By Angelah Liu, Linux Foundation
TL;DR:
OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2026 (October 6 in Prague), focuses on open source software security, regulatory compliance like the EU CRA, and AI supply chain risks. The one-day event features technical sessions on tools like VEX, Gemara, and Sigstore, offering direct collaboration with maintainers and security experts.
Between evolving regulatory mandates like the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the rise of AI-driven vulnerabilities, securing open source code has become a baseline requirement for engineering teams, not an afterthought.
The official Schedule for OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2026 is now live. Co-located with Open Source Summit Europe in Prague on October 6, 2026, this single-day event brings together open source maintainers, security researchers, enterprise contributors, and policy experts for a full day of technical exchange. Whether you’re looking to harden your CI/CD pipelines, get ahead of upcoming compliance frameworks, or simply talk shop with the maintainers behind the tools you rely on, this year’s schedule has a lot to offer.
