Want to make a meaningful contribution to KDE beyond coding? Help us organise Akademy 2027! Every year, Akademy brings together KDE contributors, users, partners, and the wider Free Software community to collaborate, learn, and innovate. No…
The Akademy 2026 Program is now live! This year’s Akademy will take place in Graz, hosted at the Graz University of Technology, both in person and online. Akademy starts with a welcome event on Friday, 18 September, followed by two full day…
Akademy 2026 will be a hybrid event held simultaneously in Graz, Austria, and online. The Call for Participation is open! Send us your talk ideas and abstracts. Akademy attracts artists, designers, developers, translators, users, writers, c…
Thursday, 13 November 2025 Akademy Team Akademy 2026 will be a special edition, marking the 30th anniversary of KDE! This milestone event will take place in Graz, Austria. This birthday edition of Akademy will continue to bring together con…
The Akademy 2025 Program is now live! This year’s Akademy will take place in Berlin, hosted at the Technische Universität Berlin, both in person and online. Akademy starts with a welcome event on Friday, 5 September, followed by two full da…
Akademy is the annual world summit of KDE, one of the largest Free Software communities in the world. It is a free, non-commercial event organized by the KDE Community. The conference is expected to draw hundreds of attendees from the globa…
Come Join us in person in Graz or online! Akademy is the annual event of the KDE community, and this year we are celebrating its 23rd edition. Akademy is a free, non-commercial event for developers, translators, designers, and other contrib…
Akademy is organized by KDE e.V. To contact the Akademy organizing team, please email The Akademy Team. For other matters, contact the KDE e.V. Board. The IRC channel for the event is #akademy on Libera which is also bridged to Matrix and T…
This year's official banners for people going to Akademy were created by Paul Brown and Jens Reuterberg. Feel free to use it in your blog posts, on your website, as a header image on your social media profiles, or wherever you want to promo…
Did you enjoy the stickers included as a gift in last year’s Akademy T-Shirt orders? Do you have ideas for what some of the stickers could look like this year? Submit a new KDE sticker design to be included with this year's T-Shirts Send su…
A big thank you to our sponsors who help to make this event happen! There are still sponsorship opportunities available. If you are interested, please see Sponsoring Akademy for more information, including valuable sponsor benefits. At MBit…
Following on from previous years we have the option for buying an official Akademy 2021 T-shirt. As Akademy is virtual again this year we need to ship the T-shirts to you and this is why the price is a bit higher than in the past. The T-shi…