Speaker Guide

We are excited to welcome you as a speaker for Linux Security Summit North America 2025, held from June 26-27 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.

Please click through the tabs on this page to access information.

• Speakers Registration Deadline: Monday, April 14
• Additional AV Request Deadline: Friday, June 6
• Speakers Slides Due Date: Wednesday, June 25
• Event Dates: Thursday, June 26 – Friday, June 27

Your registration confirms that you will speak and must register by Monday, April 14. Please email cfp@linuxfoundation.org if you need speaker registration information sent to you again.

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

In addition, we 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.

• Please visit our Scholarships & Travel Funding page for more details.
  • The application deadline for Travel Funding is May 5
• Note: Talk acceptance does not guarantee travel funding.

Review the information on our Venue & Travel page.

This year’s event will be held at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street, Denver, CO  80202

The schedule will be announced on Wednesday, April 2, 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 you have a conflict with the timing of your talk, find that it conflicts with the content of another session, or need help uploading your bio and photo, please contact cfp@linuxfoundation.org.

Please note the following technical requirements:

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 Wednesday, June 25.

To upload slides:

An optional PowerPoint template is available for download but is not required. 

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 click here for the course. 

Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct which 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.

If you have any other platform, speaker, or schedule-related questions, please contact us at cfp@linuxfoundation.org.