konf.

Run your conference.

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The batteries-included platform for community tech conferences — website, CFP, program, speakers, sponsors. Built in Bergen, by people who run one.

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konf.app · konf.run

Who it's for

Made for the conferences we come from

Konf is built for community-run tech conferences — the ones organized on evenings and weekends by people who also have day jobs. If your event grew out of a meetup and now needs a real website, a real CFP, and a sponsor process that isn't a spreadsheet, this is for you.

Cloud Native Days DevOps Days Kubernetes Community Days meetups that outgrew the meetup
What you get

The whole conference, one platform

The website is the productA designed, fast public site on your own domain — schedule, speakers, tickets. Not a widget in someone else's page.
CFP to stageSubmissions, reviews, acceptances, and a drag-and-drop program builder in one flow your whole team shares.
Sponsors, handledCRM, tiers, e-signed contracts, follow-ups and invoice tracking — the part nobody else ships.
Speakers, cared forMessaging, travel support, workshop logistics, and signed Open Badges they can actually verify.
Why one system

The whole swarm in. One conference out.

Running a yearly conference means herding speakers, sponsors, attendees, a venue and your own team — across email threads, chat pings, shared docs and versioned spreadsheets. Konf pulls the whole swarm into one system, and next year it all carries over.

See it running

Seeing is believing

Konf isn't a mockup — it runs a real conference today. A tour of the actual product:

The organizer dashboard with live conference widgetsscreenshot landing soon
Mission controlOne dashboard for the whole conference — CFP progress, ticket sales, sponsor pipeline, schedule health.
Sponsor CRM pipeline board with tiers and contract statusscreenshot landing soon
Sponsor pipelineProspect → tier → e-signed contract → logo on the front page. The part nobody else ships.
Drag-and-drop schedule builder with tracksscreenshot landing soon
Schedule builderDrag talks across tracks and time slots; the public program updates itself.
A live conference website front pagescreenshot landing soon
Your public siteA designed, fast website on your own domain — composed from typed blocks.
CFP proposal review interfacescreenshot landing soon
CFP & reviewsSubmissions, ratings and acceptance in one flow the whole team shares.
Speaker management overviewscreenshot landing soon
Speakers, handledProfiles, messaging, travel support and logistics — a speaker never falls between tools.
The conference PWA on a phonescreenshot landing soon
In every pocketInstalls as an app; when a talk moves, its speakers get a push.
Everything included

The full toolbox

cfpSubmissions, reviews, ratings, acceptance flow
programDrag-and-drop schedule across tracks and slots
websiteOwn domain, theming, typed front-page builder
sponsorsCRM, tiers, action items, activity timeline
contractsGenerated sponsorship agreements, e-signing
budgetIncome live from tickets + sponsors, expenses, scenarios
speakersMessaging, travel support, workshop logistics
badgesSigned Open Badges 3.0, Credly-compatible
pwa + pushInstallable app; a moved talk pushes to its speakers
ticketingCheckin and Tito via a provider interface
discountsDiscount codes with usage tracking, including each sponsor's ticket allocation
emailTemplated speaker and sponsor email, sent under your conference's name
workshopsWorkshop sessions with capacity and signup windows
volunteersPublic signup form, approve or decline with a note, approval emails, crew roster
teamsSplit organizers into CFP, sponsor and volunteer teams so alerts reach the right few
travel supportMulti-currency speaker reimbursement with receipts and approvals
marketing studioSocial cards, speaker promo images and QR codes, generated in-app
venue screensNow-and-next room displays with sponsor ticker for event day
privacyA privacy policy page for your organization, with GDPR consent recorded at signup
next editionClone your conference for next year — tiers, contract templates, team and goals carry over
cliOrganizer CLI via Homebrew — review proposals and run the sponsor pipeline from the terminal
apisoonproBuild your own frontend on the GraphQL content API — a Pro capability when it lands
The alternative

You could assemble it yourself. We did, once.

Every community conference ends up building the same duct-tape stack: a CFP tool here, a website builder there, ticketing embedded from somewhere else, sponsors in a spreadsheet, contracts in a PDF tool, updates in a newsletter product. Six subscriptions, six logins, and none of them talk to each other.

The value is the glue. Accept a talk in Konf and the speaker gets the email and the in-app notification, while the talk drops straight into the schedule builder ready to place — no re-keying, no CSV export. Countersign a sponsor contract and the deal moves to closed-won, the logo lands on the front page, and the invoice shows up on the follow-up list. Integrated beats assembled, and it's priced for community budgets: one price per event, not six SaaS subscriptions deep.

Pricing

Free for free events. $249 per event for everything else.

If your conference doesn't charge for tickets, Konf is free — the whole platform, not a crippled tier. If it does charge, one flat fee per edition covers everything. No per-attendee cut, no per-speaker seat, no upsell for the parts that matter.

the whole rule — nothing to negotiate
free to attend → $0
sells tickets → $249 per event

free events

$0
no card, no expiry

Your event is free to attend. You get the same platform everyone else gets — we just don't send an invoice.

  • Everything in the “per event” plan
  • Your own domain and conference branding
  • Signed Open Badges for your speakers

per event

$249
~2,490 NOK · per event, ex. VAT

Your event sells tickets. One fee per edition — the whole conference, not a module of it.

