About

GopherCon UK is focused on education and discussion of the Go programming language. We aim to attract the best speakers, contributors, and educators from around the world in hopes of providing the community with the best resources on the Go programming language every year.



We are looking for speakers and instructors to give talks and hands-on classroom sessions. We are seeking talks covering mainstream, advanced, niche or non-technical topics aimed at a multitude of skill levels.



GopherCon UK seeks to deliver ‘wow’ talks that are fresh and inspiring about cutting edge topics or new perspectives on common problems. The audience will be from all backgrounds varying in skill level from beginner to intermediate to advanced, so talks varying widely in topic and skill levels are required. Most of all we want speakers who have a deep knowledge about the topics they are proposing and can’t wait to share that knowledge with a whole group of of eager listeners. Tell us what you’re most passionate about and why we should be passionate about it as well.

Talk Types

We are looking for 4 different types of talks for the event:

Keynotes

Opening session each morning of the conference

Motivational, big ideas, inspirational, and community related topics

Full conference audience

30 minutes length

No Q&A

Talk Sessions

Breakout sessions throughout the conference

Technical, educational, research, new technology, case studies

Partial conference audience (split across 2 tracks)

30 minutes length

Q&A at speaker’s discretion (within 30m limit)

Tutorial Sessions

Classroom style

Technical, in depth tutorial content on a specific topic

2 hours length

Suggested 1 hour slide content, 1 hour hands on exercises

Partial conference audience (split across 4 tracks)

Limited to 50 participants max

Not video recorded or distributed online

Workshop Sessions

Hand on technical training

Classroom style

Technical, in depth tutorial content on a specific topic

Full day (8 hours, 6 hours actual training time)

Not video recorded or distributed online

Videos

Both keynotes and talk sessions are video recorded and distributed for free along with your slides on our YouTube channel.

Speakers

We believe diversity of speakers and topics makes our event better. We welcome speakers of all programming languages, experience levels and backgrounds. We welcome speakers of any gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, or religion. We welcome new speakers and experienced speakers alike.