Call for Participation

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association in cooperation with LOPSA

LISA '14 will take place November 9–14, 2014, in Seattle, WA.

Overview

The LISA conference invites leaders in the IT engineering and operations community to submit proposals that demonstrate the latest tools, techniques, and solutions in their fields. LISA talks should provide attendees with inspiration and actionable ways to apply the knowledge gained at the conference. Immediate takeaways allow attendees to return to work ready to improve IT operations in support of business needs.

Important Dates

  • Submissions due: April 18, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT Deadline Extended
  • Notification to participants: May 25, 2014

Download the Call for Participation PDF

Topics

Topics should advance attendee understanding of the technology and demonstrate how to approach a solution to a current challenge in operations.

Systems Engineering

  • Large scale design challenges
  • Cloud and hybrid cloud deployments
  • Software Defined Networks (SDN)
  • Virtualization
  • HA and HPC Clustering
  • Cost effective, scalable storage
  • Hadoop/Big Data
  • Configuration management

Security

  • Network IDS and IPS
  • Incident management
  • Disaster resilience and mitigation
  • Security testing frameworks
  • Continuous release security
  • Current security challenges

Culture

  • Business communication and capital planning
  • Continuous delivery and product management
  • Distributed and remote worker challenges
  • On-call challenges
  • Standardization to support automation
  • Standards and regulatory compliance

Devops

  • Site reliability engineering
  • Development frameworks for Ops
  • Release engineering
  • API-driven operations
  • Continuous deployment and fault resilience
  • The Ops side of DevOps

Monitoring/Metrics

  • Monitoring, alerting, and logging systems
  • Analytics, interpretation, and application of system data
  • Visualization of system data

Types of proposals we want to see

  • Talk: 40- or 90-minute talk, including time for Q&A
  • Panel: several experts and a moderator discussing the merits, pros and cons, or debating a particular topic
  • Mini-tutorial: 90-minute how-to talk that provides attendees with real-world skills to take back to work and immediately get started in the topic area
  • Tutorial: Half-day, full-day, or multi-day how-to course potentially with interactive components. Interactive may include in-class exercises, small-group breakout sessions, or may take advantage of the LISA lab space.
  • Workshop: Half-day or full-day organizer-led, participation-based sessions with the goal of bringing members of a community together to discuss common interests.
  • Papers and posters: LISA showcases the latest research in refereed papers and posters; see the Call for Papers and Posters for more information and to submit your paper.

Proposals must include the following

  • Proposal Type: talks, panels, mini-tutorials, tutorials, and workshops
  • Title: Should make it obvious what your talk is about
  • Description: Include attendee takeaways and why people want to hear this talk
  • Topic: Please indicate which broad topic category you think this talk addresses (from above): Systems Engineering, Culture, Security, DevOps, Monitoring/Metrics.
  • Speaker bio: Include past public speaking experience, with a URL to past presentations if available
  • Duration: Talk or tutorial length (40 minutes, 90-minutes, ½ day)

Questions?

Contact lisa14chair@usenix.org.