09-09, 17:50–18:00 (Europe/Berlin), Main Room
Closing notes
Piotr Król is a multi-disciplinary executive running 3mdeb. Piotr helps companies worldwide realize their products’ potential by supporting upgradeability and enabling advanced hardware features through Dasharo open-source firmware distribution and the surrounding ecosystem.
His career started in Intel’s Data Center Division. He went from building storage controller validation frameworks to implementing hardware initialization code for modern server platforms as BIOS Software Engineer realizing that the firmware ecosystem has to change and become more open.
After seven years at Intel, Piotr started his own consulting company. Piotr specializes in Embedded Firmware (coreboot, UEFI/EDK2/BIOS, training, and security), Embedded Linux (Yocto, Buildroot, OpenWrt), and Trusted Execution Environments. His teams contributed to NGI projects related to the open-source implementation of Trusted Computing D-RTM (aka TrenchBoot), a firmware update for QubesOS and BSD systems, and to work on bringing more open-source firmware and hardware-related projects in the future.
He is an active leader in the firmware and security community, speaking at events like the Platform Security Summit, Qubes OS summit, Linux Plumbers Conference, Open Source Firmware Conference, and FOSDEM. He educates new generations of firmware engineers by creating and improving OpenSecurityTraining2 and OpenEnterpriseTraining learning paths. Piotr is open-source software and open-source hardware evangelist, active in the open-source firmware (e.g., coreboot) and Linux communities.