Call for Contributions

Looking for Speakers

You are actively engaged in advanced software engineering methods, solve ambitious problem with software and are open to cutting-edge innovation? Attend this conference, meet people that share your goals, and get to know the best software tools and technologies available today. We strive to offer a day full of new experiences and impressions that you can use to immediately improve your daily life as a software developer.

If you share our vision and want to contribute, submit a proposal for a talk or tutorial!

NOTE: The conference fee will be waived for presenters. Travel expenses will not be covered (for exceptions see "Speaker Grants").

Online or Onsite

We expect we'll be able to hold BOB 2023 in Berlin. Note that we intend to provide a safe environment for all participants. There will be space outside to eat and chat. We may ask you to wear a mask indoors when not presenting or eating, and may also ask you to take a COVID test on-site before the event.

If an on-site BOB is not possible, we'll make BOB a successful online event, like BOB 2021 and BOB 2022. Should BOB happen online, we will likely ask for pre-recorded talks to make room for questions and social interactions during the actual conference day. (Of course, we'll provide assistance making those recordings.) Tutorials will likely happen as a live-session.

Shepherding

The program committee offers shepherding to all speakers. Shepherding provides speakers assistance with preparing their sessions. Specifically:

advice on structure and presentation
review of talk slides
assistance with recording
review of recording, if applicable

Speaker Grants

BOB has Speaker Grants available to support speakers from groups under-represented in technology. We specifically seek women speakers, speakers of color, and speakers who are not able to attend the conference for financial reasons.

Topics

We are looking for talks about best-of-breed software technology, e.g.:

functional programming
persistent data structures and databases
event-based modelling and architecture
"fancy types" (dependent types, gradual typing, linear types, ...)
formal methods for correctness and robustness
abstractions for concurrency and parallelism
metaprogramming
probabilistic programming
math and programming
controlled side effects
program synthesis
next-generation IDEs
effective abstractions for data analytics
… everything really that isn’t mainstream, but you think should be
… including rough ideas that are worth discussing.

Presenters should provide the audience with information that is practically useful for software developers.

Challenges

Furthermore, we seek contributions on successful approaches for solving hard problems, for example:

bias in machine-learning systems
digital transformation in difficult settings
accessibiltity
systems with critical reliability requirements
ecologically sustainable software development

We're especially interested in experience reports.
Other topics are also relevant, e.g.:

introductory talks on technical background
overviews of a given field
demos and how-tos

Requirements

We accept proposals for presentations of 45 minutes (40 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions), as well as 90 minute tutorials for beginners. The language of presentation should be either English or German.

Your proposal should include (in your presentation language of choice):

An abstract of max. 1500 characters.
A short bio/cv
Contact information (including at least email address)
A list of 3-5 concrete ideas of how your work can be applied in a developer's daily life
additional material (websites, blogs, slides, videos of past presentations, …)

Submit here

Organisation

Direct questions to konferenz at bobkonf dot de
Proposal deadline: November 21, 2022
Notification: December 5, 2022
Program: December 12, 2022