KCD Accra is sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Backed by the leading Cloud Native organization in North America and Europe. This virtual event will feature talks from leading practitioners in Ghana, West Africa, and international speakers. 

Important dates: 

CFP Opens -  July 1 (Monday)

CFP Closes - August 31 (Wednesday)

Notification of successful applicants  - September 29 (Sunday)

Event schedule announcement -  October 27  (Sunday) 

Event date - November 25 - 26  (Tuesday)

Code of Conduct:

• This is a KCD community event therefore promoting or selling a product or service is not allowed. 
• By submitting your proposal you agree to the CNCF code of conduct.
• Commitment to inclusivity will be observed per the Linux Foundation inclusive presenter guidance and inclusive language initiative. 

Submission Details: 

Talks can be delivered in English or Twi / Ga / Ewe with all slides being presented in English. We welcome diversity and inclusion and embrace local languages at KCD Accra. 

Talks can be submitted as a lightning talk (10 mins) or a full talk (30 mins).

Talk sessions can be presented by up to 2 speakers or up to 4 speakers for a panel (with a minimum of one woman). 

Ideas for Talks:

• Share your experience using Cloud Native technologies  (are you working on monitoring? Embracing DevOps? Deploying containers?). Whatever you are doing in the cloud native space, we would love to hear about it. 
  
• Technical deep dives where you share your expertise and knowledge. 
• Demonstrations on what you are working on within your organization and/or open source projects you contribute to as long as the demo is relevant to the cloud native ecosystem.

Speaker Benefits:

• Talk featured on YouTube channel. 
  
• Talk recognised by CNCF for KCD Accra.
• Official speaker at a Kubernetes Community Days event.
• Certificate of participation with KCD Accra as a speaker.
• Speakers are featured on KCD Accra website.