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Pulsar Summit North America 2023

event date

25 Oct 2023

location

Hotel Nikko San Francisco, California, United States


Pulsar Summit is the conference dedicated to Apache Pulsar, and the messaging and event streaming community. The conference gathers an international audience of CTOs/CIOs, developers, data architects, data scientists, Apache Pulsar committers/contributors, and the messaging and streaming community. Together, they share experiences, exchange ideas and knowledge, and receive hands-on training sessions led by Pulsar experts.

In the last three years, Pulsar Summit Events around the globe featured 80+ interactive sessions by tech leads, open-source developers, software engineers, and software architects from Salesforce, Splunk, Verizon Media, Iterable, Yahoo! JAPAN, TIBCO, OVHcloud, Clever Cloud, and more. The conferences garnered 2,000 attendees, including individuals from top tech, fintech and media companies, such as Google, Microsoft, AMEX, Salesforce, Disney, and Paypal.

This year, Pulsar Virtual Summit North America will be hosted in-person on Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, CA. 

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We are thrilled to announce the upcoming Apache Pulsar Summit on October 25, 2023, organized by StreamNative in San Francisco!


Do you have a Pulsar journey to share? Our theme this year is "Why Pulsar?" and we are looking for stories that are innovative, informative, or thought-provoking. Join us to speak at the summit! You will be on stage with all the top Pulsar thought-leaders. It is a great way to participate and raise your profile in the rapidly growing Apache Pulsar community. 


As a speaker, you will receive:

  • Free conference pass.
  • Your headshot, bio and session featured on the Pulsar Summit website.
  • Your session will be promoted on YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn.
  • The opportunity to share your knowledge and engage with the vibrant Pulsar community!


To speak at the summit, please submit an abstract about your presentation. Remember to keep your proposal short, relevant, and engaging. We invite you to submit your talk proposals and share your unique experience in one of the following themes:

  • Why Pulsar?”- Your journey is inspiring, and we want to hear it! Share your stories of why you chose Pulsar, the challenges you overcame, and the solutions you implemented. Let others learn from your experiences and gain valuable insights from your use cases.
  • “Learning Pulsar”- Are you an educator at heart? Submit an entry-level talk introducing Pulsar, its remarkable features, and best practices. Help beginners navigate their Pulsar journey and inspire them with your expert knowledge.
  • “Deep Dive”- For all the experts out there, we invite you to share deep technical knowledge about Pulsar. Whether it’s about the inner workings, optimization techniques, or advanced features, we’d love to hear it all.
  • “Around Pulsar” - Have you built exceptional tools to work with Pulsar? Or have you integrated Pulsar with other technologies to create a superior solution? We’d love to hear about your innovations.


Your submission should include:

  • Session title
  • Session description (200 words max)
  • Speaker bio (100 words max)
  • Track selection.
  • Sessions should have content that can fill 20 minutes plus 10 minutes of Q&A.


Important Dates:

  • CFP opens: Tuesday, June 21st, 2023
  • CFP closes: Friday, July 7th, 2023
  • Speaker notifications sent: Friday, July 28th, 2023
  • Schedule announcement: August 4th, 2023


Submissions are open until Friday, July 7th, 2023. 
Dates subject to change.


If you want some advice or feedback on your proposal or have any questions about the summit, please do not hesitate to contact us at organizers@pulsar-summit.org. We are happy to help!


event fee

free for speakers