Schedule

Monday, 5 October 2026

Conference Day 1 – Timetable

Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Conference Day 2 – Timetable

Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Cultural Day

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Working Together Day 1 (Bugfest)

Friday, 9 October 2026

Working Together Day 2 (Bugfest)

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Full Schedule in local timezone (Karlsruhe)

Monday, 5 October 2026

Time	What	Room
08:15–09:15	Registration	Audimax
09:15–09:30	Welcome / Opening	Audimax
09:30–10:00	Koha in the UK: Challenges, changes and celebrations for UK libraries Fiona Borthwick	Audimax
10:05–10:35	One Koha, 1,300 Libraries: Architecture and Extensions of Türkiye’s National Public Library System İsmail Karaca, Merve Yavuzdemir	Audimax
10:40–10:55	Export Allegro-C catalog to Koha using OpenRefine Jamin Lukas Noetzel	Audimax
11:00–11:30	Coffee break	Audimax
11:30–11:50	Keep calm and MARC on – Koha in the K10plus galaxy Gerlind Ladisch	Audimax
11:55–12:25	Importing GND into Koha Thomas Klausner	Audimax
12:30–13:30	Lunch break	Audimax
13:30–13:45	Raising the Accessibility Baseline in the Koha OPAC Laura Escamilla, Lucas Gass	Audimax
13:50–14:20	Power to the Patron: Enhancing Administrative Control in Koha Fiona Borthwick, Jessica Zairo, Martin Renvoize, Nick Clemens	Audimax
14:25–14:45	SQL reports – struggles and strategies – Creating self paced learning tools for SQL reports in Koha Holly Cooper	Audimax
14:50–15:20	Coffee break	Audimax
15:20–15:50	New Koha development : from the customer idea to "pushed to master", many steps Laurence Rault	Audimax
15:55–16:15	Closed Stacks feature is nearly in your Koha Sonia Bouis	Audimax
16:20–16:50	Speed up your setup: A proof-of-concept for better onboarding Aleisha Amohia	Audimax

Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Time	What	Room
08:30–09:00	Registration	Audimax
09:00–09:15	Foundations Update Andrew Auld	Audimax
09:20–09:50	Refreshing Acquisitions: Lessons from Two Years of Planning, Mapping, and Migration Preparation Jessica Zairo, Jonathan Field	Audimax
09:55–10:25	ILL Improvements Lisette Scheer, Pedro Amorim	Audimax
10:30–11:00	Coffee break	Audimax
11:00–11:30	Beyond Go-Live: Mastering ERM in Everyday Use Michaela Sieber	Audimax
11:35–12:05	Bridging the Gap: A Collaborative Finnish Approach to Integrated Electronic Resource Management (ERM) in Koha Veli-Matti Häkkinen, Johanna Miettunen, Christian Nelson	Audimax
12:10–12:25	Group Photo	Audimax
12:25–13:25	Lunch break	Audimax
13:25–13:55	Automated Screenshots in the Koha Manual Marion Durand, Philip Orr	Audimax
14:00–14:30	AI: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Brian Pichman	Audimax
14:35–14:50	AI and OCR Powered Koha Cataloguing Mr Muhittin Enes Kale, Erdem Acır	Audimax
14:55–15:25	Coffee break	Audimax
15:25–15:40	Punctuation Without the Pain : Leveraging Leader/18 in Koha for Cleaner Records Alexander Wagner, Mr Mark Hofstetter	Audimax
15:45–16:05	From Barcodes to Metadata Integrity: A Journey of Data Cleaning in Koha Ingrid Schiessl, Rebeca Dos Santos De Moura	Audimax
16:10–16:40	Transforming Access to Knowledge: An Empirical Study of Koha Implementations and the Impact of Linked Data in Nigerian Libraries BASIRU ADETOMIWA	Audimax
16:45–16:55	From Legacy Systems to Koha: Practical Implementation and Migration Experiences from Ghana Mr Daniel Akwasi Afrane	Audimax
17:00–17:15	Community Awards	Audimax

Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Time	What	Room
09:00–18:00	Cultural Day

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Time	What	Room
09:00–09:25	Welcome / Orientation
09:30–10:15	Where are we with AI ? Arthur Suzuki
10:40–11:10	Finally Containerizing Koha : Lessons from Bringing Koha to Docker and Kubernetes Tomas Cohen Arazi
10:40–11:40	Automated Screenshots Workshop: Help out with screenshots in the Koha Manual! Caroline Cyr La Rose, Marion Durand, Philip Orr
11:20–12:20	Remote Debugging with Visual Studio Code
11:50–12:10	Avoiding data traps
12:20–13:20	Lunch break
13:35–14:05	Profiling and performance using NYTProf Nick Clemens
13:40–15:10	Bugs for Beginners Katrin Fischer, Lisette Scheer

Friday, 9 October 2026

Time	What	Room
09:30–11:00	Documentation Workshop: Contributing to the Koha Manual Caroline Cyr La Rose, Philip Orr
12:00–13:00	Lunch break

Full timetable on Indico (official)