Call for Papers

Deadline: 4 October 2026
Event date: 7-9 December 2026
Venue: Rebel, Oslo

Format and duration

• Regular talks: 60 minutes
• Lightning talks: 10-15 minutes
• Workshops: 60-120 minutes (1 or 2 talk slots)
• Workshops: 2-days (Pre-Conference)

Here are some suggestions for topics:

• AI-assisted development
• Agent teams and protocols
• Agentic DevOps
• Building agentic software
• Agentic UI and UX
• AEO and Agent optimization
• AI for security
• Security for AI
• AI ethics, impact and the profession
• Evals, testing and observability for AI Systems
• AI infrastructure, hosting and cost
• LLM and ML fundamentals
• Data, retrieval and context engineering

We encourage you to submit your top presentation on the topics you are most passionate about and not your entire portfolio. Try to limit your submissions to 3-4.

If you have previous speaking experience, please include links to videos, online presentations/slides or blogposts.

Travel and Accommodation
We offer to cover travel and accommodation for all speakers, except those only giving lightning talks or considered local.

Deadline
This call for papers ends 4 October 2026 @ 23:59 (GMT+2)

Questions?
Do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Best regards
The NDC AI Agenda Committee