fosdem-2026

Identity and Access Management Devroom @ FOSDEM 2026

FOSDEM 2026 will once again have an Identity and Access Management devroom, following its successful runs in 2018, 2024, and 2025.

The IAM devroom is scheduled to be held on Sunday, February 1st, 2026 in Brussels, Belgium at ULB. Exact room allocation will be known in December 2025.

Our topics this year

This is the Identity and Access Management Devroom. We invite you to submit a talk that is relevant to operating systems’ identity and access management in the free software and open source world.

We don’t exclude any relevant submission; for ideas and suggestions, please check the previous editions of the IAM devroom (2018, 2024, 2025).

Suggested topics, based on our 2026 proposal, include:

The future of authentication:

• The path to ubiquitous Passwordless: Passkeys, FIDO2, OAuth2, and PIV in practice for operating system access.
• Beyond Centralization: Decentralized Identity (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) in FOSS.
• Integrating federated and social identities at the operating system level.

Core infrastructure & security:

• Preparing for Y2Q: Implementing quantum-resistant cryptography (QRC) in authentication protocols.
• DNS and Identity: Securing enterprise and personal domains for identity services.
• Identity in the Software Supply Chain (e.g., how identity concepts apply to services like Sigstore).

User experience & integration:

• Integrating modern authentication across desktop environments (GNOME, KDE) and system administration toolchains.
• Improving the user experience for multi-factor authentication.

Project showcases & case studies:

• Free software IAM offerings; migrating from or integrating with proprietary solutions.
• IAM/IdM deployment reports and real-world case studies.

…and more. Don’t be shy and show how your project helps to improve our lives.

Submissions

Submissions require a small abstract and a short speaker description. They must be submitted via the Pretalx system no later than 30th of November 2025. Suggested duration for a timeslot to apply for is 25 minutes (20 min presentation + 5 mins questions). The schedule shall be finalized by 15 December 2025.

Note that FOSDEM continues to use Pretalx. If you created an account to submit a proposal for FOSDEM 2025, you should be able to reuse it. Otherwise, you will need to create a new account.

Instructions:

1. Go to https://fosdem.org/submit.
2. Register a new account or log in with your existing account.
3. Create a new event with your title, abstract, and some information about you.
4. Be sure to set the event track to “Identity and Access Management devroom”.
5. Subscribe to the iam-devroom@lists.fosdem.org mailing list for announcements.

Organizers

• You! - any help with organizing is highly appreciated!
• Alexander Bokovoy (ab@samba.org)
• Iker Pedrosa (ipedrosa@redhat.com)

Contact

iam-devroom@lists.fosdem.org