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Ahmet Eren Yatkın

I want to share my knowledge across the universe, I always share my knowledge. How can I attend these meetups & conferences as speaker ?

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Lost Semicolon 💻🖱

Hi Ahmet!

If you would like to be a speaker, most conferences have a CFP ( call for proposals/papers) on their website. A great resource is confs.tech/cfp/ which has a list some conferences with an open CFPs.

CFPs are outlines of talks + your bio ( a little story about yourself) you submit that is reviewed and hopefully accepted.

Many conferences also provide travel + accommodation and some will also pay for speakers to attend. This all depends on the type of event and your "exposure" level as a speaker.

When it comes to meetups, they always look for speakers! Meetups are usually free and run by people in their spare time and so people who put themselves forward to speak at an event are a great help. The best way to approach a meetup is to say you would like to do a talk on X and then provide outline or slides.

If you ever need help writing a cfp, most conferences offer help and there is also the globaldiversitycfpday.com/ once a year ^

Hope this helps!

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Ahmet Eren Yatkın

Great, Thank you for the deep explanation!