TrustCon 2024 Call for Proposals

A lightning talk is a brief presentation (5-7 minutes) accompanied by slides. Lightning talks are great opportunities to celebrate a success, share a new idea, or get feedback on early work. You can also use a lightning talk to introduce yourself and talk about your T&S journey. All TrustCon 2024 lightning talks should be focused on some aspect of trust and safety.

Successful lightning talks usually consist of 1-3 key ideas and/or takeaways and feature slides with images rather than text. Think of this submission type as an opportunity to share a short, illustrated story with the community!

Important notes:

• Only one speaker will be accepted per lightning talk; we will not accept lightning talks with co-presenters.
• If your lightning talk is accepted, you will be required to send your slides to TSPA prior to the conference.

A panel is a 50-minute thematic session consisting of 3-4 panelists and facilitated by a moderator. With this submission type, you have two options:

• Propose a full panel. When submitting a full panel, you must provide the theme/topic, possible questions to be asked and discussed, the name of the moderator, and the names of the panelists. You may list yourself as either the organizer and/or moderator or panelist.
• Propose to be a single panelist. When submitting to be a panelist, you must provide a range of themes/topics to which you are willing to speak.

Panels are great opportunities to investigate a topic from different points of view. Successful panels require a strong moderator who can facilitate conversation and ask succinct questions. Successful panels also require panelists who are willing to engage openly, honestly, and respectfully with one another—especially when they disagree.

Important notes:

• If your proposed panel is accepted, you (the person who submits the proposal) are considered the panel organizer and will be responsible for communicating important information (i.e., registration requirements, deadlines) to and scheduling all meetings with your panelists.
• We will prioritize panel submissions that are intentionally inclusive of different lived and professional experiences, races, ethnicities, ages, genders, disabilities, economic statuses, and other diverse backgrounds. We reserve the right to add panelists to a session to ensure inclusivity and representation.
• All single panelist proposals will be waitlisted automatically. If there are panels that need panelists, the Program Committee will consult the single panelist waitlist to see if there is an appropriate fit with regard to themes/topics and then contact you before June 1, 2024. If you are not contacted on or before June 1, 2024, this means your single panelist proposal has not been accepted.

A presentation is a 20-minute talk that may or may not be accompanied by slides. Presentations are great opportunities to share current work, lessons learned, or how you and your team have built a product, service, policy, or organization. You may also want to present research you and your team have recently completed and/or published. Each presentation will be followed by time for Q&A.

Successful presentations are well-organized and rehearsed with explicit key points and take-aways.

Important notes:

• Only one speaker will be accepted per presentation; we will not accept presentations with co-presenters.

A workshop is a 90 or 120-minute hands-on session focused on a specific audience and with specific goals in mind. For example, you may want to plan and facilitate a workshop for trust and safety managers about how to provide online and offline security for their frontline employees.

Successful workshops engage participants in collaborative work, meet predetermined goals, and generally result in an artifact of some kind (i.e., shared notes, a template, a set of preliminary evaluation metrics).

With this submission type, you will be asked to indicate the goals and outcomes of the proposed workshop, the proposed format and/or schedule of activities, the ideal number of participants for your workshop, and how the workshop will contribute to the trust and safety community.

Important notes:

• We will accept up to two speakers per proposed workshop (that is, we are accepting co-facilitators for workshop sessions).
• TSPA will provide workshop supplies such as pens, sticky notes, whiteboards, and whiteboard markers. If your proposal is accepted and you need additional supplies, you will need to provide those yourself.
• If you want to provide pre-work for your workshop, you will need to include a description in your proposal. You’ll also need to make all pre-work (for example, readings) available to potential participants during workshop registration.