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| Time | Session | Location |
|---|---|---|
| from 18:00 | Pizza and drinks with new awards night and the return of the Collabora Quiz | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| Time | Session | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Keynote | Michael Meeks | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | What’s New in COOL 26.04 | Eloy Crespo | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Schleswig-Holsteins Open Source Strategy and how Nextcloud and Collabora make us more efficient | Felix Gebauer – Schleswig Holstein | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Deep Dive – Collabora Office | Thorsten Behrens | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Rethinking Enterprise Collaboration: Sovereign, Proven, and Built to Last | Jason Gary – HCL | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Tea Break | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Bringing Collabora Office to Linux, macOS, Windows | Sarper Akdemir, Jan (Kendy) Holešovský, Tor Lillqvist | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:10 – 11:15 | The Latest Updates to Documentation and SDKs | Hubert Figuière | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:15 – 11:20 | Strategies for Round-Trip Interoperability | Aron Budea & Caolán McNamara | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:20 – 11:25 | Recent Interoperability Wins on Presentations and Spreadsheets | Karthik Godha | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:25 – 11:30 | Under-the-Hood Browser Performance Gains | Miklos Vajna | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:30 – 11:35 | Editing Everywhere (Collabora Desktop and WASM Online/Offline Editing) | Stephan Bergmann | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:35 – 11:40 | Bringing Modern Table Design to Calc | Balázs Varga | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:40 – 11:45 | Seamless XML Data Binding in Calc | Bayram Çiçek | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:45 – 11:50 | Personalised Perspectives: Independent Sheet Filtering for Teams | Tomaž (Quikee) Vajngerl | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:50 – 11:55 | Pivot Table Calculated Fields | Balázs Varga | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:55 – 12:00 | Navigating Complex Document History | Miklos Vajna | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:00 – 12:05 | A Smarter Navigation Sidebar | Nick Wingate | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:05 – 12:10 | Smart Zoom Defaults and Page-Width Logic | Sahil Gautam | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:10 – 12:15 | CRDT’s in 5 minutes | Michael Stahl | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:15 – 12:20 | Rebuilding the IconView for Better Accessibility | Parth Raiyani | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:20 – 12:25 | Migrating to TypeScript: Strategy and Progress | Dennis Francis | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:25 – 12:30 | Testing for Graphical Regression | Kurt Nordback | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Community Panel | Hosted by Pedro Pinto da Silva & Darshan Uphadyay | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Deep Dive – Collabora Office Mobile | Skyler Grey | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Deep Dive – New Collabora Office Integrations | Hubert Figuière & Méven Car | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:30 – 14:40 | Sovereign collaboration with Nextcloud and Collabora — but who’s in control? | Patrick Zarnikow – Nextcloud | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:40 – 14:50 | IONOS Nextcloud Workspace – Sovereign European Alternative to Microsoft 365 | Marcel Meyer – STRATO | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:50 – 15:00 | XWiki & Collabora Online: What’s New in the Integration | Lavinia Vitel – XWiki | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Beyond the iframe: custom dialogs and WOPI in your Nextcloud + Collabora stack | Siegmund Gorr – CIB | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea Break | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Running a political party on open source software | Jonathan Treffler – German Green Party | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Providing free collaboration tools for free research and education – Collabora Office for 20+ universities and institutes | Thomas Hildmann – TU Berlin | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | openDesk as a Platform – Strategy, Ecosystem, and the Future of the Sovereign Workplace | Victor Moster – openDesk | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Migration to LibreOffice and Collabora Online Office in the Austrian Armed Forces | Michael Hillebrand – BMLV | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Panel – Collabora Office in the Wild | Hosted by Thorsten Behrens | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Drinks and Networking | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 19:00 – 00:00 | Dinner – Das Feuerschiff | Das Feuerschiff |
Partner Track
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Partner Keynote | Eloy Crespo |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Product Road Map | Michael Meeks |
| 13:30 – 14:40 | Product Management and Feedback | Michael Meeks |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Releases, Support & Feedback | Anna Nazaryan |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Product Road Map Results | Michael Meeks |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Collabora Desktop Collaborative Editing Plans | Thorsten Behrens & Stephan Bergmann |
