LaunchDarkly is currently evaluating Call for Papers (CFP) submissions for Trajectory Virtual 2022
Are you a “builder” who loves to share what you’ve learned? Have you navigated the trials and tribulations of building high performing software organizations? We want to hear from you!
Trajectory is a two-day technical conference bringing development, engineering, and product teams together to learn AND share stories and practices with all things software delivery. This year, we're exploring the ways teams can modernize software delivery practices to build and ship better software, faster.
We’re excited to review submissions for the virtual Trajectory Conference November 9-10, 2022.
We’re happy to help with your submission ideas and anything else you need!
Submitting a CFP for Trajectory
Submitting CFPs can be intimidating, but we want to make it as painless as possible! Do you have an idea you’d like to share? A bit of knowledge about the software delivery space that you feel like others could learn from?
First, you'll need to submit an abstract—a description of your topic and talk track. Once you submit your abstract, our CFP team will review it and ultimately decide if it’s a candidate for Trajectory or not. We may reach back out for additional details, but our team is here to help!
If your abstract is accepted, you’ll work with our team to schedule a time to record your session, which will be played during our two-day Trajectory event!
Who will attend?
We’re expecting 1,500+ executives and individual contributors from development, operations, and product teams.
What is the format?
Trajectory 2022 is a fully virtual, two-day event.
Day 1 will focus on LaunchDarkly partners as well as hands-on technical workshops for our users.
Day 2 will consist of industry talks across our 6 core themes for this event and an update on the LaunchDarkly vision and product roadmap.
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 six core themes for both our talks and workshops.
We are looking for conceptual/theoretical content as well as examples from real-world practitioners on the below themes.
Length of talks - 20 minutes for technical sessions, 30 minutes for organizational thought leadership sessions
Themes:
Building and shipping software
Have you built a great process for automating the way you shipped code? Maybe you have a strong passion for integrating testing into the way you build code. Do you want to tell the story of your development pipeline?
Collaborating across teams
How has your organization changed over the past 2 years? What are the best practices for keeping teams high performing? Tell us your story about how you build not just teams, but high performing organizations!
Experimentation
Are you using data to determine the “right” answer to your problems? How are you determining the fastest path to success? What statistics got you “exceeds target” this review cycle? Share your story here!
Platform Engineering
Are you building and supporting the platforms that your company builds their application stacks upon? Are you managing/monitoring multiple applications to keep your business up and running? We want to hear from you!
Release Management
Are you the orchestrator who takes projects into production? Do you work on the teams that coordinate releases? Do you have stories about lost Friday nights and long weekends? Have you figured out the right way to match agility with reduction of risk? Tell us your story here!
Lessons Learned
Any other great lessons learned? Stories of how you grew your career? Lessons for success? Engagement in the community? This is the place for you!
Authors may send in multiple talk submissions.
When is the deadline to submit?
The CFP closes September 15th.
Important dates
Speakers will be notified on September 21st.
Speakers will receive a complimentary ticket to Trajectory 2022.
Please reach out to the LaunchDarkly team at events@LaunchDarkly.com if you have any questions. We’re happy to help with your submission ideas and anything else you need!