Call For Proposals (CFP)

The Jupyter ecosystem has transformed data science, scientific research, and education. It has shaped the way a generation of developers and scientists develop their workflows. JupyterCon 2025 will bring together data scientists, business analysts, scientists, educators, developers, core Project contributors, designers, and tool creators for a three-day, in-person event to learn and connect about all things Jupyter.

Please be aware that the Linux Foundation will now utilize Sessionize for CFP submissions. Sessionize is a cloud-based event content management software designed to be intuitive and user-friendly. If you need guidance, please review how to submit your session for an event to see step-by-step instructions and helpful screenshots.

Reminder: This is a community conference — so no product and/or vendor sales pitches.

• Data Science: Learn how Jupyter is used by data science practitioners in industry, government, science, and beyond.
• Community: Learn about the Jupyter community, tooling, and best practices. Community tools include frontends, kernels, extensions, and other tools in the Jupyter ecosystem. Community practices include how Jupyter is used in a workflow and introspection into the Jupyter community itself.
• Research and Scientific Discovery: Learn how Jupyter is used in specific scientific research fields, such as medical research, astronomy, physics, climate change, meteorology, humanities, social science, and more.
• Education: Learn how to teach and learn using Jupyter in a variety of settings.
• Jupyter Infrastructure: Learn about deploying Jupyter and JupyterHub at scale in industry, government, high-performance computing, science, education, and other settings. Topics include DevOps, scaling services, security concerns, regulation compliance, and more.

Presentations (Talks)

Presentations are focused talks covering a specific topic, concept, or case study. Talks may be 25 minutes and also include brief Q&A or 10 minutes without a Q&A period.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide participants with in-depth training in the use, facilitation, or operation of research computing and data resources and services. Tutorials should emphasize hands-on, practical content over lecture content, should specify the amount of hands-on activities, and specify the target audience as Introductory, Intermediate, or Advanced in the proposed topic. 

• Tutorials will be held on Monday, Nov 3, 2025.
• Tutorials may be proposed as either a full-day (6-hour) or half-day (3-hour) session, and should allow for breaks (which are in addition to the 3 or 6 hours of material).
• While the Internet is expected to be available in session rooms during the tutorials, authors should be prepared to conduct tutorials without internet connectivity in case of an outage.

Group Sessions (Workshops, Birds-of-a-Feather, Symposia)

Group sessions provide a focused, in-depth venue for presentations, discussion, and interaction. Submissions will be selected with a preference for topics that inspire deep and interactive dialogue on important topics within the research computing and data communities.

• Group sessions may be proposed as either a full-day (6-hour) or half-day (3-hour) session, and should allow for breaks (which are in addition to the 3 or 6 hours of material).
• Full day group sessions will be held on Monday, Nov 3, 2025. Half-day group sessions may be scheduled for any day of the conference.

Posters

Posters summarize projects, information, research, etc., concisely and attractively to help publicize it and generate discussion. The poster is usually a mixture of a brief text mixed with tables, graphs, pictures, and other presentation formats. Accepted posters will be presented in a poster session at JupyterCon; authors are present while other participants can view the presentation and interact with them.

The maximum presentation space for posters is 3.5 ft (1.1 m) wide by 4 ft (1.2 m) tall.

• All speakers are required to adhere to the Project Jupyter and Linux Foundation Codes of Conduct. We also highly recommend that speakers take our online Inclusive Speaker Orientation Course.
• Panel submissions must include the names of all participants in the initial submission to be considered. In addition, The Linux Foundation does not accept submissions with all-male panels in an effort to increase speaker diversity.
• Avoid sales or marketing pitches and discussing unlicensed or potentially closed-source technologies when preparing your proposal; these talks are almost always rejected due to the fact that they take away from the integrity of our events, and are rarely well-received by conference attendees.

While it is not our intention to provide you with strict instructions on how to prepare your proposal, we hope you will take a moment to review the following guidelines that we have put together to help you prepare the best submission possible. To get started, here are three things that you should consider before submitting your proposal:

• What are you hoping to get from your presentation?
• What do you expect the audience to gain from your presentation?
• How will your presentation help better the ecosystem?

There are plenty of ways to give a presentation about projects and technologies without focusing on company-specific efforts. Remember the things to consider that we mentioned above when writing your proposal and think of ways to make it interesting for attendees while still letting you share your experiences, educate the community about an issue, or generate interest in a project.

How to Give a Great Talk

We want to ensure submitters receive resources to help put together a great submission and, if accepted, give the best presentation possible. To help do this, we recommend viewing seasoned speaker Dawn Foster’s in-depth session titled Overcoming Imposter Syndrome to Become a Conference Speaker!

Have More Questions? First Time Submitting? Don’t Feel Intimidated

Linux Foundation events are an excellent way to get to know the community and share your ideas and the work you are doing, and we strongly encourage first-time speakers to submit talks for our events. If you aren’t sure about your abstract, reach out to us, and we will be more than happy to work with you on your proposal.

Project Jupyter and the Linux Foundation are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for participants at all of our events. We encourage all submitters to review the Codes of Conduct for both Project Jupyter and the Linux Foundation.

For questions about the CFP process, please contact cfp@linuxfoundation.org.