A Conference for the Community

Announcing ADC 2025

We are delighted to invite you to attend and contribute to the 10th anniversary of the Audio Developer Conference (ADC). After a successful ADC24 in a new city, ADC returns back to Bristol UK in 2025.

The in-person and online hybrid conference will take place 10-12 November 2025. Our in-person conference venue is the Delta Hotels by Marriott Bristol City Center.

New for ADC25: The Audio Developer Conference is now a full 3-day conference. The first day (10 November) includes even more programmed talks and workshops available to all attendees.

Hybrid In-Person & Virtual Format

ADC returns once again in 2025 as a combined in-person and online hybrid conference format.

A big part of the conference experience is the live interaction between attendees. The live conference virtual experience will return using the Gather online platform paired with the in-person Bristol, UK conference running at the same time.

All ADC keynotes, panels, and talks will be available to all attendees. In-person sessions will be broadcast live to online attendees and online sessions will be broadcast into the venue.

This year’s Audio Developers Conference will bring back the ADC Workshops within the main conference schedule for both in-person and online attendees. The hybrid workshop format will ensure that these informative sessions can be attended by our community of developers, educators, and students all over the world.

ADC25 Workshops take place on the first day of the conference (November 10) and are open to all conference attendees. Workshop participation will require registration as spots are limited and will be on a first-come, first served basis.

The first day of the conference (November 10) will include a full day of 18 minute talk programming running alongside morning and afternoon workshops and will be open to all attendees.

If you are interested in applying to be an online volunteer, follow the link below.

Online Volunteer Application

This Year's Programme

Talks at ADC range from audio research, to professional practices, to standards in audio development, as well talks about application areas and career development. Experimental projects are welcome. We are seeking a balance between deeply technical talks aimed at experts as well as more accessible talks that may be of interest to students and new developers.

Topics include, but are not limited, to:

Digital Signal Processing
Audio synthesis and analysis
Music technology, DAWs, audio plug-ins
Game audio
3D and VR/AR audio
Creative coding
Other applications of audio programming (e.g. telecommunications, multimedia, medicine, biology)
Design and evaluation of audio software and hardware systems
Programming languages used for audio development (e.g. C++, Rust, Python)
Software development tools, techniques, and processes
Performance, optimisation, and parallelisation
Audio development on mobile platforms
Embedded, Linux, and bare metal audio programming
Low-latency and real-time programming
Best practices in audio programming
Testing and QA
Educational approaches and tools for audio and DSP programming
Planning and navigating a career as an audio developer
Other relevant topics likely to be of interest to the ADC audience

Multiple proposals from a single speaker are encouraged, but only the highest voted submission will be accepted.

You can see the abstracts of previous accepted talks here:

ADC 2024 ADC 2023 ADC 2022 ADC 2021 Submit a talk

Important Dates

26 May 2025: Paper proposal submissions begin
30 June 2025: Conference ticket sales begin
~~29 June~~ 2025: Deadline for submitting talks - Extended 6 July
7 July 2025: Public review phase begins
16 July 2025: Public review phase ends
25 July 2025: Notification of acceptance
4 August 2025: Programme announcement
15 September 2025: Early bird ticket pricing ends
22 September 2025: Diversity scholarship deadline
13 October 2025: Deadline for submitting a poster
10 November 2025: First day of conference + workshops
11 November 2025: Second day of the conference
12 November 2025: Third day of the conference

A Conference for the Community

Announcing ADC 2025

Hybrid In-Person & Virtual Format

This Year's Programme

Important Dates

Previous ADC Events