Lightning Talks

Lightning Talk sign up is open. If you are a presenter, you can view our shared Lightning Talks slides presentation here.

This is where orgs showcase their best GSoC contributor work in under 3 minutes.

Lightning talks are brief-but-informative fun presentations about your very best GSoC 2026 contributor outcomes. There are basic guidelines in the first few slides in the slides deck for anyone that hasn't participated before, but one of the most important is to be relatable, interesting, and focus on the exceptional.  Even if all your GSoC contributors were amazing, just tell us about 1 or 2 (at most) that will be understood by a general technical audience. No more than 45 seconds talking about your org; just give some context. 

A few reminders about the lightning talks:

• Only 1 talk per org, please coordinate with other mentors in your org

• Adding in your slides (or your name if you won’t use slides) is your ‘sign up’

• Maximum of 3 minutes for your talk

• Maximum of 4 slides (if you choose to use slides)

• Talks are live.  We will send you an order of speakers in a ‘Know Before You Go’ comms Friday.

• Umbrella orgs will only get a second slot in the afternoon if slots don't fill up.

• Slides submission deadline by EOD Thursday, October 29th

Similar to past in-person Mentor Summits there are 2 sessions on the schedule with room for about 35 speakers.  People from the same orgs, please coordinate.  Umbrellas will only get a second slot in the evening if slots don't fill up.  Slides for your talks will play from the above Google Slides Deck, probably running from Chrome on a Mac laptop.