Global prpl Summit 2026
Join the prpl Foundation at our annual event, the Global prpl Summit, in Vienna, Austria, 12-13 October 2026
Join the prpl Foundation at our annual event, the Global prpl Summit, in Vienna, Austria, 12-13 October 2026
Join us in Vienna, Austria for the Global prpl Summit on October 12th and 13th, 2026. We look forward to seeing you there!
See information on the Global prpl Summit 2025 here.
Learn about the latest features of our carrier-grade open-source prplWare and recent achievements by prpl members. The business day will be followed by a technical summit with tutorials for new attendees, as well as experienced developers.
Join key industry leaders at the prpl Summit for roundtable discussions on adoption, competition, and deployment. Connect with service providers, OEMs, silicon vendors, system integrators, and open-source developers to help drive innovation forward.
See live demos of cutting-edge solutions powered by prplWare. Members are invited to showcase innovative use cases, deployment insights, and real-world applications that highlight best practices and the impact of prpl software..
The prpl Summit offers unmatched networking—connect with global innovators, explore emerging opportunities, and stay ahead of industry trends all in one place.
The agenda for the Business Day on October 12th can be found below. The agenda for the Technical day on October 13th is shared on Confluence
We can’t wait to welcome everyone to prpl Summit 2026! The event has completely sold out on both days and we look forward to seeing you all there.
Our Business Day takes place on Monday October 12th and our Technical Day takes place on Tuesday October 13th.
Please note that the Technical Day is strictly for current prpl members only. Remote access will be available for the Technical Day. The remote access tickets do not grant access to the in-person event in Vienna.
Register Here!
| Agenda 2026 | ||
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration | Welcome to prpl Summit 2026! |
| 9:00 | Welcome Address | Dr. Len Dauphinee – President of prpl Foundation & Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Broadband Products @ MaxLinear |
| 9:15 | Partner Spotlight presented by Bitdefender | Razvan Todor – VP Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, CSG @ Bitdefender |
| 9:30 | Operator Keynote with prpl Funding Operators | Sandrine Brébrant – VP Home Services @ Orange Chris Schmidt – AVP Consumer Technology and Product Development @ Verizon & Platinum Board Director of prpl Foundation Jason Savard – AVP Product Development Engineering @ AT&T & Platinum Board Director of prpl Foundation |
| 9:55 | prpl Operator Roundtable Focus on AI | Moderator: Livia Rosu – Director Marketing, Strategy and Alliances @ MaxLinear & prpl Foundation Marketing Committee Co-Chair Panelists: Gilles Coullon – VP CPE Ecosystem @ Orange & Platinum Board Director of prpl Foundation Chris Schmidt – AVP Consumer Technology and Product Development @ Verizon & Platinum Board Director of prpl Foundation Jason Savard – AVP Product Development Engineering @ AT&T & Platinum Board Director of prpl Foundation Paul Arola – Senior Design Specialist @ TELUS Communications |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break | Enjoy a coffee while visiting the demos! Sponsored by our Showcase Partner Calix |
| 10:45 | System Integrator Roundtable Focus on Deployment | Moderator: Chris Schmidt – AVP Consumer Technology and Product Development @ Verizon & Platinum Board Director of prpl Foundation Panelists: Norbert Ebinger – Business Development Director Broadband @ Consult.Red Eli Schwarzfuchs – Head of Broadband @ GlobalLogic Marc De Courville – VP R&D @ SoftAtHome Tarun Joshi – General Manager @ Tata Elxsi Vimal Kumar K M – Senior Director @ Capgemini Engineering |
