About DevConf

DevConf.CZ is annual, free, Red Hat sponsored community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. At DevConf.CZ, FLOSS communities sync, share, and hack on upstream projects together.

DevConf.cz Mini is a bi-annual, highly focused, local, in-person version of DevConf.cz. It offers an opportunity to return to our conference themes in a smaller setting and establishes a platform for the Czech Republic and EMEA based community to sync, share and hack on upstream projects together.

There is no admission or ticket charge for DevConf.CZ events. However, you are required to complete a free registration. Watch this site for updates about registration.

We are committed to fostering an open and welcoming environment at our conference. We set expectations for inclusive behavior through our code of conduct and media policies, and are prepared to enforce these.

Conference Themes

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and Hyperscale Infrastructure

Topics around Kubernetes, high availability, anything that powers large data centers or small private clouds, best practices for infrastructure management and operations at scale, resource efficiency, setting up developer environments. Topic related to virtualization and kubernetes.

Future Tech and Open Research

What’s next? Any topics that are discussed or actively researched yet their impact is still potential. Best practices and great examples of open source research collaborations are welcome.

Trending topics from software development, metaverse, new trends in existing areas such as microservices, distributed computing, and continuous improvement, observability, quantum computing.
Edge, Mobile and Automotive

Modern embedded systems, microcontrollers, management of embedded systems, infrastructure for embedded systems, resource optimization and resource lean appliances, peripherals, tools for specific use cases, and edge in automotive.

HPC, Big Data and Data Science

High performance systems, data storing and processing, best practices for data lakes/data mesh, and parallelism and vector computing.
Linux Distributions and Operating Systems

Firmware, Linux kernel, base platform for containers, unorchestrated containers, desktop, updates from Fedora land, Silverblue, CentOS Stream, etc.

OS building and distribution, release management topics, package manager tools, data driven package management, integrating components into the system.

DevOps and Automation, Security and Compliance

How to define a release pipeline, how to automate developer environments, how to build developer sandboxes, how to ensure application uptime, continuous application development, agile development, SRE tools and best practices, AppOps and testing in DevOps environments.

Embedded intelligence in products for automation, IoB (internet of behaviors), analytics and automated remediation capabilities, risk and change analysis, AI powered orchestration, and machine learning in test automation (i.e, test failure analysis, test generation, and test selection).
Application and Services Development

Build and deploy apps, modern application development, services development and challenges with running applications in cloud, application monitoring and cloud-ready apps, application modernization, single-sourcing documentation, etc.

Open Source Success Stories

Customer success stories with open source, examples of open source initiatives in public sector, open source projects in academia.

Ideas for new open source projects (includes lightning talks for pitching new ideas!)
Agility, Leadership and DEI

Agile practices, UX, design/design thinking, community management and open source in education, open management practices.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion topics (DEI).

Open track

Open to any other topics!

Open Source student projects, diploma and bachelor thesis presentations, ideas for new projects and any other topic that does not fit into listed themes.

News

Mar 20, 2023 CfP for lightning talks remains open.

Mar 10, 2023 Deadline to submit session for main DevConf.CZ event is extended to March 17, 2023 EOD everywhere.

Mar 10, 2023 DevConf.cz Mini | March 2023 - CfP closed.

Mar 8, 2023 You can follow us at Fosstodon.

Mar 3, 2023 Online CfP office hours on Friday, from 2 - 3 PM CET (Google, Yahoo, Outlook, Office365)

Jan 18, 2023 CfP opens, deadline to submit proposals is Mar 10, 2023.

Dec 12, 2022 DevConf.CZ 2023 dates announced: Jun 16-18, 2023.

Oct 4, 2022 Registration for autumn Mini event is open.