1. What do you need to speak well at the conference?
2. Theme development
3. Training
4. How to get an invitation to the conference?

A huge amount of money is spent annually on holding professional conferences in various fields of activity. If they did not bring benefits, then no one, of course, would not have to spend money and bother with the organization. In general, there are three beneficiaries of the speech at the IT conference:

• specialist who advocates
• the company in which he works
• the product he talks about and / or that he does in the company.

For him, his speech is a moment of glory, and the opportunity to become a more famous, recognizable specialist, and a pleasant addition to the resume. If the speech is successful and interesting to the public, the effect will be quite long: the performance itself will be recorded on video and distributed, and the speaker will be invited to other events.

If a developer talks about a product in his company at a conference, the product becomes more well-known and recognizable, and the company is repeatedly mentioned, which has a good effect on its image.

In principle, the company is still mentioned, even if you are not talking about its product, but about some kind of technology in general. Therefore, to convince the authorities let you go to the conference it is quite simple.

What do you need to speak well at the conference?

Theme selection

The main thing to remember is that the topic should:

• firstly, to comply with the conference theme,
• secondly, to be interesting not only to the speaker, but to as many viewers as possible,
• thirdly, be familiar to the speaker. The speaker should be well aware of what he is talking about, and be aware of this much more than his listeners.

Therefore, if your goal is to speak at a conference, you should first determine what you are good at, and then figure out for which conference such a presentation is appropriate.

Theme development

Remember what goals you pursue when attend various conferences as a viewer. Most likely, you would like to enrich your piggy bank of knowledge with new useful information about the practical application of technology, learn about the experience of other developers in some areas, etc. You can read the textbook at home.

Keep this in mind when preparing your report. It should not be academically dry or meaningless at all. More personal experience, more practical information.

When selecting materials, consider how your audience understands this topic. If for them it is something new or very different from their own experience, you need to make extra efforts to make your speech understandable.

You also need to remember how long your report should last.

Training

Determine what thought you want to convey to the audience. Then make a plan for your speech, allowing it to do so and open the topic in sufficient volume.

On the basis of the selected materials write the text of the speech or theses - depending on how you prefer.

And, of course, you need to rehearse. Try to make your speech. Most likely, from the first time it will not work too well, so try again and again. When it comes out well, note the time and determine whether you are investing in the rules. If the speech is too long, you will have to remove the least important pieces. After editing, rehearse again.

Repeated repetition of speech will allow you to remember it well and it will not be necessary to pry into the text. Now it can be accurately replaced by a short plan.

Take care of the quality of visual information - texts and images should be clear and understandable. Texts should also be short, in large print.

How to get an invitation to the conference?

It is logical to assume that the organizers are trying to attract people who are known to understand a certain topic to speak. Therefore, you need to "light up" as such a valuable specialist. Here you will be helped by your blog, YouTube channel, articles on more popular sites. If your materials are approved by readers / viewers, this will be a significant plus in your favor.

Agree to speak for free. Of course, no one likes working for nothing, there is even something wrong in this, but the return can be not only in cash. If the goal of your speech is to promote your own brand and / or your product, then the opportunity to do it is valuable in itself. And the organizers are tempted to save money and, for this purpose, call for you to speak.

We hope that your performance will be your “high point”!