RoboCon 2025 – Call for Speakers

We are waiting for you!

Come and speak at the biggest Robot Framework conference! Share your knowledge, tools and experiences with the community from around the world. Submit a proposal and take an opportunity to make an influential impact on the most amazing open-source community.

Submission deadline: 20th October 2024 at 11:59 PM.

About the conference

RoboCon is the crown jewel of the Robot Framework community. Once again we are gathering together as a community to learn, exchange knowledge and have a great time with one another. For RoboCon 2025 we will have a similar fully in-person conference and then a few weeks later a full online conference like previous years.

The in-person conference will be held in Helsinki 13-14 February, 2025. Please also reserve the 11th and 12th of February and for the Community Day and for learning in the workshops . The Community Day is an open space for the community to learn, discuss and advance topics related to Robot Framework. This might include workshop participants practicing what they learned with the help of the workshop facilitators. The online conference will take place 6th-7th March, 2025 proceed by a day of tutorials on the 5th March and followed by the community day on the 8th of March.

All in-person conference talks will be presented in-person, on stage in Helsinki. The online conference will be live-streamed with pre-recorded talks and a selection of Helsinki talks with a live Q&A by the awesome Joe Colantonio. The talks are planned to be shared post-conference on our YouTube Channel.

Looking for Talks, Workshops, and Tutorials

We are looking for conference talks, workshops and tutorials for 2025. This year we want to be flexible with talk lengths. Talks could either fit into a 30 minute slot or full hour slot; including time for questions afterwards. Workshops are planned for in-person in Helsinki and are full day. Workshops are focused on participants doing hands-on learning with a facilitator’s guidance. Tutorials, for the online conference only, are two hour presentations giving an introduction or walk through a topic with an audience primarily listening and asking questions.

Topics can range from technical to non technical, introductory to advanced, libraries, ecosystem projects, writing scripts or reporting results, or a topic that you find would be instructive to the wider community. Most important is that knowledge is shared and the participants have actionable walk aways.

Our conference focuses on the Robot Framework community and the usage of Robot Framework out in the larger testing, RPA and automation space.

For speakers who are not accepted, we will offer a voucher to redeem a discounted Blind priced ticket to the conference. More details about the compensation are provided below.

Speaker Compensation for the onsite conference

For on-site speakers who live outside the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, you may request reimbursement for travel expenses up to €500 in addition to the free conference ticket with backstage pass.

Speaker Compensation for the online conference

All speakers will be provided with free online tickets. As well we will offer a free conference ticket for the Helsinki in-person conference. Travel/Lodging/Meals will not be offered and will remain your responsibility. If you do not have the proper audio equipment for your recording, we would be happy to support you with some good quality microphone. We have to report that equipment as financial compensation to the Finnish tax department, so that you would have to report that as income to your local tax authority. The equipment is worth ~€260.

Call For Speakers Instructions

This Call For Speakers is for both the in-person and online portions of the conference. Please fill out the following form with information about what you would like to present and some information about yourself. What is your presentation about? What will the audience be able to take away from your talk? What audience will your talk be for? For talks tell us, in the notes section, the length that best fits the material you will present. Please add any pertinent information that you would like for us to consider to the Notes section.

You can enter proposals until 2024-10-20 23:55 (UTC), 1 week, 4 days from now.