OC for Research at OCX26 This recap covers the Open Community for Research track at Open Community Experience 2026 (OCX26), focusing on how open source research moves from prototypes to open source platforms across IoT, AI, and digital infrastructure. The sessions consistently moved from concepts to implementation. Whether the topic was IoT virtualisation, AI agent orchestration, or smart city platforms, the emphasis stayed on how research outputs are built, deployed, and maintained as open source systems.