We're getting ready for EmacsConf 2026. Here are the talks we've accepted so far:

Times below are in US/Eastern (GMT-0500) unless you have Javascript enabled, in which case we will try to translaze the times into your local time zone. Dates might not be translated.

Graphical view of the scheduleSchedule for Saturday Dec 12 (-0500)Saturday Dec 12 (-0500)Sat 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarkssat-openSat 9:10- 9:30 The Emacs Planning Habits of a Questionably Effective Person: My 40-year journey of planning with Emacs, Org Mode, paper journals, etc.planningSat 9:50-10:10 Emacslisten: Controlling Emacs by voicelistenSat 10:30-11:00 Multi-dimensional information processing with Emacs and Emacspeak: a blind man's perspectiveemacspeakSat 11:10-11:30 ltx-talk: Accessible presentations with ox-beamerltx-talkSat 1:00- 1:20 Plots with ROOTs and SHAPEs: Resilient data visualization with Emacs, Org and gnuplotplotsSat 1:40- 2:00 Personal task management under stress (with Org mode)tasksSat 2:20- 2:30 How I solved Org Mode's biggest mobile and collaboration problemsmobileSat 2:50- 3:10 Hyperbole, My Dear WatsonhyperboleSat 3:30- 3:50 Hyperbole Koutliner: The Best Autonumbered, Hyperlinking Outliner for EmacskoutlinerSat 4:10- 4:30 Close the writing accountability gap with EmacswritingSat 4:50- 5:00 Saturday closing remarks / open sessionsat-closeSat 10:30-11:30 [Panel] Improving the Emacs Community: Onboarding, Participation, and GrowthcommunitySat 1:00- 1:15 Emacs as my portable user space across operating platformsportableSat 1:35- 1:55 Emacs everywhere: A fun romp through esoteric operating systemsosSat 2:15- 2:25 My Space Cadet Deck - an Android Stream Deck replacement with deep Emacs integrationcadetSat 2:45- 3:00 El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning themremotoSat 3:20- 3:40 æmacs: having a hoot with a guile emacsguileSat 4:00- 4:20 Plain text presentations in GNU Emacs with ffsffs9 AM EST10 AM EST11 AM EST12 PM EST1 PM EST2 PM EST3 PM EST4 PM EST5 PM ESTSchedule for Sunday Dec 13 (-0500)Sunday Dec 13 (-0500)Sun 9:00- 9:10 Sunday opening remarkssun-openSun 9:10- 9:20 BONE and gnaw.el: tracking what mattersboneSun 9:40- 9:55 Local file history possibilities in EmacslocalSun 10:15-10:30 hutch: code reviews for the mildly disenfranchisedhutchSun 10:40-11:00 Beyond the Chatbot: Team-Oriented AI in EmacsteamSun 11:20-11:40 Beyond shell history: Saving compilation output in EmacscompileSun 1:00- 1:20 DnD and Org Roam: Becoming a Better DM with EmacsdndSun 1:30- 1:50 bible-gateway: A Two-Edged Sword in EmacsbibleSun 2:10- 2:30 Ghost in the Shell: a libghostty powered terminal for EmacsghostelSun 2:50- 3:10 Column-aligning text in EmacsalignSun 3:30- 3:50 Revisiting Emacs Mouse Interactions with AnjuanjuSun 4:00- 4:10 Emacs on Android - Emacs for the next 40 yearsandroidSun 4:30- 4:40 Sunday closing remarkssun-closeSun 10:00-10:21 prefix-tab-groupsprefixSun 10:30-10:50 Emacs as a Window Manager and concurrencyrauSun 11:10-11:30 El-gpu and pix-el: GNU Emacs 2D and 3D game programmingel-gpuSun 1:00- 2:00 [Panel] Emacs, LLMs, and Free SoftwarellmsSun 2:20- 2:40 A (sort of) REPL for learning SVGsvgSun 2:50- 3:00 Org Babel everywherebabelSun 3:20- 3:40 Learning an ancient language with an ancient text editorancientSun 4:00- 4:20 It's Probably Not a Virusvirus9 AM EST10 AM EST11 AM EST12 PM EST1 PM EST2 PM EST3 PM EST4 PM EST5 PM EST

The conference is from ~9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST (US/Eastern) / ~8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST (US/Central) / ~7:00 AM - 3:00 PM MST (US/Mountain) / ~6:00 AM - 2:00 PM PST (US/Pacific) / ~2:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC / ~3:00 PM - 11:00 PM CET (Europe/Paris) / ~4:00 PM - 12:00 AM EET (Europe/Athens) / ~7:30 PM - 3:30 AM IST (Asia/Kolkata) / ~10:00 PM - 6:00 AM +08 (Asia/Singapore) / ~11:00 PM - 7:00 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo).

