Important Dates + Deadlines

• Speaker Registration Deadline: Friday, September 20
• Upload Bio + Headshot to Sched.com Deadline: Monday, September 23
• Travel Fund Requests Deadline: Friday, September 27
• AV Requests Deadline: Friday, October 25
• Last Day to Request Speaker Additions or Description Changes: Monday, November 4
• Presentation Upload Deadline: Monday, November 11

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 was announced on Thursday, September 5, and posted on our website using Sched.com. You will receive an email directly from Sched.com asking you to create your account.  Please upload your bio and photo no later than Monday, September 23.

New for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon: To minimize overcrowded sessions, we will not be assigning sessions to rooms until closer to the event. Sessions will be assigned to rooms based on popularity shown within schedules built by attendees and not by track. This means a room could have up to 15 different tracks vs just housing one seamless track. You will know what room your session is assigned two weeks before the event. Note: The exceptions to this are keynotes and lightning talks, which are assigned to the same room: Exhibit Hall AB.

Please note that all breakout sessions are 35-minute in duration, tutorials are 90-minutes, and lightning talks are 5-minutes. Additionally, please note that Lightning Talks are only on Monday, November 18 and tutorials are only on Thursday, November 21. If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk or are having problems uploading your bio and photo, please contact Nanci Lancaster.

Speaker Cancellation and Session Update Policy

If you need to cancel or update your session, please contact Nanci Lancaster and note the below policy. All requests must be made by Monday, November 4.

• If you are on a solo session and are no longer able to attend the conference, your session will be canceled and replaced with a session from the waitlist. Neither you nor your company will be allowed to replace you as a speaker.
  
• If you are on a session with one speaker, and would like to add a co-speaker, or, are on a session with two or more speakers and would like to replace one of the speakers, your replacement or addition request will need to be approved by the co-chairs before we are able to add them as a speaker.
• If you have any update requests to your session (speaker changes, description updates, etc.), those requests must be made no later than Monday, November 4.

AV Details + Requirements

Any additional AV requests are due by Friday, October 25

The room will include a screen, projector, (2) wireless microphones, and (1) handheld microphone for audience Q&A, so be sure to leave time at the end of your talk for questions.

Required: All speakers will need to supply their own computer and necessary adaptors to use during their session. 

Exception: If you are a Lightning Talk speaker, you will be required to email your final presentation, in PowerPoint format only, directly to Nanci Lancaster no later than one week before the event on Monday, November 11. We will combine all Lightning Talk presentations into one seamless deck, controlled backstage instead of the speakers needing to use their own laptops.

NOTE: The projectors have both VGA and HDMI capabilities/outputs and can accommodate either. 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.

Track Hosts

**Breakout and Tutorial Speakers Only**

Please be aware that when you arrive to your room no later than 15-minutes before your session begins, you will be greeted by a program committee member that has volunteered their time on-site to be a track host. Their role is to introduce you to the audience at the start of your session, help facilitate Q&A, and maintain the integrity of the session. Please email Nanci Lancaster if you have any questions regarding track hosts.

Speaker PowerPoint Presentation Template

We designed an optional KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America PowerPoint template for our speakers. Use of this template is not required but we do welcome you to use it for your convenience.

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.

Presentation Requirements

Upload to Sched.com by Monday, November 11

All breakout, maintainer track, lightning talk, and tutorial speakers are required to upload their final presentation slides ahead of the event. In addition to providing a hard copy for accessibility purposes, we find that adding the presentations before the event helps to drive interest in attending the session.

Please note that your presentation slides should be uploaded in PDF-format to Sched.com and must be formatted in 16:9.

To upload slides:

• Log into your KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 speaker profile through Sched.com or via the mobile site
• On the top of the page, click “Manage and Promote Your Session”
• Click “Add Presentation”
• Click in the “Select a File” box and add the PDF document (note: there is a 50MB size limit)
• Click “Upload” and your slides will automatically be saved

Additional Requirements – Lightning Talks Only

If you are a Lightning Talk speaker, you will be required to email your final presentation, in PowerPoint format only, directly to Nanci Lancaster no later than one week before the event on Monday, November 11. We will combine all Lightning Talk presentations into one seamless deck, controlled backstage instead of the speakers needing to use their own laptops. On the day of the Lightning Talks, November 18, you will be required to arrive to Exhibit Hall AB no later than 4:00pm for a brief stage and logistics walk-thru to best prepare you for the flow of the lightning talk session.

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.