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You can submit a proposal until April 12, 2026 (midnight UTC+1).

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Writing tips

Always keep your audience in mind when writing your biography, the title, summary, and content of your talk. Write them as if we were going to publish them as is on our website.

While we do not discriminate on your writing skills, our pre-selection process requires that every member of the staff read and vote on every proposition. This is an extremely time-consuming process and the more attention you put in a clear and well-written presentation, the better are your chances of being selected.

Also, please note that we do not accept any marketing or commercial presentations.

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Title

This is the conference or workshop title as it will appear on the schedule on the website, on screen, or printed during the event.

It is strongly recommended to limit its length and not try to have it summarize your entire subject. That is not its purpose—for that, you will find the Summary and Content fields presented below.

Level

Even if the subject content is usually sufficient to qualify its level, we invite you to help us evaluate it by specifying your subject's level.

This information is intended to alert the audience that a conference or workshop may require more or less advanced knowledge of the presented subject. This is particularly useful for technical subjects or those covering a very specific domain.

For this, we propose the following levels:

  • Beginner: knowing the subject is useful but not essential.
  • Intermediate: basic knowledge is necessary.
  • Expert: advanced knowledge of the subject is required.
  • All levels: the subject requires no specific knowledge.

Language

Enter the language in which you wish to give your presentation.

Note that this choice must be reflected in the rest of the information provided for your subject: title, summary, content... These should be submitted in the chosen language.

Tags

This field allows you to define a few keywords that will help the staff classify subjects during selection but also serve as a basis for choosing tags attached to each subject on the website schedule.

Ideally, enter only two or three terms. There's no need to spam us with keywords—quite the opposite.

Format

You can submit papers in different formats, depending on the duration you consider most suitable for your subject.

Conferences

For the two conference days, you can propose one of the following formats:

  • 50-minute conference (40 minutes of presentation followed by 10 minutes of questions)
  • Short conference of 30 minutes (25 minutes of presentation followed by 5 minutes of questions)

Exceeding the presentation time will result in a reduction or even elimination of question time.

Optionally, conferences are followed by an informal session. If this format doesn't appeal to you, it involves providing a space for exchange with the audience to continue the discussion after your conference. Informal sessions take place directly after your conference, parallel to the next conference in the schedule.

Feel free to let us know if this format interests you in your conference papers.

Workshops

For the workshop day, you can propose one of the following formats:

  • 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Double workshop of 3 hours (two times 1 hour 30 minutes separated by a break)

Target audience size

This field should be filled out for workshop papers to inform us of the ideal or maximum audience size for which you can run your workshop under good conditions.

Summary

As the name suggests, this field should contain a very short summary of your presentation.

We use this information to create promotional messages for subjects on social media.

Content

The content is the subject presentation text that will be displayed on the website schedule. It must therefore be clear, understandable, and simply make people want to attend!

Even though we don't impose a minimum or maximum length, we invite you not to write too short, nor to describe your entire presentation or its outline.

Specific needs

Please use this field if you need to communicate particular needs to the team to deliver your presentation under good conditions. Especially if there are technical or logistical constraints to consider, whether for your personal comfort (for example, if you cannot keep standing for 50 minutes and need a chair) or regarding equipment to provide (for example, if you need to broadcast video or sound).

Paper submission

Limitations

In order to provide a fair selection process, we limit the number of submissions to 5 per speaker and a maximum of 2 speakers per paper.

Paper statuses

When you create a paper, it is stored as a draft by default, that you can modify later on. You can create as many drafts as you want.

When you are ready to submit your paper to the team, you have to publish it. Once published, it becomes available to the staff but cannot be modified afterwards, so only publish it when it's ready.
Also at the time of the call for papers closing, any paper in draft status will not be considered during the selection.

Joint paper submission

To propose a paper with a second person, each one must have created an account on the website. Once this condition is met, one of the two simply needs to create the paper from their account. Once the paper is created as a draft, an option is available to invite another speaker: activating it provides an invitation link to transmit to the second person. If they are logged into the website, accessing the link will display the co-presentation paper with the paper details. They just need to accept the invitation to be added as a co-speaker and access the subject from their own account.

Selection process

Every staff member of Paris Web will receive and study every papers then we will make a pre-selection based on our individual evaluations. Finally we will all gather and compose together the schedule, as diverse and balanced as possible.

For informational purposes, here are the various deadlines planned this year:

  • Evaluation of papers through April 24;
  • Schedule selection by staff on April 25–26;
  • Notifications of acceptance, placement on the waiting list, or rejection will be sent by email for all papers between April 30 and May 7 at the latest;
  • Schedule will be announced on May 11.

Benefits if your paper is selected

If you are selected as a speaker, and depending on your personal case, we offer:

  • The travel to Paris — we will refund your transportation fees towards the venue;
  • The accommodation in a hotel close to the venue during the event, depending on the type of paper selected*;
  • A free access to the event, depending on the type of paper selected*;
  • And an invitation to the speakers’ dinner on Wednesday evening, the evening before the conferences.

* The arrangements differ depending on whether you are presenting a conference or leading a workshop:

  • If you are presenting a talk: accommodation is provided for the days of the conference (Wednesday through Friday), and you are invited to attend only the two days of conferences.
  • If you are leading a workshop: accommodation is provided the day before the workshop (Friday through Saturday), and you are invited to attend only the workshop day.

Support

Whether you’re a seasoned speaker or a first-timer, anyone can submit a topic to Paris Web.

If your topic is selected, we’re here to welcome you and support you as you prepare your presentation, and to ensure that your speaking experience goes as smoothly as possible.

We’re also setting up a dedicated Slack channel where you can chat with the staff as well as all the selected speakers, fostering the sharing of experiences and mutual support.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us via email, on Bluesky or the fediverse.

Recording

Each talk will be recorded by a professional team to be made available for video subtitled replay on our wesbite later on.

You can take a look at the previous editions of Paris Web on our website.

Code of conduct

Paris Web is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, or religion.

We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at the discretion of the conference organizers.

Submitting a paper implies you’ve read and agreed our code of conduct.