We are pleased to announce registration is open for BSDCan 2026 and the slate of papers and tutorials are as follows.
BSDCan 2026 Talks:
* Evolving a FreeBSD-Based Chaos Engineering Platform for Teaching – Andreas Kirchner
* Running Stock FreeBSD on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 – Balaje Sankar
* Model Checking in BSD Userland and Kernel – Justin Handville
* Through MAC and Back – Kyle Evans
* Lightning Talks – Graham Percival
* A Two-Step FreeBSD Installer: Current Status and Future Plans – Alfonso Sabato Siciliano
* How FreeBSD 15 Landed – Colin Percival
* Universal Flash Storage on FreeBSD – Jaeyoon Choi
* Supporting hibernate (S4) on FreeBSD – Olivier Certner
* FreeBSD Implementation of the SMT transport protocol – Eugenio Luo
* geomman: Bringing GParted-like Partition Management to FreeBSD – Braulio Rivas Abad
* Getting Extended Error Messages from the FreeBSD Kernel – Marshall Kirk McKusick
* What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you? – Peter Hansteen
* OpenNTPD – 20 years and a few milliseconds later – Henning Brauer
* Return of the Segment: Thread Local Storage – John Baldwin
* Heterogeneous Scheduling on FreeBSD – Minsoo Choo
* NetManager – Building products with NetBSD round 2 – Stephen Borrill
* Bringing memory safety to BSD with CHERI – Brooks Davis
* Don’t Freeze in the Cloud: Reclaiming Home Control with NetBSD – Stefano Marinelli
* What happens when you write to /dev/null – Martin Vahlensieck
* Low friction temporary VMs on FreeBSD – Martin Vahlensieck
* ZFS AnyRAID: Flexible Disk Layout – Allan Jude
* BSD Iterative Infrastructure with ZFS and Zelta: From Battle-Tested Backups to Zero-Cost Iteration – Daniel Bell
* BSD as a Foundational Platform for Nationwide Semiconductor Education in Japan – Hiroki Sato
* pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview – Lukas Engelhardt
* Migrating from VMWare to FreeBSD bhyve – Sarder Kamal
* Geographically fault-tolerant SSH on OpenBSD – Rob Keizer
* Community Event Organizing – Michael Dexter
* OpenBSD and Temporary Blindness – Sean Howard
* Using Coverity Scan for static code analysis in NetBSD – Emmanuel Nyarko
* How Hard Could It Be? Modernizing XigmaNAS for OpenZFS 2.4.0 – Ken Wong
* “Escaping Plato’s Cave with Software Freedom: A Classical Greek Symposium with Fred – Puffy – and Beastie” – Corey Stephan
Tutorials:
* VPP on FreeBSD Tutorial – Building high capacity networks – Massimiliano Stucchi
* Introduction to TUI Programming using bsddialog – Benedict Reuschling
* Shell Scripting Tutorial for Beginners and Sysadmins – Mathias Eggers
* Build Your Own Secure Private Cloud with FreeBSD – Nils Imhoff
* Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset – Peter Hansteen
BoFs
* Audio BoF – Michael Williams
All submitters have been notified and asked to confirm attendance. If your name is on this list and you did not receive a confirmation request, please check your spam filter or notify info@bsdcan.org
We intend to maintain the practice of reimbursing expenses within 30 days of the conference ending. In return, we’re asking that speakers purchase their flights within the next month. Airfare is our biggest expense, and holding down costs helps us throw a better conference.
Registration is now open! The closing reception, including drinks, is now included for everyone who registers before May 1st 2026. Please be sure to click the box during registration if you’re planning to attend so we can get an accurate count. Vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores will be catered to as we continue to improve conference food offerings.
See you in June!