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Discussion on: Speaking At Technical Conferences

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Gift Egwuenu

Thanks Emma! Really insightful

For someone with a full time job that is not devrel how do propose they speak at conference when there's limited time to do this?

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Gerard Klijs

It depends on your employer. They can use you speaking there to promote the company. So in my case I didn't have to take vacation days. Still I didn't get any time of to prepare, so there's still it takes a lot of spare time to prepare.

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Emma Bostian ✨

Unfortunately I take vacation days! It's not optimal, which is why I'm going to start charging a speaker fee, but it's sadly one of the few options.

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Simon Holdorf

If I may jump into this: Have you ever thought about DevRel and doing this as part of your job?

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Emma Bostian ✨

Yep - I don't think I'd want to do this full time

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Simon Holdorf

Thanks!

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Simme

Simon, for us that have considered it and still think we want to do it; do you have any advice? 😅