Down Underflow 2027
Saturday February 27 and Sunday February 28, 2027 in Sydney, Australia
The Down Underflow conference is a weekend of presentations and networking dedicated to free and open source silicon. It's an event for the open source silicon community, and is run by the FOSSi Foundation and its volunteers.
Down Underflow 2027
The FOSSi Foundation is proud to announce the inaugural installment of Down Underflow, a conference dedicated to free and open source silicon to be held in the southern hemisphere over the weekend of Saturday February 27th and Sunday February 28th, 2027 in Sydney, Australia.
Down Underflow is a weekend of presentations and networking for the open source silicon community. Browse through previous installments of FOSSi Foundation events, the shape of which Down Underflow will take, here.
Questions? Ping the organizers via email at downunderflow@fossi-foundation.org.
Register
Down Underflow is free to attend.
If you are able to, please considering assisting with the costs of the event via a "Pay what you want" ticket with an donation. If you are attending Down Underflow on behalf of your company, you are encouraged to donate with a professional ticket. Please choose one option in the checkout process -- you do not need a "Free" ticket in addition to a "Pay what you want" ticket.
Submit a talk
Presentations are submitted through the Eventbrite registration interface during registration.
There are still slots available for regular and lightning talks. Please do err on the side of presenting if you're unsure!
Suitable topics are your work on, with or around open source semiconductor IP, tooling, flows. Even if "all" you've done is successfully (or not!) implement an open source IP or tool, come and share, we'd love to hear your story!
Code of conduct
We expect all Down Underflow participants to adhere to the the FOSSi Foundation code of conduct throughout the event.
Let's talk!
Join the #downunderflow2027:fossi-foundation.org Matrix room to chat with other participants at the conference, share additional information about the talks, about traveling to and from Sydney, and what else comes to your mind!
Venue
Down Underflow 2027 will be held at the offices of Morse Micro in Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia. It is at most a 10 minute walk from Sydney's Central Station.
Details for access to the venue on the day will be emailed to attendees after registering for the event via the link above.
Social event
Saturday evening after the talks at the conference venue have finished we will put on drinks and a dinner for the conference attendees. The venue will be walking distance from the conference site.
Supporters
We thank all our sponsors, exhibitors, and all participants who donated by buying a Pay-what-you-want or Professional Ticket.
Down Underflow is free to attend, but we aim to provide catering and the like during the event. Down Underflow is also a great way to get your company or brand in front of lots of engineers and hackers on the day, and thousands more through recordings of the event.
A variety of sponsorship packages are available for this year's Down Underflow. You'll find all of the details in our sponsorship prospectus.
Please get in touch at downunderflow@fossi-foundation.org if you'd like to explore sponsorship opportunities.
A variety of sponsorship packages are available for this year's Down Underflow.
Down Underflow is organized by volunteers on behalf of the FOSSi Foundation. We are currently looking for more people to help out with arrangements and putting on the event, so please do email us if you would like to volunteer for during the event with setup, AV, or even just local knowledge so we can plan the weekend better.
Schedule
Saturday, Feb 27: Conference and social event
Saturday's presentations will begin around 9.30AM, please plan to arrive at around 9AM for coffee and networking prior to the first presentations.
Time: 09:00 to 18:00
Sunday, Feb 28: Unconference/workshop day.
Sunday is typically a day for workshops or unconference BoF (Birds of a Feather) sessions.
Please get in touch at downunderflow@fossi-foundation.org if you'd like to propose a workshop or unconference session for the Sunday
Location: Same venue as the Saturday.
Time: approx 10:00 to 15:00.
Talks
To come.