Call for Speakers
Thanks for your interest in submitting a talk for INIT 2025 conference! INIT is a developer conference held in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
INIT 2025 is a one-day event with 20+ planned sessions organized into three tracks. We encourage you to submit more than one talk (please no more than four of your best ones), but we will select a maximum of one talk per speaker. The length of a single talk is 45 minutes, so bear that in mind when submitting.
For the two main tracks, we will be favoring topics that are interesting to a broader range of audiences and not tightly related to a specific platform or technology. The third track will be dedicated to more advanced talks, with limited audience. Please, do not submit promotional talks. The English language is the default for all talks.
Same as on the last conference, we are also hosting workshops, the day before.
If you want to submit a workshop topic, you will have an option to select the workshop length. The length can be a full day (up to 8 hours), half a day (up to 4 hours), or flexible (i.e., from 3 to 8 hours), in which case you will give us the option to fit your workshop to available time slots. The tickets for workshop are bought separately, and the earnings are shared 50/50 between speakers and organizers.
Topic suggestions include:
- Software design and architecture
- Software craftsmanship
- Design patterns
- Software principles like SOLID, DRY, YAGNI
- Functional programming
- Game development
- DevOps (CI/CD, version control, build tools…)
- Machine Learning and AI
- Blockchain
- …
All speakers must agree to our Code of Conduct to be available to speak. You can read the Code of Conduct here: https://github.com/init-conference/codeofconduct.
Speaker benefits include:
- Full conference pass (including lunch)
- Speaker gift bag
- Speaker dinner
- Accommodation of up to two (three for workshop speakers) nights in a hotel in Banja Luka [1]
- Travel expenses covered up to 150 € [1]
- Flight ticket for those that are flying here (see the comments below)
- Organized transport from/to Zagreb Airport if that is your only option for flying here