FP Web Conf

The conference will be held on 29 September, in Bangalore.

Submission guidelines and selection criteria

If you are interested in speaking at FP WebConf - conference on 29 September - note the following guidelines:

1. Submit a description of your talk, explaining the problem that your talk covers, and one concrete takeaway for audience. Talks have to give at least one practical insight to the audience.
2. Preference will be given to talk experiential talks such as case studies, journeyman stories and implementation stories.
3. The editor and reviewers will comment on the description. Make sure to watch out for comments from Anupam Jain, Baishampayan Ghose and Ravindra Jaju on your submission. Editors’ decision on which talks are selected for the conference will be final. Talks which are not selected will also receive feedback, so that speakers can present their talks at other opportunities under FP WebConf umbrella.
4. If you submission is included in the shortlist, you will be required to prepare an outline of your talk and go through a rehearsal.

The call for submissions will be closed on 9 September. Talks will be selected on a rolling basis, as submissions trickle in.

Anupam Jain is the editor of the conference.

Format of content

You can submit:

1. Case study talks - explaining why and how.
2. Tool talks - explaining why and how.
3. Deep dive technical talks, showing code, related to the impact of running FP in production.

Topics

1. Case studies on why adopt Functional Programming? Demonstrate with concrete use cases or examples.

• How Functional Programming can help improve the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of your applications.
• How it can improve developer velocity, and developer satisfaction?
• Experience reports with adopting Functional Programming.
• How to scale products and teams with Functional Programming.
• How to acquire knowledge, scale staffing, train people, etc.

Technical topics - why Functional Programming now?

• Exciting things that are happening in the FP ecosystem.
• Modelling FP - in non-FP languages like JS, and in frameworks like React/Vue.
• Performance.
• Pros and cons of FP.

Travel for outstation - domestic and international - speakers

FP-Web Conf is financed by memberships. Limited travel grants are available for outstation speakers. These will be given on a first-come-first-serve basis.

• Speakers (or their companies) can fund their travel and accommodation for the conference in exchange for sponsorship credits.

If you have questions about submitting a talk or speaking at the conference, post a comment here.