The OpenStack Summit is happening from May 18-22^ndin Vancouver, with sessions submitted and chosen for the community, by the community!

What interests you when it comes to OpenStack? Do you need a deep dive in a particular project? Are you wondering if the economics make sense? Are you trying to figure out how to create a product or service based on or powered by OpenStack?

In the OpenStack community, the members drive the agenda. If you're a Foundation member-and especially if you're attending-step up! It's time to vote for speakers for the Vancouver Summit! The polls opened last week, but they're closing soon: on 2/23 at 5:00 PM Central time.

This handy link will take you to the main Foundation voting page, where you can see ALL of the sessions that have been proposed. If you'd like to avoid sifting through the 1,000+ submissions there though, check out the links below. They will take you straight to the talks submitted by my clever colleagues at Cisco, who are some of the most skilled OpenStack pros on the planet. (#justsayin)

Do you have a talk we should know about? Leave it in the comments or tweet me @aliamagasu.

Happy voting, and see you in Vancouver!

Networking

Highly Available, Performant, VXLAN Service Node

Scaling Neutron with ML2 Hierarchical Networks

DON: Diagnosing OVS in Neutron

Network Design Considerations for OpenStack Neutron Deployments

A network solution for scalable, performant and highly available OpenStack clouds

Neutron extension framework overview and use cases

Addressing DHCP and DNS Scalability: A dnsmasq Alternative

Complex scenario tests for IPv6

The State of IPv6: Are We There Yet?

Cloud VPNs in OpenStack

Neutron mitosis and the L4-7 services roadmaps

Providing Rich Network Services in a Federated OpenStack Public Cloud

A new IPv6 based approach for simple, transparent, scalable OpenStack Networks

NFV Workloads on Trusted Cloud Infrastructure

OpenStack for NFV -A deployment case-study

Network Virtualization Overlay Showdown moderated by 451 Chief Analyst Eric Hanselman

Scaling Neutron with ML2 Hierarchical Networks

BrainStorm -Artificial Neural Networks as a Service

Model for seamless mobility of network services across different types of cloud backends

Optimizing Your OpenStack Data Plane for Performance and Scale

OpenStack integration with Cisco Technologies

Operations/Monitoring/Deployment/Security

Demystifying Logs in OpenStack Clouds

Want total visibility? That's expensive: Winning the cost-insight tradeoff.

The other side of Horizon -An Operator-focused OpenStack visualization dashboard

OK, so what the heck is going on in my OpenStack Cloud Deployment now...?

Understanding Cloud Operations by Crunching Boat Loads of Metrics

Understanding OpenStack (Monasca/Ceilometer) metrics with SQL over streams

The Tale of Two Sorcerers Journey into Accomplishing the Unthinkable: OpenStack Upgrades

How to rapidly migrate virtualized enterprise workloads to an OpenStack cloud environment

Things That Go Bump in the Night: Protecting your Cloud from GHOSTS and Other Exploits

High Availability and Resiliency Testing Strategies for OpenStack Clouds

Stabilizing the Jenga Tower: Scaling out Ceilometer

Self-Driving Storage for OpenStack

Community

Building the Cloud Community: How to Produce a Successful OpenStack Meetup

Crafting Unforgettable Events & Meetups for Developers

OpenStack Product Management Strategies [PANEL]

Insights and Use Cases

Are You Ready for OpenStack?

OpenStack for Users of VMware: What You Need to Know

OpenStack Research Study: User Experience

What's Next in OpenStack: A Glimpse at the Roadmap

Policy, Orchestration, Containers, and Projects

PlaceWise: A smart (multi-) cloud resource placement recommendation engine and service

Troviso: Real-time DBaaS for Trove

Cognitive: Machine Learning as a Service for OpenStack

Surge -deploying and scaling data stream processing pipelines on OpenStack

Panel: Defining Policy Frameworks for OpenStack

Meta-data Driven Cloud -Running OpenStack @ Scale Using a Policy Framework (Intel)

Group Based Policy Hands-on Lab

Data-driven Optimized Cloud Resource Placements and Rebalancing

TriggerWise: A policy-driven triggering engine and generalized action executor service