Call For Presentations
Submission Guide

In This Guide●●●●●●Event messaging
Primary audiences
What we’re looking for
Session types
Speaker types
Step-by-step: Submitting your presentation proposal

Event Messaging
Transforming the Future of Software Delivery Together
Make it Happen

Future of DevOps

Inclusive

DevOps World is bothvisionary AND
hands-on. Participantslearn what they need to
do AND leave knowing
how to do it.

If you’re interested in
the future of DevOps,
this event is a chance to
get inspired by experts
and look at what thefuture holds.

This event caters to the full
DevOps ecosystem – fromdevelopers to operations toengineering managers.

Primary Audiences

Practitioner
75-80% of attendees
Includes titles likeEngineer, Architect,Developer, Programmer,Manager, etc.

Leadership
15-20% of attendees
Includes titles like
Director, VP, President,
CxO, Lead, etc.

Open Source
Community
Includes all open source
community project leads
and contributors. Can beboth practitioner andleadership level

What We’re Looking For: Key Topics for Practitioners●Test Automation Approaches and Best Practices: Implementing test automation in the context of CI/CD, details of scripts, tools, practices.
Promoting a quality ﬁrst culture.

●Conﬁguration management: Source Code management, branching merging models, leveraging legacy SCM for DevOps. Binary artifactmanagement, dependency management. Containers, environments and infrastructure conﬁgurations.

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Deployment practices: Moving to Continuous Deployment. Implementation of various deployment patterns, blue-green, Canary etc. Methods
to ensure rapid, frequent and stable deployments.

●DevSecOps, Security, Compliance and Governance: Achieving velocity while maintaining security, adhering to policy, supporting complianceand audit. Implementations and practices.

●DevOps at Scale: Challenges and solutions in scaling DevOps in organizations with 100+ applications. Experiences in upskilling, reuse.
Addressing tools, process, culture and infrastructure across teams in organizations with complex and varied portfolios.

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Telemetry, Metrics and KPIs: Practices for measuring DevOps performance and impact. How to leverage metrics to improve outcomes andidentify impact.

What We’re Looking For: Key Topics for Practitioners●Feature delivery automation (progressive delivery): Moving from continuous delivery to progressive delivery. Methods for managing
features, feature ﬂagging, A/B testing, entitlement management etc.

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Surviving the enterprise: soft skills and collaboration: How to advocate as a developer/engineer in the enterprise. How have you successfullycommunicated and inﬂuenced the adoption of DevOps, aligned with the business and better collaborated with management and peers?

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Adoption of modern tools, technology and architectures: Cloud-native development, Kubernetes, microservies, managing stable yet rapid
delivery of complex services and multi-component applications.

●CI/CD and DevOps for Classic Tools and Tech Stacks: Implementing modern tools and processes for mainframe, commercial, off-the-shelfsolutions, monoliths etc. How have you applied new development approaches to better your existing applications and technologies?

What We’re Looking For: Key Topics for Community●Open source projects: Showcasing innovative and emerging open source projects that are shaping software delivery. Effective andsustainable community building strategies, how to contribute, and what it means to be good open source citizens for both individuals
and corporations.

●Modern tooling and methodologies: Selecting the right development tool has its own effect on a project’s success and productivity.
Dive deep into modern and feature-rich open source tools and methodologies to cover best practices and pain points softwaredevelopers are facing today.

●Stories from end users: Power users share real-world stories and testimonials on how they are enabling and pushing the evolution ofDevOps in their organizations.

●Interesting use cases: Best practices and current trends for CI/CD. Share your case studies, experiences and technical knowledge withan engaged audience of open source peers.

●Interoperability, MLOps, CI/CD landscape and best practices: Tell us about the work to drive forward innovation in these areas.

●Security and compliance: Share tips and tricks for improving the security posture of your software supply chain through continuousdelivery.

