2026 Opencast Summit: The “programme”

by Rüdiger Rolf, posted in Conferences, Opencast Summit 2026

This is the preliminary programme for the Opencast Summit 2026 in Manchester. The main goal is to offer participants space and time to communicate and cooperate. This is why the event is in conference style, where sessions have to be seen as an suggestion: During the conference participants are welcome to ask for additional sessions, and sessions with a low demand may be skipped.

Tuesday, February 24th
(Pre-conference)

This pre-conference event is for Opencast committers and developers in particular:

For everyone who arrives earlier:

Wednesday, February 25th

  • 8:30am: Registration
  • 9:00am Welcome to the conference
    • Welcome from our hosts: Alex Goffe, Deputy CIO at the University of Manchester
    • Welcome from the board
    • House-keeping
  • 9:30am Stand-up from institutions present (2-3 min per team)
    • Current status of Opencast (infrastructure, number of videos/recordings, LMS and/or Tobira etc.)
    • Recent highlights for your team?
    • Goals for 2026
    • What are your expectations for the summit?
    • Feel free to present a few slides (not mandatory)
  • 10:30am: Coffee break
  • 11:05am: Opencast in numbers
  • 11:20am: Opencast releases
  • 12:00am: Short presentations (5-15 min) :
    • Re-license and re-structure Opencast (Lars)
    • Paella Player 8 (Carlos)
    • AI to come: Do we need a session? Olaf
    • Tobira update (Lukas)
  • 12:30pm: Lunch break
  • 1:30pm: Short presentations – continued
    • Tobira in Innsbruck (Ed)
    • Tobira: CampusTube (Lukas)
    • A French vision for Opencast Tobira (Olaf)
    • AI-Powered Learning Tools For Tobira (Renato)
    • Sponsor presentations: Epiphan and Extron
    • Opencast CLI tool (Matthias)
    • Welcome to the chapter editor and interactive videos – and a cluttered editor?
  • 3:00pm: Coffee break
  • 3:30pm
    • Room 1: Tobira users and developers meeting
    • Room 2: Follow-up to the pre-conference architecture and development meeting
  • 5:00pm: End of conference day
  • 5:30pm: Walking tour, starting at Central Library (90 minutes approx.)
  • 7:15pm: Dinner at Mackie Mayor (self funded, food hall with many, many options)

Thursday, 26th 2026

  • 9:00am: Unconference planning
  • 9:30am:
    • Room 1 (Penthouse): Statistics at your discretion: Basic statistics in Opencast, Matomo Statistics Provider, and Looker Studio (45 minutes)
    • Room 2 (Downstairs): Argh! Spring Security no more?
  • 10:30am: Coffee break
  • 11:00am: Group photo
  • 11:15am:
    • Room 1:
      • LTI 1.3: What is the current status?
      • JWT
    • Room 2: Paella 8 Mobile and UX
  • 12:30pm: Lunch break
  • 1:30pm:
    • Wrap-up from the dev meeting(s)
    • Room 1: Roadmap meeting
      • Chapter Editor: Finished!
      • Interactive videos in Opencast and your LMS (Manuel, Arne)
      • How the chapter editor and interactive videos ruined the editor UI (Lars, Olaf): New project, needs funding
      • YouTube Videos: Update from Kiko and Ypatios
      • Tobira Playlists
      • Search in Admin: No project yet, we need feedback based on tests, cf. issues/PR and express your opinion.
      • Feedback from the admin sessions
        • UOS: HW acceleration
  • 3:00pm: Coffee break
  • 3:30pm:
  • Overtime
  • 5:00pm: End of conference day
  • 6:30pm: Conference Dinner at Kro Bar (alcoholic beverages at your own expense; details)

Friday, 27th 2026

  • 9:00am
    • Room 1: Lecture Hall Hardware
      (with Lars, Rüdiger, and Olaf likely to be absent, please organise yourselves)
    • Room 2 (G.018):
  • 9:45am
    • Room 1: AI features for end-users
    • Room 2 (G.018): Do we still need Workflows?
  • 10:30am: Coffee break
  • 11:00am:
    • Opencast Data Model
  • 11:45am:
    • Room 1: Portals that are not Tobira
    • Room 2 (G.018): Translation, Trash bin
  • 12:30pm: Lunch break
  • 1:00pm: Lecture capture tour: Lecture theatre g003 on the ground floor of this building
  • 1:30pm: Meet the Opencast board: Update regarding Linux Foundation Europe
  • 2:00pm: Wrap-up of the conference
  • 2:30pm: Probably some german-speaking people will use the opportunity for a discussion
  • 7pm: Left-overs will probably have diner (tbd)