Ahmad joined the kernel team at Pengutronix in 2018 to work full-time on furthering Linux world domination. He does so by helping automotive and industrial customers build embedded Linux systems based on the mainline Linux kernel.
Having a knack for digging in low-level guts, his tasks include hardware enablement, Linux driver development and boot loader porting.
Ahmad is a contributor to a number of open-source projects, including the Linux kernel and the barebox boot loader.

Alice is a Software Engineer at lowRISC. She is passionate about the theory and practice of Operating Systems, new Instruction Set Architectures, and where software and hardware intersect.

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.

These days I'm expanding my horizon with firmware related web applications, rust firmware and FPGA programming.

Ben Stoltz is an engineer at Oxide Computer Company, where he works on
service processor and root of trust firmware: its security, its update
path, and, most recently, the testing infrastructure this talk covers.
Before Oxide, he worked on systems and infrastructure at Sun Microsystems,
Cisco, and Google.

A low level enthusiast focusing on Windows internals, UEFI, Hypervisors, SMM and security.

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.

PhD-level Systems Architect with 15+ years across Hardware, Firmware, and Software.
Currently working as Hardware team lead at Scaleway, a french Cloud Service Provider.
Uniquely experienced on both sides of the ecosystem: HPC HW manufacturer and neocloud operator.
Passionate about design and development of IT systems with a particular interest in embedded systems, firmware and hardware management.

Currently working as hardware system engineer at Scaleway, a french Cloud Service Provider.

Passionate about both side of the force Firmware and Hardware.

Guo Dong has been actively engaged in firmware development since 2007, beginning with contributions to EDK and EDK2. After several years of experience with coreboot, he co-founded the Slim Bootloader (SBL) project alongside his team. Guo Dong currently focuses on advancing SBL and developing UEFI payload solutions, maintaining a strong commitment to open-source firmware innovation and platform enablement.

Chunhui Jia is the firmware team architect at ByteDance and a seasoned expert in the firmware industry. With deep experience across UEFI BIOS, BMC, and OS driver development, he has built a strong track record in tackling complex firmware challenges. His current focus centers on improving firmware debuggability, enhancing observability, and advancing automated issue diagnosis and troubleshooting.

I like giving talks and workshops.

In my free time, I work on free and open source software, especially operating systems and distributions, bringup and application firmware, with a focus on tooling, integration, and documentation.

I created Fiedka, the firmware editor, started the Platform System Interface project, and inherited stakes in oreboot and LinuxBoot.

Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz is a software engineer at the Qualcomm Innovation Center.

He is a maintainer of the Qualcomm platform ports in Trusted Firmware-A and OP-TEE, and a long-term contributor and maintainer across a broad range of open-source projects — FFmpeg, Zephyr, U-Boot, Linux, OpenSSL, and cryptographic libraries, among others. He is part of the open boot firmware
strategy at Qualcomm, working across multiple boards to bring up fully open-source firmware stacks.

Marco joined the Pengutronix graphics team in 2017. His work covers everything from system architecture to low-level bootloader firmware up to kernel and user-space development.

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

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.

Hardware and Firmware hacker with over a decade of professional experience in embedded Linux user space, RTOS (Zephyr), and Yocto/Buildroot environment maintenance, complemented by a strong background in hardware debugging and PCB Designing and prototyping