Call for Proposals Open for the Xen Project Developer and Design Summit Happening in June!

Call for Proposals Open for the Xen Project Developer and Design Summit Happening in June!

Registration and the call for proposals are open for the Xen Project Developer and Design Summit 2018, which will be held in Nanjing Jiangning, China from June 20 – 22, 2018. The Xen Project Developer and Design Summit combines the formats of Xen Project Developer Summits with Xen Project Hackathons, and brings together the Xen Project’s community of developers and power users.

Submit a Talk

Do you have an interesting use case around Xen Project technology or best practices around the community? There’s a wide variety of topics we are looking for, including cloud, server virtualization, unikernels, automotive, security, embedded environments, network function virtualization (NFV), and more. You can find all the suggested topics for presentations and panels here (make sure you select the Topics tab).
Several formats are being accepted for speaking proposals, including:

  • Presentations and panels
  • Interactive design and problem solving sessions. These sessions can be submitted as part of the CFP, but we will reserve a number of design sessions to be allocated during the event.
      • Proposers of design sessions are expected to host and moderate design sessions following the format we have used at Xen Project Hackathons. If you have not participated in these in the past, check out past event reports from 2016, 2015 and 2013.

Never talked at a conference before? Don’t worry! We encourage new speakers to submit for our events!
Here are some dates to remember for submissions and in general:

  • CFP Close: April 13, 2018
  • CFP Notifications: April 30 – May 2, 2018
  • Schedule Announced: May 3, 2018
  • Event: June 20 – 22, 2018

Registration

Come join us for this event, and if you register by May 2, you’ll get an early bird discount of $125/ 800 Yuan Travel stipends are available for students or individuals that are not associated with a company. If you have any questions, please send a note to community.manager@xenproject.org.

Curious about last year’s event? Check out a few of our presentations last year here!

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