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GHENT INTL · GATE HALL· 20 SEP 2026· CFP EXCHANGE

DEPARTURES

Every open call for papers across Europe, one flipboard. Deadline is the departure time — miss it and the gate closes. Sorted soonest first; six calls with no published deadline hold on standby below.

22Open CFPs
16Firm deadline
6Standby / rolling
7Gates (topics)
1Closes tonight
01 — Main board, sorted by deadline
FltDestinationGateDepartsStatus
CF 001 CfgMgmtCamp 2027 Ghent, Belgium · 1–3 Feb 2027 Home turf, zero travel. IaC/config-mgmt crowd — pitch AI-agents-for-ops or CI/CD angles. DevOpsBenelux TONIGHT23:59 CESTT–0 Final call Submit →
VX 026 VisugXL 2026 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium · 17 Nov 2026 20 min from Ghent. Topics explicitly include .NET / C# / Azure / AI / architecture. .NETBenelux 30 SEP23:59 CESTT–10 Boarding Submit →
ES 027 EuroSTAR 2027 Copenhagen, Denmark · 11–14 May 2027 Theme "Sharpening the Craft" — strong slot for TDD or AI-assisted-testing talks. Architecture 30 SEPtz not statedT–10 Boarding Submit →
WR 027 Web Rebels 2027 Oslo, Norway · 25–26 May 2027 Best-paying open frontend call — travel + lodging covered. No AI talks✈ Full travel Frontend 3 OCT23:59 CESTT–13 Boarding Submit →
DC 026 .NET Conf 2026 Community Days Virtual / global · 12–13 Nov 2026 Microsoft's own event — huge exposure, zero travel, 30-min talks. Virtual, no travel needed .NET 6 OCT23:59 PDT (≈7 Oct 08:59 CEST)T–17 Scheduled Submit →
C3 040 40C3 – Chaos Communication Congress Hamburg, Germany · 27–30 Dec 2026 Rail-reachable (~7h). Broad hacker congress — frame AI/agent talks for a general audience. Unpaid, limited travel fund Security 9 OCT23:59 UTCT–19 Scheduled Submit →
KC 027 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2027 Barcelona, Spain · 15–18 Mar 2027 Flagship, very competitive, K8s-internals-heavy — co-located days below fit DevEx better. 1 complimentary pass DevOps 11 OCT23:59 CESTT–21 Scheduled Submit →
MP 027 Machine Learning Prague 2027 — Workshops Prague, Czechia · 3–5 May 2027 3-hour hands-on workshop slot — strong for RAG pipelines or AI-assisted-TDD. AI/ML 15 OCTtz not statedT–25 Scheduled Submit →
NS 027 NDC Security Oslo 2027 Oslo, Norway · 15–18 Feb 2027 Best security fit — explicit "Securing AI" / "Agentic AI" topics, developer-conference crowd. Wants AI talks✈ Full travel .NETSecurity 18 OCT23:59 CESTT–28 Scheduled Submit →
AR 027 ArgoCon Europe 2027 Barcelona, Spain (co-located w/ KubeCon) · 15–18 Mar 2027 GitOps/CD territory — frame around delivery pipelines, not cluster internals. DevOps 18 OCTtz unconfirmedT–28 Scheduled Submit →
PE 027 Platform Engineering Day 2027 Barcelona, Spain (co-located w/ KubeCon) · 15–18 Mar 2027 Best DevOps fit on the board — platform-as-a-product and DevEx are named strengths. DevOps 18 OCTtz unconfirmedT–28 Scheduled Submit →
OB 027 Observability Day 2027 Barcelona, Spain (co-located w/ KubeCon) · 15–18 Mar 2027 Self-hosted monitoring / homelab angle fits — steer clear of deep Prometheus internals. DevOps 18 OCTtz unconfirmedT–28 Scheduled Submit →
DM 026 .NET Conference 2026 Milan, Italy · 4 Dec 2026 Mostly-Italian community day, English accepted — longer trip, rail or flight. .NET 24 OCT23:59 CESTT–34 Scheduled Submit →
PB 027 PHPBenelux 2027 Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium · 23 Jan 2027 Explicit "AI & Agentic Workflows" track — ~45 min from Ghent. Wants AI talksTravel + hotel reimbursed Benelux 31 OCT23:59 CETT–41 Scheduled Submit →
EA 027 ESANN 2027 Bruges, Belgium · 21–23 Apr 2027 Academic, peer-reviewed — needs a written paper, not a slide deck. AI/ML 18 NOVtz not statedT–59 Long haul Submit →
DD 027 DDD Europe 2027 Amsterdam, Netherlands · 3–4 Jun 2027 Best architecture/DDD fit — wants AI-assisted-DDD angles (ubiquitous language, RAG × bounded contexts). Wants AI talks✈ Travel + lodging + childcare Architecture 16 JAN '27tz not statedT–118 Long haul Submit →
Terminal announcements
Calendar

