Speaker Guide

Thank you for being a speaker for DPDK Summit 2025. The event is at the Grandior Hotel Prague on Thursday, 8 May – Friday, 9 May, in Prague, Czech Republic.

Here is your official event 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 Jennifer Crowley at jcrowley@linuxfoundation.org.

• Schedule Announcement: Thursday, 13 March
• Speaker Registration Deadline: Tuesday, 25 March
• Additional AV Needs Deadline: Friday, 11 April 
• Slide Upload Deadline: Tuesday, 6 May
• Pre-recorded Video Deadline (if applicable): Monday, 5 May
• Event Dates: Thursday, 8 May – Friday, 9 May

To confirm your participation, register by Tuesday, 25 March.
Registration information was sent in your acceptance email. If you need this information sent to you again, please contact Jennifer Crowley.

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.

Grandior Hotel Prague
Na Poříčí 1052/42, 110 00 Florenc, Czechia

Please note, rooms will most likely sell out in advance of the room block close date of 6 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 Thursday, March 13 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 Jennifer Crowley at jcrowley@linuxfoundation.org.

Any additional AV requests are due by Friday, 11 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.

In-Person Speakers – Presentation Information

Due by Tuesday, 6 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.

To upload slides:

• Log into your DPDK Summit 2025 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 jcrowley@linuxfoundation.org, who can upload them on your behalf.

Virtual Speakers – Presentation Information

We would prefer all virtual speakers present live during their scheduled talk time. Additionally, we ask all virtual speakers to submit a pre-recorded video of their presentations in mp4 format. If there are any technical issues during the live talk, we have the pre-record as a backup.

Pre-recorded videos and presentation slide decks are due Monday, 5 May

We have multiple options for uploading your pre-recorded presentation:

• Add your recording directly into the Google folder (please email jcrowley@linuxfoundation.org to confirm we received your file)

• Share your file with jcrowley@linuxfoundation.org 

• Or let us know if you have an alternate method (DropBox, file-sharing service, etc.)

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 Jennifer Crowley at jcrowley@linuxfoundation.org.