Speaker Guide

Thank you for being a speaker for DPDK Summit 2026. The event will take place at the Scandic Continental on Tuesday, 12 May – Wednesday, 13 May, in Stockholm, Sweden.

This is your official speaker guide. Please bookmark this page for easy access and check back regularly as we will be updating it with additional speaker information, including on-site details, as they become available. If you have any questions, please contact Carolyn Ingalls at cingalls@linuxfoundation.org.

• Schedule Announcement: Wednesday, 18 March
• Speaker Registration Deadline: Wednesday, 1 April
• Additional AV Needs Deadline: Friday, 17 April 
• Slide Upload Deadline: Monday, 11 May
• Event Dates: Tuesday, 12 May – Wednesday, 13 May

To confirm your participation, register by Wednesday, 1 April. Registration information was sent in your acceptance email. If you need this information sent to you again, please contact Carolyn Ingalls at cingalls@linuxfoundation.org.

If you require a visa letter, please register for the event and then complete the visa letter request form.

All visa letter requests must be submitted no later than two weeks before the event. Any visa letter requests made after the two-week deadline cannot be guaranteed.

We also ask that you please note the following:

• Provision of a visa letter by The Linux Foundation does not guarantee visa approval as final approval is made at the sole discretion of the government of the event’s host country.
• The Linux Foundation strongly recommends requesting a visa letter at your earliest possible convenience and contacting your local Embassy/Consulate with any visa questions you may have.
• The Linux Foundation processes most visa letter requests in (3) business days.

Scandic Continental
Vasagatan 22, 111 20 Stockholm, Sweden

Please note, rooms will most likely sell out in advance of the room block close date of 11 April. We encourage you to book early to secure a room at the conference rate.

Visit our Venue & Travel page for further details.

The schedule will be announced on Wednesday, 18 March and posted on our website using sched.com. You will receive an email from sched.com asking you to create your account; please upload your bio and photo if they are missing from your speaker profile.

If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk, find that it conflicts with the content of another talk, or need help uploading your bio and photo, please contact Carolyn Ingalls at cingalls@linuxfoundation.org.

Any additional AV requests are due by Friday, 17 April

Please note the following technical details:

• We will make every effort to accommodate additional A/V needs; however, final approval for additional A/V requests will be made on a case-by-case basis. 
• All speakers must supply their computer and adapters to use during their talk.

• Presentation slides should be formatted in 16:9.  

• A conference-branded presentation template can be downloaded here; use of the template is optional.

• The room will include a screen, projector, and (2) microphones.

Due by Monday, 11 May

All speakers are required to submit their final presentation slides before 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.

A conference-branded presentation template can be downloaded here. Please note that use of the template is optional.

To upload slides:

• Log into your DPDK Summit 2026 speaker profile through Sched.com
  
• On the top of the page, click “Manage and Promote Your Session”
  
• Click “Add Presentation”
  
• Click on the “Select a File” box and add the PDF document (note: there is a 50MB size limit)
  
• Click “Upload,” and your slides will automatically be saved
  
• Or send your slides to Carolyn Ingalls at cingalls@linuxfoundation.org, and they will be uploaded on your behalf.

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.

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 presentation.

Do you have a speaker or schedule-related question? Please contact Carolyn Ingalls at cingalls@linuxfoundation.org.