FreeBSD Bay Area Vendor Summit, Nov 5-6

You’re invited to join us at the Fall 2026 FreeBSD Vendor Summit
taking place November 5th-6th, 2026, at NetApp’s San Jose campus.
Thank you to our Venue Sponsor, NetApp, and our Gold Sponsor, The
FreeBSD Foundation.

The program will include:

     - Carmi Weinzweig, RFC Holdings, Inc. and Texas A & M and Kevin Engle,
       V3 Entertainment, Inc. on “State of Cloud Native Computing on FreeBSD:
       OCI containers, Kubernetes and LLMs”
     - An Introduction from the recently-elected FreeBSD Core Team
     - Amy Vargas, NetApp, on "NetApp's Journey of Upstreaming to FreeBSD"
     - Mark Johnston from the FreeBSD Project on “Discovering FreeBSD
       vulnerabilities with AI”
     - Slava Shwartsman, NVIDIA on “Supporting DOCA on FreeBSD”
     - A lightning talk session on Friday

Attendees can submit lightning talk proposals to myself or
devsummit@FreeBSD.org.

An on-campus reception will take place following the conclusion of the
meeting sessions on Thursday, November 5th.

The summit is open to the public and there is a registration fee of US
$150.

Attendees must register no later than October 26th at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/november-2026-freebsd-vendor-summit-registration-1996172065383

Additional details on travel and lodging suggestions are available here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar/november-2026-freebsd-vendor-summit/

Looking forward to seeing you next month in San Jose!

-- 
John Baldwin