Comment by Ákos Kőműves on "How I Became a Tech Conference Speaker as a Newbie & How You Can Do It Too"

Thanks for writing this up, Elef.

One of the things I'd like to explore in 2024 is public speaking. I read other blogs on Hashnode from speakers, and everyone suggested starting at meetups, but they are very location-dependent.

Also, as I learned from Karol Horosin, being invited to international conferences as a first-time speaker is even rare unless you have a very compelling story - which you totally had.

I'll check out the two sites you mentioned because it seems like a good idea to have profiles there.

Any other suggestions?

These two sites are perfect! With smaller international conferences you may have a bigger chance because they will want their speaker line up to look international so they may give a shot to beginner speakers. I know of two people that did that!

Hey Akos.

The meetups can be a great start but if you are in a location that doesn't have a lot of meetups it's hard. For example, I live in a small city and even today, we don't have many meetups in my field...

Another tip would be to add in your topic on these 2 platforms as many details as you can. There is a chance the organizers won't select you because they don't understand your topic or the value of it, but if you have many details then they'll easily understand your passion and your knowledge around it.

Good luck Akos.

Thanks to both of you for the input Eleftheria Batsou and Karol Horosin 🙌 I'm going to sign up for these two sites – as soon as I think of a topic. I've written about so many things but now, as I think about picking a main topic, I have no idea 😅

Ákos Kőműves The Ultimate Full Stack Framework for 2024: Remix and snapshot testing look like good bases for talks, the second even better

Thanks Karol Horosin! I wrote an entire series on testing with RTL and Jest it's soo good. 😊

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