We are currently accepting submissions for standard one-hour sessions as well as 4 or 8 hour workshop presentations. If either a ½ or full day workshop session is accepted it will be presented on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

We are encouraging speakers to present multiple sessions and typically, when a speaker is capable of presenting great content on multiple topics (over multiple sessions), their likelihood of being selected is greatly increased.   

Unlike we have in past years we are not looking to focus our topics into specific “tracks” nor are we trying to limit the technologies or topics proposed by potential speakers. If you have a great topic you are considering a presentation on or have given a talk on something you loved in the past, please consider submitting it as a talk to our conference.

When submitting your sessions please be as descriptive as possible in the session title and description. Be sure to share any information you can about yourself and your talk with us directly (via the Sessionize form). We typically get over 500 sessions submitted and try to do our best to choose a great selection of topics and content. Please help promote your own sessions as best you can when describing them to us. The title and description you provide via Sessionize will also be utilized on our website and in our agenda to promote your session to attendees. We definitely look for content that we feel would be appealing to attendees looking to expand their knowledge and grow in our industry.

Speaker Benefits

Speakers selected to present at dev up 2024 will receive the following benefits:

• Conference Ticket: Speakers are provided with a full ticket to the conference including to any workshop on Wednesday August 6th, 2025.
• Lodging: The conference will pay for two nights lodging at the Embassy Suites St. Charles (connected to the convention center). Those who are presenting a full or half day workshop on August 6th will be covered for a third night of lodging. If you would like to stay for more nights we can offer those nights at a discounted rate.
• Speaker Dinner: We invite all speakers to a special speaker dinner and networking event at on evening of Tuesday, August 6th, 2025.   This event is our thank you for contributing to our event and an opportunity to network and meet other great presenters.
• Travel:  Beyond lodging at the conference hotel we are NOT able to cover any additional travel costs for speakers.  Please keep this in mind when submitting sessions. 

If you have any questions about our event you would like clarified prior to submitting sessions please reach out to us at support@devupconf.org.  

2 nights accommodation covered for speakers. Workshop speakers are covered for an additional night.