Interested in speaking at a future All Things Open event? You’re in the right place.

Take a look at the events we host below and submit a talk for consideration. Speaking is a great way to gain significant exposure to a large and sophisticated tech/open source audience. And although we can’t guarantee your talk will be chosen, we can guarantee we’ll review it right away and give it the utmost consideration.  We genuinely appreciate and respect everyone willing to submit talks for consideration and share their expertise. We are truly grateful.

Contact us anytime at info@allthingsopen.org with questions. 

We hope to host you soon.

All Things Open 2025

Our annual marque conference held every October in downtown Raleigh, NC. Thousands of technologists from around the world attend and participate. The 2025 event will take place October 12-14.

*Note, the call-for-papers (CFP) will open early in 2025.

Open Source 101

Our annual spring one-day conference featuring introductory-intermediate level content. Designed as an on-ramp into the open source space for those looking to contribute, consume and generally navigate effectively.

*Note, the 2023 conference took place Thursday, March 23, 2023 in downtown Charlotte, NC USA. Although this year’s event is past, we encourage you to check out the past CFP page for details and guidance and sign up for the mailing list for updates.

Open Source Research Triangle Park (RTP) Meetup

The Research Triangle Park (RTP) Open Source user group has 3,000+ members, meets regularly, and hosts some of the top speakers in the region. It is one of the largest and most active technology meetups in North Carolina. Attendance averages 75-100+ and while the majority are technologists, the audience includes community leaders and education attendees (students, professors, college IT staffs) from local colleges and universities.

Open Source South Carolina (OSSC) Meetup

The Open Source South Carolina user group has nearly 1,500 members from SC, NC and GA, meets regularly, and hosts some of the top speakers in the region. It is one of the largest and most active technology meetups in SC. Attendance averages 50 – 100+ (depending on event format – meetup, all-day training workshops, etc.) and while the majority are technologists, the audience includes community leaders and education attendees (students, professors, college IT staffs) from local colleges and universities.

Open Source Charlotte Meetup

We just launched this meetup and there are already 200+ members, and it’s growing quickly! Charlotte is North Carolina’s most populous city and the tech environment is large and sophisticated. Nearly 50 technologists attended the first meetup on January 26, 2023, and we expect many more for at future events. Meetups will be hosted monthly moving forward and will be marketed heavily in the Charlotte area and to the All Things Open community.