Conference Presence

Embedded systems work is discussed at conferences — embedded-focused events, RTOS gatherings, and open-source conferences. A project that never appears at these events is invisible to exactly the engineers who would use it and improve it. The Conference Presence programme exists to make EmbeddedOS visible where the industry actually talks: a coordinated calendar of talks, booths, and workshops, planned across the year instead of improvised.

Coordination is the key word. A single talk accepted at a single event is luck; a pipeline of proposals, shared slide and demo materials, and volunteers who know how to staff a booth is a programme. The Foundation will treat conference presence as a discipline: planned early, staffed by community members, and judged by what it brings back — new contributors, new users, and new feedback.

The programme will maintain a shared calendar of target events across embedded, RTOS, and open-source conferences, and a shared CFP pipeline that community members can join: proposed talks, outlines, and rehearsals, with experienced speakers helping first-timers prepare. Talk proposals will cover real technical work — the eos kernel, eBoot, eAI, security analysis — not marketing.

For events where the Foundation exhibits, it will organise booths and hands-on workshops: live demos running on real boards, build sessions attendees can follow on their own laptops, and materials they can take home. Community members will be invited to speak and staff events under the programme's banner, while the Foundation handles logistics, branding, and the shared materials.

The booth rule will be simple: no marketing staff, only engineers. Anyone staffing a Foundation booth must be able to answer technical questions and show the code running — because an embedded engineer who stops at a booth with a real question deserves a real answer, and because every booth conversation is also user research about what the platform still gets wrong.

For community members who want to speak: engineers with something built on EmbeddedOS, researchers with results, and students with a good project. The CFP pipeline is designed to lower the barrier — co-speaking, talk reviews, and rehearsal help for people who have never submitted a proposal.

For the wider industry audience: the talks and workshops are for practising embedded engineers who want to see an open RTOS stack running on real hardware, and for open-source contributors deciding where to spend their time.

The Conference Presence programme is planned and has not started. There is no event calendar and no CFP pipeline open today. If you are a speaker, or you want to become one, email contact@embeddedos.org describing your topic and your experience — you will be contacted when the pipeline opens.

If you organise or attend embedded, RTOS, or open-source conferences and think EmbeddedOS belongs on their programme, that same email is the channel. The programme's shape — which events to target, how booths are staffed, how speakers are supported — will be designed with the first participants.

After each event, the programme will publish a short debrief: what was presented, what questions came up, and what the Foundation learned. The debriefs are for the community members who could not attend, and for next year's speakers, who should benefit from everything this year's speakers discovered.