You should give a talk next year
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Participating in conferences and learning from experts is great, but as a community we are missing a lot when it’s the same faces every year, everywhere. We have to do our best to include everyone from a diverse background as speakers and learn from their experiences. This talk will prove you have what it takes to become a speaker yourself, and will give you practical advice to start your career as a speaker. We will talk about overcoming the impostor syndrome and eliminating self-doubt like “I don’t know what to talk about” and “I can’t talk in front of people”. This is a fun, inspiring talk, and by the end of it you will discover the super-hero speaker in you, bursting already with ideas for your first talk.
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- 1. YOU SHOULD GIVE A TALK NEXT YEAR Armağan Amcalar Amsterdam | April 2-3, 2019
- 2. ARMAĞAN AMCALAR Senior Manager @ Wayfair Building and leading teams for almost 10 years Professional coaching and mentorship Lonca, a software craftsmanship school for women Passionate about open source International speaker dashersw dashersw
- 3. YOU HAVE EVERYTHING IT TAKES TO SPEAK AT CONFERENCES ...AND I’M GOING TO PROVE IT TO YOU. dashersw
- 4. TODAY WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT... Why you should talk How to pick a topic Kinds of talks you could deliver Tips and tricks for a great talk Writing and submitting proposals Preparing for the speech The big day dashersw
- 5. WHY YOU SHOULD TALK • Diversity • Sense of self-respect & self-acknowledgement • You have something in your mind that nobody believes • Spread your knowledge and selflessness • Learn a topic better • Meet other people in the field • Travel the world dashersw
- 6. BUT I’M NOT QUALIFIED A.K.A. IMPOSTOR SYNDROME dashersw
- 7. NO ONE IS QUALIFIED UNTIL THEY FIND OUT THAT THEY ARE AND OBVIOUSLY EVERYONE IS dashersw
- 8. Tell a story. Tell your story. Anyone in the industry, including juniors, have stories Companies pay you to have stories of your own Anything can be made into a conference talk The contents are only part of what makes a talk interesting You don’t have to know the topic by heart in order to talk about it The audience will come to watch, and learn from, you Most of the speakers out there aren’t experts at their topics dashersw
- 9. HOW TO PICK A TOPIC • What did you work on yesterday? • Do you often think about how to do things differently? • Is there anything you would like to improve in your daily work or life? • Did you start a new career or start to learn a new language or framework? • Did you ever say “it would be fun if someone did X”? dashersw
- 10. DID I SAY ANYTHING CAN BE MADE INTO A TALK? • History of errors and future solutions • Native number representations in JavaScript • How async JavaScript works under the hood • History of Augmented Reality • Right-to-left direction support in React • Scaling number of deployments • How important communication skills are for engineers • Endless number of libraries, tools & techniques, and maintaining & optimizing them dashersw
- 11. KINDS OF TALKS YOU COULD DELIVER • Live demo • Live coding • Practical examples • Thought provoking • Historical context • Architectural • Visionary • Dreamy • Fun / rhetorical • Experiences that no one has dashersw
- 12. TIPS & TRICKS FOR A GREAT TALK • Start with a premise. Great talks have a message to tell, a purpose. • Tell a story even if it’s technical. Design a journey for the audience. • If you do live demos, make sure they are engaging and prepare for failure • Don’t forget that people can read code faster than you can type • Consider cultural differences in your audience • End with a premise, giving resolutions dashersw
- 13. WRITING AND SUBMITTING PROPOSALS Meet •Meet papercall.io 01 Build •Build your talks regardless of conferences 02 Find •Find the ones that you like and apply 03 Apply •Apply to multiple conferences with multiple talks 04 Apply •If you get rejected, just apply to others 05 dashersw
- 14. BUT HOW DO WE WRITE A PROPOSAL? • Find a catchy title • Ask a question in the abstract • Pique interest • Underline how this is unique, and what the audience will get out of it • Show your excitement, but also be realistic • Write only what you are going to talk about, don’t phish people 🎣dashersw
- 15. PREPARING FOR THE SPEECH • Jot down ideas • Write the whole talk down • Control your timing • Do mirror practice • Seriously, talk before a mirror • Record yourself and watch dashersw
- 17. YOU ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON YOU WERE BEFORE HITTING THE STAGE. dashersw
- 18. YOU KNOW A LOT MORE. dashersw
- 19. YOU ARE FUELED BY SOMETHING CALLED ADRENALINE. dashersw
- 20. ADRENALINE SAVES YOUR LIFE. LITERALLY. EMBRACE IT. dashersw
- 21. BUILD RAPPORT. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE, YOU WILL MODIFY YOUR TALK BASED ON WHO THEY ARE. dashersw
- 22. BE YOURSELF. BE AUTHENTIC. BE WELCOMING. TALK CLEARLY. USE YOUR BODY LANGUAGE. KEEP EYE CONTACT. dashersw
- 23. ALLOW YOURSELF BREAKS. WHEN YOUR BODY IS ALARMING YOU, TAKE SOME TIME TO DRINK WATER! dashersw
- 24. DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO HOLD A Q&A YOU DON’T HAVE TO! dashersw
- 25. YOU CAN DO IT. YOU SHOULD DO IT. WE NEED YOU. WE NEED YOUR STORIES. dashersw
- 26. THANK YOU! get these slides at: https://bit.ly/give-a-talk-codemotion LET’S KEEP IN TOUCH! ARMAĞAN AMCALAR armagan@amcalar.com dashersw dashersw
- 27. FAQ • Voice lessons could help—learn how to use your diaphragm and train your voice • Acting lessons could help—body language • Don’t memorize your talk • Don’t read your talk • Introduce yourself • Don’t try to sell a product dashersw