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
My current CFP acceptance rate is
| Date | Title | Conference | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11 | Scaling beyond Kubernetes limits | KubeCon | Submitted |
| 2026-10 | Building a Kubernetes Linux Distro | KCD UK | Accepted |
| 2026-09 | Gotta Build 'em All | EdgeCase | Accepted |
| 2026-09 | Scaling LLMs from 1 GPU to Kubernetes | AGNTCon | Rejected |
| 2026-09 | Cloud-init isn't enough | DevOpsDays Portland | Rejected |
| 2026-08 | SaaS, self-host, or gateway: the AI control conundrum | Tailscale Up | Accepted |
| 2026-07 | An API for Linux | Cloud Native PDX | Rejected |
| 2026-03 | The State of Immutable Linux | Southern California Linux Expo | Accepted |
| 2025-05 | The History and Future of Linux Management | Open Source Summit NA | Rejected |
| 2025-05 | Running AI at the Edge with Kubernetes | Scale Computing Platform | Accepted |
| 2025-04 | The Little Linux that Could | Kubernetes on the Edge Day | Rejected |
| 2025-04 | Putting the "fun" in Kubernetes fundamentals | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2025-04 | Special Purpose Linux Distributions for Containers | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 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 | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2024-11 | Windows VMs in Kubernetes with KubeVirt | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2024-11 | What Kubernetes Should Learn from Other Orchestrators | Cloud Native Rejekts | Accepted |
| 2024-10 | How to change a company | All Things Open | Rejected |
| 2024-10 | How many binaries do you need? | All Things Open | Rejected |
| 2024-10 | I was wrong about the cloud | All Things Open | Accepted |
| 2024-09 | Declarative Linux with the Common Operating System Interface | SREday | Accepted |
| 2024-09 | Security down to the kernel | SREday | Accepted |
| 2024-08 | How many binaries do you need? | Devopsdays Minneapolis | Rejected |
| 2024-07 | DevRel is Bullsh*t | DevRelCon | Rejected |
| 2024-07 | TikTok Storytelling | DevRelCon | 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 |
| 2024-05 | I was wrong about the cloud | Stir Trek | Rejected |
| 2024-05 | Single Purpose Linux | Stir Trek | Rejected |
| 2024-04 | An API for Linux | API days | Rejected |
| 2024-04 | Single Purpose Linux for Kubernetes | DevopsDays Tokyo | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | The state of on-prem Kubernetes | SCaLE | Accepted |
| 2024-03 | I was wrong about Cloud Native Infrastructure | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | The state of on-prem Kubernetes | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | Reliable systems with API driven Linux | SREcon | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | The state of on-prem Kubernetes | SREcon | Rejected |
| 2024-02 | API Driven Linux | Developer week | Rejected |
| 2024-02 | How we got from DevOps to Platform Engineering | Developer week | Rejected |
| 2023-11 | ChatGPT, Deploy My Application | Kubecon | Rejected |
| 2023-11 | The Road to Seamless Cluster Upgrades | Kubecon | Rejected |
| 2023-10 | The incredibly flexible OCI image format | Dockercon | Accepted |
| 2023-10 | Putting the "lie" in reliability | Devops Stage | Accepted |
| 2023-09 | Fast, Scalable, and Efficient Kubernetes | AWS Community Day | Cancelled |
| 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 |
| 2023-04 | Kubernetes home labs for any budget | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2023-04 | What is a Wasm and how do you Kubernetes it? | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2023-03 | Automated, Immutable, Declarative? All Lies | Taloscon | Accepted |
| 2023-01 | How to tell better stories | You Got This | Accepted |
| 2022-10 | Cloud Native Infrastructure with Kubernetes | Gitex DevSlam | Accepted |
| 2022-09 | A visual guide to garbage collection | Gophercon | Rejected |
| 2022-06 | Debugging Kubernetes | Open Source Summit North America | Rejected |
| 2022-06 | Scaling Kubernetes with Karpenter | Open Source Summit NA | Rejected |
| 2022-05 | 100 clusters and beyond | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2022-05 | Infrastructure as Software with GitOps | GitOpsCon EU | Rejected |
| 2022-03 | Monitoring Observability | DevOpsDays LA | Rejected |
| 2022-03 | Where we're going we don't need Nodes | SCaLE 17x | Rejected |
| 2021-05 | Document driven culture at Amazon | DevOpsDays LA | Rejected |
| 2021-05 | TikTalk | DevOpsDays PDX | Accepted |
| 2021-05 | The Mythical Multi-Cluster Month | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2021-05 | The Open Source of EKS Anywhere | Kubecon | Rejected |
| 2021-04 | From container to cloud | Cloud Native Kubernetes Manchester | Accepted |
| 2021-04 | The bug before downtime | o11ycon | Rejected |
| 2021-04 | Enterprise grade open source | All Things Open | Rejected |
| 2021-04 | Web scale open source with Kubernetes | All Things Open | Accepted |
| 2021-03 | CI/CD: Continuous Infrastructure / Cluster Demand | All Day Devops | Accepted |
| 2021-03 | Putting the "lie" in reliability | All Day Devops | Rejected |
| 2021-03 | To us-east-1 and beyond | Crossplane Community Day Europe | 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 |
| 2019-11 | How-to prepare for launch | Cloud Native Rejekts | Withdrawn |
| 2019-11 | How-to prepare for launch | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2019-11 | Service Mess: Do You Need A Service Mesh? | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2019-10 | Mastering ZSH | LISA | Accepted |
| 2019-09 | Building apps without code | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2019-09 | Evolution of infrastructure | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2019-09 | Mastering ZSH | Strangeloop | Rejected |