Postgres Open 2013 Call for Presenters

Postgres Open is looking for presenters for our 2013 conference.

We are currently accepting proposals for several kinds of talks outlined below. Proposal submissions are due by July 1, 2013, but don't feel obligated to wait until the last minute. Visit the conference website at http://postgresopen.org/2013/speaker and submit a proposal today.

Types of talks we are looking for:
Briefs (20min): short technical topics, product introductions, and mini-case studies.
Scaling (50min): experiences, tools and technical details of how you scaled PostgreSQL to meet unusual challenges. Talks about scaling typically cover PostgreSQL in high throughput or high concurrency environments, big-data, data-warehousing, sharding and replication for scaling purposes.
Products (50min): technical presentations on your PostgreSQL-related product or project, either open source or proprietary. These should cover both the "how" and the "why" of usage.
HOWTOs (50min): Brief DBA or developer-oriented presentations of how to solve a problem, accomplish a task, or achieve a goal with PostgreSQL and related tools. This includes performance tuning, application development, database architecture, and features.
Innovations (50min): Presentations on new PostgreSQL features and related projects or ones in development. Cutting-edge code, tools and techniques which users can make use of today are welcome.
Case Studies (50min): Detailed stories on how a company or organization accomplished extraordinary things with PostgreSQL, or how they migrated from another DBMS. Preferably, Case Studies should be presented or co-presented by a member of the organization involved.
Workshops (3 hours): hands-on tutorials which thoroughly ground attendees in a particular technology, technique, product or tool. Workshops should include demonstrations, audience interaction, and optionally, guided hands-on exercises. If attendees need to arrive with specific software installed, please note it in the talk description.
Postgres Open is dedicated to providing high-quality content to attendees. As such, we request that all presenters be executives, team leaders, engineers or architects (not sales or marketing line staff). Presentations should be oriented towards the business or development user of PostgreSQL, and should have substantial technical content. Preference will be given to presentations with original content. If you have questions about whether or not a particular presentation topic is appropriate, please contact program2013(at)postgresopen(dot)org

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Keith Paskett
Postgres Open Conference Chair