Consider the following while writing your proposal:

• What do you expect the audience to take away from your presentation?
• How will you demonstrate your expertise?
• Why should you be the one giving this talk?
• Be prepared to explain how this fits into Cloud Native CDMX and the open-source ecosystem in general.
• You can submit more than one proposal (unlimited).
• You can edit your proposal(s) after submitting (until the CFP closes).
• The information (such as the title and abstract) of your proposal will be used by the program committee during the review process, but also for promoting your session, if accepted.

What are the things you should avoid?

We definitely don't expect every presentation to have code snippets and deep technical analysis, but here are two things you should avoid when preparing your proposal because they are almost always rejected due to the fact that they undermine the integrity of our events and are rarely well received by conference attendees:

• Sales or marketing pitches
• Unlicensed or potentially closed-source technologies

What session formats can you submit?

Lightning Talks (15 minutes)

• Concise introductions to concepts or tools
• Quick demonstrations of specific techniques
• Sharing specific experiences or solutions to particular problems
  

Talks (40 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)

• Deep technical presentations on implementations, architectures, or methodologies
• Detailed case studies with lessons learned
• Analysis of relevant trends or research

Hands-on Workshops (120–180 minutes)

• Interactive, guided sessions to develop specific skills
• Step-by-step implementation of architectures or solutions
• Practical labs with hands-on components
  
  

What type of track best fits your session?

We are looking for any content focused on the Cloud Native world. During submission, we will ask you which of the following tracks best fits your session. It should serve more as inspiration, rather than limiting you when crafting your proposal:

• Cloud Native 101: Content best suited for people who are new to Cloud Native and its related projects. This covers fundamental concepts across multiple domains through introductory presentations.
• Application Development: Application development and CI/CD topics. 
• Platform Engineering: Building a platform using Cloud Native projects, customizing and extending Cloud Native projects, automating infrastructure operations, and increasing the speed of self-service toolchains and workflows for Cloud Native developers.
• Operations + Performance: Auto-scaling, high availability, performance optimization, operators, and Cloud Native service/platform reliability topics.
• Security: Cloud Native-specific security aspects, from detections to threat modeling, security education, identity and credential management, confidential computing, vulnerability management, and other topics.
• Data Processing + Storage: Data model management, data streaming, and storage challenges.
• AI/ML: Novel uses of LLMs in Cloud Native infrastructure or workloads.
• Connectivity: Load balancing, service discovery, network security, and network automation. This track also covers edge computing and telecommunications use cases.
• Observability: Covers methodologies and projects for instrumenting, collecting, processing, storing, querying, curating, and correlating metrics, records/events, logs, trace spans, and general observability profiles of workloads.
• Emerging and Advanced Concepts: Research and academia, high-performance computing for specialized workloads, and highly advanced Cloud Native Computing concepts.
• Cloud Native Ecosystem Experience: Business value of CNCF technologies and community topics, building startups using Cloud Native services, and sharing experiences.