Call for Papers – PDF Days Europe 2025
The PDF Association staff delivers a vendor-neutral platform in service of PDF’s stakeholders.
It’s been three years since the last PDF Days Europe in 2022. This event won rave reviews from attendees. PDF Days Europe 2025 will be even better!
Your proposal must reference PDF technology but is otherwise unlimited. As always, PDF Days presentations must be fundamentally educational, not promotional. Topics presented as use cases, best practices, research results and the future are especially welcomed. Proposals are selected by the Program Committee based on interest and the educational value of the proposed content.
For more information click here and submit your proposal!
Ideas
Compelling session topics could include (but are NOT limited) to:
Reusable & accessible PDF
- Using PDF in the context of the European Accessibility Act (EAA)
- PDF’s features enabling reuse and accessibility
- The PDF Association’s Techniques for Accessible PDF and other industry resources
- The future of accessible PDF
- What’s new for accessibility in PDF 2.0
Applied PDF
- Leveraging PDF in Document Management System (DMS) applications
- Using AI with PDF
- PDF forensics
- Leveraging PDF in new or niche industry applications
- Data protection (GDPR) and PDF
- Creating and processing PDF on mobile devices
- E-finance, including e-invoicing, e-procurement, financial reporting, etc.
PDF itself
- The future of PDF
- Practical PDF (standards and their real-world implementation)
- Document security and authenticity (Crypto, Content Provenance, digital signatures, C2PA, etc.)
- Processing PDF (handling data in the real world)
- New features in PDF 2.0
- PDF and cybersecurity
Key Dates
Proposal submission deadline: Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
Those submitting successful proposals will be notified by Thursday, May 29.
Initial draft slides are due by Monday, August 18 to allow time for feedback from the Program Committee.
Final presentations are due Monday, September 8.
Notes
- Proposals for sessions in English are preferred; however, very compelling topics in German will be considered.
- A maximum of 1 “commercial” slide mentioning the speaker’s company and/or products is permitted.
- Each session is 40 minutes; please assume 30 minutes for presentation and leave 10 minutes for questions.
- Software demonstrations should be pre-recorded or limited to web applications.
- The Program Committee will provide feedback and guidance on accepted proposals.
- Presentations will be made from PDF Association Windows laptops.