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Following our save-the-date announcement, talk submissions are now open for the Winter 2026 Perl Community Conference, December 17 & 18 in Austin, Texas, and online—including Perl’s birthday!

We welcome practical Perl 5 projects, useful techniques, lessons from production, scientific research, and ideas worth sharing. First-time speakers are welcome. Present in person, live remotely, or by prerecorded video.

Submit a talk or browse our speaker guide for details.

Bring your Perl experience

Choose a format that fits your subject:

• Lightning talk — 5–8 minutes.
• Medium talk — 25–30 minutes.
• Full talk — 50–55 minutes.

Web development, systems administration, developer tools, scientific computing, software preservation, AI-assisted Perl work, and lessons from maintaining real systems all belong here. Tell us what you built, what you learned, and what someone else could use.

Speakers with approved talks receive a free ticket to the whole conference.

Science track and talk video DOIs

The Science track is for presentations accompanying papers submitted or intended for submission to the Science Perl Journal (SPJ). We assign the published Science track talk video a DOI at no charge to the speaker, giving others a persistent reference they can cite.

A Science track presentation without an associated paper or planned SPJ submission may also be considered as a one-time exception per speaker, including one talk-video DOI, at the discretion of the PCC Program Committee.

For a paper-associated Science talk, enter your paper title in the talk form and submit your abstract through SPJ. Your SPJ username must exactly match your PCC username. See the Science track and DOI policy for details.

Submit early so we can plan

Our submission deadline is flexible, but please send your proposal early. We’re working with a third-party videographer who needs the schedule and remote presentation arrangements in time to organize his setup. If you wait until too close to the conference, we may be unable to accommodate your talk.

One account, this conference and the next

Create your PCC account once and use it for this and future conferences. If you already have an account from a previous PCC, log in with your existing username. Register for the current conference before submitting your talk.

Create an account or log in to submit.

Meanwhile, our volunteers and video editor continue preparing recordings from past conferences. Explore past talks for a taste of the projects, research, and people who make the PCC worth attending.

Join our announcements-only email list for conference news and video releases. Donations and sponsorships help cover video production, Crossref DOI registration, publishing, and hosting alongside the hundreds of hours our volunteers contribute.

Bring your Perl 5 work. Help us celebrate another year of Perl by sharing what you know.