Call for Submission Berlin Buzzwords 2012 - Search, Store, Scale --
June 4 / 5. 2012
The event will comprise presentations on scalable data processing. We
invite you to submit talks on the topics:
- IR / Search - Lucene, Solr, katta, ElasticSearch or comparable solutions
- NoSQL - like CouchDB, MongoDB, Jackrabbit, HBase and others
- Hadoop - Hadoop itself, MapReduce, Cascading or Pig and relatives
Related topics not explicitly listed above are more than welcome. We are
looking for presentations on the implementation of the systems
themselves, technical talks,
real world applications and case studies.
Important Dates (all dates in GMT +2)
- Submission deadline: March 11th 2012, 23:59 MEZ
- Notification of accepted speakers: April 6st, 2012, MEZ
- Publication of final schedule: April 13th, 2012
- Conference: June 4/5. 2012
High quality, technical submissions are called for, ranging from
principles to practice. We are looking for real world use cases,
background on the architecture of specific projects and a deep dive
into architectures built on top of e.g. Hadoop clusters.
To submit your proposal please register to our website [1] and log in
[2] once you received the confirmation email. Once this is done you
can submit your proposal here [3]; please do so no later than March
11th, 2012. Acceptance notifications will be sent out soon after the
submission deadline. Please include your name, bio and email, the
title of the talk, a brief abstract in English language. Please
indicate whether you want to give a lightning (10min), short (20min)
or long (40min) presentation and indicate the level of experience with
the topic your audience should have (e.g. whether your talk will be
suitable for newbies or is targeted for experienced users.) If you'd
like to pitch your brand new product in your talk, please let us know
as well -
there will be extra space for presenting new ideas, awesome products
and great new projects.
The presentation format is short. We will be enforcing the schedule rigorously.
If you are interested in sponsoring the event (e.g. we would be happy
to provide videos after the event, free drinks for attendees as well
as an after-show party), please contact us.
Follow @berlinbuzzwords on Twitter for updates. Tickets, news on the
conference, and the final schedule are be published at
http://berlinbuzzwords.de.
Program Committee Chairs:
- Isabel Drost (Nokia & Apache Mahout)
- Jan Lehnardt (CouchBase & Apache CouchDB)
- Simon Willnauer (SearchWorkings & Apache Lucene)
- Grant Ingersoll (Lucid Imagination & Apache Lucene)
- Owen O’Malley (Yahoo Inc. & Apache Hadoop)
- Jim Webber (Neo Technology & Neo4j)
- Sean Treadway (Soundcloud)
Please re-distribute this CfP to people who might be interested.
Contact us at:
newthinking communications
GmbH Schönhauser Allee 6/7
10119 Berlin,
Germany
Julia Gemählich jge@newthinking.de
Isabel Drost idr@newthinking.de
Simon Willnauer simonw@apache.org
+49(0)30-9210 596
[1] http://berlinbuzzwords.de/user/register
[2] http://berlinbuzzwords.de/user
[3] http://berlinbuzzwords.de/node/add/session