This spring DataStax kicked off Accelerate, a new conference carrying on the spirit and tradition of the seven Cassandra Summits that we sponsored and organized in the past. We had a great set of talks (check out ungated, full session videos here <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm-EPIkBI3YpJbuKUGDlZVNHzT0umcBSl>) and even more great conversations with an attendance of about a thousand.
Next year's Accelerate <https://www.datastax.com/accelerate> will be May 11-13 in San Diego, and the call for papers is now open! We'd love to hear about your successes, custom extensions, and lessons learned with Apache Cassandra or DataStax. The direct link to submitting a proposal is here <https://sessionize.com/datastax-accelerate-san-diego/>, and more background with suggestions for first-time speakers is here <https://www.datastax.com/blog/2019/11/datastax-accelerate-20-call-papers-now-open> . The CFP closes Jan 22. Hope to hear from you soon! -- Jonathan Ellis co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced
