PROJECT LIGHTNING TALKS

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. Project Lightning Talks will take place on Tuesday, November 12 and are based on availability.

A maximum of 2 speakers total are allowed per Project Lightning Talk. Please do not submit more.

CONTRIBFEST

Contribfest sessions are available to all conference attendees and are 90 minute in-person sessions designed to provide projects with the space and resources to tackle outstanding technical debt, security issues, or outstanding impactful feature requests. It is intended to provide a place for maintainers to meet contributors and potential contributors and work together on solving a problem. 

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

• At least one speaker must be a maintainer of the project with the commit bit. A maximum of four speakers are allowed.
• Maintainers do not need to lead the Contribfest but projects must provide at least one individual to facilitate the work during the Contribfest
• In your session description field, describe the problem space and benefit a Contribfest can provide your project

Contribfest is offered only to graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects. SIGs, TAGs, and Working Groups are not eligible for a Contribfest session at this time.

A maximum of 5 speakers total are allowed per Contribfest.

MAINTAINER TRACK

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.