Speaker Guide

We are excited to welcome you as a speaker for RISC-V Summit North America 2024 taking place October 22-23 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

This is your official event speaker guide. Please bookmark this page for easy reference and continue to check back as the event gets closer If you have any questions, please email speakers@riscv.org. 

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

• Speaker Registration Deadline: Tuesday, August 27
• Additional AV Needs Deadline: Tuesday, September 24
• Mandatory Review Slide Submission Deadline: 11:59 PM PDT on Friday, September 27
• Mandatory Final Slide Submission Deadline: Friday, October 18
• Event Dates: Tuesday, October 22 – Wednesday, October 23

To confirm your participation, register by Tuesday, August 27, using the code RISCVSUMM24SPK, and select “Speaker” from the drop-down menu.

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

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.
• Linux Foundation processes most visa letter requests in (3) business days.

If you are applying for travel funding and have not submitted your request, please do so as soon as possible. The deadline for travel funding applications is August 23, 2024.

Note: Talk acceptance does not guarantee travel funding.

RISC-V Summit 2024 will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center

5001 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, California, 95054

Book your accommodation at the negotiated discounted rate by visiting our Venue & Travel page.

When the schedule is launched, you will receive an email from sched.com to create/login to your account for sched.com. Please activate your account to access your session and to make any updates to your speaker profile.

An optional branded RISC-V Summit PowerPoint template is available for download here. Please note, the use of the template is optional.

Slide best practice:

Color Blindness – Please do not highlight text in presentations with red as it appears as normal black text for attendees who are color blind. Similarly, other colors are hard to distinguish from each other, see color blind friendly palettes.

All speakers are required to submit a copy of their slide deck by 11:59 PM PDT on Friday, September 27. Slides will be reviewed and approved by the RISC-V team or respective committee. A form to submit your slide deck will be shared shortly. If you do not submit your slide deck for review, your session will be removed from the agenda. 

Additionally, all slides will be compiled into a master deck that is used onsite (there will not be an option to plug and present). Finalized slide decks (in PowerPoint format) must be received no later than October 18. 

Instructions and reminders to submit slides will be sent leading up to the event.

In addition to submitting your slides for the master deck, we ask that you please upload a pdf of your slide deck to Sched.com for attendee reference. To upload slides:

Please follow these instructions (guide with visual examples):

• Log into your RISC-V Summit speaker profile through Sched.com
• Go to your session within Sched
• Click on Session tools to the right of the session title
• Underneath the session title, select Add Presentation
• Upload your PDF document (note: there is a 50MB size limit)
• The presentation will automatically save to your session
• Or send them to speakers@riscv.org for assistance. 

Once the schedule is announced, we appreciate you spreading the word about #RISCVSummit and your session – please find some sample tweets below to share on your social channels! Note: The short link to your session can be found on your session’s sched.com page, just below the title, to the left of the “Tweet” and “Share” buttons.

• Going to #RISCVSummit in October? Come check out my session [SESSION NAME] on [DATE]. Hope to see you there! [SESSION LINK]
• My first talk on [TOPIC] was just accepted at #RISCVSummit  –  visit [SESSION LINK] to add my talk to your RISC-V Summit schedule⚡️!
• Can’t wait for #RISCVSummit ! 👍 I will be speaking on [DATE] in Santa Clara – Come see my talk [TITLE] – Hope to see you there! [LINK TO SESSION] 

Take the online course developed in partnership with the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) to promote inclusivity, diversity, and unconscious bias awareness in your presentations. We also recommend consulting the Inclusive Language Initiative’s language recommendation list for guidance as well.

Ensure compliance with our Event Code of Conduct, prioritizing inclusivity and appropriate language and imagery in your presentation.

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