Welcome
We are excited to welcome you as a speaker for FinOps X. The event is happening both in person at JW Marriott in Austin, Texas from Monday, June 20 – Tuesday, June 21, 2022.
Please click through the tabs on this page to access information.
Registration
Your registration serves as confirmation that you will be speaking, and you will need to register by Monday, May 9, 2022. Please see your notification for the discount code.
If you plan to attend in person, please be aware that anyone coming on site must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and you can review that information on our Health + Safety page. Please check back for updates as we get closer to the event.
All speakers receive complimentary registration and any co-speakers or panelists can register using the same details provided above. Please contact [email protected] for details.
Visa Letter Requests
If you require a visa letter, please register for the event and then complete the visa letter request here.
Travel Funding
If you are applying for travel funding and have not submitted your request, please do so as soon as possible. The deadline for travel funding applications is Friday, May 13, 2022. You can access the form here.
* Please note: Talk acceptance does not guarantee travel funding.
Venue & Hotel Accommodations
This year’s event will take place at JW Marriott Austin, 110 E 2nd Street in Austin, TX.
We have negotiated a discounted rate at the JW Marriott Austin. Please visit our Venue & Travel page for more information. Rooms will likely sell out in advance of the room block close date of Saturday, May 28, 2022 – we encourage you to book early to secure a room at the conference rate.
Schedule, Timing & Speaker Profiles
The schedule will be announced May 4, and will be posted to the website using sched.com.
Most breakout sessions are 30 minutes in duration; lightning talks are 10 minutes in duration. Please view the schedule for your exact session time.
If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk or find that it conflicts with the content of another talk; or are having problems uploading your bio and photo, please contact [email protected].
Presentation Details
All speakers are required to submit their final presentation slides ahead of the event. In addition to providing a hard copy for accessibility purposes, we find that adding the presentations before the event helps to drive interest in attending the session. The deadline for presentations is Friday, June 3.
To upload slides:
An optional presentation template will be available to download but is not required. Please check back soon.
Promoting Your Talk
To help promote your talk, we are asking each speaker to record a 30-second teaser video and post it to your social media channel using #finops. Once you have posted your teaser, please let us know on the finops-x-breakout-speakers Slack Channel, which we will invite you to directly.
We also appreciate you spreading the word about your presentation on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Once the schedule is live, we will add sample posts that you can share on your social media channels.
Inclusive Speaker Orientation Online Course
In collaboration with the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT), the Linux Foundation has created an online course designed to teach the viewer about inclusion, diversity, and unconscious bias. We highly recommend all of our speakers watch the course to learn tips/tools to use when speaking to encourage inclusivity in presentations and messaging.
Code of Conduct
Please read, and abide, by our code of conduct. Our code of conduct is strictly enforced. We ask that speakers especially review this code of conduct and are careful to be inclusive in the words and images used during their presentations.
Contact Us
If you have any other platform, speaker, or schedule-related questions, please contact us at [email protected].
