Dear Eclipse SDV community,
Our first Eclipse SDV Community Meetup in North America is just around the corner, and the agenda is now published!
When: Thursday, 5 November 2026, 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM PST, followed by evening networking
Where: Robert Bosch LLC, 384 Santa Trinita Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (hosted by Bosch & ETAS)
Format: Hybrid, join us on site or online
Registration: free, via Luma:
https://luma.com/SDVmeetupNA26Here is what we have lined up (all times PST):
9:30 – Arrival, registration and networking
10:00 – Opening remarks, Eric Cesa (ETAS)
10:30 – Eclipse SDV: Open Source, Open Collaboration and Beyond, Sara Gallian (Eclipse Foundation)
11:00 – Eclipse S-CORE: towards version 1.0, Bernd Graef (Bosch)
11:30 – Eclipse OpenSOVD: hackathon outcomes, TBD
12:00 – Lunch
1:00 – Rust, Agents and You(r Vehicle), Pete LeVasseur (Eclipse SDV TAC Chair)
1:30 – Eclipse SDV LVL, Maite Bezerra and Martin Schleicher
2:00 – Panel: Building an international standard in open source, moderated by Sara Gallian (EF)
2:30 – Coffee break
3:00 – Commercial vehicle standardization, Carlton Bale (Cummins) and Bernd Graef (ETAS)
3:30 – Traton One OS and its relation to Eclipse projects, Janakiram Sistla (Traton)
4:00 – A Startup Perspective: Open Source Does Not Pay the Bills – But What Does?, Max Pabinger (useblocks)
4:30 – Networking
5:00 onward – Evening networking at Laughing Monk Brewery, 1235 Oakmead Parkway, Sunnyvale
The meetup is open to developers, architects, engineers and project managers from OEMs, Tier 1s, software companies and academia across the North American automotive ecosystem. Members come first, but everyone is welcome, so please feel free to forward this to colleagues who might be interested.
If you haven't registered yet, please do so on Luma as soon as possible so we can plan catering and the evening venue accordingly.
A big thank you to Bosch and ETAS for hosting us. We look forward to seeing many of you in Sunnyvale next week!
Best regards,
Sara