The date, not the subject, is what limits you: all seven angles independently found the 2026 cycle closed between March and August, with the 2027 wave only starting to open. The trough is continental, not topical.

AI paradox

The same deck is a headline submission at one gate and an auto-reject at another — NDC Security, DDD Europe and PHPBenelux want it by name; Web Rebels states plainly "please no AI related talks."

Compensation

Only three open calls cover travel and lodging in full — NDC Security Oslo, DDD Europe (which also covers professional childcare), and Web Rebels. PHPBenelux reimburses. Everywhere else a free ticket is the whole offer.

Ground stop

PaperCall.io shut down 31 Aug 2026, which is why GitNation's flagships — React Summit, React Advanced, React Day Berlin, JSNation — read as missing rather than closed. Mid-migration; re-run that angle in November.

Nearest gates

Geography inverts this month: CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent and VisugXL fifty minutes away are the two nearest events on the whole board — and also the two closing first.

Unfilled gap

Across 25+ security venues checked, there is still no dedicated European AI-security conference with an open CFP — that talk has to travel inside a general developer or hacker track.

02 — Standby list, no gate assigned

Six CFPs are confirmed open right now but publish no cutoff — submit soon, first-come, or confirm directly before investing prep time.

DestinationGateStatus
Big Data Conference Europe 2026 Vilnius, Lithuania + online · 24–27 Nov 2026 Large practitioner crowd — good for RAG, evals, or coding-agent talks. AI/ML Standby Submit →
DSC Europe 2026 Belgrade, Serbia · 23–27 Nov 2026 3,500+ attendee "AI builders" event — confirm the window by email before prepping. AI/ML Standby Submit →
NG-DE 2026 Berlin, Germany · 14–16 Oct 2026 Strong Angular fit, few open-CFP slots — event is only ~4 weeks out, treat as closing imminently. Frontend Standby Submit →
NgRome 2026 Rome, Italy · dates not published Strong Angular fit — confirm the event is still upcoming before investing time. Frontend Standby Submit →
Craft Conference 2027 Budapest, Hungary · 3–4 Jun 2027 2000+ attendee polyglot stage — live form says open, FAQ says closed. Verify before writing. Architecture Standby Submit →
WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2027 Berlin, Germany · 14–16 Jul 2027 15,000-attendee AI/dev congress — "agentic systems in production" track fits well. Rolling review. .NET Standby Submit →
03 — Terminal map
Gate 1 — AI/ML European AI/ML Conference CFPs Open as of September 2026 4 open · ML Prague, ESANN, Big Data Europe, DSC Europe Gate 2 — .NET Open .NET & Microsoft-Stack Conference CFPs 5 open · VisugXL, .NET Conf, NDC Security, .NET Milan, WeAreDevelopers Gate 3 — Frontend European Frontend Conference CFPs Open Right Now 3 open · Web Rebels, NG-DE, NgRome Gate 4 — Architecture Open CFPs: Software Architecture & Engineering 3 open · EuroSTAR, Craft, DDD Europe Gate 5 — Security European AppSec/InfoSec CFPs Open Right Now 2 open · NDC Security, 40C3 Gate 6 — DevOps Open DevOps / Cloud-Native CFPs 5 open · CfgMgmtCamp, KubeCon EU, ArgoCon, Platform Eng, Observability Gate 7 — Benelux Benelux Conference CFPs Open Right Now 3 open · CfgMgmtCamp, VisugXL, PHPBenelux
22 open CFPs · 7 gates · verified 20 Sep 2026 Read the full synthesis →