Cloud Costs Optimization

Submission guidelines and selection criteria

If you are interested in speaking at the conference, 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. Editor will comment on the description. Make sure to watch out for comments from Anand Chitipothu on your submission. The editor’s 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 the Rootconf 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 30 June. In the meanwhile, talks will be selected on a rolling basis, as individuals make submissions.

Who should speak; topics

1. CTO of a startup in the growth phase with a case study of how they have controlled cloud costs for their organization.
2. A cloud consultant interested in sharing a case study of their recent project to control cloud costs.
3. Engineering Manager of a large organization interested to speak about how they monitor and audit cloud usage across teams and projects.
4. Senior engineer who has recently re-architected their application to reduce the complexity and cloud usage.
5. A senior engineer/architect from AWS/Azure to talk about the recommended best practices for managing cloud costs.

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

Travel for outstation - domestic and international - speakers

Rootconf is a community funded organization. Individuals join as members and contribute to the community’s pool. The current community pool doesn’t provide for travel grants for Cloud Costs Optimization Conference. Speakers may note the following:

• Speakers (or their companies) can fund their travel and accommodation for the conference in exchange for sponsorship credits.
• Speakers delivering talks as part of sponsored talks will have to cover their own travel and accommodation. This will not be counted as part of sponsorship credits.

Speaker honorarium

Cloud Costs Conference is funded by the Rootconf membership pool. Speakers will be paid an honorarium of Rs. 3,000 provided funds are available from the community pool. If a talk has two speakers, the honorarium amount will be split between two speakers. Honorarium will be paid after the conference is completed, subject to funds being available from the community’s pool.