Akira Moroo is a software hobbyist who likes to develop system software in his spare time. He has developed Yabits, a small UEFI implementation for coreboot in 2017. He has been maintaining Rust Hypervisor Firmware as a committer since 2021.

Andrea Barisani is an internationally recognized security researcher. Since owning his first Commodore-64 he has never stopped studying new technologies, developing unconventional attack vectors and exploring what makes things tick...and break.

His experience builds on large-scale infrastructure defense, penetration testing and code auditing with particular focus on safety critical environments, with more than 15 years of professional experience in security consulting.

His main focus lies on the converge between secure hardware and software, an interest consolidated in the authorship of the USB armory hardware project and the TamaGo bare metal framework.

He is a well known international speaker, having presented at BlackHat, CanSecWest, Chaos Communication Congress, DEFCON, Hack In The Box, among many other conferences, speaking about innovative research on automotive hacking, side-channel attacks, payment systems, embedded system security and many other topics.

I'm Arthur Heymans. I've always been quite interested in how computers work, however, this interest only fully developed much later. While studying physics and philosophy at the university, I became very interested in the concept of free software via the "about GNU" page in my editor of choice, Emacs. The GNU/Linux OS is very usable as free software these days, however, firmware and some low-level drivers tend to present a different, much more closed story. This led me to discover coreboot, which is a project that offers an alternative to closed-source firmware/BIOS. Fast forward a few years and I'm a regular contributor to coreboot and have learned a great deal from incredible people who were willing to invest time in reviewing my patches. I secured a job at 9elements, which professionally involved me in multiple open-source firmware projects.

● Worked with Silicon vendors and open-source software giants in the past.
● Been hacking on boot loaders & kernel since past 18 years.
● Contribute to: Linux, EFI/u-boot bootloader & Secure FW
● User-space utilities like: kexec-tools, and Makedumpfile.
● Co-maintainer hat(s): U-boot UFS, Qcom Ethernet & crash-utility tool.
● Area of Interest: 0-day Silicon bringup using open-source software.

Charly is a PhD candidate at EPFL focusing on confidential computing, virtualization, and system security in general.
He worked on blocking transient-execution attacks on ARM CCA as part of the System Research group at Google, on a new and portable security monitor for x86 and RISC-V platforms, and on data migration for Intel SGX enclaves. Most recently, he his looking into firmware security and how firmware can be trusted by less privileged software.

Deepak Kodihalli is a Principal Engineer at Nvidia, where he leads the architecture of OpenBMC for the company's platforms. He is also actively working on contributing Nvidia's OpenBMC modifications back to the upstream community.

Opensource enthusiast & contributor, interested in low-level and performance.
Kernel & Embedded Recipes founder.
Prem'Day founder
Worked for Mandriva (HPC), Redhat (Ceph).
Co-designed an In-Flight-Entertainment (IFE) system for Zodiac.
Currently part of the Hardware team at Criteo.

Heinrich is working as RISC-V lead engineer in Canonical’s foundations team. He has contributed to a wide range of open source projects reaching from linear programming to the Linux kernel. He is maintainer of the UEFI sub-system in the U-Boot firmware.

James is a software engineer working on open source firmware at lowRISC. He is interested in memory safe systems software and firmware and making it easier to develop, build, and test it.

I am thrilled by computers. I spent a lot of time designing them at architectural and hardware level, and participated to crazy projects, including building up the biggest european super computer in the late 90's. I love to share my knowledge and enable people to design better computers. I am particularly focused on open technologies currently, which includes design tools like FreeCAD, KiCAD, and open source firmware projects like linuxboot and OpenBMC. I used to work for big companies, created a french based startup that I successfully sold to an american company in 2018. I am now part of HPE mainly focused on open platforms. What does it mean will be known in a couple of months / quarters and years.

Jeremy Kerr is a Linux and open source systems developer, working on the Linux kernel, drivers, firmware and related plumbing, embedded firmware, and a little hardware development too.

Jeremy is the owner of Code Construct - a small consultancy developing in the open source and embedded-systems area, based in Australia. Previously, he has worked for IBM's Linux technology center on their POWER server platforms, and Canonical's hardware enablement team.

Jeremy's first contribution to the Linux kernel was accepted on the 23rd of February, 2004. His second was a fix, for that same piece of code, on the 24th of February, 2004.

Jiming Sun is Sr. Software Manager at Amazon Web Services. His achievements are:
* 21 granted US patents, one pending
* Author of "Embedded Firmware Solutions" book, published in January 2015.
* Key creator and contributor to produce and release Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP)
* Key creator and contributor to produce and release AMD's AGESA
* Among the first batch of engineers who worked on SMM code for 386SL.
* Among the first batch of contributors for Tiano/EFI/UEFI
* Intel/AMD x86, and ARM microprocessors.

Firmware Engineer at 3mdeb since 2018. Thinks C is high-level language. Interested mostly in things deliberately omitted from documentation.

A sojourner in open source firmware world.

Martin is a firmware developer with 20+ years of experience in x86 BIOS and has been actively working on the coreboot project since 2012.

Working at 9e as a firmware developer with a focus on RoT and BMC firmware that prefers writing in more safe languages like Go, Rust or Zig.

Mate is a software engineer passionate about building a more secure and reliable computing experience by bringing free and open source to the lowest levels of the software stack.
He has been a contributor to the coreboot project for the last few years, working on retrofitting coreboot to various pieces of existing hardware.
He is currently a maintainer of the bootloader stack and UEFI Secure Boot support in a major Linux distribution.

As a student of computer science at Hochschule Bochum, I started working at 9elements in October 2023.
Before that time I was primarily developing back- and frontend code for web applications,
however personal preference wanted me to make the shift to Linux and embedded
- ideally OpenSource - development.
Gladly 9elements gave me the opportunity to do this exact shift in a professional manner with very talented young people from whom I can learn a lot.

Software/firmware engineer

Firmware engineer, passionate about silicon enabling and open source.

Ritvi is a Developer Advocate with a strong background in fostering developer communities and promoting open-source technologies. With experience at Dyte and Blues Wireless, she has led numerous initiatives to enhance community engagement and drive the adoption of innovative cloud-native solutions. Passionate about learning and collaboration, she is dedicated to advancing the open-source ecosystem.

I am a student at UC San Diego interested in making it easy to create safe software. I contribute to the Rust-based Tock Operating System and am working towards ensuring that systems software is reliable and correct.

Wollinger has an impressive career background, starting in the field of IT security. He earned his Ph.D. with distinction at the Chair for Embedded Security at Ruhr University Bochum and co-founded the startup ESCRYPT, which grew into a world-leading company in automotive security. Later, ESCRYPT was acquired by Bosch, where Wollinger served as Vice President for Cybersecurity Solutions before transitioning to Bochum Economic Development.

Tom Joseph is a Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA. His primary responsibility is the architecture of the firmware update feature for multiple platforms. He has been involved with OpenBMC since its inception and is a maintainer for multiple repositories.

Yussuf is a second-year PhD student in operating systems at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His main research interests encompass power management and storage technologies. The projects he is currently working on have brought him into the fabulous world of open-source firmware.