Ubuntu Summit 26.10 Day Two: Watch Live and What to Expect Today

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The short version: Ubuntu Summit 26.10 Day Two is live now, Friday 13 November 2026, with a free livestream from Canonical’s London base. You can watch it below. The official timetable runs from 09:30 UK time (11:30 SAST) until closing remarks at 17:20 UK time (19:20 SAST). Talks are underway, and we will update this post if Canonical publishes any announcements.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1Watch now: the official Day Two stream is on the Canonical Ubuntu YouTube channel, embedded below. It started at 09:30 UK time (11:30 SAST) and runs until closing remarks at 17:20 UK time (19:20 SAST).
2Today’s talks: the timetable includes EPUBs and ESP32s, HTML over WebSockets, agentic embedded development with Zephyr 26.04 LTS, attestation, personal software, time synchronization, profiling, Nvidia’s Nemotron, agentic coding, lightning talks and closing remarks.
3No written announcements yet: Canonical and Ubuntu have been posting each talk as it starts, but there is no Day Two recap or new product news in writing so far. We will update this post if that changes.
4Ask questions: each session has a thread in the Ubuntu Summit category on Discourse, and you can also join the Summit room on Matrix at #summit:ubuntu.com.
5Day One: yesterday covered local AI for Ubuntu accessibility, Linux on Snapdragon X2 and attestable VMs. Catch up in our Ubuntu Summit 26.10 Day One recap.

Watch the Ubuntu Summit 26.10 Day Two livestream

The official stream: Canonical is broadcasting Friday 13 November on its Canonical Ubuntu YouTube channel as “Ubuntu Summit 26.10 | Day Two”. The first talk started at 09:30 UK time (11:30 SAST), after coffee and chat at 08:30 UK time (10:30 SAST), and the day ends with closing remarks at 17:20 UK time (19:20 SAST).

If the player does not load, open the Day Two livestream on YouTube directly.

Day Two schedule

Times below are in UK time (GMT, UTC+0) and South Africa Standard Time (SAST, UTC+2). Afternoon slots on the official timetable are written as 02:00 to 05:20 after the lunch break, so those are 14:00 to 17:20 UK time (16:00 to 19:20 SAST). Check the official timetable in case a slot moves.

UK time SAST Session Speaker(s)
09:30 11:30 EPUBs, ESP32s, and Everyone’s A Developer Now Justin Mitchell
10:15 12:15 Real-Time SPAs, Barely Any JavaScript: HTML over WebSockets Andros Fenollosa
10:40 12:40 Using Workshop for [agentic] embedded development with Zephyr 26.04 LTS Viktor Toldov
11:05 13:05 Recorded talks
11:25 13:25 Open source is not enough and why you need attestation Benny Fuhry, Ijlal Loutfi
12:10 14:10 Why software should be personal to you Kaye Han
12:35 14:35 Recorded talks
14:00 16:00 Time for a new way to sync time Ruben Nijveld
14:45 16:45 Stop Guessing, Start Profiling Clément Grégoire
15:30 17:30 Recorded talks
15:50 17:50 From Open Weights to Reproducible Results: Inside Nvidia’s Nemotron Rita Neves
16:15 18:15 Agentic Coding Without the Slop: 700K Lines in 7 Months Adrian Sieber
17:00 19:00 Lightning talks
17:20 19:20 Closing remarks

What has been announced so far

Talks are underway. Canonical posted that Ubuntu Summit 26.10 continues today, and both the @Canonical and @ubuntu accounts on X have been listing each session as it comes up, starting with Justin Mitchell’s “EPUBs, ESP32s, and Everyone’s A Developer Now” at 09:30 UK time, then Andros Fenollosa’s talk on HTML over WebSockets at 10:15 UK time. At the time of writing, Canonical has not published a Day Two blog post or any new product announcements. We will update this post if official news follows the talks.

How to ask questions

To ask speakers questions, sign in to the Ubuntu Summit category on Discourse, where every session has its own thread. You can also join the Summit room on Matrix at #summit:ubuntu.com. Our Ubuntu Summit 26.10 how to watch guide has the full time zone table and watch party details.

If you missed Day One

Thursday’s programme included Paul Geoghegan’s talk on local AI for Ubuntu accessibility, plus sessions on Linux on Snapdragon X2 platforms and attestable VMs. You can catch the official Day One stream and a recap of what was announced in our Ubuntu Summit 26.10 Day One coverage. The Summit follows the 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” release, so if you have not upgraded yet, start with what is new in Ubuntu 26.10.

Source: Ubuntu Summit 26.10 timetable and the official Ubuntu Summit page.