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+by: The Scala Center
+title: "Scala Days 2025: Call for proposals"
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+Submit your talk to be part of Scala Days 2025! The Call for Proposals is officially open and will close on April 6th, 2025, at 11:30 pm GMT.
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+[Submit your talk](https://www.papercall.io/scaladays).
+
+Join us for the 12th edition of Scala Days, the leading global event for Scala, by giving a presentation during the conference on August 19-21, 2025.
+We are bringing a diverse community to Scala’s hometown of Lausanne, Switzerland to share and explore all the latest in Scala, functional programming, and software engineering.
+As part of making a great program, we (the organizers) look to provide up-to-date and practical knowledge on Scala and surrounding technologies for software developers, software architects, team leads, community members, and researchers.
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+Whether you're a seasoned expert or a first-time speaker, we encourage you to submit your ideas and help shape this year’s program. Don't miss your chance to contribute to the Scala community — submit your proposal before April 6th 2025!
+
+## Topics
+
+Scala Days welcomes speakers and attendees of all experience levels, showcasing the diverse applications of Scala across sectors. Talks will run up to 45 minutes, followed by live Q&A sessions. Suggested topics for talk submissions include, but are not limited to:
+
+### Foundations
+
+- Functional programming
+- Type systems
+- Concurrency and parallelism
+- Algorithms and performance
+
+### Experience reports
+
+- Industrial adoption
+- Open source
+- Teaching and Mentoring
+- Community
+
+### Libraries and applications
+
+- Distributed systems
+- Machine learning
+- Big data
+- Web development
+- Game development
+- Native applications
+
+### Workflow
+
+- Programming methodologies
+- Cloud and deployment
+- DevOps
+- Security
+
+### Tooling
+
+- Compilers and virtual machines
+- IDEs
+- Testing frameworks
+- Build tools
+- LLM code assistance
+
+### Other
+
+- Hardware
+- Networking
+
+## Get inspired
+
+Interested but not sure where to start? You can view previous talks on the Scala Days [YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@ScalaDaysConferences) and read previous talk abstracts from Scala Days [Madrid 2023](https://archives.scaladays.org/2023/madrid-2023/schedule.html) and [Seattle 2023](https://archives.scaladays.org/2023/seattle-2023/schedule.html).
+
+If you need any assistance or have questions, please email [info@scaladays.org](mailto:info@scaladays.org).