Take the stage

Join as a speaker

Share your craft with 2,000+ peers across a 30-minute talk or a 100-seat live tutorial.

Why take the Craft stage?

You won’t be talking to polite corporate tourists or passive note-takers. You’ll step in front of 2,000+ senior developers, system architects, and technical decision-makers who live and breathe complex software. 
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Full coverage

We provide your hotel stay, full festival ticket, and reimburse travel expenses up to $500 within Europe and up to $1,500 globally.
Meet new people

Senior audience

Put your real-world architecture lessons in front of experienced architects and decision-makers.
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Flexible formats

Deliver a 30-minute deep-dive talk with live Q&A, or lead an interactive 90-minute hands-on tutorial.
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Company perks

If your employer covers your travel and stay, we will officially feature them as a Bronze sponsor on our website.

Process

Applying to the Craft stage is a straightforward process built to respect your time. If your talk is selected, we back you with complete travel coordination and narrative coaching all the way to the mic.

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Submit your pitch

Share your session abstract, a recording of a past talk, and your LinkedIn profile through our CFP form. Give us the core takeaways you want to bring to the room.

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Thorough evaluation

Once the CFP closes, our program board reviews every submission to curate the agenda. We notify every single applicant via email regarding the final selection.

03

Logistics and onboarding

If selected, our speaker coordinator reaches out to align on technical details and book your flights and hotel. We take care of the operational heavy lifting so you can focus on your talk.

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Happy to help

We’re here to support you fine-tune your technical narrative and slide deck. Whenever needed, we can also provide professional coaching to help you deliver your sharpest performance on stage.

FAQs

A quick guide to the questions we hear most often.

Craft Conference is an international software engineering conference focused on the craft of building great software.

It brings together practitioners and experts from across the industry to share real-world experience, technical knowledge, and lessons learned from building complex systems at scale.

The conference is known for its strong engineering focus, practical talks, and high-quality content spanning software architecture, development practices, AI-assisted engineering, and product development.

The Call for Papers (CFP) is usually open for the upcoming Craft Conference until November each year.

You can always find the current CFP status on the Speakers page of the website. If the CFP is open, the application form and all necessary details will be available there.

We encourage early applications, as review and selection happen on a rolling basis.

Craft Conference takes place at the Magyar Vasúttörténeti Park in Budapest, Hungary.

Address:
Budapest, Tatai u. 95, 1142

The venue, also known as the Hungarian Railway History Park, is Europe’s first interactive railway museum located at a former railway station and workshop of the Hungarian State Railways.

You can find more details, directions, and travel information on the Location page.

If you’d like to become a sponsor of Craft Conference, please reach out to us directly at [email protected] or check out our Sponsors page.

Our team will share the available sponsorship packages, partnership opportunities, and help you find the best fit for your goals – whether that’s brand visibility, recruitment, or community engagement.

Apply to speak at Craft!

Kick off your Craft story now and submit your pitch!
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