# EnvoyCon CFP Closes on Friday, August 24, 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Tags:** cncf, envoy\ **Created:** [August 7, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/envoycon-cfp-closes-on-friday-august-24-2018/1402 "2018-08-07T15:31:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kbarnard10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/kbarnard10/32/734_2.png) [@kbarnard10](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/kbarnard10)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/envoycon-cfp-closes-on-friday-august-24-2018/1402/1 "2018-08-07T15:31:40Z")
EnvoyCon is taking place on Monday, December 10, 2018 in conjunction with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. Submit talk proposal here: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aXLVAm1YS66srkoYCMgiu0\_LrxK0ICtkqEpaacsqrWQ/edit](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aXLVAm1YS66srkoYCMgiu0_LrxK0ICtkqEpaacsqrWQ/edit) **Suggested Topics:** We are accepting talk proposals (30 minute talks + 10 minute lightning talks) around the following topics, with experience levels ranging from beginner to expert: - Using and Integrating with Envoy (both within modern “cloud native” stacks such as Kubernetes but also in “legacy” on-prem and IaaS infrastructures) - Envoy in production case studies - Envoy fundamentals and philosophy - Envoy internals and core development - Security (deployment best practices, extensions, integration with authn/authz) - Performance (measurement, optimization, scalability) - APIs, discovery services and configuration pipelines - Monitoring in practice (logging, tracing, stats) - Novel Envoy extensions - Porting Envoy to new platforms - Migrating to Envoy from other proxy & LB technologies - Using machine learning on Envoy observability output to aid in outlier detection and remediation - Load balancing (both distributed and global) and health checking strategies