Call for Speakers 2025 is open!
You have until March 31st to get those talks in!
The expanded 2024 Carolina Code Conference went off without a hitch, featuring 30 speakers after receiving 209 talks submissions in our two day single track event. A good time was had by all!
Today, we officially announce the 2025 Call for Speakers on Sessionize! You may have seen this floating around on social media prior to now and that’s because the link has been live on since February 3rd. It’s only been 4 days and we already have 33 talks submitted, so that’s a great start! The call will be open until March 31st, so you should have plenty of time to get things ready.
After selling out in 25 minutes during the 2023 event, we grew in 2024 to 266 attendees in our first 2 day event as the debut conference at the new Flywheel building in beautiful Greenville, SC. In 2025 we’ll be returning to Flywheel in Greenville on August 15th and 16th to keep that momentum going!
Within 3 hours we can easily reach Charlotte, NC, Atlanta, GA, Augusta, GA, Charleston, SC and Knoxville, TN (at least prior to the floods). Extending our reach to this entire quad state region is a major focus and the reason why we keep coming to your meetup groups!
As a speaker, our goal is to promote and amplify you. You can look forward to a committed single track event where you will be speaking to everyone in attendance. All talks are professionally recorded and published online.
Each selected speaker will receive 2 tickets to the event so that you may bring a guest if you wish.
It's going to be a good time and we hope you join us!
Talk Format and Length
Each speaker can submit up to 3 presentations and each presentation can apply for multiple time slots (5-10 minute lightning, 15-30 minute moderate, 45-60 minute keynote). If you have a talk that can be adjusted for length, you can select each length with a single submission and we highly encourage you to do so. Last year out of 30 speakers we had 5 keynotes, 10 intermediate and 15 lightning talks.
Topics range from Programming and Software Development, DevSecOps, Cybersecurity, Product Development, Career and more! We’re always interested in highlighting technologies that are more obscure, less mainstream, combine technologies for unique benefits or potentially actively used but maybe not as popular as they once were (Perl, COBOL, etc). Any talk that fills a gap which wasn’t covered in the prior year will also get some special consideration as well. If you are passionate about it, that passion will come through in your talk.
Single Track Commitment
Even with our growth, we're committed to remaining a single track conference where each speaker will have access to address the entire group of attendees with their passion.
Rather than a multi-track format where you may have to worry about winning your time slot once selected, we stagger the length of talks throughout the day in order to keep the audience engaged so speakers are asked to submit talks for multiple length formats: Keynote (45-60 minutes), Moderate (20-30 minutes) or Lightning (5-10 minutes). Keynote talks will open the day and follow our lunch hour, while Moderate length and Lightning talks will alternate throughout each day (2023 schedule for example).
If a speaker drops out at the last minute, we may reach out to you to increase the length of your talk to fill the slot. This format was very well received last year.
Social Media Promotions
If you have anything going on professionally that you'd like us to share on social media, we will be happy to do so. Again, our goal is the amplify you. Just ask. We're planning to utilize a more focused marketing budget for this year's event to amplify and focus our social media presence. We're most active on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon (since March 2023) and YouTube (since September 2023).
Travel Assistance
Unfortunately, we cannot make any guarantees for travel assistance just yet. We're actively cultivating sponsors for this year’s event and hope to have budget available to provide some help here but we simply cannot make any guarantees. We expect to be able to cover hotel rooms for our speakers though.