You should be giving a talk next year

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. This is a fun, inspiring talk, and by the end you will discover the super-hero speaker in you, bursting already with ideas for your first talk.

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.

In every conference I speak at, I come by participants who look up to the speakers as unreachable super-humans. I spend a good amount of time trying to convince them that it’s nothing special, and to encourage them to speak. In the end, a community only grows by sharing experiences, and the more people we encourage to speak, the more successful we will be. So this is a soft talk aimed at one goal: to spark the interest and the courage in everyone to try their luck at speaking.