ACCU 2025
ACCU 2025 will run, at our usual venue in Bristol, from 1st-4th April 2025, with full-day workshops on the 31st March. We are also considering running post-conference workshops online - possible a week (or more) after the main conference.
Note that these dates for the main conference correspond to Tuesday to Friday - a shifting forward from the usual pattern.
We have already selected a great set of keynote speakers and will be announcing them shortly.
Call for Speakers
Our Call for Speakers is now open and we welcome everyone to consider submitting a proposal. It's great to hear from some familiar, reliable, names. But we also want new voices, new perspectives, and fresh topics!
The call will run until 2nd November (midnight GMT), so start getting your ideas together straight away.
Early Bird Tickets now available - with extra discounts
If you're an ACCU Conference regular you know that you can reliably expect a great experience. That's why we make Early Bird tickets available before the schedule is known, so our most loyal attendees can benefit from lower prices.
This year we're going even further! As one of the big problems we have as organisers is more and more people leaving things until the last minute, we want to motivate you to book early.
So we're offering even bigger discounts the earlier you book! Use the code DYNAMIC_DISCOUNT to get the current additional discount rate, which will gradually reduce during the Early Bird period.
Early Bird registration will close when the schedule is announced.
Welcome back to Bloomberg, our Headline sponsor, for 2024
Once again Bloomberg are joining us, this week, as Headline sponsor.
Bloomberg have been exceptionally supportive of our community for many years, now,
and are continuing the tradition.
Their booth with a Bloomberg terminal has become a fixture and is back again, this year. Do stop by for a chat.
Here's a message from them:
Bloomberg is building the world's most trusted information network for financial professionals. Our 9,000+ engineers are dedicated to advancing and building new systems for the Bloomberg Terminal and other products to solve complex, real-world problems.
C++ is one of our core programming languages. We are constantly pushing the language to its limits because our code needs to be scalable, reliable, and extremely fast — especially since every microsecond counts in the finance industry. Our C++ experts build everything from low-level libraries and components to some of the most performant financial applications, analytics, and trading systems in the world. They also contribute to the C++ Standards Committee (WG21). Learn more at TechAtBloomberg.com/cplusplus.
Attend ACCU 2024 Online
This year we have partnered with Digital Medium to offer an online conference experience for ACCU 2024. What does that look like?
Well, first we will stream all in-person sessions live, so you can attend at the same time as in-person attendees, as well as other online attendees. We have a conference Discord where discussion on the sessions can happen in dedicated channels, so you'll feel connected to other attendees - whether in-person or online. And you won't even get to miss the venue as it has been digitally recreated in Gather, so you can walk the halls, interact with other attendees through proximity based video chats, and even visit sponsor booths.
See the dedicated online conference sub-site for more details.
Lightning Talks
One of the highlights of the ACCU conference are the three evening lightning talk sessions, where any attendee can deliver a five minute talk. That includes online attendees! Lightning talks will be arranged during the week of the event, but get thinking about what you might want to present now!
Open Content and Online Posters
Exclusive to the online conference we're offering Open Content sessions, where participants can present extra content without going through the call for speakers, and the facility to showcase and present online posters.
Cost effective
For most of us being at the venue in-person offers the most immersive experience, but during the pandemic we were forced to learn how to run compelling online experiences that bring as much of the in-person experience as we can, while also embracing the best of what it means to be online.
So if you're unable to make it to Bristol physically our online event is a great way to still join us!
It's also considerably cheaper, so may also be an option if you are not able to afford a full, in-person, ticket (or the cost of travel and accommodation). Starting at £180 (inc. VAT) for ACCU members (£90 for students) this is our cheapest ticket!
Rewind
In addition to all the above benefits, the online ticket gives you access to the on-demand recordings of the sessions shortly after they are recorded! These are unedited archives of what was streamed live, but will continue to be available until the edited productions are uploaded to YouTube - usually a month or more after the conference has ended.
So whatever your reasons and whatever you are looking to get out of it, get your online tickets, today.
