Submit a talk for fintech_devcon 2024
fintech_devcon will take place August 7-9, 2024 in Austin, Texas at the Fairmont Hotel.

The event exists to make fintech knowledge accessible to all. We invite developers, engineers, and product leaders to contribute by sharing your triumphs and setbacks encountered during the fintech development journey. This is not the the place for product pitches.

Here's a guide to kickstart your pitch: 
  • Reflect on a challenge, obstacle, or issue you faced while working on a fintech product.
  • How did you overcome the problem? What mistakes, shortcuts, workarounds, or detailed steps can you share to help other builders learn from your experience?
Selected speakers will receive a free registration, which includes access to all breakout sessions, keynotes, conference meals, official fintech_devcon networking events, and swag.

Keep in mind: 

  • 🏗️. Submissions should focus on real problems you’ve run into as a builder and how you solved them.  🏗️
  • 🙅‍♀️  Sessions containing sales/marketing pitches will NOT be selected.  🙅‍♂️
  • 📆  Submission deadline is March 1. We will not review pitches until after submissions close. Any submission received after March 1 will be added to a waitlist. 📆
  • 📣  All selected speakers will be notified by the end of April.  📣
  • 📚 Speakers are welcome to submit more than one pitch. 📚
  • 🎟  Sponsorship is not a consideration when evaluating proposals.  🎟
  • ❤️ We are committed to selecting a team of speakers that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills and we embrace diversity, creativity, and equal opportunity.❤️
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Inclusivity is a core value at fintech_devcon, so we are actively seeking talk submissions from speakers in underrepresented groups (people of color, indigenous folks, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, etc.).
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Roadblock talks (45 minutes)
These sessions focus on the hurdles, snags, and problems you've encountered while working on fintech products. These sessions explain a “roadblock” and teach other builders how to overcome it using shortcuts, workarounds, and other unique resolutions. Please share tangible solutions like guides, templates, and detailed steps that they can replicate in their work. Examples include: 
  • Preparing for your first SOC2 audit
  • Synchronizing ledger data in real-time
  • What I wish I knew before building a payments processor

Workshops (85 minutes)
Unlike roadblock talks, workshops offer hands-on coding demonstrations where speakers teach attendees how to build and solve a particular problem. Sessions must be interactive with a clear goal from the start and speakers must provide the required tools and repos prior to the event. Attendees should walk away with a completed fintech project. Examples from last year include: 
  • Building a payments system on open source
  • Deploy a risk engineering infrastructure on open source
  • Building a developer feedback experience through friction logging

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List at least three useful things people will take away from your session.
What type of person will benefit most from attending this session? How will they benefit? *
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Please share details about your roadblock talk or workshop. (800 characters or less)
Workshop submissions only: Describe the origin of the technical workshop content. What is the purpose of the product, feature, or initiative, and what problem(s) did it solve?
Workshop submissions only: Is the technical content already deployed to a production environment? If so, please include a link to the content (e.g. GitHub) and list any software tools required to participate in the workshop. If not, when will it be production-ready?

Workshop submissions only: What type of attendees should attend your talk? How many years of development experience will they need? Are there any specific technology disciplines they should know? 

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I approve fintech_devcon to distribute my session recording and presentation materials after the conference.
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I understand that my presentation is not for the purpose of sales, and I may not advertise products or services. I understand that if my pitch is selected and my presentation deck contains a product pitch, I will be removed from my 2024 speaking slot.
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All speakers are responsible for all travel and any hotel lodging for the conference.

If your talk is selected, by submitting this form you give us permission to use your name and photo in conference marketing materials, and reproduce your session outline as part of conference marketing both online and in print. (We may lightly copyedit for style consistency.)
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