🚀 This page is only for submissions for Rootconf 2025 annual conference! 🚀
Call for proposals for Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference
The legendary kings, from Yudhishtira of the Mahabharata to Akbar and Krishnadevaraya, took pride in their Sabhas - spaces for intellectuals to debate and showcase their wisdom.
While we may not have kings today, there’s no reason we can’t gather around, props our sticker-covered laptops on a podium, and humorously argue why a k8s cluster beats bare metal for a six-person startup.
Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference is open for submissions!
Anyone who works with infrastructure, system-level code, or distributed systems, share your experiences with like-minded peers.
Got an idea? Get it refined by experts. Got a bold opinion? Give the talk, and be ready for lively debate in the hallways.
Submit your proposal here.
Submission tracks
Do you like pub-sub queues? This year, we are running four parallel tracks under Rootconf 2025 like topics in a message queue.
Each track has a dedicated curator to give you feedback from someone who speaks your language (figuratively).
Platform engineering
Engineers and architects unite! If you work in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infra, this track is for you.
Curated by Safeer CM, this track is for those building internal service platforms, reusable components, and scalable infra.
Suggested topics
- Internal developer portals and software catalogs
- Developer productivity and experience
- Infrastructure engineering and cloud management
- CI/CD - with focus on testing and test environments
- Observability - focus on standardization and platformization
- Performance engineering
AI, GenAI for Security
Are you using LLMs or GenAI to improve security services? This track is for you.
Curated by Vikram Mehta, this track welcomes submissions on AI-powered security tools, processes, and best practices.
Suggested topics
- Evaluating and establishing trust in GenAI security environments
- Reference architectures for GenAI training at enterprise scale
- Practical security use cases across industries, including SOC agent; vulnerability noise reduction; threat modelling
- Overcoming implementation challenges in security operations
- GenAI-powered threat detection and response
- Security implications of different LLM deployment strategies
- Measuring effectiveness of GenAI solutions for security teams
Distributed data systems
If scaling large-scale data systems is your thing, this track is where you belong!
Curated by Aniruddh Rowjee, this track explores how companies manage petabyte or exabyte-scale distributed systems.
Suggested topics
- Database internals
- Distributed database / dataflow system architecture and prod stories
- State-of-the-art advancements in distributed data systems
Supply Chain Security
The fourth track focuses on supply chain security, with emphasis on trust, integrity and resilience in software delivery. The software supply chain is complex and varies across companies and architectures.
This track targets DevOps engineers, SREs, security professionals, engineering managers, and tech leaders interested in cloud-native applications, open-source dependencies, and build pipeline security.
Suggested topics
Anant Shrivastava is curating this track; we want to see submissions for topics such as:
- Generating and consuming SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials) for transparency and traceability.
- Secure Code Signing and Verification Techniques to ensure authenticity in distributed teams.
- Hardening CI/CD Pipelines against any attacks and insider threats.
- Responsible Dependency Management, such as licensing, provenance, and patching.
- Incident Response and Recovery for supply chain breaches.
Deadline for submissions for Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference is 20 April
Once you’ve narrowed down your track, prepare a killer submission and submit it soon.
Why speak?
Speaking at a conference is a great way to make an impact on the field. Even if you don’t get selected, Rootconf’s expert curation process will help you craft a great tech talk.
If you’re unsure about the idea, you’ll get guidance to make it a compelling CFP.
What’s in it for you?
- 🚀 Get noticed - this can lead to great opportunities!!
- 📚 Learn new things like how to articulate thoughts, communicate ideas. .
- 🎤 Stand on stage share knowledge with your peers.
- 🗣️ Improve public speaking and storytelling skills.
- 🤝 Make lifelong friends - many of us have!
Who should speak?
You don’t have to be an expert to submit. Best conference talks evolve from polishing ideas and bouncing them off peers and industry experts.
Submit a proposal if you:
- Have an idea to test with a wider audience
- Want to share your experience with fellow engineers
- Want to showcase a side project that can attract investors
We look forward to seeing submissions ranging from beginner-friendly to hardcore, perhaps even esoteric code that makes our eyes sparkle with excitement!
Got questions about CfP, how to submit a talk, selection process, etc? Ping us!
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