DevOpsDays is coming to Kerala!

DevOpsDays Kerala 2024 is currently accepting 30-minute talk proposals, 30-minute panel discussions, 15-minute lightning talks, and 20-minute Open Spaces from interested speakers.

Website: https://devopsdayskerala.in/
Tickets: bit.ly/devopskerala

Programming Guidelines
Some topics that are typically sought after by our attendees include, but are not limited to:

• DevSecOps (Security in DevOps)
• DevOps in the Enterprise
• Gen AI and DevOps
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Serverless/NoOps
• Building Culture and Collaboration
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation
• Performance Engineering
• Microservices & Containerization
• Observability & Performance Monitoring
• Mental Health, Stress, and Burnout
• CI/CD
• Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud
• Cost Optimization

Diverse Backgrounds
We’re eager to provide a platform to our speakers, so if the DevOps industry hasn’t included people like you in the past, tell us about it in your proposal. We want to make a space for the perspectives of people that are underrepresented in or excluded from technology: people of color, women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, students, veterans, and many more. In the more specific context of this event, we want to hear about DevOps from a wide set of roles: QA testers, security teams, DBAs, network administrators, compliance experts, UX designers, government employees, scientists, and other technologists who face unique challenges.

New Ideas
Sure, we know that AI is hot right now - but what’s going to be hot next year? What about in five years? Present the right idea at the right time, and you could help shape that! To help keep our content fresh, we add points for local speakers, talks that have never been presented at a conference, and for speakers who aren’t regulars on the conference circuit.

Healthy Discussion
Most session submissions focus on how to use a specific piece of technology - and most of those are not accepted. The most memorable talks question assumptions, make predictions, or draw conclusions. It’s even okay to (respectfully) tell someone that they’re wrong - we’d much rather have a disagreement than a room full of nodding heads! DevOpsDays are centered around open spaces, and a good session should act like fertilizer for them, giving people something to start talking about.

We’re also very interested in nominations. Did you see an awesome presentation at another conference? Is one of your friends hoping to break into the conference circuit? Let us know who to reach out to, or send an introductory email yourself! You can reach us at [email protected].

However, please consider that novelty is heavily encouraged as per our guidelines above.

Please keep these guidelines in mind:

We request your presence at the event.
If you’re selected to speak at DevOpsDays Kerala, we expect that you are able to participate in the physical event. This means attending the event fully on September 28th, in person at our venue in Kochi. Unfortunately, we are not able to reimburse your travel expenses such as airfare, train, Uber, personal mileage, and boarding or lodging.

Absolutely no vendor pitches
Our attendees are keen on hearing about culture, collaboration, and technology which will help solve their personal & organizational challenges and not any sales promotions. If your talk is only interesting to someone paying money for your product, it’s a bad fit for DevOpsDays Kerala 2024.

Follow the Code of Conduct
We take pride in respect and empathy for all. Speakers and audience members enter our event on equal footing, and adherence to the Code of Conduct is a must for everyone.

For example: no threats, no sexualized language or imagery, and no insulting audience members.

Explain why your proposal is interesting to the DevOps community
We’d rather have a lackluster abstract about a very interesting topic than a detailed outline of a topic that isn’t a good fit.

Your talk will go through a blind review process
Our reviewers will receive only the talk name and description to review, which helps ensure that talks are selected on their own merit. We invite you to talk about yourself in the Bio section, which we will feature prominently with your talk if you are selected, but please refrain from putting this information in the description itself.

We also ask that speakers refrain from explicitly calling out company names in their talk names and descriptions - they often make just as much sense without that information.

Avoid purely technical talks
We all love technology, but this isn’t a programming language conference or a technical deep-dive event. Talk about tools in the context in which they’ll be used, and relate them to the business or cultural problems that they solve. (Or tell us about how tools can make those problems worse!) You should especially consider whether the technology you’re talking about impacts diversity, retention, ability to learn, etc.

At most two submissions are allowed
To maximize diversity, we limit two submissions per speaker. We welcome new speakers!

This Call for Papers closed on 2024-08-07 23:59 (Asia/Kolkata).