Re:Build has two kinds of people in the room. Attendees come to learn. Participants come to give and get: hosting round tables, opening fishbowls, table-hosting The Conversation and, yes, sometimes giving a talk. We pick people, not presentations.
Applications are expected to open on 1 November 2026. Twenty to thirty minutes; links, not a CV; saves as you go.
An attendee's job is to show up curious. A speaker's job is forty minutes and a Q&A. A participant's job is the room.
Because you're on the hook. You applied, we picked you, and the people around you are counting on you to host the table, open the circle, argue in good faith and make a group of strangers into a conversation. Attendees get to be flies on the wall. Participants are the wall.
Because a talk is one of the ways to give, not the point. Most of what a participant does happens at tables, in circles and in corridors. If what you want is a stage and a flight home, there are excellent conferences for that and we'll happily name a few.
Ask anyone who has spoken at a few conferences what they remember and it's rarely the talks. It's the dinner the night before, the corridor after the Q&A, the argument that ran through lunch. Re:Build is built so that part lasts two days and includes everyone who came to take part.
It's your share of the cost of your own seat: two days of venue, catering and swag at a London venue, at the rate we pay. Participants are not paying to speak. They're covering their own, mostly incremental, cost. Attendees and sponsors are what make the space exist.
Every participant gets a personal code worth 10% off an attendee ticket. When enough people use it, your £250 comes back as credit. Beyond that, credit carries to next year or goes into the bursary pot with your name on it. No cash, no downline, no selling in the hallway.
Exact threshold to be confirmed before the call opens.
| Where your £250 goes | ex VAT |
|---|---|
| Venue day-delegate rate, two days (room, tea, coffee, lunch, basic AV, Wi-Fi) | TBC |
| Swag that's worth keeping | TBC |
| Payment and ticketing fees | TBC |
| Your share | £250 |
We'll publish the real line items before applications open. If sponsorship later covers participant costs, we rebate everyone equally. More on the money page, including a note you can send your manager.
We're choosing a room, not a line-up, and we have more seats than a normal CFP has slots. So we don't review blind. We read everything you tell us, including who you are and who might follow you in, and every yes comes with three written reasons. Paying can't buy a seat.
| Wave | Closes | You hear by |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 Nov 2026 | 4 Dec 2026 |
| 2 | 15 Jan 2027 | 5 Feb 2027 |
Provisional. Two waves so the first names are known before Early tickets, and so nobody's application sits in a pile until February.
Kim Fletcher and Dan Hardiker, who ran Devoxx UK's content for years, with the steering committee: Audrey Neveu, Sven Peters and Melinda Seckington. Anyone too close to an applicant abstains and says so. The fee question and your access needs are never shown to reviewers; your representation answers reach them only if you tick the box.
Three fields. We'll invite them to apply and tell them you thought of them. Nominating doesn't earn you anything but thanks; that's deliberate.
Nominate someoneNo. Nobody is paying for a slot, and a talk isn't the point. It's a seat at cost price in a room we curate, with the numbers published and a bursary one tick away. If we ever charge for a stage, call us on it. More →
Because this is a different deal. There, your job was a talk and the ticket was the thank-you. Here, your job is the room for two days, and you're one of 150 people doing it. Think unconference, not speaker programme. More →
Three at most, and each applies on their own merits. We cap per employer so no one organisation sets the weather. More →
Tell us early and it passes to the waitlist. Refund terms follow the main event's; the credit scheme doesn't pay out on a seat you didn't sit in. More →