Everyone interested in attending the SplinterCon as a guest must register. Due to limited space and ambitions to keep the meeting focused and productive, we will confirm every registration manually, and with all due respect.

We look for original presentations, ideas for group discussion and lightning talks, technology showcases, awareness raising and capacity building workshops – as relevant to the conference thematic. We are open to academic submissions as well as testimonies from countries affected by network shutdowns and isolation.

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Submission deadlines:

Submission deadline: November 10, 2024
Author notification: November 18, 2024
Final papers due: November 29, 2024

Presentations lengths:

Papers must be between 3-10 pages.
Presentations no longer than 20 slides. 
Submissions need to present original work.

Lightning Talks 10 min
Full presentations 30 min
Technology showcase – 2 hours (open marketplace format)

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Conference thematic

Technologies and prototypes for communicating with and within isolated networks. Research and case studies that help us understand the methods and impacts of network shutdowns and isolation. Policy and recommendations for preserving an open and interoperable internet. Challenges for European digital sovereignty: regulation, infrastructures and risks of fragmentation.

We invite submissions of both long and short papers including but not limited to the following key topics:

• Decentralized network protocols and communication tools
• Web3 technologies that remain operable in isolated networks
• Satellite, broader wireless (grey-market), radio, power-line communication 
• All practical mobile telecommunications standards and LEO connectivity
• Self-hosted communications services and secure hosting
• Peer to peer and device-to-device communications services and applications
• Traffic obfuscation and hole punching
• Relevant policy analysis and recommendations

The advisory council  will select from your submissions for presentation at SplinterCon. Accepted papers, proposals and presentations will be included in the post conference report with the author’s permission.