  • Website on your own domain, theming, page builder
  • CFP, reviews, program & schedule builder
  • Sponsor CRM, e-signed contracts, follow-ups
  • Speaker messaging, travel support, workshops
  • Signed Open Badges 3.0, PWA & push
  • Email from a shared Konf domain — your name, your Reply-To
  • The konf CLI

pro · enterprise

Contact us
priced per conversation

You need isolation, scale or paperwork — not more features. We'll set a list price once the last pieces ship; until then we'd rather talk than publish a number we can't stand behind.

  • A verified email sending domain of your own
  • Your own dedicated email account and sending reputation
  • GraphQL API access for building your own frontend
  • Raised limits, priority support, SLA
  • DPA, contracts and procurement paperwork

For comparison: a CFP tool alone runs about $499 per event above its free-event threshold — and it doesn't include your website, your sponsor pipeline, your budget, or issuing credentials. Konf is $249 for the whole conference. Prices are ex. VAT; Norwegian customers are invoiced in NOK with MVA, EU businesses with reverse charge.

Roadmap

Shipping today, targeting next

Konf is developed in the open and battle-tested on a real conference. Here's an honest map of where it stands.

✓ shipping today

  • Public website on your own domain, per-conference theming
  • CFP, reviews and acceptance flow
  • Drag-and-drop program & schedule builder
  • Front-page builder with typed blocks
  • Sponsor CRM: tiers, e-signed contracts, activity timeline
  • Speaker messaging, travel support, workshop logistics
  • Signed Open Badges 3.0 speaker credentials
  • PWA with push notifications
  • In-app notification hub for organizers and speakers
  • Per-conference sender identity on outgoing email
  • Conference budget: live income, expenses, scenarios
  • Ticketing via Checkin or Tito
The network

Better together, as the network grows

Every conference on Konf strengthens the others. These are the network benefits we're building toward for conferences that join early:

One speaker profile
Speakers keep a single profile across every Konf conference — bio, photo, talk history and signed badges follow them, so your CFP starts pre-filled instead of empty.
A verifiable track record
Signed Open Badges accumulate into a portable, cryptographically verifiable speaking CV — proof of every stage a speaker has stood on across the network.
Cross-promotion
Community events surface each other: attendees of one conference discover the next one in the network — opt-in, and never at your audience's expense.
Sponsor introductions
Sponsors who back one community conference are usually looking for the next one. The network makes those introductions instead of leaving them to chance.
Organizer commons
Playbooks, benchmarks and a backchannel with people who have run the same sprint — because every organizing team hits the same walls in the same order.
For the nerds

Details we sweat so you don't have to

your-domain.tld
Every conference on its own domain with its own theme — one deployment, many tenants, resolved per request from the Host header and scoped to the organization that owns it.
open-badges/3.0
Speaker badges are cryptographically signed Verifiable Credentials — baked SVG and PNG, importable to Credly, verifiable by the 1EdTech validator.
pwa + push
The site installs as an app, with icons and theme colour generated per conference. Move a talk and Web Push reaches its speakers on the spot — and a lost connection lands on a real offline page, not a browser error.
ticketing
Bring your ticketing provider — Checkin and Tito supported today, more via a provider interface.
page-builder
Compose your front page from typed blocks — hero, program highlights, countdown, venue, FAQ. No raw-HTML footguns.
volunteers
A signup form on your own site, consent recorded with it, and the alert lands with your volunteer crew rather than everyone. Approve or decline with a note and send the welcome mail from the same screen — plus a small separate roster for the crew who shoot and run the day.
organizer-teams
Teams are a soft lens, never a lock. Put your CFP people, sponsor people and volunteer wranglers in teams and each notification finds its own crew — with its own Slack channel and sending identity. Configure nothing and everyone gets everything, exactly as before.
gdpr
Consent is a record, not a checkbox: data processing, public profile, photography and marketing tracked separately, each with a timestamp and the version of the policy that was on screen. The privacy page names your organization as controller and points complaints at the right supervisory authority — Datatilsynet if you're in Norway.
co-speakers
Two people, one talk. Invite your co-speaker by email and they get a tokenised link that expires and asks them to sign in before it counts. Accept and they're on the proposal and in its message thread; decline and the inviter hears why.
cron
The nagging runs itself. A daily pass reminds speakers to confirm their talk, upload slides and finish travel claims — deduplicated by a marker document, so nobody gets the same nudge twice. Monday morning a digest lands in Slack: tickets, revenue against target, sponsor pipeline, CFP numbers.
attestations
Every CLI release carries Sigstore build provenance — a GitHub attestation binding each archive to the exact commit and workflow that produced it, on all five platform targets, with checksums alongside. Verify it before you trust the binary.
battle-tested
Konf runs Cloud Native Days Norway — every feature survives a real conference before it ships to yours.
The name

Why "konf"?

konf /kɔnf/ · substantiv (norsk, uformell)
short for konferanse — what Nordic communities actually call a conference.
«Ses på konf?»

No mythology, no backronym. It's the word we already use, now with a platform behind it. Made in Bergen, Norway — where conferences happen despite the weather.

Status

Launching soon

Not open for signup yet — but the platform is real.

Konf already runs a real conference today; what's launching soon is opening it up to yours. We're lining up a first wave of community conferences for concierge onboarding: we sit down with your organizing team and get your website, CFP and sponsor pipeline running together. Free if your event is free to attend — $249 per event if it sells tickets.

Interested, or just curious? Get in touch and we'll keep you posted — no list-spam, just a hei when it's your turn.

Say hei — hei@konf.app GitHub →