initiative: The battle against the beast of AI Slop
J Rosenbaum
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 3:10 p.m.
I hope this email talk finds you well.
Jemma Bradshaw
Room A (2B07)
ends 3:10 p.m.
Open source AI Definition: intro, uptake and the future
James Oczko
Room B (2B11)
ends 3:10 p.m.
03:10PM–03:45PM
Afternoon Tea (catered)
UCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
ends 3:45 p.m.
03:45PM–04:30PM
Is it even worthwhile to self-host these days?
Steven Ellis
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 4:30 p.m.
The nineteenth century smartwatch
Kit Biggs
Room A (2B07)
ends 4:30 p.m.
Excited Developer Syndrome
Evan Kohilas
Room B (2B11)
ends 4:30 p.m.
Tutorial Room A (2B04)
ends 4:30 p.m.
Tutorial Room B (2B03)
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–04:40PM
Room changeover
ends 4:40 p.m.
04:40PM–05:40PM
The next generation Big Data Radio Telescope for Astronomy, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory
Juan Carlos Guzman
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 5:40 p.m.
05:40PM–06:00PM
Talks end
ends 6 p.m.
06:00PM–06:30PM
Linux Australia AGM - Keynote Theatre (2B09)
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 6:30 p.m.
06:30PM
Day End
Main Conference Thursday, 22 Jan 2026
Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.
09:10AM–10:10AM
Peak Text: AI and the Golden Age of Libraries and Archives
Keir Winesmith
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 10:10 a.m.
10:10AM–10:45AM
Morning Tea (catered)
UCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
ends 10:45 a.m.
10:45AM–11:30AM
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy insight into librarianship
Hugh Rundle
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 11:30 a.m.
The Evolution of the OCI Artifact Revolution
Andrew Block
Room A (2B07)
ends 11:30 a.m.
Don’t Trust Opaque Clouds, Cryptographically Verify Instead!
Chris Butler
Room B (2B11)
ends 11:30 a.m.
Beginning with the Shell
Peter Chubb
Tutorial Room A (2B04)
ends 12:25 p.m.
11:30AM–11:40AM
Room changeover
Room B (2B11), Room A (2B07), Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 11:40 a.m.
11:40AM–12:25PM
A University Library's journey in making technology training resources FAIR
Stéphane Guillou
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 12:25 p.m.
README: The Developer's forgotten love letter
Swapnil Ogale
Room A (2B07)
ends 12:25 p.m.
Catch the Flash - Measuring household power usage
Paul Schulz
Room B (2B11)
ends 12:25 p.m.
12:25PM–01:30PM
Lunch (catered)
UCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
ends 1:30 p.m.
01:30PM–02:15PM
How one ISO standard led the way for national library infrastructure
Sae Ra Germaine
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 2:15 p.m.
Reclaiming the open web: a story about big tech, platforms and millennial dreams of a connected web
Milly Schmidt
Room A (2B07)
ends 2:15 p.m.
Spreadsheets and Dungeons and Dragons
Nicholas Miehlbradt
Room B (2B11)
ends 2:15 p.m.
Building interactive, reproducible data analysis with datakits
James Wilmot, Varvara Efremova
Tutorial Room A (2B04)
ends 3:10 p.m.
02:15PM–02:25PM
Room changeover
Room B (2B11), Room A (2B07), Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 2:25 p.m.
02:25PM–03:10PM
By Design: CAUL’s Vision for an Open Future in Australasian Higher Education
Ash Barber, Rebecca Barber
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 3:10 p.m.
Wabi Sabi Software: Caring for Imperfect Projects in Public
Sam Bishop
Room A (2B07)
ends 3:10 p.m.
An open grammar and style checker
Chris Chinchilla
Room B (2B11)
ends 3:10 p.m.
03:10PM–03:45PM
Afternoon Tea (catered)
UCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
ends 3:45 p.m.
03:45PM–04:30PM
A Kitchen-grown Tiny Calculator
Felipe Tavares
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 4:30 p.m.
Technique, or, Modern Adventures in NOT Designing a Programming Language
Andrew Cowie
Room A (2B07)
ends 4:30 p.m.
My degoogled life
Joshua Hesketh
Room B (2B11)
ends 4:30 p.m.
Effective Coaching
Nicola Nye
Tutorial Room A (2B04)
ends 5:25 p.m.
04:30PM–04:40PM
Room changeover
Room B (2B11), Room A (2B07), Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 4:40 p.m.
04:40PM–05:25PM
The Magic of the Open Practice Library
Elise Elkerton
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 5:25 p.m.
CXL: A Journey Into the Kernel
PJ Waskiewicz
Room A (2B07)
ends 5:25 p.m.
When something has gone wrong in your neighbourhood, and they're calling you... whatcha gonna do?
Rachel Bunder
Room B (2B11)
ends 5:25 p.m.
05:25PM–06:00PM
Talks end
ends 6 p.m.
06:00PM–09:00PM
For Penguin Dinner ticket holders only.
University of Canberra Refectory
ends 9 p.m.
09:00PM
Day End
Main Conference Friday, 23 Jan 2026
Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.
09:10AM–10:10AM
Open source can have friends everywhere
Emma Davidson
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 10:10 a.m.
10:10AM–10:45AM
Morning Tea (catered)
UCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
ends 10:45 a.m.
10:45AM–11:30AM
RepRapMicron - The Next Small Thing In 3D Printing
Vik Olliver
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 11:30 a.m.
Lessons in Open Policy development from APNIC60
Tim Hildred
Room A (2B07)
ends 11:30 a.m.
Books-As-Code
Alec Clews
Room B (2B11)
ends 11:30 a.m.
Make Whisper speak Australian with Mozilla Data Collective speech datasets
Kathy Reid
Tutorial Room A (2B04)
ends 12:25 p.m.
11:30AM–11:40AM
Room changeover
Room B (2B11), Room A (2B07), Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 11:40 a.m.
11:40AM–12:25PM
Introducing Conky Bubbles - A Simpler way to create config files for conky.
Simon Lees
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 12:25 p.m.
Small Game Engines, Big Lessons: PolyEngine & Pill Engine
Jakub Duchniewicz
Room A (2B07)
ends 12:25 p.m.
So You've Decided to Build It Yourself
Leesa Ward
Room B (2B11)
ends 12:25 p.m.
12:25PM–01:30PM
Lunch (catered)
UCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
ends 1:30 p.m.
01:30PM–02:15PM
Abstracting FPGAs in Python for fun and radio astronomy
Andrew Bolin
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 2:15 p.m.
Terminus: The open source server for TRMNL e-ink devices
Brooke Kuhlmann
Room A (2B07)
ends 2:15 p.m.
Room B (2B11)
ends 2:15 p.m.
Fixing a misconfigured Kubernetes Cluster
Rob Kenefeck
Tutorial Room A (2B04)
ends 3:10 p.m.
02:15PM–02:25PM
Room changeover
Room B (2B11), Room A (2B07), Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 2:25 p.m.
02:25PM–03:10PM
Open Australia: Who we are, what we do, and what's in it for you.
Donna Benjamin
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 3:10 p.m.
Upstream Kernel Hardening: Progress on enabling -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end
Gustavo A. R. Silva
Room A (2B07)
ends 3:10 p.m.
Room B (2B11)
ends 3:10 p.m.
03:10PM–03:45PM
Afternoon Tea (catered)
UCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
ends 3:45 p.m.
03:45PM–04:45PM
Everything Open Everywhere All At Once
Steven De Costa
Keynote Theatre (2B09)
ends 4:45 p.m.
05:30PM
Day End