How to get into Speaking At Conferences
Wes talks to Scott about speaking at conferences. What are the benefits of speaking? How do you apply? What talk should you give? What makes a good conference talk?
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- Fantastic Friendships and Industry Connections
- Job Opportunities
- Industry Recognition
- Renewed Excitement
- Wes loved David K Piano's Flip Talk
- Create a CFP
- You need to brute force it
- 🍯 Honey Hole: Lanyrd Calls
- 🐝 Honey Hole: The Weekly CFP
- 🍯 Honey Hole: Papercall.io
- Meetup
- Lessons Learned Talk
- The New Concept Talk (the tasty treats talk)
- My Approach to XYZ
- The Complicated Concepts Explained
- The Super Interesting Deep End Talk
- Skip the history lesson - hook them
- Keep your personal bio short
- Start with a banger ‼️
- Short Code Examples
- Short Looping video examples
- Scott's Origin Story Podcast
- Make sure your talk works offline
- Prepare for aspect ratios
- Plug into the projector before your talk
- Live that dongle life
- Show people why they need to know something
- Powerpoint or Keynote
- Wes' HTML5 Slide Deck
- Another one of Wes' talks
- Reveal JS
- React Spectacle
- Prezi
- Training pays well
- More hands on experience for conf attendees
- Wes' Post on Getting the most out of a conference
- Conf Code of Conduct
- Logitech Wireless Clicker
- Join Twitter Early
- Have Lunch with Speakers
- Stay off your phone
- Keep your name badge on!
- Practice your break away
- Wes Bos
- Scott Tolinski
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM