IDUG Speaker Code of Conduct

1. All presentations must be strongly technical in nature, cannot contain marketing content, and must support and strengthen the information services community by providing the highest quality education and services designed to promote the effective utilization of Db2 and it’s family of products. 

2. Don't sell! IDUG presentations are of a technical nature on a specific subject. Session moderator has authority to stop any presentation should the speaker begin to "sell" products or services. Giveaways are not allowed. Failure to abide by this will result in speaker being ineligible for any speaker awards and ineligible to speak at future IDUG conferences for a period of 1 (one) year. 

3. All presentations shall be uploaded to IDUG website according to published deadlines in order to be reviewed by thread chairs for their content quality, technical correctness and compatibility between session title, abstract and final presentation material. Failure to upload presentation will result with removal of the session from the conference program. 

4. Additional alterations of the final uploaded presentation need to be explicitly approved by thread chair.  

5. In case of doubt, vendor members of Conference Planning Committee can and should offer their opinion on the quality of content, in order to identify possible marketing at early stage. 

6.  Session may be presented by primary and secondary speaker. Type of primary speaker (user, vendor, consultant) determines the type of session. Primary speaker has to cover at least 50% of the session (in terms of minutes and number of slides). 

7. All speaker changes need to be explicitly approved upfront by conference planning committee. Only the approved primary and secondary speaker are allowed to present the session. 

8. Speaker sessions may be recorded unless otherwise requested on abstract submission form. 

 
Additional published IDUG speaker guidelines apply.