Armağan Amcalar PRO
Armagan is the founder of Coyotiv GmbH, and is currently on a mission to bring a scalable and nimble engineering culture to startups and enterprises. Armagan is a public speaker, a mentor and a lecturer.
Armagan Amcalar
Women Techmakers Berlin
September 10th, 2018
Public speaking workshop pt 3
You should give a talk this year!
Who am I?
Armagan Amcalar
Head of Software Engineering @ unu GmbH
Founder @ Lonca Works
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My conference talks, slides and videos
My talk abstracts
https://www.papercall.io/speakers/armaganamcalar
My talk videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9pDl_Oth4cqFEFDbKPU89-3DBv33VEun
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DACHFest
It's all about making a difference
Emerging Technology
Transformation Through Tech
Creating Better Experiences
Teaching and Learning
People and Community
We'll submit papers to
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Tips and tricks for writing
You have a story to tell...
WHAT are you talking about?
WHY should they listen to this talk?
HOW will they benefit from it?
Ask questions
Pique interest
Underline this is something nobody thought of
Be you, be authentic, be unique
Allow yourself to experiment
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Guideline
No agenda slides
Start with a premise
Tell a story, even though it's technical
Do live demos, do them well. Prepare for the failure scenario
People can read code faster than you can type
Talk in their level
Variations of a talk according to time / audience
Cultural differences between audiences
The same talk can be 5 seconds, 5 minutes, 25 minutes, or two hours long
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A Typical outline
State a problem
State a premise
State a solution
Why does that solution work for that problem?
Show that it works
State the premise again
Wrap up
The same talk can be 5 seconds, 5 minutes, 25 minutes, or two hours
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Building outlines
Allow yourself to experiment
Write down everything you want to tell
It's important to write everything down. Doesn't matter if you throw away half of them later.
Group your points
Order your groups
Make a story out of them — create a flow
Slides are parts of the same flow, they are not jumps to different topics
Use a mind map tool if you like:
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Preparation for the speech
Mirror practice
Recording practice
Giving the talk to peers
Writing your speech down
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The big day
There's no turning back, you signed up for this.
Act on stage. You are practically unidentified, you can play any character you like.
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The big day
There's no turning back, you signed up for this. It might be another you, but it was you.
Act on stage. You are practically unidentified, you can play any character you like. Play an enthusiastic expert. It's still you!
There's no point in fighting stage fright. What you refer to as fright is actually a pretty useful hormone: adrenaline. Use it.
Water is your best friend. Drink irresponsibly.
You are an expert in this topic. You already proved yourself about it.
The audience is not a committee of experts to judge you.
If you make a mistake, roll with it. 90% of the audience didn't notice anyway.
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During practice
During concert
thank you!
Let's keep in touch!
Armagan Amcalar
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WTM Public Speaking Workshop pt 3—Write and present your talk
By Armağan Amcalar
WTM Public Speaking Workshop pt 3—Write and present your talk
Participating in conferences and learning from experts is great, but as a community we are missing a lot when it’s the same faces every year, everywhere. We have to do our best to include everyone from a diverse background as speakers and learn from their experiences. This talk will prove you have what it takes to become a speaker yourself, and will give you practical advice to start your career as a speaker. We will talk about overcoming the impostor syndrome and eliminating self-doubt like “I don’t know what to talk about” and “I can’t talk in front of people”. This is a fun, inspiring talk, and by the end of it you will discover the super-hero speaker in you, bursting already with ideas for your first talk.
