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Call For Online Volunteers
We are looking for volunteers to help us on Discord and Gather Town at both ADCx Gather and ADC 2025 as well as volunteers to help monitor sessions in Zoom during the ADC 25 conference and to inform us of any issues with the streams.
Any accepted applicants would be expected to contribute in the region of 12-15 hours across both ADCx Gather and ADC 2025 and will receive FREE entry to the online ADC 2025 conference
Deadline: September 6, 2025
Call For Posters
Want free online entry to ADC 2025 and to present your latest work or project to attendees? Then why not present an online poster!
We are delighted to announce ADC will have a virtual Poster Room at this year’s conference. Get involved and showcase your poster which can be an embedded webpage, video and/or image!
Any accepted applications will also be given at least one 30 minute slot to discuss your poster with attendees during the conference.
Posters can be on a range of subjects relating to audio development and coding practices and we encourage both deeply technical posters aimed at experts as well as more accessible posters that may be of interest to students and new developers.
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Schedule
What Is ADC25?
Why You Can’t Get Hired and What You’re Going To Do About It
The Hard Reset for Audio Freelancing
Should Audio Plugins Have “Everything Everywhere All at Once”?
Exploring Modularity, Reusability, and Instrument Identity in Audio Software
Driving Chaos
Virtual Analog Modelling of a Chaotic Circuit with Wave Digital Filters
Bridging Audio Analysis and Interaction
An Open Toolkit for Real-Time Descriptors
11th November
Channel Agnosticism in MetaSounds
Simplifying Audio Formats for Reusable Graph Topologies
Efficient Task Scheduling in a Multithreaded Audio Engine
Algorithms and Analysis for Parallel Graph Execution
Chaos, Logic, and Physics
Lessons from Building a 3D Spatial DAW in Unity
Creating from Legacy Code
A Case Study of Porting Legacy Code from Exponential Audio
Hacking Handhelds for Creative Audio
Building Music Applications for the New Nintendo 3DS
Beyond the DAW
Designing a Procedural Sequencer Powered by Music-Theory
Emotion in the Signal
EEG-Driven Adaptive Music for Games, VR, and Immersive Media
How To Distribute Your Plugins
Using MuseHub as the Engine To Get Your Audio Tools in the Hands of Millions
ADC 2015 to 2035
Looking Back at 10 Years of Audio Dev, and Peering Forward at the Next 10
12th November
Building Inclusive Audio Tools
Accessibility with ARIA, WCAG, and Real-World Projects
How I Learned to Love the Docs
Documentation As Design Process for Music Tech Products
Understanding JUCE Drawing
Rules for Measurable Performance Improvements
Doodads & Doohickeys
A Guide to Theory-Crafting & Modelling a Fictional Acoustic Instrument
Developing your own DSP framework
Would You, Could You, Should You?
Crowded Market Launch Playbook
Refining Audio Plugin Success Through Pre‑Launch Metrics
ADC is an annual event celebrating all audio development technologies, from music applications and game audio to audio processing and embedded systems. ADC’s mission is to help attendees acquire and develop new skills, and build a network that will support their career development. It is also aimed at showcasing academic research and facilitating collaborations between research and industry.
Join us online for three days of content, including livestreamed talks and workshops, group chats, networking and meetups through our interactive virtual venue, meet sponsors, recruiters, peers and experts in the field through video and text chat in Zoom, Discord and Gather Town.
The online portion of the conference will run from 08:00-20:00 UTC with the main programme of talks scheduled to be accessible to as many active time zones as possible. In addition, all sessions will be available to watch on-demand through the conference web portal. We'll also have lightning talk sessions, virtual poster sessions and other content available to participate in throughout the event.
There will also be opportunities to schedule your own content, such as group discussion sessions, open Q&A sessions, meetups or BoF group chats in our virtual venue!
Keep up with the latest news from ADC by following us on our various social media accounts and by signing up to our newsletter!
ADC 25 Speakers
Bence Kovács
Ilias Bergström
Gloria Dal Santo
Jake Morgan
Randy Young
Anna Wszeborowska
Chin-Yun Yu
Ian Hobson
Miguel Jimenez-Carvajal
Ben Supper
Gonçalo Nuno Botelho Amaral Rolão Bernardo
Rachel Susser
Josip Cavar
Avrosh Kumar
Andreas Wagner
Julian Storer
Timur Doumler
Shreya Gupta
Henning Meyer
Franco Caspe
Samuel John Prouse
Erich Krey
Astrid Bin
Francisco Bernardo
What Is ADCx Gather?
Schedule
The ADC Team is pleased to announce the return of ADCx Gather 2025. ADCx Gather is an online version of our ADCx in-person one-day conference meet-ups. Programming for ADCx uses a shorter 18 min. talk format allowing for the presentation of a variety of topics for all audiences.
The ADCx Gather one-day online event is free and open to everyone in the audio developer community (registration required). ADCx Gather is hosted in Gather Town, a browser-based virtual online platform that allows attendees to interact and collaborate in real-time.
