Thank you for your interest in speaking at PlatformCon 2025. This Call for Proposals (CfP) is for virtual talks and workshops. If you’re interested in speaking in-person, please follow these links for the New York or London Live Day events. CfPs for the Live Day events will open soon.

The conference will contain two formats: pre-recorded talks and live workshops.

Workshops

PlatformCon workshops will be live and hands-on, led by platform engineering practitioners. We are seeking proposals for up to two-hour workshops that dive into platform tooling, specifically emphasizing the combinations of tools utilized in platform engineering.

Talks

All PlatformCon talks are pre-recorded and up to 15 minutes in length. If your talk proposal is accepted, you’ll receive more detailed guidelines for the presentation and recording.

Please review the list of tracks below to see which one is best for your talk and then submit your proposal. We look forward to reviewing your submission!

• Stories: This track is for practitioners to share their platform journey - from initial steps to building and rolling out across the engineering organization. These talks should incorporate technical, cultural, and product design aspects of the platform journey.
• Toolbox: This track is dedicated to deep dives into platform technologies and tooling - from Kubernetes to IaC, platform orchestration, portals, and GitOps. Talks should explore how platform teams solve specific problems with specific tools, or how the complexity of some technologies was overcome.
• Blueprints: This track showcases blueprints for platforms or platform initiatives, such as reference architectures and best practices for platform setups. Blueprint-focused talks should dive deep into design considerations and explain how and why certain combinations of tools were used to build the Internal Developer Platform.
• Culture: This track continues discussions about the cultural aspects of platform engineering. This includes platform engineering’s relationship with DevOps and SRE, platform engineering trends, product management for the platform, best practices for communicating with different stakeholders, internal selling and more.
• Impact: This track focuses on the impact and business value platform engineering initiatives deliver. Talks can highlight C-level perspectives on the platform’s impact on key metrics like time to market, innovation cycles, and overall efficiency. They should also explore how platform leaders secured buy-in from the C-suite and other relevant stakeholders.

How to get your proposal accepted

• Create a short and impactful talk title (max 90-character count, while 70 is optimal) 
• Write a short description for your talk that summarizes your idea (max 250-character count including spaces)
• Write an abstract (max 800-character count including spaces) that expands on your description and clarifies your content. These must be written in the third person
  (In this talk, John Doe discusses) NOT (In this talk, I discuss)
• Feel free to include bullet points in the abstract to help convey key points, what the audience can expect to learn/hear about, or key takeaways
• Keep in mind the title, description, and abstract will be published along with your talk on our website, so make sure it is flawless without any spelling or grammatical errors
• Avoid product pitches. These are not accepted
• Submit your talk on your behalf
• While you can submit multiple proposals, we recommend you focus on the topic you’re most passionate about

Your abstract should not be a first draft or only bullet points. If it is - it will be declined.