ADC 2026 Schedule

ADC 2026 Schedule

Monday 9th November

All times are in UTC

In-Person Only
07:30 - 09:15A
Online Only
Gather Town
08:00 - 09:15Gather Town
In-Person & Online
09:15 - 09:30Bristol 2

From Paper to Plugin

LLM’s and the Future of Audio Engineering Work
In-Person & Online
09:30 - 09:50Bristol 2 Scott Carver

Geometry-Aware DSP for Vinyl Mastering

Working Backwards from Physical Constraints
In-Person & Online
09:50 - 10:10Bristol 2 Andreas Wagner

Workshop 2: Build Your Own Shazam

Audio Fingerprinting from First Principles
In-Person Only
10:00 - 13:00EmpireEmma Fitzmaurice & Anna Wszeborowska - Dynamic Cast
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10:00 - 13:00SS Great BritainJan Wilczek
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 13:00Conservatory
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10:00 - 13:00Concorde SuiteDomenico Cipriani
In-Person & Online
10:10 - 10:30Bristol 2 Erik Jourgensen

The Space Between Presets

Exploration of the software synth presets space
In-Person & Online
10:30 - 10:50Bristol 2 Shiva Sankar Kannan

When (not) to Patent Audio Software

Should you patent your audio products and algorithms?
In-Person & Online
10:50 - 11:10Bristol 2 Simon Hestermann

Morning Break

11:10 - 11:40

Wavelets: Stop Letting Fourier Smear Your Transients

Building Practical, Good-Sounding Audio Effects in the Wavelet Domain
In-Person & Online
11:40 - 12:00Bristol 2 D'Angelo Villarico Fitzpatrick

Microphones Could Save Your Life!

Medical Acoustics, Unexpected Audio Applications, And Why You Should Stay Curious
In-Person & Online
12:00 - 12:20Bristol 2 Christopher Relyea
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:40Bristol 2 Aman Jagwani & Victor Lazzarini
In-Person & Online
12:40 - 13:00Bristol 2 Tim Bencker
In-Person Only
13:00 - 14:00Executive Lounge

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

What Would You Do With an Additive Synthesis Supercomputer?

Complex Audio Rendering from a Distributed Systems Perspective
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:20Bristol 2 Alan Broady
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14:00 - 17:00EmpireJay Pocknell

From Trained Model to Real-Time Implementation

A Practical Guide to Neural Network Inference and Common Pitfalls
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14:00 - 17:00SS Great BritainFares Schulz & Valentin Ackva

Workshop 5: From Algorithm to Silicon

Audio Development with AudioReachTM on Qualcomm Hardware
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 17:00Conservatory Patrick Lai

Workshop 8: Build your First Plugin with JUCE

Create a Working Plugin From Scratch!
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14:00 - 17:00Concorde SuiteTom Poole, Attila Szarvas, Reuben Thomas & Anthony Nicholls
In-Person & Online
14:20 - 14:40Bristol 2 Tsz Chai Alan Liu

The No-Knob Interface

Precise, 25-Dimensional Control in Real Time With a Single XY Input (And a Little Bit of Topology)
In-Person & Online
14:40 - 15:00Bristol 2 Matthew Creighton

Declarative Audio Plugins in Zig

Postmodern Metaprogramming for a Better Future
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:20Bristol 2 William Light
In-Person & Online
15:20 - 15:40Bristol 2 Antony Nasce

Afternoon Break

15:40 - 16:10

Echoes From the Cosmos

Building a Reverb from Star Data
In-Person & Online
16:10 - 16:30Bristol 2 Adrian Lam
In-Person & Online
16:30 - 16:50Bristol 2 Tom Waldron

Don’t Break the Session

Modernizing a Plugin Back-Catalogue Without Wrecking Saved Projects
In-Person & Online
16:50 - 17:10Bristol 2 Bence Kovács
In-Person & Online
17:10 - 17:30Bristol 2 Jelle
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17:30 - 18:00Empire Lobby - Front Lobby
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18:00 - 21:45Zerodegrees Bristol

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Tuesday 10th November

In-Person Only
08:00 - 08:50Bristol 2

pluginval

How I Accidentally Built an Industry Standard(ish) Tool
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 2 Dave Rowland
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 1 Leslie Gaston-Bird & Rebekah Wilson

NES All the Way Down

Emulating Audio Processing Units on Vintage Consoles
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 3 Daniel Strübig
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Conservatory Avrosh Kumar

Model-Based Testing for Audio Devices

How We Test on Hardware Early
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 2 Max Bailey

While My PC Gently Beeps

Designing and Implementing an Audio Programming Language
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 1 Corné Driesprong

Dynamic Range Compression

A Story of Useful DSP From Simple Building Blocks, Intuition and a Bit of Imagination
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 3 Ruben Svensson
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Conservatory Alexandre R.J. Francois
Online Only
Gather Town
10:50 - 11:20Gather Town Poster Room

Morning Break

10:50 - 11:20

It’s Time To Be Real

Live Workflows for Human Creativity in Games
In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 2 Aaron McLeran

