FOSSY 2026 toolchain track North America

GNU Toolchain and friends meeting in Vancouver, Canada August 6-9 2026 at the University of British Columbia

Talks by developers of core toolchain and developer tools. Compilers like GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, assemblers and linkers like Binutils, debuggers and profilers like GDB, Systemtap and Valgrind, binary tools like libabigail, elfutils and GNU Poke, C libraries, like glibc and newlib and other language runtimes and utilities, including discussions of standards like ELF and DWARF.

FOSSY has several tracks with talks over three days and an unconference the last day. Besides the toolchain track there are ~12 other tracks https://2026.fossy.ca/pages/tracks/

Update June 17 2026 Talks have been selected, no schedule yet, but topics are known:

Some other proposed topics/talks that didn't strictly fit the toolchain track have been moved to other FOSSY26 tracks.

Submit a talk proposal at https://2026.fossy.ca/call-for-proposals/ by first creating a speaker profile.

Talks can be long presentations (40 min), short presentations (20 min) or lightning talks (5 to 10 min). For either beginner, intermediate or advanced audiences, being oriented at developers, community, end users or business.

Talks may be recorded and published after the conference, but the conference itself is in-person only (no online presentations during the conference).

Talk proposals should be submitted before end of day June 1st. Accepted talks will get a confirmation before June 15th 2026.

You can register for FOSSY by creating an account at https://2026.fossy.ca/account/signup

Official FOSSY CfP

Note that the official call for participation has a deadline that is one week earlier than the toolchain track one. Although we will accept talk proposals up to June 1st, please try to submit by May 22 if possible. That will make coordination with other FOSSY tracks easier for the program committee.

Organizers

Organizing committee:

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