nginx.conf 2015

Join us at Fort Mason in San Francisco from September 22-24, 2015.

Submit a proposal to nginx.conf 2015!

TL;DR

• Speaker proposals due: 11:59 PM PDT, July 2, 2015
• Speakers notified: late July, 2015
• Program schedule announced: early August, 2015

As a member of the NGINX community, you’re probably passionate about web performance, security, reliability, and scale. We’re excited to offer you the opportunity to teach (and learn from) your peers as a speaker at nginx.conf 2015 (September 22-24 in San Francisco). Please share with us how you and your company make the web speed along, instantly offering our always-on-society highly personalized and ever more creative experiences. Tell us how you solved an intractable scaling problem or shaved milliseconds (or seconds) off an RTT. We want to hear your NGINX story!

The submission deadline is 11:59 PM PDT, July 2, 2015.

What Are We Looking For in a Submission?

Our goal is to help attendees learn about NGINX use cases, insights, and best practices from real-world experts like you. We’re looking for 40-minute talks on topics like these:

• Using NGINX for more than serving static content
• Scaling and overcoming bottlenecks in your application
• APIs or IoTs or Containers, oh my!
• Your experience developing in the NGINX ecosystem or codebase
• A module you wrote or use

The key to a well-received presentation is shared information, not marketing. Our attendees have told us they’re not interested in talks that advertise product features without saying how the product and NGINX work together, so please keep that in mind.

• Check out this great resource from O'Reilly about good conference proposals, that goes through examples of excellent proposals, divided by presentations types: Skills, Technology, Case Study, and Tutorials.
• Or, view Matthew McCullough’s presentation on 10 Quick Tips for More Effective Conference Submissions and Presentations.
• Want another perspective? Watch a Women Who Code panel discussion on preparing for and speaking at technical conferences.

The Basics

• To submit, just fill out the form on the left.
• Submit as many talks as you’d like, but keep in mind that quality beats quantity every time!
• Talks are 40 minutes in length.
• Submissions close on 11:59 PM PDT, July 2, 2015.
• Reviews are done by a committee and everyone will be notified of status by late July.
• All presentations must adhere to the nginx.conf Code of Conduct. Please review before submitting your talk.
• You must attend nginx.conf in person, September 22-24 in San Francisco.
• We plan on recording all the presentations, and make the videos available online for free after the conference concludes. If that isn't OK, just let us know in the Notes to the Planning Committee section.

If You Are Selected, You Will Get the Following

• 40 minutes at nginx.conf to share with our audience.
• A free speaker pass to nginx.conf.
• A free ticket for you to give to anyone you would like and a code for 25% off another ticket.
• An invitation to join us at the nginx.conf 2015 Speaker & Sponsor dinner.

Questions? Help?

Reach out to us by emailing community-events@nginx.com.

We look forward to hearing what you’d like to share with the NGINX community!