Tools for Embedded Software Engineering
- Compliance, Quality Testing, Security -

Thursday, June 26, 2025

The OSADL Networking Day 2025 will take place at:
Conference Center of DJH Youth Hostel Heidelberg International
Room "Heidelberg 1-3"
Tiergartenstraße 5
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Get-together from 8:30am CEST
Start of the conference: 9am CEST

Agenda Networking Day - Evening event - Registration -  How to get there - Hotel accomodation - Presentations and video clips (previous member or participant login required)

All regular, associate and academic OSADL members are cordially invited to participate in the OSADL Networking Day 2025 in Heidelberg, Germany. The idea of the event is to offer the OSADL community an opportunity to share their experiences with regard to using and distributing Free and Open Source software (FOSS) in products. This is best done by offering a good mix of conference-style talks on current topics with sufficiently long breaks for networking. The latter can then be continued during the "after-conference" event and remains the goal when the participants meet for dinner. It is a special pleasure to host the OSADL Networking Day as an in-person event in Heidelberg, and the OSADL Team is looking forward to welcoming as many OSADL members as possible and, on request, a limited number of invited guests.

Conference session
This year, the Networking Day's conference part will focus on "Tools for Embedded Software Engineering - Compliance, Quality Testing, Security". Even though these topics may look very different at first glance, they all must be considered in product development, and there is a significant overlap of the required tasks and processes. For example, systematic testing and quality assessment is a fundamental requirement for product security, and a well maintained SBOM is not only essential for fulfilling cybersecurity requirements, but also for the license compliant distribution of software. To highlight requirements and solutions for a well-rounded product development process, all three areas are addressed in this year's Networking Day conference.

But before the actual presentations on the various tools for embedded software engineering begin, Peter Siwon, in his keynote, will focus on the people who use the tools. What can every person involved do on the way to committed, competent and mature teams? “In principle simple - BUT!” - Let's listen to Peter and find out how this knowledge can be transferred into daily practice, even if it may take some courage to jump over one's own shadow.

Following the keynote, the presentations of the morning sessions will give an overview of the individual topics, partly supplemented by practical examples. In the afternoon, there will be two breakout sessions with three parallel presentations each focusing on specific tools and use cases. Attendees will be able to select topics of their particular interests and exchange in smaller groups know-how with other participants and the speakers.

We are pleased and grateful that the invited experts have accepted to join the event and share their knowledge with the participants.

Evening event
Following the conference session, we cordially invite all participants to a joint dinner cooking event at Kochschule Eppelheim cookst Du! (Culinary School Eppelheim). And so the OSADL Open Source community will become a culinary community, too, by cooking together under the guidance of professional chefs and enjoying the collaboratively created dinner. And there will certainly be plenty of opportunity for networking over good food and drinks!

Presentations of all sessions and video clips of the morning sessions will be made available here after the event (previous member or participant login required to display material)

