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GStreamer Conference 2025

23-24 October 2025 · London, UK

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GStreamer Conference 2025

23-24 October 2025 · London, UK

London


We're thrilled to announce that the 13th GStreamer Conference is now confirmed to take place on Thursday and Friday 23-24 October 2025 in London, UK.

There will also be a multi-day GStreamer hackfest after the conference, on the weekend of the 25-26 October 2025, and possibly also on Monday 27 October 2025 (to be confirmed).

In addition, the Foundations of Open Media Standards and Software (FOMS) Workshop 2025 is expected to take place on Tuesday 28 October 2025, followed by Demuxed 2025, the conference for video devs! Also in London, of course.

Details

The GStreamer Conference is a conference for developers, community members, decision-makers, industry partners, researchers, students and anyone else interested in the GStreamer multimedia framework or Open Source and cross-platform multimedia.

Who should attend?

Anyone interested in open source cross-platform multimedia is encouraged to join us at the GStreamer Conference 2025!

Whether you are a hobbyist, app developer, researcher or student interested in the field of multimedia, or working for a company that is using or looking to use GStreamer in their products, this is the perfect event for you to network at and to learn more about the latest technological developments and project news, and to meet developers as well as the wider community.

Registration

Registration is now open!

Sign up for the GStreamer Conference 2025 here!

There are separate registration options for professionals, speakers and for students and hobbyists:

Professional (Early Bird) (Sold Out)

£260 (ca. 300 EUR / 350 USD) for both days, incl. 20% VAT
Professional (Regular) £300 (ca. 350 EUR / 405 USD) for both days, incl. 20% VAT
Professional (Corporate) £600 (ca. 695 EUR / 810 USD) for both days, incl. 20% VAT
Speakers (for non-lightning talks) Free (instructions have been sent by e-mail)
Student/Hobbyist Free or voluntary donation

All tickets include lunch at the venue on both conference days as well as access to the evening social event.

Different tickets have different refund policies: All tickets are transferable or fully refundable in case of visa issues or if entry was denied at the border. Early Bird tickets are transferable, but not refundable. Regular Professional tickets are 50% refundable until 8 October, and non-refundable therafter. Corporate Professional tickets are fully refundable until 8 October, 80% refundable until 22 October, and non-refundable therafter.

For those uncertain about whether to register as a professional or hobbyist, the general rule is that if your company pays for your travel or sponsors you, you are a professional, and if you personally pay you are a student or hobbyist. If in doubt drop us a mail or just register as hobbyist. The important thing is that you'll make it to the conference!

Speakers: You will receive free registration! Details have been sent out by e-mail along with the talk acceptance notifications. Not that we will complain if you decide to buy a ticket of course.

Sign up for the GStreamer Conference 2025 here

Schedule and speakers list

We have an exciting range of topics and speakers lined up for you again this year:

Talks:

Lightning Talks:

Talks will be recorded again by Ubicast.

Showcase or Lightning Talks

There will again be opportunities for short lightning talks for those who do not wish to present a full talk, but just want to showcase something they're working on, or present a problem or challenge they are facing or have solved, and that they think might be interesting for others to hear about.

Want to submit a ca. 5-minute mini-talk for our lightning talk/showcase event?

Please submit all lightning talks through the GStreamer Conference 2025 Talk Submission Portal.

You can log in using your existing freedesktop.org GitLab account if you have one, or register a new account with the system. If you have problems receiving your verification e-mail try a non-gmail.com address. Logging in via gitlab might also require a few tries.

There is no deadline for Lightning Talk submissions, slots will be allocated on a first-come first-serve basis.

GStreamer hackfest

There will again be a multi-day hackfest after the conference, on the weekend of 25-26 October 2025, and possibly also on Monday 27 October 2025 (to be confirmed).

Sponsorship Opportunities

The GStreamer Conference 2025 is only possible thanks to the generous financial support from our sponsors.

For this year's sponsorship opportunities please refer to the sponsor brief (PDF) or get in touch.

Sponsorship proceeds are not only used to put on the conference and hackfests, but also support our ex(t)(p)ensive CI infrastructure.

City

This year's conference will take place in London, United Kingdom.

Getting there

By train You can travel directly by train to London St Pancras from Paris, Brussels, Lille, and Amsterdam. King's Cross / St Pancras station is only a couple of minutes by tube from the Barbican Centre.

By air London Heathrow (LHR) and London Gatwick (LGW) are the main international airports, but for short-haul flights London Stansted (STN), London Luton (LTN), London City (LCY) or even London Southend (SEN) airports may also be options.

Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) Many visitors, including most international visitors traveling without a visa, including most EU, EEA, Swiss US, Canadian, and Australian citizens, will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), which is a digital permission to travel that costs £16 and is valid for two years.

Venue

The conference will take place at:
The Barbican Centre
Level 4
Silk Street
London, EC2Y 8DS
United Kingdom

Hotels

The venue is in Central London and as such there are hundreds of hotels nearby. Public transport is also quite good, so accommodation options that are a few tube stops or bus stops away are not a problem at all.

Travelodge, Premier Inn, and ibis are the major budget business hotel chains in the UK, but there should be plenty of other options in the area.

The Travelodge London Central City Road looks (comparatively) reasonably priced and is just up the road from the venue. There is also an easyHotel London City Shoreditch which may cater for those on a budget. The Premier Inn London Farringdon (Smithfield) hotel is also within easy walking distance. The ibis London City Shoreditch is a bit further away.

Clayton Hotel London Wall is a 4-star hotel nearby, and so is the Malmaison London, and no doubt many others.

Invitation Letter

If you need an invitation letter for visa application purposes, please get in touch (you should get an initial response within a day).

Call for Presentations

The call for presentations is now closed.

Anyone who has submitted a talk proposal should have received an e-mail letting them know whether their proposal has been accepted already. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal.

Lightning talks may still be proposed, see above for more details.

Code of Conduct and Anti-Harrassment Policy

Policy

The GStreamer project and the conference organisers are dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form.

Harassment includes, but is not limited to, offensive verbal comments, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately. We expect participants to follow these rules at all conference venues, hackfest venues, and conference-related social events.

If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the conference organisers and/or their delegates may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a conference organiser or member of the code of conduct committee below immediately.

Reporting Breaches

Breaches of the code of conduct should be reported either by e-mail via code-of-conduct@gstreamer.org.

See here for implementation details and guidelines.

This anti-harassment policy is based on the XDC 2024 code of conduct which in turn is based on the example policy from the Geek Feminism wiki, created by the Ada Initiative and other volunteers.

GStreamer Conference Contact

If you have any questions about the GStreamer Conference or are considering -->becoming a sponsor please get in touch.

Conference News and Updates

2025-October-07: The full list of talks and speakers has been published. If anything looks off or needs changing, please send us an e-mail or ping us on Matrix, thanks!

2025-October-06: The Call for Presentations is now closed, but lightning talks may still be submitted. All speakers should have received their acceptance e-mails by now. Thank you to everyone who has submitted a talk. We have a phenomenal range of topics again this year.

2025-October-01: Call for Presentations submission deadline is 5 October 2025, 23:59h

2025-September-29: Added a couple of hotels.

2025-September-23: The Call for Presentations is now finally open, please submit your talk proposals and lightning talks now!

2025-September-21: Added a note that an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) is required for most international visitors traveling without a visa, including most EU, EEA, Swiss US, Canadian, Australian citizens.

2025-September-20: Registration is now open! Sign up for the GStreamer Conference 2025 here. If you intend to submit a (non-lightning) talk, you may want to wait for the Call for Presentations to open, since speakers will receive free tickets.

2025-September-10: Ticket prices have been added, registration should hopefully also open in the near future.

2025-September-08: The GStreamer project is excited to see Fluendo sponsor at Gold level this year!

2025-September-02: We're thrilled to welcome Veo as first-time sponsor this year, at Silver level!

2025-August-25: The GStreamer project is happy to see Axis Communications sponsor the conference again at Gold level this year!

2025-August-21: Venue announced: The Barbican Centre, Silk St, London, EC2Y 8DS, Level 4.

2025-August-21: Dates confirmed: The conference will take place on Thursday and Friday 23-24 October 2025, followed by a hackfest.

2025-August-20: Talks will be recorded again by Ubicast this year.

2025-August-19: We're excited to see Pexip return again as Platinum sponsor this year!

2025-August-15: We're delighted to welcome MediaScribe as Silver level sponsor this year!

2025-August-15: The GStreamer project is thrilled to see Igalia return as Platinum level sponsor this year!

2025-August-15: We're excited to see Collabora return as a Platinum sponsor this year!

2025-August-15: The GStreamer project welcomes back Centricular as sponsor, at Platinum level this year!

2025-August-04: Sponsorship brief available

2025-July-28: Visa invitation letter section added

2025-July-28: Initial announcement and website.


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