Call For Proposals (CFP)

At PrestoCon, users from industry-leading companies will share use cases and best practices; developers will discuss project features and considerations; and users and developers will collaborate to advance the use of Presto as a high-quality, performant, and dependable software used to power the analytics platforms, on-premises or in the cloud, of organizations around the globe.

• CFP Closes: Thursday, September 14, 11:59 pm PDT
• CFP Notifications: Tuesday, October 3
• Schedule Announcement: Thursday, October 5
• Slide Due Date: Thursday, November 30
• Event Date: Tuesday, December 5 – Wednesday, December 6

• Using and Integrating PrestoDB
• Presto in production case studies
• Presto fundamentals and philosophy
• PrestoDB internals and core development
• Performance (measurement, optimization, scalability)
• APIs, discovery services, and configuration pipelines
• Monitoring in practice (logging, tracing, stats)
• Presto in the cloud
• Presto Connectors

• Session Presentation: Typically 30 minutes in length including Q+A
• Panel Discussion: Typically 30 minutes in length including Q+A
• Lightning Talk: Typically 10 minutes in length
• Workshop: Typically 1.5 – 2 hours in length

• All speakers are required to adhere to our Code of Conduct. We also highly recommend that speakers take our online Inclusive Speaker Orientation Course.
• Complimentary Passes For Speakers – One complimentary pass for the event will be provided for the accepted speaker(s) per submission.
• 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.
• 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 before the event.
• In Sessionize, when inviting co-speakers and panelists to join your talk, they have a 10-day window to accept the invitation. All invitations must be sent before the CFP closes. If your co-speaker or panelist fails to accept the invitation before it expires and the CFP has closed, there is still a possibility of adding them as an additional speaker after the schedule is announced. However, this will be subject to approval from the program committee.
• You can view the submission form to help you prepare and contact cfp@linuxfoundation.org with any questions.

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.

How to give a great talk

We want to ensure submitters receive resources to help put together a great submission and, if accepted, give the best presentation possible. To help do this, we recommend viewing seasoned speaker Dawn Foster’s in-depth session titled Overcoming Imposter Syndrome to Become a Conference Speaker!

Have More Questions? 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 you are doing, and we strongly encourage first-time speakers to submit talks for our events. If you aren’t sure about your abstract, reach out to us at cfp@linuxfoundation.org, and we will be more than happy to work with you on your proposal.

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.