Tech Conferences

A curated, community-maintained list of 279 tech conferences where developer advocates, DevRel professionals, and technical speakers should be submitting talks. This dataset powers the DevRel Academy CFP Tracker.

What's Inside

The conferences.json file contains structured data for each conference including:

• Event details: name, description, website, location, dates
• CFP information: submission URL, open/close dates
• Format: in-person, virtual, or hybrid
• Audience types: DevRel, open source, AI/ML, cloud, security, frontend, backend, mobile, data, and more
• Talk formats: talks, lightning talks, workshops, panels, keynotes, unconferences
• Speaker perks: travel, hotel, stipend, speaker dinner, etc.
• Estimated attendance and editorial notes

Conference Categories

Category	Count	Examples
Open Source	45+	All Things Open, FOSDEM, Open Source Summit
AI & Machine Learning	35+	NeurIPS, ICML, AI Engineer Summit
Cloud & Infrastructure	30+	KubeCon, AWS re:Invent, HashiConf
General Tech	50+	SXSW, Web Summit, Strange Loop
Security	15+	DEF CON, Black Hat, BSides
Frontend & Web	20+	React Conf, CSS Day, JSConf
Backend & APIs	15+	GopherCon, RustConf, PyCon
Community	20+	DjangoCon, PyCon, RubyConf
DevRel & Advocacy	10+	DevRelCon, DevRel Summit
Data & Analytics	10+	Data Council, dbt Coalesce

Data Schema

Each conference entry follows this structure:

{
  "id": "conf-example",
  "name": "Example Conference",
  "description": "A brief description of the conference.",
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "cfpUrl": "https://example.com/cfp",
  "location": "City, State/Country",
  "region": "north-america",
  "format": "in-person",
  "audienceTypes": ["general-tech", "open-source"],
  "talkFormats": ["talk", "lightning", "workshop"],
  "eventStartDate": "2026-10-15",
  "eventEndDate": "2026-10-17",
  "cfpOpenDate": "2026-01-01",
  "cfpCloseDate": "2026-06-30",
  "speakerPerks": ["travel", "hotel"],
  "estimatedAttendees": "1000-2000",
  "tags": ["open-source", "community"],
  "featured": false,
  "notes": "First-time speakers encouraged."
}

Field Reference

Field	Type	Required	Description
id	string	Yes	Unique identifier (format: conf-kebab-case-name)
name	string	Yes	Conference name
description	string	Yes	Brief description
url	string	Yes	Conference website
cfpUrl	string	No	Direct link to CFP submission page
location	string	Yes	City, State/Country
region	enum	Yes	north-america, europe, asia-pacific, latin-america, africa, online
format	enum	Yes	in-person, virtual, hybrid
audienceTypes	array	Yes	Target audiences (see values below)
talkFormats	array	Yes	Accepted talk formats
eventStartDate	string	No	ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
eventEndDate	string	No	ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
cfpOpenDate	string	No	ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
cfpCloseDate	string	No	ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
speakerPerks	array	No	e.g., travel, hotel, stipend, speaker-dinner
estimatedAttendees	string	No	Range, e.g., 500-1000
tags	array	No	Freeform topic tags
featured	boolean	No	Highlighted conference
notes	string	No	Editorial notes

Audience Types

devrel, developer-experience, dx, community, open-source, developer-marketing, platform-engineering, general-tech, ai-ml, cloud, security, frontend, backend, mobile, data

Talk Formats

talk, lightning, workshop, panel, keynote, unconference

Regions

north-america, europe, asia-pacific, latin-america, africa, online

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community. Here's how you can help:

Adding a New Conference

1. Fork this repository
2. Add your conference to conferences.json following the schema above
3. Ensure all required fields are filled in
4. Submit a pull request

Updating Existing Data

If you notice outdated CFP dates, broken URLs, or incorrect information:

1. Open an issue describing what needs to be updated, or
2. Submit a pull request with the correction

Guidelines

• Only include conferences that accept talk submissions (have a CFP process)
• Verify all URLs are working before submitting
• Use ISO date format (YYYY-MM-DD) for all dates
• Include at least one audience type and one talk format
• Keep descriptions concise (1-2 sentences)

Usage

This data is available as a JSON file that can be consumed by any application. It is used by DevRel Academy to power the CFP Tracker.

// Example: Load and filter conferences with open CFPs
const conferences = require('./conferences.json');
const today = new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0];

const openCfps = conferences.filter(conf =>
  conf.cfpCloseDate && conf.cfpCloseDate >= today
);

console.log(`${openCfps.length} conferences with open CFPs`);

License

This data is provided under the MIT License. Conference information is sourced from publicly available websites and community contributions.

Acknowledgments

This project is maintained as part of DevRel Academy, a learning platform for developer advocates. Originally based on the awesome-dev-advocacy project.