You can also get this schedule as iCalendar files: emacsconf.ics - emacsconf-gen.ics - emacsconf-dev.ics. Importing that into your calendar should translate things into your local time zone. Alternatively, you can use these time-zone-translated Org files: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/schedules/

Jump to: Sat Dec 12 - Sun Dec 13

Saturday Dec 12, 2026

Schedule for SaturdaySaturdaySat 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarkssat-openSat 9:10- 9:30 The Emacs Planning Habits of a Questionably Effective Person: My 40-year journey of planning with Emacs, Org Mode, paper journals, etc.planningSat 9:50-10:10 Emacslisten: Controlling Emacs by voicelistenSat 10:30-11:00 Multi-dimensional information processing with Emacs and Emacspeak: a blind man's perspectiveemacspeakSat 11:10-11:30 ltx-talk: Accessible presentations with ox-beamerltx-talkSat 1:00- 1:20 Plots with ROOTs and SHAPEs: Resilient data visualization with Emacs, Org and gnuplotplotsSat 1:40- 2:00 Personal task management under stress (with Org mode)tasksSat 2:20- 2:30 How I solved Org Mode's biggest mobile and collaboration problemsmobileSat 2:50- 3:10 Hyperbole, My Dear WatsonhyperboleSat 3:30- 3:50 Hyperbole Koutliner: The Best Autonumbered, Hyperlinking Outliner for EmacskoutlinerSat 4:10- 4:30 Close the writing accountability gap with EmacswritingSat 4:50- 5:00 Saturday closing remarks / open sessionsat-closeSat 10:30-11:30 [Panel] Improving the Emacs Community: Onboarding, Participation, and GrowthcommunitySat 1:00- 1:15 Emacs as my portable user space across operating platformsportableSat 1:35- 1:55 Emacs everywhere: A fun romp through esoteric operating systemsosSat 2:15- 2:25 My Space Cadet Deck - an Android Stream Deck replacement with deep Emacs integrationcadetSat 2:45- 3:00 El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning themremotoSat 3:20- 3:40 æmacs: having a hoot with a guile emacsguileSat 4:00- 4:20 Plain text presentations in GNU Emacs with ffsffs9 AM EST10 AM EST11 AM EST12 PM EST1 PM EST2 PM EST3 PM EST4 PM EST5 PM EST
9:00 - 9:10 EST General Q&A: Etherpad
Saturday opening remarks
Sacha Chua
id:sat-open
9:10 - 9:30 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
The Emacs Planning Habits of a Questionably Effective Person: My 40-year journey of planning with Emacs, Org Mode, paper journals, etc.
George Jones - captioned, video: 19:20
id:planning
9:50 - 10:10 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Emacslisten: Controlling Emacs by voice
Erik Präntare
id:listen
10:30 - 11:00 EST General Q&A: #emacsconf Etherpad
Multi-dimensional information processing with Emacs and Emacspeak: a blind man's perspective
Arkadiusz
id:emacspeak
10:30 - 11:30 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
[Panel] Improving the Emacs Community: Onboarding, Participation, and Growth
Participants
id:community
11:10 - 11:30 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
ltx-talk: Accessible presentations with ox-beamer
Pedro A. Aranda and Roger Schürch
id:ltx-talk
1:00 - 1:20 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Plots with ROOTs and SHAPEs: Resilient data visualization with Emacs, Org and gnuplot
Lukas C. Bossert - video: 19:58
id:plots
1:00 - 1:15 EST Development Etherpad
Emacs as my portable user space across operating platforms
Mohammed Ismail Ansari (myTerminal) - captioned, video: 11:32
id:portable
1:35 - 1:55 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Emacs everywhere: A fun romp through esoteric operating systems
Aaron Grothe
id:os
1:40 - 2:00 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Personal task management under stress (with Org mode)
Ihor Radchenko
id:tasks
2:15 - 2:25 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
My Space Cadet Deck - an Android Stream Deck replacement with deep Emacs integration
Andy Drop
id:cadet
2:20 - 2:30 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
How I solved Org Mode's biggest mobile and collaboration problems
bashbunni
id:mobile
2:45 - 3:00 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning them
Ag - captioned, video: 12:10
id:remoto
2:50 - 3:10 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Hyperbole, My Dear Watson
Charlie Holland
id:hyperbole
3:20 - 3:40 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
æmacs: having a hoot with a guile emacs
Akira Kyle
id:guile
3:30 - 3:50 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Hyperbole Koutliner: The Best Autonumbered, Hyperlinking Outliner for Emacs
Bob Weiner
id:koutliner
4:00 - 4:20 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Plain text presentations in GNU Emacs with ffs
Amin Bandali
id:ffs
4:10 - 4:30 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Close the writing accountability gap with Emacs
Blaine Mooers
id:writing
4:50 - 5:00 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Saturday closing remarks / open session
id:sat-close

