OVERVIEW
Thank you for speaking as a keynote at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023, taking place November 6 – 9 both virtually and at McCormick Place West in Chicago, Illinois.
This is the official event speaker guide for Keynote Speakers. Please bookmark this page for easy reference and if you have any questions, please email Cody Liskh.
Registration + Visa Requests
Registration
Your Speaker Registration is the confirmation of your participation in the event, and the deadline is Friday, September 15.
Visa Requests
If you require a visa letter, please register for the event, and then complete the visa letter request form.
Venue + Hotel Accommodations
VENUE
This year’s event will take place at McCormick Place West located at 2301 S Indiana Ave. Chicago, IL 60616
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
We have several discounted room blocks that we invite you to view on our Venue + Travel page. Rooms may sell out in advance of the room block close date, so we encourage you to book early to secure a room at the conference rate.
Schedule
The schedule will be announced on Wednesday, August 30 and posted on our website using Sched.com.
Note: Keynotes are 15-minutes and sponsored keynotes are 5-minutes. Keynote sessions occur each morning, November 7 – 9, 9:00 AM to 10:25 AM Central Time. If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk or any issues uploading your bio and photo, please contact Cody Liskh.
PowerPoint Presentation Template
We designed an optional PowerPoint template for our speakers. Use of these templates are not required but we do welcome you to use them for your convenience. Please see the CNCF style guide which covers things like abbreviating Kubernetes as K8s not K8 or K8S.
Co-Chair Meeting + Final Presentation
We strictly enforce a no-pitch, non-advertorial policy for all of our presentations, especially on the keynote stage. Leading up to the event, we will send you a link to schedule a meeting with one of our co-chairs to review your presentation and ensure the messaging resonates with our audience. You must have an initial draft of your presentation at the time of the meeting.
Helpful Notes on Presentation Design
Obsolete, low-resolution (i.e. pixelated), and malformatted logos are an epidemic among conference presentations. High-resolution logos of over 1,000 cloud native projects, products, and companies are available in the cloud native landscapes. Note that all of these logos are stacked, not horizontal, and include the name. The logos should be current, otherwise you can open a pull request if they are not. Also note that the text below the logo shows the proper capitalization of projects like gRPC and containerd. In particular, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure have all changed their logos in the last couple years; please use their current logo.
Please also review the CNCF Style Guide, which covers important things like abbreviating Kubernetes as K8s not K8 or K8S.
AV Details + Requirements
Any additional AV requests are due by Friday, October 6.
The keynote room will include:
Note: After emailing your presentation to us, we will upload it to the show computers to play from backstage. CNCF will make every effort to accommodate additional AV needs; however, final approval for these requests will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Keynote Tech Check + Slide Run-through
Keynote WalkThrough
Monday, November 6
All keynote presenters are required to attend a tech check and slide run-through on the keynote stage on Monday, November 6. You’ll receive the exact time slot in your keynote pre-event email, sent the week before the event. If you anticipate any attendance issues, please inform Cody Liskh promptly.
The purpose of this exercise is not to conduct a complete run-through of your presentation from beginning to end. Instead, the goal is to achieve the following:
*Please let us know well in advance if you plan to give a demo on stage as there are additional steps we must take to ensure your success.
Requirements
Virtual Keynotes
UPLOADING YOUR PRE-RECORD
We have multiple options for uploading your pre-recorded presentation:
- Add your recording directly into the Google folder
- Share your file directly with the Cody Liskh
- Or let us know if you have an alternate method (DropBox, WeTransfer, etc.)
Before sharing, you should save your presentation file in following format:
Naming Format: SessionTitle_YourName_version# (Example: My_KubeCon_Video_JohnSmith_v1.mp4)
In order to mitigate technical risks, we are not allowing virtual speakers to present their talk live. You must upload a recording by Friday, October 13. This is a hard deadline. If you cannot meet this deadline, we may have to cancel your session.
VIRTUAL PLATFORM
We will be using a virtual platform that will allow speakers to deliver content by pre-recorded talk. More details on how to engage with audience Q+A via Slack will be sent closer to the event.
PRE-RECORDING REQUIREMENTS AND INFORMATION
The video requirements are as follows:
Pre-recording help
If you have questions or need help pre-recording your keynote session, please let Cody Liskh know by Friday, October 13 and we will follow up with our production team.
Inclusive Speaker Orientation Online Course
The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT), has created an online course designed to teach the viewer about inclusion, diversity and unconscious bias. It is strongly encouraged by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation that all 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, which is strictly enforced. We ask that speakers especially review and are careful to be inclusive in the words and images used during their presentation.
Contact Us
If you have any other venue, platform, speaker, or schedule-related questions, please contact Cody Liskh.