We would be delighted to count you amongst the pool of speakers for this year's event. Please note that despite this being a call for papers and us using the terms speaker, the SCBCN mixes many types of contents: talks, open space, and dojos; so we use the term speaker and papers loosely.

Talks can be in English, Spanish or Catalan, whichever language you feel most comfortable presenting in.

Format

We’ve seen that attendees value talks, but sessions of all formats are welcome. We’ve also received great feedback for sessions where the speaker allowed time for interruptions and debate, over exhaustive review of a cooked slide deck.

• Talks get 55 minute slots. Allocate time on your session for debate/discussion.
• We’re opening this year some slots for lightning talks (5-7 minutes talks with 3 minutes for questions at the end).
• The maximum number of speakers for a talk is 2, and 1 speaker for lighning talks
• We invite all first-time speakers to use the SCBCN as their sandbox. There’ll be slots reserved for first-timers. Overcome your fear of speaking in tech event 💪

Topics

There’s no central topic for SCBCN’25 so you have complete freedom regarding your session’s subject. In case you need any topic suggestions, we have compiled previous sessions and made them available online for your reference (check our Youtube channel).

Advice

After several years of preparing the SCBCN we’ve gathered some feedback regarding what the attendees value, so here are some tips to help you come up with a great session:

• Favor general topics over specific tools/languages.
• Consider entry-level sessions, as there’s always apprentices.
• Hands-on sessions are very popular.
• f you are looking for a debate or you are interested in something but not prepared to host a session, consider proposing it during the Open Space that takes place during the event.

Important details

• The Call for Papers deadline is June 1th, 2025.
• The Conference Schedule will be published on September 1st, 2025.

You can enter proposals until 2025-06-01 02:00 (Europe/Madrid), 2 weeks, 5 days from now.