CALL FOR SPEAKERS | DEADLINE –  31 DECEMBER 2025, MIDNIGHT

Please read the below before you submit your paper

IRM UK invites you to participate in the 25th Enterprise & Business Architecture  Conference Europe, 08 – 12 June 2026, in Central London.

This event will feature the full range of architecture disciplines from Enterprise Architecture to Business Architecture and the Design and Implementation of Business Processes and capabilities.

By becoming a speaker, you’ll receive complimentary access to the conference and exhibition on 08 and 09 June. Plus, enjoy an exclusive 25% registration discount for your colleagues!

We’re looking for a range of session styles, including interactive workshops, peer-to-peer discussion groups, and standard conference sessions, as we aim to offer a good balance across all the tracks of styles, topics, experiences, and case study examples.

• The conference presentation sessions will take place on 08 and 09 June and should last 40 minutes.
• We are also looking for a limited number of 30 minute sessions. 
• The workshops run on 10 – 12 of June and should last for three hours or six hours.

The Conference Advisory Board is looking for speakers who can provide information, knowledge, and insights, and share experiences on topics related to Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture and AI Strategies. We anticipate that there will be a large volume of submissions this year. As such, your proposal must be focused, adhere to the conference guidelines, and offer something engaging and useful for your fellow professionals; this way you can ensure it has the best chance of being selected.

Presentations should help delegates understand the evolving roles of Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture in different contexts and provide practical insights that delegates can use to educate and inform others within their organisations or to support their own career development.

The advisory board is particularly interested in sessions that complement Service Design, Business Change & Transformation, AI, and AI Strategies, offering valuable connections and cross-disciplinary perspectives.

What We’re Looking For:

We are actively seeking speakers to explore a broad spectrum of subjects under the overarching theme of how Enterprise Architecture & Business Architecture are revolutionising business practices in 2026.

We are looking for speakers who can share their stories, stimulate the audience’s imagination, and offer practical answers to real-life challenges. Which approaches, techniques and tools have proved to be most useful, or which ones did not deliver?

Experience has shown us that delegates have expressed a preference for how-to topics and case studies rather than theoretical or abstract topics.

Delegates also like to hear from industry experts who can provide fresh insights, current trends, management advice, and discussions of future directions.

Please submit a description of the talk you would like to present.

We need a title that reflects the content of the presentation, a description in a paragraph or two, and 3-5 bullet points setting out the key messages. Tell us something about yourself, your role, and the enterprise you represent. If you have previous experience as a conference speaker, provide a summary of this experience. If you don’t have previous experience speaking at conferences, then please make this clear. We’re happy either way and just need to know.

Topics of Interest

We’ll be choosing keynotes, conference sessions, workshops and panel discussions that concern the following examples of themes and topics.

If you can offer a presentation on a topic or theme we haven’t covered, and you feel the conference would benefit from this presentation, please submit it for consideration.

Speaker Guidelines

Please read these guidelines carefully before you make your submission, and ensure it reaches us by December 31st 2025. The guidelines can be found at https://irmuk.co.uk/speaker-guidelines-all-conferences/

Proposals should be focused, adheres to the conference guidelines, and offers something engaging and useful.

We are looking for:

• 40-minute conference sessions
• Limited 30-minute conference sessions.
• Keynotes (45 minutes – 1 hour)
• Ideas for roundtables/panels and networking sessions
• 3-hour and 6 hour Workshops
• Dive deep into practical, hands-on learning experiences designed to provide actionable insights and collaborative problem-solving opportunities.

Please submit your abstract directly on our website using the submission form below. You may submit more than one abstract.

Your abstract should be kept to the 150-word limit, clearly outlining your content plus 3-5 bullet points at the end to summarise your key messages as to what delegates will learn. Copy must be written in 3rd person. Bear in mind that your abstract needs to be sufficiently polished for inclusion on the website and in the conference brochure and must achieve the following objectives:

Provide enough information for us to evaluate your submission relative to others. To aid the evaluation you can include additional relevant information in the ‘additional notes’ section of the submission form.
Be attractive to conference attendees and help them to select the sessions most valuable to them, given their interests and level of maturity in the subject matter.
Based on previous conference feedback and program assessments, here are some tips to help you maximize your chances of being selected.

DO:

Be specific and concrete about what you will be presenting and how the audience will benefit from it. Use the bullet points to highlight the key ‘takeaways’.
Demonstrate real-world achievements, showing examples of content if possible, and describing outcomes from applying it.
Push the envelope. Aim to stretch the audience with fresh insights and the benefit of your own experience. Or present a topic that would fully engage people at the CIO level.
Ensure that your presentation is relevant to this conference. If your talk majors on a specialised topic, you should position it clearly in the overall conference theme.

AVOID:

‘Pitching’ specific products.
Exceeding the word count limit.
Trying to cover too much ground in the time available.
Putting forward unsubstantiated theories or opinions.
Using vague abstractions and jargon.

If you have presented recently at another conference on a similar subject matter, we suggest that you use the ‘additional notes’ of the submission form to indicate how this presentation is different from what you have presented before.

If you are not sure whether your idea is suitable or not, please feel free to contact us to discuss it before making your submission.

Please direct any questions about submissions to Shane McGlynn at shane@irmuk.co.uk