ITCamp 2019 - Call for Content

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This year, like in the past years, we would like to give a chance to other IT community people out there (from both Romania and abroad) to attend our conference as speakers. So, if you want to have your own session and speak to a mature and highly experienced IT audience, then this is your chance!

Topics, Submissions & Deadline 

The call for speakers ends on January 31st. 

We accept sessions on any of the following topics:

• Development (any language/platform)
• Cloud & Infrastructure
• Data Science & AI
• AR/VR
• DevOps & Automation
• IT Security
• UI/UX Design
• Legal & Compliance
• Business, Management & Innovation
• Digital Transformation
• Soft Skills

Evaluation Process

All submitted sessions will be rated and ordered based on their final score/rating. Selected speakers will be invited to attend this year’s ITCamp event on June 6th-7th. 

Travel and accommodations will be covered for all selected speakers not based in Cluj-Napoca (Romania).  

Evaluation Criteria  

• Technical or management expertise 
• Past experience as a speaker
• Presentation skills
• Session content
• Session level

Tips for a winning submission 

Before submitting your session, you might want to consider the target audience you’ll be talking to, as well as some of the other tips we have put together for you. You can submit more than one session.

For instance, you can check out the breakdown on the technical expertise and role in the organization for the attendees from last year – this should help in positioning your content so that it is relevant for that type of an audience.

We are marking all sessions on the agenda according to their technical depth level. We will use something similar to the TechEd conference session levels (ranked 100-400), so you will be asked to evaluate or plan your session level before submitting it.

Check out an overview of the SESSION LEVELS we use here. 

We’re open to pretty much any technical (development, Cloud, infrastructure, security, etc.) or IT management/business topic. Feel free to check the sessions from past years if you need some inspiration.  

Also, please keep the following recommendations in mind:   

• Write a descriptive, fun and enticing title – this should “sell” your session to the audience 
• Target 300-400 level technical content; 100 and 200 level content is in low demand – if you say your talk is level 400 then make sure it is or be prepared for a barrage of feedback in your evaluations!
• Describe content that is new, unique or significantly refreshed from a previous presentation
• Take a solution-oriented approach
• Ensure there is minimal marketing talk in your content
• Showcase your speaking experience (past events/sessions you’ve had, ideally sessions which were also recorded)
• If targeting levels 100-200, focus on currently released or upcoming technologies
• Look into an advanced/expert approach to existing technologies and solutions (levels 300-400)
• Include one or more live demos for technical sessions; historically, sessions with strong demos receive higher audience scores
• Include personal experience; this goes down well with an audience of your peers, as everyone prefers to learn from someone else’s mistake instead of having to go through it themselves

Please note that sessions that focus on proprietary technologies or solutions and on selling/advertising those technologies will be ignored from the start. Also, the ITCamp organizers reserve the right to select specific sessions based on other criteria or preferences, as needed.

Thank you, and good luck! :)