Welcome to the Budapest Data+AI 2026 CFP!

We invite you to join us as a speaker and submit technical talks, case studies and best practice presentations related to the topics of the conference.

The conference will have English and Hungarian tracks, so we are accepting proposals in both languages. The talks can be delivered either in person in Budapest (May 18, 19) or remotely via Zoom (May 20)

Data Engineering related topics:

• Data Platforms & Data Engineering
• Data Modelling & Data Governance
• Data Integration & ETL 
• Data Quality & Data Observability
• Stream Processing & Stream Analytics
• Workflow Orchestration

AI related topics:

• Agentic AI
• AI Infrastructure
• AI Adoption
• Applied ML
• Computer Vision
• Generative AI
• Large & Small Language Models
• MLOps

Session formats

The conference will have talks in the following formats:

Workshops (80 minutes)
The workshops will take place on the first day (May 18, Monday) or second day (May 19, Tuesday) of conference, and will be delivered in-person.

Standard talks (30 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A)
The in-person standard talks will take place on the first and second day of the conference (May 18, Monday and May 19, Tuesday), the remote standard talks on the last day (May 20, Wednesday).

Quick talks (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
The quick talks can be delivered either in-person or remotely

Speaker benefits

Free Conference ticket
The conference offers free registrations for all speakers.
- For in-person speakers: 2-day hybrid ticket
- For online speakers: 2-day online ticket

Accommodation support
For the international in-person speakers we provide one night free accommodation in the conference hotel.

Speaker dinner
All in-person speakers are kindly invited to attend as our guest.

As a general rule, the conference does not cover other travel expenses. Exceptions may be made in specific cases at the sole discretion of the program committee.

Co-speakers benefits

- Co-speakers are welcome for workshops and standard talks, but not for quick talks.
- One co-speaker can be nominated.
- Co-speakers will also receive a free ticket to the conference and are invited to the speaker dinner, but will not receive accommodation support

By submitting, you agree
-that we can share your speaker bio data publicly, as well as  other profile information such social media or website links. We will not publish your e-mail, phone number, or other private information.
-that we can publish photographs of you and your sessions.
- that your session will be recorded.