# Protocol Berg: Call for Participation

Source: https://cfp.protocol.berlin/protocol-berg-v2/cfp
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## Summary

Protocol Berg v2 has opened submissions for talk and workshop proposals, aiming to bring distributed technology ecosystems together to exchange concepts and technology. The event excludes marketing-focused talks, product presentations, token shilling, and consulting or services content, while presenting a particular technology within a technical discussion is welcome. Proposals should fit one of six tracks: Networking, Storage, Consensus, Cryptography, Infrastructure, and Philosophy. Available formats are short presentations (10 min), standard presentations (25 min), standard workshops (40 min), and extended workshops (85 min).

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Protocol Berg v2 - Call for Participation

Submissions for talk and workshop proposals for Protocol Berg v2 are now open!

This event aims to bring distributed technology ecosystems together to exchange concepts and technology and learn from each other.

⚠️ Marketing-focused talks or product presentations are out of scope for Protocol Berg v2.

⛔ We do not accept any token shilling, consulting/services or other product-related content on stage.

✅ Presenting a particular technology as part of a technical discussion is welcome.

🪷 Ask yourself: If you were in the audience, would you find your talk/workshop interesting, helpful, informational, and relevant?

📚 If you consider submitting a short paper, it will be published in the conference booklet.

Talk and workshop content should align with one of our tracks:

Networking: communication, peer-to-peer, decentralization, federation

Storage: reliability, availability, durability, recovery, incentives, resilience

Consensus: validation concepts, fork choice, finality considerations, virtual machines, programming languages

Cryptography: key management, zero-knowledge technologies, hash functions, encryption, security, privacy

Infrastructure: distributed clusters, testing and testnet infrastructure, blockchain system operations, orchestration

Philosophy: vision, debate, politics, governance, coordination, open-source

Available Session Types:

Presentation: Short (10 min)

Presentation: Standard (25 min)

Workshop: Standard (40 min)

Workshop: Extended (85 min)

To learn more about the concept of Protocol Berg please visit protocol.berlin.

Submissions closed on 2025-03-19 18:59 (Europe/Berlin).