Call for Proposals

We Appreciate You

Thank you so much for your interest in submitting a speak at SquiggleConf 2025! This page is a general guide for what you can expect in submitting, including tips for what we're looking for.

CFP Highlights

• 📆 Deadline: We are accepting submissions through May 23rd. You'll hear from us by June 9th.
• 🤝 Acceptance: If we accept your talk, we'll ask you to confirm within 7 days of hearing from us.
• ❤️ Experience: Speakers of all experience levels, including first-timers, are encouraged to apply.
• 👍 Expectations: Giving us a remote dry run of a rough draft of your talk the week before the conference.

Conference Details

• 🗺️ Time & Place: Thursday & Friday September 18th & 19th in Boston, Massachusetts. The Simons Theater at the New England Aquarium, right on the ocean coastline in the very center of downtown Boston.
• 🗣️ Format: In-person, either a 30 minute talk + 5 minutes for audience questions, or a 10 minute lightning talk.
• ✈️ Covered: We can cover travel and accommodations for speakers, though we have a limited budget and prefer companies to pay if possible. We can work with you.

CFP Timeline

We will respond to every talk proposal submitted.

• March 3rd: CFP opens
• May 23rd: CFP closes
• June 9th: All CFP submitters will have heard back from us

If we accept your submission, we will expect you to accept or reject our invitation within a week of hearing from us.

We will create a "marketing title" for your talk with you that will be used to advertise your talk. There may be a completely different title used for the YouTube video.

Speaker Expectations

Speakers will receive information regarding a speaker/sponsor dinner, a speakers-only private event, opportunities to hang out during the conference, and any volunteer needs.

• We require a dry run of a final draft of your presentation the week before the conference. This will help us check talks for accessibility best practices.
• September 5th: Deadline for RSVPing to the speaker+sponsor dinner and speaker+organizer activity
• October 10th: Deadline to submit travel receipts for reimbursement

Tips and Tricks

We suggest reading this CFP help guide for an overview of how to submit to a CFP.

Asking for Help

We're always happy to give advice and generally help in submitting to the CFP! There are no "dumb" questions.

Please don't hesitate to reach out to cfp@squiggleconf.com or on Discord in the #cfp-questions channel.

Timing

We don't factor in how early or late a CFP is submitted. We recommend not procrastinating until the last minute, so you don't forget to submit.

Topic Suggestions

We plan on including at least one talk in each of the following categories:

• Accessibility: the accessibility tree, WCAG, web accessibility
• Building: CLI tools, deployments, monorepo management
• Documentation: Writing docs, tools to manage and/or share them, explaining code
• Editors: Tools such as IDEs along with integrations and plugins built on them
• Go and/or Zig: Using the popular low-level languages for web development and/or tooling
• Open Source: The making, maintenance, release, and socialization of shared software
• Performance: Enhancing performance of apps, sites, or any web dev tools
• Runtimes: Execution environments such as Bun, Deno, and Node.js
• Rust: Working in Rust for the purposes of web dev apps and/or tooling
• Testing: The art of verifying code, or building tools to help developers test
• Tooling: Debuggers, integrations, and general dev tools themselves
• TypeScript: Integrating, working with, or even contributing to our favorite JS superset
• WebAssembly: Tooling or usage of WebAssembly/WASI/WASM
• Other: Something fun or incredible. We love off-the-beaten-tail fun things.

We don't plan to emphasize the following subjects:

• AI: We absolutely welcome AI being in your talk, but the primary topic(s) should be centered on a dev tooling category such as one our suggested ones.
• Blockchain/Crypto/NFTs: We doubt these will be applicable and useful, but we are open minded and welcome you to make your case.