Do you have what it takes to present in front of a passionate audience looking to learn new things? 

This year Code BEAM America takes place in Mountain View, CA, and online on 3-4 November. It is a dual-track hybrid conference with in-person talks. Speaking times are 40 minutes, which includes a minimum of 10-min Q&A and 30-min presentation, and 25 minutes, which includes a minimum of 5-min Q&A and 20-min presentation.

We welcome proposals about Erlang, Elixir, BEAM and other technologies and we are happy to support candidates from under-represented groups in the software development community.

The programme committee is also happy to help out with talk delivery, give early-stage feedback and get the speaker ready for the conference.

RECOMMEND US OR RECOMMEND A SPEAKER

We want to make sure our conference is as diverse as the community we represent. Do you know any researchers, programmers or experts who are a part of groups traditionally underrepresented in IT (due to gender, ethnicity or any other reason) and whose work you can recommend to our committee? Please, let them know, that our CFT is open and that we’d love to see their work! Also, you can suggest their name in the form, if you want us to check them out and possibly invite them.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Your talk should be submitted by 23:59 PT on 17 July 2022.
• You will be informed about the status of your submission by 17 August 2022.

THEMES & TOPICS

We are looking for great talk ideas around the 6 themes of:

• Growth - overcoming challenges, such as how to onboard new members to your team, adopt new technologies or take your new products to the next level
• DevOps - how software is behaving in the actual production environment, overcoming usual and unusual challenges in your production environment.
• Web/Cloud - latest paradigms and frameworks for web and cloud development.
• Fighting technical debt - improving your legacy systems, and new developments in the tools that helped to do so.
• Innovation - the latest cool projects in the ecosystem.
• History & Philosophy of the Ecosystem - first-person accounts, holistic overviews or specific case reviews of rich heritage, and how they are helping shape the future.

Visit the conference website for details on the themes!

Is your presentation slightly outside that scope? Amaze and inspire us with your submission.

PERKS OF SPEAKING ONLINE AND IN-PERSON

• presenting in real-time with a large global reach
• the chat tab for your talk - the possibility to review and continue the discussion around your presentation
• possibility to ask/answer (via Q&A tab or by voice) questions to speakers/audience
• meeting virtually with the online community at the hallway track (separate virtual room)
• meeting virtually with the other speakers and guests (at speakers' meet-up or speakers' chat)
• setting up and running discussions around your favourite subjects on the community board (chat rooms)
• setting up and running virtual meet-ups before, during and after the event (functionality of a community board)
• taking part in additional activities, such as quizzes, competitions, lightning talks
• possibility to take part in an open session, like Ask me anything, Panel discussion or chat sessions
• we will promote your talk via various social media channels

TIPS FOR SUBMITTING

Never spoken at conferences before and are unsure if you should, and what should you talk about? Noel Rappin has a good article on this here: https://noelrappin.com/blog/2014/01/conference-prompts-or-how-to-submit-proposals-and-influence-people/

"1. A conference that was limited to only people that really thought they were the most qualified person to talk would be depressing, if not completely horrific.

2. You are absolutely the most qualified person to tell me what you think on a particular topic.

3. This is how you become qualified. You study something, you teach it to other people."

What mistakes to avoid when submitting a talk? Noel Rappin also has an answer in this article: https://noelrappin.com/blog/2014/03/what-i-learned-from-reading-429-conference-proposals/.

In short: clearly identify your topic, be respectful of everyone, be interesting, but also self-aware, don't pitch your company, and submit early and often. We could also add to that - think if this conference audience is the right one for your talk (and why?).

Need more tips? We recommend Sarah Mei's article "What Your Conference Proposal is Missing": http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/04/07/what-your-conference-proposal-is-missing/

CODE OF CONDUCT

All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree to the following code of conduct.

PRIVACY

Code Sync and Erlang Solutions care about your data and privacy. By submitting this form you agree that your data will be processed according to our privacy policy. You can opt-out anytime from the emails you receive from Code Sync. You also agree to your submission (all the form fields) being shared with our committee members.

plus 15% discount code to share with your network to buy conference tickets (Very Early Bird excluded) and invitation to all the accompanying events: speakers' meet-up/dinner, afterparty, pre-conference meet up etc.