About the Summit

The OpenZFS User and Developer Summit is an opportunity for individual and corporate users and developers of OpenZFS to meet face-to-face and discuss and share our work and ideas. The 2026 event is spread across four days, and includes two days of user topics from experts using OpenZFS in production, one day of developer presentations and discussion, and the final day devoted to our traditional Hackathon.

Summit Days

Tuesday, October 27 2026: User Summit day 1
Wednesday, October 28 2026: User Summit day 2
Thursday, October 29 2026: Developer Summit
Friday, October 30 2026: Hackathon

Summit Presenters

Jorge Campello De Souza: Why (and how) you should care about Host Managed SMR drives
Rob Norris: The scenic route to Userspace ZFS
Richard Yao: OpenZFS Everywhere
Steven Umbehocker: Layered Durability at Scale: Ceph over ZFS
Don Brady: Special block cache Don Brady: Native SMR Support in OpenZFS
Alek Pinchuk: AI-assisted development of OpenZFS

Sponsors

This event is only possible because of the generous efforts and contributions of our community of developers and companies. You can help make this event a success with a financial donation, a travel grant, in-kind donations such as food and beverages, and ZFS-related hardware loans.

Please email Michael Dexter <editor@callfortesting.org> for details.

OpenZFS is a member project of Software in the Public Interest, a 501(c)(3) public-benefit non-profit organization, making your sponsorship tax-deductible. Individual and one-time sponsors are invited to donate via PayPal.

Diamond Sponsor

Perforce Delphix

Gold Sponsor

AWS

Silver Sponsor

TrueNAS

Bronze Sponsors

Bacula DigitalGlue Klara OSNexus Prominic VDURA

Venue

The 2026 OpenZFS User and Developer Summit will take place at 5500 SW Dosch Road, Portland, Oregon, in the Hillsdale neighborhood. The venue has ample parking and is served by the 54 TriMet bus route. Social events will take place at and near the venue. Portland International Airport (PDX) serves over 75 destinations and Portland is served by Amtrak and various busses.

The MAX light rail Red line provides easy transportation from the airport to downtown, and we suggest any downtown hotel that fits your budget and to take the bus or Lyft/Uber to the venue.

Economy hotel with good public transit: University Place Hotel & Conference Center, 310 SW Lincoln St
TriMet: 20 Minutes to the Venue, 8 Minutes by car

Midrange hotel with good public transit: Hilton Portland Downtown, 921 SW 6th Ave
TriMet: 22 - 32 Minutes to the Venue, 11 Minutes by car

Midrange hotel with good public transit: The Porter Portland, Curio Collection by Hilton, 1355 SW 2nd Ave
TriMet: 25 - 30 Minutes to the Venue, 9 Minutes by car

Midrange hotel with good public transit: Hyatt House Portland/Downtown, 2080 S River Dr
TriMet: 20 - 30 Minutes to the Venue, 10 Minutes by car

Code of Conduct

The OpenZFS community values respectful, welcoming behavior towards everyone. This enables our members to thrive and contribute, and encourages new participants to join our event. The OpenZFS Code of Conduct applies to attendees, speakers, sponsors, vendors, and staff of this event, and will be enforced by staff members throughout the event.

OpenZFS supports the Diversity Charter, and strives to improve the diversity of speakers and attendees at this event.

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