Event dates: April 20-22, 2026 (April 20 is a hands-on labs day and required speaker rehearsals)
Event location: Barcelona, Spain
Event website: https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/
CFP closes: January 19, 2026 at 11:59pm PST

GrafanaCON is our largest community conference of the year. We’re looking for speakers to share their real-world experiences with Grafana, custom-built plugins, cool dashboards, and more. This is a community-driven conference focused on your favorite visualization tool, its big tent of data source plugins, and the surrounding open source ecosystem – Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Mimir, Alloy, and more.

Who should apply? We’re looking for open source contributors and hands-on practitioners to share their stories with the wider community. We’re open to a wide range of topics, from beginner to advanced, and speakers from all backgrounds and industries. First-time speakers are welcome!

All talks will be given in-person at the event. Speakers will receive free entry to the full event, plus access to a speaker gathering. If you need help with travel or accommodations, Grafana offers an outreach scholarship. The application form will open once registration goes live.

Types of talks:

• 10 minute lightning talks
• 25 minute use case stories

Suggested topics, but not required:

• Developments around the open source ecosystem (Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Mimir, etc.)
• Interesting and unexpected use cases of Grafana — from home labs and industrial IoT to space and beyond
• Success stories of implementing modern tooling or large installations of our OSS projects (e.g., Mimir, Loki, Tempo)
• Real world examples of how you use the LGTM Stack for business intelligence
• Demos of data source plugins for Grafana

You’re welcome to submit multiple topics, but please limit to 3 proposals maximum. If you have any questions send us a note at speakers@grafana.com.

By submitting a talk proposal and participating in GrafanaCON you agree to be bound by our speaker release agreement available here: https://grafana.com/legal/grafana-labs-event-speaker-release-and-consent/, and agreeing to receive communication from us about GrafanaCON and other speaking opportunities.

Submissions close on 2026-01-19 23:59 (UTC), 1 month, 3 weeks from now.