Who will attend?

We’re expecting 500+ executives and individual contributors from development, operations, and product teams.

What is the format?

Trajectory will be a virtual conference with some regional in-person events. The first day will consist of industry talks across the 5 themes covered below. The second day will focus on LaunchDarkly vision, customer case studies, and roadmap in the morning followed by 2-hours of hands-on technical workshops related to the 5 themes in the afternoon.

What types of talks are we looking for?

We are looking for talks from both experienced and novice speakers. We offer speaker coaching to ensure you deliver a compelling talk or workshop.

This year we are focused on five themes for both our talks and workshops. We are looking for conceptual/theoretical content as well as examples from real-world practitioners on the following:

Experimentation

• Testing in production
• Iterating on feedback from customers prior to launching a feature

Platform Engineering

• Providing self-service foundational capabilities to product teams
• SRE vs Platform engineering
• Bridging the gap between hardware and software infrastructure

Value-stream mapping

• Improving collaboration between business and IT
• Identifying waste, reducing processing cycle times, and improving processes

Developer productivity

• Dimensions of developer productivity
• Developer tools and workflow

Reliability and resilience

• Challenges facing SREs and DevOps teams
• Minimizing the frequency and impacts of failures
  
  

The topics below each theme are just a few examples of the types of ideas that would apply to each theme. This is not a comprehensive list of all the topics we’re looking for.

Authors may send in multiple talk submissions.

When is the deadline to submit?

The CFP closes August, 9th at 5 PM PDT.

Important dates

Speakers will be notified by August 24th.

Our production company will be working with you to record your talks. Tech checks will be held at the end of September and videos will be recorded October 4th - 18th.

Speakers will receive a complimentary ticket to Trajectory 2021. Please reach out to the LaunchDarkly team at info@trajectoryconf.com if you have any questions. We’re happy to help with your submission ideas and anything else you need!