Please note: We are tentatively planning to meet in person this year. This is, however, entirely dependent on the current COVID situation as we get closer to the conference dates. A final decision on whether to meet in person or virtual will be made sometime in early May.

Thank you for your interest in submitting a session for JavaScript and Friends Conference - 2022 (JS&Friends)!

Important Info!

All submissions and applicants are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct. Please read the Code of Conduct from our website.

Please read this Call for Proposals thoroughly. Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have questions!

cfp@javascriptandfriends.com

Who Should Apply

You! We welcome speakers of all experience levels and backgrounds. Your technical AND non-technical experience is valuable to the community!

As a speaker you can submit maximum 4 Proposals.

Format

We have two options available for speakers to submit proposals for:

• Sessions: 50 minutes in length, standard presentation format. Note: At present, we plan for Sessions day to be in person in Columbus. However, this may change to virtual depending on the COVID situation.
  

Themes and Levels of Expertise

We are looking for talks at all experience levels.

Technical Skills: Your talk doesn’t have to relate to JavaScript, but it’s more likely to be accepted if it does. That said, use your imagination! We are a diverse group with diverse interests!

Professional/Human Skills: Sometimes called “soft skills,” these talks don’t need to be related to JavaScript at all. We look to these talks to help us become better communicators, contributors, mentors, and general humans.

Rather than specifying themes, we’d like to share what we hope your talk would do for the audience. Your talk could:

• Help solve a common challenge or sharpen our skills
• Alert us to new or neglected challenges
• Present us with new, important information
• Make our daily lives easier
• Help us achieve better work/life balance
• Encourage or guide new developers
• Show experienced professionals how to lift up new and aspiring developers
• Demonstrate something unique or entertaining

Speaker Selection Process

Read through this Call for Proposals (reach out if you need help or have questions!) (required).

Submit a completed application by Call for Proposals end date (required).

If you will need financial assistance, reach out to our CFP team before proposal end date. While we cannot guarantee any level of assistance, we will do all that we can based upon available sponsorship and ticket dollars.

Our review team will go through the abstracts in anonymous mode. Speaker details will be hidden to our review team during the process.

We will announce first round of speakers by 02/28/2022 and final round of speakers by 03/07/2022.

See you at the conference on 07/29/2022.

Speaker Perks & Accommodations

Speakers will receive a free admission to JS&Friends Conference.

If you have any special needs or circumstances we should know about, please contact us as early as possible, but no later than Call for Proposals end date! A special need might include (but certainly isn’t limited to) an extra ticket for a spouse or caregiver, wheelchair access, reserved seating, ramps, etc.

Please contact us at cfp@javascriptandfriends.com.

Financial Assistance

In order to keep admission prices as low as possible for our fourth year, we strongly encourage speakers to ask for travel assistance from employers. However, we acknowledge that this often results in a far less diverse group of speakers.

If you will be unable to travel to and attend JS&Friends Conf without financial assistance, please contact cfp@javascriptandfriends.com.

Though we cannot provide any assurance at this time, our team will try to do the best as we near the conference dates.

If you or your company would like to sponsor a speaker’s travel, we have a sponsorship level for that! Contact sponsors@javascriptandfriends.com for more info!

New Speakers!

Welcome to speaking! If you are looking for some written guidance, CodeMash offers excellent advice in their Call for Speakers. We specifically recommend the section entitled “How to write a good submission.”

If you would like a human mentor, we can help connect you with a mentor. Please let us know at cfp@javascriptandfriends.com.