GraphQL Europe 2018: Call for Papers 🇪🇺

Attend Europe’s biggest GraphQL conference

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5 min readDec 7, 2017

GraphQL Europe takes place in the heart of Berlin with a great view on the Spree river

After the successful launch of GraphQL Europe earlier this year, Europe’s biggest GraphQL conference is coming back with its second edition in 2018!

Location: nHow Hotel, Berlin (Website | Map)
Date: June 15, 2018

GraphQL EU is the biggest gathering of GraphQL enthusiasts in Europe. Hosted in the heart of Berlin, the conference is an opportunity for the GraphQL community to come together, share knowledge and experiences, discuss crazy ideas, and contribute to the exciting future of GraphQL. With around 300 attendees in 2017, we’re aiming to have around 600 in 2018!

Like last year, great speakers from all around the world will join the conference. Prepare yourself for fantastic talks from the companies that have been driving the development of GraphQL from the start, like Facebook, Apollo, GitHub and more. See the current list of speakers here.

Ticket sales are already open. Early bird tickets are available for 199.- €. Make sure to grab your ticket while there are still some left!

As of today, you can submit your talk proposals — we’re looking forward to your submissions!

GraphQL is an amazing technology! Being used at the API layer and available for all major programming languages, it’s relevant for frontend and backend engineers from various programming communities. GraphQL Europe thus brings together developers with a wide range of backgrounds.

In the same way, the talks are expected to cover a variety of different topics! Here’s a list of a few subjects that might serve as an inspiration for your talk:

Case Study: Did you or your company decide to use GraphQL in production? Tell us how it went, what the original motivation was to adopt GraphQL, the challenges you came across and how it affected your engineering process and team structure as a whole.
Best Practices: With GraphQL still being a fairly new technology, it’s very common to hear developers ask how to do X (Authentication, Permissions, Realtime, Offline, Native Development, Testing,…) with GraphQL. If you have discovered patterns that work well for you and your team, submit a talk to share your approach with the community!
Frontend: Are you using Relay or Apollo Client in a bigger project? Or maybe you’re building a native mobile app with GraphQL? Did you discover new patterns or was there a specific client-side feature that really helped your team and boosted your development process? Let the community know by submitting a talk about it!
Backend: The server-side space is probably the one that’s most exciting about GraphQL, not only because it reaches so many programming communities. Being an API technology, most of the challenges to be solved with GraphQL lie on the server. Solutions, patterns and ideas can be shared across programming languages. Tell everyone about your approaches for how your team adopted a GraphQL gateway or how you decided to structure your application. What libraries and tools are you using to build, deploy and maintain your GraphQL server?
Experimental Features: The future of GraphQL is bright and many ideas are already discussed and experimented with in the wild before they make it into the official specification. Topics like live queries, custom directives, schema stitching or code generation are on the cutting-edge of the GraphQL ecosystem. Be sure to submit a talk if you’ve already gained experience with any of the experimental features of GraphQL.

This list only intends to serve some inspiration for common topics, but of course it’s not complete. If you have an idea for a talk that does not fit any of these categories, this should be even more of a reason to submit your proposal!

We’re welcoming speakers and attendees from all kinds of backgrounds, GraphQL newcomer or veteran! Even if you’re new to public speaking, we’ll do our best to help you get on stage well-prepared and ready to deliver an amazing talk!

Like last year, we also offer a diversity scholarship program to support attendees from groups underrepresented in the tech community.

It is extremely important to us that GraphQL Europe is an inclusive event that becomes a great experience for everyone! We do not tolerate any sort of discrimination or harassment based on gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices! For more info, read our code of conduct.

In case you missed the last conference, here are a few pictures to give you a taste of the atmosphere at the conference. (You can find all photos here).