GristCon 2025

Opening remarks + Gristory: successes and struggles developing and evolving the spreadsheet
Dmitry Sagalovskiy (Grist Labs)
A candid look at Grist’s origins and evolution, including dreams that happened and those that haven’t (yet), nuggets of advice for people developing software like Grist, and for people building in Grist, favorite tips and tricks, and more!

Spreadsheet Makeover – LIVE!
Anais Concepcion (Grist Labs)
Anais has been using Grist to give people Spreadsheet Makeovers for a while now (8 episodes!). Join her for a live demonstration of how she breaks down and then builds back up an Excel sales tracker with some gnarly formulas.

Using Grist + n8n to automate emails
Aude Zu (DINUM)
Getting data into spreadsheets is one thing, but what about useful methods for getting data out? Join Aude to see how they use Grist and n8n to build professional invoices and email them to the appropriate users, all with data stored in one place.

Building back-offices with Grist: from basics to biometrics
Tareq Kirresh (Kisoft)
Here’s the ask: help a team of 4 close over $12M worth of deals with a spreadsheet-like interface and an open source stack. It’s possible, and Tareq is here show off how and why his IT consulting firm successfully managed it in Grist, and the new Grist powers they learned along the way. Explore the complete workflow from deal tracking, to Python business logic tests, to biometrically-signed PDF generation and see how time-to-sign went from 20 to 2 days.

Grist self-hosting & authentication walkthrough
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso (Grist Labs)
Jordi – Grist Labs’ systems developer – is intimately acquainted with self-hosting Grist (and has the NES collection tracker to prove it!). Join him for an in-depth walkthrough of the self-hosting process, including setting up authentication via open-source library Keycloak.

Self-hosting Grist with Yunohost
Florent Fayolle (ANCT/DINUM)
Yunohost is a volunteer-run operating system/app store that aims to simplify and democratize self-hosting, and Florent is here to show how it can help you get Grist up and running on your own server.

10 Grist use cases from French local governments & cities in 30 minutes
Raywan Serdoun, Nicolas Imbert & Aude Zu (ANCT)
Join Raywan, Nicolas and Aude as they break down 10 real-life workflows from the French public sector, home of the largest Grist deployments in the world (that we know of!). Get an inside look at how Grist helps get things done in the public sector.

How to code a custom widget
Jarosław Sadziński, Paul Fitzpatrick (Grist Labs)
An encore of their hit presentation at last year’s Grist Paris Summit, join two of the technical minds behind Grist’s endlessly flexible custom widgets for a crash course in how to build the perfect view for your data – with a little bit of code involved.

From Post-it notes to Grist: managing an advanced materials research lab
David Fabijan (J. Stefan Institute)
Though paper is a useful material, David Fabijan of the J. Stefan Institute found that manually copying data from assorted Post-it notes was not the easiest way to manage an advanced materials lab. Learn how Grist’s general flexibility and API helps manage 25 researchers and staff working in 7 different scientific fields – including solid state batteries, antibacterial nanoparticles, green hydrogen production and pulsed laser deposition.

Grist sneak peek! + Closing remarks
Anais Concepcion, Dmitry Sagalovskiy (Grist Labs)
In this very special preview, join both Grist Labs CEOs for an inside look at what’s cooking. 100% CEO representation, so you know it’s authoritative.