Latch-Up 2025

Friday to Sunday May 2–4, 2025 in Santa Barbara, CA, USA

The Latch-Up conference is a weekend of presentations and networking dedicated to free and open source silicon. It's an event for the open source digital design community, much like its European sister conference ORConf, run by the FOSSi Foundation.

Latch-Up 2025 is Go!

The FOSSi Foundation is proud to announce Latch-Up, a conference dedicated to free and open source silicon to be held over the weekend of Friday May 2 to Sunday May 4 in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Latch-Up is a weekend of presentations and networking for the open source digital design community, much like its European sister conference ORConf.

Questions? Ping the organizers via @LatchUpConf or send an email to latch-up@fossi-foundation.org.

Register

Registration will open soon.

Submit a talk

Talk submissions will open soon.

Code of conduct

We ask all Latch-Up participants to adhere to the the FOSSi Foundation code of conduct throughout the event.

Sponsors

Latch-Up is free to attend, but we aim to provide catering and the like during the event. Latch-Up 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. So please get in touch at latch-up@fossi-foundation.org if you'd like to explore sponsorship opportunities.

Latch-Up 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.

Venue

Latch-Up 2025 will be held at University of California, Santa Barbara.