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Conference
The 45th ILIAS Development Conference takes place at
19 March 2026
10:00 - 18:00
at Katholische Hochschule NRW in Cologne
Wörthstraße 10 • 50668 Köln
The conference is free of charge. Please register yourself for the session. (We need to know at least the approximate number of attendees so we can make a reservation for lunch and dinner.)
Evening Programme / Social Event
There will also be a social event on the night before (18th march), hosted by the ILIAS.NRW community at San Calogero, starting at 19:00. Please send a message to Hackfort, Marvin [m.hackfort] if you want to attend, so we can send the right numbers of people to the restaurant.
The social event at 19 March takes place at XII Apostel, Heumarkt 68-72, 50667 Köln. Event starts at 19:30. Please let us know if you join the event. You find the poll on the start page of the DevConf group, right column.
There will be a guided tour from the conference venue to XII Apostel. We start 18:15 at the KatHo and are hopefully at the restaurant around 19:30. If want to join the tour, please wait in front of the conference building.
Additional
Accomodation
- Both hotels charge a 5% overnight tax (“Übernachtungssteuer”) on the net room rate per night, which is not included in the quoted prices. This tax applies to all guests staying in Cologne, regardless of whether the stay is for tourism or business purposes, and must be paid directly at the hotel upon check-out.
- Rooms are available from 18th to 20th March.
- Hotel Viktoria, Worringer Strasse 23, 50668 Köln (close to venue)
- Available via the keyword “ILIAS” until January 12, 2026, at the following discounted rates, both options include breakfast.
- Single Room: 105€ pP
- Double Room for single use: 132,50€
- This hotel charges a 5% overnight tax (“Übernachtungssteuer”) on the net room rate per night, which is not included in the quoted prices. This tax applies to all guests staying in Cologne, regardless of whether the stay is for tourism or business purposes, and must be paid directly at the hotel upon check-out.
- Available via the keyword “ILIAS” until January 12, 2026, at the following discounted rates, both options include breakfast.
- Hotel XII Apostel, Heumarkt 68-72, 50667 Köln (close to social event)
- Available via the keyword "Katholische Hochschule ILIAS". The rooms are available to book until the 15th December 2025.
- Single Room: 105€ pP
- Double Room for single use: 126€
- The overnight tax is included in the prices. Breakfast is available at an additional 15€ pP
- You can use the following form to book or book directly via the hotel: https://docu.ilias.de/go/file/17162/download
- Available via the keyword "Katholische Hochschule ILIAS". The rooms are available to book until the 15th December 2025.
Wi-Fi
During the conference, a dedicated Wi-Fi network named “ILIAS @ katho” will be available.
Password: iliasliebe
Note: A network called “eduroam” may also appear, but it will not be operational during the conference.
Further Information
The livestream for the whole program can be found here:
https://katho-nrw.de/events/livestream-ilias-katho
The links for the afternoon programs are as follows:
Raum 321: katho.webex.com/meet/k-321
Raum 323: katho.webex.com/meet/k-323
Raum 325: katho.webex.com/meet/k-325
Recordings
The recordings of the sessions can be found here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/12168532?share=copy&fl=sm&fe=fe
Most of them are already available, the rest will be available latest by the end of March 2026.
Agenda
The final programme for the 45th ILIAS Development Conference is now available. Click on the linked titles to read more about the presentations and workshops. Please note that we do not offer simultaneous translation for the presentations and workshops.
