Call For Papers (CFPs)
These are my talk submissions to various conferences and meetups.
I open sourced them so you can see examples of what CFPs look like and get your own ideas.
You can use the filter to find submissions for different conferences, years, or status.
Click on any row to see the full submission with abstract.
My current CFP acceptance rate is
14%
My current CFP acceptance rate is 14%
| Year | Title | Conference | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04 | Putting the "fun" in Kubernetes fundamentals | Kubecon EU | Submitted |
| 2025-04 | Special Purpose Linux Distributions for Containers | Kubecon EU | Submitted |
| 2025-02 | Edge AI From Nothing to LLM | Civo Navigate | Accepted |
| 2025-02 | What Kind of Platform Are You Building? | Civo Navigate | Rejected |
| 2024-11 | What Kubernetes Should Learn from Other Orchestrators | Cloud Native Rejekts | Accepted |
| 2024-11 | What Kubernetes Should Learn from Other Orchestrators | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2024-11 | Windows VMs in Kubernetes with KubeVirt | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2024-10 | How to change a company | All Things Open | Rejected |
| 2024-06 | Kubernetes Node firewalling from the Inside Out | Cloud Native Securitycon | Accepted |
| 2024-06 | Security down to the kernel | Cloud Native Securitycon | Accepted |
| 2024-03 | The state of on-prem Kubernetes | SCaLE | Accepted |
| 2024-08 | How many binaries do you need? | Devopsdays Minneapolis | Rejected |
| 2024-10 | How many binaries do you need? | All Things Open | Rejected |
| 2024-09 | Declarative Linux with the Common Operating System Interface | SREday | Accepted |
| 2024-07 | DevRel is Bullsh*t | DevRelCon | Rejected |
| 2024-09 | Security down to the kernel | SREday | Accepted |
| 2024-07 | TikTok Storytelling | DevRelCon | Rejected |
| 2024-04 | An API for Linux | API days | Rejected |
| 2024-05 | I was wrong about the cloud | Stir Trek | Rejected |
| 2024-10 | I was wrong about the cloud | All Things Open | Accepted |
| 2024-05 | Single Purpose Linux | Stir Trek | Rejected |
| 2024-04 | Single Purpose Linux for Kubernetes | DevopsDays Tokyo | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | I was wrong about Cloud Native Infrastructure | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | The state of on-prem Kubernetes | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2024-02 | API Driven Linux | Developer week | Rejected |
| 2024-02 | How we got from DevOps to Platform Engineering | Developer week | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | Reliable systems with API driven Linux | SREcon | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | The state of on-prem Kubernetes | SREcon | Rejected |
| 2023-10 | The incredibly flexible OCI image format | Dockercon | Accepted |
| 2023-09 | Fast, Scalable, and Efficient Kubernetes | AWS Community Day | Cancelled |
| 2023-10 | Putting the "lie" in reliability | Devops Stage | Accepted |
| 2023-11 | ChatGPT, Deploy My Application | Kubecon | Rejected |
| 2023-11 | The Road to Seamless Cluster Upgrades | Kubecon | Rejected |
| 2023-09 | Don't at me | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2023-09 | The world wide web of lies | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2023-05 | Build your own game streaming service | Tailscale Up | Accepted |
| 2023-05 | App native infrastructure | Platformcon | Rejected |
| 2023-05 | The evolution of a platform | Platformcon | Rejected |
| 2023-03 | Automated, Immutable, Declarative? All Lies | Taloscon | Accepted |
| 2023-01 | How to tell better stories | You Got This | Accepted |
| 2023-04 | Kubernetes home labs for any budget | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2023-04 | What is a Wasm and how do you Kubernetes it? | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2022-09 | A visual guide to garbage collection | Gophercon | Rejected |
| 2022-10 | Cloud Native Infrastructure with Kubernetes | Gitex DevSlam | Accepted |
| 2022-05 | 100 clusters and beyond | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2022-06 | Debugging Kubernetes | Open Source Summit North America | Rejected |
| 2022-05 | Infrastructure as Software with GitOps | GitOpsCon EU | Rejected |
| 2022-06 | Scaling Kubernetes with Karpenter | Open Source Summit NA | Rejected |
| 2021-05 | Document driven culture at Amazon | DevOpsDays LA | Rejected |
| 2022-03 | Monitoring Observability | DevOpsDays LA | Rejected |
| 2022-03 | Where we're going we don't need Nodes | SCaLE 17x | Rejected |
| 2021-04 | From container to cloud | Cloud Native Kubernetes Manchester | Accepted |
| 2021-04 | The bug before downtime | o11ycon | Rejected |
| 2021-03 | CI/CD: Continuous Infrastructure / Cluster Demand | All Day Devops | Accepted |
| 2021-04 | Enterprise grade open source | All Things Open | Rejected |
| 2021-03 | Putting the "lie" in reliability | All Day Devops | Rejected |
| 2021-05 | TikTalk | DevOpsDays PDX | Accepted |
| 2021-03 | To us-east-1 and beyond | Crossplane Community Day Europe | Rejected |
| 2021-04 | Web scale open source with Kubernetes | All Things Open | Accepted |
| 2021-05 | The Mythical Multi-Cluster Month | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2021-05 | The Open Source of EKS Anywhere | Kubecon | Rejected |
| 2020-11 | Infrastructure for Entertainment | Kubecon NA | Accepted |
| 2020-06 | How Disney+ Prepared for Launch | O'Reilly Infrastructure & Ops | Rejected |
| 2020-03 | How Disney+ Prepared for Launch | SCALE 18x | Withdrawn |
| 2019-09 | Building apps without code | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2019-09 | Evolution of infrastructure | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2019-09 | Mastering ZSH | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2019-11 | How-to prepare for launch | Cloud Native Rejekts | Withdrawn |
| 2019-11 | How-to prepare for launch | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2019-10 | Mastering ZSH | LISA | Accepted |
| 2019-11 | Service Mess: Do You Need A Service Mesh? | Kubecon NA | Rejected |