The Early Electronic Orchestra

The Analogue Circuits Behind Polyphonic Electronic Keyboards Before Digital and MIDI Came Along
In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 1 Jamie Angus-Whiteoak

One Audio Pipeline, Many Processors

Unifying DSP and AI on Embedded Linux
In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 3 Vishnu Singh
In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Conservatory Mateusz Zuń
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 2
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 1
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 3
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Conservatory

Lunch

12:50 - 14:00
In-Person Only
12:50 - 14:00Executive Lounge
Online Only
Gather Town
12:50 - 14:00Gather Town Poster Room
Online Only
Gather Town
13:00 - 13:30Gather Town Expo Hall
Online Only
Gather Town
13:30 - 14:00Gather Town Expo Hall
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 2 Timur Doumler

Asp

Designing a Modular, Accessible and Open Sequencer Platform
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 1 Daniel Jones
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 3 Roth Michaels

Procedural Audio Pipelines

Principles, Promises, Problems, and Practices
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Conservatory Chris Nash

From Graph to Groove

A constexpr Optimizing Compiler for DSP Graphs
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 2 Gerald Golka

You Need A Design System

Make your interface look as good as it sounds
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 1 Astrid Bin

Signal-Driven Approach to Testing Audio DSP

From signal analysis to release confidence
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 3 Daniel Leonov

Functional Reactive Programming for Audio Software

What a real-time concurrent FRP engine could do for us
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Conservatory Eloi Marín Gratacós
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Gather Town
15:50 - 16:20Gather Town Poster Room

Afternoon Break

15:50 - 16:20
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16:20 - 16:50Bristol 2
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Bristol 1
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Bristol 3
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Conservatory
In-Person & Online
17:00 - 18:00AKyle Keane
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Gather Town
18:00 - 19:00Conservatory
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18:00 - 21:00Bristol Suite

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Wednesday 11th November

In-Person Only
08:30 - 09:00Bristol 2
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 2 Julian Storer

Machine Learning Was the Easy Part

Engineering Lessons from Building an Adaptive Audio System
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 1 Peggy Sylopp

One Log Line per Sample

A Visual Debugger for Bit-Perfect Audio
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 3 Vincent Dortel

Between Analog and Digital

From the Juno DCO to Samples and Back Again
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Conservatory Timo Alho

Audio ML on Bare Metal

GEMM, Memory Layout, and Real-Time Dataflow on Embedded ARM
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 2 Andrea Martelloni & João Felipe Santo

Real-Time Raytraced Acoustics

Impulse Response Synthesis and Time-Varying Convolution
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 1 Anton Lundberg

From Idea to Audio Product

The Road to the First 1000 Customers
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 3 Jerre van der Hulst

From DAWs to Dungeons

What I Wish I Knew Before Switching To Game Audio Programming
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Conservatory Collin Canard Schupman
Online Only
Gather Town
10:50 - 11:20Gather Town Poster Room

Morning Break

10:50 - 11:20
In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 2 Rachel Susser

Fixing the One in Two Billion Audio Glitch

Practical Lessons From Troubleshooting Real Time Professional Audio Systems
In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 1 Olivier Petit & Alistair Barker

std::future Is Not the Future

C++20 Coroutines for Audio Developers
In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 3 Konrad Glas
In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Conservatory Noah Feasey-Kemp
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 2
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 1
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 3
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Conservatory
Online Only
Gather Town
12:50 - 14:00Gather Town Poster Room

Lunch

12:50 - 14:00
Online Only
Gather Town
13:00 - 13:30Gather Town Expo Hall
Online Only
Gather Town
13:30 - 14:00Gather Town Expo Hall
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 2 Samuel Fischmann

Vision Without Sight

Developing Immersive Soundscapes with Hodr Engine, a Screen Reader First Spatial Audio Creation Tool
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 1 Freya Shaw

GuiBuh – a framework for automated end-to-end plugin tests

Comprehensive Automatic End-To-End Plugin Testing
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 3 Jakob Siebenrock

Can Software Tune Like Musicians?

Making Sampled Instruments Sound More Human Through Adaptive Tuning
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Conservatory Yasandu Kalansooriya

PIC-king up the Pieces!

A Beginner’s Guide to Microcontrollers and Their Families
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 2 Simeon Joseph
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 1 Vibhav Bobade

Fun With Functions

Building a Library of Custom Math Approximations
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 3 Ryan Robinson
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Conservatory Gerard Roma
Online Only
Gather Town
15:50 - 16:20Gather Town Poster Room

Afternoon Break

15:50 - 16:20
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Bristol 2
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Bristol 1
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Bristol 3
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Conservatory

The Power of Acoustic Spaces

(I Went to Horrible Places That Sound Amazing so You Don’t Have To)
In-Person & Online
17:00 - 18:00AAndrew Scheps
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18:00 - 19:00Empire Lobby - Front Lobby
Online Only
Gather Town
19:00 - 20:30Gather Town Track A Auditorium
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19:00 - 20:30Bristol Suite
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20:30 - 21:30Empire Lobby - Front Lobby
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21:30 - 23:45Left Handed Giant Bar

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