ONE Summit

Call For Proposals (CFP)

Overview

ONE Summit is the ONE industry event to focus on the best practices, technical challenges, and business opportunities facing network decision makers from Access to Edge to Cloud. Whether you’re deploying a 5G network, building government infrastructure, or using automation and networking to transform your business, this collaborative environment enables interaction with peers to learn about the open source networking technologies that will transform your business.

Please be aware that the Linux Foundation will now be utilizing Sessionize for CFP submissions. Sessionize is a cloud-based event content management software designed to be intuitive and user-friendly. If you need guidance, please review how to submit your session for an event to see step-by-step instructions and helpful screenshots.

dates to remember

  • CFP Closes: Sunday, December 17 at 11:59 PM PST (UTC-8)
  • CFP Notifications: Tuesday, January 16
  • Schedule Announcement: Thursday, January 18
  • Slide Due Date: Wednesday, April 17
  • Event Dates: Monday, April 29 – Wednesday, May 1, 2024

suggested topics

The Future of Open Innovation

Come shape what open networking and edge look like in the coming decades. This track will answer that question with presentations on non-traditional and non-terrestrial networks, Industry 4.0 & 5.0, sustainability and green energy innovations. How should end users and operators approach our future going forward?

  • IIOT / Industry 5.0
  • 6G
  • Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN)
AI Implementation Across Telecom, Cloud and Enterprise & Edge

Discuss your successes and challenges in deploying AI with peers from around the world. Whether you’re taking your first steps in building “AI for Network” or “Network for AI,” or whether you have implemented successfully, this track will be a platform for to explore what our industry’s focus should be.

  • Generative AI / LLM
  • Data pre-processing
  • Public Data Sets
  • Governance and Base Models
Securing and Automating the Open End-to-End Network 

Securing your network and cloud/edge infrastructure is no longer an option. Cyber security threats are on the rise and, with continued geopolitical tensions, cyber security hardening is becoming mandatory for enterprise and infrastructure operators. Come learn from security experts as they share strategies from across the ecosystem.

  • Zero Trust
  • SBOM
  • Supply Chain Security
  • Vulnerability Management
Next-Gen Access and Connectivity

Options in open connectivity continue to expand – help make sense of the options in this area. We will approach lessons learned from developing access technologies, gap analysis of existing solutions, and proposals and business models for future areas.

  • ORAN-SC, OAI, Startups
  • C bands
  • FWA
  • 60 GHz
  • Optical Fiber
Deployment Use Stories: Where Slides Meet the Real World

Accelerate your open source journey by learning from end users and the vendors who support them. Hear about the good, the bad, and even the ugly from those who have implemented networks, their experience in on-going operations, and ROI. (Mobile Networks and Edge)

  • Open Source Software
  • Consulting/SI/Vendors
  • Cloud Native & Edge/IOT
  • Interoperability

submission types

  • Session Presentation
  • Panel Discussion 
  • Birds of a Feather
  • Lightning Talk

important notes

  • All speakers are required to adhere to our Code of Conduct. We also highly recommend that speakers take our online Inclusive Speaker Orientation Course.
  • Panel submissions must include the names of all participants in the initial submission to be considered. In addition, The Linux Foundation does not accept submissions with all-male panels in an effort to increase speaker diversity.
  • Complimentary Passes For Speakers – One complimentary pass for the event will be provided for the accepted speaker(s) per submission.
  • Avoid sales or marketing pitches and discussing unlicensed or potentially closed-source technologies when preparing your proposal; these talks are almost always rejected due to the fact that they take away from the integrity of our events, and are rarely well-received by conference attendees.
  • All accepted speakers are required to submit their slides prior to the event.

preparing to submit your proposal

While it is not our intention to provide you with strict instructions on how to prepare your proposal, we hope you will take a moment to review the following guidelines that we have put together to help you prepare the best submission possible. To get started, here are three things that you should consider before submitting your proposal:

  1. What are you hoping to get from your presentation?
  2. What do you expect the audience to gain from your presentation?
  3. How will your presentation help better the ecosystem?

There are plenty of ways to give a presentation about projects and technologies without focusing on company-specific efforts. Remember the things to consider that we mentioned above when writing your proposal and think of ways to make it interesting for attendees while still letting you share your experiences, educate the community about an issue, or generate interest in a project.

First Time Submitting? Don’t Feel Intimidated

Linux Foundation events are an excellent way to get to know the community and share your ideas and the work that you are doing and we strongly encourage first-time speakers to submit talks for our events. In the instance that you aren’t sure about your abstract, reach out to us and we will be more than happy to work with you on your proposal.

How to submit

First time using Sessionize?

Sessionize is a cloud-based event content management software designed to be intuitive and user-friendly. If you need guidance, please review how to submit your session for an event to see step-by-step instructions and helpful screenshots.

Submitting on behalf of somebody else?

While speakers ordinarily submit their sessions themselves, it’s also common for them to have someone else do it in their name. Submitters can choose to submit as someone else and must fill out the necessary speaker fields, but the session submission process is otherwise identical to when the session is submitted by the speaker themselves.

code of conduct

The Linux Foundation is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for participants at all of our events. We encourage all submitters to review our complete Code of Conduct.

CFP Questions

If you have any questions regarding the CFP process, please contact us at cfp@linuxfoundation.org.

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