diff --git a/qdrant-landing/content/vsd/vsd-speaker-lineup.md b/qdrant-landing/content/vsd/vsd-speaker-lineup.md
index 016e3dc59..f2cacfd6c 100644
--- a/qdrant-landing/content/vsd/vsd-speaker-lineup.md
+++ b/qdrant-landing/content/vsd/vsd-speaker-lineup.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Full Speaker Lineup Coming Soon
-description: We're building a handpicked lineup of technical talks across all agenda tracks. If your team is solving hard problems in retrieval, embeddings, agent memory, or AI infrastructure at scale, we'd love to talk. Submit your proposal by May 6.
+description: "We're building a handpicked lineup of technical talks across 3 agenda tracks:<br>Search & AI Retrieval, Agents & Memory, and Edge & Robotics A.<br class=\"mb-2\">We’ve locked in a strong lineup including Llamaindex, mem0, Neo4j, Google Deepmind, and more.<br class=\"mb-2\">Proposal submissions are closed, but if you missed the May 6 deadline, send yours in anyway."
 logos:
   - id: 0
     src: /img/vsd-logos/LlamaIndex.svg
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ logos:
 button:
   text: Submit a Talk Proposal
   url: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfefAtmGP59-0IhNxCCMbNRCDlU-JRkJnSja3GfOrBnTZw-CA/viewform
+  disclaimer: Proposals submitted after the deadline, without prior communication with the event organizers, will be reviewed if space becomes available.
 sitemapExclude: true
 ---
 
diff --git a/qdrant-landing/themes/qdrant-2024/assets/css/partials/vsd/_vsd-speaker-lineup.scss b/qdrant-landing/themes/qdrant-2024/assets/css/partials/vsd/_vsd-speaker-lineup.scss
index 733c7840d..80fd5e754 100644
--- a/qdrant-landing/themes/qdrant-2024/assets/css/partials/vsd/_vsd-speaker-lineup.scss
+++ b/qdrant-landing/themes/qdrant-2024/assets/css/partials/vsd/_vsd-speaker-lineup.scss
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
   &__description {
     margin-bottom: 0;
-    font-size: $font-size-md;
+    font-size: pxToRem(15);
     line-height: $spacer * 1.5;
     text-align: center;
     color: #ABB1C7;
@@ -77,7 +77,16 @@
       height: pxToRem(27);
     }
   }
-  
+
+  &__disclaimer {
+    margin: 0;
+    max-width: pxToRem(640);
+    font-size: $font-size-s;
+    line-height: $line-height-sm;
+    text-align: center;
+    color: #8B92A8;
+  }
+
   @include media-breakpoint-up(lg) {
     padding-top: $spacer * 5;
     padding-bottom: $spacer * 5;
@@ -96,7 +105,7 @@
     }
 
     &__description {
-      font-size: $font-size-l;
+      font-size: pxToRem(17);
       line-height: $line-height-lg;
     }
   }
diff --git a/qdrant-landing/themes/qdrant-2024/layouts/partials/vsd/vsd-speaker-lineup.html b/qdrant-landing/themes/qdrant-2024/layouts/partials/vsd/vsd-speaker-lineup.html
index f784ca92b..dedf69664 100644
--- a/qdrant-landing/themes/qdrant-2024/layouts/partials/vsd/vsd-speaker-lineup.html
+++ b/qdrant-landing/themes/qdrant-2024/layouts/partials/vsd/vsd-speaker-lineup.html
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
       <div class="vsd-speaker-lineup__banner">
         <div class="vsd-speaker-lineup__banner-container">
           <h2 class="vsd-speaker-lineup__title">{{ .Params.title }}</h2>
-          <p class="vsd-speaker-lineup__description">{{ .Params.description }}</p>
+          <p class="vsd-speaker-lineup__description">{{ .Params.description | safeHTML }}</p>
           <div class="vsd-speaker-lineup__logos">
             {{ range .Params.logos }}
               <div class="vsd-speaker-lineup__logo">
@@ -12,9 +12,12 @@
               </div>
             {{ end }}
           </div>
-          <a href="{{ .Params.button.url }}" class="button button_contained button_lg vsd-speaker-lineup__button">
+          <a href="{{ .Params.button.url }}" class="button button_contained button_lg vsd-speaker-lineup__button" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
             {{ .Params.button.text }}
           </a>
+          {{ with .Params.button.disclaimer }}
+            <p class="vsd-speaker-lineup__disclaimer">{{ . }}</p>
+          {{ end }}
         </div>
       </div>
     </div>