The GStreamer Conference team is pleased to announce that the preliminary list of talks, abstracts, and speaker biographies is now available for this year's lineup of talks and speakers, covering again an exciting range of topics!

The GStreamer Conference 2026 will take place on 10-11 October 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic, followed by a hackfest.

Details about the conference, hackfest and how to register can be found on the conference website.

This year's topics and speakers:

• GStreamer State of the Union
  Tim-Philipp Müller, Centricular
• Fulfilling a Childhood Dream: Video Streaming for Remotely Controlling a Train
  Rainhard Driessler & Simon Himmelbauer, A&R Tech
• A new MPEG-TS demuxer in Rust
  Edward Hervey, Centricular
• That F#$%ing AI Talk - Debugging GStreamer With AI Tools
  Ray Tiley, Tightrope Media Systems
• GstVA and GstVulkan updates
  Victor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Igalia
• Building a Ringbuffer - Going in circles with V4L2 and PipeWire
  Simon Himmelbauer, A&R Tech
• GStreamer 20 years of fun
  Stéphane Cerveau, Igalia
• Permissions, Isolation and Streams: Redesigning WirePlumber's Core
  Julian Bouzas, Collabora
• GStreamer highlights in Servo
  Xabier Rodríguez Calvar, Igalia
• Write once, run anywhere inference with GStreamer
  Sebastian Dröge, Centricular
• Every Camera Is a Snowflake: Building a VMS That Works With Thousands of Device Models
  James Nickerson, IP Configure
• The Quest for Python Analytics
  Aaron Boxer, Collabora
• WebRTC in the Wild: It Works on My Network
  Jake Foytik, IP Configure
• Rock, paper, scissors
  Xabier Rodríguez Calvar, Igalia
• Exploring GStreamer as a media backend for game engines
  Dominique Leroux
• Embedded Reality: GStreamer Versioning strategy on SoC Products
  Kye Yeon Ko, LGE
• WebRTC take 2, a decade later
  Matthew Waters, Centricular
• Gst-Audit: A graphical way to instrument your pipeline
  Jorge Zapata, Fluendo
• A GStreamer-Based Performance Evaluation Tool for End-to-End Visual AI Pipelines
  Jan Gorecki, Intel
• A new Media Source Extensions implementation in GStreamer for cross-platform apps
  Sebastian Dröge, Centricular
• GStreamer as a Foundation for Vision AI Edge Solutions
  Tomasz Janczak, Intel
• Local transcription and translation with GStreamer: whisper.cpp + llama.cpp
  Sebastian Dröge, Centricular
• How GStreamer is used in WebKit
  Enrique Ocaña González, Igalia
• librice: challenges with sans-io
  Matthew Waters, Centricular
• Ingesting thousands of streams over SRT on the same endpoint
  Jonas Danielsson, Spiideo
• Multithreading in GStreamer: how do flushes work
  Alicia Boya García, Igalia
• GStreamer 2.x without breaking API ?
  Edward Hervey, Centricular
• Outsourcing the boring work: setting up LLM agents for fixing bugs in legacy software
  Kim Schmider, A&R Tech
• Real-time offshore crane teleoperations powered by GStreamer
  Adam Blonsky, Palfinger
• Dolby/AC-4: The plan to support the Dolby ecosystem in GStreamer
  Pablo García & Maciej Sabiniok, Fluendo
• Color, tracing and WebAssembly: a year of GStreamer for video editing
  Thibault Saunier, Igalia
• Fluster over the course of 2026
  Rubén Gonzalez, Fluendo
• SIL 2 Video Streaming - Functional Safety from Lens to Glass
  Rainhard Driessler, A&R Tech
• Secure Video Path Done the Right Way
  Nicolas Dufresne, Collabora
• Making GStreamer Feel Native in Zig
  Per Andersen, TV2
• Restream and GStreamer, a success story.
  Loïc Le Page, Igalia
• When the robots came for our parsers: GStreamer security in the age of LLMs
  Sebastian Dröge, Centricular
• Digitally Signed Content & C2PA
  Diego Nieto Munoz, Fluendo
• Unifying GstAnalytics Metadata: Achieving Cross-Vendor Interoperability in Video Analytics
  Oskar Fiedot, Intel; Pep Cots, Milestone Systems; Daniel Morin, Collabora
• Whither GStreamer 2.0 ? - Overview, Presentations and Panel Discussion
  Various speakers, tbd
• Whisper transcriber
  Mathieu Duponchelle, Centricular
• GstVulkan in Production: Lessons from the Real World
  Anders Hellerup Madsen, Veo Technologies
• Per pipeline logs tracer
  Mathieu Duponchelle, Centricular
• Why is MPEG-TS so hard?
  Jan Schmidt, Centricular
• Let's solve our long standing issues: time for GStreamer 2.0 ?
  Thibault Saunier, Igalia
• Latency is bad, isn't it?
  Jan Schmidt, Centricular
• Let's renegotiate!
  Mathieu Duponchelle, Centricular
• GStreamer in and out of the box
  Jan Schmidt, Centricular
• ...and more to come
• Submit your talk or lightning talk now!

Many thanks to our amazing sponsors ‒ Platinum sponsors Centricular, Pexip, and Igalia, Gold sponsors Axis Communications and Collabora, Fluendo, and Silver sponsor Tightrope Media Systems, and our Media Partner UbiCast without whom the conference would not be possible in this form.

We hope to see you all in Prague soon!

Don't forget to register as soon as possible if you're planning on joining us, so we can order enough food and drinks!

There's also a hackfest after the conference.