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Every year, we take great pleasure in accepting pitches and having community speakers grace our stage. Our community speakers represent a unique opportunity, and our MozCon audience has a lot of love for them.
This year, we'll have four speakers!
The basic details:
- To submit, just fill out the form below.
- Please only submit one talk! We want the one you're most excited about.
- Talks must be about online marketing and are only 15 minutes in length.
- Submissions close on Sunday, June 12th at 5pm PDT.
- Final decisions are final and will be made in late June.
- All presentations must adhere to the MozCon Code of Conduct.
- You must attend MozCon in person, September 12–14 in Seattle.
Everyone who submits a community speaker pitch will be informed either way.
Community speakers get the following:
- 15 minutes on the MozCon stage for a keynote-style presentation, plus 5 minutes of Q&A.
- A free ticket to MozCon. (If you already have one, we'll either refund or transfer the ticket to someone else.)
- Four nights of lodging covered by us at our partner hotel.
- A reimbursement for your travel (flight, train, car, etc.), up to $500 domestic and $750 international.
- A free ticket for you to give to anyone you would like and a code for $300 off another ticket.
- An invitation for you and your significant other to join us for the speakers' dinner.
If you're curious about what the process look like, Zeph Snapp wrote about his experiences as a community speaker.
How do you pick speakers?
We have a small selection committee of Mozzers who review each and every pitch. We start off by reviewing only topics without biographical details, which ensures our first commitment to making sure topics match our audience. Then we look at everything for a holistic view of what you might bring to the stage.
Things to consider for your pitch:
- Read my post on how to prepare for speaking, from pitching to the actual gig.
- Review the topics already being presented on at MozCon to avoid overlap and get inspiration.
- Focus your pitch on online marketing. MozCon is all about actionable information.
- Your pitch is for MozCon organizations, so detail what you're talking about. We need to know the actual tactics you'll be sharing.
- Keep within the word limits of the forms. Tricky submissions — like linking to Google Docs for more words — will be disqualified.
- Do not ask speaker selection committee members to evaluate your pitch before submitting it.
- No amount of lobbying on social media will positively affect your chances at being selected.
- Bonus: make sure to link to a video of you presenting and past slide decks.
Feeling a bit nervous?
Every speaker at MozCon gets direction on topics and reviews of content and slide decks. We work hard to make sure our audience will love your talk. We encourage pitches from speakers of all backgrounds, knowledge levels, and speaking experiences. At MozCon, we believe in diversity of voices and helping grow speakers in their careers.
We're happy to help, including:
- Calls to discuss and refine your topic.
- Assistance honing topic title and description.
- Reviews of outlines and drafts (as many as you want!).
- Best practices and guidance for slide decks, specifically for our stage.
- A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for show flow.
- Serving as an audience for practicing your talk.
- Reviewing your final deck.
- Sunday night pre-MozCon tour of the stage to meet our A/V crew, see your presentation on the screens, and test the clicker.
- A 15-person dedicated crew to make your A/V outstanding.
- Anything else we can do to make you successful!
Please let me know if you have any questions in the comments.
if you dream to talk at MozCon
If you have great actionable things to share
If you want to live the experience of living a top class event from the inside
But if you don't want one day to regret to not have try it: PITCH
And don't worry if you don't have success. I failed twice, but last year I finally was on stage at MozCon
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thank you Gianluca! I just threw my hat in the ring for community speaker and am excited to attend Mozcon this year either way :)
well it may seems too early for me but there is no harm to try luck...just submitted :).
Best of luck! :)
Just made my submission too :) I'm attending MozCon regardless but fingers crossed.
Best of luck all!
Best of luck!
I have applied, I am looking forward to Mozcon and getting the opportunity to speak in front of my peers on such a large stage would be amazing
Best of luck! :)
I just submitted! Very excited for the opportunity to help the Moz community learn even more about amazing marketing messaging. If I don't get selected, I wish those who are chosen the best of luck; it's great that Moz allows this opportunity!
Best of luck! :D
Woohoo! Best of luck. :)
Just submitted - I would love the opportunity to share greatness with your audience. As a past client for many years,, as well as and attendee of you conference. I love what you doing and would love to give back.
Best of luck!
hope for the best
Best of luck to all applicants! This looks great!
A great opportunity for those who can attend. :)
I submitted a pitch to speak at Moz Con, how can I add in additional information to my pitch?. I would be happy to make a presentation about why I would like to speak with some recent events in the range of 300-500 attendees. I will also pay for my own flights from Australia to the US I do not expect Moz to cover that cost.
What a great opportunity to shine in the online marketing community. !!!
I find it a fascinating initiative ! if we can provide some help however small the community , the benefit increases for all participants . I wish you the best of luck to all who have submitted the application. All molehill account !
That's good .............
Hi erica, just a question about "Topic Pitch". is that the more concise summary that you typically see in conference agendas or are you looking for the full gory details for the thing being presented. (eg: experiment #1 we will blah blah blah to figure out if X causes Y, etc.) thanks for clarifying. crossing fingers.
Hi Larry! We're looking for the full gory details on what you'll be presenting on as we need to make sure the deep info is a match for our audience, conference tone, and knowledge levels. Thanks!
The slide deck I would like to submit with my application isn't meant for the whole world to see since it's specific to my current company. Will it only stay within the selection committee?
Yep, all submission information such as email, slide deck links, video links, only stays within the selection committe. We don't do any kind of public voting.
Hi Erica
He looks good ... And the truth is that the offer is very tempting
What a great opportunity to shine in the online marketing community.
This is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing.
Hey Erica. I'm interested in pitching and noticed that you said: "Keep within the word limits of the forms." However I can't see word counts on the form at all. Am I being blind, or have they been accidentally missed-off? Thanks!
It shoots a word count error if you go over. For the pitch, it's 1200 characters. The limit is based on past winning entries.
A-ha - got it. Thanks
Darkside for better service and this kind of speakers should be able to modify the emotions in the home, community or institutional, academic or occupational level .
That's great...