Thank you for your interest in proposing a session for Decoupled Days, the only non-profit, community-led, and volunteer-run conference dedicated to the future of content and commerce architectures! We can't do this without your content, so we appreciate the time and effort you spend in crafting every proposal.

This call for presentations is for the seventh edition of Decoupled Days, to take place in person at Hotel Andaluz in Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 16–17, 2023. We're looking for 25- and 50-minute sessions which deal with topics in the following five tracks:

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• The Traditional Content and Commerce track will cover the use of traditional or monolithic content and commerce systems (e.g. Drupal, WordPress, WooCommerce, Hybris, Magento) as a content service and the range of architectures in decoupling traditional or monolithic CMSs. Topics include Drupal web services (e.g. JSON:API and GraphQL in Drupal, WP-API and WPGraphQL in WordPress), recommended architectures and frameworks, techniques, and the surrounding decoupled Drupal and headless WordPress ecosystems (e.g. Contenta, WPGraphQL, Decoupled Menus Initiative).

• The Headless Content and Commerce track will cover decoupled and headless content and commerce technologies. Topics include web services (e.g. GraphQL, REST APIs), headless CMS (Contentful, Prismic, Sanity, GraphCMS, Strapi, etc.), headless commerce systems (commercetools, etc.) and other decoupled or headless architectures and tools (e.g. Apollo). For Drupal and WordPress topics, see the Traditional CMS track.

• The JavaScript and Jamstack track will cover modern JavaScript and its use in decoupled CMS architectures. Topics include universal JavaScript, server-side rendering, Node.js and ES2022 techniques, frameworks and libraries (e.g. React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte), static site generators (e.g. Gatsby, Gridsome, Hugo), Jamstack architectures and hosting (e.g. Netlify, Vercel), and other JavaScript technologies (e.g. TypeScript).

• The People and Community track will cover the personal and community dimensions of headless content and commerce, including issues of equity, justice, inclusion, accessibility, and mental health. Topics include diversity, equity, inclusion, decolonization, accessibility, culture and ethics, governance, codes of conduct, and event organizing. Other topics include health and well-being, personal and professional growth, and empathy and communication.

• The Business/CXO track will cover headless content and commerce in the business, consultancy, and client landscape. Topics include case studies of successful implementations, buyer personas, sales and marketing in decoupled CMS, building and scaling your decoupled CMS business, agency and consultancy operations, client and stakeholder decision-making, and business strategy and innovation.

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Decoupled Days believes in an inclusive conference and speaker lineup. We particularly encourage members of underrepresented groups, such as women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, trans and GNC folx, disabled people, veterans, neurodivergent people, and economically disadvantaged people, to submit proposals.

Decoupled Days 2023 will be devoting at least 50% of all accepted sessions to speakers of underrepresented groups and 10% of all accepted sessions to first-time speakers. Please indicate anything you would like to note in the Inclusion section of this form.

The deadline for session submissions has has been extended to ***FRIDAY, May 12, 2023 at 11:59pm PDT.***

Note: If you already have slides you would like us to review, please e-mail them to decoupleddays [at] gmail [dot] com.