InstructureCon 2024 | July 9th – 11th
InstructureCon 2024
July 9th – 11th
InstructureCon 2024 | July 9th – 11th
InstructureCon 2024
July 9th – 11th
November 23–27, 2026 | Vienna, Austria
Join us in Vienna, Austria, November 23–27, 2026, for five days of collaboration, coding, and community at the 23rd BigBlueButton Developer Summit.
Bringing together the designers, developers, and contributors behind BigBlueButton, the summit is an opportunity to share ideas, tackle challenges, and help shape the future of the platform.
Whether you’re a long time contributor or looking to get involved for the first time, you’re welcome to join us. It’s one of the best ways to connect with the core team, collaborate on projects, and make a meaningful contribution to BigBlueButton.
This year’s summit will be hosted at the offices of think modular, a long-time BigBlueButton contributor based in Vienna.
Interested in attending? Email Fred Dixon to register your interest.
The BigBlueButton Developer Summit is all about collaboration and turning ideas into action. Throughout the week, attendees will work together on projects that help shape the future of the platform.
With BigBlueButton 4.0 on the horizon, there’s plenty to explore. Here are some of the potential projects for 2026.
The agenda is shaped by the community, so if you have an idea or project you’d like to contribute to, we’d love to hear it!
Wondering what a BigBlueButton Developer Summit looks like?
Take a look back at our 2025 summit at the University of Vienna, where developers, designers, and contributors came together for a week of collaboration, coding, and sharing ideas.
Watch the highlights and get inspired for 2026!
Explore the 2025 Summit presentations.
As an online specialist in education, Didaris, together with over 30 chambers of industry and commerce and a large selection of experienced lecturers, helps ensure that further education is possible for everyone – no matter where in the world you are.
think modular is an Austrian full-service provider with a focus on international settings (learning, networking, conferencing across the globe). A long-time contributor to the BigBlueButton and developer of the BigBlueButton Drupal integration, think modular provides commercial hosting for BigBlueButton in Austria and Germany.
think modular is a long-time contributor to the BigBlueButton open source project, providing BigBlueButton services across the DACH region and beyond.
We’re pleased to be gathering at think modular’s offices in Vienna for the 23rd BigBlueButton Developer Summit, bringing our community together for five days of collaboration, innovation, and hands-on development.
Blindside Networks
Blindside Networks are the creators of BigBlueButton. Blindside Networks provides premium BigBlueButton hosting and services support, which help teachers and students unlock the full potential of BigBlueButton through the customisation of many of the best features of the platform.
Mconf
Mconf is a Brazilian company with over 10 years experience developing video conferencing solutions based on BigBlueButton to meet various needs (see elos.vc, our virtual classroom, and triades.vc, focused on court hearings). Mconf actively contributes to the development and improvement of BigBlueButton and is the company that hosts the BigBlueButton Summits in Brazil.
iMDT
With a rich 20-year history, iMDT has been indirectly involved with BigBlueButton right from the start, as we were actively engaged in the development of the Red5 media server, which formed the foundation of the initial version of BigBlueButton. Since those early days, our commitment to BigBlueButton has only grown stronger. Supported by a partnership with BlindSideNetworks, we work on daily basis to improve BigBlueButton, shaping the future of this remarkable platform.
Apereo
The Apereo Foundation works to increase the awareness and adoption of open source software in and for education. The Foundation supports open source projects used in thousands of colleges and universities worldwide. Our international community of educators, developers, academic institutions, and commercial partners deliver industry-leading open source software serving the academic mission.
ZKI
We thank ZKI, the German association of Higher Education IT centers, for its members that have collectively supported the overall development of BigBlueButton in the past three years. Their contributions have helped us acellerate development of integration with LiveKit and hybrid classroom.
Speaker Session:
Presented by: Fred Dixon, Co-founder of BigBlueButton
When: Thursday Nov. 23 at 1:30-2:00pm / Berlin Time (7:30-8:00am EST)
Where: Room TLM18D
As technology continues to advance, Pedagogy – the science of teaching and learning – is even more relevant today. A key measurement of any class, physical or virtual, is “Did students learn?”.
In this presentation, Fred Dixon, co-Founder of BigBlueButton Inc., will explore how AI can assist educators in creating more opportunities for applied learning during their virtual classes, and how related analytics can help educators pin-point students that are struggling and give them feedback in the moment, thereby improving learning outcomes.
This presentation covers three topics:
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BigBlueButton is an open source virtual classroom solution for online learning that provides real-time sharing of audio, video, slides, whiteboard, chat and screen. It also allows participants to join the conferences with their webcams and invite guest speakers.
Learn more about the BigBlueButton developed and supported by Blindside Networks.
Blindside Networks started the BigBlueButton project in 2007 and manages its growth world-wide.
