EmacsConf 2026
Online, December 12-13, 2026
Table of Contents
Logistics
| When | , 9:00-17:00 US/Eastern (14:00-22:00 UTC) |
| Where | Online: streams, BigBlueButton Q&A, IRC #emacsconf on Libera.Chat, Etherpad |
| Tracks | General and Development, run in parallel |
| Cost | free |
| URL | emacsconf.org/2026; talks, watch |
| Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
| Call for participation | |
| Proposal target date (passed) | |
| Prerecorded videos due | |
| Conference |
Talks are 5-10 minute lightning talks or 20-minute talks, prerecorded and
captioned, with live Q&A after. The organizers call the dates targets rather
than deadlines. A schedule calendar is at emacsconf.org/2026/emacsconf.ics.
Talks to watch
Picked for overlap with work here: Guile, Org Babel, local AI, code review, and the REPL habit. Times US/Eastern, as published on 2026-10-23; the schedule may still move.
| When | Track | Talk | Speaker | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 15:25-15:45 | Dev | æmacs: having a hoot with a guile emacs | Akira Kyle | Guile and Hoot under Emacs |
| Sat 14:45-15:05 | Dev | El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning them | Ag | the opposite of the ghq get habit |
| Sat 14:50-15:10 | Gen | Hyperbole, My Dear Watson | Charlie Holland | implicit buttons over plain text |
| Sun 10:15-10:25 | Gen | hutch: code reviews for the mildly disenfranchised | Akshay Gupta | review inside the editor, next to PR triage here |
| Sun 10:35-10:55 | Gen | Beyond the Chatbot: Team-Oriented AI in Emacs | Mohsen Banan | multi-agent work from Emacs |
| Sun 11:00-11:10 | Dev | Org Babel everywhere | George Huebner | the site is Org Babel all the way down |
| Sun 11:15-11:35 | Gen | Beyond shell history: Saving compilation output in Emacs | Jonathan Otsuka | keeping TLC and gate logs as artifacts |
| Sun 13:00-14:00 | Dev | [Panel] Emacs, LLMs, and Free Software | panel | the policy side of the above |
| Sun 14:10-14:30 | Gen | A (sort of) REPL for learning SVG | Eduardo Ochs | REPL-first learning, by the eev author |
The full schedule has 38 sessions, including two panels and the opening and closing slots; see the talks page.
Prior years
- EmacsConf 2025 (Dec 6-7)
- EmacsConf 2024 (Dec 7-8)
TODO
[X]Confirm dates: Dec 12-13, from emacsconf.org/2026/ (2026-10-23).[X]CFP window: June 27 to September 18 (closed).[ ]Recheck the schedule the week before; pull watch links per the 2025 page.