Call for Speakers
Blipz on the Radar 2025
11 Mar 2025
The Colour Kitchen Utrecht, The Netherlands
blipz.io
Ever feel like the tech world is moving at warp speed? It can be tough to keep up with all the latest trends. That's where Blipz on the Radar comes in. It's a conference where we explore the newest and most exciting "blips" on the tech radar – those emerging technologies, frameworks, and techniques everyone's talking about.
What makes Blipz unique? It's all about collaboration and shared learnings. We'll have sessions and workshops where you can connect with other passionate software engineers, data scientists, cloud experts, security pros, and more. We have two awesome keynote speakers confirmed already: Lian Li and Sanne Maasakkers. We will share more about them soon.
Last year's event was a blast! Imagine a festival-like atmosphere with 250+ tech enthusiasts, inspiring keynotes from industry leaders like Hila Fish and Jurgen Appelo, and a jam-packed schedule of 10+ sessions and workshops. Get a taste of the action in our aftermovie.
Blipz on the Radar is a community effort, made possible by Dataworkz, Skyworkz, Groundworkz, Smartworkz, Codebeez, Lemonshark, and Cyberseals.
Call for Speakers
06 Dec 2024
17 Jan 2025
Venue
We expect a local tech oriented audience of 250 attendees working for all kind of Dutch companies from scale-ups to corporates to consultancies. The conference takes place in Utrecht, easily reachable by car and public transport.
Sessions
Our conference consists of 2 keynotes and 8
Topics
The focus of the conference is on talks about new developments in the technology frontier. For your inspiration check out the technology radars found on the internet like Thoughtworks or Zalando. Each talk will be rated on the conference technology radar. Each session will answer the following Key Questions of a Blipz: What is it? What value does it offer? What can it be compared with? What's my experience? After the talk there will be time for some Q&A.
This year the topic of the conference is "Get out of your comfort zone". We would like to challenge you to include this in your talk. For example, how were you challenged to step out of your comfort zone while implementing this particular technology?
Abstract
Please note that the abstract field can contain a maximum of 600 characters (spaces included), so if you exceed this limit it will be cut from the system.
Judging Process
Once you have submitted your application, a program commission will judge on 3 main areas:
- Tech radar worthiness. Is your talk addressing some new idea, trend, technique or framework that should be an item - a blip - on a tech radar 2025?
- Easy to understand. Is your talk easy for our audience to understand? We are not looking for deep dives, but for new ideas interesting for a broad tech minded audience .
- Expertise of the speaker. We are aiming for a healthy mix of more experienced speakers, but in the rapid talks we definitely have room for less experienced
Key Dates
- December 6: Call for Speakers open
- January 17th Call for Speakers closed
- January 31st Speakers informed of acceptance
- February 3rd Speakers confirmed
- March 11th Conference day!
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