2024 Speaker Application
June 20-21 – MacDevOpsYVR 2024 Conference (in person and on-line)
Thank you submitting a talk proposal for the annual MacDevOpsYVR conference. Speaking at MacDevOpsYVR enables you to share your knowledge, success stories, or cool projects with the Mac Admin community. MDO provides a great environment to learn new things and share hard won experience.
Check out who spoke at MacDevOpsYVR 2023.
For the past 9 years MacDevOpsYVR has welcomed a diverse community of Mac Admins, GitOps engineers, and security professionals from Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Uber, Airbnb, Square, Amazon, SAP, LAIKA, Pixar, Disney Animation, and many others.
30 Minute Talks
We’re looking for speakers that:
- Have a great story to share
There is one or more 30 minute talk on each of the two main speaking days.
15 Minute Talks
We’re looking for speakers that:
- Have a fun problem they’ve solved
- Want to help share hard won knowledge
- Provide clear successful use cases, best practices, and how-to’s
- Can go deep on how your company is using a tool or technique
There are four 15 minute talks on each of the two main speaking days. A total of eight 15 minute talks will be scheduled.
5 Minute Talks (Quick Talks)
We’re looking for speakers that:
- Highlight a tip or trick, like “this shortcut will save 100000 minutes a week”
- Tell a great customer success story
- Focus on a specific feature and how you are using it
- A great demo
There are two or more 5 minute talks on each of the two main speaking days. Four 5 minute talks will be scheduled. Or more. Depending on time in the schedule.
Qualities of a Great Talk
- Know the Mac Admin audience
- Review your completed application before submitting
- Do not pitch products, companies, services
- Do contain clear takeaways for the audience
- Speaker bio is clear why the person is an authority on the subject
- Talk description is clear what the audience will learn or takeaway
- Provide case studies or research to assist the audience in their own business application
Note Panelists, Moderators and Trainers
We are also seeking some willing volunteers to be panelists and moderators for some of our daily panels. If this is you please let us know.
If you would like to offer some training or skills development we are also seeking some workshop and training proposals for our Training Day (Day 0). If you have an idea for that one thing you think everyone should learn for our new world of GitOps, DevOps or related send a sign.
Important Dates
March 01 – Deadline for applications for 15min & 30min talks
March 30 – Applicants are selected (please send us a picture for the website)
May 30 – Record and submit a backup talk (the event is live but we love backups)
June 20-21 – MacDevOpsYVR 2023 Conference
Speaker Application Form
Thank you for your interest in speaking at MacDevOpsYVR 2024.
We review all applications.
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