Declarative Amsterdam 2026 Call for Papers

Following the success of the past seven editions, the *eighth* edition 
of Declarative Amsterdam will once again take place at the Science Park, 
Amsterdam, on Thursday/Friday *12/13 November 2026*. As usual, it will 
be a hybrid conference with the opportunity to attend live or online, 
for both attendees and presenters.

The first day will mostly feature tutorials, combining presentations and 
hands-on sessions to give an introduction to specific topics. The second 
day will be a symposium, with shorter presentations.

Declarative Amsterdam will have presentations on past experiences, 
current trends, applications, best practices, new ideas and future 
perspectives in fields such as functional programming, declarative data 
modelling, databases, XML and related technologies, JSON, CSS, XForms, 
semantic web, data science, data visualisation, grammars, parsing, and 
domain-specific languages.

We actively encourage the participation of groups who are traditionally 
under-represented in data and software engineering. If you can help us 
to broaden the range of participants and topics, please contact us.


    Call for presentations

We invite practitioners, software architects and engineers, academic 
researchers and others to submit a proposal for a tutorial or a 
presentation.

Tutorials can be between 1 and 2.5 hours, and preferably include 
hands-on sessions for participants.

Presentations can be between 15 and 45 minutes. Speakers can present in 
person, or prepare a video, and be available online for the question and 
answer session afterwards.

A presentation can be about an established technology, a new idea, a 
product, or application, as long as it addresses the topic of the 
conference.

Proposals should include a title, duration and summary (90–200 words), 
and may also include a full paper. Presenters have the option of 
submitting a full paper or slides, to be published on the Declarative 
Amsterdam website.

All presentations will be made available for the wider audience after 
the conference on our website and on YouTube 
<https://www.youtube.com/@declarativeamsterdam>. For papers and topics 
from previous years, see the website: https://declarative.amsterdam

Please submit your proposals at https://declarative.amsterdam/cfp


    Timeline

Submission deadline: 31 July
Acceptance: Beginning of September
Videos, tutorials, papers: 12 October
Conference: 12 and 13 November

All the best,
Declarative Amsterdam 2026 organising committee