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Present your ideas at PDF Days Europe 2025!

PDF Days has offered high-quality presentations, education and networking opportunities dedicated to PDF technology since 2010. The event is intended for developers, integrators, product managers and others who work directly with the world's chosen digital document format.

This year PDF Days Europe 2025 is from September 15-17, 2025; part of Berlin's PDF Triathlon!

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Key Dates

Proposal submission deadline: Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

Those submitting successful presentation proposals will be notified by Thursday, May 29.

Initial draft slides (an outline is acceptable) are due by Monday, August 18 to allow time for feedback from the Program Committee.

Final presentations are due Monday, September 8.

Requirements

PDF Days presentations must reference PDF technology but are otherwise unlimited. Sessions may include (non-product) demonstrations, videos, etc. Topics presented as use cases, best practices, research results and future development are especially welcomed.

Sessions must be fundamentally educational, not promotional. Each session will be 40 minutes; please assume 30 minutes for presentation and leave 10 minutes for questions. A maximum of 1 “commercial” slide mentioning the speaker’s company and/or products is permitted.

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

Notes

Proposals for sessions in English are preferred; however, very compelling topics in German will be considered.
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.