Topics we are looking for

We’re looking for high-quality, technical and non-technical sessions from speakers who can cover advanced topics and keep our demanding audience inspired.

By bringing together Appdevcon, Webdevcon, the Dutch PHP Conference, and the Dutch AI Conference, this year's event covers a broader and more exciting spectrum than ever. We are looking for deep dives into native and cross-platform app development, modern web technologies, the ever-evolving PHP ecosystem, and cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence.

Our audiences expect practical content from subject matter experts. We welcome talks that highlight coding techniques, architectural insights, development tooling, and best practices across all four domains. Sessions that provide hands-on ideas attendees can apply at work right away are highly valued, and live demos are greatly appreciated! We are especially looking for talks that reflect on the trends and hot topics that will define 2027 and beyond.

Beyond the code, we invite speakers to tackle the non-technical subjects that are increasingly instrumental to success as a developer or team, especially now that AI is reshaping our workflows. We want to hear about communication, team dynamics, (self) management, and the business and economics of development. These soft skills are essential to complement deep technical expertise and build the surrounding environment necessary to thrive in the modern, AI-augmented development landscape.

This invitation is intentionally broad in the hope of inspiring everyone to share their ideas, insights, and hard-fought experience in the broader development arena.

The Call for Papers is open up to and including December 18th 2026. You can send in a maximum of five talks, so start submitting your talks today!

Event schedule

Please keep our schedule in mind when planning your availability and session types:

• Pre-conference days: All half-day and full-day workshops take place on the days prior to the main conference.
• Thursday the 18th: Main conference sessions for Appdevcon (ADC) and the Dutch AI Conference (DAC).
• Friday the 19th: Main conference sessions for Webdevcon (WDC) and the Dutch PHP Conference (DPC).

Talk categories

• Keynote session should be 35 minutes and topics should be appealing to the majority of the audience.
• The standard conference sessions should be 45 minutes including Q&A.
• The lightning talks should be 20-30 minutes including Q&A.
• Workshops should be half-day (3,5 hours including breaks) or full day (7 hours including breaks) 

Talk levels explained

The audience across our four conferences mainly consists of professionals working in the fields of app, web, PHP, and AI development. Some are at the start of their professional careers, while others are seasoned experts (though even veteran developers might still be completely new to AI!).

Among our attendees, you’ll find frontend and backend specialists, mobile developers focused on iOS, Android, or cross-platform, full-stack engineers, and AI practitioners. Most, if not all, work with modern frameworks and follow agile development processes.

When submitting, please indicate the level of your talk so attendees know what to expect:

• Beginner: meaning the audience does not have much experience with this specific topic.
• Intermediate: meaning the audience has some knowledge of the topic and some real-life experience but has no in-depth knowledge.
• Advanced: meaning the audience has lots of experience with this topic and wants to learn hidden features, advanced techniques, etc., from an expert on the topic.

Tips for submission

• Be sure your talk title and abstract define the exact topic you want to talk about, and what you hope people will learn from the session.
• Include 3-4 bullet points of what the audience will learn.
• Please keep talk titles short (max. 50 characters). This ensures the talk title fits the schedule format which is aimed at readability in print and on mobile).
• If available, please include links to slides, reviews (on joind.in for example), and videos of the submitted talk.

Guidelines

• All talks are in English.
• Submitting more than one submission is strongly encouraged. The more submissions contributed, the more options we have to pick from, and the higher your chances are of being accepted as a speaker. We've set the limit at 5 so if you have a lot of ideas, submit the best 5.
• Try to not include any hints to your identity in your abstracts. This helps us to make a good initial blind selection.
• Make sure you care, and make sure we see you care. Typos, sloppy formatting and all-lowercase submissions make our reading of your proposal tedious. These things will definitely count against your proposal.
• Don’t overdo it either. If you need more than two paragraphs to get to the point of your topic, we need to ask you to slim things down. With the amount of submissions we get, the quicker you can make a good impression, the better.
• Original Topics. We favour original content. If you want to discuss a topic that you have talked about elsewhere, try to add a twist, or new research, or development, something unique. Of course, if your talk is plain awesome as-is, go for that.
• We welcome presentations by multiple presenters, however do keep in mind that a talk by 2 international presenters will weigh double on our available travel budget, so we may often have to chose single speaker talks over multi-speaker talks.

Perks

If you get selected as a speaker, here’s what you get:

• Travel to Amsterdam covered. We have a travel agent that will assist you booking your travel.
• Entrance to the conference. 
• Airport to hotel. We will arrange a transfer from the airport.
• We cover your stay in Amsterdam in a hotel near the venue. For locals outside of driving distance we cover 1 night, for speakers outside the Netherlands 2 nights, and 3 nights for workshop speakers. If you want to stay longer, we can arrange things, just let us know. You can pay for any additional nights via our travel agent.
• If your employer can cover your travel and hotel, we are happy to list them as a sponsor. If speakers get sponsored by their employers, we can invite more international speakers to the conference.
• There is a speaker’s dinner on the night before the conference that you will be invited to and you are welcome at the after party after the conference.

Number of nights depends on where speakers are traveling from.