Do you have what it takes to present in front of a passionate audience looking to learn new things? 

Code BEAM Lite Stockholm takes place on May 13th 2024. It is a one-track in-person conference. Speaking slots are 25 minutes, which includes a minimum of 20-min presentation and 5-min Q&A. 

We welcome proposals about Erlang, Elixir, BEAM and other technologies and we are happy to support candidates from under-represented groups in the software development community.

The programme committee is also happy to support and coach speakers with their presentations and talk delivery. 

RECOMMEND US OR RECOMMEND A SPEAKER

We want to make sure our conference is as diverse as the community we represent. Do you know any researchers, programmers or experts who are a part of groups traditionally under-represented in IT and whose work you can recommend to our committee? Please, let them know, that our Call For Talks is open and that we’d love to see their work! Also, you can nominate them using the form, if you want us to check them out and possibly invite them.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Your talk should be submitted by 23:59 on 28 January 2024.
• You will be informed about the status of your submission by 15 February 2024.

THEMES & TOPICS

We are looking for great talk ideas around the following 4 themes:

• Innovation - the latest from the ecosystem, be it cool hacks or proof of concept projects, complete new frameworks and techniques, or even promising future directions for BEAM-powered tech
• Growth - how your team and your tools work together to overcome technical and other types of challenges to take your business to the next level, such as optimizing tricky business cases, on-boarding new members, or adopting new technologies.
• Sustainability - everything that helps you stay productive, such as DevOp practices that help you manage how your software behaves in the actual production environment, or techniques and tools for fighting technical debt.
• Legacy - first-person accounts, holistic overviews or specific case reviews of rich heritage, and how they are helping shape the future of the ecosystem

Visit the conference website for details on the themes!

Is your presentation slightly outside that scope? Amaze and inspire us with your submission.

TIPS FOR SUBMITTING

Never spoken at conferences before and are unsure if you should, and what should you talk about? Noel Rappin has a good article on this here: 

"1. A conference that was limited to only people that really thought they were the most qualified person to talk would be depressing, if not completely horrific.

2. You are absolutely the most qualified person to tell me what you think on a particular topic.

3. This is how you become qualified. You study something, you teach it to other people."

What mistakes to avoid when submitting a talk? Noel Rappin also has an answer in this article.

In short: clearly identify your topic, be respectful of everyone, be interesting, but also self-aware, don't pitch your company, and submit early and often. We could also add to that - think if this conference audience is the right one for your talk (and why?).

Need more tips? We recommend Sarah Mei's article "What Your Conference Proposal is Missing".

CODE OF CONDUCT

All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree to the following code of conduct.

PRIVACY

Code Sync and Erlang Solutions care about your data and privacy. By submitting this form you agree that your data will be processed according to our privacy policy. You can opt-out anytime from the emails you receive from Code Sync. You also agree to your submission (all the form fields) being shared with our committee members.

plus 15% discount code to share with your network to buy conference tickets (Very Early Bird excluded) and invitation to all the accompanying events: speakers' meet-up/dinner, afterparty, pre-conference meet up etc.