While I've been part of the KDE community for quite some time (almost a decade now!), Akademy is still a relatively new experience for me. This is only the second Akademy I've been to in person, with the last one was Akademy 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/10/at-the-akademy-2024