hackathon.lu 2026 - Call for Presentations (Conference Track)

The purpose of hackathon.lu is to provide an open and free playground where people can discuss, build, and challenge Open Source technologies together.
While hackathon.lu is primarily a hands-on event, it also includes a short conference-style morning designed to inspire discussion, collaboration, and ideas before participants dive into hacking.

On Tuesday, 14 April 2026, hackathon.lu hosts an integrated conference morning from 09:00 to 12:00, in a breakfast-style, informal setting, open to hackathon participants and interested members of the wider community.

We invite speakers to submit short, focused presentations aligned with the spirit of Open Source, security, and collaborative engineering.

Conference Format

• 📅 Date: Tuesday, 14 April 2026
• 🕘 Time: 09:00 – 12:00
• 🥐 Format: Breakfast-style, informal conference
• 🎤 Session length: Short talks with time for discussion (15 minutes per slot)
• 👥 Audience: Hackathon participants and external attendees

The goal of this morning is inspiration and exchange, not marketing or polished product pitches.

Topics of Interest

Topics are intentionally broad and non-exclusive. Relevant areas include:

• Open Source software and communities
• Security engineering and secure development
• Threat intelligence and Open Source tooling
• Incident response and operational security
• Lessons learned from building or maintaining Open Source projects
• Bridging research and real-world implementation
• Interoperability, standards, and data models
• Failures, trade-offs, and hard lessons in engineering or security
• Open collaboration between communities and organizations

Talks that connect ideas to practice are especially encouraged.

What We Are Looking For

We welcome proposals for:

• Short technical talks
• Experience reports and lessons learned
• Project introductions that invite collaboration
• “This is what worked / didn’t work” stories
• Overviews that set the stage for hackathon projects

This is not a product pitch session. Talks should aim to inform, challenge, or inspire discussion.

Audience & Language

• The conference morning is open to the public
• The working language is English
• Technical depth is welcome, but accessibility is encouraged

Registration & Participation

Attendance for the conference morning is open to interested participants.
Registration is handled via:

👉 https://hackathon.lu/practical/

Hackathon participation requires separate registration.

Publication & Rights

Speakers retain full rights to their material.
By presenting, you agree that:

• Slides or materials may be shared with participants
• Sessions may be documented for community reporting
• Open sharing of knowledge is encouraged

Final Notes

The conference morning of hackathon.lu is meant to set the tone:
open, curious, pragmatic, and collaborative.

Bring ideas worth discussing over coffee - and leave people with something they want to explore during the hackathon.

Submissions close on 2026-04-01 23:59 (Europe/Luxembourg), 1 month, 3 weeks from now.