Elixir Conf 2024
Ton of fun! Learned a lot. Spoke with Fly and Oban fellas. Also, I should really go to Gigcity Elixir one year.
I really think I could do a talk. Maybe about assembly lines and Elixir code some day. More so to get a free ticket IMO.
They have some recommendations here:
Never spoken at conferences before and are unsure if you should, and what should you talk about? Noel Rappin has a good article on this here: https://noelrappin.com/blog/2014/01/conference-prompts-or-how-to-submit-proposals-and-influence-people/
Which mistakes to avoid when submitting a talk? Noel Rappin also has an answer in this article: https://noelrappin.com/blog/2014/03/what-i-learned-from-reading-429-conference-proposals/.
In short: clearly identify your topic, be respectful of everyone, be interesting, but also self-aware, don’t pitch your company, and submit early. We could also add to that - think if this conference audience is the right one for your talk (and why?).
Need more tips? We recommend Sarah Mei’s article “What Your Conference Proposal is Missing”: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/04/07/what-your-conference-proposal-is-missing/
We were in Orlando and ate here:
Bar Kada and Domu were awesome. Lindas was not.