It’s only seven days until call for proposals are due for Node.js Interactive taking place Oct. 4–6, 2017, in Vancouver, Canada — CFPs close on April 10. We know there’s a ton of amazing stories to tell about how you are using Node.js and JavaScript, best practices working with these technologies, as well as general stories you may want to share — like last year’s presentation Shedding Light on the Darknet by Nwokedi Idika.

This year, we are looking for folks to speak about the following topics based on requests from last year and community input (bolded are the ones that we received the most requests on in our post-conference survey):

Node.js project: Core, working groups, TSC

Node.js in Production: Deployment, APIs, scaling, microservices

Security: Code guidelines, risks & countermeasures, dependencies management, HTTP, headers/CSRF/XSS/injection flaws

Diagnostics: Debugging, performance, monitoring

Education: Learning, teaching, and hiring in Node.js

Front-end engineering with Node.js

Serverless

Emerging use cases: Machine learning, Desktop/Electron, IoT.

Community Building: Grassroots efforts in workshops, meetups, NodeSchool, NodeBots, NodeGirls, NodeConfs, online communities.

Wildcard: Excited about a topic and it doesn’t fit in another bucket? We want to hear it here!

To help us select speakers for the conference, we have created a community speaker committee that consists of Chris Williams, Safia Abdalla, Mariko Kosaka, James Snell, Thomas Watson and Joyee Cheung. This group represents a mix of talented technologists that have an array of expertise from organizing conferences, Node.js Core technologies, open source community development, diagnostics and testing, scaling Node.js and more.

Here’s a bit more about the folks that make up the selection committee, in case you are not familiar with them:

We decided to create a committee this year to bring in even more viewpoints, technical expertise and opinions from well-respected developers in the Node.js ecosystem. It’s also an excellent way to pair our views as two Node.js Foundation employees with representation from the larger community.

We really look forward to creating an awesome conference that will allow enterprises, vendors, the community and Node.js end users come together to learn from each other to help propel the project and the technology forward for years ahead.

Lastly, if you have any questions on the submission process at all, it’s best to send an email to events@linuxfoundation.org.

-Tracy Hinds, Education Community Manager of the Node.js Foundation, and Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager of the Node.js Foundation