Speaker Guide

We are excited to welcome you as a speaker for Linux Security Summit North America 2026, held from May 21-22 at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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

• Speakers Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 7
• Additional AV Request Deadline: Friday, April 24
• Presentation Slide Upload Deadline: Wednesday, May 20
• Event Dates: Thursday, May 21 – Friday, May 22

Your registration confirms that you will speak and must register by April 7. Please email cfp@linuxfoundation.org if you need the speaker registration information resent.

If you have already registered for the event and are now listed as a speaker on the schedule, please contact our registration team to request a refund.

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 Scholarships is April 20
  • The application deadline for Travel Funding is April 6
• 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 Minneapolis Convention Center – 1301 Second Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55403

The schedule will be announced on March 25, 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 scheduling conflict with your talk, if its content conflicts with another session, or if you need help uploading your bio and photo, please contact cfp@linuxfoundation.org.

Please note the following technical requirements:

• All speakers must provide their own computers and adapters for use during their talk.
• All speakers should format presentation slides in a 16:9 ratio.
• A PowerPoint template is available for download HERE, but you are not required to use it.
• The room will include a screen, projector, and (2) microphones. 
• If you require any additional AV, please email cfp@linuxfoundation.org with those needs by April 24. The Linux Foundation will make every effort to accommodate other AV needs; however, final approval for additional AV requests will be made on a case-by-case basis.
• Captioning – We’re excited to offer Wordly’s live translation and captioning service for your session. Present in your preferred language while attendees follow along in real time with captions or audio in 60+ languages – right from their own devices, with no downloads or logins required.  It’s a simple way to make your session more accessible and engaging for a global audience. Learn more here.

All speakers are required to submit their final presentation slides ahead of the event. In addition to providing a hard copy for accessibility, we find that adding the presentations before the event helps drive interest in attending the session. The deadline for presentations is May 20.

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.