High Impact, Low Effort
Overview:
Speaking at conferences is a great way to showcase your knowledge on a subject. It helps you create deeper understanding of the subject. It improves your public speaking and presentation skills as well. Being a speaker, many people will get to know you and you will get connected to lots of people in a meaningful way.
Inspiration:
Remember Pranav Mistry? He rose to fame thanks to his talk on gesture recognition
Get started:
Write down the topics that you can share your knowledge on
Listen to some tech speakers from past conferences for inspiration
Write and record a brief intro of what you'd like to talk about
Record yourself speaking on the topic(15-30mins)
Explore tech conferences that match your interests
Submit talk proposals to tech conferences
Speak
Gather feedback from the audience
Improve
Repeat
Moving to next level:
Learn more about public speaking
Get a mentor
Practice
FAQ & resources:
Current opportunities:
Speak at Git Commit Show
Directories of conference CFPs(call for proposals) - confs.tech callingallpapers cfpland papercall joind