Why speak at Craft?
Craft Conference is a welcoming space where every voice in the tech community matters. Whether it’s your first live talk or your fiftieth, we’re here to help you share your ideas and insights with a curious, engaged audience.
If you’ve thought about giving a talk at Craft, read on to see what we’re looking for.
What Subject Should You Focus On?
The main areas we plan to cover are:
Language agnostic methods: writing great code, TDD, BDD, DDD, CI/CD, testing, security/DevSecOps, performance, architecture, functional programming, mindset, etc.
People, team, and organizational topics: DevEx, platform engineering, high-performing teams, real agility, people/leadership skills, high-performing organizations, career development, technical leadership, team topologies case studies, being a product engineer, etc.
New trends, emerging technologies: AI/ML, MLOps, AI/ChatGPT-based applications, vector databases, leveraging AI as a developer/team, WASM, edge computing, eBPF, serverless patterns, functional programming, emerging languages (Rust, Kotlin, go, etc.), new Java/.NET features, crypto, pipeline as a code, tRPC, monorepo, headless CMS, no/low code, etc.
Use cases/learnings about already matured, adopted technologies: operating microservices/kubernetes, service mesh, React, micro frontends, API patterns, GraphQL, BFF, DevOps, chaos engineering, reactive systems, observability, system scaling, cloud-native applications, distributed systems, scaling mobile development, Zero Trust, server-side rendering, etc.
About the session talks:
The talk sessions will be held on June 4th-5th.
Sessions will be 45 minutes long (including 5-10 minutes Q&A), so please prepare your topic in this timeframe.
About the workshops:
The workshop session will be held on June 2nd-3rd.
Sessions will be one or two days long (~8 hours/day, typically four 90-minute productive blocks).
Please select the option that best fits your proposal. We are looking for Intermediate and Advanced topics.
The Call for Papers ends on January 31, 2026.