On May 13, 2026, the ELISA Project hosted a seminar exploring how open source technologies including Xen , Zephyr RTOS , and Linux are advancing toward deployment in safety-critical systems across avionics, automotive, and industrial domains. The session featured Ayan Kumar Halder (AMD) and Matthew Weber (Boeing), who shared ongoing collaborative work around functional safety, mixed-criticality systems, and open source safety certification efforts. The discussion focused on how Xen, Zephyr, and…