Indonesia Software Developer Conference 2025 (IDSW.dev)

Jakarta, Indonesia

https://idsw.dev

CFP closes at  August 17, 2025 17:00 UTC
  (Local)

Join us at the Indonesia Software Developer Conference 2025 (IDSW 2025) – a premier, community-driven event organized by PERKODI and seasoned members from various tech communities. With a track record of over 12 successful international events and 3,500+ attendees, IDSW 2025 promises in-depth sessions on essential and emerging topics like product engineering, programming languages, software architecture, generative AI, and tech leadership. Experience a fresh take on software development conferences with highly technical discussions in an engaging and accessible format. Don’t miss out on this inaugural event!

Where

Usmar Ismail Hall, Kuningan, Jakarta, Indonesia

When

November 22-23, 2025

Who

PERKODI is Perkumpulan Pengrajin Kode Indonesia, a non-profit organization that brought you RubyConfID, JSDay, SEA Machine Learning School, and Pycon Indonesia. We are the supporting organization that helps organize and manage funds for community and open source related events in Indonesia.

Why Speak in IDSW 2025?

  • A chance to solidify your knowledge on topics that you really care about.
  • A chance to find and network with like-minded people.
  • You will get a free and special ticket to the conference as “Speaker”.
  • Get invited to speaker dinner and get to know fellow speakers of the event.
  • We will pay an appreciation fee to speakers. Please be advised that, since we are a non-profit organization, we are currently unable to reimburse your transportation or accommodation costs.

CFP Description

Topics

  1. Innovative Use Cases of AI in Business and Institutions
    Highlights innovative, domain-specific applications of AI that are delivering real value across industries.
    Subtopics:
    1. Process automation
    2. Improving customer experience
    3. Predictive analytics in operations
    4. Improvement in maintaining legacy systems
    5. Cross-sector AI adoption strategies
    6. Organizational challenges in AI implementation
    7. Innovative AI use cases in various industries, e.g healthcare, education, finance, entertainment, manufacturing, farming, mining
  2. Latest Trends in AI Development
    Covers emerging directions in AI tools, and applications that are shaping the future of the field.
    Subtopics:
    1. Generative AI advancements (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, etc.)
    2. Open-source vs proprietary LLM trends (Mistral, LLaMA, etc.)
    3. Multimodal AI (text, image, audio, and video together)
    4. Small, efficient models (e.g., TinyML, edge AI)
    5. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector databases
    6. Real-time AI (low-latency applications in chatbots, translation)
    7. Rise of AI agents and autonomous workflows
    8. AI-as-a-Service (APIs, cloud AI integration)
  3. In-depth AI Technologies
    Explores the technical foundations and systems behind modern AI, aimed at a deeper understanding of how AI works.
    Subtopics:
    1. Transformers and attention mechanisms
    2. Fine-tuning and prompt engineering
    3. Diffusion models and image synthesis
    4. Reinforcement learning and its applications
    5. Neural network optimization and quantization
    6. Scalable training infrastructure (TPUs, GPUs, multi-node training)
    7. Tooling and frameworks (HuggingFace, PyTorch, LangChain)
    8. Evaluation metrics for LLMs (accuracy, hallucination rate, etc.)
  4. AI Impact in Society
    Focuses on the moral, societal, and cybersecurity challenges brought by the rapid adoption of AI.
    Subtopics:
    1. Bias, fairness, and algorithmic discrimination
    2. Deepfakes, misinformation, and content authenticity
    3. Privacy-preserving AI (federated learning, differential privacy)
    4. Model jailbreaks and prompt injection attacks
    5. AI governance and regulation (EU AI Act, US/China policies)
    6. Alignment and existential risk from AGI
    7. Transparency and explainability (XAI)
    8. Ethical deployment in hiring, education, and law enforcement

About the Talk

  • The talk is expected to be delivered in Indonesian or English (please mention it in your CFP)
  • The conference will be a hybrid, 2-days, single-track event
  • Target of 400 offline attendees
  • Livestreaming will be made available for online attendees

Expected audience

We expect our audience will be mostly software engineers from various levels of expertise. But we also encourage more people to attend and make IDSW become their first-time at a tech conference. They are people looking to network and broaden their knowledge.

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