ADCx Gather also includes a full day of audio developer 18 min. talks. Attendees will have the option of attending these sessions live or they can watch a livestream of the day for free on YouTube where you will also be able to catch up on any talks that you miss.
If you are thinking about attending ADC 2025 online, then ADCx Gather is an excellent way to preview the experience you can expect for ADC 2025.
ADCx Gather takes place on the 26th of September, 2025 starting at 11:00 UTC. Please register by clicking the button below. Any attendees who do register will be able to access exclusive content in Gather Town including poster sessions and meetups from community sponsors.
Sound Over Boilerplate
Accessible Plug-Ins Development With Phausto and Cmajor
The Immersive Score
Creative Advantages of Beds and Objects in Film and Game Music
Python Templates for Neural Image Classification and Spectral Audio Processing
Lightning Hydra Template Extended and Neural Spectral Modeling Template
Working With the Garage Door Up
Letting Others Take a Look Before You’re Ready
Accelerate UI Development
Seamless Designer-Developer Collaboration with Web Tools
ADC 25 & ADCx Gather Content
Schedule
ADC will have over 60 talks as well as up to 8 workshops from experts in the field
- Personal Agenda (ADC25 Only) - Build your own personal agenda which you can use at the event.
- Access To Slides - Access slides and other presentation material as and when they are uploaded by the speakers.
- Add To Google Calendar - If you have other commitments during the event, then you can add individual sessions to your Google Calendar and make sure you are free for the talks you want to see.
ADCx Gather will also have a further 14 talks which will all be streamed to YouTube on the day of the event!
Community Driven Meetups
As part of open content, attendees also have the option to:
- Attend informal meetup or group discussion sessions run by our community sponsors
- Attend quizzes and other social events.
All of these sessions take place in Gather Town which utilitises a proximity based video chat system to allow attendees to interact with each other. In addition, attendees can also share material and interact with embedded content that may be used for these sessions.
In addition, during the ADC 25 conference, impromptu meetup spaces and group discussion areas will be available within the virtual venue for any on-the-fly attendee driven engagements.
Online Posters
We are looking for people who would be interested in creating posters and presenting their latest audio work or project to attendees and experts in the field. This includes:
- Hosting a Variety of Multimedia Poster Materials which will be embedded in a custom built poster booth in our virtual venue for the entire duration of the event
- A dedicated 30 minute slot to present your poster to attendees through interactive video chat and screen share which will be added to the official ADCx Gather and ADC 25 schedule
- Free Online entry to the ADC25 Main conference
Online Open Mic Night
Finally we will also have our online open mic night in Gather for our online conference attendees on Tuesday 11th November at 18:30 UTC! This is a fun, informal online event with lightning talks, music performances, and some impromptu standup comedy.
Any attendees who are interested in contributing to the ADC Open Mic night will be able to apply by filling out our online application form.
Conference Systems & Features
Virtual Venue (Gather Town)
An exciting, interactive, online conference experience awaits you in our virtual venue.
- Watch Talks With Other Attendees - Like at an in-person conference, you can watch the online talks from presentation rooms in Gather Town.
- Interactive Group Video Chat - Use the Proximity-based Video & Audio Chat for spontaneous interaction with attendees like in a physical venue
- ADC Quiz Hunt - Take part in our virtual puzzle game by hunting down pub quiz questions hidden in objects around our virtual venue.
- Interactive Objects - Play piano (even as a duet), enjoy embedded games, materials and other fun activities
On Demand Access (ADC25 Only)
All sessions broadcast in Zoom will be available to watch on demand shortly after each session has finished.
- Discussion & Questions - If you have a question after watching a session on-demand, then you can use the session discussion channel in Discord to ask the speaker
- Exclusive Access - On-demand is ONLY available to conference attendees and can ONLY be accessed through this website.
Discord
Discord is a free-to-use text and audio based discussion app that is available as a website, mobile and desktop app. Discord will be used as the support and communication system for both the online and onsite portions of the conference.
- Hybrid Discussions - Use our selection of topic-based Discord channels to have live, relevant discussion with online and onsite attendees
- Announcements - Keep up to date with the latest news from the ADC Conference.
- Instant Live Online Support - Get live support for any technical difficulties and questions from one of our helpful volunteers!
- Access information and resources relating to Gather Town and the Conference Platform
Zoom Webinar
All of the main conference sessions will be streamed online through Zoom Webinar which allows us to provide the highest quality stream possible and to facilitate the on-demand access to each session. However, to create a more interactive experience, speakers will be encouraged to take questions for their talk in our virtual venue which allows attendees to video chat with the speaker.
Conference Platform / Portal
While attendees will be encouraged to use Gather Town to attend main conference sessions, we also have a user friendly website that can be used as an alternative for anyone who either has an accessibility issue or that is unable to connect to Gather Town. In addition, this website also hosts the schedule for the event and allows for users to create personal agendas for the event.