Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting Europe 2026

Every open-source project eventually outgrows the infrastructure that got it there. For AGL, that's Gerrit+Jenkins — still functional, but carrying real friction: aging plugins, a steep on-ramp for new contributors. This talk envisions AGL's next CI/CD setup, framed as a reusable template other projects can adapt rather than a one-off fix.
We'll walk through the evaluation behind that vision: modernized Gerrit+Jenkins, GitHub, self-hosted GitLab CE, and GitLab.com with self-hosted runners, Forgejo. We discuss maintenance burden, reliability, security, and native integration with Yocto/BitBake.
The envisioned target: GitLab.com with self-hosted runners, pairing a modern hosted review/CI experience with build execution kept on AGL-controlled infrastructure.

We'll cover what getting there requires with sequencing a cutover with no dead period. It provides in the end a decision framework any project facing this can reuse.

In this session, as the newly appointed Executive Director of OpenChain, I will outline the strategic direction for OpenChain in 2027 and beyond. Building on the solid foundation of our existing ISO standards, including ISO 5230:2020 and ISO 18974, I will share the next steps OpenChain will take to expand its global reach. We will focus on fostering international collaboration, adapting to emerging regulatory landscapes, and driving innovation in open-source compliance practices worldwide.

AGL(Automotive Grade Linux) supports many integration types such as standalone IVI, standalone Instrument Cluster, hypervisor-based integration, Linux container-based integration and etc. This diversity is a strong point of AGL. It realizes the importance of incubation for new technology.
The AGL container integration was upstreamed in 2023. It incubated many key technologies for Linux-based systems. On the other hand, the past presentation focuses on the technology element.
In this session, we are talking about how to build, customize and run AGL container integration in your own environment. This session includes 1) how to build an image for a reference board, 2) how to customize AGL to use case and/or your board, 3) how to use the image in the reference board.

This presentation will provide a status update on the work to create a Xen-based SoDev demonstration in the upstream AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) for the Vibrant Vimba release. The Yocto Project (YP) BitBake multiconfig scheme used to build and assemble the domain images will be outlined, with examples on how it can be extended for more elaborate downstream demonstrations, and potential follow on work will be discussed.

As automotive software moves toward SDV, decoupling hardware and software and using independently evolving upstream open source projects become increasingly important. While traditional BSP-centered integration remains essential for product development and long-term maintenance, it is not sufficient for continuously combining and validating upstream projects such as Linux, Xen, Zephyr, and Yocto. Drawing on our OSS integration work on R-Car SparrowHawk, this talk introduces “Upstream Integration” as a complementary model to BSP integration and explains how AGL can serve as a shared integration platform for validating upstream technologies, building reusable reference implementations, and contributing improvements back to their communities. SparrowHawk is primarily an automotive reference, with reuse potential in IoT and industrial domains.

Projects like ELISA and Zephyr have helped move functional safety to the forefront of the open source ecosystem. As a mature project with more than two decades of history, the Xen Project faces a different challenge: how do you evolve an existing codebase, development process, and contributor community to support safety-critical use cases?

This session shares lessons from the Xen Project’s ongoing safety journey, from improving development processes and documentation to producing reusable safety artifacts and collaborating across organizations. Along the way, we’ll discuss the practical challenges, engineering tradeoffs, and community decisions that come with evolving an established open source project.

Whether your project is just beginning its safety journey or is already supporting safety-critical systems, you’ll leave with practical ideas that can help any mature open source community prepare for what’s next.

Until now, strategies for rendering functionally safe telltales in digital instrument clusters have typically relied on a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) to validate correct display after the fact. This approach constrains telltale functionality because of the inherent simplicity and limited capabilities of RTOS-based implementations. As a result, telltales in today’s high-tech, widescreen digital instrument clusters often do little more than replicate functionality first introduced in vehicles nearly 100 years ago. This talk presents a safe-rendering approach—rather than a validation-only model—that uses a high-level operating system, Linux, to bring safe telltale functionality into the 21st century.

Dense point-cloud maps are heavy to store, share, and maintain. My research localizes a vehicle against compact 3D building models instead, using panoramic images and semantic cues to match what the camera sees to a lightweight city model.

In this session I explain the approach without heavy math. I cover how I build the lightweight 3D model, how semantic segmentation links image to map, and how the vehicle tracks its pose against simple building geometry. I show where this beats dense maps on size and upkeep, and where it still struggles.

You leave understanding a lighter path to localization, and the trade-offs against point-cloud methods you may already use. I presented the underlying research as a poster at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, titled Semantic Equirectangular Visual Tracking in Lightweight 3D Building Reconstructions, and this talk adapts it for an automotive open-source audience. All results are my own.