| 11:05 | Partner Spotlight presented by Qualcomm Building Next-Generation Broadband with prpl | Anand Venkataraman – Senior Director, Product Management @ Qualcomm |
| 11:20 | prplWare Status Quo | João Freitas – Program Manager & Chair of prplWare, HL-API and LCM Working Groups @ prpl Foundation |
| 11:45 | Vodafone Home Platform & Services: From Vision to Mission | Oscar Gallego – Director of Home Technology & Products @ Vodafone |
| 12:00 | Lunch Partner Spotlight presented by Vantiva | Sven De Bie – Director, SW Product Management @ Vantiva |
| 12:10 – 13:40 | Viennese Luncheon & Demos | Sponsored by our Viennese Luncheon Partner Vantiva |
| 13:40 – 13:55 | Partner Spotlight presented by SoftAtHome | Arnaud Bensaid – VP Marketing @ SoftAtHome |
| 13:55 | prpl App Store & Certification | Justin Doucette – Head of Market Development & Strategy @ Nokia Tim Winters – Chief Technology Officer @ QA Cafe & prpl Certification Working Group Chair |
| 14:15 | Partner Spotlight presented by Sagemcom | Peter Vandenengel – VP Broadband Solution @ Sagemcom & Platinum Board Director of prpl Foundation |
| 14:30 | Security Roundtable | Moderator: Alexandru Trifan – Director, Software Engineering – CHS @ Bitdefender Panelists: Nadav Liebermann – Director, Product Management @ SAM (Qualcomm) Chris Turner – Chief Product Officer @ CUJO AI Jerome Enard – Product Manager, Broadband Solutions @ Sagemcom Sven De Bie – Director, SW Product Management Software Architecture @ Vantiva |
| 14:50 | Partner Spotlight presented by Calix Standards Enable Innovation. Applications Deliver Outcomes | Lance Koenders – Corporate Vice President @ Calix |
| 15:05 | App Developer Roundtable Focus on Monetization | Moderator: João Freitas – Program Manager & Chairman @ prpl Foundation Panelists: Mike Emmendorfer – Vice President of Technology @ Calix Lionel Gremeau – Product & Marketing Director @ SoftAtHome Randy Zimler – Corporate Strategy, prpl Evangelist @ Beegol Carlijn Adema – VP of Marketing @ Airties Bob El-Hawary – Executive Vice President Sales – Americas, EMEA & APAC @ Cognitive |
| 15:25-15:55 | Coffee Break | Enjoy a coffee while visiting the demos! Sponsored by our Showcase Partner Calix |
| 15:55 | SoC Manufacturer Roundtable Focus on Memory | Moderator: Jason Savard – AVP Product Development Engineering @ AT&T & Platinum Board Director of prpl Foundation Panelists: Alex Pisarevski – Senior Director, Head of Broadband & Wi-Fi Product Management and Marketing @ MaxLinear Mathew Joseph – Director, Product Management @ Qualcomm Technologies Stephane Renaud – Director of Product Technology Marketing @ MediaTek Stephen Palm – Senior Technical Director @ Broadcom |
| 16:15 | prplWare Long Term Roadmap | Wouter Cloetens – Principal Architect @ prpl Foundation |
| 16:40-17:10 | Coffee Break | Enjoy a coffee while visiting the demos! Sponsored by our Showcase Partner Calix |
| 17:10 | Telenor Journey with prpl so far | Clas Mehus – Product Manager CPE & Security @ Telenor |
| 17:25 | OEM Roundtable Focus on Wi-Fi 8 | Moderator: Jorge Febra – Orange Connectivity Technical Lead @ Orange Panelists: Matthias Hofmann – Chief Software Architect @ Gemtek Benoit Bourneuf – Pre-Sales Director @ KAON Justin Doucette – Head of Market Development & Strategy @ Nokia Mike Talbert – Sr. Director @ WNC Corporation Leopold Diouf – President of Americas @ CIG/Actiontec |
| 17:45 | prpl Awards Ceremony, Closing Remarks | Sponsored by our Leadership Partner – SoftAtHome |
| 18:00 | Cocktail Reception | Join us for an evening of Viennese music, drinks and finger food to close out the day! |
| Actiontec Electronics | Actiontec Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 8 Prpl CPE Solutions | |
| Airties | Autonomous intelligence for Smooth, Smart, Secure connectivity | |
| Beegol | Beegol – AI Platform for Global ISPs | |
| Bitdefender | Running the Bitdefender IoT Security Agent in an unpriviledged LCM container | |
