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Announcing Node-RED Con 2026: Call for Papers Now Open
Node-RED Con is back. The community conference returns on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, free, online, and open to everyone. FlowFuse is proud to sponsor this year's event alongside the OpenJS Foundation.
This year's theme is Node-RED at the Edge of Intelligence.
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