MAINTAINER SUMMIT - TUESDAY, 10 DECEMBER
DAY 0 BEFORE KUBECON

The CNCF Maintainer Summit is an exclusive event for the people behind our projects to gather face-to-face, collaborate, and celebrate the projects that make “Cloud Native”. Programming will be focused around sharing best practices, diving into contributing processes, and solving common problems across projects to enrich our great community of maintainers. 

To submit a proposal you must be one of the following:

• TOC Representative
• Graduated Project Maintainer or Org Member
• TAG Lead
• Incubating Project Maintainer

Sessions may be submitted in one of the following categories (descriptions of each category are available here):

• Kubernetes
• Growing Contributors
• CI/CD/Distribution
• Open submission option

PROJECT LIGHTNING TALKS - WEDNESDAY, 11 DECEMBER
DURING MAIN KUBECON PROGRAMMING

Projects will have the opportunity to deliver lightning talks lasting 5-minutes during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. This platform offers projects the chance to showcase their recent updates, features, and other highlights to their peers. The project lightning talks will be included in the conference schedule and are based on availability.

A maximum of 1 speaker is allowed per Project Lightning Talk. Please do not submit more.

MAINTAINER TRACK - WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, 11-12 DECEMBER DURING MAIN KUBECON PROGRAMMING

Leaders of CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects and Activities (Such as members of Working Groups, TAGs, User Groups) can submit to host one 35-minute session during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon within the Maintainer Track. We highly recommend non-maintainers be put forward as speakers for your talk. Participation is subject to availability and submitting does not guarantee selection. 

Each speaker can speak at only one Maintainer Track session. This does not count against the speaker limits for Kubecon + CloudNativeCon standard CFP or Contribfest.

In order to be considered, you must satisfy the requirements below:

Graduated/Incubating Projects

To submit, you must be a maintainer on this list for a CNCF Graduated or Incubating project, but the actual speaker(s) are not required to have maintainer status. Sandbox projects are not eligible for maintainer track sessions.

All Others

To submit, you must be a chair or technical lead of a CNCF TAG, a lead for a Kubernetes SIG, CNCF or K8s Working Group, User Group, or Subproject.

A maximum of 5 speakers total are allowed per Maintainer Track session.