Time | Room | Speaker & Topic | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
09:30 - 10:00 | Welcome coffee | |||
10:00 - 10:15 | Audimax B | Opening by Prof. Dr. Martin Klein, Katholische Hochschule NRW | ||
10:15 - 11:10 | Audimax B | Marvin Hackfort, Matthias Kunkel & guests: | ||
11:10 - 11:30 | Audimax B | Annett Giercke-Ungermann: | ||
11:30 - 11:50 | Audimax B | Elyesa Seidel: | ||
11:50 - 12:10 | Audimax B | David Tokar: | ||
12:10 - 12:30 | Audimax B | Alexandra Tödt: | ||
12:30 – 12:45 | Audimax B | Kendra Grotz: | ||
12:45 - 14:00 | In front of | Lunch | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | Audimax B | Yvonne Seiler & Stephan Kergomard: Improving the Sustainability, Stability, Reliability, and Predictability of ILIAS Through Simplification | ||
Max Becker: Sisyphos lässt den Stein nun liegen - KI-gestütztes Testing von ILIAS | ||||
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R 321 | Alex Hartwig & Stanislav Wischniak: Know Exactly What’s Running in Your ILIAS – Live | n.a. | ||
Bastian Meißner: Running ILIAS inside of a Kubernetes Cluster | n.a. | |||
Sagun Karki & Andre Günther: ILIAS Webservices Update - Navigating the ApiGateway Roadmap | n.a. | |||
| n.a. | |||
R 323 | Sabrina Marquardt & Jesús Copado: AI in ILIAS - Lessons from the SURContext Pilot at Katholische Hochschule NRW | |||
| n.a. | |||
R 325 | Thibeau Fuhrer & Fabian Schmid: How to migrate to Component Bootstrap Mechanism | n.a. | ||
Coffee Break | ||||
16:00 - 17:30 | Audimax B |
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Tomke Fries: News from SIG ILIAS Plugins: Mastering the Plugin Jungle Together! | ||||
Vincenzo Padula & Giulia Faraone: Authoring Pro: Professional, Responsive, and Reusable Content Creation in ILIAS | ||||
Felix Jonas Wiegleb & Elyesa Seidel: “Dear ILIAS, show me my data!” – Eine Schnittstelle für Betroffenenrechte | ||||
R 321 |
| n.a. | ||
Fabian Schmid: Event-Handling, fulfill your destiny! | ||||
Ingmar Szmais: "You have a message!" - Implementation and usage of external Push-Notifications in ILIAS | ||||
R 323 |
| n.a. | ||
Bettina Solzbacher: Wir haben alles gelöscht! - Warum ein ILIAS-Update zu langweilig war. | n.a. | |||
R 325 | ||||
17:30 - 18:00 | Audimax B | Activities in the community | ||
18:00 | End of DevConf | |||
18:15 | Guided Walk to XII Apostel | |||
19:30 | Restaurant XII Apostel | Social Event | ||
- 45 DevConf Status Development.pdf (7.03 MB)
- Streamlining_privacy_Seidel&Machon2026-03-19.pdf (1.68 MB)
- Privacy_by_design_3.0_Seidel2026-03-19.pdf (567.95 KB)
- Schnittstelle_Betroffenenrechte_Wiegleb&Seidel2026-03-19.pdf (1.29 MB)
- Schnittstelle_Betroffenenrechte_Wiegleb&Seidel2026-03-19_Screencast.webm (17.38 MB)
- Essential ILIAS_SeilerKergomard_2026-03-19.pdf (207.98 KB)
- Language_Improvements_Grotz_19-03-2026.pdf (1.28 MB)
- Ein zweiter Blick auf die Daten zu Barrierefreiheit und zum UI-Service - 2026_03_19.pdf (365.28 KB)
- ILIAS Report by Security Group.pdf (567.27 KB)
- AccessibilityReport.pdf (223.03 KB)
- Report from the Editorial Team.pdf (1.16 MB)
- 2026 DevConf - ILIAS Simplification.pdf (206.82 KB)
- ILIAS DevConf Koeln 2026 - SIG Accessibility.pdf (209.39 KB)
- AdminOverviewLive_DevConf_20260319_v2.pdf (742.17 KB)
- SIG Onboarding.ppsx (18.16 MB)
Last edited: 31. Mar 2026, 14:26, Seibt, Alina [alina.seibt]