This committee will be in charge of speaker selection and communication. This includes talk selection, and all speaker communications.
The session commitee is the group of individuals that brings the agenda together for the event. Without the session committee, the event would have a challenging time bringing people together to discuss and engage in our Cloud Native focused event. Many of the talks that we help curate help shape the conversations for KCD Costa Rica, and takes commitment throughout the year to understand what would bring the best conversations to the event.
- Use Sessionize
- Write a compelling CFP
- Engage with the CNCF community
- Vote and read all the CFPs that are proposed
- Attempt to be at every meeting (things can change quickly and CFPs can be affected)
- Recruit or identify possible keynote speakers
- Work closely with the sponsor committee to make sure that sponsors are getting appropriate speaking time
- Comment or filter out "sales pitches" actively through the Open CFP process
- Timely answer any and all questions for that come in from possible or future speakers
- Finalize the speaker list
- Send out acceptances
- Send graceful rejections
- Maintain "on deck" contingency speakers, ready in case of dropouts
- Schedule the speakers in coordination with core committee
- Coordinate with core committee on speaker slots and available slots