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.

An engineer specialized in miscellaneous tasks. Over the years I've worked on BMC software, and validation, debugging problems that nobody wanted to own. ;)

I enjoy solving messy problems, building demos, and learning new things.
AND I'm much better at debugging systems than speaking English.

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.

I've been working on x86 boot firmware for just over two decades. I started developing legacy BIOS in assembly in 2006 for large servers. Soon after that I transitioned to UEFI as most of the industry was doing at the time. My focus for those years was developing custom firmware for datacenter servers (what we'd call Hyperscalers now) as well as some embedded systems. Since 2022 I've been working on Slim Bootloader at Intel.

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.

Benjamin is a firmware developer at 9elements, where he's often focusing on building key primitives that enable deeper interoperability between coreboot and UEFI. He believes that together, we can make a firmware that competes with closed-source code, offering all of the features with none of the bloat.

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

I am a firmware and embedded systems engineer with experience in safety‑critical operating systems, high‑security platform design, and host firmware development for modern hardware platforms. I have spent the past decade working on microkernel‑ and Linux‑based systems for defense and high‑assurance environments, focusing on partitioning, isolation, and robust system architectures that meet safety and security certification requirements.

Most recently, I have led open‑source firmware efforts at 9elements, driving host firmware projects around coreboot, EDK2 (UEFI), and secure storage. Contributing to the development of secure and transparent firmware solutions for servers and security‑sensitive platforms.

Classic "behind the curtain'-looker.

Dong Wei is an Arm Fellow and Lead Standards Architect of the Architecture and Technology Group in Arm Limited. Dong joined Arm in 2016. He leads the Arm SystemReady compliance program as well as PC BSA specification with definitions of the hardware, firmware requirements for the Arm-based systems. He also leads the system manageability and security requirements for these systems. In this standards-based effort, he covers industry standards such as PCI Express, TCG, CXL, UCIe, UEFI/ACPI, DMTF, and OCP.

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.

Opensource enthusiast & contributor, interested in low-level and performance.
Kernel & Embedded Recipes founder.
Premday 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.

Brussels Zinneke, CRA wonk, working at CrabNebula on European standards development. suppoirting manufacturers with product conformity.

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

Passionate about both side of the force Firmware and Hardware.

Giovanni Zantedeschi is a seasoned firmware engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in embedded systems development. For the past four years, Giovanni has been focused on OpenBMC at Cloudflare, working to advance open-source firmware solutions at scale. His deep background in low-level system architecture and embedded environments drives his commitment to building secure, transparent, and robust open firmware ecosystems.

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.

Keith Gariepy is Lead System Architect at Kaimera Group and leads WedgeBench, an open-source project supported by the Open Source Firmware Foundation. His background spans enterprise audiovisual architecture, control-system programming, and systems integration, including global AV design work at Pacific Life. A Crestron Master Certified Programmer, he brings a practical engineering perspective to reproducibility and failure analysis. With WedgeBench, he is exploring how deterministic parser tests and machine-checkable evidence can help maintainers rerun results, inspect assumptions, and challenge technical claims. He welcomes skeptical reviewers, reproducible counterexamples, and collaborators interested in testing the workflow on additional targets.

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.

Paul Underhill is an IT professional and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chester. His research interests include cybersecurity, firmware and digital forensics. He is currently completing a PhD focused on automation of firmware analysis and NIST-aligned reporting to support clearer identification, prioritisation, and understanding of firmware security issues.

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

Embedded engineer at Cornelis Networks

Simon Glass has worked in embedded systems for many years, at ARM, Bluewater Systems (which he founded) and Google. He is a primary contributor to U-Boot and custodian of its driver model, with around 10000 commits in total. Simon is married with three children and lives in Colorado.

Currently working as Principal Application Engineer at arm, supporting server firmware.