The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals for EuroBSDCon 2026 is now open.
EuroBSDCon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference is scheduled to take place on September 9-13 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. The tutorials will be held on Thursday and Friday to registered participants and the talks are presented to conference attendees on Saturday and Sunday.
The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals period will close on June 20th, 2026. Prospective speakers will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by June 29th, 2026.
This document is available at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp.
Call for Talk and Presentation Proposals (CFP)
The EuroBSDCon program committee is inviting BSD developers and users to submit innovative and original talk proposals not previously presented at other European conferences. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of BSD-based operating systems, as well as topics concerning the economic or organizational aspects of BSD usage. Presentations and talks are expected to be 45 minutes and are to be delivered in English.
Call for Tutorial Proposals
The EuroBSDCon program committee is also inviting qualified practitioners in their field to submit proposals for half or full day tutorials on topics relevant to development, implementation and use of BSD-based systems.
Half-day tutorials are expected to be 2.5 to 3 hours and full-day tutorials 5 to 6 hours. The tutorials are to be taught in English.
Submissions
Proposals should be sent through the registration system at https://events.eurobsdcon.org.
Proposals should contain a short and concise text description of about 100 words as well as a short speaker biography.
Accepted papers and presentations will be published on the conference web site as soon as feasible during or after the conference. We encourage submitters to consider writing up a formal paper for this purpose in addition to making a presentation.
While we urge prospective speakers to seek funding from employers or other benevolent sources, the conference does have a budget for covering reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for speakers, with accommodation to the extent possible provided at the primary speaker hotel (see the Travel page on the conference website). Speakers who will be applying for travel funding should also submit an estimate of expected travel expenses. Please see the Speaker Reimbursement Policy page at https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/reimbursement.html for details.
Please also note that due to visa issues in the past, we would like to know as early as possible of any visa requirements for speakers. Please check the Belgium visa application requirements site at https://dofi.ibz.be/en/themes/third-country-nationals/short-stay for guidance.
Pre-submission mentoring Do you have an idea (however vague) about something you might want to talk about? Are you new to public speaking? Run your ideas, questions or concerns by one of our friendly and experienced speakers! They can help you refine your ideas and ease you into the process of writing the proposal, and share from their experiences so you better understand what awaits you, should your talk be accepted.
You can join the #EuroBSDCon-Talks channel on the Libera IRC network, or contact one of the speakers directly. They are looking forward to helping you! Our volunteers include:
Eirik Øverby, FreeBSD sysadmin and retrocomputing nerd.
IRC: Libera/Ltning, Fedi: @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net, Signal: ltning.01
Peter N. M. Hansteen, sysadmin/devops, OpenBSD enthusiast, “engineer up!”
Recent talks:
And writes stuff like:
IRC:Libera/pitrh, Fedi: @pitrh@mastodon.social
We will be looking for more volunteers to help in the pre-submission efforts.
We encourage people from all walks of life to consider giving a talk. If you should require any special facilitation (e.g. access to private space, flexible time slots) in order to be able to join us, please let us know and we will do our best to accomodate.
Contact
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by sending an email to pc@eurobscon.org