So you wanna give a talk ?

and, here are the reason 

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND 

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Agenda

All about CFP

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• What do you know? & topics you are comfortable with.

• Not only tech, really anything!  anything that excites you.

• Share your experience or the things you are annoyed of.

• No crime in sneaking into someone else talk, but with your experience.

How to write a proposal?

Title

Abstract

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Features of Title :

• Make the title pop!

• Highly convinces the audience.

• Experiment with 3-4 titles.

• Puns can be added in titles.

About Abstract :

• For whom ?

• Review team

• First Sentence matters

• Attendees: How badass they gonna be after                               your talk?

• Explain in your way -

Abstract continue...

• There are character counts

• Don't mix different topics, rather propose new talk.

• Be specific as you can

• Ask questions like - Have you ever wondered.....why or how...

• Tell the small story like what was a problem the & solution ? or sharing experience 

Abstract continue...

• Refer previous papers

• Takeaways from the talk - topics, architecture code snippets etc.

• Set level for attendees 

• Mention prerequisites, if any

• Prepare agenda & outline

Crafting the Bio 👩‍🚀 

Crafting the Bio 👩‍🚀  continue ...

• Keep it simple (25 to 200 words)

• Follow the format of :

• Currently ______

• Before ______

• Also ______

• You are uniquely qualified, tell them why ?

• Ask for help from friends/colleagues 

• https://womentalkdesign.com

Crafting the Bio 👩‍🚀  continue ...

Few questions:

• What coolest thing have you accomplished?

• Why you ?

• What's important about you, which is not there in your resume ?

• Mention link of previous talk (can be from meetups)

Let's look into some examples

• https://kccncna17.sched.com/event/CU85/setting-sail-with-istio-b-lachlan-evenson-microsoft

• https://kccncna17.sched.com/event/CU6U/democratizing-machine-learning-on-kubernetes-i-joy-qiao-lachlan-evenson-microsoft

• https://in.pycon.org/cfp/2019/proposals/rest-in-peace-rest-the-rise-of-graphql~eVDMb/

Don't be sad and afraid on rejections

Resources 🧳

https://bit.ly/373Yd4g​

Start with your local meetup group :)