Saturday 27 June 2026 at 0:00 (UTC)

What have you found exciting about Emacs lately? Have you figured out a good workflow? Used Emacs for something interesting? Come share what you've been learning at EmacsConf 2026 and meet other enthusiasts along the way! All backgrounds and all levels of experience are welcome. Emacs isn't just a text editor, it's a way of life!

EmacsConf 2026 will be a virtual conference on December 12 and 13, 2026 (Sat-Sun, 9AM-5PM UTC-5 America/Toronto, which is the same as 2PM-10PM UTC). We hope to get your talk proposal by Friday, September 18, 2026.

If there are similar proposals, we'll work with people so that the talks can cover different facets.

Wondering what to talk about? Check out this list of ideas or the talks from previous conferences. Got an idea for a talk but not sure if you're the right person to present it? Let us know at emacsconf-submit@gnu.org and we can add it to the idea list.

Important dates

Here's an outline of important dates in the months leading up to the conference:

Please note the deadlines are meant to be target dates we'd love to get your proposal and prerecorded video by, rather than strict deadlines. Don't stress out if life happens and you need more time, just let us know!

Talk formats

Ideally, talks will be prerecorded so that you can script and edit them as tightly as you want, and so that they can be captioned for accessibility. Here are the talk options:

• 5-10 minute lightning talk: just the essentials! If you can squeeze your prerecorded talk into 5-10 minutes by focusing on the essentials (not by talking super quickly!), we might be able to repeat it during the conference in order to fill gaps.

• 20-minute talk: short enough to keep people's attention, long enough to get into some details.

There will be time for questions and answers after your talk, so you don't need to include that in your talk timing. Just like in previous EmacsConf, you can answer questions via a live video conference, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), the Etherpad (a web-based collaborative document), the wiki, or email (your choice). The stream will move on to the next talk at the scheduled time, but interested people can keep hanging out with you for a longer conversation.

If you are not available during the conference itself but you have a neat idea that you'd like to share, please propose it anyway! You can always handle questions after the conference, and we might even be able to coordinate with other Emacs meetups for events in other time zones.

We may have time for a few longer sessions. If you'd like to be considered for a longer time slot, please include an outline for the extra time in addition to your 20-minute proposal. Other session formats such as tutorials, workshops, and hangouts are welcome as well.

Submitting your proposal

Send us your idea as soon as you can, so that you can have more time to work on your talk. (Proposal deadline: Friday, September 18, 2026)

If you need help, you can email us publicly at emacsconf-org@gnu.org or privately at emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org. You can also come and say hi to us on our IRC channel #emacsconf on irc.libera.chat port 6697 (TLS) using your favourite IRC client.

Here's an Org TODO you can copy in case that's what you use to organize your tasks:

* TODO Submit proposal to EmacsConf 2026
DEADLINE: <2026-09-18 Fri>

- Details: https://emacsconf.org/2026/cfp/
- Submit: https://emacsconf.org/2026/submit/
- Dates for conf: Dec 12 and 13, Sat-Sun, 9AM-5PM UTC-5 America/Toronto, which is the same as 2PM-10PM UTC
- Questions:
  - public: mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org
  - private: mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org
  - IRC: irc.libera.chat

Note: 2026-09-18 is a target date and we'd love to get your proposal
by then. It's not a *deadline* deadline, so don't stress out if life
happens. Just let us know!

Thanks for sharing what you're learning!

Know someone who might have something to share?

All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things. We'd love it if EmacsConf 2026 could highlight interesting perspectives and reflect the diversity of our community. If you know someone who might have a good idea for a talk, please reach out to them and encourage them to submit a proposal. Many people (especially from underrepresented groups such as women, people of colour, non-developers, etc.) might not consider themselves proficient enough to share their thoughts. If you let them know that you value their knowledge and experiences, and maybe even suggest something that you think others would like to hear about, they may realize that they do have something worth sharing and that we would love to hear from them.

Want to volunteer?

If you would like to help with the conference (planning the sessions, reviewing proposals, helping with infrastructure, making sessions more accessible, editing video transcripts, checking in speakers, reading questions out loud, organizing notes, etc.), please see our volunteer page. Volunteers get early access to talks and learn lots of things along the way. We'd really appreciate your help in making EmacsConf 2026 the best one so far!

Commitment to freedom

We remain fully committed to freedom. You'll be able to participate in EmacsConf using free/libre software, and we use free/libre software to organize and run the conference. You can find some notes about our setup and process at https://emacsconf.org/infra/.