So you wanna give a talk ?

and, here are the reason 

not sure what to talk about ?

It's for legends

I am scared

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND 

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Writing CFP / Talk proposal
Presentation

How to's of CFP ✍️

Agenda

All about CFP

Abhishek

👨‍💻 Software Eng. at Saama Research Lab

🐍 Pythonista, GDG Chennai & PyCon IN ♥️

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦  Community first person 💛

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🚫 not "10x Engineer"

What to talk about? 

  • 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.

[ I got few example's for you :) ]

  • 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 -

5 magic piece of development 

Here are the 5 magic pieces of development i am gonna show to people.

Abstract continue...

 
  • There are character counts
 
  • Don't mix different topics, rather propose new talk.
 

Reviewer

  • 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
 

Rewrite the agenda 3 to 4 times

 

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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 
 

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

 

Don't be sad and afraid on rejections

 

Resources 🧳

 

Start with your local meetup group :)

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