RoboCon 2026 – 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: 19th October 2025 at 11:59 PM UTC.

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 2026 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 12-13 February, 2026. Please also reserve the 10th and 11th of February and for the Workshops and the Community Day. 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 4th-5th March, 2026 followed by the community day and tutorials on the March 6th. For RoboCon2026 Online the first day will focus on and be run during business hours and a focus on EMEA + Asia. The second day, 5th March, will be run during business hours in the Americas.

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. The talks are planned to be shared post-conference on our YouTube Channel.

Looking for Talks, Workshops, Tutorials and Keynotes

We are looking for conference talks, workshops and tutorials for 2026. All presentations are 25 minutes long including Q&A, 20 minutes live(on-site)/recorded(remote) talk plus 5 minutes live Q&A. 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. This year we are also welcoming proposals for keynote speakers. If you have an idea which you would want to discuss with us please submit those ideas.

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. If you have a need for greater coverage for you expenses please add comments to the notes section.

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 2025-10-19 23:59 (UTC), 4 months from now.