KiCon Europe 2026

I am an engineer with a Master's Degree in Engineering Physics & Complex Adaptive Systems. I started using KiCad over 15 years ago for small hobby projects, and have since continued to use it for increasingly complex home projects, professionally at work, and to create a few official event badges.

Have worked with a lot of different things, such as programming, math, statistics, medical studies, circuit design, PCB design, RF designs, ultra-low-power designs, injection molding, DFM, frontend, backend, firmware, database, networking, IoT, security, cryptography, FPGAs, testing/certification, and more.

I am an embedded software engineer with a master's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications and extensive experience in performance-critical embedded systems. My background includes automotive, radar, and edge-AI applications, with a strong emphasis on hardware-aware optimization and Linux-based development.

Dominik Wernberger is an embedded software engineer and freelancer based near Munich, Germany, specializing in embedded systems security and low-level software development. He is the author of OpenOrCadParser, an open-source project that reverse-engineers the proprietary OrCAD file format.

Senior professor at University Duisburg-Essen and retired as deputy director Fraunhofer IMS.
CMOS and MEMS process technology development since 1974.
Lead ngspice maintainer

I work as the Lead Electronics Engineer at Pixxel Space Pvt. Ltd., an Earth Observation Company based out of Bangalore, India.
I primarily design reliable, high-performance electronics for use in satellites as my day job and tinker around with consumer electronics as a hobby!

Anyware developer, from hardware to cloud.

Magnus is an embedded systems developer with close to 25 years of experience from the embedded field. Professional KiCad user since more than 10 years. Managing EUB which we founded 4 years ago. Hobbies include electronics, software, mechanical design, working on cars and whatnot.

I am an Argentinian experimental physicist working as a research engineer at the AstroParticule and Cosmology (APC) laboratory in Paris, France. For over a decade, my work has focused on the development, characterization, and readout of cryogenic detectors for astrophysics and cosmology instruments. For the past five years, I have been deeply involved in the Warm Front-End Electronics (WFEE) for the ATHENA X-IFU space instrument, leading the testing and validation of custom ASICs developed for the mission. I use KiCad to design high-reliability, space-grade rigid-flex PCBs.

Marco studied Mechatronics, giving him a broad interdisciplinary engineering background spanning mechanics, electronics, and software. He began his career at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where he specialized in deployable spacecraft structures, mechanisms, and lightweight design. His work in this field culminated in a doctoral thesis on a large rollable synthetic-aperture radar antenna for Earth observation and included research stays at NASA and ESA.

Over the course of his career, his focus increasingly shifted toward embedded electronics, firmware, and the integration of complex mechatronic systems. He developed electronics and software for several parabolic-flight campaigns and later for a spacecraft experiment. He has extensive experience integrating mechanical structures, sensors, actuators, avionics, and third-party hardware and software into reliable spaceflight systems.

In 2026, Marco co-founded ADPERA, a DLR spin-off developing deployable structures and integrated systems for creating large structures in space, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer.

I'm an independent embedded developer and designer working on mechatronics and industrial applications, from first prototype through to production and project management. KiCad has been my main ECAD tool for years, to the point that I've built an entirely KiCad-based workflow, and I help other teams move away from proprietary software. When I'm not busy breaking things, you'll find me soldering something small and 3D printing something useless.

Peter is an industrial skilled electric and electronic worker and studied computer science, economy and business administration.
During his traineeship, he developed electronics and firmware in assembler of a highly flexibly configurable quadruple counter for parking garages with a MC 8051 to replace unreliable, unflexible electromechanical counters.
Later he developed software, CPLD- and FPGA-based embedded devices and provided to instrumentation of neutron scattering beamlines and other scientific instruments at Research center Jülich https://www.fz-juelich.de/en.
Since his childhood, Peter has been engaged in the volunteer fire brigade and now in its emergency power brigade. He is board member of http://1wf.de/, http://www.commoning.space/ and member of https://tdrm.fiff.de/index.php/en/ with its ongoing development of a citizen environmental sensor station and network at https://www.fiff.de/

An embedded Linux developer working on hardware enablement and diagnostics for a mobile Linux OS, closing the gap between mobile Linux and Android. The tooling that lets developers and users confirm a device actually works: the USB/IP bridge grew out of needing a cheap, reliable way to wire real devices into a TronCI lab.

I am a Field Application Engineer at Würth Elektronik, specializing in passive and active components. Previously, I developed measurement and test equipment for an optical technology company. Technology has always been a part of my life, and my degree in communications engineering also sparked my lasting interest in amateur radio.

Elektronikutvecklingsbyrån
EUB AB

Student at TH Köln and Hardware developer at Graw Radiosondes

I'm an ex-electrical engineer who turned to web development, now running PCBJam as a side project from Emergence-Engineering, a dev shop that does rich text editor / collaborative / web app development .

I am the KiCad project lead developer.

Hardware-Hacker
Friend of Blahaj
KiCad Librarian