🚀🗽CALL FOR SPEAKERS: KCD NEW YORK 2025 🌟

KCD New York is thrilled to extend an open invitation to potential speakers of all experience levels and diverse backgrounds. We're committed to creating a dynamic and inclusive event, and your unique perspectives are what make this possible. Whether you're a seasoned presenter or stepping onto the stage for the first time, we warmly encourage you to share your insights and stories with us.

🗓️ DATES TO REMEMBER

• CFP Opens: December 2nd, 2024
• CFP Close: Friday, 28 February at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time (UTC -5)
• CFP Notifications: Monday, 15 April
• Schedule Announced: TBD
• Event Dates: June 2025

🎙️ PREPARING TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

Understanding that public speaking can be daunting, especially for newcomers, we're happy to provide mentorship and speaker coaching to help you confidently prepare and deliver your talk. Please review this entire Guide to answer many common questions before submitting.

Other questions about submitting a proposal? Contact us at on Slack anytime, or at kcd-newyork@kubernetescommunitydays.org

The KCD New York team—including members from KubeCon and other program committees—will be hosting weekly office hours leading up to the CFP deadline for the community to ask questions and get feedback on preparing your proposals for submission. We will host these sessions every Friday from 11am to 12pm EST in the #kcd-newyork CNCF Slack channel (you may self-sign up for Slack at https://slack.cncf.io), and on Zoom.

📜 SUBMISSION TYPES

• Session Presentation: 30 minutes, 1-2 speaker(s) presenting on a topic
• Panel Discussion: 30 minutes of discussion amongst 3 to 5 speakers
• Lightning Talk: A brief 10-minute presentation, maximum of 1 speaker 
• Round-tables discussion - 50 minutes session, maximum of 1 moderator.

SAMPLE TOPICS

Any talks related to Kubernetes and the CNCF ecosystem are welcome. Proposals may present your experience as case studies, may explore one or more open source projects, may have a research focus, novel solutions of potential future impact or any other experience to share that's relevant to the cloud native ecosystem. Potential topics to be included in your proposal but not limited to:

• App delivery
• Contributor Strategy
• Environment Sustainability
• Network
• Observability
• Runtime
• Security
• Storage
• AI
• Platform Engineering
• GitOps and automation
• Cloud Native patterns

ROUND TABLE SAMPLE OUTCOMES

• Request feedback on white paper/blogs
• General discussion on critical topics such as AI adoption
• Mentoring sessions
• Build a working group

⚡️IMPORTANT NOTES

All speakers are required to adhere to the CNCF Code of Conduct. We also highly recommend that speakers take our online Inclusive Speaker Orientation Course.

Panel submissions must include the names of all participants in the initial submission to be considered. In an effort to promote speaker diversity, KCD New York will not accept submissions with 3+ speakers or panels that do not contain a gender-diverse speaker, and speakers must not all be from the same company.

Complimentary Passes For Speakers – One complimentary pass for the event will be provided for each accepted speaker.

When preparing your proposal, avoid sales or marketing pitches and discuss unlicensed or potentially closed-source technologies; these talks are almost always rejected because they undermine the integrity of our events and are rarely well-received by conference attendees.

You can be listed as a speaker on a maximum of three proposals submitted to the CFP, regardless of the format. If you are listed on more than three, we will contact you to remove yourself from any additional proposals.

All accepted speakers are required to submit their slides prior to the event.

CODE OF CONDUCT

By submitting, you agree to the CNCF Code of Conduct.

COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVITY

Please review The Linux Foundation's Inclusive Speaker Orientation and Inclusive Language Initiative.

PRIVACY POLICY

At The Linux Foundation, we are committed to safeguarding your privacy. Sensitive speaker information will only be accessible to event organizers and program committee members who adhere to the highest confidentiality standards. Rest assured that your data will never be sold or shared beyond these parties.

Speaker personal information, including name, company, job title, biography, and photo, will appear on the public schedule. For details on our privacy practices and commitment to protecting your privacy, please review our Privacy Policy.

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