Have you ever wanted to travel the world speaking at tech conferences?

This is your year to get on stage!

The tech community is waiting to hear from you—yes, you!

It all starts with crafting a winning proposal to submit to conferences. In this workshop, we'll walk you through how to prepare a successful proposal that will grab the attention of organizers and attendees so that you'll have the best shot at getting on stage and sharing your unique perspective with the tech community!

We'll cover:

Selecting a topic

Finding speaking opportunities

Crafting your proposal

Speaking with confidence!

This is part of a Global Diversity Call for Proposals Day, a worldwide effort to increase diversity in tech conference speakers!

On Saturday, February 3, 2018, there will be numerous workshops hosted around the globe encouraging and advising aspring speakers on how to put together your very first talk proposal and share your own individual perspective on any subject of interest to people in tech.

This local edition is brought to you by Megan Speir. All genders are welcome!



Our workshop will have experienced speakers on hand to:

Give you a warm, inclusive welcome in a safe space (check out our Code of Conduct ) Mentor you with your proposal Provide speaking advice And share their enthusiasm to get you to the stage!

These workshops have no specific language, framework or process as a focus. Even if your talk isn’t even related to tech we want to hear from you too! In short, if there is something that you want to shout to the world we're here to help you get there regardless of the boundaries of technology or communities.

Volunteers:

Our team is made up of friendly volunteers who care about supporting diversity and inclusion at tech conferences and in the tech community overall!

Facilitator:





Megan Speir is a member of the Developer Network at Twilio creating technical content and developer experiences. She has spent the past five years in the tech industry after attending Hackbright Academy in 2013. She has spoken at PyCon US and serves on the Python Software Foundation program committee for talk selection. She also mentors and volunteers with organizations and meetups like Girl Develop It, Write/Speak/Code, and others to advance the cause of diversity and inclusion in the software industry. When not coding or conferencing, she enjoys exploring the LA food scene, practicing yoga, and working up a sweat at barre.





Mentors:

Gregor Martynus is an open source community engineer & JavaScript aficianado. Speaking at conferences like Scotland.js was one of the nicest and most valuable experience Gregor has had the privilege to experience. He believes everyone should have that experience and is happy to help work toward that on Global Diversity CFP Day!





Timirah James is a Developer Advocate for Platform9 Systems’ FaaS, Fission, built on top of Kubernetes. She loves researching the latest technologies, fiddling with SDKs and APIs and building cool stuff. She also loves helping other people build cool stuff, thus is extremely active in the hackathon community.



Timirah has a deep passion for building, educating, and expanding the tech community, a lot of which she does by mentoring and leading workshops like TechniGal LA, her meetup group of ~500 girls and women of all ages, exposing them to the many opportunity lanes in the tech world.









Emma Cunningham is a Senior Software Engineer at Second Spectrum, where she gets to solve all kinds of fun problems around how to build compelling data visualization and analytics apps for clients like the NBA. She is actively involved in various STEAM education equity initiatives in communities across Los Angeles, including co-organizing YouthBuild Charter School of California’s CODEChella, serving on the Advisory Board at the Critical Design and Gaming School, teaching at Heart of Los Angeles, and co-directing Code Hawk Camp, a free computer science camp for students in South LA. She's spoken at Elixir with Love, and will be speaking at Code BEAM SF as well as keynoting at Empex LA later this year. She co-organizes the local Write/Speak/Code LA chapter and the Elm LA meetup.

.... more details coming soon!





Sponsors

Many thanks to Cross Campus for hosting us!









Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring food.









Please bring your laptop (if you have one; it is not required to participate!), your imagination, and we'll take care of the rest!

Women and people from other groups underrepresented in tech are especially encouraged to attend!