{"id":60748,"date":"2026-09-08T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/?p=60748"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:56:48","slug":"dotnet-conf-2026-community-days-call-for-presenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/dotnet-conf-2026-community-days-call-for-presenters\/","title":{"rendered":".NET Conf 2026 Community Days Call for Presenters Is Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/09\/net-conf-2026-community-days-scaled.webp\" alt=\".NET Conf 2026 banner\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The .NET Conf 2026 Community Days call for presenters is open! Submit your\nsession proposal between September 8 and October 6, 2026, for the opportunity\nto share what you have learned with the .NET community.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the community is taking an even larger role in shaping and running\n.NET Conf. If you have built something interesting, explored a new technology,\nlearned lessons through experience, or found a better way to solve a familiar\nproblem, we would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p><div  class=\"d-flex justify-content-center\"><a class=\"cta_button_link btn-primary mb-24\" href=\"https:\/\/sessionize.com\/dotnetconf-community-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a session for .NET Conf 2026<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n<h2>Four days of .NET<\/h2>\n<p>As we shared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/dotnet-conf-2026\/\">.NET Conf 2026 announcement<\/a>,\nthe conference brings together the people who build and use .NET.<\/p>\n<p>The first two days will be led by the .NET team and broadcast live from\nMicrosoft studios. You can expect the latest releases and announcements,\ntogether with deep dives from the people building .NET.<\/p>\n<p>The final two days, November 12-13, are .NET Conf Community Days. Speakers will\npresent remotely and may present in their own time zones. A community team led\nby Javier Lozano, working with members of the .NET Foundation board and others,\nwill select the sessions, host the broadcasts, and run the event from start to\nfinish.<\/p>\n<p>In previous years, community sessions were selected and led by Microsoft&#8217;s\n.NET community team. For 2026, the Community Days are fully in the community&#8217;s\nhands, including talk selection, hosting, and production. This is an important\nstep toward making .NET Conf even more of a community event.<\/p>\n<h2>What to submit<\/h2>\n<p>Great conference sessions often begin with something practical:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A project you built and the decisions that shaped it<\/li>\n<li>Lessons you learned while solving a difficult problem<\/li>\n<li>A technology you explored and what you discovered<\/li>\n<li>A new approach to a challenge other developers may recognize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are looking for 30-minute talks, including audience questions and answers,\nabout building with .NET or software development practices. Topics can include\nweb, native, mobile, desktop, AI, IoT, game development, containers and\nmicroservices, machine learning, data, DevOps, and .NET open-source projects.\nSessions that demonstrate what you can do with .NET 11 are preferred, but any\n.NET-related topic or subject that interests developers will be considered.<\/p>\n<p>Focus your proposal on work you are doing with .NET rather than duplicating\nproduct team announcements. Include information about yourself, your previous\nspeaking experience, and links to presentation videos or other qualifications\nthe selection team should consider. To make room for more speakers and topics,\nthe team prefers to accept no more than one session per speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Review the submission details on Sessionize, then tell us what you would like\nto share. Session proposals are open through <strong>October 6, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Help with Community Days<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking is not the only way to participate. The community team is also looking\nfor volunteers to help behind the scenes with Community Days. If you would like\nto help, email <a href=\"mailto:volunteer@dotnetconf.net\">volunteer@dotnetconf.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are excited to see the sessions the community submits and to watch the\ncommunity shape .NET Conf 2026. Submit your proposal by October 6, and we will\nsee you at .NET Conf!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submit your session proposal for the community-led .NET Conf 2026 Community Days by October 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220124,"featured_media":60749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[685],"tags":[7207,8208,51,7746,8056],"class_list":["post-60748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dotnet","tag-net-conf","tag-call-for-presenters","tag-community","tag-conference","tag-virtual-event"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Submit your session proposal for the community-led .NET Conf 2026 Community Days by October 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60750,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60748\/revisions\/60750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}