FOSSASIA Opening Day

Join us for the Opening Ceremony of FOSSASIA Summit 2026 featuring hacker and inventor Mitch Altman on hardware freedom in an AI-dominated world, Roger Dingledine, co-founder of Tor, on why privacy infrastructure still matters in the age of AI, and Peter Membrey, author and Chief Research Officer at ExpressVPN on protecting children online and the role open source can play, with opening remarks from FOSSASIA founders Hong Phuc Dang and Mario Behling. View the schedule and register at summit.fossasia.org

FOSSASIA Summit host 200+ international speakers and sessions across AI, security, cloud, DevOps, data, web/mobile, and hardware, with representatives from companies such as AWS, TikTok, Huawei, ExpressVPN, Google, Fujitsu, Grafana etc., as well as major open source projects including PostgreSQL, Debian, VLC, Tor, Wikimedia and more.

Opening Agenda:

• Opening remarks from the FOSSASIA founders, reflecting on the community’s journey and impact (Hong Phuc Dang and Mario Behling)
• Why privacy infrastructure still matters in the age of AI, and what this means for societies, developers, and institutions (Roger Dingledine, Cofounder at The Tor Project)
• Hardware freedom in an AI-dominated world — how we can use AI as a tool without losing agency or control (Mitch Altman, Hacker and Inventor of TV-B-Gone, Cornfield Electronics)
• Protecting Children Online: What Role Can Open Source Play (Peter Membrey, Chief Research Officer at ExpressVPN)
• openEuler-based open source stacks and how open infrastructure is powering the next wave of AI innovation (Xiong Wei, Executive Director, openEuler)

👉 Tickets & registration: summit.fossasia.org