Thank you for considering a submission for DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025 (18-20 June 2025)!
The format of DevOpsDays Amsterdam includes a single track of in-person 25-minute talks throughout the day, with in-person ignite talks (5 minutes, auto-forwarding) after lunch. We also spend the afternoon in Open Spaces, considered a vital portion of the event. We continue offering an additional single track around a specific theme or topic for those not interested in the Open Spaces. Before both event days, we'll host a workshop day with workshops of various lengths (45, 90, 120, or 180 minutes - depending on the submission).

Important Dates:

• Call for proposals opens Monday, December 16, 2024.
• Call for proposals closes Friday, January 31, 2025.
• Selected proposals will be announced on Monday, March 3, 2025.

Ideas and criteria
Below are some of the criteria and topics we look into when selecting talks.

• Organizational changes (management and engineering)
• Cultural aspects
  • Is this the magic silver bullet that solved all your problems? What are the problems it didn’t solve (although you thought it would)?
  • Were there unexpected problems during your cultural change in this ecosystem?
  • Successes and (even more important) failure stories
• LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION!: we prefer local speakers and speakers that can travel sustainable towards our conference (for a DevOpsDays conference closer to you see here)
• New presenters: people who are new to the space and have insightful stuff to say; we want to hear everybody's voice. We can help with your submission and/or talk, just reach out at [email protected]
• What is the next frontier for DevOps?
• Knowledge gained on how to adopt a particular technology successfully

The kind of talk best received at DevOpsDays is the real-world experience talk: “We had problem X; we did Y to address it, here’s how that turned out, both the good and the bad.” Sometimes people feel they should dilute their experience and turn it into a more generic presentation. This almost always makes for a weaker submission. Genuine implementations and personal lessons learned are what our audience has consistently found the most compelling.
One of the main building blocks of DevOps is Culture. We highly value diversity and embrace it. We believe that DevOpsDays should shine a spotlight on it. If you're part of a group whose voices we don't hear as often, we'd love to hear from you!

General guidelines

Submit as many proposals as you like, but ensure to give us enough details to understand what your time will be filled with and what people will learn from it in the Notes section. A one-liner is not enough for us to evaluate your talk properly and might end up on the lower end of the voting scale. More than one speaker? That's fine, make sure you add them to the proposal!.

When submitting an Ignite please be aware that we will ask for your slides in PDF format a minimum of 2 days before the first day of the conference, i.e. you will need to submit your Ignite by, at the latest, end of day 16 June 2025 (you agree to do so when submitting an Ignite). For a detailed explanation of how Ignites work see this page. Ignite talks will all be run by the ignite talk wrangler from their system on auto-forwarding.

NOTE! We do not accept vendor sales pitches, PR-firm submissions, or submissions on behalf of someone else.
Workshop topics can be more in-depth, including technical and non-technical topics, but should fit a hands-on classroom setting.

We do have a small budget for assistance in covering travel, accommodation, or other expenses. Should you need assistance with part of this let us know in the questions section.

By submitting, you agree to abide by the Code of Conduct.
Finally, only submissions for in-person talks will be accepted. While we will provide a streaming option for attendees that can't make it in person, the talks will only be in-person.

Questions? Help?
Should you have any other ideas or questions or need help submitting, please reach out to the organizers at [email protected].

You can enter proposals until 2025-01-31 23:59 (Europe/Amsterdam), 2 weeks, 2 days from now.