We're organizing a 2-day online event focused on networking in public clouds on May 19th and 20th 2021 and would like to attract diverse guest speakers from different industries and geographies talking about their hands-on experiences. If you built a public cloud solution with interesting networking requirements, we'd love to hear from you.

We’re looking for networking-focused public cloud presentations covering any of these topic (or something awesome we’ve missed):

• Real-life deployments, including the steps needed to migrate existing applications into public clouds, evolution of public cloud architecture needed to support application migration, lessons learned, or honest descriptions of notable failures.
• Infrastructure architectures, including hybrid cloud architectures, multi-cloud or multi-region deployments.
• Application architectures that helped you simplify infrastructure requirements, reduce complexity, or increase stability or availability of your solution.
• Successful processes and other best practices that helped you deploy or migrate applications into a public cloud environment.
• Integration of public cloud networking with other public cloud services
• Interesting challenges, including network services appliances, common services, multi-account resource sharing architectures, use cases, best practices, or first-hand experiences.
• Tools used to streamline infrastructure- or application deployment, in particular focusing on using those tools to solve real-life challenges.

Submissions

Please make sure to keep your presentation non-commercial, and if you’re working for a vendor make sure your presentation includes a realistic use case, not a fairy tale featuring dancing unicorns… and no, we’re not interested in product marketing talks. Most appreciated presentations focused on operational experience, lessons learned, or case studies. Also, we’re more interested in understanding technology and potential benefits/drawbacks than in glitzy demoes.

CFP submissions must include the following information:

• Proposed presentation title and brief session description (up to 1200 characters).
• Contact Information (full name, e-mail address, country of origin, job title, and name of the employer).
• Your presentation skills level/number of previous public presentations (online or live).
• Why is your material different or innovative or significant?
• Has this content been presented anywhere else? If so, where? Please provide a link to your previous talk.
• Estimated length of the presentation. Presentations (including a Q&A session) are usually no longer than 90 minutes. It’s absolutely not a problem if your presentation is shorter, if you feel you need more time we need to talk.

The following requirements apply:

• Please submit presentation proposal no later than January 15 2021, using the submission form.
• Proposals submitted after this date will be considered on a space-available basis.

Speakers' Privileges

We don’t believe in working for exposure. After all, people have died from too much exposure. We know how much work it takes to create a good presentation and pay our guest speakers (obviously we’re perfectly OK if you want to do it for free to prevent a potential conflict of interests). Also, you’ll get unlimited lifetime access to course materials (includes future recordings of guest speaker sessions and future design and coding assignments).

Important Dates

• CFP submission open date: December 15, 2020
• CFP last submission date: January 15, 2021
• Final Notification: January 18, 2021
• Presentation slides due: May 6, 2021
• Dry run sessions: May 10-14, 2021
• The online live event: May 19-20, 2021

Contact Information

For any further any questions or requests concerning content submissions, please email support [at] ipspace [dot] net