Speakers Set Course for openSUSE Conference

The openSUSE Conference 2025 in Nuremberg from June 26 - 28 is shaping up to be a great gathering for the open source software community.

There are three packed days of presentations, workshops and discussion along with three keynotes.

This year’s conference features SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen who will recognize the openSUSE community’s 20-year journey. Peer Heinlein, who founded the Heinlein Group, which includes companies like Heinlein Support, mailbox.org, OpenTalk, and OpenCloud, will provide another keynote on the same day and his talk will focus on the risks users face when using proprietary software. Another keynote from Tropic Square’s CEO Jan Pleskač will spotlight the growing need to extend open source hardware.

The conference is offering a broad look at where openSUSE is heading and what challenges are emerging for the project’s development and how the open-source communities can resolve them.

There are several sessions drawing attention like “Public Money? Public Code!” and a series of presentations addressing Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and Network and Information Security 2 Directive (NIS2) readiness. These sessions explored how European cybersecurity regulations are impacting small to medium open-source vendors and what steps are needed to align with the evolving legal landscape.

On the technical side, integration and automation sessions continue. One talk demonstrated how Uyuni can be tightly woven into existing infrastructure management tools like Ansible and Terraform. Another session unveiled a tool called container-snap, a prototype designed to bring atomic OS updates through OCI images, which helps eliminate the risk of broken upgrades.

The Leap 16.0 Beta will have a dedicated session, and the future of SUSE Linux Enterprise will be discussed in a talk titled “From ALP to SLES16”.

Workshops on LLMs will show how to run large language models locally and turn them into functional agents and a popular penguin AI project called Kowalski should capture some attention at the conference.

Underlying many talks is a shared urgency around user empowerment. The “End of 10 Install Workshop” sessions are aimed at encouraging users to install openSUSE on aging or repurposed hardware based on Microsoft’s end-of-life date for Windows 10.

The full schedule of the openSUSE Conference 2025 is available at events.opensuse.org.