If you have any questions regarding being a speaker at QConSF 2010 please contact Geeta Schmidt
Speaker, presentation and tutorial information
Photo & bios
We need your photo (high res., b&w if possible), bio and a one line bio (e.g. creator of ..., loud-mouth on..., founder of..., Strategist, ... authority, author of..., queen of ...) from you in order for us to have your individual speaker's page as updated as possible.
If you were a speaker at QCon San Francisco 2009, JAOO 2009 or QConLondon 2010 we already have uploaded your picture and bios. Please check your individual speaker page and see if it is all right. If not please send us a more recent picture and your updated bio.
Furthermore, we need to know from where you will depart (city/country) and your mobile phone number in order for us to contact you immediately during QCon if somethings come up.
Presentation abstract
A presentation abstract should be around 70 words in length, and it
needs to contain the main benefits from your presentation. E.g.: "You will learn
to...", "... get an insight into ..." etc.
Furthermore please write
The keywords of your presentation (e.g. Java, .NET, Architecture, Process, Patterns, Web 2.0, Languages, Code-near, Enterprise, Hot topic)
The target audience. Describe in a line or two who would benefit from this talk
Tutorials slides
We need a .pdf copy of your tutorial slides (grayscale or no background, two slides per page, A4 size) October 1, 2010. We will make a hard copy of the slides and hand them out for tutorial attendees only upon onsite registration.
Please let us know if you have any requests for the class room like table set-up, or flip
charts. By default, there will be notepad, pens, projector and wi-fi in each room.
Please plan your tutorial presentation (Monday November 1 or Tuesday November 2) according to the following breaks:
09:00: Training start
10:30-10:45: Coffee break
12:00-13:00: Lunch
14:30-14:45: Coffee break
16:00: Training end
Hotel, Travel & Registration
Hotel
If we provide a hotel room for you during the conference the deadline for letting us know when you arrive and depart is October 1, 2010, and then we will book the room for you. The hotel will send you a booking confirmation no later than one week before arrival.
Let us know when you arrive and depart by filling out this form
QCon hotel politics: If we provide a hotel room for you QCon covers hotel up to three nights for US-based speakers and four nights for overseas-based speakers unless you are giving a tutorial as well as a presentation. Further nights are on your own and will be charged upon departure (special QCon SF conference rate).
Direct 415.974.8709 Fax 415.495.6152 Hotel 415.974.6400
Travel
You find directions on getting to the conference area and hotel here
Speaker's registration
QCon will register all speakers and QCon covers the conference fee for speakers. You will receive your conference badge, conference kit and speaker's information upon registration, and you have the opportunity to register for social events too.
At QCon SF
Presentation
As a speaker, your presentation is assigned to a track; and we would like to encourage you to stay with the track all day and help to build a good discussion during the day.
Please come to your presentation at least 15 minutes before the start. Each track will have a host. The host will introduce you before going on stage and (s)he will help you with practical issues if needed. Volunteers will be guarding the door.
Each room will have screen, projector and lapel mic (expections: no
mics/sound system in Wordsworth and Shelley Room). You will also have
wireless internet access. You have to provide a presentation laptop and suitable adapters yourself. It is important that your laptop resolution is set to: 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600 on the VGA output plug. This will prevent display issues between the laptop and the projector.
Presentation slides
We upload your presentation slides and make them available on the QCon website. The host will have a memory stick to hold your slides for upload. Please provide your host with a .pdf copy of your slides immediately after the presentation.
Filming Sessions
Some conference presentations will be filmed for posting on InfoQ.com where the speakers can get viewed by thousands instead of just hundreds at the conference. We will ask you if we may record your presentation upon onsite registration. Example videos.
Evaluation
Each presentation will be evaluated. The attendees will get an opportunity to either give a green, yellow or red note for each presentation. Green = great presentation, yellow = average presenation, red = poor presentation. We kindly ask you to inform and encourage the attendees to help us with this. After your presentation you will receive the results of the evaluation from your own presentation at the Information Desk and after the conference we will send you the results too.
We will also ask you as a speaker to evaluate the conference. We will send you an electronic evaluation form when we send you your presentation evaluations. Please spend 2 minutes to fill in the speaker's evaluation form - it's very important for the QCon Team in order to improve communication with speakers and the conference.
All social events are free of charges for speakers!
Wednesday November 3
Conference Party, 19:15-23:00
Friday November 5
Meet the speakers, 17:50-18:50: We have invited all attendees to meet you! It is a great opportunity for mingling and networking. We encourage you to be there.
