ITNEXT Summit 2020 will take place on Wednesday, November 4th 2020, from 09:00 until 17:30. The 5th edition of ITNEXT Summit consists of three parallel tracks:

• JavaScript
• Data Engineering
• DevOps

If you are passionate about these topics, we are inviting you to submit your talk by June 30th 2020, 23:59:59 UTC+1.

This event is meant for developers, engineers, IT architects and professionals who want to expand their knowledge and meet like-minded professionals.

Selection process — We take the selection process seriously, so we've put a lot of thought into it. We pick talks based on the following guidelines:

• Each track has a programme committee, which selects the relevant talks
• All the submissions are anonymized during the first round, (we do blind voting to avoid any bias against the submitter)
• Then the programme committee rates each submission based on the talk details on a scale from 1 to 10
• Finally, we remove all anonymity from the selected talks so we can also weigh them up against the speakers' details, such as location. (Based on our budget, we may choose a local speaker or a speaker that meets budget conditions).

We follow a selection process that is adopted by many communities, and we value:

• The relevance of the topic for our tracks
• Coherence and clarity of the proposal,
• Novelty/originality of the topic
• Talks related to real-life situations such as production implementations

Under-represented voices — We want to hear all voices, including those that may have less opportunity to speak at similar events. We can offer mentorship for first-time speakers or for those who are afraid of public speaking but has an awesome talk to deliver.

Travel and Accommodation — We highly appreciate if your company can cover the costs. Otherwise, we will do our best to have your travel and accommodation expenses covered. ITNEXT Summit is a non-profit conference, that's why the money from sponsorship and ticket sales will be allocated to create the best experience for our speakers and visitors.

ITNEXT was born in 2016 as a community for sharing knowledge, discussion, and getting feedback from each other. ITNEXT is composed of three pillars: a publication for sharing technical articles (www.itnext.io), monthly meetups (www.meetup.nl/itnext) and an annual conference (www.itnextsummit.com).