| Calix | SmartLife on prplOS | |
| Consult.Red | Pre-integrated Broadband Service Provider Solution | |
| CUJO AI | CUJO AI Device, Application, Network and Threat Intelligence — prpl Style | |
| F-Secure | In the Home, On the Go: Full-Spectrum Protection with F-Secure Sense & Mobile SDK | |
| Gemtek | AI, VAS, and Wi-Fi8 on High Speed Broadband GW | |
| GlobalLogic | prplOS IoT Stack: Matter & Thread Border Router Integration | |
| Huawei Technologies | HomeClaw Empowers Intelligent Home | |
| Humax Networks | Beyond Connectivity: Smarter CPE with prpl. | |
| Inango | Using AI so home-owners can fix home networking problems themselves | |
| Incognito | Broadband in a Box | |
| KAON Broadband | Future-ready prpl platforms: proven in deployment, ready for Wi-Fi 8 | |
| MaxLinear | MaxAI 2.0 – Hybrid and Multi-Model AI on the Gateway | |
| Motive | Controller-Orchestrated App Delivery: From Marketplace to prplLCM over TR-369 | |
| NAGRAVISION | Deploying NAGRA Scout on prpl-Enabled Gateways via an App Store and prpl Lifecycle Management Platform | |
| Nokia | Valyrian Power Management, Beacon P19.1 product concept, and M-Labs Speed Test application demonstrations. | |
| Orange | X-WAN: A Standardized and Flexible Solution for Scalable SD-WAN | |
| Plume | Plume Open by Design: prplOS + USP Orchestration on WiFi 7 and WiFi 8 | |
| prpl Foundation | ||
| Qualcomm | 5G FWA and Fiber Broadband with Wi‑Fi 8 and Containerized Services | |
| Qualcomm (SAM) | Edge Intelligence on prplOS: Silicon-Agnostic Service Monetization with SAM | |
| Sagemcom | Bringing prpl and Wi-Fi 8 to Life | |
| Sercomm Corporation | Wi-Fi 8 user experience empowered by prplMesh and Edge AI | |
| SoftAtHome | Home Intelligence Conductor | |
| Streambow | HCEI. Quality of Outcome Intelligence | |
| TCL | World’s First Dedicated 5G FWA CPE to Achieve prplWare Certification | |
| Tozed | Prpl 4.1 for Wi-Fi 7 HGW with Bitdefender | |
| Vantiva | Vantiva Advances prplOS Innovation Across Fiber and FWA Gateway Platforms | |
| WNC | •Life Cycle Management Deploying Value-Added Services •AI-Powered Troubleshooting & Automated Remediation •Heterogeneous Wi-Fi Mesh Interoperability •Wi-Fi Sensing & Matter IoT for the Smart Home | |
| Zilogic Systems | Mesh optimisation based on edge processing | |
| Zyxel | Powering AI Broadband Ecosystem – Proven prplWare with Flexibility and Scalability for Service Innovation |
On Monday October 12th, we are delighted to invite you to join us in Palais Auersperg in Vienna’s beautiful first district. Built between 1706 and 1710, this historic baroque palace will host the next prpl Summit, where industry leaders, innovators, and technical experts will come together to exchange ideas, explore emerging technologies, and shape the future of connected devices and open platforms.
On Tuesday, October 13th, we invite current prpl Foundation members to join us at Prisma by Lumia Wien, located just a short five-minute walk from VIECON in Vienna, Austria. Continuing the tradition of previous years, the Technical Day will feature in-depth sessions with a strong technical focus, providing members with the opportunity to collaborate, share expertise, and explore the latest developments across the prpl ecosystem.
The Technical Day is strictly limited to current prpl Members
Continuing the success of previous summits, we are once again offering our member companies the opportunity to present live demonstrations of cutting-edge solutions powered by prplWare.
Members are invited to showcase innovative use cases, deployment insights, and real-world applications that highlight the capabilities, best practices, and impact of prpl software across the industry.
Please reach out to prplsummit [@] prplfoundation.org if you have any questions
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