New in 2020: DevOps Leadership Forum
New this year at DevOps world is the addition of a Leadership Forum. Inpartnership with independent analyst ﬁrm Accelerated Strategies Group(ASG), the track will run throughout the entire conference and consist of 22
sessions and workshops throughout the course of the event. ASG is also acting
as programming committee for the Leadership Forum.
Who Attends the DevOps World Leadership Forum?
●For technology leaders in large enterprises who are helping to digitallytransform their business, and want to ﬁnd the fastest path to success,the DevOps World Leadership Forum is a multi-day executive
leadership education and networking experience!
●Unlike typical leadership conferences where attendees listen to aparade of DevOps “success stories” and “vendor Marketing pitches,”
DWLF blends together strategic business thinking with deep technicalexpertise, hands-on exercises, and interaction with peers designed toeducate and enable a whole new generation of digital leaders.

"As the pace of digitaltransformation increases, webelieve a greater emphasis on
educating the executives
responsible for leading thetransformation will helporganizations ﬁnd the fastest
path to success.
Mitch Ashley, CEO
Accelerated Strategies GroupWhat We’re Looking For: Key Topics for Leadership●DevOps (DevSecOps) for the regulated world - Working with Audit and Compliance teams: Adopting DevOps in a regulated industry
and the challenges faced. How to engage auditors and compliance teams. Working with regulatory agencies to change their perspective.

●Data Driven Change: KPIs and Metrics: Metrics and data’s role in leading a transformation. Leveraging data and metrics to inform yourdecisions. Proving the business value of DevOps.

●Open Source Software Supply Chain Integrity: Addressing and overcoming challenges of software delivery supply chains, including
software managed and maintained by foundations with little to no obligations to the enterprise.

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Multi-vendor, multi-geography Supply Chain management: Adopting DevOps amidst complex, distributed, multi-vendor supply chains.
Coordinating an effective DevOps process across IT service vendors and geographies, with differing tools, culture and processes.

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Organizational and Cultural change: Overcoming challenges in changing the organizational structures. Transforming culture in large
global enterprises.

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Diversity and Inclusiveness: Enabling a culture of inclusiveness and diversity in tech.

●DevOps as a Digital Transformation Strategy: How creating trust, effective and rapid communications, responsiveness to opportunities
and threats and alignment of software teams and business goals can enable digital transformation

Session Types
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Breakout session (45 minutes)○
Traditional slide presentation that features use cases, best practices, demos, and/or roadmap discussions.
Audience Q&A should be included. Breakout sessions have 1 lead presenter and up to 2 additional co-presenters.
Panel (45 minutes)○
Moderated discussion focused on an industry-relevant topic which includes 1 panel moderator and up to 5
panelists. Slides can be used to support the discussion if needed.
Lightning talk (15 minutes)○
Quick, topic-speciﬁc presentation that can include a short presentation deck or demo. Up to 3 lightning talks
focused on similar topics or themes are grouped into one, 45-minute time slot. Maximum of 2 presenters.
Workshop (pre-conference)○
Interactive content providing hands-on experience with a particular product or technology. Workshops can be
45 minutes, 2 hours, or 3.5 hours (half-day) and generally take place pre-conference on Tuesday, September 22.
Workshops have 2 lead instructors, and up to 3 co-instructors.

Speaker Types●

Lead presenter / Instructor / Moderator○○●

Panelist○○●

Responsible for ﬁnal presentation content and point of contact for all event deliverables(abstract, slides, etc.)
FREE DevOps World conference passParticipates in panel presentation via moderator invitation
FREE DevOps World conference passCo-presenter○○

Supports lead presenter as needed in developing and delivering presentation content
DISCOUNTED DevOps World conference pass ($400)

Submitting Your Presentation Proposal
Step 1: Creating a Proﬁle●●●Create an account at
https://devops-world2020.eventpoint.com/CFP
To create a new submission account, enter youremail address. If you already registered for
DevOps World, use that email.
Fill out your speaker proﬁleSubmitting Your Presentation Proposal
Step 2: Submitting a proposal●

After creating a proﬁle, on the main
CFP page, click submit a proposal

Step 3: Email conﬁrmation●

Check your email to ensure you submitted yourproposal correctly. You should receive an email
from communications@eventpoint.com

Viewing your proposal●

You can edit/view your submission(s) using theMy Submissions tabImportant dates and contact information
Important dates:●●●●

April 24, 2020: Last day to submit or edit a proposal
May 22, 2020: Sessions chosen and notiﬁcations sent
June 1, 2020: Agenda published
September 21-24: DevOps World*Dates are subject to change.

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