At DevOpsDays we look for talks that teach us and talks that inspire us. We strive to create a program that balances the cultural and technical aspects of DevOps.

Formats

We accept talks in the following formats:

• A regular presentation (~30 minutes)
• An Ignite talk ( ~5 minutes with auto-advancing slides)

Topics of interest

The world of DevOps is big and diverse and we like to see this reflected in our selection of talks. We love talks that dives into the human factor, and the interplay between technology, processes and culture.

Here are some topics that we are particularly interested in hearing about:

• DevOps Journeys
• Building Culture
• Platform Engineering
• Cloud Native
• Developer Productivity Engineering
• Engineering for resilience
• Scaling DevOps
• Practical use of AI
• Observability
• Security
• Sustainability
• Onboarding / growing the next generation
• Your incidents and outages

Please do not limit yourself to the above topics. If you have just the right talk for us, send it in!

How to get your proposal accepted

Put some effort into the CFP - the proposal also is a form of presenting and shows how you approach conveying information. 

• Explain why your talk would be right for the DevOpsDays crowd. 
• Consider how your talk will play out in a room of people with a variety of backgrounds and how best to get the core of your message through.
• We want to hear all voices, including those that may speak less frequently at similar events. We are interested in your unique experience. 
• We will not reject submissions solely based on the fact they come from a vendor, but we will not accept vendor pitches. 
• Submit on your behalf. 
• While you can submit more than one proposal, please limit yourself. We want to hear the talk you are most passionate about

When you write the CFP, your goal should be to make it easy for the organisers to pick your talk. That means the CFP should at least answer the following questions: 

• What is the talk about? (you’d be surprised how many forget to make this obvious)
• How is the talk overall structured? (This signals you have thought about how to communicate your topic) 
• Why is this an important and interesting topic 
• What kind of talk is it (Demo, storytelling, technical concepts, …) 
• Who are you, and do you have any experience giving talks (Youtube links, always a hit)

We look forward to reading your proposal! Thanks