Call for Papers
Inspire others! Join us on stage!
Take a challenge and show to other professionals what you are working on, what challenges you are facing and how you are solving them.
Details
Everything you need to know to submit your proposal
Deadline
the end of September 30th, 2025 CET
Format
English, 45 minutes including Q&A
Topics
What we are looking for
Tips and Tricks
Suggestions for your proposals
Original ideas
We value original ideas applicable to real-world problems. Our audience expects to get inspiration, learn, and apply their learnings to their current problems.
Pre-record your live coding
If your talk contains live coding, we would prefer if you could pre-record it. If you'd rather do it live, make sure you have practiced enough beforehand.
Descriptive talk abstracts
Make sure that the talk abstract contains as much detail about the presentation as possible. That includes possible extras and uncommon setups (audio, network, etc).
Don't over-mention your employer
It is OK to mention your employer, but if you push it too hard the audience will complain. This applies even if your employer is sponsoring Devops Barcelona Conference.
Keep the audience in mind
There will be professional developers, sysadmins, devops, managers as well as newcomers.
Make sure your talk is engaging.
If it can be summarized in a blog post, it is probably not worth a 40 minutes talk.
Submissions we would like to see.
Success / failure stories about applying an approach / technology to a business problem, lessons learned. Innovative ideas / technologies, applicable to current problems. Inspiring talks that reflect upon shared problems and will leave the audience with renewed motivation, new ideas, etc. As a general guideline, our motto is "problems of today, ideas from the future".
Submissions we would NOT like to see.
Commercial talks about a product. Recruitment talks to highlight your current employer and attract talent. Talks that are not in English. Talks that do not comply with our Code Of Conduct.
Compensations
What you get for speaking at The AI Conference 2026
Free Tickets
Free ticket to the conference (all goodies included!)
Paid Accommodation
Up to 3 nights at a Hotel near the venue
Visibility
You will appear in the conference leaflet and website
Travel Cost
Up to 800 EUR within Europe and 1400 EUR outside Europe
Flight / Accomodation for Sponsorship
If your company can pay for your flight or accommodation, it will be listed together with Bronze sponsors. All talks are recorded and published online at our YouTube channel so your company will get an extra push.