Venue Location

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 will be held at Fira Gran Via, in Barcelona, Spain.

Fira Gran Via, Hall 8
Carrer de l’Alumini, s/n08908
Barcelona, Spain

Hotel Accommodations

We have reserved blocks of rooms at several hotels and invite you to view this information on our Venue & Travel page.

Rooms may sell out in advance of the room block close rate – we encourage you to book early to secure a room at the conference rate.

We look forward to welcoming you to Barcelona!

Schedule

The schedule will be announced on March 13, and will be posted on our website using Sched.com. You will receive an email directly from Sched.com asking you to create your account.

Please note that keynote sessions are 20-minutes each and sponsored keynote sessions are 5-minutes each. Keynote sessions occure each morning, May 21–23, 9:00AM to 10:20AM, and 4:45PM to 5:50PM on May 21 only. If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk or are having problems uploading your bio and photo, please contact Nanci Lancaster.

AV Details + Requirements

Any additional AV requests are due by May 1

The keynote room will include:

• Screen(s)
• Projector(s)
• Handheld + Lavalier Microphones
• Confidence Monitors – Please feel free to add notes to your presentation deck; you may read these from the stage
• Countdown Timer
• Wireless Slide Advancer
• Podium

NOTE: You will submit your presentation to Nanci Lancaster (do not upload them to sched.com). We will upload your presentation to the projectors from backstage. If you require any additional AV, please email Nanci Lancaster with those needs by Wednesday, May 1. CNCF will make every effort to accommodate additional A/V needs; however, final approval for additional A/V requests will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Choosing Your Walk-On Song

Song choices are due by May 10

New for 2019: We are asking keynote presenters to send us the name of the song + artist they wish to have played as they are introduced to the stage. This will be 5-10 seconds of the song, so if there is a specific point in the song you wish to have played, please let us know. Send your song choice details to Nanci Lancaster by Friday, May 10.

Presentation

Meet with Co-Chairs by May 3

Email final presentation to Nanci by May 6

We strictly enforce a no-pitch, non-advertorial policy for all of our presentations, especially on the keynote stage. Leading up to the event, either Bryan Liles or Janet Kuo, the co-chairs for Barcelona, will contact you to review your presentation and ensure the messaging resonates with our audience. The deadline to meet with one of the co-chairs is Friday, May 3.

Your final presentation slides are due by Monday, May 6. You will email them directly to Nanci Lancaster in 16:9 format in either PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Keynote. Please do not upload them to sched.com.

If you would like to use the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe PowerPoint template for your presentation, you can download it here. (Please note it is not required to use the presentation template.)

Helpful Notes on Presentation Design

• Obsolete, low-res, and malformatted logos are an epidemic among conference presentations. High-res logos of over 600 cloud native projects and products are available in the cloud native landscape. Note that all of these logos are stacked, not horizontal, and include the name. The logos are all the most current (or you can open a pull request if they’re not). Also note that the text below the logo shows the proper capitalization of projects like gRPC and containerd.
• If you want to include logos of companies not on the landscape, logos for the over 350 members of the CNCF are on our member page. In particular, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have all changed their logos in the last year; please use their current one.
• Please see the CNCF style guide which covers things like abbreviating Kubernetes as K8s not K8.

Keynote Walk-Thru

Monday, May 20

We would like for all keynote presenters to attend a 15-minute walk-thru of the keynote stage the day before the conference begins on Monday, May 20th.

This walk-thru will allow you to become familiar with the stage, what to expect on show-day, go over any a/v needs you may have (example: playing a video) and to click through your slides. This is a great opportunity to see if any issues may arise and resolve them ahead of the event.

You will be assigned a walk-thru time slot closer to the event. Please keep Monday, May 20th available for this walk-thru. If you foresee any issues with attending your walk-thru, please let Nanci Lancaster know as soon as possible.

Inclusive Speaker Orientation Online Course

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. It is strongly encouraged by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation that all our speakers watch the course to learn tips/tools to use when speaking to encourage inclusivity in presentations and messaging.

Click here for the course.  

Code of Conduct

The Linux Foundation and its project communities are dedicated to providing a  harassment-free experience for participants at all of our events. We encourage all submitters to review our complete Code of Conduct.

Schedule and Speaker Point of Contact

Nanci Lancaster is your main point of contact for any speaker or schedule related questions. Please contact her at speakers@cncf.io.