Speaker Form

Speaker Rules

Duration: Presentations will be 20 min in length.

Presentations: The content of every presentation must be in compliance with copyright law. Speakers must inform Macstock organizers beforehand of any third-party material that will be used in their presentations and seek written permissions to copyrighted materials when applicable. Macstock cannot assist with this process or act as a consultant on individual cases.

Speakers MAY: record audio and/or video of their presentation(s) and use those recordings in any way the speaker sees fit. Macstock does not assume copyright (ownership) of materials presented by its speakers.

Speaker Release: All Macstock speakers and other stage presenters must complete this agreement / release form, giving Macstock the right to edit and distribute audio and/or video of their presentation with proper attribution given to the speaker within the introduction, titles, or credits of the audio and/or video recording.

Content: If talks violate the guidelines below, we reserve the right to insist on their removal from Macstock branded distribution outlets.
1) No commercial agenda. Speakers should not promote their own products, books, or businesses or those of a company which employs them. The only exception is where they have specifically been invited to give a product demonstration, or to describe the ideas in their book, and here the focus should still be on the technology and/or the ideas.
2) No talks with an inflammatory political or religious agenda, nor for polarizing “us vs them” language. We seek to build consensus and provide outside-the-box thinking, not to revisit familiar, unresolvable disputes on these topics.
3) No discrimination on the basis of economic or social status, race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, or disability.
4) No incitement to violence or promotion of hate.
5) No spammers.
6) No jerks – as determined by Macstock organizers and volunteers.

Payment: Macstock Conference & Expo (“Macstock”) does not pay its speakers. Macstock speakers receive a complimentary full registration, but hotel, airfare and travel expenses are not covered.

Sponsors: Sponsors have no editorial control or veto power over Macstock speakers.