Important Dates + Deadlines

• Speaker Registration Deadline: Friday, September 20
• Travel Fund Request Deadline: Friday, September 27
• AV Requests Deadline: Friday, October 25
• Meet with Co-Chairs Deadline: Friday, November 1
• Presentation Deadline: Monday, November 11
• Walk-On Song Deadline: Wednesday, November 13
• Keynote Stage Walk-Thru: Varies; See Calendar Invite for Details

Co-Chairs

Bryan Liles

Vicki Cheung

Venue Location

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.

San Diego Convention Center
111 W Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101

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 San Diego!

Schedule

The schedule will be announced on Thursday, September 5, 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 occur each morning, November 19–21, 9:00AM to 10:25AM, and 5:20PM to 6:40PM on November 19 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 Friday, October 25

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 email 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 Friday, October 25. 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 Wednesday, November 13

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. Email your song choice details to Nanci Lancaster by Wednesday, November 13.

Speaker PowerPoint Presentation Template

We designed an optional keynote-specific KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America PowerPoint template for our keynote speakers. Note: This is a different template from our non-keynote sessions, and is not to be used for any other sessions other than keynote presentations. Use of this template is not required but we do welcome you to use it for your convenience.

Final Presentation + Co-Chair Meeting

Meet with Co-Chairs by Friday, November 1

Email final presentation to Nanci Lancaster by Monday, November 11

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 Vicki Cheung, the co-chairs for San Diego, 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, November 1.

Your final presentation slides are due by Monday, November 11. You will email them directly to Nanci Lancaster in 16:9, PowerPoint format only. Please do not upload them to sched.com.

Helpful Notes on Presentation Design

• Obsolete, low-res (i.e., pixelated), and malformatted logos are an epidemic among conference presentations. High-res logos of over 1000 cloud native projects, products, and companies are available in the cloud native landscape and the serverless and member landscapes. All logos are in the card mode and can be found with Cmd-F or Cntl-F from your browser. 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. In particular, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure have all changed their logos in the last couple years; please use their current one.
• Please see the CNCF style guide which covers things like abbreviating Kubernetes as K8s not K8 or K8S.

Keynote Walk-Thru

Monday, November 18 or Tuesday, November 19

• All keynote presenters are required to attend a 15-minute walk-thru of the keynote stage on either November 18 or 19.
• 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.
• Please keep November 18–19 available for this walk-thru.

You will be assigned a walk-thru time slot closer to the event. If you foresee any issues with attending your walk-thru, please let Nanci Lancaster know as soon as possible to re-schedule.

Keynote Stage Setup

The keynote stage in San Diego will be what is known as a “thrust stage” and semi in the round seating layout designed to minimize the distance from the audience to the presenter. This unique design will allow our community to better connect with the presenters. There will be audience seating on three sides: front, left, and right of the stage. Because of this uniqueness, here are some tips to pay attention to when navigating the stage in order to address the audience on all sides:

• One easy way to remember to make your stage movement is to present one complete thought to each section of the audience.  
• With your next complete topic or thought, shift to the right or left and face the next seating section.  
• There is no correct order or sequence. Just remember to make eye contact as much as possible in each of the seating sections. There are confidence monitors available facing each of these directions.
• Just remember one thought…one direction, then shift to the next seating section.

Examples of what this stage looks like can be viewed on our CNCF YouTube playlist from our North America event in 2018, specifically Kelsey Hightower’s Keynote Recording, and  Photo 1, Photo 2, and Photo 3 from our Flickr album. You will have approximately 15 minutes to get a feel of this type of stage during your walk-through. 

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.

Code of Conduct

Please read, and abide by our code of conduct. Our code of conduct is strictly enforced. We ask that speakers especially review this code of conduct and are careful to be inclusive in the words and images used during their presentation.

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.