AI Tooling Regulations, Open Source Evidence, and Linux Testing: Highlights from ELISA’s London Workshop

The ELISA Project community gathered at Canonical’s London office from June 9–11, 2026, for three days of technical presentations, discussions, and collaboration focused on advancing Linux for safety-critical applications. The workshop included discussions on regulatory approaches to AI-based tooling, the role of software preservation and identification in supporting assessment evidence, and ongoing work to improve Linux kernel test coverage. The main topics included emerging standards, requirements-to-test-to-code traceability, long-term access to source code, fault injection, and challenges