| Time | Session | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Panel – Integrating Collabora Office – How it’s done. | Hosted by Eloy Crespo | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | A Prettier Collabora Online – the Latest UI/UX Improvements | Pedro Pinto da Silva & Ivana Koron | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Writer Update | Miklos Vajna | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Calc Update | Asja Čandić | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Impress Update | Pranam Lashkari | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Tea Break | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 11:00 – 11:05 | OpenCloud | Michael Löffler – OpenCloud | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:10 – 11:15 | Server Package Testing Before Release | Joao Moreira de Azevedo | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:15 – 11:20 | Mind the Gap: Implementing Microsoft-Style Paragraph Spacing | Justin Luth | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:20 – 11:25 | Numbering styles: balancing simplicity and efficiency when exporting to DOCX | Jaume Pujantell Traserra | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:25 – 11:30 | Mastering the New Slide Extract Transform API | Attila Szűcs | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:30 – 11:35 | Improving Presentation Flow with Overview Slides | Mohit Marathe | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:35 – 11:40 | Conquering SmartArt Compatibility | Armin Le Grand | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:40 – 11:45 | Search, Find, Fast: Enhancing UX with Comment Highlights and Shortcuts | Samuel Mehrbrodt | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:45 – 11:50 | PDF Import Improvements | Caolán McNamara | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:50 – 11:55 | Mentions, Nesting, and the New Comment Experience | Banobe Pascal | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 11:55 – 12:00 | Server-side Document Manipulation through Client-side JavaScript (QuickJS Scripting) | Stephan Bergmann | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:00 – 12:05 | Bridging the Markdown-Visual Interface Divide | Miklos Vajna | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:05 – 12:10 | Options at Your Fingertips: Streamlining the Global Settings Interface | Darshan Hitesh Upadhyay | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:10 – 12:15 | The Evolution of JSDialogs | Szymon Klos | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:15 – 12:20 | Geolocation and the Latest Updates to the COOL Controller | Rashesh Padia | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | Group Photo | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 13:30 – 13:35 | Accessibility wins in 25.04 | Lily Logua | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 13:30 – 13:35 | Mapping the Future of Collabora Office Releases | Andras Timar | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 13:40 – 13:50 | Zero Exposure – Why we rebuilt our stack on Apache 2.0 + Collabora | David Walters – Kiteworks | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 13:50 – 14:00 | EGroupware 26 – AI Integration | Birgit Becker – EGroupware | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Fabasoft E-Akte x Collabora Online – Integrating an Open-Source Office Suite into Public Sector Records Management | Christian Distelberger – Fabasoft | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:10 – 14:20 | TBC | Guy-Christian Facia – Arawa | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:20 – 14:30 | Collabora Office sailing on to new destinations | Leif-Joran Olsson – Friprogramvaruskyndikatet | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:30 – 14:40 | Freeing the Public Sector – One Document at a Time | Ulrich Wohlfeil – ECMind | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:40 – 14:50 | Digitalising the Nordics with Open Source: Alfresco Meets Collabora | Filipa Lourenco – Redpill Linpro | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 14:50 – 15:00 | From Draft to Decision: Sovereign Document Collaboration | Michael Ekegren – cBrain | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Digital Sovereignty in NRW Starts Below the Launcher Interface | Ilja Doert | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Why is the Dutch public sector moving away from non-European Big Tech? | Rob Camerlink – EasyData | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Collaboration of Collabora and Twin Cubes GmbH | Michael Nissenbaum – TWIN CUBES | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea Break | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Deep Dive – Using AI with Collabora Online | Michael Meeks | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 16:15 – 16:20 | The Making of “The Open Road to Freedom” | Michael Meeks | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 16:20 – 16:25 | Behind the Scenes of the Open Matters Podcast | Richard Brock | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 16:25 – 16:30 | From Feature to Story: The Art of the Feature Friday | Asja Čandić | Betahaus Gänsemarkt |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Panel – Hacking Before it was COOL | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 17:00 – 19:30 | Drinks and Networking | Betahaus Gänsemarkt | |
| 20:00 – 23:30 | Culinary Tour at Miniatur Wunderland | Miniatur Wunderland |
Integrations Track
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Introduction | Pedro Silva, Caolán McNamara & Pranam Lashkari |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Integration Basics Troubleshooting your integration – quick hacks for common issues | Meven Car |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Integration Customisation Customisation and white labelling | Pedro Silva |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Integration API’s How to use COOL API’s | Mike Kaganski, Attila Szűcs, Hubert Figuiere |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Deep Integration Settings and API’s | Rashesh Padia, Miklos Vajna, Hubert Figuiere |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Deep Integration Settings and Smart Picker | Szymon Klos |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Discussion & Q&A | Pedro Silva |
Internal Team Day
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | CEO Keynote | Michael Meeks |
| 10:30 | Tea Break | |
| 11:00 | Workshops | |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 | Workshops | |
| 15:00 | Tea Break & End |
We invite you to share your expertise at COOL Days! If you’d like to contribute, please submit your details and a talk/workshop overview.
Possible topics include:
"The partner workshops were interactive and well lead."
“I’ve been inspired through my conversations. Great experience and awesome people.”
"Our integration is now working beautifully. It scales to everything we need.”
“Hacking in person was an amazing experience, especially as a junior developer. It’s incredibly valuable to see first-hand how these brilliant minds approach problems, write code, and collaborate. You learn so much just by being around them!”
"It’s inspiring to connect with the people who use, contribute to, and support the project. It gave me a deeper appreciation of the impact we’re making together."
“Well organised tours and team building activities. All over very nice and memorable experience!”
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