CFP GUIDE

View a PDF of the CFP - website details coming soon - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Cephalocon-2025-CFP-details.pdf

DATES TO REMEMBER:

• CFP Opens: June 9
• CFP Close: July 13 at 11:59 PM PDT
• Speaker Notifications: July 28
• Schedule Announced: July 30
• Slides due date: October 24
• Event Dates: October 28 - 29

Reminder: This is a community event — so no product and/or vendor sales pitches.

SUGGESTED TOPICS

• Ceph operations, management, and development
• New and proposed Ceph features, development status
• Best practices
• Ceph use-cases, solution architectures, and user experiences
• Ceph performance and optimization
• Platform Integrations (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Multi-site and multi-cluster data services
• Persistent memory, ZNS SSDs, SMR HDDs, DPUs, and other emerging hardware 
• Storage management, monitoring, and deployment automation
• Experiences deploying and operating Ceph in production and/or at scale
• Small-scale or edge deployments
• Deploying Ceph with QLC SSDs for cost-effective cold storage
• Data compression, deduplication, and storage optimization
• Developer processes, tools, challenges
• Ceph testing infrastructure, tools
• Ceph community issues, outreach, and project governance
• Ceph documentation, training, and learner experience
• Ceph and AI/ML workloads
• Ceph for new users: onboarding, training, and early experiences
• Sovereign clouds, data privacy, and regulated infrastructures
• Data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouses

CODE OF CONDUCT

By submitting, you agree to The Linux Foundation's Code of Conduct.

COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVITY

Please review The Linux Foundation's Inclusive Speaker Orientation and Inclusive Language Initiative.

Question about submitting a proposal? Contact us at cfp@linuxfoundation.org.  

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Question about submitting a proposal? Contact us at cfp@linuxfoundation.org.