Ubuntu Summit 26.04: Personal Highlights

This article was originally posted on the Ubuntu Discourse, and is reposted here. I welcome comments and further discussion in that thread. Last week I attended Ubuntu Summit 26.04. Ubuntu Summit is Canonical’s twice-yearly “showcase for innovative and ambitious” work across Ubuntu, open source, and the wider technology ecosystem. The format remained the same as the Ubuntu Summit 25.10: a focused programme of talks, demos and community sessions, streamed for a wider audience. While many of the talks are anchored around Ubuntu or Canonical, this is not a requirement for submission. The Ubuntu Summit 26.04 playlist already includes the opening keynote, where I talked through AI in Ubuntu and the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Some individual talk recordings are also available already, with the remaining recordings expected to follow in the coming days. In this post I’ll highlight some of my favourite moments of the Summit, starting with the launch of Canonical Workshop, before moving through…