Embedded Recipes '25
Last month the Embedded Recipes conference was held in Nice, France. Igalia was sponsoring the event, and my colleague Martín and myself were attending. In addition we both delivered a talk to a highly technical and engaged audience.
My presentation, unlike most other talks, was a high-level overview of how Igalia engineers contribute to SteamOS to shape the future of gaming on Linux, through our contracting work with Valve. Having joined the project recently, this was a challenge (the good kind) to me: it allowed me to gain a much better understanding of what all my colleagues who work on SteamOS do, through conversations I had with them when preparing the presentation. The talk was well received and the feedback I got was overall very positive, and it was followed up by several interesting conversations. I was apprehensive about the questions from the audience, as most of the work I presented wasn’t mine, and indeed some of them had to remain unanswered.
Martín delivered a lightning talk on how to implement OTA updates with systemd-sysupdate on Yocto-based distributions.
It was also well received, and followed up by conversations in the Yocto workshop that took place the following day.
I found the selection of presentations overall quite interesting and relevant, and there were plenty of opportunities for networking during lunch, coffee breaks that were splendidly supplied with croissants, fruit juice, cheese and coffee, and a dinner at a beach restaurant.
The mascot reference to a famous French surfer gave me a smile.
Many thanks to Kevin and all the folks at BayLibre for a top-notch organization in a relaxed and beautiful setting, to fellow speakers for bringing us these talks, and to everyone I talked to in the hallway track for the enriching conversations.
See you all next year in sunny Nice!