Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting Europe 2026

Walt will provide an update of recent AGL Expert Group and UCB activities and provide an update of the roadmap.

As software-defined vehicles expand the scope of automotive software, open source collaboration is rapidly extending beyond its traditional boundaries. This creates new opportunities, but also makes it harder for any single project or company to address the full set of challenges alone.

This session looks at the recent movement emerging around the AGL Japan community. Rather than treating AGL as a standalone project, the community is creating bottom-up synergy among engineers, companies, universities, and adjacent open source initiatives. By connecting people and knowledge across organizational and technical boundaries, it is becoming an important force for tackling larger SDV challenges that cannot be solved in isolation.

The talk examines why this movement is happening, how trusted relationships and local communities are turning into broader collaboration, and how such interaction can amplify technical incubation. It also explores what this experience may suggest for building a more harmonized global automotive open source ecosystem.

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.

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.