239 talk proposals in six weeks
The 2026 call for speakers is closed. In six weeks, 239 proposals came in from 155 engineers at more than 130 companies.
Engineers from OpenAI, Meta, Netflix, NVIDIA, Stripe, and AWS were among them, alongside a long tail of startups and consultancies. There are far more submissions than stage slots, so most of the committee's work now is turning good talks down.
Here is how it broke down by track.
AI Engineering and Data took the largest share, close to 40% of all proposals. Expected. Second place was the surprise. Software architecture and engineering excellence pulled about a quarter of submissions, well ahead of cloud and platform engineering. Plenty of engineers still want stage time for distributed systems, performance, and keeping big codebases maintainable, AI or no AI.
Cloud and DevOps, security, and engineering careers made up the rest. Security drew the fewest proposals of its own. Most of it arrived folded into other talks, which matches how the 2026 program handles it. Security lives at the subtrack level, where engineers actually run into it.
Format preferences were lopsided. Around 7 in 10 speakers asked for the on-site stage in Warsaw. The online day drew far fewer.
Review is underway. Our ten-person program committee is working through the submissions track by track. First speaker announcements go out in the coming days.
Code Europe 2026 runs 14 to 15 September. Day 1 online, Day 2 on-site in Warsaw. Join Code Europe and get your tickets ;)