Ask HN: How do I speak more at conferences?

Posted by eibrahim on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:22AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I would like to speak more at conferences. Any idea how to find more speaking events and "apply" to them?

I want to give back more to the community and I love traveling. But I haven't been able to do much since I had my twins. I think this will scratch both itches for me.

Thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I speak more at conferences? by SyneRyder on Thursday January 28, 2016 @07:02AM (#10987677)

I've started tracking a list of indie developer & freelancer friendly conferences over at my Indie Conference site [1]. On the associated mailing list I'm hoping to notify people of upcoming Call For Presentations deadlines. A few I've found coming up soon:

UIKonf presentations are due February 15: http://www.uikonf.com/#cfp

Xojo XDC USA has a call for presentations due on Feb 26, though your talk would need to be related to Xojo / REALbasic: http://www.xojo.com/xdc/HTML/index.html

YOW! Perth presentations close on 13 March: http://west.yowconference.com.au/call-for-presentations/

Business Of Software runs a call for speakers all year round: http://thebln.com/speaking/

[1] http://www.indieconference.com/

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Re:Ask HN: How do I speak more at conferences? by mostlystatic on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:46PM (#10984179)

I've been using https://calltospeakers.com/ to find conferences that are looking for talk submissions.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I speak more at conferences? by bsoares on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @12:27PM (#10981379)

Prepare some talks on topics that you are pro at and then share them. That way you can send samples to different relevant speaking events.

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