City: Vancouver, Canada
Location: TBD
Dates: TBD (tentatively: summer 2026)
Talk duration: The talk is 45 minutes including QA, so if your talk is 35 minutes long then you'll have 10 minutes for questions.
Workshop duration: The workshop should aim to be 4-6 hours long.
Thank you for considering to speak at SYCL. The deadline for submitting applications is TBD.
You are free to apply to both day of talks (Systems or SYCL). You can
also apply more than once to each track, but we kindly ask all
applicants to each submit no more than 4 talks in total.
Talks are all 45min long at most, including Q&A. This means that if you want to have 10min of Q&A, then your talk must not be longer than 35min.
Accepted speakers will receive a complimentary ticket to the main conference (i.e. workshops not included).
--- Software You Can Love Talks ---
This is the day we celebrate the art of creating software for humans.
The first theme of the day is the relationship between software and art. Software that supports the creation of art, generative art, and also more philosophical questions, like "Does Technology Destroy Art?"
The second theme is learning how to combat the wake of user-hostile software. Abuse
of private data, endless "not now" nagging, requiring a subscription
for heated seats; all of these are blatant examples of external factors
worsening technology in a way that can't be solved just by picking a
better programming language.
Lastly, all topics that gratify intellectual curiosity are fair game, as
long as they're not overly focused on programming minutiae. This day is
meant to be accessible also to people interested in technology who
might not be programmers.
--- Systems Thinking Talks ---
We're looking for talks that show:
- Not being afraid of tackling hard projects
- Having full mastery of the underlying system (whatever that might be)
All done with the goal of creating compelling user experiences and pushing forward the state of the art of computing.
Zig talks are welcome, but the above can be done with many languages all of which are welcome.
