# 🗓️ Solid Symposium 2026: Here's What You Don't Want to Miss

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The 2026 edition of the Solid Symposium ([sosy2026.eu](https://sosy2026.eu/)) features in equal balance the industry, academic and open-source communities which are equally essential for realising the Solid project. 🤝

**For developers** 👩‍💻, programme highlights include:

1. 🔦 Spotlight talks featuring [Dokie.li](https://dokie.li/) and [Nextgraph](https://nextgraph.org/), led by Virginia Balseiro, Sarven Capadisli and Niko Bonnieure.

2. 🔐 **[Authorizing Solid Applications and related Security Considerations](https://sosy26.hackers4peace.net/)** led by elf Pavlik.

3. 🖥 **[From Apps to Autonomy: Operating Systems for True Data Ownership](https://solidos.solidcommunity.net/public/2026/SoSy26London/FromAppsToAutonomy.html)** featuring the work of Angelo Veltens and Timea Turdean.

4. 🍽 Solid POP session: Proof of aPplication, the proof is in the eating, _led by_ Sjoerd van Groning.

**For business leaders** 💼 interested in Solid, highlights include:

1. 🏥 **[Practical uses of Solid for medical and health data](https://solidweb.me/bbuelens/sosy2026/health-session.html)** led by Jackson Morgan, Dominique Van Dijck, Elfi Goesaert, and Erich Bremer.

2. 💡 **[Shaping the business value of trust and innovating the business models of Solid](https://dataprdx.ai/events/conferences/sosy2026/)** organised by Elfi Goesaert, Bart Buelens, and Jeremy Caine.

3. 🚀 **[Achieving adoption of Solid at scale](https://sosy2026-solid-at-scale.jeswr.org/)** led by Jesse Wright.

4. 🎙 Panel discussions on the Next Chapter for Solid featuring John Bruce and Louise Burke.

**Academics** 🎓 are treated to dozens of high-quality contributions spread across:

1. 🛡 **[4th Privacy & Personal Data Management Session](https://besteves4.github.io/sosy2026-privacy/)** chaired by Beatriz Esteves and Marc Florea.

2. 🤖 **[Decentralised Information Retrieval and AI based on Solid](https://espressoproject.org/dias2026/)** chaired by Thanassis Tiropanis, George Roussos, and George Popescu-Craiova.

3. 🏛 Solid Future(s) for Digital Heritage: Decentralising Access and Building Trust led by Milena Dobreva and Pavel Kats.

4. 🔮 **[Solid4FutureProtocols: Using Solid to Enable Future Application Protocols](https://biagioboi.github.io/Solid4FutureProtocols/)** led by Biagio Boi and Franco Cirillo.

5. 📊 **[The Solid Symposium Poster Session](https://sosy2026.eu/Posters/)** chaired by Christoph Braun, Juan G. Diaz Ochoa, Chang Sun, and Rui Zhao.

🎤 Keynotes include, on the morning of 1 May, **[Oshani Seneviratne](https://sosy2026.eu/Speakers/)** on **“Federated Learning Meets Solid: Privacy-Preserving Personalization with Federated LLMs and Solid Pods.”**

The opening day on 30 April begins with a keynote from Sir Nigel Shadbolt and an introduction to the ODI’s roadmap for the Solid technology. The day concludes with a fireside conversation with Sir Tim Berners-Lee 🔥, whose leadership in the context of the Solid project needs no introduction on this forum. There will be plenty of opportunities to discuss Solid in breaks and in the evenings ☕. [For more details on the program see the symposium website.](https://sosy2026.eu/Program/)

🎟 [Register in March for a discount here](https://sosy2026.eu/nGeneral-information/Practical/)!

🙏 Thank you to the dynamic program committee, local organisers, and sponsors (Muze, The ODI, and Inrupt) who make the symposium possible.