Submit a Presentation

Submissions for Fall 2012 are now closed. Sessions will be selected and speakers will be notified in April 2012 if they were chosen for this event.

Submissions for the Spring 2013 conference will open in April 2012. Please check back for the submission link and online form. Spring 2013: April 28- May 2, 2013, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Speakers will be asked to comply with various deadlines in terms of information about themselves and their presentation. Speakers may be asked to give their presentation twice during the program. Sales-oriented presentations, case studies and product pitches will not be accepted from vendor companies nor permitted in educational sessions.

Before you submit, please make sure you are complying with the following criteria:

• My session is purely educational, free from any commercial or sales content.
• My session is not a case study about or from a vendor/supplier/exhibitor.
• I will be including a session description of no more than 150 words.
• My session title is creative, short and descriptive.
• My session topic is original and can be applied to real-life situations in the data center.
• My session topic is of current importance and can be thought of as a hot topic in the data center.
• I will include examples, solutions and success stories in my description and the presentation.
• I understand that only the first speaker will receive complimentary conference registration, and we are responsible for all other conference costs, including but not limited to travel, lodging and food not included in the program.
• I am aware that I am required to provide a PowerPoint presentation by a specific deadline so that AFCOM can review the content. I understand that this PPT will be used and provided in a USB drive that will be distributed to all attendees.
• I am aware that any audio or video in my presentation must be pre-approved by AFCOM at the time that my PPT slides are submitted for approval.
• I understand that I need to develop enough content to fill a one-hour time slot, (this is approximately 45-50 minutes of content and 10-15 minutes allotted for Q & A with the attendees).
• I understand the importance of building in approximately 10 minutes at the end of my session for Q&A time with the attendees.

For additional information, please contact AFCOM’s Conference Services department at
(714) 997-7966 or email at confserv@afcom.com.

 

Some suggested educational topics for the upcoming conference include:

Cyberterrorism, Cloud Computing, Best Practices, Storage Automation, Data Center Builds, Colocation Power Management, Cooling, ITIL, Security (data center and physical), Bridging the gap between IT and the Business End, Digital Archiving, Monitoring, New Technologies, Wireless Applications, Fire Protection, Maintenance, Standards, Compliance Issues, Streamlining & Saving and How to Choose a Vendor.

Also, do you have a state of the art data center to showcase? If so, we are always looking for speakers to present a Virtual Data Center tour. These tours present a bird’s-eye view of your data center and are presented in a session style PowerPoint presentation format.

Remember, you will be listed as a speaker and included in all Data Center World marketing and conference materials.

 

Additional Suggested Topics:
SOA
Data Center Automation
Client/Server
Help Desk
E-Business
Employee Career Paths
Capacity Planning
Motivation
Disaster Recovery
Scheduling
Environmental Systems
Security
Storage
Standardization
Internet Data Centers
SAP
Best Practices
Data Center Relocation
Data Center Facilities
Emerging Technologies
Or any other related topics

Panel Sessions
Do you know of a good topic for a panel discussion and would like to submit your idea and be part of the panel? Please contact the conference services department with your ideas: confserv@afcom.com.