Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting Japan 2026

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is advancing Software Defined Vehicle (SoDeV) as a foundation for open, scalable, and collaborative automotive innovation. As vehicles become increasingly software-centric, accelerating collaboration between AGL SoDeV initiatives and the broader open-source automotive community is critical to shaping the future of mobility.
This session highlights how AGL SoDeV acts as a collaboration hub that connects industry-driven development with open-source community contributions. Building on a previously presented demo, we introduce updated workflows and tooling that reduce collaboration friction, improve governance transparency, and enable faster feedback loops between SoDeV activities and OSS communities.
Through an updated live demonstration, we show how governance automation and clear contribution flows can function as enablers rather than barriers. The talk focuses on practical lessons learned from evolving AGL SoDeV collaboration models, explaining what has changed, why it matters, and how these improvements help communities and organizations innovate together more effectively.

The SoDeV is an open-source reference Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) platform. It's developed by the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) SoDeV project. It aims to de-fact standard for the SDV platform.
The SoDeV platform is built on a hypervisor-based host environment and hardware decoupled guest VMs with Virt IO infrastructures. It strongly focuses on hardware decoupling to realize software reusability.
The AGL Instrument Expert Group discussed how to realize a safety system. It's concluded the safety island approach. On the other hand, it strongly depends on the system design that includes hardware and software co-design. It has a big mismatch for the SoDeV direction.
In this session, I will talk about my current activity on how to fix this mismatch to realize the SoDeV ideal architecture.

While the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) era promises rapid updates and new capabilities, the gap between architectural complexity and safety proof is widening faster than traditional audits can manage.
In this talk, the author shares real-world strategies for building a Multi-Party, LLM-Augmented Fuzzing Framework purpose-built for automotive safety and security. This approach demonstrates how to utilize Large Language Models, trained on protocol specifications, to generate semantics-aware seeds. It also explores how feeding Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) into this loop allows teams to exercise previously untested leaf events.
The session concludes by expanding beyond AI fuzzing to the deployment of general AI agents within the vehicle. It highlights the architectural shift toward AI-Native SDVs, covering the necessity of an Agentic runtime and a Policy Guard layer that safely reduces the cost of deploying in-vehicle AI Agents.
The audience will leave the session with a holistic impression of how to practically harness AI—both as a rigorous verification instrument and as a secure, in-vehicle diagnostic agent—to build safer, OSS-based automotive systems.

A modern vehicle works on a multi-display platform seup. Center stack, instrument cluster, heads-up display, rear-seat entertainment, and the driver's companion mobile app all compete for coherent UX — and Flutter's single-codebase promise makes it uniquely suited to unify them.
But "write once, run everywhere" demands more than responsive layouts. This session presents an architectural pattern for building multi-display Flutter applications on AGL, drawing from VGV's experience delivering large-scale, modular Flutter systems.
We'll introduce a layered approach separating platform integration from shared business logic and a design-token-driven UI layer that adapts to display size, pixel density, safe areas, and interaction mode — touch, rotary controller, or voice. We'll cover state synchronization across displays, graceful degradation when a secondary display is unavailable, and how to structure your Dart package graph so cluster-critical code compiles independently of infotainment features.

The Yocto Project 6.0 (aka "Wrynose") release at the end of April 2026 is a new long-term support (LTS) release that AGL will switch to for its 22.0 (aka "Vibrant Vimbra") release. This talk will cover the major changes coming with the new Yocto Project LTS, and how the AGL unified codebase has been adapted to handle them. New features in Yocto Project and major packages like systemd, QEMU, and others will be outlined to give downstream users an idea of available new capabilities.

In recent years, the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) has been attracting significant attention in the automotive industry. In the SDV, it is important to build in-vehicle systems with a software-centric approach and to continuously add and update functions in coordination with the cloud. For this reason, designing update operations and build infrastructure that support continuous updates throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle has become essential.

In this session, we focus on Flatcar Container Linux, a Linux distribution that combines a rolling-release-style update model with long-term support (LTS) and is also a CNCF incubating project. Flatcar is an OS optimized for container workloads and is characterized by its ability to be built from source and to customize the packages included in the OS image. In this session, we will explain the compatibility of Flatcar Container Linux with the SDV and discuss an approach for integrating SoDeV with Flatcar.

While cyclictest focuses on scheduler latency, modern RTOSes require a more holistic view. This talk presents a new, unified benchmark framework for any POSIX-compliant RTOS(including AGL/PREEMPT_RT) on ARM. We go beyond cyclictest to measure critical E2E system latencies, including ISR, task preemption, IPC, and multi-core lock contention. By using a high-resolution & low overhead timer and collecting hardware performance counters, our framework provides a complete picture of RTOSes system's hard determinism and predictability.

These days, Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) are becoming crucial in complex automotive system development. In this context, VirtIO, in particular, has played a key role and has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years.
Although VirtIO is an effective and useful method in development, it has one significant drawback in terms of performance: the overhead caused by its virtualization scheme. This overhead generates latency across multiple metrics, degrading system performance compared to a native environment.
Such latency is critical not only for ADAS, which requires mixed criticality, but also for Meter Clusters, Digital Cockpits, and IVI systems. This latency often causes certain metrics to exceed acceptable levels, presenting a major challenge for VirtIO in automotive systems.
This session will cover the following:
First: The current status of VirtIO, the roadmap by the OASIS Committee, and the role of AGL.
Second: The mechanism behind how this latency occurs.
Third: The specific areas where latency occurs.
Finally: Countermeasures to mitigate this latency.

The new AGL LTS release, Ultimate Unagi, opens the door to cutting-edge app development for embedded automotive systems. In this talk, we’ll dive into how Flutter, a modern cross-platform UI framework, can be leveraged to build and deploy applications directly on real target hardware running Ultimate Unagi. By combining Flutter’s rapid development cycle with the robust features of AGL, developers can create seamless user experiences while adhering to the demanding requirements of automotive environments.This session will provide a technical walkthrough of setting up Flutter on AGL-based systems, configuring it for real hardware, and optimizing performance on resource-constrained devices. We’ll also explore how Ultimate Unagi enhances development workflows with its new features and stability improvements. Through practical examples and a demo, attendees will learn how to harness the power of Flutter and AGL to accelerate app development for next-generation automotive applications. Whether you’re an app developer, system integrator, or AGL enthusiast, this talk will equip you with the tools to bring your ideas to life on real embedded hardware.

Numerous studies have shown the technical and financial benefits of not just using, but also contributing to open source software, yet the automotive industry remains stuck in neutral when it comes to contributing to collaborative open source projects. For over a decade, Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) has proven that OEM and Tier 1 competitors can collaborate on pre-competitive software. We've built the neutral governance, technical frameworks, and shared workflows that make this real-world co-development possible in the traditional automotive industry.

Yet, a recent AGL OSPO Expert Group survey highlights a critical "last mile" problem: contributions are stalling. Developers often lack clear guidance on what they can share and who needs to approve it. Without active, visible buy-in from senior leadership, code stays locked away. This talk will connect AGL’s long-term work in open source enablement for the automotive industry with the specific internal roadblocks our survey identified. We’ll finish with a playbook for OSPOs: concrete steps to move from executive intent to developer action, creating clear pathways for open source contributions that benefit the OEMs and Tier 1 technical and financial bottom line.