Speaker Guide

We are excited to welcome you as a speaker for WasmCon 2024 which will take place November 11-12, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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• Schedule Announcement: Monday, August 12
• Speaker Registration Deadline: Monday, August 26 
• Additional AV Needs Deadline: Friday, October 4 
• Slide Upload Deadline: Friday, November 8
• Event Dates: Monday, November 11 – Tuesday, November 12

To confirm you will be presenting, please register as a speaker by Monday, August 26 using the details you received in your notification email. All speakers receive complimentary registration, and any co-speakers or panelists can register using the same details provided in the notification email. Please email cfp@linuxfoundation.org if you need this information sent to you again.

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

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 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.

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 October 6, 2024.

Please note that talk acceptance does not guarantee travel funding.

This year’s event will take place at the Salt Palace Convention Center:

90 South West Temple,
Salt Lake City, UT 84101

WasmCon 2024 is a co-located event with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, and rooms will most likely sell out in advance. We encourage you to book early to secure a room at the conference rate.

For more information and to book your hotel, please see our Venue & Travel page.

The schedule will be announced Monday, August 12, and posted on our website using sched.com. You will receive an email directly from sched.com asking you to create your account; please make sure to upload your bio and photo, if needed.

If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk or find that it conflicts with the content of another talk; or are having problems uploading your bio and photo, please contact cfp@linuxfoundation.org.

Please note the following technical requirements:

• All speakers must supply their computers and HDMI adapters to use during their talk.
• Presentation slides should be formatted in 16:9. 
• The room will include a screen, projector, and (1) microphone per speaker. 
• If you require any additional AV, please email cfp@linuxfoundation.org with those needs by Friday, October 4. 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.

Slide Upload Deadline: Friday, November 8

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 sessions.

To upload slides:

• Log into your speaker profile through Sched.com 
• On the top of the page, click “Manage and Promote Your Session”
• Click “Add Presentation”
• Click in the “Select a File” box and add the PDF document (note: there is a 50MB size limit)
• Click “Upload” and your slides will automatically be saved

If you want to use the WasmCon 2024 PowerPoint template for your presentation, you can download it here. (Please note it is not required that you use the presentation template.)

The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT), 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 read, and abide, by our code of conduct. Our code of conduct is strictly enforced. We ask that speakers especially review this code of conduct and be inclusive in the words and images used during their presentations.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cfp@linuxfoundation.org.