Warm Greetings and Messages
„On behalf of May-Britt and Edvard Moser I want to thank you for this kind invitation, it is a pleasure being asked. However, due to several travels and commitments, May-Britt and Edvard is unfortunately not able to accept the invitation. We are sorry for this, but hope you understand. Thanks again and the best of luck with the event. Best.“
— May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser, laureates of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
„Professor Genzel thanks you again for your kind message and the renewed invitation. Unfortunately, as you have already anticipated, the dates of the conference overlap again with the Lindau conference, so he regrets that he won’t be able to join you. Thank you again for your kind invitation. We wish you a successful conference. Best wishes.“
— Reinhard Genzel, laureate of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Invited Speakers
— Professor Ivan Cimrák: PyOIF with applications in biomedicine and examples of international collaboration (provisional title). Further details will be published in August 2026.
Participants (updated regularly: 20. 7. 2026)
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Confirmed participants (Guest team): ★♥Zuzana Tkáčová (UPJŠ and ŠUP Košice), 🐍Miroslav Biňas (TUKE, Košice), 🍀Pavel Stříž (Austerlitz, Butschowitz), 🌐Miloslav Ofúkaný (Geokomunita, Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava), 📊Ondřej Ledvinka (ČHMÚ, Prague).
Local participants (Home team): ★Aleš Kozubík, 🍀Rudolf Blaško, 🚀Miroslav Kvaššay, ♥Nika Kvaššayová, 🌐Peter Márton, 🐍Michal Kaukič, 🐍Štefan Peško, ♥Zuzana Borčinová, Tomáš Majer, 🧩Štefan Toth, Peter Sedláček, Marek Ďurana, Ivan Cimrák.
News | Activities | History Log
20. 07. 2026: N. Kvaššayová, O. Ledvinka and Š. Toth added to the team. Welcome!
06. 07. 2026: The 2027 conference has been announced.
Photos by Jakub Ďurajka. Collage by Nika Kvaššayová.
The 2026 edition is successfully behind us! Thank you! In Slovak, more at:
— https://zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/6Df0IJx/otvoreny-softver-a-umela-inteligencia-menia-svet/
— https://brandit.touchit.sk/2026/07/01/otvoreny-softver-a-umela-inteligencia-menia-svet/
— Martina Litschmannová: The first video from the workshop on the R language – installation and an overview of the syntax, https://youtu.be/KK6zb1nbrbc and an article.
— Martina Litschmannová: The second video from the workshop on the R language – data preparation, analysis and visualisation using charts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvDnVynwPI.
— Ľuboslav Lacko: Training a neural network on book texts, https://youtu.be/tcLdmMJW1OM.
— Richard Fabo: Ako bolo na OSSConf 2026?
— (Temporary) photos by Zdeněk Wagner.
— Photos by Nika Kvaššayová
About OSSConf2026, Programme:source, Programme:parallel, Programme:linear, Invited Speakers, Workshops, Abstracts, For Authors, Conference Proceedings, Committees, Contact Details.
Invited speakers from the 2025 edition. URL
Invited speakers from the 2024 edition. PDF: pages 9–14
Invited speakers from the 2018 edition. PDF: pages 93–97