"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Information from LISA helps us push the envelope on automation and scaling, allowing a team of four to manage over 3000 Firefox build and test systems running 15 different operating systems."
Amy Rich, Manager of Release Engineering Operations at Mozilla
"LISA is where I find direction for evolving the my core professional skills."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"I use LISA to benchmark the SA activities in my company."
LISA '13 Attendee
"I keep coming back for the technical content and the personal networking opportunities. I attend for career development."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is the place where industry best practices and cutting-edge research come together to advance system administration."
Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University
"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
This page is for those who will be presenting material at LISA14. If you wish to submit a paper or deliver a talk at another upcoming USENIX event, please see the Conferences page to select the conference in which you're interested.
If you need an invitation letter to apply for a visa to attend the conference, please contact conference@usenix.org. Please identify yourself as a presenter and include your mailing address in your email.
Problems
Questions? Please don't hesitate to contact Michele Nelson: michele@usenix.org.
If you find yourself in dire straits, please contact your Program Chair, Nicole Forsgren Velasquez: lisa14chair@usenix.org.
Invited Talk presenters, panelists, Keynote and Plenary speakers, see your instructions below.
Instructions for Authors of Refereed Papers
A printable PDF of your paper, 8–18 pages in length, including diagrams, figures, references, and appendices, along with consent forms with the signature of each author, is due on or before Tuesday, August 19, 2014.
Upload your final paper to the Web submissions system by August 19, 2014. If you have questions, please contact Michele Nelson, michele@usenix.org.
Important: Please print and sign the LISA14 Consent Form for Refereed Papers and return it to us via email at consent@usenix.org, fax at 510-528-8649, or US mail to Publications Department, USENIX Association, 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215, Berkeley, CA 94710. Please note that all authors must provide a signature. Everyone may sign the same form, or forms can be submitted individually, but we must have a signature from every author of a paper.
Download templates for LaTeX or Word from the Templates page.
Registration materials will be online soon. You will be contacted by the Conference Department with registration information. Please note: If the conference registration poses a hardship for the presenter of the refereed paper, please contact conference@usenix.org.
All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on the first day of the conference, November 9, 2014.
In order to make your paper presentation available on the USENIX Web site immediately after the conference, please email your electronic files to slides@usenix.org immediately after your presentation.
Instructions for Authors of Posters
Your poster abstract (500 words or less) will be published in the LISA14 Proceedings and your research site will be linked off the conference page. Please note: Full posters will be presented in person during the poster session at the conference and will not be included in the Proceedings or on the Web site. Please see the Instructions for Presenters for more information.
Important: Please print and sign the LISA14 Consent Form for Poster Abstracts and return it to us via email at consent@usenix.org, fax at 510-528-8649, or US mail to Publications Department, USENIX Association, 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215, Berkeley, CA 94710. Please note that all authors must provide a signature. Everyone may sign the same form, or forms can be submitted individually, but we must have a signature from every author of a paper.
Instructions for Invited Talk presenters, panelists, and Keynote and Plenary speakers
The USENIX Conference Department will contact you with instructions for registering online. We will provide the following equipment:
1 LCD projector
1 screen
1 wired Lavalier microphone
Cables and extension cords
Please note: laptops are not provided; if you will be unable to bring a laptop, please contact the Conference Department to arrange to borrow one. If you wish to discuss any special A/V needs, please contact the Conference Department via email at conference@usenix.org or via phone at 510-528-8649.
Important: Please print and sign the LISA14 Consent Form for Invited Speakers and return it to us via email at consent@usenix.org, fax at 510-528-8649, or US mail to Publications Department, USENIX Association, 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215, Berkeley, CA 94710.
In order to make your talk available on the USENIX Web site immediately after the conference, please email your electronic files to slides@usenix.org immediately after your presentation.
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