The coming year will see LF Energy’s biggest investment to date in helping bring our community together and grow through live events. Gathering at dedicated times both in-person and virtually increases collaboration, innovation, and understanding, which will accelerate our efforts to develop the open source technologies necessary to the energy transition. We encourage everyone in the LF Energy community, as well as those who are not yet involved but want to learn more, to consider supporting and attending the events below.
The Premier Event for Our Community – LF Energy Summit
June 1-2, 2023
Paris, France
If there is one event the community should attend this year, it is LF Energy Summit. This event will gather stakeholders from the energy and technology industries with policymakers and academics from around the world to advance the open source technologies needed to develop a modern technology stack for the power sector to achieve decarbonization goals. Attendees will include developers along with decision makers within utilities, power transmission and distribution companies, carbon tracking companies, RE credits and markets companies, and those providing technology solutions to the industry.
The event will be hosted at the headquarters of Strategic Member RTE in the La Defense area of Paris. This two-day summit can be attended in-person or virtually, and will feature keynote speakers from industry, government, and academia, along with technical presentations on current LF Energy technologies and other topics of interest to the community.
Sponsorship packages are now available, and both registration and the call for proposals will open soon. Learn more at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lfenergysummit/.
The New Event for Open Source and Sustainability – SustainabilityCon
North America – May 10-12, 2023
Vancouver, Canada
Europe – September 19-21, 2023
Bilbao, Spain
SustainabilityCon is a new conference that is part of Open Source Summit in both Europe and North America, designed to help attendees discover the power of open innovation for a more sustainable future. Join the community of developers, technologists, sustainability leaders and anyone working on technological solutions to decarbonize the global economy, mitigate and address the impacts of climate change, and build a more sustainable future. SustainabilityCon provides a forum to drive open source innovation in energy efficiency and interoperability and clean development practices within industries ranging from manufacturing to agriculture and beyond through collaboration and learning within the community.
Speaking proposals are now being accepted for the Vancouver event, and will open for Europe later in 2023. Potential sponsors should review the sponsorship prospectus (NA / EU). Learn more about these events and how to attend at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/ and https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/.
The Place for Open Source Developers – FOSDEM
February 4-5, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
FOSDEM is a completely free event targeted at the open source development community. It takes place at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and gathers open source developers and community members from around the world to share best practices, collaborate, and learn. For 2023, a group of LF Energy members from Alliander, PIONIX, and Seita worked to develop a proposal for an Energy Devroom which was accepted. The schedule for that devroom and many others is now available.
The Energy Devroom will showcase existing efforts in the area of energy industry open innovation to encourage discussion and collaboration. Sessions range from open source best practices to challenges faced by energy stakeholders working towards digital transformation, details about specific open source projects related to this sector, clean software development practices, and more.
No registration is required to attend FOSDEM, attendees may simply show up at the event in February. More information is available at https://www.fosdem.org.
Additional Events
LF Energy is considering supporting and attending additional events in 2023. If you have an event to suggest, please complete our marketing request form (select Event Support) and our team will review the suggestion.
We look forward to seeing you and accelerating our work together in the coming year!
