VMware has requested for “Call for Papers” for the VMworld 2009 held in Moscone Center in San Francisco starting Augst 31st and ending September 3rd. Everyone is able to enter and run a session, if your session is admitted that is. Below you can find some dates as found on the VMworld website:
| April 3rd | Call for Papers closes: all submissions due by midnight PST |
| June 1st | Notification of Acceptance |
| June 19th | First Draft of Presentations due |
| July 17th | Second Draft of Presentations due |
| August 10th | FINAL Presentations due |
| August 31st | DAY ONE of VMworld 2009 |
With the following content criterea:
The Content Committee will be looking for the following criteria as they review, score and make their selections:
Educate attendees; don’t pitch them — Attendees do not like being sold on your company. Be neutral and focus on the educational value of your presentation. the VMworld content committee will reject all sales pitches.
Be original — Attendees are looking for innovative ways to create a virtual environment. Share your unique perspective or story.
Present a timely topic of interest to attendees — Make sure your topic is relevant to the audience you’re targeting.
Know the technical level of your presentation — Attendees will select sessions based on their technical level. The content committee will be choosing a range of technical and business topics. Be sure to accurately designate your submission’s technical level, based on the classification choices provided in the online form.
Content Suitable for Speaker Led Sessions — As usual, the content committee is looking for content that will best represent what VMworld attendees have rated very highly in past conferences. While repeat topics with high ratings are important is it is also important for your submissions to be relevant to the state of virtualization in the industry present day. Speaker led sessions will be selected based on user ratings and relevancy.
Content Suitable for VMworld.com — A new category of acceptance this year will allow the VMworld committee to accept more sessions than usual from the plethora of highly rated content. These sessions will be showcased, like all sessions, on VMworld.com but will not be presenter-led. This will allow the committee to accept more sessions and to place these sessions directly in the hands and on the desktops of paying attendees through VMworld.com, a thriving community of thousands. VMworld.com sessions will be selected based on user rating, relevancy and will be complimentary to speaker-led sessions, giving more opportunities for great content to get into the hands and on the desktops of conference attendees.
Finally, submitting a content means you agree to meet the deadlines associated with the delivery of this content. You can admit your session here.