Jump to: Sat Dec 12 - Sun Dec 13

Sunday Dec 13, 2026

Schedule for SundaySundaySun 9:00- 9:10 Sunday opening remarkssun-openSun 9:10- 9:20 BONE and gnaw.el: tracking what mattersboneSun 9:40- 9:55 Local file history possibilities in EmacslocalSun 10:15-10:30 hutch: code reviews for the mildly disenfranchisedhutchSun 10:40-11:00 Beyond the Chatbot: Team-Oriented AI in EmacsteamSun 11:20-11:40 Beyond shell history: Saving compilation output in EmacscompileSun 1:00- 1:20 DnD and Org Roam: Becoming a Better DM with EmacsdndSun 1:30- 1:50 bible-gateway: A Two-Edged Sword in EmacsbibleSun 2:10- 2:30 Ghost in the Shell: a libghostty powered terminal for EmacsghostelSun 2:50- 3:10 Column-aligning text in EmacsalignSun 3:30- 3:50 Revisiting Emacs Mouse Interactions with AnjuanjuSun 4:00- 4:10 Emacs on Android - Emacs for the next 40 yearsandroidSun 4:30- 4:40 Sunday closing remarkssun-closeSun 10:00-10:21 prefix-tab-groupsprefixSun 10:30-10:50 Emacs as a Window Manager and concurrencyrauSun 11:10-11:30 El-gpu and pix-el: GNU Emacs 2D and 3D game programmingel-gpuSun 1:00- 2:00 [Panel] Emacs, LLMs, and Free SoftwarellmsSun 2:20- 2:40 A (sort of) REPL for learning SVGsvgSun 2:50- 3:00 Org Babel everywherebabelSun 3:20- 3:40 Learning an ancient language with an ancient text editorancientSun 4:00- 4:20 It's Probably Not a Virusvirus9 AM EST10 AM EST11 AM EST12 PM EST1 PM EST2 PM EST3 PM EST4 PM EST5 PM EST
9:00 - 9:10 EST General Q&A: Etherpad
Sunday opening remarks
Sacha Chua
id:sun-open
9:10 - 9:20 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
BONE and gnaw.el: tracking what matters
Bastien Guerry
id:bone
9:40 - 9:55 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Local file history possibilities in Emacs
Wouter Groeneveld - captioned, video: 11:10
id:local
10:00 - 10:21 EST Development Q&A: #emacsconf Etherpad
prefix-tab-groups
marco wahl - video: 20:16
id:prefix
10:15 - 10:30 EST General Q&A: Etherpad
hutch: code reviews for the mildly disenfranchised
Akshay Gupta - captioned, video: 11:45
id:hutch
10:30 - 10:50 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Emacs as a Window Manager and concurrency
Thomas Koch
id:rau
10:40 - 11:00 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Beyond the Chatbot: Team-Oriented AI in Emacs
Mohsen BANAN
id:team
11:10 - 11:30 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
El-gpu and pix-el: GNU Emacs 2D and 3D game programming
Emanuel Berg
id:el-gpu
11:20 - 11:40 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Beyond shell history: Saving compilation output in Emacs
Jonathan Otsuka
id:compile
1:00 - 1:20 EST General Q&A: none Etherpad
DnD and Org Roam: Becoming a Better DM with Emacs
James R. Stoup - captioned, video: 19:17
id:dnd
1:00 - 2:00 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
[Panel] Emacs, LLMs, and Free Software
Participants
id:llms
1:30 - 1:50 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
bible-gateway: A Two-Edged Sword in Emacs
Kristjon Ciko
id:bible
2:10 - 2:30 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Ghost in the Shell: a libghostty powered terminal for Emacs
Daniel Kraus
id:ghostel
2:20 - 2:40 EST Development Q&A: #emacsconf Etherpad
A (sort of) REPL for learning SVG
Eduardo Ochs
id:svg
2:50 - 3:00 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Org Babel everywhere
George Huebner
id:babel
2:50 - 3:10 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Column-aligning text in Emacs
Jeff Trull
id:align
3:30 - 3:50 EST General Q&A: #emacsconf, speaker nick: kickingvegas Etherpad
Revisiting Emacs Mouse Interactions with Anju
Charles Y. Choi - captioned, video: 18:12
id:anju
4:00 - 4:20 EST Development Q&A: BBB Etherpad
It's Probably Not a Virus
Corwin Brust
id:virus
4:00 - 4:10 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Emacs on Android - Emacs for the next 40 years
Greg Silverstein
id:android
4:30 - 4:40 EST General Q&A: BBB Etherpad
Sunday closing remarks
id:sun-close

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We hope to see you all around on Dec 12-13 for EmacsConf 2026!