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• Jan Altenberg, OSADL: Jan Altenberg has more than 15 years of experience in developing and maintaining Embedded Linux systems. Jan studied information technologies at the University of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart (Germany). From 2002 - 2006 he was involved in the OCEAN project, a European research project, which defined an open controller platform based on real-time Linux and real-time CORBA. From 2007 to 2019 he worked for Linutronix as a Consultant, Trainer and Head of Technical sales. From April 2019 to 2021 he worked as Open-Source Technology Expert and Open-Source Compliance Officer for Continental Automotive GmbH. Since October 2021 Jan works as Senior Open Source Consultant and Embedded Systems Integrator at the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG and since 2024, he also serves on the OSADL board of directors. Jan is a frequent speaker on several conferences. In 2014, 2018 and 2019 he has been awarded with the "best speaker award" at the Embedded Software Engineering Congress in Sindelfingen (Germany).
• Alexander Bähr, OSADL: Alexander Bähr is a state certified technician with a focus on control engineering. Since his youth Alexander has been enthusiastic about electronics and data processing, especially Linux and Open Source. During his further professional activity with the main focus on measurement technology and its data processing, he has successfully used the various options of Open Source software in his professional environment for many years. Since 2020 Alexander works as a technical computer scientist at the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG. 
• Dr. Carsten Emde, OSADL: Carsten Emde has a long history of professional activities in the field of software development, system integration and training, particularly for embedded system software. Carsten is specialized on graphical user interface, robotics, real-time systems and on legal and business aspects of using Open Source software in industry. He has been managing OSADL since its foundation in 2005.
• Chris Fiege, Pengutronix: Chris Fiege studied communications engineering at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences and has been developing electronics professionally since 2011. After several years and working on various development projects for vehicles and special measurement technology in the automotive industry, he moved to Pengutronix in 2017. Since then, he has been working there on the development of products for embedded Linux. With his team, he develops devices that simplify the testing of embedded Linux on series hardware, among other things. Chris has been working enthusiastically on Open Source projects for many years, both professionally and voluntarily, and is convinced of the advantages of these in both contexts.
• Florian Kauer, Linutronix: Florian Kauer is a software engineer specialized in embedded systems for reliable and secure networks. During his time in academia, Florian dealt with low-latency audio transmission and scalability of wireless industrial control networks. After developing cloud systems for life-science applications, he joined Linutronix to develop open-source networking and security solutions.
• Caren Kresse, OSADL: Caren Kresse holds a Master degree in Physics. Already during her studies she used and appreciated the large amount of Open Source software and she became acquainted with all aspects of Open Source communities. In particular, she specialized on legal aspects of conveying Open Source software and has been working on various aspects of Open Source license compliance with OSADL since 2018. Among others, Caren leads the OSADL Open Source Policy project and is deeply involved in the OSADL License Obligations Checklists project. Furthermore, she maintains the OSADL Container Base Image and the project page for the OSSelot curation database where she also contributes curated compliance data. Since 2024, she also serves on the OSADL board of directors.
• Lukas Panni, SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH & Co KG: Lukas Panni earned his Master of Science in Computer Science in 2023, with a focus on Open Source compliance and security. As a software developer specializing in Open Source compliance and security at SEW EURODRIVE GmbH & Co KG, he has contributed to the initial development and is responsible for the continuous improvement of the company’s Open Source compliance program. With a passion for automation, Lukas is continuously working towards reducing the need for human intervention in complex compliance processes.
• Peter Siwon, Systemisches Projektmanagement (Keynote): Peter Siwon experienced project work in many different roles: scientist, engineer, project manager, sales- and marketing manager, CEO. Peter shares his experience since decades in articles, presentations, seminars and coaching. He founded and directed the Embedded Software Engineering Congress till 2022. He studied engineering at TU Munich, business economics at University Hagen. He is a certified systemic coach with further education in Systemic Organisation Analysis, NLP, Business Development, Change Management and Mediation. Website
• Sven Strittmatter, iteratec GmbH:
• Felix Wruck, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied an integrated Security AISEC:

The conference language of the 2025 OSADL Networking Day is English. All presentation material will be in English, too.

Following the conference session, we cordially invite all participants to a joint cooking event at Kochschule Eppelheim cookst Du! (Culinary School Eppelheim). And so the OSADL Open Source community will become a culinary community, too, by cooking together under the guidance of professional chefs and enjoying the collaboratively created dinner. And there will certainly be plenty of opportunity for networking over good food and drinks!

Venue: Kochschule Eppelheim cookst Du! (Culinary School Eppelheim), Handelsstraße 2, 69214 Eppelheim, Website

17:00: Bus shuttle from DJH Youth Hostel to cooking event

For those who wish to travel to the culinary school with their own car: Directions
Parking possibilities: There is a limited number of parking spaces available at the culinary school and nearby.

From approx. 17:30: Start of joint cooking event

After the dinner there will be a bus shuttle back from the cooking event in Eppelheim to Heidelberg with stops at Heidelberg main station, Hotel Bergheim 41, Heidelberg Bismarckplatz and DJH Youth Hostel for car pick-up.

For registration please use the online registration form available here: Registration Networking Day. Please register as soon as possible – preferably before June 6, 2025. Participation is free of charge.

Please note that the OSADL Networking Day is an internal OSADL event; thus, participation is actually only open to OSADL regular members, OSADL associate members and OSADL academic members. In addition, a small number of seats have been reserved for non-members who are interested in OSADL's work and would like to learn more about OSADL and, particularly, how networking and interaction among members are taking place.

