Open Hardware Summit 2026

Open Hardware Summit 2026 takes place on May 23-24, 2026 in Berlin, Germany, at the TU Berlin main campus. The event is organized by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), with NODE Forum for Digital Arts / NODE e.V. as local partner.

The official summit site lists the venue as TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin. The ticket page currently includes in-person and virtual options; confirm final pricing, availability, and participation details on pretix before making travel plans.

The published schedule lists talks for Saturday, May 23 and workshops and breakouts for Sunday, May 24. Exhibits, the art gallery, performances, and social events are still being updated on the OHS 2026 site.

For FPGA readers, this is not only a conference about attractive boards. Useful angles include open hardware documentation, reproducible builds, tooling, licensing and IP law, education projects, makerspaces, and the place where HDL finally has to shake hands with PCB layout.

A practical prep list: bring a short project brief, repo link, a few measurements, bring-up photos, IP licensing questions, and a list of places where timing closure started acting like philosophy. If your demo only wakes up after the third reset pulse, this audience will understand.

If cost is a barrier, the ticket page asks attendees to email summit@oshwa.org. That is useful for students, independent developers, and small open-source teams.

Sources: https://oshwa.org/events/open-hardware-summit-2026/, https://2026.oshwa.org/, https://2026.oshwa.org/schedule/, https://ticket.nodeforum.org/OHS26/. Checked by FPGA.camp on 2026-05-13.