Declarative Amsterdam 2026 - Call for Presentations

Following the success of the past seven editions, the eighth edition of Declarative Amsterdam will once again take place at the Science Park, Amsterdam, on Thursday/Friday 12/13 November 2026. As usual, it will be a hybrid conference with the opportunity to attend live or online, for both attendees and presenters.

The first day will mostly feature tutorials, combining presentations and hands-on sessions to give an introduction to specific topics. The second day will be a symposium, with shorter presentations.

Declarative Amsterdam will have presentations on past experiences, current trends, applications, best practices, new ideas and future perspectives in fields such as functional programming, declarative data modeling, databases, XML and related technologies, JSON, CSS, XForms, semantic web, data science, data visualization, grammars, parsing, and domain-specific languages.

We actively encourage the participation of groups who are traditionally under-represented in data and software engineering. If you can help us to broaden the range of participants and topics, please contact us.

Call for presentations

We invite practitioners, software architects and engineers, academic researchers and others to submit a proposal for a tutorial or a presentation.

Tutorials can be between 1 and 2.5 hours, and preferably include hands-on sessions for participants.

Presentations can be between 15 and 45 minutes. Speakers can present in person, or prepare a video, and be available online for the question and answer session afterwards.

A presentation can be about an established technology, a new idea, a product, or application, as long as it addresses the topic of the conference.

Proposals should include a title, duration and summary (90–200 words), and may also include a full paper. Presenters have the option of submitting a full paper or slides, to be published on the Declarative Amsterdam website.

All presentations will be made available for the wider audience after the conference on our website and on YouTube. For papers and topics from previous years, see the website: https://declarative.amsterdam

Please submit your proposals at https://declarative.amsterdam/cfp

Timeline

Submission deadline: 31 July
Acceptance: Beginning of September
Videos, tutorials, papers: 12 October
Conference: 12 and 13 November