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Type of submission: conference talk

Your topic or project: Platform engineering at scale: how we cut deploy times 80% across 400 services

Region or online (optional): Europe or virtual

Constraints such as max fee or eligibility (optional): no entry fees over $50; first-time directors

Six open European CFPs fit a platform engineering talk; KubeCon EU closes first, on 11 October 2026

Read as: "first-time directors" is read as first-time speakers (a talk has no director), so calls that welcome newcomers are favoured. "No entry fees over $50" is applied to submission fees; none of the calls below states a fee to submit.

6 calls qualified. The nearest deadline is 2026-10-11 (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2027, 23:59 CEST, six days from today, 2026-10-05).

# Call / event Type Dates and location Submission deadline Entry fee Eligibility (cited) What they want (cited) Perks Fit note Submission link
1 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2027 talk 15 to 18 March 2027, Barcelona, Spain 2026-10-11 23:59 CEST, UTC+2 (verified on organizer page) not stated (no submission fee mentioned) Maximum 3 proposals per speaker; first-time submitters strongly encouraged; not selected if you presented at a Linux Foundation event in the past year Tracks "Platform Engineering: DevEx & IDPs" and "Platform Engineering: Infrastructure & Delivery"; 30-minute session, panel, lightning, poster or 80-minute tutorial; no vendor pitches Complimentary pass per accepted speaker; travel not stated Strongest topic fit (delivery pipelines track); most competitive and closes soonest. Notifications 7 December. Sessionize form
2 Platform Engineering Day, KubeCon EU 2027 (CNCF co-located event) talk 15 March 2027, Barcelona, Spain 2026-10-18 23:59 CEST, UTC+2 (verified on organizer page) not stated First-timers encouraged; no vendor pitches Topics include platform engineering case study, platform adoption stories, developer experience, measuring platform success; 25-minute solo or dual talk, 35-minute panel, 10-minute lightning Complimentary All-Access in-person ticket for accepted speakers; travel not stated Best match: a case-study event on exactly this theme. Same CFP covers ArgoCon, BackstageCon, FluxCon and others. Notifications 14 December. Sessionize form
3 DevOpsDays Zurich 2027 talk 14 to 15 April 2027, Winterthur, Switzerland 2026-12-31 23:59 (time zone not stated on page text; verified on organizer page; opened 2026-10-01) Free for speakers; no submission fee stated Welcomes first talks ever; no pure vendor talks; fresh content preferred; maximum 2 proposals Topics include platform engineering and DevOps at scale; 25-minute talk plus 5 minutes Q&A, 5-minute Ignite or workshop Event fee free for speakers; honorarium and travel not stated Strong fit and newcomer-friendly, with the longest runway of the six. Sessionize form
4 Cloud Native Summit 2027 talk 14 to 15 June 2027, Munich, Germany 2027-02-28 (12:00 AM; time zone not stated; verified on organizer page; opened 2026-09-13) Free for speakers; no submission fee stated First-time speakers strongly encouraged; no sales pitches Kubernetes and platform engineering community event No compensation or accommodation Good fit and newcomer-friendly, but no travel support. Sessionize form
5 DevOpsDays Geneva 2027 (8th edition) talk Event dates not stated on page; Geneva, Switzerland 2027-02-07 (time zone not stated; verified on organizer page; selections announced 2027-02-17) not stated No commercial aspect; no vendor pitches Topics and formats not confirmed in my notes not stated Likely fit as a DevOps community event (inferred from the DevOpsDays format); verify themes before submitting. Geneva CFP form
6 DDD Europe 2027 talk 3 to 4 June 2027; Amsterdam per an aggregator list (not seen on organizer page) 2027-01-16 (time zone not stated; verified on organizer page) not stated Not stated beyond the CFP page Software modelling and design topics; case studies and experience reports welcome Pays travel, accommodation, childcare and conference access Partial fit: the talk would need a domain-design or team-structure angle. Best perks of the six. Sessionize form

Near misses

Do next

  1. Decide on KubeCon EU today. It closes 2026-10-11. Prepare one case-study abstract (80% deploy-time cut, 400 services, what you changed) aimed at the delivery track.
  2. Reuse that abstract for Platform Engineering Day (2026-10-18). Check whether you spoke at a Linux Foundation event in the past year, which the KubeCon rules count against you.
  3. Check Conf42 now to see whether its CFP is still open.
  4. Submit to DevOpsDays Zurich and Cloud Native Summit with a shorter 25-minute version; both welcome newcomers and need no vendor pitch.
  5. Confirm Geneva's themes and event dates before the 2027-02-07 deadline.

Coverage

Not reached or not verified: papercall.io (returned an error; an aggregator reports it shut down on 31 August 2026), the cfp.ninja portal (did not render), devopsproeurope.eu (403), and the QCon, SREcon, NDC, Devoxx and GOTO CFP pages. Aggregators are used only where marked. Confirm all rules and deadlines with the organizer before submitting.

Sources

All pages accessed 2026-10-05 (the aggregator page is dated 2026-09-20).