Dear friends, this year OpenFest will be held on 3th and 4th of November in Sofia Tech Park. Save the date and stay tuned, as more news are coming soon.

The videos from the OpenFest 2017 are ready. You can see the recordings of all talks in the OpenFest YouTube channel. For convenient watching we’ve made the following playlists: All talks Technical track Advanced Technical track Social track OpenBiz track Lightning talks

Keep the bracelets you get at the entrance because you’ll need them to get into the afterparty. See you tonight at 8:00 p.m. at Mixtape 5!

We have tasty food during both OpenFest days. Street Chefs, Nomad Burgers and Mandzha Van will take care of breakfast and lunch, and Kolichka Bar provide great coffee on both building floors. Coffee from Kolichka Bar and water from Pure Water are free of charge.

The start of OpenFest 2017 is getting near! Here are the most important things you need to know: The entrance to the event is free, no registration required. We’ll have an afterparty on 5 November. You’ll get a visitor’s bracelet at the entrance. Keep it because you’ll need it to get access to the afterparty. […]

Two of the most keenly anticipated talks in the OpenFest 2017 schedule are related to Internet of Things and to be exact… cars. Nikolay Marinov, a software developer with over 14 years of experience with Linux servers, C and C++, will tell us how we can use Raspberry Pi in our cars and what extended […]

For the first time this year OpenFest is hosted by Sofia Tech Park. The event will take place in the “John Atanasoff” building. The nearest public transport stop is Sofia Tech Park and the map below outlines the main routes to reach the building.

Petar Kirkov has 15 years of exprience in information security. Lately he has been doing IT audits, optimizing business processes and consulting organizations on how to manage their data better. This field of work has him working directly with GDPR, as well as with other requirements and standards related to legislation. In his OpenFest talk […]

How do we protect the privacy of our data and communications, and why do we need to do that? What is a CryptoParty and why must it die? Marie Gutbub will answer these questions during the OpenFest 2017 keynote. Marie is a journalist and a former volunteer for the Tor Project. Since 2014, Marie has organized […]

Blockchain technology is getting more and more popular in today’s world. We’ve all heard the name of Bitcoin but do we know how it really works, what technology is behind it and why it’s exceptionally protected, even through anyone can see the information it contains? Martin Kuvandzhiev will tell us about that on the second […]

This year’s schedule includes a variety of workshops during both conference days. As usual, you’ll be able to try your hand at surface mount electronics assembly, to participate in a cryptoparty and in a plethora of interesting software and hardware workshops. This year we also have 3D modeling and printing workshops, a participation by Coding […]

The OpenFest 2017 schedule is ready. This year we’ll listen to interesting talks in the parallel Technical, Civic Hacking, Advanced Technical, OpenBiz, Social and Education tracks, as well as 17 workshops.

We invite you to meet this year’s first speakers while we finish the program. Bozhidar Bozhanov is a programmer and sometimes an architect. He also likes applying software engineering to civic issues, therefore he’s a part of the Obshtestvo.bg foundation. He has been an electronic government advisor to Rumyana Bachvarova, deputy prime minister of Bulgaria. […]