How to overcome your fears to become a conference speaker

I will share with you how I managed to speak at events across Europe and US, and how thanks to the advice from other speakers and mentors, I manage to overcome my fears and limitations. Hopefully you will leave the session wanting to share your knowledge with others!

Have you ever thought about speaking at a conference? Have you ever wondered how the speakers managed to get into the conference?

I am afraid of public speaking, I usually speak fast and I’m asthmatic. None of that stopped me to accomplish my dream of sharing knowledge and give to the community as much as I have gotten from the community.

I will share with you how I managed to speak at events across Europe and US, and how thanks to the advice from other speakers and mentors, I manage to overcome my fears and limitations. Hopefully you will leave the session wanting to share your knowledge with others!

I want with this talk to motivate others to share their experiences and create new talks. Sharing knowledge with other will help people progress, and to challenge themselves is a way to become a better version of ourselves.

This talk has been given at Oggcamp’18 (Sheffield, UK), DevOpsDays Warsaw 2018 (opening talk at the main track), London HalfStack Meetup January 2019 and Heapcon 2019 (Belgrade, Serbia)

Some tweets from attendants:

https://twitter.com/ssjunejo/status/1082756440459304960

https://twitter.com/StickyCarl/status/1082765574306967552

https://twitter.com/Nexii/status/1082986141371064325