The total number of participants of the Networking Day is limited to 100 and we ask for your understanding that we will handle the registrations on a "first come - first served" basis.

When you register for participation at the event you agree that your personal data entered in the registration form will be processed at OSADL as necessary (see our privacy policy).

You may revoke this agreement at any time by email, mail or phone using the communication data provided at the imprint page, but this will also cancel your registration.

Conference Center of DJH Youth Hostel Heidelberg International
(Konferenzzentrum der DJH Jugendherberge Heidelberg International)
Room "Heidelberg 1-3"
Tiergartenstraße 5
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone: +49 6221 65119-0

• How to get to the Conference Center of DJH Youth Hostel Heidelberg International_1: Detailed plan (PDF), only available in German language
• How to get to the Conference Center of DJH Youth Hostel Heidelberg International_2: Overview plan (JPG)
  

By car: 
Coming from expressway A5 or A6, at "Kreuz Heidelberg" please follow expressway A656 direction Heidelberg. At the end of expressway A656 turn left direction "Neuenheimer Feld" and follow the signs "Jugendherberge / Zoo".

Parking:
Parking spaces are available in the parking garage of Heidelberg Zoo, Tiergartenstraße 3, 69120 Heidelberg. The day pass costs 10 EUR. From the parking garage it's a 3-minute walk to the DJH Conference Center. An overview of all other parking possibilities in the Neuenheimer Feld area can be found here.

Public transport:
From Heidelberg main station take bus line 20 direction Neuenheim Sportzentrum Nord, and exit at bus stop Neuenheim, "Jugendherberge".

From Heidelberg Bismarckplatz or Universitätsplatz (old town) take bus line 31, direction "Chirurgische Klinik/Kopfklinik" and exit at bus stop Neuenheim "Jugendherberge".

More connections can be found on the Heidelberg public transportation website: RNV

OSADL has blocked a limited contingent of rooms at the following hotels:

• Bergheim 41 - Hotel im Alten Hallenbad, Bergheimer Str. 41, 69115 Heidelberg, phone +49 (0)6221/750040, email, Website. Price per person/night: 135 EUR excluding breakfast. The room contingent is blocked for the nights of June 25 to June 26 and June 26 to June 27, 2025. The room contingent expires on May 9, 2025. Distance to conference venue: approx. 2,9 km.
• Kulturbrauerei Heidelberg, Leyergasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg, phone +49 (0)6221/50298-0, email, Website. Price per person/night: 139 EUR excluding breakfast. The room contingent is blocked for the nights of June 25 to June 26 and June 26 to June 27, 2025. The room contingent expires on May 9, 2025. Distance to conference venue: approx. 4,5 km.

Please contact the hotels directly, if you wish to book a room at the indicated price from these contingents. The rooms will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that the room contingents expire as indicated.

More example lodging options in Heidelberg (we do not have contracted rooms at these hotels and cannot guarantee rates or availability):

• Hotel Raphaela, Lutherstr. 17, 69120 Heidelberg, phone: +49 (0)6221 6743300, email, Website, distance to conference venue: approx. 2,7 km
• DK Hotel Heidelberg, Mühltalstr. 41, 69121 Heidelberg, phone: +49 (0)6221 7250114, email, Website, distance to conference venue: approx. 2,9 km
• Premier Inn Heidelberg Bahnstadt, Czernyring 26-28, 69115 Heidelberg, phone +49 (0)6221 - 6484896, email, Website, distance to conference venue: approx. 3 km
• Plaza Premium Heidelberg, Sofienstr. 6-8, 69115 Heidelberg,  phone +49 (0)6221 - 4353920, email, Website, distance to conference venue: approx. 3,2 km
• HIP Hotel, Hauptstraße 115, 69117 Heidelberg, phone +49 (0)6221 20879, email, Website, distance to conference venue: approx. 4 km
• acor Boutique Hotel, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 55, 69117 Heidelberg, phone +49 (0)6221 6735310, email, Website, distance to conference venue: approx. 4 km

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have any questions:
Andrea Ruf
officeªosadl.org
Phone.: +49 6221 98504 13