Our Style

Are you ready for the challenge of speaking at Canada’s most practical web professionals conference? Yes? Good! let’s get started!

Speaking at Full Stack Toronto events is a unique experience. We ask for content that fits into our hybrid session model, free of commercial content, relevant to current best practices and future ready!

Hybrid Sessions

To meet the hybrid session model your talk must adhere to the following:

• Be 30 minutes in length
• Followed by 10 minutes of Q&A
• Overview of a web concept
• A deep dive into a part of that concept like a demo, code, or case study
• Give attendees practical takeaways
• Follow our Code of Conduct
• Free of commercial content, no in-depths of paid products or services, no promoting your employer

What you get

All speakers at #fstoco will be paid a base honorarium of $500CAD, we will then reimburse you for travel and lodging expenses in Canadian Dollars up to a certain amount based on your geographical region. You must provide all receipts and an invoice within 30 days of the end of the event in order to be reimbursed.

We are fully invested in increasing the diversity at our events, we grant a 10% bonus over the base compensation to every speaker coming from typically underrepresented demographics.

Who Should Submit?

You, yes you, no matter what, you can be a tech speaker! We encourage everyone who has an idea for a talk to submit, we will help you every step of the way to make it great, even making your submission better before we send it through our review process. We encourage underrepresented demographics to submit as well, we have and enforce a code of conduct to protect you and our attendees, and we have high standards for the type of content that is accepted in talks with our non-commercial policy and guidelines for creating a great talk.

Pay Structure

Here is an outline of how we plan to pay our speakers. We know that some organizations don’t allow for you to be paid to speak, and we know that some organizations are open to paying their employees way to speak at our events. If you fall into one of these categories, or would like to willfully decline compensation we will offer your company name recognition on our site as a speaker sponsor

Full Stack Toronto is a non-profit organization that operates on a cost recovery basis, if you can help us reduce costs by volunteering your speaking time and declining compensation it helps us immensely. We offer logo placement for your company when they help pay your way.