HashiTalks 2025: 24-hours of virtual knowledge sharing

Our 24-hour virtual knowledge sharing event, HashiTalks, returns on Thursday, February 20, 2025, and the call for proposals is now open. Join us as experts from the community share how they use HashiCorp tools to codify their infrastructure, secure their data, and deploy their applications both on-premises and to the cloud.

»What is HashiTalks?

HashiTalks is an annual HashiCorp User Group (HUG) virtual event that follows the sun around the world. It is produced and facilitated by the HashiCorp Community team. We hosted our first HashiTalks in February 2019 as a 24-hour event and since then we have watched community engagement in the event grow across the globe. Attending HashiTalks is an excellent way to engage with our community, learning from international speakers presenting in their local time zones. Viewers have the opportunity to engage live in chat and interact with key community leaders who participate as emcees throughout the event.

The 24-hour HashiTalks event will be held in English with the support of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters. We also hold several regional events throughout the year in local languages. In 2024, we produced HashiTalks in 8 geographic regions and 7 languages (you can watch those livestreams on the Live section of our YouTube channel). In addition to our annual 24-hour event and the regional events, we also produced themed events specifically for builders within our ecosystem and security engineers.

»Submit to the call for proposals

The HashiTalks call for proposals (CFP) is open to the community. We are looking for 30-minute talks including:

• Unique use cases
• Technical presentations
• Culture talks
• Demos featuring HashiCorp community edition, cloud, and enterprise tooling

HashiTalks is an excellent platform for first-time speakers, as we offer extensive support and coaching. Bring your story about how you use one or more of our tools and we will help you share it. The CFP is scheduled to close December 1, 2024.

If you’re looking for a subject to address, these topic ideas are of special interest:

• Terraform testing
• KubeNomad: How to run Kubernetes on Nomad
• AWSCC documentation with the help of GenAI
• AWS IAM roles anywhere via HashiCorp Vault
• Navigating multi-cloud challenges and solutions
• How HashiCorp does community management
• Streamlining compliance
• DevSecOps in action
• Elevating security
• Organizational impacts of DevOps and infrastructure as code

»Empowering new speakers

HashiTalks are concise, 30-minute speaking slots presented from the comfort of the speaker’s self-selected “stage.” Speakers livestream into the event to give talks from their home offices or living rooms. HashiTalks are intended to be a safe space, and HashiCorp’s community guidelines and principles help ensure that all participants are welcome.

Everyone who makes an effort to submit to the HashiTalks CFP is encouraged to use the pre-recorded series of speaker-enablement sessions with industry leader and QCon conference chair Wesley Reisz as a resource to develop your talk. We aim to consistently empower anyone who has expressed interest in giving talks by providing opportunities to learn and improve their skills.

Talks given at HashiTalks will be recorded and posted as individual videos within a YouTube playlist for self-paced, on-demand viewing and to act as a point of reference for use cases from the community.

Attendees are encouraged to ask questions in real time using YouTube’s chat feature while talks are in progress. Speakers are encouraged to hang out after their talks to answer questions, gather feedback, and interact.

»Join us in February 2025

Register for HashiTalks to stay up to date on the schedule of speakers and be eligible to win giveaways as we approach the day of the livestream. Of course, everyone is free to join the day of, sans registration. If you have an idea for a talk you would like to share, be sure to submit your idea to the CFP by Sunday, December 1, 2024!

Busy on the day of HashiTalks? You can join more than 50,000 HashiCorp users through our HUG program, get involved with your local chapter and review HashiTalks 2025 when all of the talks are posted to YouTube. If you are interested in starting your own HUG chapter or would like an introduction to your local organizers, reach out to us at: hugs@hashicorp.com.