How Community Collaboration is Fixing the Future of Tech Regulation - DevConf.CZ 2026

Speaker(s): Roman Zhukov By 2026, the regulatory landscape for tech industry has fundamentally shifted, with unprecedented implications to open source. From the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) to ""Digital Sovereignty"" - these terms rightfully sound like the antithesis of the open values. But the story of the last 2-3 years isn't one of defeat. It’s a story of how the open source community ""debugged"" the law. In this talk we reveal how engineers entered the negotiation rooms to fix critical bugs in the legislation and standards. We will look at the technical reality behind the CRA Open Source victory, translating ""Secure by Design"" for open source directly into European Standards. We will also reframe Digital Sovereignty into the real engineering values of innovating resilience, quality and security that comes from transparency and freedom that only open source can offer. Join us to see how we turn regulation from a blocker into a feature, ensuring the ""Open Source Way"" remains the standard for innovation. --- Full schedule, including slides and other resources: https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-...