A Year in Review: Knowledge Shared at International Conferences in 2024

2024 was particularly rewarding for Savoir-faire Linux. We had the opportunity to take part in key events accross the Energy and Embedded sectors. We have built new partnerships and strenghtened our position in Open Source communities. We also had the pleasure to sponsor two events this year, the LF Energy Summit and Montréal Python.

In this article, we share highlights from our presentations and the different projects we’ve contributed to.

LF Energy SEAPATH

As the main contributor to the LF Energy SEAPATH project, we are keen to share our work during our international conferences :

• February, at FOSDEM in Brussels, Paul Le Guen de Kerneizon gave a general presentation about the SEAPATH project, the work carried out around the implementation of IEC61850 latency test for source station protection algorithms.

• April in Seattle, North America, took place EOSS (Embedded Open Source Summit). At this Linux Foundation event, Christophe Villemer gave an interview to TFIR, discussing LF Energy’s SEAPATH project and its role in shaping the future of energy management.

You can find all videos of this interview of Christophe Villemer and Swapnil Bhartiya here/on their website !

• We were proud to take part of the second edition of the LF Energy Summit in Brussels, September 2024, as Silver Sponsor. During this event dedicated to accelerate energy transition, Christophe Villemer delivered a keynote on« Building an Open Source Business » using the LF Energy SEAPATH project as a case study.

• At the same event, Erwann Roussy and Camilo De Arriba, Senior Substation Automation Manager at General Electric Vernova, showcased their work demonstrating SEAPATH’s performance during a real-world electrical grid fault scenario. Then, they delved deeper into the details of their presentation « Deploying a Virtual IED on LF Energy SEAPATH, Advices and Experience Feedback »

• Still at the LF Energy Summit, Eloi Bail, TSC Chair of the project SEAPATH presented « SEAPATH « Certified » : Hardware for virtualized Infrastructure for Energy Domain Solutions »

• Finally, this event was an opportunity to bring together the SEAPATH community at a meetup hosted by Eloi Bail.

Embedded Linux

We regularly take part in events focused on our core business, Embedded Linux.

Yocto Project

• During the EOSS in Seattle, our Web Practice Leader Mohammed Raza gave two lectures about the Yocto project. The first one was about « the Yocto project development with VSCODE : boosting your productivity » providing tangible benefits by showcasing how a VS Code extension can be used to provide a modern coding experience for Yocto Project developers.

• His second lecture was about « the Yocto project development with TOASTER : simplifying the learning curve » highlighting the challenges developers face in configuring and managing builds without a user-friendly interface like Toaster.

• In december, Enguerrand de Ribaucourt presented Yocto VSCode and Typescript implementation at the Yocto Project Summit.

•  In April, we attended Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany where we showcased our expertise and partnerships. We also provided support at the Yocto Project booth, reinforcing our commitment to the embedded systems community.

Savoir-faire Linux team also present at the Yocto booth

• Jérôme Oufella and Eloi Bail discussed the growing importance of cybersecurity compliance in embedded systems development, especially with the emergence of stricter regulations. They emphasized the need to integrate these requirements throughout the development process to ensure software compliance. The talk also highlighted Savoir-faire Linux’s long-standing partnership with Toradex and the key role of Torizon—an open-source industrial Linux distribution—in meeting rigorous standards like IEC 62443.

• Savoir-faire Linux proudly served as a main sponsor of Montréal Python, a monthly conference series covering diverse Python-related topics. In November, Serosh Deljam presented « Computer Vision with Python for Embedded Systems », showcasing our expertise in this domain.

Conclusion

The year 2024 was rich in events and meetings. Through our presentations, we had the chance to share our knowledge and expertise. We sincerely thank our partners for their continued trust and the community for its strong support. We look forward to innovating together in the years ahead.