Venue

ORConf 2026 will be held in Ghent, Belgium at the Zebrastraat event center.

This year's ORConf will be co-located with FPL!

FPL, the 36th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, will take place in the same place from Monday, Sept 7 to Friday, Sept 11. If you're at FPL, stay for ORConf! And if you're not yet planning for FPL, maybe add it to your schedule?

Register

ORConf is free to attend. If you are able to, please help running the event by considering a "Pay what you want" ticket with an donation. People who are attending ORConf on behalf of their company are encouraged to donate in the form of a professional ticket.

Travel

Ghent is a beautiful city in Belgium, and is easily accessible by train, car, and plane. We recommend arriving on Thursday, Sept 10 to be ready for the morning sessions on Friday, and leaving on Sunday evening or Monday morning to make the most of your time at ORConf and in Ghent.

Submit a talk

Submissions are open! Presentation proposals are submitted through the Eventbrite registration interface.

ORConf the right venue for talks about anything related to free and open source silicon: EDA tools, IP blocks, logic design and verification, hardware description languages (HDLs), FPGA and ASIC topics, etc. The only requirement: the work must be open source or very strongly related to free and open source silicon.

Talk submissions close on August 16, 2026.

Please make your submissions as early as you can, as the presentation slots are likely to fill up quickly.

We aim to give as many people as possible the opportunity to present their exciting work on free and open source silicon. To accomodate for that we will determine the duration of a full talk once all submissions are in. Historically, full talks ran for 10 minutes (plus time for questions). Lightning talks will be 3 minutes. The exact amount of time you'll get will be communicated closer to the conference.

Code of conduct

We ask all ORConf participants to adhere to the the FOSSi Foundation code of conduct throughout the event.

Let's talk!

Join the #orconf2026:fossi-foundation.org Matrix room! Chat with other participants at the conference, share additional information about the talks, about traveling to and from Ghent, and what else comes to your mind!