CALL FOR PROPOSALS

From 19 to 20 November 2025, and with Workshops on 18th, CLC (Continuous Lifecycle/ContainerConf) will be held again in Mannheim. The conference is aimed at developers, software architects, DevOps engineers, platform teams, administrators, project managers and IT strategists.

CLC will provide participants a complete look on all aspects of the software lifecycle, focussing on processes and tools for Continuous Delivery and DevOps – including DevSecOps and GitOps – as well as most popular topics like Platform Engineering / Operations and Developer Experience as well as GenAI. CLC will also provide them with the basics and essential aspects of the popular container technologies and familiarize them with the most important processes and tools for delivering high-quality software not only based on containers, Kubernetes and their increasingly larger ecosystem.

Until April 27, 2025 the program comittee of CLC is looking for proposals for talks (40 minutes) and all-day workshops (6 to 7 hours). The following list gives you some pointers for suitable topics. You are, of course, free to suggest topics that go beyond these. The program advisory board is particularly looking forward to talks that also highlight the possibilities of GenAI in the context of the CLC.

The following list is intended as a guide only.

Developer Experience

• Developer Tooling with AI
• Versioning
• Build
• Review and Testing
• Continuous/Progressive Delivery and Continuous Integration
• Quality Assurance during the complete development lifecycle
• ...

Platform Engineering / Operations

• Platform Automation with AI agents
• Lifecycle management of AI workloads for both Model generation and AI Agents
• AIOPs, GitOps, FinOps...
• Deployment
• Infrastructure as Code
• Containerization / Container Runtimes
• Container Orchestration / Kubernetes
• Operator and Custom Controllers
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Configurations Management
• ...

Security

• Software Bills of Material (SBOM)
• Code Signing
• Image Scanning
• Anomaly Detection
• Policy Enforcement
• Secrets Management
• Container Security
• ...

Observability

• Logging
• Tracing
• Monitoring
• Visualisations
• ...

Connectivity

• Service Meshes
• Service Discovery
• Container Network Interface
• ...

Culture

• Developer Platform -> Developer Experience
• DevOps
• DevSecOps
• Distributed Teams / Remote Work
• Team Topologies
• Lessons learned during transition to DevOps, DevSecOps or GitOps
• Organisational effects of DevOps and CD
• ...

The main focus is on practical introductions, conceptual considerations, live demos or comparisons of different approaches, not just product presentations. We would like to receive lectures of 40 minutes or tutorials (6 to 7 hours).

The program committee asks for your submission abstracts (approx. 400 to 700 characters) until April 27, 2025. Additional material supporting the application (long abstracts, slides, essays, etc.) is also welcome.

The conference program is expected to be published beginning of June .

Accepted speakers will be reimbursed for the costs of travel to and from the conference on a 2nd class rail ticket within Germany as well as a flat-rate accommodation allowance. As a speaker you also have free admission to all conference presentations. Workshop trainers will receive additional financial compensation. Speakers who would have to fly in from abroad should contact the organizers in advance regarding travel funding.

Please submit your suggestions via our online form.