Speak at Heapcon 2025!
Share your knowledge and experience from the stage of one of the biggest tech conferences in the region!
What is Heapcon?
In case you’re hearing about us for the first time, here's a bit about us.
Heapcon is a regional tech conference for software engineers and tech businesses, happening in Belgrade, Serbia on the 30th and 31st October 2025. We've been up and running since 2018 under the shining light of Heapspace. Like all the others, this year we’re on a mission to inspire, educate, and connect.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for speakers who are industry experts and passionate practitioners who spark curiosity, nurture innovation, and push boundaries. Whether you're an experienced speaker or a first-time presenter with a bold idea, we want to hear from you.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Software Development
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DevOps & Infrastructure
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AI & Machine Learning
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Web Development
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Data Science & Analytics
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Cybersecurity
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Blockchain & Web3
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Tech Leadership & Culture
Why Speak at Heapcon?
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Showcase your expertise to a diverse, engaged audience.
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Network with fellow industry leaders, innovators, and tech enthusiasts.
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Inspire the next wave of problem-solvers and disruptors.
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Free conference pass, exclusive speaker swag, and speaker dinners with great Serbian food.
But enough about us,
this is about you.
Do you want to take the stage and share your experience with a crowd of software enthusiasts? Then we want to hear what you want to say and do! Submit your talk in our Call for Papers and our Committee will choose the best talks.
Submission Details
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Deadline: June 1st, 2025
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Format:35-minute talks or 45-minute workshops
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Speaker announcement: end of June
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How to apply: fill out the form below!
Submit your proposal today and become a part of Heapcon!
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Heapcon 2024

Jeremy Wagner
Senior Technical Writer @ Google @ Google
Interaction to Next Paint: 2024 Edition

Jelena Mladenović
Assistant Professor @ Computer Science Faculty @ Computer Science Faculty
Unveiling the mysteries of Brain Computer Interfaces

Ivett Ördög
Creator, Founder @ Lean Poker @ Lean Poker
How to sell a big refactor or rewrite to the business?

Georgios Diamantopoulos
Founder @ Zero to MVP
Miss the forest for the trees: How frontend developers fail to be engineers
Heapcon 2023

Sven Peters
Developer Advocate @ Atlassian @ Atlassian
Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done

Giulia Panozzo
Director of Customer Acquisition at StockX / Founder at Neuroscientive (consultancy) @ StockX / Neuroscientive
Neuroscience of Search and Customer Acquistion

Scott Chacon
former cofounder of GitHub, cofounder of GitButler @ GitHub / GitButler
Revving Up Version Control: From Retro to Next-Gen

Bogdan Habić
Co-Founder and CTO @ Tenderly @ Tenderly
Hey, this looks like a server: Appchains and the Future of Blockchain Scaling
Heapcon 2022

Christopher S. Penn
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist @ Trust Insights @ Trust Insights
Exploratory Data Analysis: The Missing Step for AI

Dave Snowden
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer @ Cognitive Edge @ Cognitive Edge
Managing in Complexity (and chaos)

Mikael Munck
Founder & CEO @ 2021.AI @ 2021.AI
Responsible AI: In Theory, Practice, and Policies

Sohan Maheshwar
Senior Developer Advocate @ Amazon Web Services
Architecting in the Cloud for Sustainability
Heapcon 2019

Sumit Gulwani
Founder and Leader of the PROSE Research and Engineering Team @ Microsoft @ Microsoft
Automated Program Generation from Input-Output Examples

Lois Kim
Visual Strategist @ NASA @ NASA
Navigating Through Space

Kaz Sato
Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud @ Google Cloud
Real-world Machine Learning with TensorFlow and Cloud AI

Katie Koschland
Junior Engineer @ Financial Times @ Financial Times
Ready, Steady, Crash!
Heapcon 2018

Martin Splitt
Google @ Google
Making great, discoverable web apps

Arun Gupta
Amazon Web Services @ Amazon Web Services
Using Chaos Engineering for Building Resilient Systems

Courtney Hemphill
Carbon Five @ Carbon Five
The Engineering-Manager Transition

Mark Heckler
Pivotal @ Pivotal
Springing into Kotlin: How to Make the Magic even more Magical