Join Us at the Zephyr Project Meetup in Amsterdam

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On September 15, the Zephyr community is coming together for an in-person meetup at the JetBrains office in Amsterdam.

The Zephyr Project is an open-source collaboration project hosted by the Linux Foundation. Its community brings together developers, users, silicon vendors, device manufacturers, and software companies to build a small, scalable real-time operating system for resource-constrained and connected devices.

This community-led meetup is an opportunity to learn directly from people working with Zephyr, exchange practical experience, and help shape the future of the ecosystem. The program will feature presentations on products powered by Zephyr and its subsystems, developer tooling, and lesser-known capabilities. Whether you’re an experienced contributor, an embedded developer exploring Zephyr, or simply interested in open-source and connected devices, you’re welcome to join.

Attendees will also have a chance to win an nRF54L15 Tag from Nordic Semiconductor.

What’s on the agenda?

The evening will feature talks on developer tooling, firmware testing, AI-assisted development, migration experiences, and embedded education:

• 5:00 pm – Welcome drinks and snacks
• 5:30 pm – Welcome and opening remarks from the JetBrains team
• 5:40 pm – How JetBrains Got Started With Zephyr
  Artemy Pestretsov, Head of C/C++ Ecosystem at JetBrains, will share how the collaboration began and what brought JetBrains and Zephyr together.
• 6:15 pm – Fuzzing Zephyr With AFL and Renode
  Eric Goodman, Manager R&D Software at Vicentra, will demonstrate how AFL and the Renode simulator can be used to fuzz Zephyr firmware without physical hardware and uncover difficult-to-detect failures.
• 6:30 pm – Break
• 7:00 pm – Making Hardware Less Hard With Schematik
  Mattia Fiumara, Founding Engineer at Schematik, will show how AI can simplify Zephyr project setup – from configuring the environment to compiling, flashing, and running an application on a board.
• 7:35 pm – What Our Zephyr Migration Proved, and What It Exposed About Embedded Education
  This session will explore the migration of a medical simulation platform from bare-metal and FreeRTOS code to a shared Zephyr codebase targeting Renesas, STM32, and Nordic hardware. It will also examine what Zephyr and AI-assisted development mean for embedded engineering education and graduate onboarding.

• 8:00 pm – Quiz, development board giveaways, and closing remarks
• 8:20 pm onward – Networking

Event details

• Date: September 15, 2026
• Time: 5:00–9:30 pm
• Location: JetBrains Amsterdam, Gelrestraat 16, 1079 MZ Amsterdam
• Language: English, with presentations in English and Dutch

Participation is free, but registration is required, and seats are limited.

Register for the Meetup

We look forward to welcoming the Zephyr community to JetBrains Amsterdam!